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United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 13, 1990, as National Day in Support of Freedom and Human Rights in China and Tibet.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to States, with regard to breast and cervical cancer, for screening, referrals and follow-up services, public information and education programs, education and training for health professionals, quality monitoring of screening, and evaluations of such activities. Sets forth preferences in making the grants and requires equitable geographical distribution. Requires matching non-Federal funds in a specified ratio. Requires that States agree to: (1) provide all of certain services by a specified date; (2) switch to any improved screening procedures which become available; and (3) assure the quality of any screening procedures used. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the quality of mammography and cytological screening conducted under these provisions. Requires that low-income women be given priority in the provision of services. Requires that a charge for services, if any: (1) be made according to a public schedule; (2) be adjusted for income of the woman involved; and (3) not be imposed on any woman with incomes below the poverty line. Requires services to be provided throughout a State, including to members of any Indian tribe or tribal organization. Authorizes the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants made to seven in FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Designates March 30, 1990, as National Doctor's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation for a named vessel.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Designates February 17 through 23, 1991, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Designates July 10, 1990, as Wyoming Centennial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990
Commends Will Hill Tankersley for his service to this Nation and the United States Army, most recently as Chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Provides that, in evaluating any sealed bid or competitive proposal for a defense contract for the performance of professional services, the head of an agency shall evaluate the bid or proposal as if the hourly labor rates of the professional employees carrying out the professional services are based on a 40-hour work week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 1990 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Designates April 6, 1990, as National Student-Athlete Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 11 through March 17, 1990, as National Employ the Older Worker Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Designates March 1990 as United States Naval Reserve Month in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the United States Naval Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Head Start Expansion and Quality Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Head Start Act to extend through FY 1994 and increase the authorization of appropriations for the Head Start program. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, when appropriations exceed the adjusted appropriation for FY 1990, to reserve a certain portion of funds for one or more of the following quality improvement activities: (1) staff compensation; (2) staff training; (3) transportation for eligible children; (4) additional staff; (5) program insurance costs; and (6) facility improvement. Revises the poverty line criterion for eligibility to participate in Head Start programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an individual upon the insured's becoming terminally ill. Provides that applicants for or recipients of assistance under the Social Security Act may not be required to elect to receive accelerated death benefits under life insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Innovative Boot Camp Prison Act of 1990 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grants to States to carry out projects that demonstrate innovative alternatives to the imprisonment of individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses. Includes boot camp prisons as such alternatives, in conjunction with drug treatment, literacy education, vocational education, and job training programs. Makes drug testing and treatment mandatory for drug offenders. Sets forth: (1) application procedures and requirements for grants; and (2) procedures for review of applications. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Designates the week of June 24 through June 30, 1990, as National Sheriffs' Week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Sheriffs' Association.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Commemorates May 18, 1990, as the 25th anniversary of Head Start.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to maintain at 75 percent the Federal share of funds under FY 1991 grants to State and local governments for drug control and criminal justice system improvement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Rural Health and Safety Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for the establishment of: (1) individual and family health education programs with specified contents; (2) rural health leadership development education programs to assist rural communities in developing health care services and facilities and assist community leaders and public officials in understanding their roles and responsibilities; and (3) farm safety education programs to provide information and training to farm workers, timber harvesters, and farm families. Requires: (1) these grants to be coordinated with the State offices of rural health; (2) educational programs conducted with these grants to provide leadership within the State for the dissemination of rural health and safety information resources possessed by the Rural Information Center established at the National Agricultural Library; and (3) in States with land-grant colleges and universities that are eligible to receive funds under specified Acts, that such institutions mutually determine the type of health and safety education program needed in the State. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the funds to be distributed on a competitive or matching fund basis according to specified criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Designates March 1990 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Older Americans' Freedom to Work Act of 1990 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Designates March 10, 1990, as Harriet Tubman Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Designates May 16, 1990, as National Employee Health and Fitness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979.)
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Boards - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Directs the Secretary to issue organic production and handling orders which shall: (1) establish the Initial Organic Delegate Body which shall elect the Initial National Organic Board and the Initial Organic Standards Board; and (2) provide for the election of the National Organic Assembly. Establishes: (1) an Initial National Organic Board; and (2) an Initial Organic Standards Board. Directs the National Organic Assembly to elect members to serve on the National Organic Board and the Organic Standards Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) two experimental agricultural product labels for Program use. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Designates the week beginning on October 7, 1990, and ending October 13, 1990, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Designates the 1990 filing season as National IRS-Sponsored Volunteer Season.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates May 1990 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates the week of April 15 through April 21, 1990, as National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Harvest of Peace Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should establish as a primary foreign and domestic policy objective the achievement of common security by: (1) negotiating agreements with the Soviet Union and urging other nations to reduce military forces and spending with the goal of having worldwide military spending by the year 2000; (2) reducing military assistance and arms sales to developing nations; (3) encouraging the peaceful settlement of conflicts; (4) providing increased assistance to developing nations to overcome hunger and poverty, reduce debt burdens, promote human rights, ensure sustainable development, and protect the environment; (5) increasing support domestically for programs that address human needs; (6) helping defense industries and their employees convert to productive nondefense work; and (7) reducing the Federal deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Selma to Montgomery National Trail Study Act of 1989 - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (traveled by the march dramatizing the need for voting rights legislation), for study for potential addition to the national trails system.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates April 1990 as National Recycling Month.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates March 23, 1990, as National Energy Education Day to promote and enhance energy education programs at all grade levels of public and private schools.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit the reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Designates September 1990 as International Visitors' Month.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Title I: National Writing Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract with the National Writing Project (a nonprofit educational organization) to support costs of programs of teacher training and classroom research to improve the teaching of writing and the quality of student writing and learning. Directs the Project to establish a National Advisory Board. Title II: Research and Development - Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to individuals and higher education institutions for research on the teaching of writing. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Designates July 3, 1990, as Idaho Centennial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Designates March 25, 1990, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal judicial code to require U.S. district courts to implement a civil justice expense and delay reduction plan to facilitate adjudication, streamline discovery, improve judicial case management, and provide for just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of civil disputes. Requires district plans to be developed jointly by the bench, public, and bar and to address specified elements, including differentiated case management with explicit processing tracks, mandatory discovery-case management procedures, limitations on discovery, alternative dispute resolution, nonbinding conferences at early stages of litigation, judicial accountability procedures, and use of magistrates. Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Federal Judicial Center to develop a model plan, with mandatory implementation within a year in districts not developing their own plans. Requires progress and impact reports to the Congress. Requires district courts to implement transition programs for any case backlogs and to inventory and index pending cases. Directs the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to automate the court docket in nonautomated districts. Requires: (1) the preparation of a Manual for Litigation Management which includes the rationale and impact of the plans; and (2) expansion of judicial training programs to include case management. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates April 29 through May 5, 1990, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates April 22 through April 28, 1990, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued in honor of Claude Pepper.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Provides for a permanent endowment for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that at least half of the annual income on such endowment be available only to assist U.S. fellows in traveling to and studying in emerging European democracies.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to gradually eliminate differences in average standardized Medicare payments to large urban, other urban, and rural hospitals, based on methodologies developed by the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to apply the same honoraria provisions to Senators and officers and employees of the Senate as apply to Members of the House of Representatives and other officers and employees of the Government. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to repeal provisions providing for annual cost-of-living salary increases for Senators and concurrent reductions in the limit on honoraria.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates May 6 through May 12, 1990, as Be Kind to Animals and National Pet Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates October 14, 1990, as Dwight D. Eisenhower Day commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eisenhower's birth. Requests Members of Congress who are members of the Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission to make arrangements for a joint meeting of the Congress in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations for the targeted export assistance program. Requires the Foreign Agricultural Service to document program funding allocation and assistance eligibility decisions. Requires the General Accounting Office to provide specified congressional committees with a program oversight report.