United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1990
Transportation Investment and Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: Highway Account Authorizations - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (the Act) to extend indefinitely the Interstate System program. Increases the FY 1993 authorization of appropriations for Interstate System construction. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for interstate substitute highway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for specified Federal-aid highways projects. Increases the FY 1991 obligation ceiling for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs. Sets forth the obligation ceiling for FY 1992 for such programs. Reauthorizes through FY 1992 the bridge and strategic highway research programs. Title II: Mass Transit Account Authorizations - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations out of the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1992 for urban mass transportation projects, including grants to States and local agencies for deployment of innovative methods in the operation of public transportation services, and grants and loans for special projects to meet the needs of the elderly and handicapped. Title III: Airport and Airway Authorizations - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to extend through September 30, 1992, projects for airport development and planning. Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for FY 1991 and 1992 for: (1) air navigation facilities; and (2) research, engineering and development, and demonstration projects. Title IV: Deficit Calculation - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to exclude the receipts and disbursements allocable to the transportation-related operations of the Highway Trust Fund (including the Mass Transit Account) and the Airport and Airway Trust Fund from calculations of maximum deficit amounts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Central Utah Project Completion Act - Title I: Central Utah Project Construction - Increases the authorization of appropriations for the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) in order to provide for completion of the Central Utah Project. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to implement certain recommendations of that Department's Inspector General with respect to such additional funding. Prohibits the expenditure of funds provided by this Act for certain Utah reclamation projects and features. Terminates the authorization of appropriations for construction of any CRSP participating project located in the State of Utah five years after the enactment of this Act unless cost-sharing is agreed to and construction funds are requested by the Secretary. Requires such additional funding to also be made available for the planning and implementation of the fish and wildlife and recreation mitigation and conservation projects and studies authorized in this Act. Sets aside specified amounts of the funding made available for CRSP and such projects and studies for: (1) the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project; and (2) the construction and rehabilitation of specified projects to increase efficiency, enhance beneficial uses, and achieve greater water conservation within the Uinta Basin Replacement Project. Imposes certain procedural requirements to be met before such construction or rehabilitation can begin. Provides for resolution of certain matters associated with the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project and the Brush Creek and Jensen Unit. Requires 35 percent cost sharing from non-Federal sources for the design, engineering, and construction of the features of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project for which specified amounts of the additional funding for CRSP have been set aside. Prohibits Federal funds from being provided to any non-Federal interest until such interest enters into binding agreements with the appropriate Federal authority to comply with this Act and all Federal fish, wildlife, recreation, and environmental laws with respect to the use of such funds. Imposes water conservation planning and management requirements on the Central Utah Water Conservancy District (the District). Authorizes certain water conservation studies. Provides funding for such water conservation plans and studies. Establishes the Utah Water Conservation Advisory Board to recommend water conservation standards and regulations for promulgation by State or local authorities in the service area of such petitioner of project water. Provides financial incentives for developing and implementing such water conservation plans and completing such water conservation studies. Provides for judicial review and citizen suits. Specifies certain requirements regarding the generation of hydroelectric power operations with respect to the Central Utah Project. Encourages the execution of operating agreements for certain reservoirs. Allows for the prepayment or other disposition of certain repayment contracts for construction of the Jordan Aqueduct System. Requires the Comptroller General to audit Central Utah Project cost allocations. Requires the Secretary to reallocate such costs as necessary. Imposes financial penalties for the use of Central Utah Project water to grow surplus crops until the construction costs of the facilities authorized by this title are repaid. Title II: Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation Mitigation and Conservation - Establishes the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission to coordinate the implementation of the mitigation and conservation provisions of this Act among the Federal and State fish, wildlife, and recreation agencies. Directs the Commission to establish plans for fish and wildlife mitigation activities. Sets forth funding requirements for Commission activities and projects. Requires the District to acquire a specified amount of additional permanent storage waters for fish and wildlife purposes. Earmarks a specified amount of additional funding for such purposes. Sets forth requirements for certain minimum stream flows. Requires completion of the fish, wildlife, and recreation projects identified or proposed in the 1988 Definite Plan Report. Directs the Commission to acquire big game winter range lands to compensate for the impacts of Federal reclamation projects in Utah. Directs the Commission to construct big game crossings and wildlife escape ramps for the protection of big game animals along certain canals. Earmarks specified amounts of additional funding for such purposes. Sets forth requirements for the acquisition, rehabilitation, and enhancement of wetlands and fisheries. Requires that the project plan for the stabilization of high mountain lakes in the Upper Provo River drainage be revised to require that certain lakes be stabilized at levels beneficial for a fish habitat and recreation. Earmarks specified amounts of additional funding for: (1) specified riparian habitat development projects; (2) a Commission study of the impacts to soils and riparian fish and wildlife habitats in drainages that will experience substantially reduced water flows resulting from the operation of the Strawberry Collection System; (3) acquisition of wetland acreages; (4) fish habitat improvements to the Jordan River; (5) construction of recreational facilities for the Jordan River Parkway; (6) specified uses with respect to the Provo River Corridor; (7) certain improvements to Central Utah Project recreational features; and (8) mitigation and restoration of watersheds and fish and wildlife resources in Utah impacted by CRSP. Requires that project construction be concurrent and proportionate with the implementation of the fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation and conservation schedule prepared by the Interagency Biological Assessment Team. Title III: Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account - Establishes in the Treasury the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account for certain purposes, including to ensure that the level of environmental protection, mitigation, and enhancement achieved in connection with CRSP projects is preserved and maintained and that resources are available to address unfunded environmental impacts of such projects and unknown environmental needs within affected State areas. Sets forth procedures for Federal and State contributions to the Account and contributions from power revenues. Provides for funding of State fish and wildlife projects from the Account after the Commission has terminated. Sets forth requirements for managing the Account. Title IV: Ute Indian Rights Settlement - Provides for payment of financial compensation to the Ute Indian Tribe for the use of its water rights in the Uinta Basin. Allows tribal use of the Project's Bonneville Unit facilities. Grants the consent of the Congress to the Tribe to enter into a compact reserving waters to the Tribe and establishing the uses and management of such Tribal waters subject to re-ratification by the State and the Tribe. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) tribal farming operations; (2) reservoir, stream, habitat, and road improvements with respect to the Ute Indian Reservation; and (3) the Tribal Development Fund. Provides for the waiver of claims concerning the Tribe's water rights covered under the Agreement of September 30, 1965, including claims that the Tribe retains the right to develop lands set forth in the Ute Indian Compact and deferred in the Agreement. Title V: Short Title and Definition - Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1990. Title VI: Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir, Wyoming - Revises existing law to require as a principal modification to the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir, Wyoming, the construction of power generating facilities with a total installed capacity of 25.5 megawatts. Authorizes the construction of recreational facilities in excess of the amount required to replace or relocate existing facilities. Provides that the costs of such construction shall be borne equally by the United States and Wyoming. Repeals a prior authorization of appropriations and authorizes to be appropriated for the Federal share of the construction of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir modifications and recreational facilities the sum of $80,000,000 (October 1988 price levels). Repeals a requirement that such sums authorized to be appropriated for construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement be reduced by the amounts of certain contributions. Title VII: Treatment of Drainage from the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, Colorado - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) design, construct, operate, and maintain a water treatment plant for the Leadville Mine in Colorado; and (2) install concrete lining on the rehabilitated portion of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel. Specifies that: (1) such treatment plant shall be designed to treat the quantity and quality of effluent historically discharged from such Tunnel and to meet requirements of the Clean Water Act; and (2) design, construction, operation, and maintenance costs of the works authorized by this title shall be nonreimbursable. Requires the Secretary to submit the plans for design and operation of the works to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Colorado to obtain their views. Directs the Secretary, after such review and consultation, to notify the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate that the discharge from the works will meet the requirements set forth in Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement No. FFCA-89-1 and in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit No. CO-OO21717. Makes the Secretary responsible for operation and maintenance of the water treatment plant. Authorizes the Secretary to formulate and implement a program for the restoration of fish and wildlife resources of those portions of the Arkansas River basin affected by the effluent discharged from such Tunnel. Requires the Secretary, prior to implementing the program, to submit a copy of the proposed restoration program to the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for a period of not to exceed 60 days. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct investigations of water pollution sources and impacts attributed to mining and other related development in the Upper Arkansas River Basin and to implement corrective action demonstration projects. Requires all corrective action plans and subsequent corrective demonstration projects to include appropriate public involvement. Directs the Secretary to arrange for cost sharing in such projects with the State of Colorado and for utilization of non-Federal funds and in-kind services where possible. Requires a demonstration project plan to be submitted to the Congress before the project is implemented. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Lake Meredith Salinity Control Project - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct and test the Lake Meredith Salinity Control Project, New Mexico and Texas, to improve the quality of water of the Canadian River downstream of Ute Reservoir, New Mexico, and entering Lake Meredith, Texas. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority of Texas (Authority) for the design and construction management of project facilities by the Bureau of Reclamation and for the payment of construction costs by the Authority. Requires the Authority to operate and maintain the facilities upon completion of construction and testing. Requires the Authority to advance all costs of construction of project facilities as the non-Federal contribution. Declares the Federal share to be all project costs for design preparation and construction management. Prohibits the Federal contribution from exceeding 33 percent of the total project costs. Provides for transferring control of the project works to the Authority or to a bona fide entity agreeable to New Mexico and Texas upon completion of construction and testing, or upon termination of activities at the request of the Authority. Provides that title to any facilities constructed under this title shall remain with the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Cedar Bluff Unit, Kansas - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reformulate the Cedar Bluff Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Kansas, including reallocation of the conservation capacity of the Cedar Bluff Reservoir, to create: (1) a designated operating pool for fish, wildlife, and recreation purposes, and for groundwater recharge for environmental, domestic, municipal, and industrial uses; and (2) a joint-use pool for flood control, water sales, fish, wildlife, and recreation purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with Kansas for the sale, use, and control of the designated operating pool (with the exception of water reserved for Russell, Kansas) and to allow Kansas to acquire use and control of water in the joint-use pool. Directs that Kansas shall not permit utilization of water from Cedar Bluff Reservoir to irrigate lands in the Smoky Hill River Basin from such Reservoir to the confluence with Big Creek. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with Kansas for the acceptance of a specified payment and the State's commitment to pay a proportionate share of the annual operation, maintenance, and replacement charges for the Cedar Bluff Dam and Reservoir. Requires, after the reformulation authorized by this title, that all net revenues received by the United States from the sale of water at the Cedar Bluff Unit be credited to the Reclamation Fund. Terminates a specified contractual obligation upon receipt of such payment by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer ownership of the fish hatchery facility at Cedar Bluff Dam and related water rights to Kansas for its use and operation. Provides that if any of such transferred property is subsequently transferred from State ownership or used for any purpose other than those provided for in this title, title to such property shall revert to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer title to the Cedar Bluff Irrigation District headquarters located near Hays, Kansas, contingent upon the District's agreement to close down the irrigation system to the satisfaction of the Secretary at no additional cost to the United States, after which all easement rights shall revert to the owners of the land to which the easements are attached. Title X: Miscellaneous Provisions, Central Valley Project, California - Adds the area encompassed by the Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and Solano County into the service area of the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Canals, Central Valley Project, California. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract in accordance with Federal reclamation laws with the Toulumne Regional Water District, California, for the delivery of water from the New Melones Unit, Central Valley Project, California, to the county's water distribution system. Title XI: Salton Sea Research Project - Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a research project for the development of an enhanced evaporation system for saline water treatment. Requires that such project be located in the area of the Salton Sea of Southern California. Requires the non-Federal share of the cost of such project to be 50 percent of the total cost of the project. Requires the Secretary, no later than September 30, 1995, to submit a report to the House Interior Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding the results of such project. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title XII: Amendment to Sabine River Compact - Grants the consent of the Congress to an amendment to a compact ratified by the States of Louisiana and Texas relating to the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries. Title XIII: Name Change - Designates the Salt-Gila Aqueduct of the Central Arizona Project as the Fannin-McFarland Aqueduct. Title XIV: Warren Act Amendments - Amends the Warren Act to authorize the Secretary to make available surplus water or capacity in canals for use by municipal, industrial, and domestic customers, and for fish and wildlife protection. Title XV: Amendments to Reclamation Statutes - Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to provide that if any classification or reclassification of irrigable lands undertaken pursuant to such Act results in an increase in the outstanding construction charges or rate of repayment, the Secretary shall amend the contract to increase the construction obligation or rate of repayment. Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary to establish appropriate and effective penalties for failure to comply with any provision or regulation of such Act. Title XVI: Water Reclamation and Reuse - Authorizes the Secretary to participate with the City of San Diego, California, in the conduct of a study of conceptual plans for water reclamation and reuse. Prohibits the Federal share of study costs from exceeding 50 percent of their total. Authorizes appropriations. Title XVII: Mine Effluent Fishery - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study on establishing a Federal fish hatchery in McDowell County, West Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary, contingent upon completion of such study and location of a suitable site and water supply, to construct the hatchery to be designated as the Carl R. Sullivan National Fish Hatchery. Authorizes appropriations. Title XVIII: McGee Creek Contract Adjustment - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with the McGee Creek Water Authority, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, accepting a specified payment. Terminates an earlier contract with such Water Authority upon acceptance of such payment. Provides that title to project facilities at the McGee Project shall remain with the United States. Title XIX: Water and Power Needs of Insular Areas - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to undertake a comprehensive study of how the long-term water, sewage, and power needs of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands can be resolved. Requires the governments of such islands to be consulted during such study. Requires the Secretary to report study results and recommendations to the Congress within two years after enactment of this title. Authorizes appropriations. Title XX: Reclamation Reform Act Amendments - Reclamation Reform Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to define "farm" or "farm operation" as any landholding or group of landholdings directly or indirectly farmed or operated by an individual, group, entity, trust, or any other combination or arrangement. Adds farming or farming operations under the requirements of such Act. States that certain ownership and full cost pricing limitations under such Act shall apply to any trust, trust beneficiary, and farm or farm operation operated by or for such trustee for one or more beneficiaries. Subjects farm or farm operations to certain reporting requirements of such Act and to certain certification requirements for the receipt of irrigation water in covered district lands. States that farms or farm operations shall not include any landholding of a religious or charitable entity or organization which qualifies as an individual under such Act (thereby excluding it from such Act's requirements). Provides that if a religious or charitable organization holds lands but fails to qualify as an individual for any part of such landholdings, then such nonqualifying part shall be considered lands held in excess of ownership limitation requirements under such and shall receive reclamation water only as excess lands. Restricts irrigation water benefits under such Act to citizens or resident aliens of the United States. Title XXI: Cost of Irrigation Water - Amends the Reclamation Projects Act of 1939 to require all contracts for the delivery of water used to raise agricultural price support crops under authority of such Act to include a provision which requires the organization receiving water to pay 50 percent of the full delivery cost beginning two years after enactment of this title and 100 percent of the full delivery cost beginning four years after enactment of this title, if the stocks of such commodity in Commodity Credit Corporation storage exceed an amount necessary to provide a reasonable reserve for shortages caused by drought, natural disaster, or any other disruption in supply. Specifies contracts, or amendments to contracts, for which such requirements shall not apply. Title XXII: Buy-American - Authorizes the Secretary to award to a domestic firm a contract that would be awarded to a foreign firm under competitive procedures, if: (1) the final product of the domestic firm will be completely assembled in the United States; (2) when completely assembled, no less than 51 percent of the final product of the domestic firm will be domestically produced; and (3) the difference between the bids submitted by the foreign and domestic firms is not more than six percent (Buy American requirement). Provides public interest, national security, or tariff regulation or agreement violation exceptions to such authority. Provides that if the Secretary determines that any person intentionally affixes a "Made in America" label to any product sold or shipped to the United States that is not made in America, the Secretary shall declare such person ineligible to receive a Federal contract or grant under any contract made under this Act for no less than three or no more than five years. Prohibits a person or enterprise domiciled under a foreign government from entering into a contract under this Act if their government unfairly maintains in government procurement a significant and persistent practice of discrimination against the U.S. products or services which results in identifiable harm to U.S. businesses. Title XXIII: Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District - Directs the Secretary to convey to the Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District in Sunnyside, Washington, all right, title, and interest of the United States (excluding oil, gas, and other mineral deposits) to a specified parcel of real property in Sunnyside, Washington. Title XXIV: Sly Park Unit Sale - Directs the Secretary, as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, to sell the Sly Park Unit of the Central Valley Project, California, to the El Dorado Irrigation District, California, under specified terms and conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Support for Democracy and Human Rights in China Act of 1990 - Prohibits most-favored-nation treatment for Chinese products. Terminates such prohibition upon the President's certification to the Congress that China: (1) has ceased committing violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) has ceased persecution of pro-democracy movement members; (3) permits unrestricted emigration; and (4) has ceased religious persecution in China and Tibet.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Kokapelli National Outdoor Theater Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Kokapelli National Outdoor Theater in Moab, Utah, to promote western and Native American culture, the performing arts, and related programs in the southwest United States. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Kokapelli National Outdoor Theater Foundation (established by the University of Utah to raise funds and administer programming for the theater) with regard to the presentation of performing arts and related educational and cultural programs. Sets forth certain conditions to be met before such agreement can be entered into with the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Disclaims all Federal right, title, and interest in specified base lands over which the United States holds record title. Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Interior must: (1) prepare a list of such lands; and (2) acquire, condemn, or disclaim all Federal interest in them within a two-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Title I: Amendments to Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Subtitle A: Improvements - Federal Deposit Improvements Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to specify the length of interim appointments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors. Revises conversion authority to authorize the FDIC to approve conversion transactions that affect insubstantial portions of depository institution deposits acquired as part of the conversion transaction. Grants priority (with certain exceptions) to claims brought by the FDIC against an insured depository institution or its personnel in any proceeding relating to other claims against such an institution or its officers or employees. Cites circumstances under which the FDIC may limit the remuneration (including deferred benefit arrangements and other compensation plans) paid by an insured depository institution to an institution-affiliated party. Repeals the exemption granted to certain State-chartered savings associations with respect to compliance with regulations of the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision relating to subsidiaries. Precludes participation in the affairs of an insured depository institution by any person who has entered into a pretrial diversion program in lieu of a trial for dishonesty or breach of trust. Mandates that any depository institution (currently, any savings association) whose deposits are not FDIC-insured shall conspicuously state that its deposits are "not federally insured." Subtitle B: Limitation on Liability for Nonculpable Activities - Lender Liability Act of 1990 - Prescribes guidelines under which an insured depository institution or mortgage lender (including Federal agencies) is exempt from strict liability relating to hazardous substances in connection with properties acquired: (1) through foreclosure; (2) held in a fiduciary capacity; or (3) held under the terms of a credit extension. Title II: Clarifying Amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Prohibits an insured depository institution from indemnifying its personnel (or other institution-related person) for costs related to actions brought successfully by a Federal banking agency against such institution-related persons. Grants the FDIC the same powers and rights over the assets and liabilities of the FSLIC Resolution Fund as it has over other jurisdictional matters under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Declares the FDIC to be the successor receiver or conservator to FSLIC wards. States that if a consolidation or acquisition involves a savings association eligible for assistance and a bank (or bank holding company), the resulting entity (currently, the savings association) may retain and operate any existing branch or facilities. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to provide that upon the filing of a pleading informing the court that the FDIC has been appointed conservator or receiver for a party, the FDIC shall be deemed substituted in any legal proceeding involving that party. Title III: Clerical Amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Makes clerical amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the granting of a Federal license for a hydroelectric project unless the applicant complies with all substantive and procedural requirements of the affected State in which the project is located with respect to water acquisition and use. Declares that the Act shall not be construed to constitute a preemption or intent to preempt procedural and substantive State law regarding water rights or water use.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates the week beginning November 11, 1990, as National Disabled Veterans Week, in recognition of the contributions that disabled veterans have made to the welfare of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1990
Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) specifically include electronic means for the acquisition, recording, retrieval, transmission, or reproduction of any obligations or other securities of the United States within proscriptions against counterfeiting and forgery; and (2) set penalties for the unauthorized possession of distinctive paper (defined to include any distinctive medium of which currency is made) or distinctive counterfeit deterrent (including any ink, watermark, seal, security thread, or other feature or device which the Secretary of the Treasury designates as being of value in preventing the counterfeiting of U.S. obligations or other securities). States that provisions permitting the reproduction of illustrations of obligations or other securities do not permit such reproduction by or through electronic means.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1990
Designates July 1, 1990, as Imported Oil Dependence Day. Requires the Secretary of Energy to report to the Congress, annually, on July 1, of the extent of the reliance of the United States on imported oil during the previous year, and the extent of its projected reliance for the coming year.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Economic Growth and Venture Capital Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Amtrak Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). Limits the liability for certain rail accidents occurring in the District of Columbia to no more than the limits of coverage maintained by a publicly funded commuter transportation authority established under Virginia law to indemnify Amtrak or any railroad over which the authority conducts its operations. Authorizes the use of proceeds from the sale of railroad lines that were acquired and rehabilitated with funds under the Rail Safety and Service Improvement Act of 1982 for similar purposes with respect to railroad lines connected with such a line for the purpose of continued rail service on them. Requires Amtrak to cooperate with the efforts of the Washington State Department of Transportation in designing a study of the feasibility of reestablishing rail service between Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Directs Amtrak to study and report to the Congress on the revenue and cost implications of separating the California Zephyr-Desert Wind-Pioneer train into two service routes serving a southern and a control route through Iowa. Prohibits the compensation of any rail or motor carrier employee who works in more than one State from being subject to State income taxes in any State but the State in which the employee resides. Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to treat Amtrak as a publicly funded rail carrier with respect to its contribution toward employees' unemployment compensation benefits. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to the Congress on the potential need among Class II and Class III railroads for Federal guarantees of obligations for funding rehabilitation and improvement of facilities and equipment, acquisition of new railroad facilities, or refinancing of existing debt.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for travel, food, lodging, transportation, and uniform expenses paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Deferred Compensation Plan Participant Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure deposits (of up to $100,000 per individual) in an insured depository institution made pursuant to a deferred compensation plan for employees of State or local governments or tax-exempt organizations qualified under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates September 21, 1990, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Recognizes the National League of Families POW/MIA flag as the official symbol of the United States' commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner or missing in action in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan and design an extension of the National Air and Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1990 - Title I: Reduction of Special Interest Influence - Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees from Federal Election Activities - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) revise the definition of a "political committee" to delete references to any separate segregated fund and any committee, club, association, or group which receives contributions or makes expenditures annually totaling over $1,000 and to include any national, State, or district committee of a political party, including any subordinate committee thereof, and any committee jointly established by such committees or by any local committee as defined under current law for joint fundraising activities; (2) repeal provisions excluding nonpartisan registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns and the establishment of, and solicitation of contributions for, a separate segregated fund from the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, corporation, or labor organization; and (3) prohibit making, soliciting, or receiving contributions or making expenditures to influence a Federal election by any person other than an individual or a political committee. Specifies that if such prohibition is not in effect: (1) it and the other amendments made by this Act to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 regarding such definitions shall not be in effect and prior law will be reinstated; and (2) political action committees not connected to corporations, labor organizations, or trade associations will be subject to a $1,000 contribution limit. Deems any political committee which is established, financed, maintained, or controlled by any candidate or Federal officeholder to be an authorized committee of such candidate or officeholder for purposes of limitations on contributions to a candidate's committees. Subtitle B: Ban on Soft Money in Federal Elections - Bans the use of soft money (any amount raised or contributed outside of source restrictions, contribution limits, and disclosure requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) to influence any Federal election. Requires the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to issue regulations providing a method for allocating the contributions and expenditures for any mixed activity between Federal and non-Federal accounts. Sets forth guidelines for such allocation which include the establishment of minimum percentages of Federal funds for activities designed to contact voters in connection with elections for Federal and non-Federal office. Requires each treasurer of a political committee to keep an account of, and file reports disclosing, each account maintained by such committee. Includes political committees among those entities eligible to receive contributions or expenditures by national banks, corporations, or labor organizations. Permits a labor organization, upon reinstatement of prior law regarding certain political activities not considered to be contributions or expenditures, to make political communications and establish and solicit contributions for a separate segregated political fund if it: (1) provides the employees it represents with written notification of specified information at least once annually; (2) provides such employees with an annual examination by an independent certified public accountant of its financial statements which verify its costs for representation services; and (3) maintains certain procedures regarding the cost of such representation. Requires a labor organization which does not follow such requirements to finance those communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of any clearly identified candidate for elective public office as well as the other political activities not considered to be contributions or expenditures with funds legally collected under this Act for its separate segregated fund. Imposes Federal limits on contributions to political organizations maintained by a candidate for Federal office which are not political committees of a national, State, or local party. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny tax-exempt status for an organization: (1) which devotes any of its operating budget to voter registration, get-out-the-vote campaigns, or participation in political campaign activities; (2) on whose behalf a candidate or an authorized committee thereof solicits contributions; or (3) which intervenes or participates in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for Federal office. Subtitle C: Other Activities - Reduces from $1,000 to $500 the maximum contribution allowed to any candidate for Federal office (other than a candidate for President or Vice President) by a person residing outside the State with respect to which such candidate seeks Federal office. Maintains the current $1,000 limitation for contributions to any candidate for President or Vice President or to any candidate for Federal office by a person residing within the State with respect to which such candidate seeks Federal office. Provides for periodic indexing of such limitations according to the consumer price index. Excludes costs of campaign materials and general research activities paid by national committees of a political party from the definition of "expenditure and contribution" under the same conditions currently provided for such payments by State or local committees of a political party. Exempts contributions to political party committees from the $25,000 annual limit. Prohibits: (1) any intermediary or conduit from delivering or arranging to have delivered contributions from more than two persons who are employees of the same employer or members of the same labor organization; and (2) lobbyists from acting as an intermediary or conduit with respect to a contribution to a candidate for Federal office. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires the FEC to provide a hearing within three days after receiving a complaint alleging that an independent expenditure was made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Provides for expedited judicial review for any matter relating to the making of an independent expenditure. Title II: Increase of Competition in Politics - Allows the congressional campaign committee or the senatorial campaign committee of a national political party to make contributions to a candidate for Federal office (other than President or Vice President) who does not hold Federal office which in the aggregate do not exceed the lesser of: (1) $100,000; or (2) the aggregate contributions made during the election cycle preceding the primary election by an individual who, at the time such contributions are made, is a resident of the State in which the election with respect to which such contributions are made is to be held. Prohibits such a contribution from being treated as an expenditure by a national committee, State committee, or subordinate committee of a State committee in connection with the general election campaign of a candidate for Federal office. Prohibits a holder of Federal office from transferring any amounts received as contributions or other campaign funds to any account maintained for purposes of defraying ordinary and necessary expenses in connection with the duties of such office. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the FEC and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend for the primary and general election an amount exceeding $250,000 from: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for election. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay any expenditure or personal loan incurred in connection with the candidate's election to Federal office from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits: (1) repayment of any interest on the principal of such loan or the amount of such expenditure; and (2) repayment from any such contributions received after the general election to which the expenditure or loan relates. Prohibits franked mass mailings by: (1) Members of Congress during the year in which they are candidates for reelection; (2) Members of, or Members-elect to, the House during the year in which they are candidates for any other public office; or (3) Members of the Senate during the year in which they are candidates for any other public office. Requires Members of Congress using franked mass mailings to register such mailings annually with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives who shall make such mailing available for public inspection along with a description of the persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed. Amends rule XL of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the use of franked mass mail by a Senator or an individual who is a candidate for nomination to the Senate during the year in which the Senator is a candidate for public office or the individual is a candidate for the Senate. Revises provisions with respect to congressional reapportionment and redistricting so that the number of persons in congressional districts within each State shall be as nearly equal as practicable, as determined under the most recent decennial census. Prohibits congressional districts from being established with the intent and effect of diluting the voting strength of any persons or members of any political party. Requires district boundaries to avoid the division of counties and minimize the division of cities and other political subdivisions. Establishes expedited Federal judicial review procedures of the redistricting process, giving Federal district courts exclusive jurisdiction. Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State or political subdivision of: (1) the honest services of a government official or employee; or (2) a fair and impartially conducted election process through the use of fraudulent ballots or voter registration forms or the filing of fraudulent campaign reports to secure the election of an official who, if elected, would have authority over the administration of funds derived from an Act of the Congress totalling $10,000 or more for a year before or after the election or offense. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of the United States of the honest services of a public official. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official who: (1) uses interstate commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of any State or political subdivision of the right to have government affairs conducted on the basis of complete, true, and accurate information; or (2) in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates, harasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, providing such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. Title III: Reduction of Campaign Costs - Sets forth congressional findings regarding discounts for political broadcasts. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to: (1) limit the cost to qualified candidates of broadcasting time for pre-election political advertising to the lowest rate charged for any time in the same period; and (2) prohibit any broadcast licensee from preempting the use of any such time purchased by a qualified candidate. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Federal Election Commission Enforcement Authority - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the enforcement provisions. Changes the determination the FEC must make upon receiving a complaint, before notifying the person of an alleged violation. Authorizes the FEC to seek an injunction if: (1) it believes that there is a substantial likelihood that a violation of Federal election laws is occurring or about to occur; (2) the failure to act expeditiously will result in irreparable harm; (3) such expeditious action will not cause undue harm or prejudice to the interests of others; and (4) the public interest would be best served by such an injunction. Reduces the period provided for the FEC to attempt informally to prevent or correct a violation of such Act from 90 to 60 days. Requires the FEC to make such an attempt for a period of no more than 15 days, if the violation occurs within 45 days of an election. Provides greater penalties for knowing and willful violations committed within 15 days of any election. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the requirement that the FEC, upon an affirmative vote of four of its members, institute a civil action if it is unable to correct or prevent a violation of such Act. Requires a court in such civil action to grant a specified remedy upon a showing that the person involved has committed or is about to commit a violation of such Act. Provides a private right of action if, by a tie vote, the FEC does not vote to institute a civil action. Requires a court to impose a specified civil penalty for a knowing and willful violation of such Act. Expedites from 120 days to 60 days the time which an aggrieved party must wait before seeking judicial redress because the FEC dismissed, or failed to reasonably pursue, a complaint filed by such party. Allows the aggrieved party to file an action in any U.S. district court having jurisdiction. Requires that any monetary award under such action be paid to the United States. Provides for a mandatory award of attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party. Increases the penalties for violation of the confidentiality requirement with respect to any notification or investigation made under such Act. Removes the ceiling on the fine for any person who willfully and knowingly commits a violation of such Act which involves any contribution or expenditure aggregating $2,000 or more during a calendar year. Directs the FEC to establish time limitations for its investigation and to publish an index of all of its investigations. Establishes procedures for initial determinations and probable cause determinations by the FEC. Eliminates the en banc hearing requirement for constitutional questions regarding such Act. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Requires each treasurer of a political committee to file reports disclosing for the reporting period the terms of any settlement agreement or any security or collateral agreement entered into with respect to a loan or other debt as evidenced by a copy of such agreement filed as part of the report. Includes any gift subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money made for the purpose of drafting a clearly identified individual as a candidate for Federal office or encouraging a clearly identified individual to become a candidate for Federal office within the definition of "contribution." Requires such a contribution to be treated, with respect to the individual involved, as a contribution to a candidate, whether or not the individual becomes a candidate for purposes of limitations on contributions and expenditures.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Congressional Commitment to Long-Term Care Concurrent Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that payments to long-term care providers under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act be sufficient to maintain the highest quality of patient care in nursing homes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990
Authorizes appropriations to enable the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to design, construct and equip space in the East Court of the National Museum of Natural History building.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990
Smithsonian Institution Senior Executive Service Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Smithsonian, with the approval of the Board of Regents, to establish and promulgate regulations for a Smithsonian Institution Senior Executive Service.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Supreme Court or any inferior court of the United States from ordering a State or political subdivision, or an official of such State or subdivision, from laying or increasing taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
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