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United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1991
Designates the week beginning October 20, 1991, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Designates the month of November 1991 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Racial Justice Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal judicial code to make it unlawful to impose or execute sentences of death under color of State or Federal law in a racially discriminatory pattern. Prohibits a person from being put to death in the execution of a sentence imposed pursuant to any law if that person's death sentence furthers a racially discriminatory pattern. Provides that ordinary methods of statistical proof shall suffice to establish a racially discriminatory pattern. States that it shall not be necessary to show discriminatory motive, intent, or purpose on the part of any individual or institution. Establishes the requirements for a prima facie showing that a racially discriminatory pattern exists. States that a State or Federal entity may rebut a prima facie showing by establishing by clear and convincing evidence that identifiable nonracial factors explain the racial disparities constituting the pattern. Requires any State or Federal entity that provides for the imposition of the death penalty to collect and maintain pertinent data on the charging, disposition, and sentencing patterns for all cases of death-eligible crimes. Provides for the appointment of counsel for all indigent clients (and the furnishing of investigative and other services) for habeas corpus actions arising under this Act. Provides that no State court determination on the merits of a factual issue pertinent to a claim under this Act shall be presumed to be correct unless: (1) the State has collected and maintained the necessary death penalty data; and (2) the determination was made in a court proceeding where the defendant was afforded his rights required under this Act. States that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect the lawfulness of any sentence of death that does not violate this Act. States that the failure to raise such a claim before the enactment of this Act shall not bar future claims.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Promotion of Democracy and Respect for Human Rights in Guatemala Act of 1991 - Prohibits the provision of unobligated military assistance and all military assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 to Guatemala until the President reports to the Congress that: (1) the Government of Guatemala has conducted investigations and prosecutions of those responsible for specified murders; (2) military harassment and assassinations with respect to human rights activists have ceased and such activists may freely carry out activities; (3) respect for rights of certain freedoms and political pluralism have increased; (4) internationally recognized workers' rights have been extended to Guatemalan workers; (5) the Guatemalan Government is prosecuting members of the police force who are responsible for murders and disappearances of street children; and (6) the Guatemalan Government has put an end to the practice of forced civil patrol duty. Provides that unobligated economic support fund (ESF) assistance and ESF assistance for FY 1992 and 1993, development assistance, and assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 for Guatemala may be used only by civilian agencies and nongovernmental organizations and shall be limited to assistance for: (1) the Guatemalan human rights ombudsman; (2) programs that address poverty and basic human needs; (3) fiscal administration; (4) the National Reconciliation Commission; and (5) the improvement of the performance of democratic institutions or the promotion of political pluralism. Prohibits the use of such assistance for partisan political purposes or as an instrument of counterinsurgency. Makes restrictions on the use of such assistance inapplicable if the President reports to the Congress that the Guatemalan Government has: (1) conducted investigations and prosecutions of those responsible for the murders and mistreatment of named individuals; and (2) made substantial progress towards a fiscally responsible tax policy and improved fiscal administration. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should encourage other nations to cease the provision of military assistance to Guatemala until conditions under this Act have been met. Requires the President to report biennially to specified congressional committees on: (1) countries, companies, and individuals engaged in the sale or export of military equipment to the Guatemalan Government; and (2) the nature and type of such equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Designates the week of November 10, 1991, as Hire a Veteran Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Designates October 6 through October 12, 1991, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1991
Accessible Transportation Action Act of 1991 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 to assist transit providers, through the provision of technical assistance and research and development and technological innovations programs, in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to enter into contracts with national nonprofit organizations which serve persons with disabilities and have demonstrated a capacity to conduct such activities.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1991
Designates August 1, 1991, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1991
Family Planning Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require family planning projects under existing provisions to offer adoption referral services. Removes provisions authorizing a reduction in grant amounts by the value of supplies or equipment furnished. Authorizes appropriations for the projects. Repeals provisions authorizing formula grants to States for family planning services. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for training personnel to carry out the family planning projects with provisions authorizing grants and contracts for technical assistance, clinical training for personnel, training for educators and counselors, and training of other personnel to carry out the family planning projects and information and education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Allows grants and contracts for research on contraceptive development to be used: (1) for contraceptive evaluation; and (2) to improve the clinical management and direct delivery of family planning services. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct, and make grants and contracts for the conduct of: (1) applied research into the development of new or improved contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods; and (2) evaluations of the acceptance, convenience, safety, efficacy, and cost of contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods. Authorizes appropriations. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for developing and making available family planning and population growth information to all persons desiring such information with provisions authorizing grants or contracts to establish community-based information and education programs to assist individuals in making responsible choices concerning human sexuality, pregnancy, and parenthood, and to enable individuals to prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct, or make grants and contracts for the conduct of, training and technical assistance activities to assist in carrying out the information and education programs; and (2) make grants and contracts for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of educational and informational materials. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to annually collect data on: (1) the numbers of low- and moderate-income individuals and adolescents at risk of unintended pregnancies; (2) the sources of funding for family planning services; and (3) the number of individuals who receive family planning services from grantees and contractees under certain provisions amended by this Act and the types of services chosen by those individuals. Authorizes grants and contracts for the collection of the data. Requires the data to be: (1) made public; and (2) included in an annual report to the Congress, mandated by current law, on family planning and population research. Requires that all grantees under the title of the Public Health Service Act relating to population research and family planning provide education to patients concerning self breast examinations. Requires that projects receiving assistance under such title offer pregnant women information and counseling concerning all legal and medical options regarding their pregnancies. Requires that women requesting such information be provided with nondirective counseling, and referral on request, concerning alternative courses of action, including: (1) prenatal care and delivery; (2) infant care, foster care, or adoption services; and (3) pregnancy termination.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the American public should observe the 100th anniversary of filmmaking in 1993 and recognize the American Film Institute's leadership role in preserving the art of film.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1991
Authorizes the Peace Corps Volunteers Memorial Commission to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor service in the Peace Corps. Establishes the Peace Corps Volunteers Memorial Commission to provide for solicitation and acceptance of private contributions for the memorial and conduct such other activities necessary for its establishment. Terminates the Commission 30 days after the completion of the Memorial. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for the construction of the memorial, except for a fund hereby established in the Treasury for the sole purpose of carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the standard mileage rate deduction for charitable use of a passenger automobile. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, not later than December 15, 1992, and each subsequent calendar year, to prescribe an increase in such deduction for taxable years beginning in the succeeding calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1991
International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Choice Act of 1991 - Title I: United States Population Assistance - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to population assistance. Declares that it shall be a principal objective of U.S. foreign policy to achieve universal availability of high quality fertility control services. Requires all family planning activities receiving support under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide a broad range of fertility control methods, including abortion where permitted by individual country policy. Prohibits funds from being used to coerce any person to undergo sterilization or involuntary abortion or to accept any method of fertility control. Requires the U.S. Government to support the expansion of reproductive rights in countries receiving foreign assistance. Prohibits the denial of foreign assistance to any foreign government, international organization, or nongovernmental organization based on such entity's provision of abortion-related information or conduct of advocacy efforts on behalf of reproductive choice. Requires population assistance to provide increased support for special programs to reach young adults before they begin childbearing. Provides that funds shall be allocated to countries meeting at least one of the following criteria: (1) countries accounting for a substantial proportion of the world's annual population increment; (2) having significant unmet needs for fertility control and that require foreign assistance to implement, expand, or sustain family planning services; and (3) countries which demonstrate a strong policy commitment to population stabilization through the expansion of reproductive choice. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction managed by the World Health Organization. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to establish simplified procedures for the development and approval of programs to be carried out by nongovernmental organizations that have demonstrated a capacity to undertake effective population and family planning activities and a commitment to quality reproductive health care for women. Makes 50 percent of all U.S. population assistance available for nongovernmental organizations. Requires AID to encourage greater involvement in the delivery of family planning services by private health practitioners, employer-based health services, unions, and cooperative health organizations. Sets forth targets for global expenditures in developing countries for core population programs and for U.S. population assistance. Authorizes appropriations for U.S. population assistance. Prohibits individuals in programs assisted by the United States from being denied family planning services because of an inability to pay the cost of such services. Lists research programs to be supported by U.S. assistance. Requires the U.S. Government to support communications strategies to create public awareness about reproductive health needs and the problems associated with world population growth. Directs the AID Administrator to report annually to the Congress on world progress toward population stabilization and universal reproductive choice. Title II: Population Assistance Policy and Development - Declares that it is U.S. policy to achieve universal access to basic education. Earmarks amounts from funds for development and economic assistance programs for education activities for adult literacy and basic primary education. Declares that it is U.S. foreign policy to: (1) reduce the infant mortality rate in all countries by the lower of one-third of the 1990 level or to 50 deaths per 1,000 live births; and (2) reduce the mortality rate of children under five years of age by the lower of 30 percent or 70 deaths per 1,000 live births. Authorizes appropriations from the Child Survival Fund for child survival activities. Sets forth as an objective of U.S. foreign policy during the 1990's the reduction of deaths to women from problems associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and unsafe abortions by one-half. Authorizes appropriations for the AIDS Prevention and Control Fund. Requires the Secretary of State to include information on discrimination against women in each annual country human rights assessment. Directs the U.S. representatives to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women to ensure the rapid implementation of the United Nations Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women. Requires the Secretary to submit the five-year review of the status of U.S. women and annual reports requested by the Commission. Provides that U.S. foreign assistance programs shall emphasize activities which increase women's productivity through improved access to labor saving technology, vocational training, extension services, access to credit, and child care facilities. Requires the AID Administrator to report to the Congress (by country) on the legal, social, economic, and cultural barriers to women's self-determination and improvements in the productivity of women's labor in the traditional and modern sectors. Title III: Organizational Provisions - Establishes within the Department of State an Under Secretary of State for Global Population, Environment, and Natural Resources to provide a focus for dialogue on global population growth, environmental degradation, and natural resources management. Declares that the multilateral development banks should increase their support for core protection population activities. Requires the U.S. executive directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the African Development Bank to submit annual reports to the Congress on allocations to core population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1,000,000, to report on actions taken to encourage increases in such allocations. Requires the President to establish a National Bipartisan Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to oversee U.S. preparations for, and participation in, the 1994 International Population Meeting. Directs the Commission to report on population trends and their impact on efforts to alleviate poverty and protect the environment. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Geologic Mapping Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain a comprehensive nationwide geologic mapping program, with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the lead Federal agency. Sets forth program objectives. Mandates: (1) participation by the USGS, the individual State Geological Surveys, and scientists from the academic community; and (2) appointment of a geologic mapping advisory group. Requires that the program include Federal, support, State, and education geologic mapping components. Sets forth objectives for each component, including the support component contributing to national paleontologic, geochronologic, geophysical-map, and geochemical-map data bases. Requires that the USGS prepare an implementation plan covering specified matters. Requires the USGS to establish a national geologic-map data base to be a national archive that includes all maps and data bases developed under this Act. Declares that geologic maps contributed to the National Archives should be standardized so that information can be assimilated, exchanged, and compared efficiently and accurately. Authorizes appropriations for each component.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Authorizes the awarding of the Purple Heart to persons serving with the armed forces who were taken prisoner or held captive before April 25, 1962.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Designates October 6, 1991 and 1992, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Designates June 15, 1991, as Magna Carta Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
America's Commitment to College Education and Success for All Students Act of 1991 (ACCESS) - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish an Educational Excellence Program: (1) to provide at-risk disadvantaged students with early intervention programs and scholarships to encourage them to finish high school and obtain a college education; and (2) to upgrade secondary school students' course of study. Authorizes appropriations for early intervention programs. Directs the Secretary of Education (Secretary) to make allotments to State educational agencies (SEAs). Requires SEAs to use such funds to award competitive grants or contracts to community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, or elementary or secondary schools to establish or expand early intervention programs which encourage at-risk youth to finish secondary school and obtain a college education. Requires such programs to: (1) serve an entire sixth, seventh, or eighth grade class at an elementary or secondary school; (2) select such classes for program participation on the basis of whether a class has a significant incidence of students at risk of dropping out, as measured by specified factors; (3) include volunteer mentors and compensated program coordinators; (4) include a mechanism to inform all students of availability of assistance early enough to motivate them; and (5) include skills and language assessment, tutoring, academic, personal, and family counseling, and home visits. Authorizes appropriations for a scholarship program to encourage students to finish secondary school and obtain a college education, and to upgrade secondary school students' course of study. Authorizes the Secretary to award such scholarships to eligible students for four years of study at any approved institution of higher education. Bases student eligibility on: (1) participation in an early intervention program, if available; (2) secondary school graduation or its equivalent; (3) admission to or enrollment in an institution of higher education, not later than two years after secondary school graduation or its equivalent; (4) receipt of a Pell Grant; and (5) demonstration of academic achievement and preparation for postsecondary education by completion of specified areas of college preparatory level coursework in secondary school. Excludes from eligibility any individual who has been: (1) awarded an associate or baccalaureate degree; or (2) convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. Makes persons who have been discharged from a correctional facility, or who have completed probation, eligible for such scholarships two years after such discharge or completion. Requires, in order for students in a State to receive such scholarships, that the SEA agree to ensure that all secondary students in the State have equal and easy access to the college preparatory coursework. Sets forth coursework verification and program advertising requirements. Sets forth scholarship stipend amounts and conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise the needs analysis. Revises the eligibility formula for Pell Grants (or basic educational opportunity grants) to refer to the Federal eligibility number under revised family contribution requirements. Repeals separate provisions, with respect to Pell Grants, for family contribution schedules and eligibility determinations (but specifies how general needs analysis provisions are to be applied to Pell Grants). Applies general student assistance needs analysis (need equals the cost of attendance minus the expected family contribution) to the program of grants to States for State student incentives (SSI grants). Applies general student assistance needs analysis cost of attendance requirements to Pell Grants. Includes as a cost of attendance an allowance based on expenses reasonably incurred for room and board costs for all types of student residences. Provides for institutional determination of certain types of costs incurred specifically when correspondence students fulfill a required period of residential training. Revises general student assistance needs analysis provisions for family contribution (and retitles such provisions "Federal eligibility") to include the following adjustments for Pell Grants: (1) exclusion from the family contribution of the standard income contribution and any veterans' educational benefits; and (2) notwithstanding that adjustment, use of any calculated contribution from student income in determining family contribution for Pell Grant purposes. Calls such modified expected family contribution the Federal eligibility number for Pell Grant eligibility purposes. Revises the data elements used in determining expected family contribution. Changes the designations "dependent student" and "independent student" to "student using the Parents First Model" and "student using a Students First model." Limits the number of family members who are at least half-time postsecondary students for whom the family may reasonably be expected to contribute to: (1) the dependent children only of the parents in the Parents First model; and (2) the student, spouse, and student's dependents only in the Students First model. Adds as data elements to be considered in determining expected family contribution: (1) the age of the older parent in the Parents First model and of the student in the Students First models; and (2) (except for Pell Grant determinations) the standard income contribution and the student's veterans' educational benefits. Eliminates as elements for such consideration: (1) unusual medical and dental expenses; and (2) number of dependent children enrolled in a private elementary or secondary institution and reimbursed tuition paid. Revises requirements governing family contribution for dependent students (renaming them "Federal eligibility for Parents First model"). Removes the student's spouse's income from calculation of the student contribution from income. Deems the following to have a zero family contribution: (1) a family receiving public assistance; or (2) a family with a parent's earned income below the earned income limitation for earned income credit purposes under the Internal Revenue Code. Includes only dependent children who will be at least half-time postsecondary students in the formula for determining the parents' contribution from adjusted available income. Eliminates deductions for a medical-dental expense allowance and an educational expense allowance from the determinations of parents' available income. Renames the standard maintenance allowance the income protection allowance. Increases the amount of such allowance in general and for various numbers of dependents in college. Revises, and provides separate tables for, the computation of the adjusted net worth of a business and of a farm. Increases the amount of the asset protection allowance for both two parent and one parent families, at various ages for the oldest parent. Sets the asset conversion rate at 12 percent. Sets the income supplemental amount from assets at zero for families who have a total income of $20,000 or less and have filed specified forms (or are not required to file) under the Internal Revenue Code. Sets the value of the principal place of residence at the lesser of the current market value or three times the total income. Determines the net value of such residence by subtracting from its value any outstanding liabilities or indebtedness against the assets. Revises the schedule for the parents' assessment from adjusted available income to change the rates for certain income levels. Revises the student contribution from available income in the Parents First model. Renames the mandatory self-help amount the standard income contribution. Increases the minimum contribution to $900 for a first-year undergraduate and $1,100 for any other student; but removes requirements for a greater contribution of 70 percent of the student's total income minus an adjustment to student (and spouse) income. Provides for updating of the standard income. Provides, in the Parents First model, for student (and spouse) contribution from assets (replacing provisions for determining their supplemental amount from assets). Sets forth provisions (similar to those for parents' contributions) for determining adjusted net worth of a business and value and net value of a principal place of residence. Provides for adjustment of the student's contribution, in the Parents First model, on the basis of individual circumstances for enrollment periods other than nine months. (Retains current provisions for adjustments of parents' contribution for enrollment periods other than nine months.) Revises requirements for family contribution for independent students without dependents (and renames them Federal eligibility for Students First model without dependent children). Revises the computation formula for such contribution. Requires the contribution from income to be not be less than the standard income contribution of $1,350. Considers a family receiving public assistance to have a zero family contribution. Adds veterans' benefits to such modified and combined income and assets contributions in determining the total expected family contribution. Revises the formula for the student's (and spouse's) contribution from income in the Students First model without dependents. Provides for deductions of specified allowances from total income. Renames the maintenance allowance for periods of nonenrollment the income protection allowance, and revises its amount (on the basis of student marital status and whether student and spouse are both in college). Sets the assessment of available income at 70 percent for all income levels. Revises the formula for the student's (and spouse's) contribution from assets in the Students First model without dependents. Revises the calculation of the student's net worth. Provides for adjustments of the student's contribution based on individual circumstances, for enrollment periods other than nine months, in the Students First model without dependents. Revises requirements for family contribution for independent students with dependents (and renames them Federal eligibility for Students First Model with dependent children). Revises the assessment schedule for adjusted available income. Provides that a family receiving public assistance shall be considered to have a zero family contribution. Renames the standard maintenance allowance the income protection allowance and increases its amount, which is based on family size and number in college. Eliminates a medical-dental allowance and an educational expense allowance, in determining the family's available income. Revises requirements for the family's income supplemental amount from assets, in the Students First model with dependents. Revises and increases the asset protection allowance for families and students, which is based on the student's age and marital status. Revises and provides separate formula tables for determination of adjusted net worth of a business and of a farm. Provides for determination of the value and net value of the principal place of residence by a revised method (similar to that described for the Parents First model). Sets the asset conversion rate at 12 percent for all income levels. Sets forth the revised assessment schedule for adjusted available income. Provides for adjustments of the student's contribution based on individual circumstances, for enrollment periods other than nine months, in the Students First model with dependents. Repeals certain provisions for a simplified needs analysis for low-income families. Allows granting discretionary authority to student financial aid administrators, in special circumstances, to use their discretionary authority to make case-by-case adjustments of the expected student or parent contribution (or both) and of the methodology used to calculate such contributions. Specifies that special circumstances mean conditions pertaining to an individual student. (Current law requires conditions that differentiate an individual student from a class of students.) Repeals certain conditions relating to discretionary adjustments to assets. Revises definitions of total income to include currently excluded: (1) proceeds of a sale of a farm or business assets resulting from foreclosure, forfeiture, bankruptcy, or involuntary liquidation; (2) unemployment compensation received by certain dislocated workers; and (3) college work-study income. Applies the Students First models (with or without dependent children, as applicable) to any student who is: (1) 24 years of age or older by July 1 of the award year; (2) an orphan or ward of the court; (3) a veteran of the U.S. armed forces; (4) a graduate or professional student; (5) one who has legal dependents other than a spouse; or (6) one for whom a financial aid administrator makes a documented determination that the student meets the Students First requirements by reason of other usual circumstances. Applies the Parents First model to any student who does not meet the Students First model requirements. Sets the student's standard income contribution to postsecondary educational expenses at: (1) $900 for first year undergraduates using the Parents First model; (2) $1,100 for all other students using the Parents First model; and (3) $1,350 for all students using one of the Students First models. Provides for updating of such standard income contribution. Revises provisions for forms and regulations to direct the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to prescribe a simplified application form for use in determining need and eligibility for various student assistance programs. Directs the Secretary, to the extent funding is available, to ensure that no student or parent is charged a fee for processing the application form the Secretary prescribes. Allows States and institutions to charge a processing fee for forms not required by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to enter into at least two contracts with States, institutions of higher education, or private organizations to process the prescribed simplified application form and to issue eligibility reports.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Comprehensive Services for Children and Youth Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities to pay 80 percent of the costs for activities relating to school-based or community-based coordinated educational and social services programs to strengthen the educational performance and future potential of at-risk youth (both in-school and out-of-school). Requires such grants to be awarded only to programs designed to: (1) co-locate a range of educational and social services; (2) provide multi-year services to at-risk children and youth and their families; (3) serve the specified target population; and (4) be coordinated by the eligible entity with activities under other Federal, State, and local grants received by partnership members for purposes and target populations described in this Act, into an integrated service delivery system co-located at a school or other community-based site accessible to and used by at-risk youth. Gives priority to eligible entities providing comprehensive services extending beyond traditional school or service hours, that may include year-round programs providing evening and weekend services. Allows such grants to be made for up to five years, if recipients make satisfactory progress toward program objectives. Requires an equitable geographic distribution to both urban and rural areas with a high proportion of at-risk youth. Authorizes bonus awards to recipients demonstrating increases in coordination and level of services above those anticipated in the application or interim report. Makes eligible to receive such grants, to serve in-school children and youth, a partnership between a local educational agency (LEA) that is eligible for certain funds for education of disadvantaged children under chapter 1 title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (chapter 1 program), and at least one nonprofit community-based organization with a history of providing social services to low-income at-risk youth and their families, and which: (1) must also include public health, child welfare, social services, job training, public housing agencies or other public agencies providing services to such youth and families; and (2) may include private industry councils, or other relevant planning and program implementation boards providing services to such youth and families. Makes eligible for such grants, to serve out-of-school youth, a partnership between at least one public entity of the types described above, or an LEA eligible for chapter 1 program funds, and at least one nonprofit comunity-based organization described above. Requires the eligible entity, to receive such a grant, to serve the following target population: (1) students enrolled in schools participating in school-wide projects assisted under the chapter 1 program, and their families; (2) students enrolled in schools that are the most economically disadvantaged within the LEA; (3) out-of-school youth at-risk of having limited future options as a result of teenage pregnancy and parenting, substance abuse, recent immigration, disability, limited English proficiency, family migration, illiteracy, being a child of a teen parent, living in a single parent household, or being a high school dropout; or (4) any combination of in-school and out-of-school youth. Allows the eligible entity to serve the families of such students or youth. Includes among authorized activities: (1) one-stop shopping programs in schools or nearby community-based service centers to provide comprehensive educational and social services to the target population and families, support necessary costs (such as rentals, leases, open and lock-up fees, maintenance, security, and operation), and encourage participation of service providers necessary for comprehensive services delivery; (2) unified eligibility procedures, integrated data bases or administrative structures, and secure confidentiality procedures for information-sharing and interagency communications, including various technological developments to improve coordination; (3) integrated needs assessment, case planning, and case management services, through staff support for interagency teams of service providers or hiring school-based social services coordinators or neighborhood youth corps; and (4) integrated social services for at-risk students, for smooth transitions of preschool children to elementary school and of secondary or alternative school students to job training, higher education, or full employment. Sets forth application requirements and limitations for planning grants. Requires grant funds under this Act to be used to supplement but not supplant non-Federal funds. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires each eligible entity desiring such a grant to establish a coordinated services planning council to develop such application. Directs the Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services to jointly review such applications, and to consult with the Secretaries of Labor and of Housing and Urban Development, as appropriate. Requires grant recipients to submit annual interim reports to the Secretary of Education. Amends the Augustus F. Hawkins Human Resources Reauthorization Act of 1990 to direct the Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families to: (1) identify and eliminate program regulations or practices that impede coordination and collaboration; (2) develop and implement plans for creating jointly funded programs, unified assessments, eligibility, application procedures, and confidentiality regulations that facilitate information-sharing; and (3) make recommendations to the Congress on legislative action needed to facilitate coordination of educational and social services. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to study grants awarded under this Act to identify: (1) for elimination, regulatory and statutory obstacles encountered; and (2) for replication, appropriate innovative procedures and program designs. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the success of such grants in achieving outcome measures and coordinating services. Directs the Secretary to report, with recommendations, to specified congressional committees on such study. Sets forth requirements for grant payments, Federal and non-Federal shares, technical assistance, and dissemination of information on successful models through the National Diffusion Network. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Omnibus Nuclear Proliferation Control Act of 1991 - Requires the President to impose sanctions upon any foreign or U.S. person who has knowingly and materially contributed, through the exports of goods or technology, to the efforts by any individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state to acquire unsafeguarded special nuclear material or to use, develop, stockpile, or acquire any nuclear explosive device. Lists such sanctions as prohibitions on procuring goods or services, or importing products, from such persons. Imposes such sanctions on successor entities to such persons, as well as subsidiaries, parents, and affiliates if they knowingly participated in such activities. Urges the President to initiate consultations with foreign governments with jurisdiction over such foreign persons with respect to the imposition of sanctions. Requires the President to impose sanctions unless he certifies to the Congress that a government has taken actions to terminate the involvement of a person in such activities. Exempts from prohibitions on procurement the procurement of defense articles or services: (1) under existing contracts; (2) if the person to whom sanctions would be applied is a sole source supplier, the articles or services are essential, and alternative sources are not available; or (3) that are essential to national security under defense coproduction agreements. Applies such exemption to: (1) products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date the President publishes his intention to impose sanctions; (2) spare or component (not finished) parts essential to U.S. products or routine servicing and maintenance of products, if alternative sources are not available; (3) information and technology essential to U.S. products; and (4) medical or other humanitarian items. Applies sanctions for at least 12 months and terminates sanctions only if the President certifies to the Congress that a person has ceased to, and will not in the future, aid individuals or governments in efforts to acquire unsafeguarded special nuclear material or nuclear explosive devices. Permits the President to waive sanctions after the 12-month period if he certifies to the Congress that the continued imposition of sanctions would have a serious adverse effect on U.S. interests. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international institutions to oppose any use of funds to promote the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material or the development, stockpiling, or use of nuclear explosive devices by non-nuclear weapon states. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act to prohibit Export-Import Bank assistance to any country that has aided or abetted a non-nuclear weapon state in acquiring a nuclear explosive device or unsafeguarded nuclear material. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to add to the list of eligibility requirements for the receipt of defense articles or services that a country or international organization is in full compliance with international treaty commitments with respect to the non-proliferation of nuclear explosive devices. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit assistance to any country that transfers any component or design information prepared for use in a nuclear explosive device to a non-nuclear weapon state. Repeals a provision that waived prohibitions on nuclear transfers with respect to Pakistan for purposes of allowing assistance to Pakistan. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to include within the definition of "international terrorism," for purposes of making rewards, any act contributing to the acquisition of unsafeguarded nuclear material or nuclear explosive devices by an individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state. Requires the President to report to the Congress on noncompliance by foreign governments with commitments to the United States concerning the prevention of the spread of nuclear explosive devices. Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on the effectiveness of U.S. diplomatic demarches intended to halt the proliferation of nuclear explosive devices. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to apply a specified consultation requirement with respect to nuclear exports to exports or transfers of more than 5 kilograms (currently, 20 kilograms) of specified enriched uranium.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Public Schools Choice Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to State or local educational agencies (SEAs or LEAs) or consortia of LEAs for planning, implementing, or expanding programs that provide opportunities for parents, particularly parents of educationally disadvantaged children, to select the public schools attended by their children. Limits such planning grants to one year and such operating grants to five years. Requires geographic dispersion of such grants to urban and rural areas. Sets forth provisions for annual grant payments and for matching requirements for LEAs, LEA consortia, and SEAs. Sets forth application requirements and additional requirements for operating grants. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Education USA: School Restructuring, Goals and Results for America's Schools Act of 1991 - Title I: Urban and Rural School Improvement - Authorizes appropriations for this title. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to reserve five percent of specified funds for competitive grant awards to exemplary school programs. Directs the Secretary to allot, from remaining amounts, to each eligible local educational agency (LEA) with an approved application an amount based on that LEA's relative allocation under certain provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for education of disadvantaged children (ESEA title I chapter 1). Provides for annual payments to eligible LEAs with approved applications if they comply with certain data collection requirements to monitor progress toward meeting national education goals, and demonstrate such progress. Requires each such LEA to reserve up to five percent of its allotment to make as many grants as practicable, for authorized activities, to community-based organizations or nonprofit partnerships between the LEA and a city-wide collaborative of private sector businesses. Sets limits on the time and the amount of funds to be used for planning purposes. Requires LEAs to use funds under this title to meet national education goals through programs designed to: (1) increase the academic achievement of urban and rural school children to at least the national average; (2) prepare all urban and rural children for school; (3) increase the graduation rates of urban and rural students to at least the national average; (4) prepare urban and rural school graduates to enter higher education, pursue careers, and exercise their responsibilities as citizens; (5) recruit and retain qualified teachers; and (6) decrease the use of drugs and alcohol by urban and rural students, and enhance their physical and emotional health. Sets forth program accountability requirements: (1) in general, for initial grants, renewal grants, and renewal of school participation; (2) for achievement, including demonstration of improvement; and (3) for data collection certification and to monitor progress in achieving national education goals. Authorizes the Secretary to make, from reserved funds, competitive incentive awards to individual schools participating in projects assisted under this title that demonstrate exemplary progress in meeting specified program requirements. Directs the Secretary, by January 1, 1993, to report on the impact of Federal regulations, guidelines, and policies on urban and rural public schools. Requires LEAs desiring to receive an allotment under this Act to establish a local advisory group to: (1) advise on design and conduct of a needs assessment for participating schools; (2) assist in planning for community-wide collaboration in service delivery for youths in participating schools; (3) advise the LEA and the community on how they can work together to use multiple service providers; (4) advise and assist program implementation and review program evaluation; (5) review and approve community-based organizations' applications; (6) advise on strategies for increasing parental involvement and the number of school volunteers and role models; and (7) review community-based programs' progress or national education goals. Allows use of a comparable existing local advisory group to comply with such requirement. Sets forth special rules relating to ranking of schools to determine relative need, in general, on the basis of achievement, poverty, and racial isolation. Requires each LEA receiving a grant to serve between ten and 20 percent of its schools. Requires eligible LEAs to have flexibility to serve homeless children, desegregating students, immigrants, migrants, or other highly mobile populations, within the program assisted under this title. Deems any approved program for any school served under certain ESEA title I chapter 1 provisions to be sufficient to meet the application and program accountability requirements of this title. Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation - Authorizes appropriations to assist eligible LEAs in repairing and renovating instructional facilities in urban and rural schools. Directs the Secretary to make allotments to State educational agencies based on relative allocations to LEAs under ESEA title I chapter 1. Directs each SEA, after being allowed to reserve one percent of such funds for administrative expenses, to allot the remainder to eligible LEAs, which shall use half of such allotment for programs for school building repair and renovation, and half for programs for school environmental concerns and safety improvements. (Authorizes the SEA to waive such 50 percent division in certain cases.) Directs the SEA to allocate such funds on the basis of the number of: (1) children from families below the poverty line; (2) school buildings used for instructional purposes; and (3) school buildings more than 25 years old used for instructional purposes. Limits the period covered by a grant application to three years, and requires annual review. Lists types of programs eligible LEAs must conduct with their allotments for: (1) repair and renovation of school buildings; and (2) improvements related to environmental concerns and safety. Title III: Evaluation of Results - Part A: Urban School Research and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations, to carry out this title, for the National Institute for Urban Education (the Institute), established in the Department of Education by this title. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to create an Assistant Secretary for Urban Education (the Assistant Secretary), who is to establish the Institute in the Department. Directs the Assistant Secretary to: (1) reserve 20 percent of funds for this title for operation of the Institute; and (2) from the remainder of such funds, make allotments to urban eligible LEAs on the basis of numbers of students. Directs the Institute to: (1) evaluate and disseminate results of activities under title I; (2) conduct research in urban education; (3) serve as a clearinghouse on urban education research findings, policies, and practices; (4) assist LEAs in developing research and evaluation to assess progress toward meeting national education goals; (5) provide training in research and evaluation; (6) design a research and evaluation strategy for assessing progress under this Act; and (7) design and test both common indicators and new multiple-measures of progress toward national education goals. Provides for an Institute Governing Board. Allows urban LEAs to use funds under this part for: (1) collaborative and coordinated research and evaluation of educational techniques or approaches in multiple cities served by eligible LEAS; (2) evaluation of projects assisted under title I; (3) dissemination of information on successful projects and approaches under title I; (4) design and implementation of programs for LEA technical assistance to individual schools and teachers involved in title I projects; (5) data and information management services for schools participating in a title I program; (6) staff training in such schools; (7) evaluation of progress in meeting national educational goals by LEAs receiving assistance under this Act; (8) staff training in test interpretation and use for diagnostic purposes; (9) information for parents on test results and interpretation; (10) research and evaluation technology and training; (11) tools for assessment of students in individualized instruction; (12) research on school policies and practices that may be barriers to student success; and (13) new, multiple, alternative assessments of student progress. Part B: Rural School Research and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this part. Directs the Secretary to establish for each region a National Rural Regional Education Research Center (Center), to be operated by the appropriate regional educational laboratory. Requires each Center to: (1) conduct independent research in rural education and distance learning technologies; (2) evaluate progress toward the national education goals of rural schools receiving funds under title I of this Act; (3) be rural education clearinghouses for research findings, policies, and practices; (4) develop measurements of rural schools' progress; (5) disseminate evaluation and research results to other centers and rural school districts and parents; (6) arrange collaboration and consortia among rural schools in the region for joint research and evaluation; (7) replicate successful models and program approaches; (8) provide technical assistance and outreach services for schools; (9) provide staff training; and (10) develop curricula to assist rural schools in moving toward meeting the national education goals. Requires each Center to reserve 25 percent of funds received under this part for direct grants to rural eligible LEAs within its region, which are participating in a program assisted under title I of this Act, to conduct local school district research and evaluation of efforts toward meeting the national education goals. Title IV: General Provisions - Establishes the Interagency Council on Urban and Rural Schools to: (1) review Federal programs to determine effects on urban and rural school ability to meet national education goals; (2) track school progress toward such goals; (3) solicit advice and information from urban and rural education experts and urban and rural school representatives on improvement of Federal programs; (4) review Federal regulations for duplication or contradiction; (5) report annually to the Congress and the President on urban and rural school progress; (6) review and recommend improvement for streamlining of Federal data collection in urban and rural schools; and (7) conduct research to help urban and rural school practitioners improve school performance. Directs the President to conduct White House Conferences on Urban Education and on Rural Education before October 30, 1994. Requires the Conferences to: (1) develop recommendations and strategies for improving urban and rural education; (2) marshal the forces of the private sector, governmental agencies at all levels, parents, teachers, communities, and education officials to assist urban and rural schools in meeting national goals; and (3) conduct initial planning for a permanent national advisory commission on urban education and on rural education. Requires reports to the President. Authorizes appropriations for such Conferences. Establishes the Augustus F. Hawkins National Commission on Urban Education and the Carl D. Perkins National Commission on Rural Education (the Commissions). Directs the Commissions to: (1) study specified issues relating to urban and rural schools; and (2) report, and recommend changes in Federal legislation, to the President and appropriate congressional committees. Terminates the Commissions three years after their first meetings. Authorizes appropriations for the Commissions. Requires eligible LEAs to use Federal funds received under this Act only to supplement but not supplant non-Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Designates May 21, 1991, as National Land Trust Appreciation Day. Recognizes the 100th anniversary of the Trustees of Reservations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements to which Iran is a party. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge the Government of Iran to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant element in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Radiation Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require Federal agencies to comply with all Federal, State, and local requirements concerning the imposition of fees for the storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste in the same manner as nongovernmental entities. Amends the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to apply requirements concerning the disposal of Federal low-level radioactive waste at non-Federal facilities to the storage of such waste at such facilities. Declares that no Federal law may be construed to prohibit or otherwise restrict the authority of a State to regulate, on the basis of radiological hazard, the disposal of low-level radioactive waste designated a State responsibility for which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not require disposal in a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility licensed by the Commission or by an Agreement State. Provides that no Federal law may be construed to preclude or otherwise restrict the authority of any State to impose standards for the protection from radiological hazards more stringent than the Commission's for such disposal. Revokes certain policy statements of the Commission relating to radioactive waste below regulatory concern. Prohibits the Commission or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing policies exempting radioactive materials or practices from regulation unless there is advance notice of the proposed regulatory action in the Federal Register and the public is provided an opportunity to comment or to participate in an adjudicatory hearing.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Condemns the murder of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and others in the bomb explosion on May 21, 1991. Expresses regret over the deaths of Gandhi and other victims of election violence in India. Offers condolences to Gandhi's widow and children and to the people of India. Stands in solidarity with the Indian people in their effort to sustain the most successful democratic tradition in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1991
Mental Health Care Amendment Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of the services of marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, and clinical mental health counselors and supplies furnished incident to such services.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1991
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the authorization of appropriations for library training, research, and development.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1991
Youthbuild Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants for Youthbuild projects which shall employ economically and educationally disadvantaged youth to help construct or rehabilitate rental and transitional housing for homeless persons and low-income families. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Broadcasting to China Act - Establishes a Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China to examine the feasibility, effect, and implications for U.S. foreign policy of instituting a radio broadcasting service to China to promote the dissemination of information and ideas.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title establishing a Center on Tobacco and Health within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to conduct and coordinate Federal education, research, and law enforcement with regard to tobacco products and to monitor and restrict the use of tobacco additives. Authorizes contracts and cooperative agreements to carry out the title. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC Director, to: (1) conduct certain educational and research activities; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to conduct public information campaigns concerning the use of tobacco products, using any mode of conveying information the Secretary considers appropriate. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to designate between ten and 20 model States and make grants to them to assist in improving State leadership in activities that prevent initial tobacco use among minors, encourage cessation among youth and others, and enforce a prohibition of tobacco product sales to minors. Declares eligible for the grants those States which have and enforce laws prohibiting sales to minors, laws reducing use of or access to cigarette vending machines by minors, and prohibit (or seek to prohibit) the provision of free tobacco product samples. Mandates that the Secretary, through the Director and on request, provide certain types of assistance with regard to retail establishments, including printed materials, assistance in planning events to educate the establishments, assistance in developing systems to report establishments that consistently sell tobacco products to minors, and assistance in developing systems to notify such establishments. Authorizes appropriations for grants to model States. Directs the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements for educational activities to reduce the incidence of tobacco use among workers with high prevalences of tobacco use. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to inform the public of the health dangers presented by cigarette smoking including, with regard to the health effects of cigarette smoking and passive smoke: (1) conducting and supporting research; (2) coordinating all activities of the Department of Health and Human Services; (3) maintaining liaison with private and public agencies; (4) collecting, compiling, and disseminating information; and (5) establishing an outreach program to youth under the age of 18. Directs the Secretary to establish an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to inform the public of health dangers from the use of smokeless tobacco, including educational programs, research, and dissemination of information. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and make grants to States to assist in the development and distribution of educational programs and materials, and to assist States in enacting laws and regulations establishing 18 as the minimum age for purchasing smokeless tobacco. Prohibits certain acts, including: (1) acts relating to adulterated or misbranded tobacco products; (2) subject to exception, the using or revealing of any trade secret acquired under these provisions; (3) the false representation or suggestion that an approval of any tobacco product is in effect under certain provisions; and (4) failure to transmit certain product information to any individual on request. Directs the Secretary, in order to carry out the prohibitions, to establish within the Public Health Service, or designate an existing entity within the Service, as an Office of Regulatory Affairs. Provides, with respect to a State designated under this Act as a model State, for denial of delivery and a ban on shipping tobacco products to a retail establishment with a pattern or practice of selling tobacco products to minors. Authorizes U.S. district courts to enforce the prohibitions as described under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows an individual, or a class or organization on behalf of an individual, to bring a civil action for injunctive relief, monetary damages, and attorney's fees. Requires manufacturers, importers, or packagers of any tobacco product brand name to provide to the Secretary: (1) a complete list of the levels of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide for each brand and each tobacco additive used and the range of quantities of the additive used in all names manufactured, imported, or packaged by the person; and (2) on request of the Secretary, information regarding the health impact of the additives. Directs the Secretary to prescribe requirements for manufacturers to place information in packages of tobacco products regarding tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and additives. Allows spices, flavorings, fragrances, and colorings to be so designated without specifically naming each. Considers a tobacco product misbranded unless it is labeled as required in these provisions. Authorizes the Secretary, if an additive, by itself or in conjunction with any other additive, significantly increases the human health risk of the product, to require the levels of the additive to be reduced, or to prohibit its use. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package any tobacco product brand name unless the warning labels required by the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act meet certain requirements. Considers a tobacco product adulterated if an additive level exceeds the limit set, or if other conditions are met. Authorizes the Office of Regulatory Affairs to conduct examinations and investigations under these provisions through officers and employees of the Department of Health and Human Services or through any health officer or employee of any State duly commissioned as an officer of the Department. Requires the Center, when a sample of a tobacco product is collected for analysis and on request, to provide a part of the official sample for examination or analysis by any person named on the label of the product, or the owner, or their agent. Considers any product that contains nicotine but is not a tobacco product to be a drug under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Prohibits interpreting anything in the title added by this Act, the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, or the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984 to relieve any person from liability under common law or State statutory law to any other person. Declares that nothing in the title added by this Act, the Cigarette Labeling Advertising Act, or the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act shall prevent a State or local government from enacting additional restrictions on the sale or distribution of tobacco products or on the placement or location of stationary outdoor or transit advertising of tobacco products. Directs the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to assist schools in the implementation of effective programs and policies to prevent tobacco use. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts to assist in such implementation. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to: (1) change the contents of required label warnings; (2) remove certain requirements regarding warning presentation; and (3) remove provisions protecting the confidentiality of information submitted to the Secretary regarding the ingredients added to tobacco. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to add tobacco use prevention, intervention, and education to the types of activities which may be carried out under State programs. Adds references to tobacco use to provisions specifying the uses of funds for local drug abuse education and prevention programs. Allows materials on drug abuse education and prevention to be disseminated under specified provisions of this Act. Adds references to tobacco to provisions relating to drug use and alcohol abuse education and prevention activities directed to students at all educational levels. Authorizes appropriations to enable the Secretary of Education to make incentive grants to State education agencies to establish smoke free schools, with the grant funds used to disseminate materials to school personnel and students, and to hold conferences and meetings, concerning the health hazards of tobacco uses by students. Repeals provisions of the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act relating to smoking research, education, and information. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Mandates a study of pesticides in tobacco products and their effect on human health.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Support for Democracy, Human Rights, and Fair Trade in China Act of 1991 - Prohibits most-favored-nation treatment for Chinese products. Terminates such prohibition upon the President's certification to the Congress that China: (1) has ceased committing violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) has ceased persecution of pro-democracy movement members; (3) permits unrestricted emigration; (4) has ceased religious persecution in China and Tibet; (5) has provided adequate protection of U.S. intellectual property rights, opened access to markets, increased purchases of U.S. goods and services, and has not attempted to hide the origin of goods manufactured in China; (6) has demonstrated its good faith participation in international efforts to control the proliferation of sophisticated military weapons and chemical, biological, and nuclear technologies; and (7) has ceased exporting products manufactured by forced or convict labor.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Hospital Emergency Department Uncompensated Care Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to hospitals to assist in paying for the uncompensated costs of providing emergency department services. Conditions eligibility on a hospital: (1) having substantial uncompensated costs in emergency services in areas with a significant incidence of illness and violence arising from the abuse of drugs; and (2) serving, during the grant, a significant number of patients who are treated for drug abuse or wounds resulting from drug-related violent crimes. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Federal Information Resources Management Act - Title I: Information Resources Management of Federal Departments and Agencies - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (the Act) to require the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to be appointed with attention to the professional credentials required to administer OIRA. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) ensure that OMB gives balanced emphasis to its functions and that the development of information policies shall be coordinated with agencies with shared information management responsibilities; (2) coordinate the development and implementation of information policy through the establishment of interagency working groups; (3) ensure the development of formalized training programs on information resources management concepts by appropriate entities for government wide use; and (4) educate OMB employees on such concepts. Authorizes the Director to inform the President and the Congress of the findings and progress of such projects and activities. Requires Federal agencies to cooperate with such projects and activities. Revises provisions concerning paperwork control functions of the Director that relate to the reduction of Federal information collection request burdens to no longer require the setting of goals for such reduction but to instead require the promoting of the elimination of unnecessary burdens, with particular emphasis on those persons most heavily burdened, especially in the areas of Federal procurement, grant programs, Federal-State cooperative programs, Federal taxation, and international competitiveness. Repeals provisions relating to overseeing action on the recommendations of the Commission on Federal Paperwork. Requires coordination with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to address unnecessary paperwork burdens associated with procurement and acquisition as a paperwork control function. Revises the functions of OMB with respect to statistical policy and privacy. Establishes new functions for OMB with respect to automatic data processing and information dissemination. Directs the Director to establish an interagency working group on statistical policy to coordinate agency statistical activities, headed by the chief statistician and consisting of the heads of agencies with major statistical programs. Requires OMB to provide long-term training in OIRA statistical policy functions to all Federal employees. Directs senior agency officials designated by Federal agency heads to carry out agency responsibilities with respect to information policy coordination to appoint a Chief Information Resources Management official well qualified to assist in agency information needs assessments and in the deployment of appropriate information technology to gather, process, use, and disseminate information that is critical to successful accomplishment of program goals and agency mission or essential for effective agency management. Directs Federal agencies to: (1) establish an agency-wide program of information resources management; (2) develop, implement, and evaluate formalized training programs on such management concepts, and educate program officials about such management; (3) develop information systems, processes, and procedures that enhance the sharing of common data across program and agency lines consistent with law and maximize the usefulness and timely release of Government information to all users within and outside the agency; (4) systematically inventory and maintain current, complete records of agency information resources for use in developing and updating management plans and for informing the public; (5) establish and maintain information dissemination systems that disseminate significant public information maintained in electronic files in useable electronic formats; (6) periodically evaluate and, as needed, improve the timeliness of data and records contained within Federal information systems and the capabilities of such systems for ensuring public access to public information and privacy, confidentiality, and security; (7) develop and annually update the agency's five-year information resources management plan in accordance with OMB guidelines for meeting information and information technology needs; (8) ensure coordination of such plan with the agency's strategic plan, budget, and financial management systems; and (9) implement applicable policies and standards for financial management systems in developing information systems. Restores the Act's five percent paperwork reduction goal for unnecessary paperwork burdens. Directs appropriate agency officials to establish a certification process to review such information before its submission to the Director for approval. Revises current provisions regarding public information collection activities to establish a self-certification process for Federal agencies for currently approved information collection requests. Provides for expedited OMB review of agency information requests with reduced paperwork burdens. Revises provisions establishing the Federal Information Locator System (FELS) to require the Director to: (1) maintain such System; (2) designate one or more Federal agencies to operate such System; (3) ensure that only public information is included in such System; (4) determine the optimal composition of such System in order to accomplish its purposes; (5) report to specified congressional committees on its development and implementation status; and (6) review its effectiveness on an ongoing basis. Requires such System to serve as a comprehensive inventory, as well as the authoritative register, of all information collection requests by the Federal Government and to assist agencies and the public in locating Government information. Includes in the system records maintained on individuals and information collection requirements approved by the Director. Requires the Director, on an ongoing basis, to: (1) review agency audit standards and requirements for all major information systems and assign responsibility for conducting certain government wide or multiagency audits; (2) establish and review a schedule and a management control system to ensure that practices and programs of information handling disciplines are properly integrated with the information policies mandated by this Act; (3) identify initiatives to improve productivity in Federal operations using information processing technology; (4) develop and review a program to enforce Federal information processing standards at all Federal installations and revitalize the standards development program established under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949; and (5) develop and revise annually a five-year plan for information resources management with plans for managing information meeting automatic data processing equipment needs of the Federal Government, and enhancing public access to information collection request information via electronic media. Requires the Director to include in any report to the Congress: (1) a summary of actions with respect to dissemination functions and of the results of selective reviews of agency activities; (2) reports with respect to the Privacy Act of 1974 and matching programs when required by provisions relating to records maintained on individuals; and (3) an evaluation of the feasibility and means of enhancing public access to Government information. Directs the Director to report to the Congress on: (1) the Federal demonstration project in federally sponsored research; (2) the progress of information processing technology initiatives to improve productivity in Federal operations; (3) the results of burden elimination reviews; and (4) the feasibility and means of establishing a comprehensive inventory and register of all information products and services disseminated by the Government. Requires advisory committees on information and statistical policy for the Director to consult with others in developing such policies. Authorizes appropriations to OIRA. Title II: Review of Federal Departments and Agency Regulations - Outlines guidelines for OIRA review of agency rulemaking. Title III: Management of Public Records - Directs the Archivist of the United States to promulgate binding regulations establishing standards for interpreting the definition of records and for the establishment and maintenance of adequate and proper documentation organization, functions, policies, and essential transactions of the agency for incorporation in recordkeeping requirements to be issued by agency heads. Requires agency records management programs to comply with provisions governing records disposal. Authorizes the Archivist to inspect any record to determine if: (1) an agency is in compliance with the binding guidelines; and (2) such record has sufficient historical value to warrant continued Government preservation. Revises provisions governing inspections of agency records to: (1) no longer require the approval of the agency head concerned for inspections of records the use of which is restricted by law; (2) no longer require that regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the General Services Administration and the Archivist be identical; and (3) provide that regulations authorizing and restricting the examination and use of such records applicable to the head of the custodial agency or to employees of that agency are applied in the same manner to the Archivist, the Administrator, and their respective employees. Authorizes the Archivist to examine any Federal record on lists and schedules of records lacking historical preservation value. Requires OMB review of routine uses for agency record systems for submission in a report to the Congress. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to require advanced congressional notification of proposed changes in a routine use of agency records which are significant.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Designates the week beginning November 10, 1991, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 - Title I: Department of Commerce Research and Technology - Technology Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce, to carry out the activities of the Under Secretary for Technology and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, for the following line items: (1) Office of Under Secretary; (2) Technology Policy; (3) Japanese Technical Literature; (4) Clearinghouse on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation; and (5) National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Prohibits: (1) transferring funds among such line items; and (2) using funds except for the purpose stated in each item. Requires operating costs for certain NTIS activities to be recovered primarily through fees. Mandates a report by the Secretary to the Congress responding to a specified Inspector General's Report and containing certain information and certifications. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for: (1) Electronics and Electrical Engineering; (2) Manufacturing Engineering; (3) Chemical Science and Technology; (4) Physics; (5) Materials Science and Engineering; (6) Building and Fire Research; (7) Computer Systems; (8) Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing; (9) Technology Assistance; and (10) Research Support Activities. Earmarks certain amounts. Limits funds transfers among the line items. Declares that, subject to specified exceptions, this Act contains the complete authorizations of appropriations for NIST for a specified fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to pay the Federal share of a pilot program under existing provisions to assist nations that have requested U.S. assistance in developing their standards. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NIST Act) to remove provisions limiting the amount NIST may, without specific appropriations, spend for construction or improvement of buildings or facilities. Requires: (1) NIST fire research and building technology programs to be combined for administrative purposes only, and separate budget accounts to be maintained; and (2) a report to the Congress on the combination and matters related to the two programs. Makes the NIST personnel system, established as a demonstration project, the permanent personnel system for NIST. Amends the NIST Act to authorize financial assistance to U.S. citizens for research and technical activities on Institute programs. Authorizes, where shortages exist, recruitment and employment at NIST of foreign nationals admitted to the United States for permanent residence who intend to become U.S. citizens. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out the extramural industrial technology services programs of NIST under specified provisions, to be available for: (1) Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology; (2) State Technology Extension Program; and (3) Advanced Technology Program. Requires competitive merit review of extramural programs. Authorizes: (1) exemption of specific technology extension or transfer services from provisions of Federal law relating to patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance; and (2) acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to remove provisions requiring cooperative agreements between NIST and State technology extension services to expire on September 30, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act of 1988. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to make any adjustments in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits which may be provided for by law. Prohibits awarding a contract or subcontract with funds authorized under this title for an article or material produced or manufactured in a foreign country whose government unfairly maintains in government procurement a significant and persistent pattern or practice of discrimination against U.S. products or services which results in identifiable harm to U.S. businesses. Makes ineligible to receive a contract or subcontract from the Department of Commerce any person who fraudulently affixes a "Made in America" label to a product. Authorizes the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to award to a domestic firm a contract that, under competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm. Title II: Advanced Technology Program Amendments - Emerging Technologies and Advanced Technology Program Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the NIST Act to require the Secretary and the NIST Director, in operating the Advanced Technology Program, to be guided by the findings and recommendations of the Biennial National Critical Technology Reports. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director, to make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements under the Program, including as a method for participating in U.S. joint research and development ventures. Empowers the Secretary to determine the appropriate share of licensing fees and royalty payments, up to the amounts with reasonable interest, of any monetary grants provided. Sets forth eligibility requirements for company participation in the Program. Requires assistance under the Program to be designed to support high risk projects with potential for eventual substantial widespread commercial application. Requires title to any intellectual property arising from assistance under the Program to vest in a company or companies incorporated in the United States. Allows the United States to retain a license in connection with such property. Allows a limited percentage of the funds appropriated for the Program to be used for standards development and technical activities by NIST in support of the purposes of the Program. Authorizes acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Program awards. Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out NIST extramural funding programs, to retain amounts to pay for NIST's management of the programs. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1988 and 1989 and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to change references to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs to references to the Under Secretary for Technology in provisions relating to: (1) membership on the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech; and (2) the conduct of a study on Federal participation in Sematech. Title III: Amendments to the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to remove fiscal year limitations from provisions requiring that each Federal agency transfer an amount to NIST for the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Adds references to intellectual property to provisions defining "cooperative research and development agreement." Amends the definition of "Federal agency" to include any agency of the legislative branch. Authorizes the use of appropriated funds to carry out the Act. Adds to the duties of the Secretary, through the Under Secretary for Technology, that of serving as a focal point for discussions among U.S. companies, trade associations, and labor unions on topics of interest to industry and labor. Title IV: Studies and Reports - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish the High-Resolution Information Systems Advisory Board to monitor and foster the development of U.S.-based high-resolution information systems industries (defined as the equipment and techniques to create, store, recover, and play back high-resolution images and accompanying sound). Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to mandate an annual report to the Congress on each major science and technology project in which more than one country is participating and which has a total estimated cost over one billion dollars. Modifies the required contents of the biennial national critical technologies report to the President. Allows a product or process to be considered a national critical technology if it is essential for U.S. long-term national security or economic prosperity (currently, national security and economic prosperity). Establishes the Commission on Technology and Procurement to analyze the effect of Federal Government procurement laws, procedures, and policies on the development of advanced technologies in the United States and to make recommendations on changing Federal policy to promote the development of advanced technologies. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of establishing and operating a Federal Online Information Product Catalog (FEDLINE) at the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to serve as a comprehensive inventory of information products and services disseminated by the Federal Government and assist agencies and the public in locating Federal Government information. Authorizes the NTIS Director to retain and use all monies received to fund obligations and expenses through the end of a specified fiscal year. Amends the National Technical Information Act of 1988 to add producing and disseminating information products in electronic format to the duties of the NTIS. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility and advisability of establishing, in affiliation with NIST, a Quality Institute and a privately funded foundation to support the Quality Institute. Requires the report to consider whether that Institute should: (1) conduct workshops and company tours; and (2) help develop and disseminate model curricula. Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to replace provisions establishing and setting forth the membership and functions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology with provisions relating to the membership and functions of the Council and assistance to the Council by other Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Research Council for a thorough review of international product testing and certification issues. Mandates a report to the Secretary, the President, and the Congress. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to the Congress: (1) proposing a strategy for improving the university research capabilities of States which historically have received relatively little Federal research and development funding; and (2) on the feasibility and advisability of using the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as a model for similar programs in other Federal departments and agencies which fund research and development. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees regarding a plan for coordination of Commerce Department efforts with other Federal agencies concerning high-resolution information systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
Foreign Bank Supervision Enhancement Act of 1991 - Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to prohibit a foreign bank from either establishing a State branch or agency, or acquiring ownership or control of a commercial lending company, without obtaining prior approval of the Federal Reserve Board (the Board). Sets forth approval standards. Empowers the Board to order the termination of foreign banking activities if it finds certain violations or unsound banking practices in the United States. Prescribes enforcement and judicial procedures. Authorizes the Board to recommend to the Comptroller of the Currency (the Comptroller) the termination of a foreign bank's Federal license based upon the same standards as apply to the State branches of a foreign bank. Provides for judicial review of disapproval or termination orders. Provides that, with respect to the granting of Federal licenses for foreign bank operations, the Comptroller shall apply the same approval standards as apply to State licensure of foreign bank activities. Directs the Comptroller to provide the Board with notice and opportunity to comment on any application to establish a Federal branch or agency. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to authorize the Board to disapprove acquisition applications: (1) by bank holding companies if they fail to provide adequate assurances that they will furnish certain Board-requested information; or (2) by a foreign bank if it is not subject to comprehensive regulation on a consolidated basis in its home country. Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to authorize the Board to conduct examinations of foreign banking operations in the United States (including their holding companies and lending companies). Provides that the cost of such examinations shall be assessed against such banks or their holding or lending companies. Mandates that such examinations be coordinated among the appropriate State agencies, the Comptroller, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Subjects the establishment of representative offices of foreign banks to the same regulatory scheme as applies to their establishment of State and Federal branches and agencies. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to mandate that if a foreign bank or its affiliate extends credit secured by specified percentages of the shares of an insured depository institution, it shall file a consolidated report with the appropriate Federal banking agency. Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to authorize the Board and specified regulatory agencies to disclose to their foreign counterparts information obtained in the exercise of their authority (subject to confidentiality guidelines). Sets forth civil money penalties for banking law violations by a foreign banking entity, and for its failure to make requisite reports. Empowers the Board, the Comptroller, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to implement rulemaking and enforcement procedures to implement this Act. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to increase from $1,000 to $10,000 the penalty for failure to comply with agency subpoenas. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975, and certain related consumer protection statutes, to subject foreign bank branches and agencies in the United States to the same supervisory and enforcement agencies as apply to their domestic counterparts.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
International Voluntary Family Planning Assistance Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations for international population planning assistance. Urges the President to use a specified amount of funds to carry out provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to the Development Fund for Africa. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for the United Nations Population Fund if: (1) the Fund maintains such funds in a separate account, without commingling; (2) none of the funds are made available for China; and (3) any agreement to obligate such funds expressly states that the full amount granted by the agreement will be refunded to the United States if U.S. funds are used for family planning in China or abortions in any country. Requires a specified amount of population planning assistance to be used to increase family planning service delivery in countries with large population growth. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being used for abortions.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
Behavioral and Social Sciences Directorate Act of 1991 - Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to establish within the National Science Foundation a Directorate for Behavioral and Social Sciences. Authorizes the Director of the Foundation to establish additional directorates and divisions within directorates.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) promote the maximum conservation and protection of whale, dolphin, and porpoise populations; (2) work to strengthen and maintain the current International Whaling Commission moratorium on the commercial killing of whales; (3) work to strengthen the Commission by reaffirming its competence to regulate whaling on all species of cetaceans and take actions to assure global protection for small cetaceans; and (4) in promoting protection, make use of diplomatic channels, domestic and international law, and all other means.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1991
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the following Acts: (1) the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966; (2) the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act; and (3) the National Driver Register Act of 1982. Authorizes appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) highway safety programs and research and development. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to expend sums authorized as necessary to conduct research on intelligent vehicle highway systems. Directs the Secretary to develop a strategic plan for such research. Specifies that such research should place particular emphasis on aspects of those systems that will increase safety and should identify any aspects that might degrade safety. Title II: Requirements for Vehicles - Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue a final rule amending Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 214 to establish performance criteria for improved occupant head injury protection in side impacts; and (2) issue a final rule to extend the applicability of such Standard to multipurpose passenger vehicles. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to study means of establishing a method for calculating a uniform numerical rating, or series of ratings, enabling consumers to compare meaningfully the crashworthiness data for passenger cars and multipurpose passenger vehicles. Prescribes the contents of such study. Requires that a report of such study be submitted to the Secretary and the Congress within 19 months after the date of enactment of this Act. Prescribes schedules for: (1) obtaining public comment on implementation of National Academy recommendations; (2) determining whether an objectively based system of comparative crashworthiness data can be established; (3) promulgating a rule to establish such a system, if the determination is positive; (4) submitting the proposed rule for review to specified congressional committees; (5) waiting 60 calendar days after such submission, unless both committees notify the Secretary that they have no objection to the rule; and (6) establishing (by rule) procedures requiring auto dealers to make comparative crashworthiness data available to prospective purchasers. Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary to establish: (1) a schedule for use in ensuring compliance with each Federal motor vehicle safety standard established under such Act which the Secretary determines is capable of being tested; (2) written guidelines and procedures for conducting investigations regarding noncompliance with the regulations issued under such Act; and (3) criteria for the determination and imposition of civil penalties for such noncompliance. Directs the Secretary to complete a rulemaking to: (1) review the classification system for vehicles with a gross weight under 10,000 pounds to determine if such vehicles should be reclassified; and (2) consider the establishment of a standard to protect against unreasonable risk of rollover of passenger cars and multipurpose passenger vehicles. Mandates that a specified percentage of certain authorized appropriations be used to disseminate consumer information regarding retrofitting passenger cars with lap and shoulder rear seatbelts. Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to direct the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing passenger motor vehicle bumper impact labeling requirements. Directs the Secretary to submit periodic reports to the Congress detailing efforts to ensure that State motor vehicle inspection programs are implemented in the most effective manner possible. Requires reports to: (1) specify Federal manpower allocations for support of State safety inspection efforts, and allocations and expenditures of Federal funds on such efforts; (2) describe the extent and effect of coordination with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency regarding required safety and emissions inspections; (3) list the States that do not have periodic safety inspection programs meeting Federal requirements; and (4) include any data furnished by the States that operate such safety inspection programs concerning the relative effectiveness of their particular programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a program requiring airbags for: (1) Federal passenger vehicles, beginning with passenger cars acquired after September 30, 1991; and (2) all passenger cars and light trucks, buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles, phased in according to a specified schedule, starting with passenger cars manufactured on and after September 1, 1995. Directs the Secretary to amend the bumper standard published in the Code of Federal Regulations to ensure that such standard is identical to that in effect on January 1, 1982. Requires the Secretary to conduct a rulemaking to increase the safety of child booster seats used in passenger cars. Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to authorize the Secretary to direct the manufacturer of a defective motor vehicle or motor vehicle part to send a second notification if the Secretary determines that the first notification sent by such manufacturer has not resulted in an adequate number of vehicles (or items of equipment) being returned for remedy. Requires any lessor who receives notification of a defective motor vehicle part pertaining to any leased motor vehicle to send a copy of such notice to the lessee. Provides that a dealer may sell or lease a motor vehicle (or motor vehicle item) for which a safety defect notice has been received only if: (1) the defect or failure to comply has been remedied before delivery under sale or lease; or (2) an enforcement order has been set aside or restrained. Directs the Secretary to conduct a rulemaking on the use of darkened windshields and window glass in passenger automobiles. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States which adopt and implement seatbelt and child restraint programs which include specified measures to foster the increased use of seatbelts and the correct use of child restraint systems. Sets conditions for the use of such grants by such States. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) consider methods of reducing head injuries in passenger automobiles and multipurpose passenger vehicles from contact with vehicle interior components by revising the appropriate Federal motor vehicle safety standards; and (2) consider the establishment of a standard to minimize pedestrian death and injury attributable to vehicle components. Directs the Secretary to complete a rulemaking to amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 to authorize passenger cars and multipurpose passenger vehicles to be equipped with daytime running lights. Directs the Secretary to conduct a rulemaking to consider: (1) whether to adopt a Federal motor vehicle safety standard requiring antilock brake systems for all passenger cars and multipurpose passenger vehicles manufactured after September 1, 1996; (2) the establishment of a standard requiring that such cars and vehicles be equipped with heads-up displays capable of projecting speed, fuel, and other instrument readings on the lower part of the windshield (enabling the driver to check such readings without looking down); and (3) whether to amend any existing standard applicable to seatbelts for modification of seatbelt design to take into account the needs of children and short adults. Requires that standards established under this Act be in accordance with applicable provisions of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, including provisions requiring that Federal motor vehicle safety standards be practicable, meet the need for motor vehicle safety, and be stated in objective terms. Title III: Highway Traffic Safety - Impaired Driving Prevention Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary to make basic and supplemental grants to States which adopt and implement impaired driving enforcement programs to prevent impaired driving. Sets forth: (1) eligibility requirements for basic and supplemental grants (such as State mandatory blood alcohol concentration testing programs and standards, programs for preventing drivers under age 21 from obtaining alcoholic beverages, drugged driving prevention laws, and unlawful open container and alcohol consumption programs); (2) a waiver provision of basic grant eligibility requirements for reduced alcohol-related fatalities within a State; and (3) the Federal share payable for such grants. Authorizes appropriations. Sets deadlines for the issuance of regulations by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1991
Flight Attendant Duty Time Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish limitations on duty time for flight attendants. Requires the Secretary to issue final regulations by a specified deadline. Prohibits any air carrier from operating an aircraft using a flight attendant who has been on duty in excess of specified hours or who has had less than a specified number of hours of rest if such regulations have not been promulgated by a certain time. Permits modification of the specified hours of duty if the Secretary determines such modification is in the public interest and submits a copy of the modifying regulations to certain congressional committees. Treats a duty period with both domestic and international flight segments as international flying for purposes of calculating duty and rest requirements if the majority of the flight time during such period is on an international or domestic segment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Lock-In-Safety Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1991
Designates the week beginning July 21, 1991, as Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week. Requires the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1991, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
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
Revere Beach Study Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to the President and the Congress on the feasibility of establishing Revere Beach, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Horn of Africa Recovery and Food Security Act of 1991 - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan). Requires the President to consult with other nations, armed and unarmed parties in the Horn of Africa, and the United Nations Secretary General to bring about negotiated settlements of the wars in the region. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) direct the U.S. representative to the United Nations to take specified steps with respect to peace and the implementation of an arms embargo in the region; (2) play an active role in other fora in pressing for settlements to such wars; and (3) participate in regional and international peace consultations. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to the equitable distribution of relief and rehabilitation aid in the Horn of Africa. Declares that development assistance in the Horn of Africa should be targeted to aid the poor. States that U.S. Government aid institutions should seek to: (1) build upon the capabilities and experiences of organizations active in local grassroots relief, rehabilitation, and development efforts; (2) consult with such organizations and incorporate their views into the policymaking process; and (3) support the expansion of their activities without compromising their private nature. Declares that current legislative provisions that restrict assistance to Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan should be retained until concrete steps toward peace, democracy, and human rights are achieved. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize emergency assistance for relief and rehabilitation in the Horn of Africa. Makes available a percentage of assistance for management support activities of the Agency for International Development. Authorizes the President to transfer funds from unobligated economic support fund and military assistance to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Designates October 1991 as National Down Syndrome Awareness Month.