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Bill· SS. 2851 (101st)open

Airline Competition Equity Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990

Airline Competition Equity Act of 1990 - Prohibits the purchase, sale, lease, or transfer of slots at airports on or after July 12, 1990, except that one slot may be exchanged for another if there is no other consideration associated with the exchange. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish by rulemaking a pool of slots for new entrant air carriers at high density traffic airports. Terminates such rule (as well as the existing "buy-sell rule") 18 months after enactment of this Act. Requires the Administrator to provide a specified certification to the Congress if after such rule ceases to be effective the Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator decides to issue a new rule for the allocation of such slots.

Bill· SS. 2819 (101st)referred

Community Mental Health Center Services Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990

Community Mental Health Center Services Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend covered partial hospitalization services to include psychologist and mental health professionals services prescribed by a physician and provided by a hospital or community mental health center to its outpatients as distinct and organized intensive ambulatory treatment services offering less than 24-hour daily care. Extends direct Medicare coverage to cover services furnished by marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, and clinical mental health counselors on-site at a community mental health center or necessarily furnished off-site due to the condition of the service recipient. Refers to such services as qualified mental health professionals services. Sets the Medicare payment for such services at 80 percent of the lesser of the actual charge for such services or the amount determined pursuant to a fee schedule established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires that payment for mental health professionals services be made only on an assignment-related basis.

Bill· SS. 2813 (101st)referred

1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act

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.

Bill· SS. 2793 (101st)open

A bill to amend the United States Institute of Peace Act to honor the memory of the late Spark M. Matsunaga, United States Senator from the State of Hawaii, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990

Amends the United States Institute of Peace Act (the Act) to authorize the U.S. Institute of Peace, through its Board of Directors, to award an annual Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace and a cash award to a person or persons who have contributed in extraordinary ways to peace among the nations and peoples of the world, giving special attention to contributions advancing society's knowledge and skill in peacemaking and conflict management. Directs the Board to establish an advisory panel to advise in selection of award recipients. Requires the Institute to report to specified congressional committees on selection procedures. Authorizes the Institute, acting through the Board, to establish the Spark M. Matsunaga Scholars Program, which shall include the provision of scholarships and educational programs in international peace and conflict management and related fields for outstanding high school students, as well as scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students. Revises provisions relating to private gifts and contributions. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary of Education to make a grant to the Spark M. Matsunaga Peace Foundation for scholarships, grants, and endowed professorships to individuals and organizations pursuing peace studies and the application of conflict resolution techniques. Authorizes appropriations. Allows such Foundation to retain interest on such grant.

Law· SS. 2789 (101st)enacted

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to replace provisions setting forth the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. Gives the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the primary responsibility for planning and coordinating the Program. Sets forth the administrative and program duties of the Director of FEMA in carrying out Program responsibilities. Prohibits grants to States under the Program from requiring cost sharing at a level greater than 50 percent (in certain circumstances, not greater than 25 percent). Requires the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct research necessary to characterize and identify earthquake hazards, assess earthquake risks, monitor seismic activity, and improve earthquake predictions. Sets forth duties of the Director of the USGS with regard to earthquakes, including: (1) issuing earthquake predictions or other earthquake advisories; (2) establishing, using existing facilities, a Center for the International Exchange of Earthquake Information; and (3) operating a National Seismic Network. Makes the National Science Foundation responsible for funding research on earth sciences to improve the understanding of the causes and behavior of earthquakes, on earthquake engineering, and on human response to earthquakes. Makes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) responsible for carrying out research and development to improve building codes and standards and practices for structures and lifelines. Defines lifelines to mean public works and utilities, including those relating to transportation, power, communications, water,and sewage. Replaces provisions directing the President to make an annual report to congressional committees with provisions requiring the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to specified congressional committees regarding the role of the Office in interagency coordination, planning, and operation of the Program. Establishes the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Advisory Committee. Directs the President to adopt standards for assessing and enhancing the seismic safety of existing buildings constructed for or leased by the Federal Government which were constructed without adequate seismic standards. Requires that the standards be developed by the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction. Requires the Director of NIST to submit to the Congress a plan for developing and adopting design and construction standards for lifelines. Authorizes the FEMA Director to accept gifts in furtherance of this Act. Prohibits a grant under the Act from FEMA that is made with funds appropriated under a specified continuing appropriations Joint Resolution from requiring cost sharing greater than 25 percent. Establishes within the USGS an earthquake investigations program, as an activity of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, to investigate major earthquakes to learn lessons to reduce the loss of lives and property in future earthquakes. Increases and extends the authorization of appropriations to carry out the Act, including the authorizations to specified agencies to enable them to carry out their responsibilities under the Act.

Bill· SS. 2788 (101st)open

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1990 - Title I: NOAA Atmospheric and Satellite Programs - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to carry out: (1) operations and research activities of the National Weather Service; (2) improvement of NOAA's public warning and forecast systems, authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to provide, in contracts for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, for contingent liability in the event the Government decides to terminate the contracts before they expire; (3) climate and air quality research, earmarking certain amounts for studying climate and global change; (4) atmospheric research activities, earmarking certain sums for the Stormscale Operational and Research Meteorology (STORM) program; (5) satellite observing systems activities, earmarking a specified sum for administration of the ground stations for the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system; and (6) data and information services. Subtitle B: Hurricane Reconnaissance Program Findings - Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to establish a five-year joint program for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones to assist the forecast and warning program and increase the understanding of the cause and behavior of tropical cyclones. Sets forth the responsibilities of each Secretary. Directs those Secretaries to jointly develop and submit to the Congress management plans for: (1) the program established by this Act; and (2) continued tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance which will adequately protect the citizens of U.S. coastal areas. Mandates that the management plans and programs required by this Act: (1) provide for at least the same degree and quality of protection as currently exists with a combination of satellite technology and manned flights; and (2) in no way allow any reduction in the level, quality, timeliness, sustainability, or area served of both the existing principal and back-up tropical cyclone reconnaissance and tracking systems. Subtitle C: Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization - Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to mandate that any license issued under specified provisions of that Act specify that the licensee shall promptly make available all unenhanced data which the Secretary of the Interior (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) may request under specified provisions of the Act relating to archiving of data. Amends provisions of the Act relating to archiving in order to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for: (1) providing for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of the basic, global, land remote-sensing data set; (2) requesting data needed for the basic data set from a system operator; (3) making data which is in the public domain available to requesting parties; and (4) using existing Government facilities, to the extent practicable, to carry out these functions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that archiving activities are consistent with the terms and conditions or any contract, agreement, or license under specified provisions of the Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Title II: NOAA Ocean and Coastal Programs - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce to enable NOAA to carry out activities relating to: (1) mapping, charting, and geodesy; (2) observation and assessment; and (3) ocean and Great Lakes research. Subtitle B: Coastal Monitoring - Marine and Coastal Monitoring Act of 1990 - Establishes within NOAA a unified nationwide monitoring network which includes the activities and functions of the National Status and Trends Program of NOAA. Requires that the Network be the single Federal activity for the national-scale monitoring of U.S. marine and coastal waters. Requires the Administrator of NOAA to carry out monitoring activities in accordance with the guidance and priorities set by an interagency committee of specified composition. Requires the Administrator to: (1) designate specific estuarine and coastal regions of major concern in which the waters shall be intensively monitored; and (2) establish monitoring coordination groups for each designated region. Requires each group to: (1) submit to the Administrator a long term monitoring plan; and (2) annually develop an operating plan. Authorizes the Administrator, upon recommendation by the group, to award supplemental funding for up to 50 percent of a specific monitoring activity. Directs the Administrator to establish within NOAA a National Coastal Monitoring Center to develop scientific methods and procedures for carrying out the monitoring under this subtitle. Title III: Authorization of NOAA Fishery Programs - Amends the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Act to authorize appropriations to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Marine Fisheries Service to carry out its duties under law relating to information collection and analysis, conservation and management operations, and State and industry assistance. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce to enable NOAA to carry out activities relating to: (1) executive direction and administration; (2) acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities; (3) marine services, including ship operations, maintenance, and support; and (4) aircraft services, including aircraft operations, maintenance, and support. Prohibits the Secretary from reprogramming amounts without prior notice to specified congressional committees. Title V: Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary - Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act - Designates a specified area in Florida as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary under specified provisions of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (the Act). Prohibits: (1) subject to exception, operation of a tank vessel or a vessel over 50 meters long in the Area to Be Avoided described in a specified notice in the Federal Register; (2) mining, mineral extraction, or hydrocarbon exploration, development, or production within the Sanctuary; and (3) other uses incompatible with the purposes for which the Sanctuary is established. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive management plan. Continues protected status of Key Largo and Looe Key National Marine Sanctuaries. Provides civil penalties for violation of this title. Makes any vessel used for a violation liable in rem for civil penalties and subject to seizure and forfeiture. Authorizes the Secretary to enforce this title under specified provisions of the Act. Makes any person who destroys, causes loss of, or injures any sanctuary resource liable to the United States for response cost and damages. Makes any vessel used in such destruction, loss, or injuring liable in rem. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a report to the Congress on future funding requirements for the Sanctuary.

Bill· SS. 2782 (101st)open

Coastal Zone Improvement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990

Coastal Zone Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Amendments to Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to revise congressional findings and policy provisions. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, during FY 1991 through 1993, to make annual grants to coastal States for the development of coastal zone management programs. Prohibits States from receiving more than two grants. Revises administrative grant provisions to permit the Secretary to make administrative grants to coastal States that match such grants according to specified ratios. Directs the Secretary to establish maximum and minimum grants to promote equity between coastal States and effective coastal management. Revises program approval requirements. Directs State coastal management agencies to submit coastal water quality protection programs to the Secretary. Requires such programs to develop and implement land use management measures for land-based sources of nonpoint source pollution. Outlines program requirements. Directs the Secretary to withhold portions of grants from coastal States that fail to submit an approvable protection program. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance to coastal States and local governments for implementing such programs. Directs the Secretary to provide grants to coastal States for such programs. Subjects the provision of such grants to State matching requirements. Permits the Secretary to retain up to 33 percent of grant funds for States that are making exemplary progress in complying with program requirements or that have extreme needs with respect to coastal water quality. Revises provisions concerning interstate grants to authorize the Secretary to make grants to coastal States for program changes that support attainment of coastal zone enhancement objectives. Requires the Secretary to withhold up to 20 percent of amounts appropriated for administrative and coastal resource improvement grants for enhancement grants. Directs the Secretary to conduct a technical assistance and management-oriented research program to support State coastal management program amendments and further international efforts and technical assistance in coastal zone management. Revises provisions concerning performance reviews of State coastal zone management. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend payment of financial assistance for coastal zone management (current law requires the Secretary to reduce such assistance) if the coastal State is failing to adhere to: (1) a management program or State plan for managing a national estuarine reserve; or (2) the terms of any grant or cooperative agreement. Requires such suspension to last between six and 36 months. Directs the Secretary to withdraw approval of a management program of, and any financial assistance to, a coastal State under specified conditions. Repeals a provision concerning research and technical assistance for improving coastal zone management. Redesignates the National Estuarine Reserve Research System as the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. Raises the limit on the amount of financial assistance that may be provided for specified activities in such reserves. Permits assistance for educational or interpretive activities in such reserves to cover 100 percent of all costs for activities that benefit the entire System. Extends the authorization of appropriations under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. Establishes within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration an Office of Ocean and Coastal Zone Management to succeed the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. Title II: International Cooperation in Coastal Zone Management - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Secretary and the Secretary of State should cooperate to develop a program of technical assistance to developing nations for coastal zone management; and (2) coastal zone management should be a component of negotiations by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Encourages the Secretaries to initiate discussions with other nations to include coastal zone management as part of an international convention on global climate change.

Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 339 (101st)enacted

A joint resolution to designate August 1, 1990, as "Helsinki Human Rights Day".

United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990

Designates August 1, 1990, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3)convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.

Bill· SS. 2736 (101st)referred

A bill to amend the Follow Through Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990

Amends the Follow Through Act to direct the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), in making Follow Through program grants, to give priority to any local educational agency (LEA) that requests such a grant to carry out a Follow Through program in a school that: (1) is designated as a schoolwide project in a school with at least a 75 percent enrollment of children from low-income families; and (2) has a high concentration of children from low-income families in kindergarten and primary grades. Revises assistance to Follow Through programs. Prohibits the Secretary from refusing to provide such assistance solely because the applicant proposes to carry out the program during a period in which school is not in regular session and/or at more than one site. Requires the Secretary to provide sufficient funds in making program grants to enable programs to meet requirements to provide comprehensive educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to aid the continued development of participating children to their full potential. Sets a minimum amount for each grant, if the aggregate amount appropriated for a fiscal year for Follow Through programs exceeds a specified amount. Allows LEAs to use a Follow Through grant to serve all children attending kindergarten through grade three at certain schools. Eliminates certain funding requirements and adds certain other requirements for consideration and contents of program applications, including requirements dealing with bilingual education and education of the handicapped. Provides for Follow Through program improvement through assistance for research, technical assistance and training, and resource and expansion. Directs the Secretary, if program appropriations reach a specified amount, to make a grant to establish a national clearinghouse on Follow Through programs. Revises evaluation provisions to include a comparison of children who receive only services under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) with those who receive such services plus Follow Through services. Revises general and administrative provisions. Authorizes appropriations for Follow Through programs in increasing amounts for FY 1990 through 1994. Sets forth various formulas relating to the use of such funds. Directs the Secretary to facilitate the participation of entities that receive funds for technical assistance and training and resource and expansion purposes under Follow Through programs in training and technical assistance activities under other specified Federal programs assisting elementary school children.

Bill· SS. 2726 (101st)open

Counterintelligence Improvements Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990

Counterintelligence Improvements Act of 1990 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish minimum requirements for a "top secret" security clearance (TSSC), including that an individual seeking clearance must: (1) be a U.S. citizen; (2) have been the subject of a completed background investigation by a competent investigative authority; (3) have agreed to permit appropriate investigative authorities access to financial and consumer records and to records pertaining to travel outside the United States; (4) have agreed to report travel to foreign countries not authorized as part of the individual's official duties; and (5) have agreed to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unauthorized contacts with foreign nationals where an effort to acquire classified information is made by such national. Exempts elected officials and Federal judges from such investigative requirements and permits the President to waive such requirements when necessary in the interests of national security. Requires that persons, as conditions of access to classified cryptographic information or keys: (1) meet the requirements applicable to those with a TSSC; and (2) be subject during the period of such access to periodic polygraph examinations limited in scope to questions of a counterintelligence nature. Authorizes the Director of the National Security Agency to use appropriated funds to provide employees who have been in sensitive positions and who are found to be ineligible for continued access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and employment with the Agency, or whose employment with the Agency has been terminated, with assistance in: (1) finding and qualifying for subsequent employment; (2) receiving treatment of medical or psychological disabilities; and (3) obtaining necessary financial support during periods of unemployment. Permits such assistance only where essential in avoiding circumstances that might lead to the disclosure of classified information. Authorizes such assistance for up to five years after termination of employment with the Agency. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act to permit customers with TSSC to authorize nonrevocable disclosure of all financial records maintained by financial institutions to the appropriate governmental authorities for the period of the customer's TSSC access and for up to five years after such access has been terminated. (Under current law, a person may consent to access to his financial records for a period of three months.) Makes it a crime to possess espionage devices with intent to violate the espionage statutes and to sell top secret documents or materials to foreign governments, with exceptions. Makes it a misdemeanor for a U.S. officer, employer, or contractor to knowingly remove top secret documents and retain them at an unauthorized location. Amends the Federal criminal code to extend coverage of the special forfeiture provision (permitting the Attorney General to file suit to recover the profits of certain crimes) to additional crimes of espionage and to espionage convictions in foreign courts for misconduct that would constitute offenses under U.S. espionage laws. Permits the Government to deny retirement pay to U.S. retirees in the civil service, Foreign Service, and Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disability systems who are convicted of espionage in foreign courts which involve U.S. national defense information, subject to certification by the Attorney General that the conviction had been obtained under procedures which accorded the U.S. retiree due process rights comparable to those under the Constitution. Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to require consumer reporting agencies to furnish: (1) consumer reports to the FBI pursuant to a certification by the Director of the FBI that the records are sought for an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and that the person to whom such reports relate is believed to be a foreign agent; and (2) identifying information respecting any consumer at the Director's request when necessary to the conduct of an authorized counterintelligence investigation. Prohibits such agencies from divulging to the consumer that the FBI has sought or obtained such information. Amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to authorize the Director of the FBI to request from wire or electronic communications service providers subscriber information concerning a person or entity where the Director certifies that the information sought is relevant to an authorized foreign counterintelligence investigation and there is reason to believe that communications facilities registered in the name of the person or entity have been used, through the services of such provider, in communication with a foreign agent or power. Authorizes the Attorney General to pay rewards of up to $1,000,000 for information leading to: (1) the arrest or conviction of any individual for committing, or conspiring or attempting to commit, espionage; or (2) the prevention or frustration of an act of espionage against the United States. Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide a court order process, similar to that required for electronic surveillance, for physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes. Empowers the special courts established under such Act, upon appropriate application and with appropriate certification, to issue an order authorizing such a search.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 296 (101st)referred

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate the support of Taiwan's membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990

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 prior to the end of the Uruguay Round; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.

Bill· SS. 2711 (101st)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that provide that certain deductions of members of the National Guard or reserve units of the Armed Forces will be allowable in computing adjusted gross income.

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.

Bill· SS. 2709 (101st)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain expenses of travel, meals, and lodging of members of the National Guard or reserve units of the Armed Forces will be allowable as deductions in computing adjusted gross income.

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, and lodging paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard.

Bill· SS. 2664 (101st)referred

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of a 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of a 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related conditions, and 1989 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related conditions. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar.

Bill· SS. 2639 (101st)referred

Police Protection Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Police Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to promulgate regulations to establish mandatory Federal standards and test protocols for body armor in consultation with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, law enforcement organizations and associations, and representatives of major manufacturers of body armor to ensure that law enforcement officers are protected by effective body armor. Establishes NIJ Ballistic Resistance of Police Body Armor standard number 0101.03 as the interim standard for the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of body armor until the Federal standards are established. Requires manufacturers of body armor subject to the Federal standards to: (1) submit representative samples of body armor on a periodic basis to NIJ to be tested for compliance with the Federal standards; and (2) affix labels to body armor manufactured in compliance with such standards. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for manufacturing, offering for sale, or distributing in commerce any body armor not complying with the interim standard or mandatory Federal standards. Directs the General Accounting Office to complete a study of all body armor standards and test protocols for body armor for submission to NIJ and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

Bill· SS. 2640 (101st)referred

Medigap Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Medigap Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require that Medicare supplemental policy issuers: (1) cover a core group of basic benefits and, if they offer other benefits, issue a policy covering only such basic benefits; (2) provide prospective purchasers of a policy with a summary information sheet describing policy benefits and the ratio of benefits to premiums; (3) guarantee the renewability of policies; (4) offer each group policyholder terminating their coverage or group membership the right to continued coverage under an individual policy (the policyholder ending his or her group membership may also opt for continued coverage under the group policy) or, if the old group policy is replaced by a new group policy, the right to coverage under a new group policy without exclusion for preexisting conditions; and (5) suspend policy benefits and premiums upon the policyholder's indication that he or she is entitled to Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) benefits. Requires the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) or, upon the NAIC's default, the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate simplification standards which set the core group of basic benefits policies must provide, limit the additional benefit packages that may be provided, and establish a uniform language and format to be used with respect to policy benefits. Prohibits the sale of policies which do not meet such standards, though permits approved waivers of such standards to test new or innovative benefits. Directs the NAIC to educate Medicare beneficiaries on the simplification standards. Gives State Insurance Commissioners the right to approve or disapprove policies mailed into their State from another jurisdiction. Increases the civil monetary penalty for knowingly selling a policy which duplicates health benefits to which an individual is already entitled. Prohibits a policy issuer from selling a policy without: (1) obtaining a written statement of the buyer indicating any Medicare supplemental policies or Medicaid coverage the buyer may have; and (2) notifying the buyer of the possibility and effect of his or her coverage under the Medicaid program and the address and telephone number of any State Medicare supplemental policy counseling program and the State Medicaid office. Prohibits the issuer from selling a policy to a person who indicates that he or she is covered by the Medicaid program or has a duplicative Medicare supplemental policy. Penalizes individuals who sell a policy in violation of such requirements. Stiffens other Medicare supplemental policy fraud penalties. Increases the percentage of premiums which must be returned to policyholders as benefits. Establishes a process whereby States must approve premium increases prior to their implementation. Requires public hearings for any premium increase request exceeding twice the percentage increase in the medical care component of the consumer price index. Limits Medicare supplemental policy sales commissions. Authorizes appropriations or a matching grant program to assist States in establishing counseling programs to aid Medicare-eligible individuals in choosing Medicare supplemental policies. Prohibits such policies from denying a claim for losses incurred more than six months from the effective date of coverage for a preexisting condition.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 314 (101st)referred

A joint resolution to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Federation of the Blind.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990

Extends the congratulations of the Congress to the National Federation of the Blind on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, November 16, 1990, and notes with appreciation the significant contributions made by it in improving the quality of life, the public image, and increasing public understanding of the blind.

Bill· SS. 2603 (101st)referred

National Trade Council Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

National Trade Council Act of 1990 - Establishes the National Trade Council in the Executive Office of the President to provide advice with respect to the integration of national and international policies relating to trade. Directs the Council to appoint: (1) a Food and Fibre Advisory Committee to provide advice regarding the production and distribution of food and food products in international trade; (2) a Business and Labor Advisory Committee to provide advice regarding methods to increase the productivity of the Nation's workforce; (3) a Research and Development Advisory Committee to provide advice regarding technological research and development; and (4) such other advisory committees as deemed necessary.

Bill· SS. 2591 (101st)referred

Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require carriers and peer review organizations to release the medical review screen or the associated screening parameter to a physician before notifying such physician that payment for his or her service has been denied. Permits Medicare reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician. Requires Medicare carriers to provide physicians, upon request and without charge, with carrier-generated information which physicians need to submit a payment claim or respond to a carrier inquiry. Allows a medical society or other professional organization representing physicians to represent a group or class of physicians in Medicare payment determinations, reconsiderations, or appeals. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint, based on nominations submitted by national medical organizations representing physicians, a Practicing Physicians Advisory Council with which the Secretary must consult concerning changes in the Medicare program and proposed changes in regulations and carrier operation policies.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 126 (101st)open

A concurrent resolution calling for a United States policy of promoting the continuation, for a minimum of an additional 10 years, of the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on the commercial killing of whales, and otherwise expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to conserving and protecting the world's whale population.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990

Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) promote maximum conservation and protection of the world's whales; (2) work to continue the International Whaling Commission moratorium on the commercial killing of whales and maintain zero catch limits for all whale stocks for at least another decade; (3) work to strengthen the Commission and encourage it to carry out long-term, nonlethal research for all whale stocks on a global basis; and (4) in promoting protection, make use of diplomatic channels, domestic and international law, and all other means.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 125 (101st)referred

Congressional Commitment to Long-Term Care Concurrent Resolution

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.

Bill· SS. 2538 (101st)referred

Medicare Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990

Medicare Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinic Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover outpatient services provided by health centers which: (1) are eligible for Public Health Service Act grants to migrant health centers, community health centers, or for health care services to the homeless; or (2) were comprehensive federally funded health centers as of January 1, 1990. Makes deductibles inapplicable to services provided by such health centers. Permits such centers to waive Medicare coinsurance requirements when providing services to individuals who qualify for subsidized services under the Public Health Service Act. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve or disapprove a rural health clinic's application for certification within 60 days of the State agency's determination that the clinic qualifies for rural health clinic status. Establishes a temporary one-year waiver of certain staffing requirements for rural health clinics that, despite reasonable efforts, have been unable to hire appropriate personnel. Requires that productivity screening guidelines take into account the combined services of a rural health clinic's staff. Gives rural health clinics and health centers covered by this Act the same appeal and hearing rights as other Medicare providers. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the automatic Medicaid certification of health centers which meet this Act's Medicare requirements and a uniform Medicaid payment methodology for such centers which is no more restrictive than that used to determine payments for rural health clinics. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study and report to the Congress on whether physicians practicing in community and migrant health centers are able to obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals.