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United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1991
Designates August 6, 1991, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Down Syndrome Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Designates the week of October 13 through 19, 1991, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the accession of Taiwan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is in the best interest of the United States and of the world trading system and should be achieved in an expeditious manner; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Significant Property Disposition and Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to identify Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) held properties with significant natural, cultural, recreational, or scientific value. Directs RTC, with regard to such properties, to: (1) select an information clearinghouse; (2) update its inventory records; (3) maintain them in a manner consistent with their significance; and (4) transfer them at the Secretary's request to a Federal or State agency for certain conservation purposes. Restricts RTC transfer authority of undeveloped land.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1991
Designates the week of June 9, 1991, as National Scleroderma Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Star Schools Program Assistance Act (the Act, which provides for demonstration grants to eligible telecommunications partnerships for telecommunications facilities and equipment, instructional programming, and technical assistance, to improve instruction in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other subjects such as vocational education) to broaden the program to include improvement of instruction in literacy skills and service to underserved populations including the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited English proficient, and disabled. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to award program grants for a two-year period, and allows such grants to be renewed for additional two-year periods in accordance with continuing eligibility provisions added by this Act. Extends through FY 1998 the authorization of appropriations for Star Schools Program Assistance. Eliminates certain limitations on the period and aggregate amount of program grants to any one eligible telecommunications partnership (while retaining a maximum limit on the amount of such a grant for any one fiscal year). Requires that, of the funds available to the Secretary in any fiscal year under this Act, at least: (1) 25 percent be used for the cost of instructional programming; and (2) 25 percent be used for telecommunications facilities and equipment. Makes 75 percent the maximum limit on the Federal share of program costs (rather than the exact amount of such share). Requires the Department of Education and any other Federal agency operating a Star Schools program to coordinate assisted activities under such programs. Adds to the list of eligible telecommunications partnerships under the Act private (as well as public) entities with experience and expertise in planning and operating a telecommunications network, including those involved in telecommunications through cable, telephone, or computer. Directs the Secretary to permit applicants for funds under the Act and applicants for funds under the Classrooms of the Future Act to submit a single application for such assistance. Revises application requirements to include provisions for: (1) training of instructors in using the facilities and equipment and in integrating programs into class curriculum; (2) assurances that instructional and training programming will be designed in consultation with professionals who are expert in the subject matter and grade level; (3) specific inclusion of students who are disadvantaged, limited English proficient, disabled, or illiterate among traditionally underserved students who will benefit; (4) use of existing telecommunications equipment, where available, in benefitting traditionally underserved students; (5) coordination of funds under the Act with those received under the Classrooms of the Future Act (if a single application is submitted for both); and (6) descriptions of activities and services. Includes as examples of activities or services to be assisted: (1) making programs accessible to individuals with disabilities through mechanisms such as closed captioning, as much as possible; (2) linking networks together around issues of national importance such as elections; (3) sharing curriculum materials between networks; (4) providing teacher and student support services; (5) incorporating community resources such as libraries and museums into instructional programs; and (6) providing teacher training to early childhood development and Head Start teachers and staff. Requires that a telecommunications company (such as a cable, telephone, computer, or public or private television network) will participate in the partnership and will donate in-kind equipment for telecommunications linkages (under grant application requirements). Provides that describing how traditionally underserved students will participate in the benefits of the assisted telecommunications facilities, equipment, technical assistance, and programming is required only of applicants who have not previously received funds under the Act. Sets forth provisions for continuing eligibility. Requires, for grant renewal, that an eligible telecommunications partnership demonstrate in their application that they will both continue to provide services in the subject areas and geographic areas previously assisted and use all such grant funds to provide expanded services by: (1) increasing the number of students, schools, or school districts served; (2) providing new courses of instruction; or (3) serving new populations of underserved individuals, including children or adults who are disadvantaged, limited English proficient, disabled, illiterate, lacking high school diplomas or equivalents, or incarcerated individuals, or older individuals. Requires renewed grant funds to supplement and not supplant services provided previously. Allows renewed grant funds to be used to provide programs for adults at times other than the school day, in order to maximize the use of telecommunications facilities and equipment. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce the rights and protections provided to individuals with disabilities under the Americans With Disabilities Act or the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Driftnet Moratorium Enforcement Act of 1991 - Directs the President to certify to the Congress each country (defining "country" as the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Taiwan) that: (1) has not notified the United States that it will cease large-scale driftnet fishing by a certain date; and (2) has not, by that date, ceased such fishing. Deems certification that a country has failed to give notice of its intent to cease driftnet fishing to be a certification under the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 (allowing banning importation of fish products). Directs the President, if a country fails to cease driftnet fishing by the deadline, to prohibit the bringing or importation of fish and fish products from the country. Authorizes the President to impose additional economic sanctions (including duties, import bans, or restrictions, and fees or restrictions on services) if: (1) the U.S. ban on fish imports is insufficient to stop large-scale driftnet fishing; (2) the country engages in such fishing after the deadline; or (3) a country retaliates as a result of a U.S. ban on fish imports. Continues the fish import ban or additional sanctions until the country completely ceases large-scale driftnet fishing.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Cancer Screening Incentive Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for expenditures (not paid by insurance or otherwise) incurred by the taxpayer for qualified cancer screening tests.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the tax-exempt status of a cooperative telephone company to provide for the tax treatment of income received from a nonmember telephone company for services by the cooperative which are indirectly paid for by members of the cooperative. Includes billing and collection services for a nonmember telephone company under such treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) support democratization within the Soviet Union and support self-determination and independence for all Soviet republics which seek such status; (2) support restoration of independence for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; (3) shape foreign assistance, trade, and other programs to support republics whose governments are democratically elected; and (4) support peaceful resolution of conflicts within the Soviet Union and between the central Soviet Government and the Baltic States and Soviet republics, condemn the use of force to suppress democracy and self-determination, and view the use of force for such purposes as an obstacle to fully normalized U.S.-Soviet relations. Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on actual and threatened uses of force against the Baltic States, the Soviet republics, and autonomous regions within the Soviet Union. Requires such report to be included in the Department of State's annual country reports on human rights practices.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Four Percent Solution Act of 1991 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise spending limits to allow a four-percent growth rate in domestic spending from FY 1992 to 1995. Removes the discretionary authority over such spending limits and eliminates the use of maximum deficit amounts. Extends through 1995 the prohibition on the Senate from considering any appropriations bill or resolution that exceeds such spending limits. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide enforcement authority for provisions of this Act and to make conforming amendments. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to repeal authority for a pay-as-you-go reconciliation directive in the form of a concurrent resolution in the House of Representatives. Eliminates the use of the current services baseline in the President's budget, the congressional budget, and the Congressional Budget Office report to congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Designates the second Sunday in October 1991 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that the Senate expresses its: (1) regret that Senator Pryor's illness will require his absence from the Senate Chamber; and (2) heartfelt wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery, and that he return to his duties, serving the people of Arkansas, in the near future.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1991
Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1991 - Title I: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Subtitle A: General State Program - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require (currently, authorize) grants to States to assist the States in improving the child protective service system in certain actions (currently, to assist the States in developing, strengthening, and carrying out child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs). Replaces provisions allowing waiver of certain State eligibility requirements with provisions requiring a State to annually submit a plan to the Secretary specifying the child protective service system area the State intends to address with funds under the grant. Sets forth required contents of the plan. Modifies the purposes of grants to State to include: (1) neglect as well as abuse; (2) the handling of suspected abuse- or neglected-related fatalities; (3) civil and criminal court handling (currently, prosecution) of abuse and neglect cases; and (4) the handling of cases involving a combination of jurisdictional authorities. Changes the requirements States must meet to be eligible for the grants. Revises the knowledge and experience requirements and the composition requirements for the State multidisciplinary task forces. Requires a State task force study, mandated by current provisions before receiving assistance, to be repeated every three years. Modifies the contents of the study. Subtitle B: Community-Based Prevention Grants - Replaces provisions authorizing Federal challenge grants to encourage States to support child abuse and neglect prevention activities with provisions authorizing community-based child abuse and neglect prevention grants to assist States in supporting such activities. Conditions State eligibility on the State having a trust fund (currently, a trust fund or other funding mechanism) which is available only for those activities. Modifies the allotment formula. Makes the trust fund (currently, the trust fund advisory board) responsible for administering and awarding Federal grants to recipients carrying out such activities. Modifies the required contents of grant applications. Subtitle C: Certain Preventive Services Regarding Children of Homeless Families or Families at Risk of Homelessness - Allows certain demonstration grants for preventive services regarding children of homeless families or families at risk of homelessness to be used, in certain circumstances, for emergency housing-related assistance and temporary rent subsidies. Subtitle D: Child Abuse Treatment Improvement Grants - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, to make grants to improve the treatment of children exposed to abuse or neglect and the families of such children. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Reauthorization of Certain Programs - Authorizes appropriations for existing programs relating to: (1) services to children whose parents are substance abusers; (2) child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment; (3) community-based child abuse and neglect prevention; and (4) the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990. Title II: Children With Disabilities Temporary Care - Children With Disabilities Temporary Care Reauthorization Act of 1991 - Amends the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 (formerly the Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986) to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act. Title III: Reauthorization of Programs with Respect to Adoption and Family Violence - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act. Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1991
United States One-Dollar Coin Act of 1991 - Amends Federal currency law to prescribe the color and features (including features to aid the visually handicapped) of one-dollar coins. Mandates that the obverse side of the one-dollar coin have a design recognizing the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Requires such coins to be placed in circulation within 18 months of enactment of this Act. Mandates that the seigniorage of the new one-dollar coins be used to offset the reverse seigniorage resulting from the destruction of Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in Government storage.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1991
Amends Federal law to repeal provisions mandating the imposition of fees on owners or operators of recreational vessels over 16 feet in length.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1991
Designates October 1991 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1991
Designates September 12, 1991, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1991
Designates February 14, 1992, as Flag Wavers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Tax Fairness and Accountability Act of 1991 - Requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate to approve any bill or amendment which increases revenue. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to declare that any bill, resolution, or amendment that reduces revenues may be approved by a simple majority of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Designates April 22, 1991, as Earth Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Designates April 22, 1991, as Earth Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Designates June 10 through 16, 1991, as Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1991
Expresses the condolences of the Senate on the death of the Honorable John Goodwin Tower of Texas, and of his daughter, Marian.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1991
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to change the submission date for the report on milk inventory management programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1991
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate at the death of John Heinz, the late Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States and the Soviet Union should lead an effort to promptly repeal United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism.)
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1991
Declares that the Congress pays tribute on the 75th anniversary of the chartering of the Boy Scouts of America.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to recodify and revise qualifications for church retirement and pension plans. Makes employee contributions to such plans nonforfeitable. Allows ten-year vesting with a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of accrued benefits derived from employer contributions. Allows five-to-15 year vesting with a nonforfeitable right to a percentage (25% to 100%) of such accrued benefits. Requires the plan to meet minimum vesting requirements. Provides that no employee shall be considered an officer, shareholder, supervisor, or highly compensated employee if such employee receives less than $50,000 per year. Excludes from such consideration employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement if retirement benefits were a subject of good faith bargaining. Recodifies the authority of a church or a convention or association of churches to be treated as an employer making contributions to retirement income accounts. Subjects church-related hospitals and universities to certain coverage and related rules in the case of a contract purchased by a church. Requires distributions from retirement income accounts provided by churches to be in accordance with distributions under cash or deferred arrangements. Provides for determining the beginning date for such distributions. Allows self-employed ministers and chaplains who work for non-church employers to participate in their church plans. Provides that certain rules aggregating employees do not apply to churches. Restores qualified voluntary employee contributions to church plans. Treats self-employed ministers as employees for purposes of certain welfare benefit plans and retirement income accounts. Allows a deduction for contributions to retirement income accounts by such ministers. Provides that a church plan maintained by more than one employer shall not be treated as a single plan. Provides that accounting methods of deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations do not apply to a church plan. Exempts a church plan from the requirement to maintain separate accounts for medical benefits for key employees. Provides that the special rules for computing employee contributions to pension plans do not apply to certain foreign missionaries. Repeals the elective deferral catch-up limitation for church retirement income accounts. Allows church plans to annuitize benefits and increase benefit payments. Provides that rules for self-insured medical reimbursement plans are not applicable to church plans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Child Custody Jurisdiction Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal judicial code to specify that a State making an original child custody decree retains jurisdiction as long as such State remains the residence of the child or of any contestant in the custody determination.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude the imposition of employer social security taxes on cash tips.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the requirement that an S corporation (certain small business corporations) have only one class of stock. Provides that an S corporation shall be treated as having one class of stock if all outstanding shares of stock confer identical rights for distribution and liquidation proceeds. Grants such corporations a reasonable period of time to take corrective action if found to have more than one class of stock in order to retain S corporation status.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to States for the establishment of small community environmental infrastructure revolving funds. Makes such funds available to small communities for the construction of wastewater treatment works, public water systems, and solid waste management facilities and for assuring that underground storage tanks are in compliance with the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Sets forth provisions concerning grant payment schedules and allotment and reallotment requirements. Requires States to establish revolving funds to receive such grants. Sets forth specific requirements for the use of such funds and for the loans and grants to be provided to small communities. Permits States to provide assistance only to community wastewater treatment and solid waste management facilities and public water systems that are in compliance with plans under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as appropriate. Requires States to submit plans to the Administrator that identify the intended use of the revolving funds. Directs States to reserve the greater of one percent of fund sums or $100,000 to carry out planning. Provides for the withholding of grant payments if a State is not in compliance with this Act's requirements. Requires the Administrator to establish an Office of Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance to: (1) oversee and manage the grants and funds made under this title; and (2) provide specified environmental and financial information to small communities. Authorizes the Office to provide grants to States and not-for-profit organizations to assist small communities in assessing issues related to the financing of environmental facilities, compliance with environmental laws, and the construction, operation, and rehabilitation of environmental infrastructure facilities. Requires such grants to be matched by non-Federal funds. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Title II: Environmental Infrastructure Facilities for Economically Distressed Areas - Establishes an Office of Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance within the Directorate of Civil Works of the Office of the Chief of Engineers to implement this title. Makes funds provided under this title available for the construction of wastewater treatment works, public water systems, and solid waste management facilities. Provides that such funds shall be available only for environmental infrastructure projects serving less than 25,000 persons that are located in economically distressed areas. Authorizes State Governors to submit State Priority Project Plans to the Secretary of the Army. Directs the Secretary to submit annual Economically Distressed Area Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Plans to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into local cooperation agreements to provide for the planning, design, and construction of environmental infrastructure projects. Requires the Secretary to assure that local cooperation agreements are signed for a project from each State submitting a Priority Project Plan. Requires the Administrator to publish guidelines for the design of wastewater treatment, public water supply, and solid waste disposal facilities pursuant to this title. Provides for the review and revision of such guidelines at least every five years. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Environmental Infrastructure Assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Financing of Public Owned Treatment Works - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize owners of publicly owned treatment works to issue debt with respect to any treatment works that has received financial assistance under such Act and to pledge, as security for repayment of such debt obligation, revenues realized from the operation of the treatment works, subject to the prior payment of the costs of proper operation and maintenance. Permits such financing only if at least 95 percent of the proceeds of the debt issuance will be used for: (1) the construction portion of a program for the rehabilitation or expansion of the treatment works; or (2) the establishment of financial mechanisms to subsidize or stabilize rates, provide for equipment repair or replacement, or provide for other uses that benefit the ratepayers of the treatment works. Authorizes such financing only if the owner of the treatment works obtains a prior determination from the State agency responsible for administering the State water pollution control revolving fund that the proceeds will be used for such purposes. Permits State water pollution control revolving funds to be used to guarantee, or purchase insurance or letters of credit for, local obligations for equipment, facilities, or plants to be used in conjunction with treatment works.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Designates January 5 through January 11, 1992, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Designates the week beginning on the first Sunday in May 1991 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Designates the week beginning May 13, 1991, as National Senior Nutrition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1991
Declares that the Senate: (1) extends a warm welcome to His Excellency Lech Walesa, President of the Republic of Poland, upon the occasion of his State Visit to the United States; (2) recalls the historic ties between the people of both countries; (3) applauds his commitment to economic and political reform; (4) reaffirms the Senate's and U.S. people's support for the independence and security of Poland; (5) looks forward to cooperation with Poland on issues relating to security and stability in Europe; and (6) commends the Bush Administration's decision to reduce Poland's debt to the United States, applauds the Paris Club's decision to reduce Poland's foreign debt, and urges Poland's private creditors to do the same.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Fairness for Adopting Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual income tax deduction for qualified adoption expenses. Includes as deductible reasonable and necessary expenses 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 · 20 March 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the personal exemption for a dependent child who has not attained age 18 from $2,000 to $3,500. Provides for rounding inflation adjustments in tax tables to the nearest multiple of $10 (currently rounded to the next lowest multiple of $50).
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Title I: Indexation of Certain Capital Assets - Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Title II: Restoration of Capital Gains Exclusion for Small Business Stock - Permits noncorporate taxpayers an income tax deduction of 33 percent of the gain from an investment in the stock of a small business whose outstanding stock is valued at less than $100,000,000. Allows the deduction only if the taxpayer is the initial acquirer of the particular stock and holds the stock for at least four years. Allows corporate taxpayers an income tax deduction of 33 percent of the qualified small business net capital gain. Revises the computation of the alternative tax for corporations to include 23 percent of such gain. Limits the maximum marginal tax rate on the income from such investments to 21 percent for individual taxpayers. Adds the amount of the deduction for capital gain from such investments as a tax preference item for purposes of determining alternative minimum tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Authorizes the States to waive application of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to vehicles used either for transporting farm supplies from retail dealers to or from a farm, or for custom harvesting, regardless of whether or not they are controlled or operated by a farmer.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
American Health Security Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on insurance companies which do not meet mandatory policy and guaranteed issuance requirements and specific contractual requirements concerning coverage, rating, or disclosure and recordkeeping with respect to accident and health insurance provided to small employers. Permits Federal-State agreements to: (1) apply State laws in lieu of this Act; or (2) provide for States to determine if insurers are in compliance with such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Designates the weeks beginning November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Recognizes and honors the reserve armed forces for their courage and contribution to the victory in the Persian Gulf through Operation Desert Storm.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1991
Recognizes the role of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in preserving a national rail passenger system and providing Americans with an energy efficient, environmentally preferable transportation alternative. Declares that the need for a balanced national transportation system dictates that transportation planners consider the many advantages of improved rail passenger services as they look to addressing national and regional transportation concerns.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the people and Government of Poland should be praised for their efforts in trying to transform their economy; (2) the Polish Government is expected to receive a significant reduction of its external debt burden as a result of those efforts; (3) the U.S. representatives to the Paris Club should be applauded for reaching agreement on such debt reduction; (4) the U.S. representatives to the Paris Club should encourage the governments of Western Europe and Japan, in carrying out their commitments to reduce their officially-held Polish debt by at least 50 percent, to exceed such percentage by using swaps; and (5) commercial banks holding Polish debt should also be encouraged to reduce such debt by at least 50 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1991 - Declares it to be the national goal to increase U.S. export earnings from U.S. tourism and transportation services traded internationally and to maintain a travel and tourism export surplus to help eliminate the U.S. trade deficit. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to improve the survey of international air travelers providing data to estimate the U.S. balance of payments in international travel, and report to the Congress on such efforts. Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify acts, policies, or practices of foreign countries that constitute barriers to, or distortions of U.S. travel and tourism exports; (2) estimate the trade-distorting impact on U.S. commerce of any such act, policy, or practice; and (3) estimate the value of additional U.S. travel and tourism exports that would have been exported to such foreign countries if such acts, policies, and practices did not exist. Requires the Secretary to take appropriate action to ensure that foreign tourists are not unnecessarily delayed when entering the United States. Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to require the Secretary to submit to the Congress annual tourism trade development plans to stimulate travel to the United States. Requres such a plan to focus on those countries in which tourism trade development has the greatest potential for increasing travel and tourism export revenues. Requires at least one member of the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board to be a city representative knowledgeable of tourism promotion. Revises the length of service of members on the Board. Requires the Board to send its comments to the Congress with regard to a marketing plan to stimulate travel to the United States. Declares that the Congress finds that increased efforts directed at the promotion of rural tourism will contribute to the economic development of rural America. Establishes the Rural Tourism Development Foundation. Authorizes the Secretary to assist the Foundation in the development and promotion of rural tourism. Directs the Secretary to assemble information on economic activity associated with scenic and recreational travel, including case studies of existing scenic byways. Requires the Secretary to study and transmit to the Congress a report on such information. Sets forth specified policy considerations with respect to national tourism. Adds as members to the Tourism Policy Council the Secretary of Agriculture, the Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Commanding General of the Corps of Engineers of the Army, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish through December 31, 1991, a minimum basic formula price for Class I (beverage use) milk that shall not be less than the August 1990 price. Pools the proceeds from such formula uniformly among producers. Directs the Secretary to make loan guarantees for facility upgrades through December 31, 1992. Sets forth minimum solid content for beverage milk (whole, lowfat, and skim). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to encourage the export of heifers through the export enhancement program under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.