United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Base Conversion, Community Development, and Worker Opportunity Act of 1990 - Provides for the disposal of real property identified by the Secretary of Defense as a military installation proposed to be closed by the Department of Defense (DOD). Gives the Administrator of General Services jurisdiction over any real property 30 days after it is officially closed by DOD as a military installation. Requires the Administrator, within six months of such date, to offer title to the property first to the local community concerned. Provides that, upon refusal by the local community, such property shall be offered to the county of the former installation, then to the State, then to other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and, finally, to the highest responsible bidder. Provides for the disposition of property located in more than one local community or county. Prohibits title from being transferred to a local community, county, or State until such entity submits and the Administrator approves a plan under which the entity agrees to: (1) train or retrain all civilian Federal employees whose employment is terminated as the result of the closing of the military installation; (2) reimburse the United States for all severance payments made to affected Federal civilian employees; (3) pay such employees an adjustment allowance; (4) pay the United States a specified amount if the property is sold by such entity within 25 years of the transfer; (5) pay the United States 25 percent of rental or leasing income realized by such entity for the first 25 years after such transfer; and (6) make certain information available to the Comptroller General. Outlines actions to be taken by the Administrator if a local community, county, or State fails to comply with its plan. Directs the Comptroller General to review actions taken by the Administrator under this Act. 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
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the enactment of the 25th anniversary of the Older Americans Act of 1965 and its successful implementation should be recognized; (2) the contributions at all levels of the aging network fostered by this Act should be recognized; and (3) the Congress and citizens should reaffirm their support for the Act and its primary goals.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that small life insurance companies need not amortize acquisition expenses for purposes of computing alternative minimum taxable income.
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
Health Insurance Counseling, and Assistance Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants to States for the establishment or improvement of a program providing information, counseling, and assistance regarding the procurement of adequate and appropriate health insurance coverage to individuals who are eligible to receive benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (2) annually convene a conference to provide training and information to State health insurance information, counseling, and assistance program staff members; and (3) establish a national resource center for the purposes of creating a health insurance information clearinghouse, distributing such information to States, and providing States with technical assistance and training in disseminating such information. Authorizes appropriations for such grant programs and the national resource center.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Declares that the Congress urges the administration not to submit any proposal to include civil air transport services under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), or the proposed General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and to oppose any proposals by other nations now or in the future which would allow any rights or benefits with respect to such services to be included under such agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish within the Department of Education an Office of Vocational and Adult Education and Community Colleges, which is to be administered by the Assistant Secretary of Vocational and Adult Education and Community Colleges. Transfers to such Assistant Secretary all functions of the Assistant Secretary of Postsecondary Education related to community colleges.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Social Security Office Access Restoration Act of 1990 - Requires that the public be given telephone access to field offices of the Social Security Administration (SSA) or the level of regional telephone access that was available on September 30, 1988. Requires that callers on the SSA toll-free telephone line be given the number of, and notice of their option of calling, the field office or regional teleservice center in their area. Requires the publication in each local geographic area of the address and telephone number of the SSA field office serving such area and the telephone number of the regional teleservice center closest to such area.
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
National Space Council Authorization Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the activities of the National Space Council. Requires the Council to reimburse other agencies for at least one-half of the personnel compensation costs of individuals detailed to it. Provides for the hiring of experts and consultants at certain rates of pay. Requests the Council to review U.S. launch policy and submit its findings to specified congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Commends President Bush for agreeing to represent the United States at the drug summit in Colombia on February 15, 1990. Urges the President to: (1) request that all countries ratify the U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and enact strong chemical diversion laws; (2) work with Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian authorities to cooperate with their drug enforcement officials to eliminate chemical diversion in their countries; and (3) encourage the Colombians to institute internal licensing requirements to control the flow of chemicals.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Defense Diversification and Adjustment Act of 1990 - Title I: Office of Defense Diversification and Adjustment - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Defense Diversification and Adjustment to be headed by a Director. Requires the Secretary of Defense to notify the Office: (1) of curtailment or termination of defense contracts; (2) of decisions not to proceed with an approved major weapon system program; (3) of the proposed closure or realignment of any military installation; and (4) of other significant pending or proposed changes in defense spending that will affect employment in the defense industry. Requires the Office to disseminate such information to appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and to make such information available to civilian workers displaced from defense-related employment. Prohibits the curtailment or cancellation of a defense contract or the closure or realignment of a military installation unless the appropriate notice has been given to the Office. Requires the Secretary to furnish the Office annually with the projected future defense spending levels and other appropriate data. Title II: Planning Grants for Community Adjustment - Requires the Director to formulate and carry out a program of grants to assist local governments in the development of economic adjustment plans, including plans for job retraining and alternative uses for defense facilities. Requires the Director to publish, quarterly, a list of all units of local government likely to be adversely affected by the curtailment or cancellation of a defense contract or the closure or realignment of a military installation. Makes all such units eligible for such grants. Allows non-included units to petition the Director for inclusion on such list. Allows employees within a listed unit to apply for such grant if their respective unit does not so apply within a six-month period following such listing. Limits per-unit grants to $250,000. Outlines other grant conditions to be followed by selected units of local government. Title III: Adjustment Assistance for Workers - Requires each defense contractor and the commander of each military installation to report to the planning office of an adversely-affected unit of local government and to appropriate State employment offices the name and job description of each employee terminated because of the termination or curtailment of a defense contract or the closure or realignment of a military installation. Requires employee terminations within 90 days of such events to be considered attributable to such events. Allows workers to appeal to the Office to be included in such report. Entitles such workers to: (1) payments to continue hospital, surgical, medical, or disability insurance for up to two years, unless the person finds new employment; (2) retraining for employment that will provide comparable status and pay; and (3) reimbursement of reasonable moving expenses incurred to take advantage of employment opportunities referred to by the Secretary of Labor or a State employment agency. Requires the Office to enter into agreements under which a State or an unemployment agency thereof shall make such payments and provide such benefits and be reimbursed by the Office. Title IV: Contractor Diversification - Requires each defense contractor having gross revenues from defense contracts in excess of $15,000,000 in any fiscal year to set aside in a special account an amount not less than one tenth of one percent of such annual revenues for the establishment and maintenance of a corporate office of contractor diversification. Requires such corporate office to make a continuing analysis of possible nondefense uses to which the contractor's defense facility or facilities could be devoted. Requires such corporate office to submit to the Office an annual report which includes a detailed contractor diversification plan for each of the defense facilities of such contractor, a schedule for implementing such plan, and an estimate of the plan's impact on the labor force. Allows the Director to waive all payments required to be made to the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund (established under title V of this Act) if the contractor complies with all such requirements and makes certain certifications with respect to the implementation of a successful diversification plan. Title V: Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund - Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Economic Adjustment Trust Fund. Requires deposits to such Fund by defense contractors not exempted by the Director. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to determine for each fiscal year the projected savings that will result from curtailment or termination of defense contracts and the closing and realignment of military installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund equal to ten percent annually of such projected savings. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Home Dialysis Equity Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover erythropoietin for home dialysis patients competent to use such drug without supervision.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Tax Reform and Competitiveness Act - Title I: Value Added Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax of five percent on commercial-type transactions, including the sale of property, the performance of services, and the importing of property into the United States. Excludes from such tax the retail sale of food, the sale and renting of residential property as a principal residence, medical care, sales by farmers or fishermen, mass transit, exports, interest, and sales to governmental entities. Title II: Reduction of Social Security Tax Rates - Reduces the rate of tax on employees, employers, and the self-employed for old-age, survivors, and disability insurance for taxable year 1990. Establishes such tax for 1991 and thereafter. Title III: Investment Tax Credit - Establishes a five percent investment tax credit for certain property placed in service after December 31, 1989. Title IV: Individual Retirement Accounts - Allows distributions from individual retirement plans without penalty to purchase first homes or to pay higher education expenses. Allows a tax deduction for 50 percent of contributions paid to an individual retirement plan. Title V: Capital Gains Provisions - Provides a reduction in the capital gains tax for noncorporate taxpayers. Provides for not taking into account net capital gain under the phaseout of the 15 percent rate and personal exemptions and for recapturing the gain from disposition of certain depreciable property. Title VI: Federal Revenue Sharing - Establishes the Revenue Sharing Fund for payments to States to provide supplemental funding for primary, elementary, and secondary public education. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Directs the President to: (1) establish and periodically revise the maximum number of Government scientific or professional positions for carrying out research and development functions requiring the services of specially qualified personnel which may be established outside the General Schedule; (2) fix the annual basic pay rate for such positions; and (3) report to the Congress on the employment requirements for such personnel who are most difficult to recruit or retain in Federal service, on the number of such positions established, and on each such position and its annual pay rate. Removes ceilings limiting the number of, and the pay rate for, such positions. Repeals provisions that: (1) prohibit employment of such personnel in Senior Executive Service positions; and (2) allow the Librarian of Congress to establish a certain number of such positions requiring the services of such personnel to carry out Library research and development functions.
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
Medigap Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase: (1) the maximum civil penalty which may be imposed on agents who use fraudulent and deceptive practices to sell Medicare supplemental insurance policies; and (2) the percentage of premiums which must be returned to policyholders as benefits. Forbids agents from knowingly selling policies that duplicate a beneficiary's current coverage in any way. Requires States to establish a process for approving or disapproving proposed policy premium increases. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide matching grants to States which meet specified requirements for the establishment of a toll-free telephone hotline and the dissemination of an educational brochure within such States providing individuals with Medicare supplemental insurance information.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Denounces the military offensive in Angola and urges an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of MPLA forces. Supports a peaceful settlement leading to free and fair elections. Urges the U.S. Government to: (1) request the Soviet Union to urge the MPLA to cease its offensive and enter into direct negotiations with UNITA; and (2) continue to assist UNITA and assist in bringing about a negotiated settlement in Angola.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Provides for all Federal civilian and military retirees to receive the full cost-of-living adjustment in annuities payable under Federal retirement systems for FY 1991. (Includes benefits payable under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System, military retirement and survivor benefit programs, the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and railroad retirement programs.)
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
Emergency Reforestation Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to implement an emergency reforestation program for timber lands suffering damages from natural disasters. Provides for cost share assistance. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to prohibit recognition of advancement or postponement in outlay dates enacted within the year preceding the fiscal year for which a budget is adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Medicare Screening Mammography Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Repeals provisions of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 which limit the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for: (1) the Department of State and the United States Information Agency; and (2) the Board for International Broadcasting.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the following provisions permanent law: (1) the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; (2) the exclusion from gross income of amounts received under group legal services plans; (3) the targeted jobs tax credit; (4) mortgage revenue bonds; (5) small issue bonds issued to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property; (6) the investment tax credit for solar, geothermal, and ocean thermal property; (7) the special rules for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals; (8) the low-income housing credit; (9) the credit for increasing research activities; (10) the allocation of research and experimental expenditures; (11) the credit for clinical testing expenses for certain drugs for rare diseases or conditions; and (12) the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source. Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to make permanent the authorization of appropriations in connection with the credit.
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
National Commemorative Events Advisory Act - Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on National Commemorative Events to: (1) establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed commemorative event be approved or disapproved; (2) review proposals for national commemorative events submitted in accordance with procedures published by the Commission; and (3) issue recommendations to the President concerning each proposal reviewed.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to cut social security taxes until the year 2020 when they will be increased.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1989
Children's Television Act of 1989 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe standards applicable to commercial television broadcast licensees with respect to the time devoted to commercial matter in conjunction with children's television programming. Provides that such standards shall require a commercial television broadcast licensee to limit the duration of advertising in children's television programming to 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays. Authorizes the FCC, after January 1, 1993, to: (1) review and evaluate such advertising limits; and (2) modify such limitations in accordance with public interest after notice and opportunity for public comment. Provides that, after such standards are in place, the FCC shall, in its review of any application for renewal of a television broadcast license, consider compliance with such standards as well as the licensee's programming in connection with the educational and informational needs of children. Requires the FCC to complete a certain proceeding relating to television programming and commercialization policies. Requires the FCC to act on a complaint alleging a violation of the standards required by this Act within 90 days and, in reaching a decision, to take particular account of the cognitive abilities of children.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Telecommunications Equipment Research and Manufacturing Competition Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize any Bell telephone company to conduct research on, manufacture, and provide telecommunications equipment, notwithstanding current antitrust laws to the contrary, except that a Bell company may not engage in such manufacturing or provision, or both, through a joint manufacturing agreement with any other Bell telephone company. Requires any Bell company to conduct such activity through a subsidiary that is fully separate from any other entity owned or otherwise affiliated with any Bell company. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue rules to ensure that such subsidiary shall: (1) maintain separate accounts and records from the parent Bell company which identify all transactions with the parent company; (2) carry out directly its own marketing, sales, production, maintenance, manufacturing, and research and development relating to the equipment it provides, except for institutional advertising not related to specific telecommunications equipment; (3) conduct all of its manufacturing activity within the United States; (4) have no more than 90 percent of its equity owned by its parent company; (5) acquire all the debt necessary to finance itself from financial markets outside the operations of its parent company; and (6) operate at all times on an arms-length basis from any of its parent company's other businesses, including Bell's telecommunications services businesses. Requires the FCC to issue regulations requiring that any Bell company engaging in such activity must: (1) provide to other telecommunications equipment manufacturers opportunities to sell such equipment to itself or any of its affiliates which are comparable to the opportunities it provides to itself; and (2) not subsidize its fully separate subsidiary with revenues from its regulated telecommunications services.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require that any television with at least a 13-inch screen which is manufactured, or imported for use, in the United States be equipped with built-in decoder circuitry designed to display closed-captioned TV transmissions. Prohibits shipping in interstate commerce, manufacturing, assembling, or importing any such television except pursuant to rules by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Requires such rules to provide performance and display standards for such built-in decoder circuitry. Requires the FCC, within five years, to evaluate compatibility issues and advancement in TV technology and take any action it deems necessary to amend such rules as to ensure that such decoder chip circuitry is capable of continuing service to closed-caption consumers regardless of new broadcast technologies.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Benjamin Franklin Memorial Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Minting of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin - Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin Act - Provides for the sale of Benjamin Franklin commemorative coins at a surcharge of which 25 percent shall be paid to the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the remainder be distributed in specified percentages to the National Fire Center and Museum Account, the National Hero Scholarship Account, the Firefighter's Tuition Assistance Account, the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account, the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account, and the Burn Research Grant Account of the Firefighter Assistance Trust Fund (Fund). Prohibits the issuance of such coins from resulting in any net cost to the Federal government. Title II: Fire Service Bill of Rights - Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to establish a fire service bill of rights. Establishes the National Fire Center and Museum in the District of Columbia to provide information about the fire service and safety to the public and fire services. Funds such museum exclusively through the Fund. Establishes a National Hero Scholarship to fund the higher education of the children or spouse of a deceased firefighter. Establishes a scholarship providing tuition assistance to firefighters for higher education in fire safety or protection. Authorizes the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to use amounts in the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account of the Fund to fund other specified programs under the Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Establishes the Firefighters Assistance Trust Fund. Places the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control within the United States Fire Administration. Directs the Administrator to use funds from the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account of the fund to procure computer equipment for fire services that want such equipment. Directs the Administrator to make a grant from the Burn Research Grant Account of the Fund to one national firefighter's burn foundation dedicated to reducing burn injuries. Requires the Administrator to prepare and make available to State fire marshals, upon request, a manual describing Federal procedures for disposing of surplus property and highlighting how fire services could obtain such property. Directs the Administrator to distribute to such marshals information on the infectious diseases to which firefighters are particularly vulnerable.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Medicaid Home and Community Care Options Act of 1989 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit States to provide Medicaid coverage of home and community care for functionally disabled elderly individuals. Requires that home and community care be provided to each client in accordance with an individual community care plan (ICCP) prepared and periodically reviewed and revised by a case manager on the basis of a comprehensive functional assessment of a client's needs conducted by an interdisciplinary team before his or her receipt of care and at least annually thereafter. Sets a ceiling on Medicaid payments to States for home and community care. Reduces Federal Medicaid payments to States that reduce their Medicaid home and community care expenditures below their FY 1989 expenditures for such care. Requires that such care meet minimum requirements, to be developed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, regarding client rights and the quality of such care. Requires that community care settings: (1) disclose persons having an ownership or control interest in the setting; and (2) exclude a person from such interest if he or she has been excluded from the Medicaid program or had an interest in a community care setting repeatedly found to have provided substandard care. Makes the: (1) Secretary responsible for certifying that State home or community care providers and settings comply with Medicaid requirements; and (2) States responsible for certifying that other home or community care providers and settings comply with Medicaid requirements. Requires that providers and settings be certified annually. Bases community care setting certification on an annual, unannounced survey. Directs the Secretary to develop a protocol for conducting surveys. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a special survey of a setting or a review of a provider when there is reason to question its compliance with this Act. Prohibits the use of surveyors who have an interest in the provider or setting being surveyed. Requires States and the Secretary to investigate complaints against community care providers or settings concerning violations of this Act's requirements. Requires each State to provide, through the State agency responsible for the certification of such providers and settings, for the receipt, review, and investigation of allegations of client neglect and abuse, and of misappropriation of client property by providers. Requires that: (1) certain information regarding home or community care providers and settings and their compliance with this Act's requirements be made available to the public; and (2) State Medicaid fraud and abuse control units be given access to provider or setting survey and certification information. Authorizes the Secretary or States to terminate a home or community care provider's participation in the Medicaid program and to impose a civil monetary penalty for failure to meet this Act's requirements. Sets forth the Secretary's responsibilities relating to home and community care requirements. Requires that State Medicaid payment rates for home and community care be reasonable and adequate to meet the costs of providing such care efficiently, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and standards. Prohibits the coverage of civil monetary penalties imposed against providers of home and community care.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Urges the Attorney General to offer a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of anyone found to have: (1) conspired in or committed the bombing of the van of Sharon Rogers (wife of Captain Rogers of the U.S.S. Vincennes) of La Jolla, California; or (2) conspired in or made the bomb threats against the La Jolla Country Day School.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Mag-Lev Guarantee Pilot Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee State and local loans made from employee pension plan funds to high-speed intercity rail facilities. Establishes the High-Speed Rail Loan Development Fund to provide for such guarantees.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Young Americans Act of 1989 - Title I: The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (the Administration) which shall be headed by a Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families. Directs the Commissioner to cooperate with the head of each Federal agency or department proposing or administering programs or services substantially related to the purpose of this Act. Establishes a Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families. Directs the Council to report annually to the President in FY 1992 and thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Directs the Commissioner to report annually to the President and the Congress on the activities carried out under this Act and other activities delegated by the Secretary to the Commissioner. Title II: Grants for State and Community Programs for Children, Youth, and Families - Directs the Commissioner to: (1) enter into new cooperative agreements in each State for the planning and advocacy of services to ensure young individuals the availability of developmental, preventive, and remedial services to promote specified factors; and (2) administer programs under this title through the Administration. Sets forth requirements for a State to be eligible to participate in grant programs under this title. Requires designation of an independent State body to: (1) serve as an effective and visible advocate for children and youth by reviewing and commenting on all State plans, budgets, and priorities which affect children, youth, and their families and by providing technical assistance to those representing the needs of the young; (2) develop and administer the State plan; (3) coordinate all pertinent State activities; and (4) divide the State into district planning and service areas and designate area agencies for children, youth, and families. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States under approved State plans to demonstrate successful program approaches to service gaps identified through State and area planning and advocacy efforts. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for grants under this title. Title III: White House Conference on Young Americans - White House Conference on Young Americans Act of 1989 - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Young Americans in 1990. Provides that the Conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in cooperation with the Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies. Requires a final report of the Conference to the President. Directs the Secretary to send the President and the Congress recommendations for administrative action and legislation necessary to implement the report's recommendations. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to the Conference and such other committees as may be necessary to assist in planning, conducting, and reviewing the Conference. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 to carry out this title.
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