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United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Tiananmen Square Park Authorization Act - Designates the park located in front of the Chinese Embassy in the District of Columbia as Tiananmen Square Park.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Designates 1990 as the International Year of Bible Reading.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Designates the period of September 16 through October 9, 1989, as Coastweeks '89, recognizing the importance of coastal zones. Designates September 16, 1989, as National Estuaries Day and September 23, 1989, as National Beach Cleanup Day.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
United States Coast Guard Bicentennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design, strike, and sell a medal in commemoration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1990. Requires the design of the medal to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the Commission of Fine Arts.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Designates the week of December 10 through December 16, 1989, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Designates the week of September 24, 1989, as Religious Freedom Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Designates the week beginning July 23, 1989, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Merrimack River Study Act of 1989 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Merrimack River, New Hampshire, for study as a potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Requires such study to be completed not later than three years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
National Environmental Policy on International Financing Act of 1989 - Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that before casting the U.S. vote on a proposed action by an international financial institution significantly affecting the quality of the environment, the appropriate Federal official request such institution to furnish an environmental impact statement. Requires such official to identify: (1) any minimum criteria not met; and (2) any pertinent information absent from the statement but available elsewhere. Requires such official to: (1) inform the management of such institutions of the expected nature of such statements; and (2) begin negotiations with their personnel to facilitate the conduct of environmental impact assessments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make Federal personnel available upon request to assist an institution in making such assessments; (2) take steps with both donor and borrower nations to expand international consensus on environmental needs; and (3) file a detailed status report with specified congressional committees on the institution's implementation of procedures for systematically assessing the environmental impact of its activities. Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to report to certain congressional committees on the efficacy of U.S. efforts to encourage timely environmental impact assessment within international financial institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to prohibit the appointment of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission until the President certifies to the Congress that the ruling Panamanian Government is democratically elected pursuant to procedures specified in the Constitution of Panama providing for a civilian government in control of all military and paramilitary forces.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates January 7 through January 13, 1990, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Designates August 8, 1989, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Eliminates the use of the franking privilege for congressional newsletters. Authorizes a Member of, or Member-elect to, Congress to send as franked mail only such mass mailings: (1) which are in direct response to inquiries or requests from persons to whom the matter is mailed; (2) to colleagues in the Congress or to other Government officials; (3) of news releases to the communications media; (4) which consist of individually addressed responses on a specific issue to constituents; (5) which consist of news announcements on a specific issue individually addressed to the chief officer or any member of the board of directors of an organization with an interest in the specific issue; (6) which consist of materials not prepared by, or relating to, a Member of Congress; or (7) the sole purpose of which is to give notice of a town meeting and which is mailable as a postcard. Replaces the lump-sum appropriation to the legislative branch as the means for reimbursing the Postal Service for franked mailings with funds appropriated to each House of Congress for the costs of such mailings attributable to the respective bodies. Establishes separate official mail costs accounts for each House. (Under current law, there is a single congressional account.) Directs that each Member of each House receive an allocation from the amount appropriated for official mail. Requires that a Member pay for postage for franked mail in excess of the amount of such allocation. Provides for the printing of a compilation of the costs incurred as a result of the mass mailing, broken down by Member, in the Congressional Record.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Designates September 1989 as National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Designates the Labor Day Weekend beginning on September 2, 1989, as National Drive for Life Weekend. Calls on people to observe that weekend with a pledge to be responsible by driving sober.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Designates September 15, 1989, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Recognizes the two centuries of service by the U.S. Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Designates October 1989 and 1990 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1989
Designates the week of November 12 through November 18, 1989, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1989
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks of November 19 through November 25, 1989, and November 18 through November 24, 1990, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Repeals estate tax provisions of the Revenue Act of 1987 and the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 with respect to the inclusion in the gross estate of the value of certain types of transfers with a retained life estate.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates October 3, 1989, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President, whenever the U.S. Government debt is $2,378,000,000,000 or more, to transmit to the Congress a message proposing a rescission of all or part of the budget authority provided in a bill or resolution. Effects any such proposed rescission unless the Congress, within 45 days, completes action on a resolution disapproving it.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Federal Pay Accountability Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to abolish the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to repeal the annual adjustment in congressional pay that is based on annual adjustments under the General Schedule. Requires each congressional committee with appropriate jurisdiction to review the rates of pay of Members of Congress, Federal officials, and judges and to report a bill to the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, to authorize any adjustment in the pay rates of such positions. Requires a recorded vote on such authorization bills. Declares that bills which increase the rate of pay of Members shall not be effective earlier than the beginning of the next Congress. Changes the permanent appropriation of funds for Members to provide that such appropriation will be effective at the beginning of the next Congress, when it provides for an increase in Member pay.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates October 7 through October 14, 1989, as National Week of Outreach to the Rural Disabled.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates February 18 through February 24, 1990, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1989
Resolves that, in the event further talks are held with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): (1) the top priority of the United States should be the prevention of terrorist and other violent activity by the PLO or its factions; and (2) the United States should obtain from the PLO a full accounting of specified violent activity which occurred after Yasser Arafat's commitment of December 14, 1988. Urges the Secretary of State to report to the Senate on such accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1989
Expresses the Senate's confidence, hope, and trust for those who will serve in the Senate during its third century.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates the week of September 10 through September 16, 1989, as National Check-Up Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates April 28, 1989, as Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Indoor Air Quality Act of 1989 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a national research, development, and demonstration program to assure the quality of indoor air, including coordinating and accelerating efforts related to the causes, detection, and correction of contaminated air. Requires such program to include information collection and dissemination, cooperative research, grants, studies, development of techniques, facility construction, and conferences. Requires that research focus on human health effects and the identification of types and levels of contaminants likely to cause harm, including the development of methodology and techniques for detection and control. Authorizes the Administrator to assist technology demonstration activities based on a technology's potential to cost effectively control sources of contaminants. Limits Federal funding to 75 percent of the costs of such projects. Requires the Administrator to publish: (1) general reports on the findings of such demonstration projects; and (2) bulletins assessing technology and management practices for controlling and measuring indoor air contaminants, which shall be provided to the Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse. Directs the Administrator to develop protocols, within six months of this Act's enactment, for the measurement of radon gas in child care facilities and disseminate information regarding techniques for measuring and mitigating radon in such facilities. Authorizes the Administrator to take certain other actions conducive to the detection and reduction of radon in such facilities. Directs the Administrator to publish and biennially revise a list of contaminants known to occur in indoor air. Provides for additions to such list upon application of a State Governor. Requires the Administrator to publish advisory materials addressing the human health effects of listed contaminants which describe the properties, effects, risks, and concentrations of such contaminants. Directs the Indoor Air Panel of the EPA Science Advisory Board to assist in the listing and advisories. Requires advisories to be updated at least once every five years. Directs the Administrator to develop and publish a national indoor air quality response plan to reduce human exposure to the listed indoor air contaminants and reduce, to the fullest extent practicable, indoor air contaminant concentration levels to levels at which there is no known or anticipated human health effect, with an adequate margin of safety. Requires the response plan to identify the contaminant, the basis for the action, the nature of the response, the responsible Federal authority, the necessary financial resources, and the technological or legislative changes required for further reduction of the contaminant. Requires the Administrator and the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop and implement a program to respond to and reduce indoor air contamination in Federal buildings and to demonstrate methods of reducing indoor air contamination in new Federal buildings. Directs the Administrator of the GSA to prepare a specific response plan for Federal buildings which lists buildings and the reduction and response actions to be taken and identifies those buildings for which there is sufficient evidence of indoor air contamination to warrant their assessment under this Act's Building Assessment Demonstration Program. Exempts specified buildings for national security, demolition, or special use purposes. Requires the Administrator of the GSA to provide a method and format for filing comments and complaints concerning indoor air quality in Federal buildings. Requires response plans to be submitted to the Congress on a biennial basis. Directs the Administrator of the GSA to reserve 0.5 percent of any funds appropriated for construction of new Federal buildings for design and construction of measures to reduce indoor air contaminant concentrations within such buildings. Requires that any new EPA building be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated as a model to demonstrate principles and practices for protecting indoor air quality. Authorizes grants to States for the development and implementation of management strategies and indoor air quality assessment and response programs similar to those of the Federal program. Directs the Administrator to establish the Office of Indoor Air Quality within the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation to implement agency responsibilities under this Act. Establishes a Council on Indoor Air Quality to coordinate Federal indoor air quality activities and review and comment on the national indoor air response program and the Federal building response plan. Requires the Council to report to the Congress on a biennial basis. Directs the Administrator to establish a national indoor air quality clearinghouse which shall operate a toll-free hotline on indoor air quality. Requires the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to implement a Building Assessment Demonstration Program to support the development of methods, techniques, and protocols for assessing indoor air contamination in non-residential, non-industrial buildings and to provide contamination reduction assistance and guidance to building owners and occupants. Sets forth building assessment report requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Title I: Statehood Centennial Coin - Statehood Centennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of one-dollar silver coins and five-dollar palladium coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the statehood of Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires the Secretary to provide a specified amount of all surcharges to the Documents West exhibition program with the remaining amount of surcharges to be deposited in the Treasury to be used to reduce the national debt. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for the one-dollar coins only from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Requires the Secretary to obtain palladium for the five-dollar coins by purchase of palladium mined and refined in the United States. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine records and other data of the Idaho Centennial Commission. Title II: Silver Proof Sets - Silver Coin Proof Set Act - Authorizes the Secretary to mint and issue silver coin proof sets. Sets forth certain specified features of such coins and provides for their sale to the public. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for such coins by purchase from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act and from Treasury stocks on hand.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the only acceptable formula for settlement of the Afghan situation is one which provides for Afghan self-determination, a representative government, restoration of civic order, and a timely return and resettlement of refugees; (2) the United States should not cease, suspend, or diminish lethal assistance to the Afghan resistance until the Soviet Union has terminated its military assistance to, and significant control over, its proxies in Afghanistan and so long as the effects of massive Soviet assistance give such proxy regime an overbearing advantage against the resistance; and (3) the President should seek to increase substantially the level of U.S. emergency humanitarian assistance inside Afghanistan. Urges the President to devote sufficient resources from the cross-border assistance program for the democratic political reconstruction of Afghanistan. Commends the Government of Pakistan for supporting the resistance and caring for refugees. Encourages the President to continue to work closely with such Government. Calls upon the President to: (1) name an ambassadorial-level envoy to the Afghan resistance; and (2) report to specified Senate leaders on the details of current U.S. policy.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act of 1989 - Declares that this Act supersedes any State law regarding liability for general aviation accidents. Establishes guidelines for uniform standards of liability of general aviation manufacturers for general aviation accidents. States that all actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Establishes, with specified exceptions, a limitation of actions period of 20 years from delivery of aircraft or harm-causing part to the purchaser for general aviation civil liability brought against a general aviation manufacturer. Declares admissible as evidence certain income tax and payroll tax liability for purposes of establishing financial harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Permits the award of punitive damages if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the direct result of conduct manifesting conscious, flagrant indifference to safety. Establishes a two-year limitation of actions period for actions arising out of a general aviation accident. Declares the intent of the Congress that sanctions be strictly enforced for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including orders to pay to the other party the reasonable costs of legal fees. Confers original jurisdiction upon the Federal district courts, concurrently with State courts, for all civil actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Provides procedures for removal from State to Federal district courts of such actions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Authorizes the President to transfer a specified amount of unobligated funds of the Department of Defense for nonlethal assistance to the Nicaraguan democratic resistance that includes: (1) economic assistance for specified administrative costs; (2) gasoline, fuel, and spare parts for aircraft; (3) communication radios with batteries; (4) clothing; (5) political and civic action education programs; and (6) military training courses. Requires the Secretary of State to publish a report detailing the obligation of such nonlethal aid in the Federal Register every 90 days. Declares that the Congress will consider authorizing the President to transfer funds for providing military assistance to the resistance after February 27, 1990, unless the President has certified that the Nicaraguan Government has held free elections toward establishment of a democratic government.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Working Family Child Care Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer a refundable income tax credit of 14 percent of up to $7,143 of earned income (maximum credit of $1,000 per child) for each dependent under age four. Decreases the credit amount for taxpayers with adjusted gross income over $8,000. Indexes amounts related to the credit. Makes this credit and the employment-related dependent care credit mutually exclusive. Authorizes employers to make advance payments of credit amounts in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Head Start Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Head Start Act to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for FY 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Designates the month of November in 1989 and 1990 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Calls for the rejection of any proposed legislation that would require mail-order companies to collect out-of-State sales taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Commends the cable television industry on the tenth anniversary of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) for its contribution toward informing and educating U.S. citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Designates the period commencing on June 21, 1989, and ending on June 28, 1989, as Food Science and Technology Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Designates the week beginning October 29, 1989, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1989
Designates the period commencing May 7, 1989, and ending May 13, 1989, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1989
Fairness for Adopting Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual income tax deduction for qualified adoption expenses. Includes as deductible all reasonable and necessary expenses that do not violate a Federal or State law and that are directly related to a legal adoption of any child if the adoption has been arranged by a State, local, or other nonprofit agency, or through a private placement. Excludes from an employee's gross income any amounts paid on behalf of the employee by an employer pursuant to a qualified adoption assistance program. Limits both the deduction and the exclusion to $5,000. Reduces the amount when the taxpayer's income exceeds $60,000. Permits an employer to treat an adoption assistance program as a statutory employee benefit plan, thus making the employer's contributions to such a program tax deductible as business expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
Designates September 3 through September 9, 1989, as National Wilderness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1989
Designates the period beginning the second Saturday and ending the third Saturday of June 1989 as National Dairy Goat Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the corporate income tax exclusion of contributions to the capital of the taxpayer. Includes as a qualifying contribution any amount of money or property received by a regulated public utility (a utility required to provide electric energy, gas, water, or sewage disposal services) that: (1) is a contribution in aid of construction (as defined by regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury); (2) meets certain expenditure requirements; and (3) is not included in the taxpayer's rate base. Excludes amounts paid as customer connection fees.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1989
Commends: (1) Secretary of State Baker's February 8, 1989, statement for focusing world attention upon the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and the urgent need for a ceasefire and peace accord; and (2) the relief activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Agency for International Development, the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and various American, international, and private and voluntary agencies. Deplores the use of food as a weapon by the Government of Sudan and by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and calls upon each to permit the safe passage of food and emergency relief supplies to civilians in affected areas. Urges the President and Secretary of State to: (1) provide international leadership in pressing for national reconciliation and an end to widespread starvation in Sudan; (2) reassess U.S.-Sudanese relations and U.S. assistance unless the Government of Sudan makes progress in facilitating increased relief to displaced populations and in negotiations for a ceasefire and peace accord; and (3) impress upon the SPLA its responsibility to permit the flow of international relief to civilians and to negotiate with the Government of Sudan for a national peace accord.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1989
Requires U.S. coins to be redesigned, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, over the next six years. Requires the reverse side of the first coin redesigned to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution for a two-year period. Provides that the design on the obverse side of U.S. coins shall contain the likenesses of those displayed on current coins and shall be considered for redesign. Requires any such obverse redesigns to conform to the inscription requirements of current law. Requires the Secretary, in selecting new designs, to consider specified constitutional concepts. Requires the designs to be selected by the Secretary upon consultation with the United States Commission of Fine Arts. Requires that any profits from the sale of uncirculated and proof sets of U.S. coins be deposited in the Treasury and used solely to reduce the national debt.