United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Boards - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Directs the Secretary to issue organic production and handling orders which shall: (1) establish the Initial Organic Delegate Body which shall elect the Initial National Organic Board and the Initial Organic Standards Board; and (2) provide for the election of the National Organic Assembly. Establishes: (1) an Initial National Organic Board; and (2) an Initial Organic Standards Board. Directs the National Organic Assembly to elect members to serve on the National Organic Board and the Organic Standards Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) two experimental agricultural product labels for Program use. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Comprehensive Services Program for Homeless Veterans Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a comprehensive services program to address fully the needs of homeless veterans through housing, medical care, vocational rehabilitation, transportation, and social services provided through this Act and other programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires each director of a medical center of the Department to carry out jointly with the veterans' benefits director of the region concerned an assessment concerning the number of homeless veterans in the area and current services provided. Requires joint preparation, for each of FY 1991 through 1994, of a plan for meeting the needs of homeless veterans in the area, to be submitted to the Secretary. Provides funding from the Secretary to the directors for such assessment and plans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1994. Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of outreach service centers in areas where there are significant numbers of homeless veterans. Outlines staffing and services of such centers. Directs the Secretary to provide mobile support teams to assist in the provision of benefits through medically-equipped vans in areas high in homeless veterans and in rural areas lacking adequate access to Department medical facilities. Expands the current veterans' benefits available to homeless veterans to include dental, optometric, and podiatric services. Requires the director of each medical center of the Department to use funds provided by the Secretary for homeless veterans assistance to make monthly assistance available for housing for homeless veterans and their families, under specified conditions. Prohibits provision of such assistance for longer than one year for each homeless veteran. Requires a homeless veteran receiving such assistance to be employed for at least 18 hours a week or to be involved in a compensated work therapy program administered by the Department. Requires each director to establish a program for the provision of housing owned or leased by the Department in which veterans with chronic mental illness or veterans recovering from alcohol or drug abuse may reside. Outlines program requirements similar to housing assistance program requirements. Requires each director to establish a revolving fund to make loans for the cost of establishing programs for the provision of housing to mentally ill veterans or veterans recovering from alcohol or drug abuse. Outlines loan conditions and guidelines. Directs the Secretary, for each of FY 1991 through 1994, to carry out evaluations of the programs established under this Act and to make specified congressional reports. Authorizes the Secretary to accept donations of services and equipment in furtherance of the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Civil Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide that: (1) once a complainant has demonstrated that an employment practice results in a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the respondent has the burden of proving that the practice is justified by business necessity; (2) a complainant need not demonstrate which of a group of practices results in the demonstrated disparate impact; and (3) a respondent need not show business necessity for a specific practice within a group of practices if the respondent shows that that practice does not contribute to the disparate impact. Declares that an unlawful employment practice is established on a demonstration that race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was a motivating factor for any employment practice, even though such practice was also motivated by other factors, but bars certain types of relief if the respondent establishes that it would have taken the same action in the absence of any discrimination. Prohibits, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a challenge to an employment practice that implements a litigated or consent judgment or order resolving a claim of employment discrimination: (1) by a person who had certain types of notice and opportunity; (2) by a person whose interests were adequately represented by another person who challenged the judgment or order; or (3) if reasonable efforts were made to provide notice to interested persons. Increases to two years the time limit within which a charge of an unlawful employment practice must be filed. Removes provisions setting a separate time limit for charges initially filed with a State or local agency. Declares that a seniority system or practice which is part of a collective bargaining agreement is an unlawful employment practice if it was included in the agreement with the intent to discriminate. Allows, except for disparate impact cases, for compensatory damages (but not back pay) and, where there is malice or reckless or callous indifference, for punitive damages. Allows any party, where compensatory or punitive damages are sought, to demand a jury trial. Includes expert fees and other litigation expenses in any attorney's fees awarded. Prohibits a consent order or judgment settling a claim unless the parties and their counsel attest that a waiver of attorneys' fees was not compelled as a condition of the settlement. Allows to the prevailing party in the original action an award of attorneys' fees and costs in defending a challenged judgment or order. Increases to 90 days after final action by a Federal agency the time limit for a Federal employee to bring a civil action. Allows to Federal employees the same interest to compensate for delay in payment as in cases involving non-public parties. Requires all Federal civil rights laws to be broadly construed to effect their purpose to eliminate discrimination and provide effective remedies. Prohibits, except as expressly provided, any Federal civil rights law from being construed to restrict or limit the rights, procedures, or remedies available under any other Federal civil rights law. Declares that, for purposes of provisions relating to equal rights under the law, the right to make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.
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 · 6 February 1990
Lebanese Temporary Protected Status Act of 1989 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant temporary (two year) protected status to certain Lebanese nationals residing in the United States (thus prohibiting their deportation during such period). Authorizes such aliens to work in the United States. Requires the Attorney General to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees with regard to such program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
El Salvador Peace and Democracy Act of 1990 - Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to work more closely with the Secretary General of the United Nations to bring about a negotiated end to the civil conflict in El Salvador. States that the President should: (1) appoint an envoy to press for a negotiated solution to the conflict and assist in the implementation of the San Isidro de Coronado Accord; (2) support the Secretary General's positions on talks; (3) withdraw all U.S. military advisors from El Salvador; and (4) work with other Latin American governments, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations to press countries to terminate support to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and to press the FMLN to negotiate with the El Salvadoran Government. Prohibits the provision of U.S. military and economic support fund assistance to El Salvador unless: (1) the President certifies that those responsible for the murders of specified priests and civilians in El Salvador have been apprehended, the El Salvadoran Government guarantees certain freedoms and human rights and removes from the security and military forces any officer responsible for the murders of El Salvadoran or American citizens, and the El Salvadoran Government reconstitutes the police force as a civilian force and is engaged in good faith efforts to achieve a negotiated political settlement; (2) the President submits a budget request for such assistance; and (3) the Congress authorizes such assistance. Exempts from such prohibition economic assistance channeled through El Salvadoran churches or private voluntary humanitarian organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Harvest of Peace Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should establish as a primary foreign and domestic policy objective the achievement of common security by: (1) negotiating agreements with the Soviet Union and urging other nations to reduce military forces and spending with the goal of having worldwide military spending by the year 2000; (2) reducing military assistance and arms sales to developing nations; (3) encouraging the peaceful settlement of conflicts; (4) providing increased assistance to developing nations to overcome hunger and poverty, reduce debt burdens, promote human rights, ensure sustainable development, and protect the environment; (5) increasing support domestically for programs that address human needs; (6) helping defense industries and their employees convert to productive nondefense work; and (7) reducing the Federal deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Selma to Montgomery National Trail Study Act of 1989 - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (traveled by the march dramatizing the need for voting rights legislation), for study for potential addition to the national trails system.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Depositor Protection and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prohibit an insured depository institution from marketing any interests in its affiliates in any office space which is commonly accessible to the general public for the purpose of accepting deposits. Grants a Federal banking agency regulatory authority either to prohibit such sales or to impose conditions upon them if the agency determines that any stock or bond of the institution is likely to be confused by the general public with an insured deposit.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Calls upon the United Nations to repeal General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism). Commends the President for his commitment to this goal and requires progress reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act of 1990 - Requires that tuna products containing tuna caught by methods lethal to dolphins be labeled to inform purchasers of that fact. Permits the labeling of other tuna products as dolphin safe. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and of Health and Human Services to prescribe recordkeeping requirements that will facilitate the verification of such claims. Sets forth enforcement and penalty provisions, including the authorization of citizen suits against violators of this Act's provisions or its regulations.
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
Support for East European Democracy Act of 1990 or SEED II - Amends the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to extend SEED Program activities to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and, subject to certain conditions, the Soviet Union. Sets forth SEED objectives and activities. Title I: United States Support for Multilateral Action - States that U.S. participation in collective decisionmaking by member countries of a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should emphasize that: (1) contributions to the EBRD should not result in a reduction of contributions to other multilateral institutions and EBRD activities should be coordinated with the activities of such institutions; and (2) EBRD loans should be directed to the private sector and EBRD activities should provide equal competitive opportunity in Eastern Europe for all foreign firms. Authorizes appropriations. Makes such funds available provided that the President certifies to the Congress that the EBRD contribution schedule represents a fair allocation of responsibility among potential donor countries. Requires the United States to seek to leverage government contributions by providing capital subject to call to permit EBRD borrowing in international capital markets. Directs the U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to consult with other directors to facilitate consideration of IMF membership by SEED Program countries. Requires agricultural assistance to Poland to include fish. Directs the United States to provide emergency food assistance to Romania. Title II: Private Sector Development - Authorizes appropriations for the International Executive Service Corps (IESC), an organization consisting of retired U.S. businesspeople, for providing management and technical assistance to private sector enterprises abroad. Requires foreign governments and businesspeople to pay fees for IESC services. Extends the following to SEED Program countries (currently, Hungary and Poland): (1) technical labor market transition assistance; (2) technical training for private sector development; (3) Peace Corps programs; and (4) support for indigenous credit unions. Authorizes appropriations for labor market assistance. Increases the amount of funding authorized for technical training and Peace Corps activities. Title III: Trade and Investment - Requires the President to act to confer most-favored-nation trade status on SEED Program countries. Removes Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany from the list of countries ineligible for designations as beneficiary developing countries under the Trade Act of 1974. Makes SEED Program countries eligible for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs, Export-Import Bank programs, and the Trade and Development Program. Increases the amount of funding authorized for the Trade and Development Program. Urges the President to seek bilateral investment treaties with SEED Program countries. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Commerce to analyze the extent to which current restrictions on SEED Program countries can be minimized while continuing to guard U.S. national security interests. Requires the United States to seek to achieve a reduction in such restrictions. Title IV: Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Activities - Extends educational and cultural exchanges and a scholarship partnership program to SEED Program countries. Increases the amounts of funding authorized for such activities. Urges the President to conclude science and technology exchanges with SEED Program countries. Requires scholarship programs to emphasize the attainment by SEED Program participants of the master of business administration degree. Title V: Democratic Institution-Building and Other Assistance Programs - Requires the United States to provide assistance to support the democratic election process in SEED Program countries. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the United States, through the National Endowment for Democracy, to support an effort to facilitate the transition in Eastern Europe from Communist rule to systems of political democracy. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Coordinator of the SEED Program to explore ways in which voluntary services provided by the Association of Former Members of Congress can further U.S. efforts to support the development of democratic institutions in Eastern Europe. Authorizes additional appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency for activities in SEED Program countries. Title VI: SEED Program Management - Expands the SEED Information Center System to include all countries in Eastern Europe. Requires the Secretary of State to analyze personnel and resource needs of U.S. embassies, consulates, and trade centers in SEED Program countries to maximize the effectiveness of such entities in supporting the SEED Program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any additional resource needs should be funded as expeditiously as possible. Title VII: Reports to Congress - Sets forth reporting requirements for the SEED Program. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1990
Fair Trade in Financial Services Act of 1990 - Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize Federal banking agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission respectively to deny applications filed by foreign persons to conduct banking or securities activities in the United States if the Secretary of the Treasury has published a determination in the Federal Register that the relevant foreign country does not offer U.S. bankers and securities dealers and brokers the same competitive opportunities, including effective market access, as are available to its domestic counterparts. Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate negotiations with foreign countries to ensure that they offer U.S. banking and securities interests such opportunities; and (2) submit annual status reports to the Congress regarding foreign treatment of such U.S. business interests.
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
Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being used to commence production of B-2 aircraft. Limits the use of funds already appropriated to DOD for the B-2 to the following purposes: (1) completion of the production of such aircraft which began prior to the enactment of this Act; (2) research and development in connection with the B-2 program; and (3) flight testing of such aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to apply the same honoraria provisions to Senators and officers and employees of the Senate as apply to Members of the House of Representatives and other officers and employees of the Government. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to repeal provisions providing for annual cost-of-living salary increases for Senators and concurrent reductions in the limit on honoraria.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Department of the Environment Act of 1990 - Title I: General Findings - Sets forth findings with respect to Federal environmental policy. Title II: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level - Department of the Environment Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of the Environment, an executive agency to be administered by a Secretary of the Environment. Establishes: (1) a Bureau of Environmental Statistics within the Department; and (2) an Advisory Council on Environmental Statistics to advise the Bureau on statistics and analyses. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Establishment of the Interagency Committee on Global Environmental Change - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the Interagency Committee on Global Environmental Change to assist the President in coordinating all Federal programs and annual policy plans related to global environmental change. Title IV: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which It Belongs - Urges: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the multilateral development banks to promote energy conservation and environmental protection efforts of borrowing countries when voting to issue financial or technical assistance; and (2) the Secretary of State to convene international conferences to encourage the exchange of information on energy efficiency and environmentally acceptable renewable energy sources and the adoption of a multilateral global climate protection convention. Requires the President to encourage the establishment of an international office to monitor annual generation and removal of carbon dioxide and trace gases on a country-by-country basis. Title V: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection - Establishes the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection to make recommendations on integrating Federal environmental law and other authorities to improve U.S. environmental protection activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Urges the President to seek the consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations on November 20, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Teacher Fellowship Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to State teacher fellowship partnerships to carry out a teacher fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate study, which shall require the recipients to teach in a public elementary or secondary school for two years for each year of the fellowship, or else repay the fellowship. Authorizes each State receiving a fellowship program allotment to award Excellence in Teaching Fellowships to outstanding teachers who have at least seven years of teaching experience in critical areas. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1990 through 1994 for the teacher fellowship program; and (2) FY 1990 and thereafter for the Excellence in Teaching Fellowships program.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1992, the duty on aluminum plates, sheets, and strips that are products of Bahrain.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Drug Zone to Opportunity Zone Development Act - Title I: Revolving Fund - Establishes in the Treasury the Enterprise Zone Development Fund to provide funds for community development, job creation and skills training, and community consortia in high intensity drug zones. Authorizes 1990 through 1993 appropriations. Title II: Enterprise Development Corps - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to encourage business and labor to establish an Enterprise Development Corps to provide entrepreneurial and technical assistance to enterprise zone development agencies, small businesses, and community organizations.
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 · 21 November 1989
Science and Technology Fellowship Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a technology fellowship program to assist State programs for higher education and industry partnerships to award graduate fellowships in science, engineering, and technology. Requires fellowship recipients to teach in public institutions of higher education for two years for each year of the fellowship, or else repay it. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Citizens Drug Control Contributions Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for contributions by taxpayers with their income tax returns to the Special Forfeiture Fund (established under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988) for drug control efforts.
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
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Commends the Government of Hong Kong on its commitment to halting software piracy. Congratulates the Customs and Excise Department of such Government for its successful substantial antipiracy action. Expresses hope that copyright agencies around the world will follow Hong Kong's lead in software enforcement.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title establishing, at the Centers for Disease Control, a Center for Tobacco Products to coordinate Federal education and research with regard to tobacco products. Directs the Center to conduct certain activities, including to study tobacco product additives and disclose their health risks to consumers and to establish ten model State programs to enforce laws concerning the sale of tobacco products to minors. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993. Transfers functions of the Federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health to the Center. Amends the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act to require the establishment of an outreach program to youth about the health consequences of smoking. Directs the Center to make grants: (1) for public information campaigns concerning the use of tobacco products; (2) to States for anti-tobacco use programs and programs to limit youth access to tobacco products; and (3) to unions and others to attempt to reduce the incidence of smoking among workers. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to add coverage of tobacco under such Acts. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Education to make grants, distributed in accordance with the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, to establish smoke-free schools. Requires the establishment of a program, with an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, to inform the public of any dangers to human health presented by cigarette smoking and by smokeless tobacco products. Requires related reports to the Congress. Details administrative requirements of grants. Imposes criminal penalties for adulteration and misbranding of tobacco products, allowing seizure of such products, and penalties against retailers engaged in a pattern of sale to minors. Declares tobacco products to be misbranded for not disclosing to the public information on additives and harmful constituents. Describes conditions which constitute adulteration of tobacco products, including if the product contains any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package any tobacco product unless the person has provided the Center: (1) a complete list of tobacco additives and the quantity of each; and (2) a complete list of all brands that includes the levels of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other constituents for each brand. Repeals the Federal preemption of State regulation of local tobacco advertising, allowing the enactment by States and local governments of additional restrictions on the sale of tobacco products to minors and on the placement of tobacco advertising displayed solely within the applicable geographic area. Makes conforming amendments to the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Changes the warning label on cigarettes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
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