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United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Designates the week of April 7 through 13, 1991, as National County Government Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from engaging in any leasing activity or approving any exploration or development plans with respect to submerged lands on certain portions of the Outer Continental Shelf off the State of Florida. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines for the United States to buy back any existing lease on such lands. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Ending Hunger Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Iraq International Law Compliance Act of 1990 - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to Iraq's human rights record and use of chemical weapons. Directs the President to enforce against Iraq all laws which impose sanctions against a country that engages in consistent violations of human rights. Prohibits the extension of financial credits or assistance to Iraq until the President certifies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iraq is complying with the Law of Nations, including the United Nations Charter and specified human rights and weapons conventions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990 - Prohibits any funds, credits, guarantees, or insurance made available for FY 1990 or thereafter from being used to support any U.S. financial or commercial operation involving the Iraqi Government. Instructs the Department of Commerce to include Iraq within the Country Group S list of the Export Administration Regulations. Makes persons violating the prohibition subject to penalties under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Considers Iraq to be a supporter of international terrorism for purposes of applying prohibitions or restrictions under foreign assistance statutes. Prohibits the President from using the waiver authority under such statutes with respect to Iraq. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to prohibit Export-Import Bank assistance to Iraq under any circumstances. (Current law permits a waiver of such prohibition if it is in U.S. national interest.) Directs the President to study and report to the Appropriations Committees on: (1) the sale, export, and third party transfer or development of nuclear, biological, chemical, and ballistic missile technology to or with Iraq; and (2) Iraq's offensive military capability and its effect on the Middle East balance of power. Requires the President to report to such committees on steps taken by other nations to curtail exports to Iraq which might contribute to Iraq's nuclear, biological, chemical, and ballistic missile capability. Directs the President to encourage other nations to adopt sanctions toward Iraq similar to those under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates the week beginning November 11, 1990, as National Disabled Veterans Week, in recognition of the contributions that disabled veterans have made to the welfare of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates August 1, 1990, 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 · 21 June 1990
Designates July 1, 1990, as National Ducks and Wetlands Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that the Congress recognizes that prompt U.S. assistance is necessary to alleviate the emergency in Lithuania caused by the Soviet blockade. Directs the Administrator of the agency responsible for administering part I of such Act to: (1) furnish humanitarian assistance to Lithuania during such emergency; (2) solicit donations of humanitarian assistance for Lithuania and cooperate with private relief agencies attempting to provide such assistance; and (3) attempt to deliver such assistance by the most expeditious means available. Authorizes appropriations. Urges the President to seek permission from the Soviet Union to deliver humanitarian relief to Lithuania without delay.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that the Congress recognizes that prompt U.S. assistance is necessary to alleviate the emergency in Lithuania caused by the Soviet blockade. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to furnish medical supplies and other humanitarian assistance to Lithuania. Requires the Administrator to solicit donations of medical supplies and medical assistance from the private sector. Authorizes the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Transportation Command to provide all necessary airlift and sealift to transport such assistance as soon as an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union has been concluded. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits such assistance from being used to pay for, or coerce any person to practice, abortions or involuntary sterilizations. Urges the President to begin negotiations with: (1) the Soviet Union regarding the importation of humanitarian assistance; and (2) the governments of other Soviet republics to enlist their assistance in lifting the blockade.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Economic Growth and Venture Capital Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990
Provides for the appointment in Florida of: (1) two additional bankruptcy judges for the Middle Judicial District; and (2) one additional bankruptcy judge for the Southern Judicial District.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1990
Declares that the United States should suspend its dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the PLO does not: (1) condemn the May 30, 1990, Palestine Liberation Front terrorist attack against Israel; and (2) expel leader Abul Abbas for his role in such attack.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for a named vessel.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the accession of Taiwan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is in the best interest of the United States and of the world trading system and should be achieved prior to the end of the Uruguay Round; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates the week of June 17 through June 23, 1990, as National Week to Commemorate the Victims of the Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933. Condemns the disregard for human rights characterized by the Soviet Union during the famine and expresses sympathy for victims of the famine. Requests the President to call attention to Soviet policies that caused the famine and have suppressed Ukrainian human rights and the expression of cultural and social heritage. Recognizes the reforms underway in the Ukraine and urges the Soviet Government to: (1) move forward toward democratization and restructuring; and (2) provide a framework for the realization of the rights and aspirations of the Ukrainian people.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates September 23 through September 29, 1990, as Religious Freedom Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990
Designates September 21, 1990, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Recognizes the National League of Families POW/MIA flag as the official symbol of the United States' commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner or missing in action in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Designates December 21, 1990, as Day of Observance for the Victims of Terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990
Designates June 3 through June 9, 1990, as National World War II Observance Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990
Involuntarily Separated Military Personnel Benefits Act of 1990 - Provides separation pay for all members of the armed forces who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or are denied reenlistment. (Under current law, regular members who were discharged from active duty after a specified date and who had completed five or more, but fewer than 20 years of active duty, were denied such separation pay and no separation pay was provided to enlisted members denied reenlistment.) Prohibits a member who was not on the active duty list at the time of discharge or involuntary separation from receiving such separation pay unless such member had completed at least seven (currently, five) years of continuous active duty service. Fixes the amount of separation pay at ten percent of the product of years of service and 12 times the monthly pay rate at the time of discharge. (Current law allows such figure or $30,000, whichever is less.) Increases the aggregate amount of unemployment compensation payable to ex-servicemen in any benefit year to 26 times an individual's weekly benefit amount for total unemployment. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program to furnish employment and training information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated in order to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Requires the Secretary, no later than 180 days before a separation, to notify the member of such separation and to brief him or her regarding the availability of potential retirement, employment, job preference, and other benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, local veterans' employment representatives, other employment service personnel, and representatives of veterans' service organizations in furnishing such employment and training information. Requires the Secretary, in preparation for the discharge or release from active duty of military personnel stationed outside the United States whose dependents were permitted to accompany them, to reassign such member and dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of the member's tour of active duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report on the means of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to military personnel being involuntarily separated. Authorizes appropriations. Includes an involuntarily separated veteran among those individuals for whom a Federal hiring preference will be given. Defines an "involuntarily separated veteran" as an individual denied reenlistment on active duty or involuntarily separated from active duty under honorable conditions and under criteria established by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Expresses the sense of the Congress that with respect to persons involuntarily separated from the armed forces: (1) efforts should be made to expand the number of noncompetitive position appointments available in the Government and to increase the pay grade level for such appointments; and (2) preferential hiring policies and procedures should be established as a condition for receiving the Federal share of expenditures for State and local programs. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide medical care to a person who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and to his or her dependents for 90 days following such discharge or release. Requires a person to enroll in the Uniformed Services Voluntary Insurance Plan within 90 days of such discharge or release to be entitled to medical care for an injury, illness, or disease that was incurred or aggravated on or before the date of discharge or release and that is not covered by the Plan. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide such care for one year after such discharge or release at specified rates and for a pregnancy that existed before the discharge or release. Outlines provisions for the temporary coverage of persons involuntarily discharged or released who do not enroll in the Plan. Defines those persons who will not be considered to have been involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces (such as those released under dishonorable conditions or for unfitness or unsatisfactory performance) and who will therefore not be entitled to such extended medical care. Provides that an individual involuntarily discharged or released from active duty shall be entitled to 36 months of basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill. Sets forth application requirements and benefit limitations. Defines those persons who will not be considered to have been involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who are therefore not entitled to such education assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990
Designates the week of August 19 through August 25, 1990, as National Agricultural Research Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990
Minor Use Pesticides Act of 1990 - Title I: Registration of Pesticides for Agricultural Minor Uses - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to authorize agricultural producers, in the case of pesticides registered for minor agricultural uses, to waive any liability incurred with respect to the use of such pesticides for the pesticide registrants. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce or waive registration fees for such pesticides if the fees would reduce their availability. Requires the Administrator, in the case of such pesticides, to take specified administrative actions if the cancellation or amendment of the registration of such pesticides would adversely affect availability. Provides for transfers of registrations of such pesticides (subject to the Administrator's approval), in lieu of cancelling or amending the registration, unless the use of the pesticides would pose adverse environmental effects. Directs the Administrator to identify pests affecting minor use crops that must be brought under control and control measures for such pests. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report annually to the Administrator on: (1) such pests and control measures; (2) areas of pest control at risk of losing effectiveness due to an insufficient number of registered pesticides or pest resistance; and (3) research efforts to develop pest control to address such areas. Directs the Administrator to develop integrated pest management approaches to respond to the needs of producers who use pesticides for minor agricultural uses. Title II: Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4 Program) - Requires the Secretary to establish an Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4 to assist in the collection of residue and efficacy data in support of: (1) registration or reregistration of minor use pesticides under FIFRA; and (2) tolerances for residues of minor use chemicals in or on raw agricultural commodities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop analytical techniques applicable to residues of minor use pesticides; and (2) participate in research aimed at reducing such residues. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990
Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1990 - Title I: Reduction of Special Interest Influence - Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees from Federal Election Activities - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) revise the definition of a "political committee" to delete references to any separate segregated fund and any committee, club, association, or group which receives contributions or makes expenditures annually totaling over $1,000 and to include any national, State, or district committee of a political party, including any subordinate committee thereof, and any committee jointly established by such committees or by any local committee as defined under current law for joint fundraising activities; (2) repeal provisions excluding nonpartisan registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns and the establishment of, and solicitation of contributions for, a separate segregated fund from the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, corporation, or labor organization; and (3) prohibit making, soliciting, or receiving contributions or making expenditures to influence a Federal election by any person other than an individual or a political committee. Specifies that if such prohibition is not in effect: (1) it and the other amendments made by this Act to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 regarding such definitions shall not be in effect and prior law will be reinstated; and (2) political action committees not connected to corporations, labor organizations, or trade associations will be subject to a $1,000 contribution limit. Deems any political committee which is established, financed, maintained, or controlled by any candidate or Federal officeholder to be an authorized committee of such candidate or officeholder for purposes of limitations on contributions to a candidate's committees. Subtitle B: Ban on Soft Money in Federal Elections - Bans the use of soft money (any amount raised or contributed outside of source restrictions, contribution limits, and disclosure requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) to influence any Federal election. Requires the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to issue regulations providing a method for allocating the contributions and expenditures for any mixed activity between Federal and non-Federal accounts. Sets forth guidelines for such allocation which include the establishment of minimum percentages of Federal funds for activities designed to contact voters in connection with elections for Federal and non-Federal office. Requires each treasurer of a political committee to keep an account of, and file reports disclosing, each account maintained by such committee. Includes political committees among those entities eligible to receive contributions or expenditures by national banks, corporations, or labor organizations. Permits a labor organization, upon reinstatement of prior law regarding certain political activities not considered to be contributions or expenditures, to make political communications and establish and solicit contributions for a separate segregated political fund if it: (1) provides the employees it represents with written notification of specified information at least once annually; (2) provides such employees with an annual examination by an independent certified public accountant of its financial statements which verify its costs for representation services; and (3) maintains certain procedures regarding the cost of such representation. Requires a labor organization which does not follow such requirements to finance those communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of any clearly identified candidate for elective public office as well as the other political activities not considered to be contributions or expenditures with funds legally collected under this Act for its separate segregated fund. Imposes Federal limits on contributions to political organizations maintained by a candidate for Federal office which are not political committees of a national, State, or local party. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny tax-exempt status for an organization: (1) which devotes any of its operating budget to voter registration, get-out-the-vote campaigns, or participation in political campaign activities; (2) on whose behalf a candidate or an authorized committee thereof solicits contributions; or (3) which intervenes or participates in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for Federal office. Subtitle C: Other Activities - Reduces from $1,000 to $500 the maximum contribution allowed to any candidate for Federal office (other than a candidate for President or Vice President) by a person residing outside the State with respect to which such candidate seeks Federal office. Maintains the current $1,000 limitation for contributions to any candidate for President or Vice President or to any candidate for Federal office by a person residing within the State with respect to which such candidate seeks Federal office. Provides for periodic indexing of such limitations according to the consumer price index. Excludes costs of campaign materials and general research activities paid by national committees of a political party from the definition of "expenditure and contribution" under the same conditions currently provided for such payments by State or local committees of a political party. Exempts contributions to political party committees from the $25,000 annual limit. Prohibits: (1) any intermediary or conduit from delivering or arranging to have delivered contributions from more than two persons who are employees of the same employer or members of the same labor organization; and (2) lobbyists from acting as an intermediary or conduit with respect to a contribution to a candidate for Federal office. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires the FEC to provide a hearing within three days after receiving a complaint alleging that an independent expenditure was made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Provides for expedited judicial review for any matter relating to the making of an independent expenditure. Title II: Increase of Competition in Politics - Allows the congressional campaign committee or the senatorial campaign committee of a national political party to make contributions to a candidate for Federal office (other than President or Vice President) who does not hold Federal office which in the aggregate do not exceed the lesser of: (1) $100,000; or (2) the aggregate contributions made during the election cycle preceding the primary election by an individual who, at the time such contributions are made, is a resident of the State in which the election with respect to which such contributions are made is to be held. Prohibits such a contribution from being treated as an expenditure by a national committee, State committee, or subordinate committee of a State committee in connection with the general election campaign of a candidate for Federal office. Prohibits a holder of Federal office from transferring any amounts received as contributions or other campaign funds to any account maintained for purposes of defraying ordinary and necessary expenses in connection with the duties of such office. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the FEC and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend for the primary and general election an amount exceeding $250,000 from: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for election. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay any expenditure or personal loan incurred in connection with the candidate's election to Federal office from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits: (1) repayment of any interest on the principal of such loan or the amount of such expenditure; and (2) repayment from any such contributions received after the general election to which the expenditure or loan relates. Prohibits franked mass mailings by: (1) Members of Congress during the year in which they are candidates for reelection; (2) Members of, or Members-elect to, the House during the year in which they are candidates for any other public office; or (3) Members of the Senate during the year in which they are candidates for any other public office. Requires Members of Congress using franked mass mailings to register such mailings annually with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives who shall make such mailing available for public inspection along with a description of the persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed. Amends rule XL of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the use of franked mass mail by a Senator or an individual who is a candidate for nomination to the Senate during the year in which the Senator is a candidate for public office or the individual is a candidate for the Senate. Revises provisions with respect to congressional reapportionment and redistricting so that the number of persons in congressional districts within each State shall be as nearly equal as practicable, as determined under the most recent decennial census. Prohibits congressional districts from being established with the intent and effect of diluting the voting strength of any persons or members of any political party. Requires district boundaries to avoid the division of counties and minimize the division of cities and other political subdivisions. Establishes expedited Federal judicial review procedures of the redistricting process, giving Federal district courts exclusive jurisdiction. Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State or political subdivision of: (1) the honest services of a government official or employee; or (2) a fair and impartially conducted election process through the use of fraudulent ballots or voter registration forms or the filing of fraudulent campaign reports to secure the election of an official who, if elected, would have authority over the administration of funds derived from an Act of the Congress totalling $10,000 or more for a year before or after the election or offense. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of the United States of the honest services of a public official. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official who: (1) uses interstate commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of any State or political subdivision of the right to have government affairs conducted on the basis of complete, true, and accurate information; or (2) in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates, harasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, providing such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. Title III: Reduction of Campaign Costs - Sets forth congressional findings regarding discounts for political broadcasts. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to: (1) limit the cost to qualified candidates of broadcasting time for pre-election political advertising to the lowest rate charged for any time in the same period; and (2) prohibit any broadcast licensee from preempting the use of any such time purchased by a qualified candidate. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Federal Election Commission Enforcement Authority - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the enforcement provisions. Changes the determination the FEC must make upon receiving a complaint, before notifying the person of an alleged violation. Authorizes the FEC to seek an injunction if: (1) it believes that there is a substantial likelihood that a violation of Federal election laws is occurring or about to occur; (2) the failure to act expeditiously will result in irreparable harm; (3) such expeditious action will not cause undue harm or prejudice to the interests of others; and (4) the public interest would be best served by such an injunction. Reduces the period provided for the FEC to attempt informally to prevent or correct a violation of such Act from 90 to 60 days. Requires the FEC to make such an attempt for a period of no more than 15 days, if the violation occurs within 45 days of an election. Provides greater penalties for knowing and willful violations committed within 15 days of any election. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the requirement that the FEC, upon an affirmative vote of four of its members, institute a civil action if it is unable to correct or prevent a violation of such Act. Requires a court in such civil action to grant a specified remedy upon a showing that the person involved has committed or is about to commit a violation of such Act. Provides a private right of action if, by a tie vote, the FEC does not vote to institute a civil action. Requires a court to impose a specified civil penalty for a knowing and willful violation of such Act. Expedites from 120 days to 60 days the time which an aggrieved party must wait before seeking judicial redress because the FEC dismissed, or failed to reasonably pursue, a complaint filed by such party. Allows the aggrieved party to file an action in any U.S. district court having jurisdiction. Requires that any monetary award under such action be paid to the United States. Provides for a mandatory award of attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party. Increases the penalties for violation of the confidentiality requirement with respect to any notification or investigation made under such Act. Removes the ceiling on the fine for any person who willfully and knowingly commits a violation of such Act which involves any contribution or expenditure aggregating $2,000 or more during a calendar year. Directs the FEC to establish time limitations for its investigation and to publish an index of all of its investigations. Establishes procedures for initial determinations and probable cause determinations by the FEC. Eliminates the en banc hearing requirement for constitutional questions regarding such Act. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Requires each treasurer of a political committee to file reports disclosing for the reporting period the terms of any settlement agreement or any security or collateral agreement entered into with respect to a loan or other debt as evidenced by a copy of such agreement filed as part of the report. Includes any gift subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money made for the purpose of drafting a clearly identified individual as a candidate for Federal office or encouraging a clearly identified individual to become a candidate for Federal office within the definition of "contribution." Requires such a contribution to be treated, with respect to the individual involved, as a contribution to a candidate, whether or not the individual becomes a candidate for purposes of limitations on contributions and expenditures.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require carriers and peer review organizations to release the medical review screen or the associated screening parameter to a physician before notifying such physician that payment for his or her service has been denied. Permits Medicare reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided to such patient by another physician who occasionally covers for the regular physician. Requires Medicare carriers to provide physicians, upon request and without charge, with carrier-generated information which physicians need to submit a payment claim or respond to a carrier inquiry. Allows a medical society or other professional organization representing physicians to represent a group or class of physicians in Medicare payment determinations, reconsiderations, or appeals. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint, based on nominations submitted by national medical organizations representing physicians, a Practicing Physicians Advisory Council with which the Secretary must consult concerning changes in the Medicare program and proposed changes in regulations and carrier operation policies.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990
Designates the month of October 1990 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the President, on or after May 1, 1990, from revising the control list of goods or technology in such a manner that would decontrol exports to the Soviet Union prior to the date the President transmits to the Congress certification that the Soviet Union has: (1) lifted its economic embargo against Lithuania; and (2) entered into negotiations with the intent to recognize such country's independence.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Designates October 17, 1990, as National Drug-Free Schools and Communities Education and Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Designates September 1990 as National Awareness Month for Children with Cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Declares that the domestic production of fruits and vegetables is a keystone of U.S. farm policy. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Congress on the domestic fruit and vegetable industry.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Designates September 1990 as Jewish Community Center Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Requires the Secretary of the Army to provide for the construction and maintenance of a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery to honor U.S. combat glider pilots of World War II. Requires construction expenses to be paid entirely from non-Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Prohibits U.S. assistance to Iraq unless the President certifies to the Congress that such country has opened suspected chemical weapon sites to international inspection and ratified the Convention on Biological Weapons. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Development Association to vote against multilateral assistance to Iraq. Requires the President, unless he makes such certification, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to revoke air travel service between the two countries. Declares that unless the President makes such certification: (1) he shall terminate, withdraw, or suspend any trade agreement that extends nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment to Iraq; (2) Iraq shall be denied such trade treatment and Iraqi products shall be subject to column two duty rates under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States; (3) Iraqi products shall not receive trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences under the Trade Act of 1974; and (4) Iraqi products that do not receive duty-free treatment shall be subject to an additional 50 percent duty.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Supreme Court or any inferior court of the United States from ordering a State or political subdivision, or an official of such State or subdivision, from laying or increasing taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates October 1990 as Polish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Expresses the condolences of the Senate on the death of the Honorable Spark M. Matsunaga of Hawaii.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Prohibits the issuance of a license to U.S.-owned firms to carry on certain trade activities with Cuba. Subjects U.S. vessels which enter a Cuban port to engage in trade to seizure, forfeiture, and sale by the United States. Authorizes the President, beginning October 1, 1991, to withhold economic support fund assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from any country equal to the value of sales of sugar from Cuba imported by such country in the preceding fiscal year. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should urge countries that import sugar from Cuba and do not receive such U.S. assistance to import it from other Central American or Caribbean countries with democratic governments. Amends the Trading With the Enemy Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to impose civil penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Designates January 6 through January 12, 1991, as National Law Enforcement Training Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Trauma Care Center Alien Compensation Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an allotment each year for each eligible trauma center to compensate, partially or fully, for unreimbursed costs of care to undocumented aliens. Mandates a study relating to such costs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for a named vessel.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1992, the duty on metal oxide varistors.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1990
Yosemite National Park Centennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell medals in commemoration of the centennial of Yosemite National Park, California, in 1990. Requires that all sales of such medals include a surcharge of $2 each. Requires that all surcharges be paid to an endowment fund for the benefit of the Park to be administered by the National Park Foundation. Requires that the net income from the fund be paid to the Secretary of the Interior to fund special supplemental projects relating to back country trail development and rehabilitation and the preservation of Sequoia groves within the boundaries of the Park. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of agreement to allow: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver medals to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the sale of the medals in National Park facilities. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine all records of the National Park Foundation which are related to such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 13, 1990, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as Decade of the Child.