United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
Amends the Copyright Act of 1976 to provide that the unpublished nature of a work shall be but one of many considerations to be used by a court when determining whether copyrighted material may be used without permission or payment when its use is fair and for a purpose statutorily identified as being in the public interest.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Heinz Elder Life Program Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to modify the definition of "information and referral" to include services for older individuals that: (1) assess their problems and capacities; (2) link older individuals to available opportunities and needed services; and (3) benefit the entire older community. Elevates the status of the Commissioner on Aging to Assistant Secretary. Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish a Commission to study existing reporting requirements and related programs and make legislative and regulatory recommendations to achieve specified objectives. Includes as functions of the Assistant Secretary the: (1) establishment of information and assistance services as priority services for the aged and aging; and (2) development of guidelines for choosing legal assistance providers and developers. Requires area agencies on aging: (1) to establish an informal grievance procedure for older individuals who are dissatisfied with, or denied, services with further appeal to the appropriate area agency on aging; and (2) in providing legal assistance, to give priority to legal problems related to income, health care, long-term care, nutrition, housing and utilities, defense of guardianship, abuse and neglect, and age discrimination. Requires State plans to also provide priority legal assistance in such areas. Requires technical assistance and training to State long-term care ombudsman programs to include assistance in recruiting and retaining volunteers for ombudsman programs by establishing a national program for recruitment efforts. Requires State agencies on aging to encourage adoption of memoranda of understanding between legal assistance providers and long-term care ombudsman providers that will ensure that the providers will coordinate services to the greatest extent possible. Requires the program for the prevention of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older individuals to require that State agencies make all reasonable efforts to resolve any conflicts with other public agencies with respect to the confidentiality of information in complaints and other reports of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of older individuals by entering into memoranda of understanding that limit information disclosure according to current guidelines. Establishes a program to provide transportation services to older individuals. Authorizes appropriations. Makes legal assistance agencies eligible to participate in demonstration projects for developmental disabilities and mental illness established under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act and under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986. Reauthorizes and extends such demonstration projects through FY 1993. Adds a new section to provide for demonstration projects to determine the feasibility of using the aging network as the infrastructure for a comprehensive long-term care system. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish a program of grants to State agencies to support and assist older individuals by providing legal assistance in areas such as living wills, durable powers of attorney, and other life planning areas. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the accession of Taiwan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is in the best interest of the United States and of the world trading system and should be achieved in an expeditious manner; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
School Readiness Act of 1991 - Title I: Public Health Service Act Provisions - Subtitle A: Comprehensive Primary and Preventive Care for Pregnant Women, Infants and Children - Comprehensive Maternal and Early Childhood Health Care Act - Replaces Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing appropriations for migrant health centers (MHCs) and community health centers (CHCs) with provisions requiring the use of funds appropriated under other provisions to develop, operate, and expand Comprehensive Perinatal and Early Childhood Health Programs in medically underserved areas. Mandates grants to MHCs and CHCs for such programs. Requires the use of funds appropriated under other provisions for planning and developing CHCs to serve medically underserved populations. Amends provisions relating to health services for the homeless to require use of funds appropriated under other provisions to develop, operate, and expand such programs. Mandates grants to grantees under the provisions relating to the homeless for such programs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to provide vaccines to the health department of each State or large city that is operating an immunization project for distribution to grantees under specified provisions, federally qualified health centers, and public health professionals. Requires, in determining the quantity of vaccine needed, that the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration make available to the CDC Director data from annual reports from such grantees and federally qualified health centers. Requires the CDC Director to direct the State or city health department to provide the recipients with an adequate supply of vaccine from the allotment provided to the grantee. Amends the Vaccine and Immunization Amendments of 1990 to replace provisions authorizing grants for vaccine outreach programs with provisions authorizing the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to make grants to States for demonstration projects related to immunization. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Public Health Service Act to add substance abuse treatment and prevention services to the list of supplemental health services provided by MHCs and CHCs. Replaces provisions mandating grants for prevention, education, and treatment projects regarding drug and alcohol abuse relating to pregnant and postpartum women and their infants with provisions mandating demonstration grants for substance abuse prevention, education, and treatment projects serving such individuals. Requires that services under the grants be provided at locations accessible to low-income pregnant and postpartum women and in the most appropriate language and cultural context. Requires that services eligible for Medicaid payment be provided by an entity qualified to receive Medicaid payments. Limits fees for services. Requires non-Federal contributions in a specified ratio. Limits grants to five years but allows renewal. Makes grant payments subject to annual approval by the Secretary and to the availability of appropriations. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to assist the prenatal clinics in the United States in implementing smoking cessation programs to decrease rates of smoking during pregnancy. Authorizes grants to or contracts with State or local health departments and other public entities to assist in implementing programs and policies to prevent and encourage cessation of tobacco use during pregnancy. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Grants for Home-visiting Services for At-Risk Families - Mandates competitive grants for the Federal share of the costs of home visiting services. Requires that the grants be for at least three years. Requires that the services include case management, with a registered nurse or social worker assigned as the case manager for individual cases. Requires that the case manager develop a family service plan for the client. Sets the Federal share of the grants at a specified percentage. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Head Start Act - Amends the Head Start Act to direct (currently, authorize) the Secretary, on application by an agency designated (currently, an agency eligible for designation) as a Head Start agency, to provide, subject to appropriations, financial assistance for Head Start programs. Entitles all eligible children to receive services through a Head Start program. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Declares that provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (excluding receipts and expenditures of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of the U.S. budget, the congressional budget, or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act)) shall apply with respect to amounts appropriated under this authorization. Directs the Secretary to make a minimum amount available to carry out the Head Start Transition Project Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Semiconductor International Protection Extension of 1991 - Extends through July 1, 1995, the period during which the Secretary of Commerce may grant interim protection orders for mask works fixed in semiconductor chip products originating in foreign countries which are making good faith efforts and progress toward providing such protection to mask works of U.S. nationals. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the appropriate congressional committees by July 1, 1994, on such protection.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Farm Debt Tax Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $300,000 (lifetime total) of capital gain from the transfer of property in complete or partial satisfaction of qualified farm indebtedness of a taxpayer: (1) whose modified gross income is below the national median adjusted gross income median; (2) whose gross receipts for six of the preceding ten years are at least 50 percent attributable to farming; and (3) whose equity in all property held after the transfer in question is less than the greater of $25,000 or 150 percent of income tax liability. Applies a comparable exclusion with respect to the discharge of qualified farm indebtedness of solvent farmers who meet these requirements and whose indebtedness both before and after the relevant transfer equals at least 70 percent or more of equity. Permits both tax exclusions retroactively with respect to taxable years 1987 and thereafter. Grants a one-year period after enactment of this Act for claims of credit or refund of overpayment of tax resulting from such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to create a volunteer service coordinator position at the local area on aging level in order to: (1) encourage and enlist the services of volunteer groups to assist the elderly; (2) encourage and organize the use of older Americans as volunteers; and (3) promote the recognition of the contributions to Older Americans Act programs by volunteers. Creates a position at the State level in order to: (1) coordinate the volunteer services offered between the various areas on aging; and (2) provide appropriate assistance to area coordinators. Allows local areas on aging to use existing Older Americans Act funds to cover the costs of providing for area volunteer services coordinators.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Deems a named decedent to have made an election to provide an annuity to his former spouse in accordance with their separation agreement, for purposes of determining the spouse's eligibility for an annuity under the military Survivor Benefit Plan. Provides for a lump sum payment of such amount.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the tax-exempt status of a cooperative telephone company to provide for the tax treatment of income received from a nonmember telephone company for services by the cooperative which are indirectly paid for by members of the cooperative. Includes billing and collection services for a nonmember telephone company under such treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Changes the rules of the Senate with respect to the "fast track" procedures for the consideration of implementing bills submitted relating to trade agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Criminal Voir Dire Demonstration Act of 1991 - Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to conduct a four-year demonstration program under which the Director of the Administrative Office of United States Courts shall select four district courts to serve as demonstration districts. Precludes any State from having more than one demonstration district. Requires each demonstration district to adopt and follow a local rule which requires the court, at the request of the defendant or the Government (except upon an affirmative finding by the court that the interests of justice require otherwise), to permit the defendant or his attorney and the attorney for the Government each a minimum of 30 minutes to conduct an oral examination of the prospective jury. Specifies that such rule shall: (1) allow additional time for examination by the attorneys at the court's discretion; (2) allow the court to conduct its own examination and to impose reasonable limitations with respect to the questions allowed during such voir dire examination; and (3) allow each side an additional ten minutes for each additional defendant, provided that the total time required shall not exceed one hour per side. Makes decisions made by a court under such rule non-reviewable except for an abuse of discretion. Directs the Judicial Conference to: (1) study the experience of the district courts under the demonstration program authorized by this Act; and (2) transmit to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees a report on the results of such demonstration program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Civil Voir Dire Demonstration Act of 1991 - Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to conduct a four-year demonstration program under which four district courts adopt and follow a local rule which requires the court, at the request of the plaintiff or defendant (and except upon an affirmative finding by the court that the interests of justice require otherwise), to permit the plaintiff and defendant or their attorneys each a minimum of 30 minutes to conduct an oral examination of the prospective jury. Specifies that such rule shall: (1) allow additional time for examination by the attorneys at the court's discretion; (2) allow the court to conduct its own examination and impose reasonable limitations with respect to the questions allowed during such voir dire examination; and (3) limit each side, in cases where there are multiple parties, to an additional ten minutes for each additional party, provided that the total time required does not exceed one hour per side. Makes decisions made by a court under such rule non-reviewable except for an abuse of discretion. Directs the Judicial Conference to study and report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the results of such demonstration program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that certain revenue received by tax-exempt organizations that conduct amateur athletic events shall not be treated as taxable unrelated business income.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to revise certain guidelines with respect to the examination of prospective jurors. Requires the court to permit the defendant or his attorney and the attorney for the Government each at least 30 minutes to conduct an oral examination of the prospective jury.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Amends the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to revise certain guidelines with respect to the examination of prospective jurors. Requires the court to permit the plaintiff and defendant or their attorneys each at least 30 minutes to conduct an oral examination of the prospective jury.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that the Senate expresses its: (1) regret that Senator Pryor's illness will require his absence from the Senate Chamber; and (2) heartfelt wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery, and that he return to his duties, serving the people of Arkansas, in the near future.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1991
Administrative Law Judge Corps Act - Establishes an Administrative Law Judge Corps to be comprised of all current administrative law judges. States that the chief administrative law judge shall be the chief administrative officer of the Corps as well as its presiding judge. Specifies the qualifications for chief judge. States that such judge shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the chief judge to submit a written report to the President and the Congress at the end of each fiscal year concerning the business of the Corps during the preceding fiscal year. Establishes seven divisions within the Corps, with each division headed by a division chief judge appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Identifies the divisions and their respective areas of jurisdiction. Specifies qualifications required for division chief judges. States that the Corps' policymaking body shall be the Council of the Corps comprised of the chief judge and the division chief judges. Authorizes the Council to: (1) assign judges to divisions and to transfer or reassign judges from one division to another; (2) appoint persons as administrative law judges and members of the Corps; (3) file charges against an administrative law judge; (4) prescribe certain rules of practice and procedure for proceedings before the Corps; (5) issue rules and regulations for the efficient conduct of the Corps; and (6) perform other administrative functions. Directs the Council to appoint new judges from a register maintained by the Office of Personnel Management. Confers jurisdiction upon members of the Corps to adjudicate cases under specified sections of the Administrative Procedure Act. Requires cases arising under such sections to be referred to the Corps. Directs the Council to issue regulations for assigning such cases. Requires guidelines for the removal and discipline of administrative law judges. Establishes a Complaints Resolution Board within the Corps to recommend action upon complaints against the official conduct of judges. Details the membership of such Board and the procedures to be followed. Declares Board proceedings and the contents of complaints to be privileged and confidential. Exempts documents and reports considered by the Board from the disclosure and publication requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts the Board from compliance with the public meeting requirements of specified Federal law. Directs the Corps' chief administrative law judge to study the various types of agency review to which decisions of administrative law judges are subject. Sets guidelines for such studies and directs the Council to report the findings of such studies to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1991
Includes service of at least one year in the Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II as creditable service for purposes of civil service retirement. (Current law provides for individuals with two or more years of service.) Requires the retirement annuity of an affected individual to be recomputed provided he or she: (1) files an appropriate written application with the Office of Personnel Management within 14 months of enactment of this Act; and (2) makes required deposits to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund with respect to service in the Corps.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Act - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to local education agencies to establish effective and innovative elementary school counseling programs that can serve as national models. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of School Counseling, headed by a Director, in the Department of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States and the Soviet Union should lead an effort to promptly repeal United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Antiterrorism Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal criminal code to define the term "international terrorism" to include activities that: (1) involve violent acts that are a violation of Federal or State laws, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (2) appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping; and (3) occur primarily outside U.S. territorial jurisdiction or transcend national boundaries. Authorizes any U.S. national injured in his person, property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism to bring a civil action in U.S. district court and recover treble damages and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees. Specifies that a final judgment or decree rendered in favor of the United States in certain classes of criminal proceedings (such as those involving the murder of a foreign official, kidnapping, hostage taking, killing of a U.S. national, or an aircraft piracy-related offense) or in favor of any foreign state in a criminal proceeding to the extent that such judgment or decree may be accorded full faith and credit under U.S. law shall estop the defendant from denying the essential allegations of the criminal offense in a subsequent civil proceeding under this Act. Sets forth provisions with respect to jurisdiction and venue for, and limitation of, such civil actions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to recodify and revise qualifications for church retirement and pension plans. Makes employee contributions to such plans nonforfeitable. Allows ten-year vesting with a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of accrued benefits derived from employer contributions. Allows five-to-15 year vesting with a nonforfeitable right to a percentage (25% to 100%) of such accrued benefits. Requires the plan to meet minimum vesting requirements. Provides that no employee shall be considered an officer, shareholder, supervisor, or highly compensated employee if such employee receives less than $50,000 per year. Excludes from such consideration employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement if retirement benefits were a subject of good faith bargaining. Recodifies the authority of a church or a convention or association of churches to be treated as an employer making contributions to retirement income accounts. Subjects church-related hospitals and universities to certain coverage and related rules in the case of a contract purchased by a church. Requires distributions from retirement income accounts provided by churches to be in accordance with distributions under cash or deferred arrangements. Provides for determining the beginning date for such distributions. Allows self-employed ministers and chaplains who work for non-church employers to participate in their church plans. Provides that certain rules aggregating employees do not apply to churches. Restores qualified voluntary employee contributions to church plans. Treats self-employed ministers as employees for purposes of certain welfare benefit plans and retirement income accounts. Allows a deduction for contributions to retirement income accounts by such ministers. Provides that a church plan maintained by more than one employer shall not be treated as a single plan. Provides that accounting methods of deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations do not apply to a church plan. Exempts a church plan from the requirement to maintain separate accounts for medical benefits for key employees. Provides that the special rules for computing employee contributions to pension plans do not apply to certain foreign missionaries. Repeals the elective deferral catch-up limitation for church retirement income accounts. Allows church plans to annuitize benefits and increase benefit payments. Provides that rules for self-insured medical reimbursement plans are not applicable to church plans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Declares that the Senate: (1) extends a warm welcome to His Excellency Lech Walesa, President of the Republic of Poland, upon the occasion of his State Visit to the United States; (2) recalls the historic ties between the people of both countries; (3) applauds his commitment to economic and political reform; (4) reaffirms the Senate's and U.S. people's support for the independence and security of Poland; (5) looks forward to cooperation with Poland on issues relating to security and stability in Europe; and (6) commends the Bush Administration's decision to reduce Poland's debt to the United States, applauds the Paris Club's decision to reduce Poland's foreign debt, and urges Poland's private creditors to do the same.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to remove from the computation of the expected family contribution in the determination of the need for assistance under the Pell Grant and other student assistance programs the following assets: (1) the family's principal place of residence; or (2) a family farm on which the family resides.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Authorizes the States to waive application of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to vehicles used either for transporting farm supplies from retail dealers to or from a farm, or for custom harvesting, regardless of whether or not they are controlled or operated by a farmer.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1991
National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the National Historic Preservation Act to: (1) require the Secretary of the Interior to report, at least once every four years, to the President and to the Congress, on a review of threats to properties included in or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places; (2) revise requirements for Federal and State historic preservation programs; (3)provide for tribal and Native Hawaiian organizations historic preservation programs; (4) provide for matching grants to States and direct grants to Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to carry out this Act; (5) require development of a comprehensive preservation education and training program; (6) revise requirements for awarding and apportioning grants under this Act; (7) require adaptive use alternatives for Federal agency historic properties; and (8) provide for disposition of archaeological materials. Requires the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of establishing a registration program for artifacts removed from domestic and foreign archaeological sites. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Council to call for and organize U.S. leadership and participation in an international conference on the international antiquities trade. Provides that the conference shall be held in 1992 as part of the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Columbus Discovery Voyage. Amends the National Historic Preservation Act to include within the membership of the council one member of an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization appointed by the President. Prohibits public access to certain information about historic resources in specified circumstances. Establishes in the National Park Service a National Center for Preservation Technology. Establishes a Preservation Technology Board to: (1) provide leadership, policy advice, coordination, and professional oversight to the Center; (2) advise on priorities and the allocation of funds among Center activities; and (3) submit an annual report to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the status of the inclusion of artifacts, records, and material remains on the National Register of Historic Places; and (2) the advisability of including traditional cultural practices and lifeways on it.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Alcoholic Beverage Advertising Act of 1991 - Declares it unlawful to advertise through magazines, newpapers, brochures, promotional displays, or radio or television broadcasting (including cable broadcasting) any alcoholic beverage unless the advertising includes one of specified health warnings. Makes the Secretary of Health and Human Services responsible for establishing and maintaining toll free numbers for assistance referred to in some of the warnings. Sets forth requirements for the warnings, including rotating among the warnings. Requires the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to enforce this Act. Provides for civil monetary penalties and injunctions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Establishes the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to receive, concurrently with other committees of the Senate with jurisdiction, all messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to U.S. personnel unaccounted for from military conflicts.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1991
Amends the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 and other Federal civil rights law to provide that a judicial official (includes both State and Federal judges) shall not be liable for any costs, including attorney fees, or injunctive relief in any proceeding brought against the official for an act or omission committed in his or her judicial capacity. Creates an exception if the action was clearly in excess of the official's jurisdiction or, in the case of injunctive relief, if a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1991
Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges for the districts of Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Puerto Rico, and South Carolina, the middle districts of Florida and Tennessee, the eastern districts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, the southern district of Florida, and the northern district of Georgia.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1991
Federal Deposit Insurance Improvements Act of 1991 - Title I: Amendments to Federal Banking Acts - Subtitle A: Improvements - Federal Banking Agency Improvements Act of 1991 - 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 the total deposits of each depository institution acquired as part of the conversion transaction. Repeals the requirement that the FDIC notify other regulators 30 days before suspending deposit insurance in certain emergencies. 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. 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. Mandates that any depository institution (currently, any savings association) whose deposits are not FDIC-insured conspicuously state that its deposits are "not federally insured." Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to direct the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) to repeal: (1) the prohibition against selling property in certain distressed areas for less than 95 percent of its market value; (2) the requirement to sell certain residential property to low-income buyers, at below market value prices; and (3) the provision for a "net realizable market value" below market value. Imposes criminal penalties upon certain institution-affiliated parties prohibited from participating in the affairs of depository institutions if such parties knowingly participate in any manner in the affairs of: (1) any appropriate Federal depository institution regulatory agency; or (2) the Federal Housing Finance Board and any Federal Home Loan Bank. Amends Federal banking law to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency, without notice or prior hearing, to appoint a receiver to take possession and control of a national bank if it is in an unsafe or unsound condition, including having substantially insufficient capital. (Currently, the Comptroller may appoint a receiver only if the bank is insolvent or has violated the National Bank Act.) Subtitle B: Asset Conservation and Deposit Insurance Protection - Asset Conservation and Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to limit the liability of an insured depository institution or mortgage lender with respect to Federal law imposing strict liability for the release (or threatened release) of a hazardous substance from property: (1) acquired through foreclosure; (2) held in a fiduciary capacity; or (3) held by a lessor or subject to financial control or oversight pursuant to the terms of a credit extension. Denies such limitation on liability to persons that caused or contributed to a release or failed to take reasonable steps to prevent a continued release. Grants immunity from such strict liability to: (1) Federal banking and lending agencies; and (2) the first subsequent purchaser of property from such Federal entities (except in certain circumstances). Exempts Federal banking and lending agencies from any law requiring them to grant convenants warranting remedial action. Mandates that appropriate Federal financial institutions, regulatory agencies and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development issue regulations requiring insured depository institutions and mortgage lenders, respectively, to develop and implement procedures to evaluate actual and potential environmental risks that may arise from property prior to making an extension of credit secured by such property. Subtitle C: Amendments to Public Law 96-510 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Responses, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 with respect to parity of treatment for: (1) the States and Federal Government with respect to property acquired involuntarily; and (2) emergency response actions of a Federal banking or lending agency. Title II: Clarifying Amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Prohibits an insured depository institution from indemnifying its personnel (or other institution-related persons) 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 RTC has been appointed conservator or receiver for a party, the RTC shall be deemed substituted in any legal proceeding involving that party. Title III: Technical Amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Makes clerical amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
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