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United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1989
Savings and Investment Incentive Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the ten percent penalty tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans: (1) first-time homebuyer distributions; and (2) qualified higher education expenses. Allows a deduction for 50 percent of the contributions made to individual retirement plans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1989
Designates February 16, 1990, as Lithuanian Independence Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989
National Teacher Act of 1989 - Title I: Loan Forgiveness for Teachers - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to assume the obligation to repay specified portions of a Stafford loan (a student loan made, insured, or guaranteed under specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965) for any borrower employed as a full-time teacher in a public or nonprofit private elementary or secondary school which is: (1) in the school district of a local educational agency eligible for assistance under chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981; and (2) determined to have more than 30 percent of its enrollment made up of children who are counted under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Limits the number of schools which may be involved. Provides for cancellation of increasing portions of such student loans for a one to five-year period of such teaching service. Provides also for forgiveness of portions of student loans for borrowers who return to higher education after graduation to obtain a teaching certificate. Provides for repayment of such specified portions of principal and interest by the Secretary to the eligible lender or holder. Title II: Class Size Research and Demonstration Project - Class Size Demonstration Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary to make demonstration grants to local educational agencies having elementary and secondary schools with large classes in order to demonstrate the advantages of reducing the size of classes. Provides for the Federal share of program payments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Title III: Model Programs in Teacher Preparation and Promising Practices - Authorizes the Secretary to pay to State and local educational agencies, State higher education agencies, institutions of higher education, individual elementary or secondary schools, or nonprofit private organizations the Federal share of costs of establishing and operating model programs demonstrating: (1) effective and innovative approaches to teacher preparation; (2) effective methods for alternative preparation; and (3) promising practices for teacher classroom instruction or site-based organizational management with the participation of teachers. Sets forth special rules and priorities relating to such grant awards and their size and scope, and examples of types of projects for which such funds may be used. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996. Title IV: New Careers for Teachers - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible recipients to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing and operating programs to attract minority candidates to teaching careers. Makes eligible for such grants consortia of institutions of higher education and local educational agencies working with the State educational agency and the appropriate State or local teacher credentialing body. Provides that such grants shall be for five years and awarded under a competitive bidding process. Allows grant funds to be used to pay tuition, release time, and child care stipends for program participants. Directs the Secretary to provide for continuing evaluation of such projects and report to the Congress two years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Title V: National Teacher Academies - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education, private nonprofit education organizations, or combinations of such entities to establish and operate national teacher academies. Requires one such academy in each of the following subject areas commonly taught in elementary and secondary schools: (1) mathematics; (2) English, reading, and language arts; (3) civics and government; (4) basic skills and literacy instruction; (5) the arts, including art, music, and the performing arts; (6) history and geography; (7) economics; (8) life sciences; (9) physical sciences; and (10) foreign languages. Requires academy staff to be selected from the most accomplished and prominent scholars in the relevant fields. Provides that such grants shall be for five years, and awarded under a competitive bidding process. Requires special consideration for eligible recipients that have demonstrated effectiveness in establishing and administrating a national network of individuals who assist in teacher training programs at State and local levels. Limits such awards to eligible applicants who have demonstrated expertise in both the subject area and in-service teacher training. Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) in-service training for teachers and administrators; (2) summer institutes; (3) leadership team training for congressional district academies; and (4) support services for congressional district academies, including national networks of individuals, consulting assistance, and information services. Requires that specified numbers of school administrators and teachers from each congressional district participate in summer institutes. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the work of each national academy biennially, and make evaluation results available to the Congress and the public. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Title VI: Congressional District Teacher Academies - Directs the Secretary to allot to each State educational agency funds to establish and operate congressional district teacher academies. Requires that one such academy be established in each congressional district in each of the subject areas specified under title V provisions for national teacher academies. Allows the State educational agency to combine several of the authorized congressional district academies into a single academy in States where several congressional districts serve a local educational agency, or in States of small geographic size (containing less than three congressional districts). Provides that such grants shall be for five years, and renewable, and awarded under a competitive bidding process. Provides that academies for specified U.S. territories and possessions in the Pacific are to be combined into a single academy for each subject area, and administered by the Center for the Advancement of Pacific Education, in Honolulu, Hawaii, or its successor. Requires that such grant funds shall be used to: (1) provide in-service training programs for teachers; and (2) pay costs of release time, stipends, college or university credit, curricular materials, and other expenses. Requires eligible recipients to establish: (1) a three-person leadership team, if they seek a grant under this title; and (2) a ten-member steering committee, if they seek a grant under this Act. Requires each State educational agency receiving financial assistance under this title to evaluate biennially the work of each congressional district academy and report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to submit a summary of such reports to the Congress biennially. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989
Excellence in Teaching Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to seek cost-sharing by State and local entities, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations for any program assisted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the teacher corps and senior teacher corps programs; and (2) report on it to the appropriate congressional committees within three years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to designate an office within the Department of Education (the Department) to coordinate activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on teachers and the teaching profession. Title I: Teacher Corps - Teacher Corps Recruitment and Induction Act of 1989 - Part A: Teacher Corps - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to conduct teacher corps activities; and (2) award scholarships to teacher corps members. Bases the amounts of such grants to SEAs on school-age population. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish teacher corps selection criteria for States to use; (2) disseminate information about availability of teacher corps scholarships; (3) award such scholarships to individuals recommended by SEAs; (4) review and approve SEA applications for grants; (5) make awards to SEAs; (6) designate an office within the Department for liaison and coordination with participating SEAs; (7) foster communication among teacher corps members; and (8) collect scholarship repayments. Specifies authorized uses of grant money by SEAs. Allows LEAs to use grant funds to carry out induction programs for new teacher corps members (and other new teachers), ensuring that teacher corps members participate in one for at least one year, including work with a designated mentor teacher. Requires the SEA, in cooperation with the State higher education agency, to select teacher corps members according to the Secretary's criteria, subject to the Secretary's review. Requires special consideration for those who intend to teach handicapped, limited English proficient, or preschool age students, or in an inner city school. Sets forth individual application requirements. Sets forth SEA grant application requirements. Provides that an SEA shall be disqualified from any future financial assistance under this title: (1) if it fails to maintain accurate records on teacher corps members to ensure compliance with scholarship conditions; or (2) if it fails to notify the Secretary upon a change of status rendering a member in violation of such conditions. Sets forth LEA grant application requirements. Makes individuals eligible to receive such scholarships for up to two years during enrollment in any of the following programs of study: (1) the last two years of a baccalaureate degree; (2) one or two years of a masters or other postbaccalaureate specialist degree; or (3) two years of an associate's degree in early childhood education or development, or one year of a child development associate credential program. Makes individuals in other associate degree programs eligible for the third and fourth year for a baccalaureate degree. Makes individuals with a bachelor's degree who wish to enter teaching from another profession eligible for such a scholarship for the instruction necessary to enter the teaching profession in the State where they wish to teach. Allows such instruction to be provided while the individual is employed as a provisional teacher, at the discretion of the SEA and LEA. Limits the amount of such a scholarship to an individual to the lesser of $8,000 or the cost of attendance per year for a maximum of two years. States that such scholarship shall be considered in determining eligibility for student assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Directs the Secretary, in addition to such scholarship amounts, to award teacher corps members without a masters degree a scholarship of up to $2,000 during any of the first three years of employment as a teacher, to defray the costs of pursuing post-baccalaureate instruction. Allows the SEA in any State experiencing a shortage of mathematics and science teachers to recommend that the Secretary give special consideration for teacher corps scholarships to individuals committed to teaching mathematics or science in elementary or secondary schools. Prescribes eligibility requirements. Requires scholarship agreements to include assurances of satisfactory academic progress and participation in teaching-related activities during the course of study, and of teaching for: (1) five years in a geographic area, or substantial field of expertise, of shortage, as determined by the SEA; (2) four years in an inner city school; or (3) four years if the student received a mathematics and science scholarship under special consideration provisions. Allows members to transfer to another LEA or to another State with a program, upon approval of the sending or receiving LEA or State. Prescribes additional assurances such agreements must include. Provides for repayment of scholarships and for cancellation of such obligation under specified conditions. Provides for publication of, and recruitment for, the teacher corps scholarship program, particularly for minority students. Part B: Senior Teacher Corps - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to SEAs to conduct senior teacher corps activities; and (2) award scholarships to senior teacher corps members. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds to: (1) establish senior teacher corps selection criteria for States to use; (2) disseminate information about availability of such scholarships nationally, and especially to LEAs with high minority enrollment; (3) award such scholarships to individuals recommended by SEAs; (4) review and approve SEA applications for grants; (5) make awards to SEAs (6) foster communication among teacher corps members; and (7) collect scholarship repayments. Specifies authorized uses of grant money by SEAs. Makes individuals who have been employed as teachers for eight or more years with full professional State certification eligible to apply for membership in the senior teacher corps. Sets forth requirements for individual applications, selection by SEAs, and review by the Secretary. Directs the SEA to give special consideration to individuals who intend to: (1) use a sabbatical period to improve or acquire skills in science or mathematics or in order to teach or provide related services to handicapped, limited English proficient, or preschool age students; or (2) teach students in inner city schools, following the sabbatical period. Sets forth SEA grant application requirements. Requires that an SEA be disqualified from any future financial assistance under this title: (1) if it fails to maintain accurate records on senior teacher corps members to ensure compliance with scholarship conditions; or (2) if it fails to notify the Secretary upon a change of status rendering such member in violation of such conditions. Directs the Secretary to award members a scholarship equal to one-half of their usual annual salary to enable them to participate in specified programs and activities during a sabbatical period. Requires such scholarship agreements to include assurances that members will: (1) spend a half-year sabbatical to participate in certain approved programs or activities; (2) work as a teacher, following the sabbatical, for five years in the State through which the award was made, or for four years in an inner city school in that State (except that they may transfer upon approval of both the sending and receiving State); (3) during the period of such work, upon LEA approval, participate as a mentor in an induction program for new teachers or otherwise contribute to the teacher corps programs; (4) during the period of such work, help in developing in-service training programs; and (5) participate in activities fostering communication among senior teacher corps members. Provides for repayment of scholarships by members violating such agreements, and for cancellation of such obligation under specified conditions. Provides for publicity of and recruitment for the senior teacher corps scholarship program, particularly for minority teachers and in LEAs with above-average minority enrollments. Title II: Professional Development Academies - Professional Development Academy Establishment Act of 1989 - Provides for establishment of professional development academies which: (1) are operated by partnerships including one or more LEAs and one or more higher education institutions offering teacher training programs; and (2) provide in-service training and other activities to teachers and administrators. Directs the Secretary to provide funds for such academies through allotments to SEAs in States with approved applications or grants to LEAs or LEA consortia in States not receiving such allotments. Bases such allotments and grants on school-age population. Provides for State and local applications for and uses of such funds. Sets the Federal share at 50 percent of the cost of planning, establishing, and operating such academies. Requires States receiving such assistance to pay 80 percent of the non-Federal share from non-Federal sources. Title III: Minority Teacher Recruitment - Minority Teacher Recruitment Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to carry out programs and activities to: (1) improve recruitment and training opportunities for ethnic minority members in education; and (2) increase the number of minority teachers in elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of such funds by LEAs, higher education institutions, SEAs, and State higher education agencies. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to authorize historically Black colleges and universities to use certain grants to establish or enhance a teacher education and certification preparation program to qualify students for public elementary or secondary school teaching in the State. Amends HEA provisions for Student Assistance Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to authorize the Secretary to make grants for Summer Institutes for Future Teachers (SIFT). Makes eligible to receive such SIFT grants higher education institutions, LEAs, SEAs, State higher education agencies, public or private nonprofit organizations, or professional associations representing teachers, counselors, or administrators. Sets forth application requirements, selection criteria, and authorized uses of funds. Sets limits on the maximum SIFT stipends for students. Limits the maximum amount of funds which may be used for such SIFT grants and conditions any such funding upon a specified minimum appropriation level for all such Special Programs. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for magnet schools assistance to include components for interesting students in, and educating them for, teaching careers. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of alternative ways to increase minority participation in the teaching profession; and (2) report on study results to the appropriate congressional committees within two years. Title IV: Bilingual Teacher Enhancement Act - Bilingual Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Amends title VII (the Bilingual Education Act) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for bilingual teacher enhancement through activities to: (1) increase the number of teachers trained to teach limited English proficient students; (2) provide in-service training for teachers of limited English proficient students; and (3) train all teachers in techniques for educating language minority students. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of such funds by higher education institutions with existing teacher education programs, by SEAs, and by LEAs. Requires grant recipients to coordinate such programs with other Federal, State, and local programs which train teachers of limited English proficient students. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for such bilingual teacher enhancement grants. Title V: Early Childhood Development Teacher Enhancement Act - Early Childhood Development Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for activities and programs to increase the number of teachers trained to teach preschool age children in early childhood education and development programs. Makes eligible to receive such grants higher education institutions, SEAs, LEAs, or private nonprofit institutions. Requires recipients to include in their programs curricula regarding young children with special needs. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds in post-baccalaureate, undergraduate, and associate degree or credential programs. Amends the Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act of 1985 to include part of the costs of training among those costs which must be covered by scholarship assistance under such Act. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated to carry out such Act for FY 1990, and extends its authorization of appropriations through FY 1994. Title VI: Teachers of Children with Handicaps Enhancement - Teachers of Children with Handicaps Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for activities and programs to increase, through preservice and in-service training, the preparedness of mainstream classroom teachers for the participation of children with handicaps in their classrooms. Make eligible to receive such grants higher education institutions with teacher training programs, SEAs, and LEAs. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Requires that such grants be awarded on a competitive basis. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Title VII: Mathematics and Science Teacher Enhancement - Mathematics and Science Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation to make grants to SEAs, LEAs, higher education institutions, or private nonprofit organizations, or consortia, to: (1) establish or upgrade teacher in-service training in substance and skills for elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers of mathematics and science; and (2) engage in other projects to improve student learning in mathematics and science. Bases grant awards on quality of application and degree to which the applicant will meet the needs of the school population to be served, with special consideration for applicants which will serve populations including members of minority groups historically underrepresented in mathematics and science. Requires linkage or coordination whenever recipients under this title also receive professional development academy grants. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Includes among program requirements: (1) in-service training for elementary school teachers; (2) cultural and gender sensitivity training; (3) in-service training program dissemination through the Star School telecommunications network, for those recipients who also receive Star Schools Assistance; (4) coordination with activities and services funded under the Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act, and with other mathematics and science teacher training programs in the State; and (5) cost-sharing. Requires the Director to: (1) conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of curricular reforms in mathematics and science education; and (2) report evaluation results to the appropriate congressional committees within four years. Amends the National Science Foundation Assistance Act of 1988 to increase the amounts of various authorizations of appropriations. Title VIII: School Based Management/Shared Decisionmaking Incentive - School Based Management/Shared Decisionmaking Incentive Act - Amends the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of School and Teaching Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to LEAs to provide incentives to test school based management/shared decisionmaking programs at school sites, and to evaluate and disseminate results. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Describes, and delineates responsibilities under, the process of school based management/shared decisionmaking. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Requires recipients to submit annually specifed information on such programs to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) within one year, compile and analyze such information and submit the analysis to the appropriate congressional committees; and (2) within two years, evaluate programs funded under this title and other such programs to determine their effectiveness in improving school performance. Increases the authorization of appropriations under such Act, and limits to the amount of such increase the amount which may be reserved for such program grants. Title IX: Teacher Recognition - Teacher of the Year Recognition Act - Directs the Secretary to design and implement a recognition program for teachers designated by the Council of Chief State School Officers as teachers of the year and the national teacher of the year. Includes among program requirements: (1) ceremonies and informational briefings in Washington, D.C., including at least one major event sponsored by the Congress; (2) program design consultation with educational organizations; (3) payment of expenses of teacher participants; and (4) authorization to accept gifts and contributions. Directs the Secretary to designate and procure medals to be presented to such teachers by the President or a designee. Authorizes the Secretary to work with State, local, and other organizations to encourage State and local recognition programs to honor outstanding teachers and other educators.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to present a bronze medal to individuals who: (1) were members of the armed forces and were present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941; and (2) participated in combat operations that day against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medals. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of the proceeds from sales of the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989
Designates October 28, 1989, as National Women Veterans of World War II Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1989
United Services Organization's 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five dollar gold coins, one dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Services Organizations (USO). Requires such coins to be emblematic of USO Services to military service personnel and families. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after February 4, 1991. Requires surcharges from the sale of such coins to be deposited in a coinage profit fund and used for USO programs and to reduce the national debt. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress semiannually through December 31, 1992, on activities under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1989
Recognizes September 25, 1989, as the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Encourages schools and civic enterprises to observe such anniversary by reading and discussing the meaning of the Bill of Rights.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through October 31, 1996, the duty on certain knitwear fabricated in Guam.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989
Torture Victim Protection Act of 1989 - Imposes civil liability on anyone who, under actual or apparent authority of a foreign nation, subjects any person to torture or extrajudicial killing.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the National Association of Women Veterans, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989
Designates November 1989 as An End to Hunger Education Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989
Designates October 1989 as National HIV and AIDS Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1989
Designates October 1989 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act of 1989 - Title I: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Minorities - Subtitle A: Programs for Minorities Generally - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to provide for the establishment of an Office of Minority Health. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants and contracts for research, training, education, epidemiological studies, and data collection with respect to the prevention and control among minority groups of diseases or other adverse health conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to administer provisions of the PHSA in cooperation with specified types of individuals, agencies, and organizations. Directs the Secretary to make grants or contracts for new and innovative programs in health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care, specifically targeted at improving the health status of disadvantaged minorities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Programs for American Samoa - Directs the Secretary to make grants or contracts for health promotion and disease prevention services for American Samoans living in the continental United States and the State of Hawaii. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Disadvantaged Minorities in Health Professions - Subtitle A: Health Professions Generally - Requires that the Federal capital contribution and the school contribution to a student loan fund under existing provisions be used only for making loans to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to health professions schools for scholarships to full-time students who are members of underrepresented minority groups and are from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a loan repayment program to assure an adequate supply of health professionals who are members of underrepresented minority groups and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Requires that loan recipients agree to accept a full-time faculty appointment at certain schools for at least two years. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Nursing - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing for scholarships for full-time students who are members of underrepresented minority groups and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a loan repayment program for full-time students in their final year of study who are members of underrepresented minority groups and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Requires that loan recipients agree to accept a full-time faculty appointment at certain schools for at least two years. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Coordination of Federal Expenditures for Health Programs of Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands - Directs the Secretary to establish the Pacific Basin Health Services Council to monitor the need for health services and health professions development in the Pacific Basin and to establish priorities for the expenditure of public health funds in the Pacific Basin. Defines Pacific Basin to mean the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Requires the Council to give first priority in expending funds to continuing a specified medical officer training program. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1989 - Title I: Agriculture and Global Climate Change - Subtitle A: Office of Climate Change - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture the Office of Climate Change to coordinate policy, planning, research, and response strategies relating to climate change issues. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the implications of global climate change for agriculture and forestry. Subtitle B: Research on Global Warming, Forests, and Agriculture - Domestic Research on Global Warming, Forests, and Agriculture Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary to conduct studies on: (1) the effects of global warming on rice production; (2) the effects of global warming on major U.S. crops; (3) methane emissions from irrigated rice production; (4) emissions from nitrogen intensive crops; and (5) forest emissions. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Methane Emissions Evaluation, Use, and Control Program and a related technical advisory committee. Title II: Forestry and Global Climate Change - Subtitle A: International Forestry Cooperation - International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) undertake international forestry activities; (2) undertake tropical reforestation and conservation activities; and (3) expand the capabilities and facilities of the Caribbean National Forest and Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico. Subtitle B: Forestry Planning and Global Warming - Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to consider the effects of climate change in developing plans for units of the National Forest System. Subtitle C: Urban Forestry - Directs the Secretary to carry out an urban forestry energy conservation education and accelerated planting program. Subtitle D: Biomass Energy Demonstration Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out projects that demonstrate the potential of short-rotation forestry methods to produce wood for electricity production and industrial energy needs. Subtitle E: Forestry Research and Global Warming - Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 to include the effects of weather, climate, and air pollution on forests and rangelands among the areas of research under such Act. Subtitle F: Conservation Reserve Program - Directs the Secretary to take steps to meet the conservation reserve program tree planting goal. Subtitle G: Interagency Cooperation on Forestry and Climate Change - Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Defense to manage Department of Defense forests and lands.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
International Climate Change Prevention Act of 1989 - Title I: Focusing Forestry and Energy Cooperation with Key Newly Industrializing, Middle-Income, and Low-Income Developing Nations - Directs the Agency for International Development (AID) to submit to the Congress a report which: (1) examines the potential contributions of developing countries to future global emissions of greenhouse gases under different economic growth scenarios; (2) estimates the relative contributions of such countries to global greenhouse gas emissions; and (3) identifies specific key industrializing, middle-income, and low-income developing countries (key countries) which stand to contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions and in which actions to promote energy efficiency, reliance on renewable energy resources, and conservation of forest resources could significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Authorizes AID to use funds appropriated for the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (the Act) to reimburse U.S. agencies, State agencies, and institutions of higher learning for the full costs of employees detailed or assigned to AID for the purposes of carrying out activities relating to forestry and energy programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming. Title II: Tropical Forestry Assistance - Requires AID to focus tropical forestry assistance programs on key countries. Allows funds appropriated for the Act to be used by AID to support tropical forestry programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming with regard to those key countries referred to in this Act in which deforestation makes a significant contribution to global warming. Directs the President, in providing assistance relating to tropical forests, to assist countries in developing a systematic analysis of the appropriate use of their total tropical forest resources. Directs the Administrator of AID to assist the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in its efforts to strengthen their work on tropical forestry. Directs the President, in undertaking tropical forestry-related activities with key countries, to emphasize a cooperative partnership approach. Sets forth specific items for the President to emphasize. Provides that AID's policy dialogue with key countries and other developing countries should: (1) encourage reform of economic and other policies that encourage deforestation and land misuse; and (2) encourage policies that promote sustainable forest land and resource use. States that AID should work with other bilateral and multilateral donors to increase support for assistance in conservation and sustainable use of tropical forests. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of State to undertake initiatives to promote multilateral cooperation and stimulate actions by international institutions to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from forests. Title III: Grassroots Involvement in Tropical Forest Ecosystem Management - Authorizes AID to undertake a program to encourage grassroots involvement in tropical forest ecosystem management. Enumerates specifically authorized activities. Title IV: Energy Assistance - Directs AID to focus energy assistance activities on key countries where such assistance would have the greatest impact on reducing emissions from greenhouse gases. Requires such assistance to be focused on improved energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energy resources, and national energy plans which include investment in end use efficiency and renewable energy resources. Allows funds appropriated for the Act to be used by AID for the purpose of supporting energy programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming with regard to key countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that AID should increase its efforts in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy planning. States that such increase should take place with respect to key countries and countries with large Economic Support Fund project assistance. Enumerates what such efforts should include. Provides that the policy dialogue undertaken by AID should encourage: (1) reform of economic and other policies that encourage construction of new energy facilities in lieu of more cost-effective conservation and energy efficiency measures or that encourage wasteful use of existing energy; (2) the adoption of policies that provide incentives for increasing the efficiency of energy use in all sectors; (3) the development of "least cost" energy-sector investment plans; (4) the reform of energy pricing regimes so that electricity tariffs more closely meet the long-run marginal cost of supply and so that fossil fuel prices more closely meet international prices; and (5) more efficient market structures for traditional biomass fuels. Directs AID to work with other bilateral and multilateral donors to increase support for assistance in energy policy, energy planning, and energy efficiency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Title V: Multilateral Programs - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director to each multilateral development bank to promote the adoption by that bank of a policy to achieve a maximum impact from activities relating to energy and tropical forestry by focusing such activities on the key countries whose actions in the areas of energy and forestry could have a substantial impact on the reduction of emissions of the greenhouse gases related to global warming.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
Community Mental Health Services Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover services furnished by clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and psychiatric nurses on-site at a community mental health center or necessarily furnished off-site due to the condition of the service recipient. Refers to such services as qualifed mental health professionals services. Sets the Medicare payment for such services at 80 percent of the lesser of the actual charge for such services or the amount determined pursuant to a fee schedule established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires that payment for mental health professionals services be made only on an assignment-related basis. Extends covered partial hospitalization services to include psychologist and mental health professional services prescribed by a physician and provided by a community mental health center to its outpatients as distinct and organized intensive ambulatory treatment services offering less than 24-hour daily care.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1989
Commends the crew members of, and Federal Aviation Administration personnel involved with, United flight 232 for their efforts on behalf of the passengers of that flight.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a National Voluntary Reunion Registry within the Department of Health and Human Services under the direction of the Secretary's designee. Provides that the Registry shall facilitate, on a voluntary mutual request basis, the reunion of birth parents and adopted persons, and birth siblings or birth grandparents of adopted persons, through a centralized computer network. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on activities under this Act. Sets forth provisions for participation in the Registry and initiation of the matching process. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures to protect the confidentiality and privacy rights and interests of all participants. Provides for the collection of reasonable fees for Registry services. Allows the Registry to include similar State systems under specified conditions. Subjects individuals or entities found to have disclosed or used confidential information in violation of this Act to fines and imprisonment. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations that require the Registry to include referral to existing programs that provide counseling services. Requires, if the Secretary promulgates such regulations, that applicants to the Registry receive a referral list of licensed agencies, professionals, and adoption triad support groups that provide counseling services. Allows such services to include adoption peer support groups, community special service agencies, health professionals, and agencies providing family counseling. Directs the Secretary to issue interim and final regulations within specified periods. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1989 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to establish within the Social Security Administration (Administration) of the Department of Health and Human Services an Office of the Chief Administrative Law Judge which shall be headed by a Chief Administrative Law Judge who has completed at least three years of employment as an administrative law judge (ALJ). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish in the Administration a Social Security Judicial Nomination Commission which shall: (1) be comprised of an Administrative Conference of the United States representative, an American Bar Association representative, and a Federal Bar Association representative; and (2) submit a list of three candidates to the Secretary from which the Secretary shall appoint a Chief Administrative Law Judge. Directs the Secretary to make all appointments of ALJs that conduct hearings or other administrative activities in the Administration. Requires ALJs who conduct a hearing in the Administration to make a decision on the record after such hearing. Requires that Medicare (title XVIII of the Act) hearings be conducted by ALJs serving in the Administration under procedures applied by the Secretary under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act. Directs the Secretary and the Comptroller General to each report to the Congress by July 1, 1992, with recommendations concerning the participation of Administration ALJs in Medicare hearings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to allow the representative of a claimant in an administrative proceeding to collect the fee agreed upon between the claimant and such representative which is specified in a written agreement filed with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary to approve such fee if it does not exceed the lesser of: (1) $4,000; or (2) 25 percent of past-due benefits (including any interim benefits paid during appeal) or, in the absence of such benefits, the lesser of three times the basic monthly benefit amount or the monthly benefit amount. Directs the Secretary to review a fee upon receipt of a written request for such review from the claimant, representative, administrative law judge, or other decision maker. Calculates such fees before reducing past-due OASDI benefits by the amount of worker's compensation and SSI benefits which would not have been received were OASDI benefits paid when due.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Allied Health Professionals Promotion Act of 1989 - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to grants and contracts concerning training of allied health personnel to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allocate 75 percent of the funds authorized to those allied health fields or specialties the Secretary determines to have: (1) the most significant shortages of practitioners; and (2) a significant role in the care and rehabilitation of patients who are elderly or disabled. Changes the amount of currently authorized appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to assist allied health students in meeting the costs of entry level education. Requires the amounts to be used for tuition, fees, and stipends and allowances. Directs the Secretary to allocate 75 percent of the funds authorized to those allied health fields the Secretary determines to have: (1) the most significant shortages of practitioners; and (2) a significant role in the care and rehabilitation of patients who are elderly or disabled. Makes payments of tuition under these provisions to, or on behalf of, a participating student, notwithstanding other law, exempt from taxation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Changes the amount of currently authorized appropriations for traineeships for advanced training of allied health personnel for FY 1990 and 1991. Establishes the Division of Allied Health Professions within the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health Professions in order to consolidate and focus the efforts of the Federal Government in support of allied health education, training, and research. Establishes within the Division the Advisory Council on Allied Health. Directs the Secretary to establish a two-year pilot program to make grants to support innovative allied health research projects. Requires the program to be administered through the Division. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Designates April 9, 1990, as National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Designates November 12 through November 18, 1989, as National Glaucoma Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Requests: (1) the Soviet Union to release the prison records of Raoul Wallenberg and account for his whereabouts; and (2) the President to pursue such release and accounting through diplomatic actions with the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1989
Designates the periods of November 19 through November 26, 1989, and November 18 through November 25, 1990, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1989
Children With Disabilities Temporary Care Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 (the Act) to change references to "handicapped children" to "children with disabilities." Requires State applications to provide documentation of State interagency coordination in carrying out grant-funded programs. Defines "State" to include any of the States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or Palau. Sets forth additional requirements for State annual evaluation reports. Extends through FY 1990 and 1991 the authorization of appropriations. Changes the short title of the Act to the Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989
Designates the periods of November 26 through December 2, 1989, and November 28 through December 2, 1990, as National Home Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
National and Community Service Act of 1989- Title I: School Based Community Service - Part A: School Based Community Service - Serve America, the Service to America Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States or local applicants to create or expand service opportunities for students and out-of-school youth and for community members, particularly senior citizens, to volunteer in schools. Limits the term of such grants to three years. Authorizes the Secretary to fund: (1) one or more national or regional clearinghouses on service; (2) national model youth service programs; and (3) development of innovative curriculum materials for use in student community service programs and school volunteer and partnership programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Part B: Higher Education - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and rename a certain program Innovative Projects for Community Service. Provides that grants for innovative projects are to encourage student participation in community service activities before, during, or after the completion of the student's higher education. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint a limited number of technical employees to administer Postsecondary Improvement Programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for grants for innovative projects for community service. Part C: Work Study Programs - Amends HEA provisions relating to grants for State student incentives to direct the Secretary to make an additional reservation and allotment of funds for campus-based community work learning study jobs whenever appropriations exceed a specified amount. Amends HEA provisions for Work Study Programs to: (1) decrease the maximum Federal share of compensation of students employed in the work study program from 70 percent to 60 percent for academic year 1992-1993; and (2) increase the maximum Federal share of compensation of students employed in the work study for community service-learning programs from 90 percent to 100 percent. Part D: Publication - Amends HEA provisions for the direct (Perkins) and guaranteed (Stafford) student loan programs to require publicizing of the current loan repayment deferral program for full-time volunteers with the Peace Corps, VISTA, ad tax-exempt organizations. Requires informing students of this deferral program option in their exit counseling. Requires the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide students with specified information on the deferral program; and (2) gather data on loan deferrals and cancellations for such volunteers. Part E: Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education - Amends HEA provisions for the direct (Perkins) student loan program to provide for partial loan cancellation for full-time volunteer service with a tax-exempt organization. (Current law provides for such partial cancellation for service in the Peace Corps or VISTA.) Part F: Loan Forgiveness - Amends HEA provisions for the guaranteed (Stafford) student loan program to provide for partial loan cancellation for service in the Peace Corps or VISTA or for comparable full-time service as a volunteer with a tax-exempt organization. Title II: Youth Service Corps - American Conservation and Youth Service Corps Act of 1989 - Authorizes the National Service Board (the Board, established under title IV of this Act) to provide grants to State and local applicants to create or expand full-time or summer youth service corps programs. Sets forth provisions for grant duration and renewal, allocation of funds, and State and lcoal applications. Sets forth authorized project for conservation corps programs and for human services corps programs. Sets forth ineligible service categories. Encourages use of program services by related programs administered under the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs the Board to: (1) fund only programs that involve projects on public lands or Indian lands or provide a public benefit; and (2) consult with the Department of the Interior in reviewing applications proposing programs or projects on public lands or Indian lands. Requires program agencies to provide to participants: (1) in-service training and education; and (2) post-service education and training assistance. Limits enrollment in programs under this title to individuals who at the time of enrollment are: (1) 16 through 25 years of age (15 through 21 for summer programs); and (2) U.S. citizens or nationals or lawful permanent resident aliens. Requires program agencies to provide post-service education and training benefits in specified amounts for each participant. Excludes such amounts from gross income for specified purposes of the Internal Revenue Code. Authorizes the program agency to provide certain services. Requires the program agency to provide necessary job guidance and placement information and assistance to participants, in coordination with other appropriate entities. Requires that each participant in a full-time youth service corps program receive a living allowance and health insurance. Authorizes the Board to develop regulations and standards for joint projects coordinating activities under this title with activities under employment and training programs administered by the Department of Labor (including the Job Training Partnership Act programs). Makes participants, crew leaders, and volunteers responsible to, and the responsibility of, the program agency administering the project. Provides that participants and crew leaders shall not be considered Federal employees, except for purposes of work-related injuries, tort claims procedure, and allowances for quarters. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out this title. Title III: National Service Demonstration Program - National and Community Service Demonstration Act - Directs the National Service Board, not later than one year from the date of enactment of this title, to make grants to States to create full-time and part-time national service demonstration programs. Limits authorization to exercise an alternative voucher option to no more than 25 percent of the States. Requires that at least 25 percent of funded programs include full-time, part-time, and special senior service participants. Limits the number of States authorized to operate full-time or part-time programs in specified fiscal years. Requires program participants to perform national service to meet unmet educational, human, environmental, and public safety needs, especially those relating to poverty. Sets forth various authorized types of such national service. Requires part-time volunteers to agree to serve for: (1) at least three years but not more than six years, at the individual's discretion; and (2) two weekends a month and two weeks during the year, or an average of nine hours per week. Requires full-time volunteers to agree to serve for: (1) at least one year but not more than two years, at the individual's discretion; and (2) at least 40 hours per week. Requires special senior service participants to serve either part-time or full-time as allowed by the Board. Authorizes the Board to provide a participant with a portion of specified financial assistance if the State releases the participant from completion of service for compelling personal circumstances. Allows individuals to serve part-time if they are: (1) age 17 or over; and (2) U.S. citizens or lawful permanent U.S. residents. Requires States, in selecting part-time participants, to give priority to applicants who are currently employed. Allows individuals to serve full-time if they: (1) are age 17 or over; (2) have received a high school diploma or equivalent, or agree to work toward it while participating; and (3) are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent U.S. residents. Allows individuals to serve as special senior service members if they: (1) are age 60 or over; and (2) meet eligibility criteria established by the Board. Directs the Board to provide to each participant annually a nontransferable voucher equal to: (1) $3,000 for each year of part-time service; and (2) $8,500 for each year of full-time service. Makes special senior service participants ineligible for such vouchers. Limits use of such vouchers to payment of: (1) a student loan; (2) downpayment or closing costs for a first home; or (3) tuition at an institution of higher education on a full-time basis, or expenses of full-time participation in an approved apprenticeship program. Allows some States to apply to the Board for authorization to offer an alternative option limiting voucher use to either those education or those housing purposes. Excludes such vouchers from gross income for specified Internal Revenue Code purposes. Requires that each full-time participant receive a living allowance and health insurance. Requires that each full-time special senior service participant receive an equivalent living allowance and such other assistance as the Board considers necessary and appropriate. Requires that each participant receive three weeks of specified training conducted by the Board in cooperation with the State. Authorizes States to provide additional training. Requires that each participant receive additional training from the sponsoring organization in relevant skills. Sets forth prohibited and allowable uses of Federal funds. Requires each State receiving funds under this title to provide to each full-time participant in-service educational services and materials to enable such participant to obtain a high school diploma or equivalent. Sets forth provisions relating to the treatment of such vouchers or living allowances for purposes of certain student aid determinations under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out this title. Title IV: Corporation for National Service - Establishes the Corporation for National Service (the Corporation), as a nonprofit corporation that shall not be considered an agency or establishment of the U.S. Government. Declares that the Corporation shall be directed by a National Service Board consisting of members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Corporation, pursuant to title III of this Act, to: (1) issue housing and education vouchers; and (2) establish living allowances, taking account of variations in the cost of living. Requires each State receiving funds under specified provisions of this Act to report annually to the Board on the status of national and community youth service programs in that State and on compliance with specified nonduplication and nondisplacement requirements. Authorizes States to require local grantees to supply necessary information for such reports. Requires the Board to report annually to specified congressional committees. Requires each State applying for funds under titles IA, II, or III of this Act to form a State Advisory Board for National and Community Service, with members appointed by the Governor. Sets forth State board duties, including coordinating service programs with related programs, disseminating information, recruiting participants, and developing materials and activities. Directs the National Board to provide for continuing evaluation of programs assisted under titles II and III of this Act. Sets a deadline for the evaluation of title III programs' effectiveness in reaching specified objectives. Directs the Board to: (1) administer programs under titles II and III; (2) provide training and technical assistance; (3) provide one or more service information clearinghouses; (4) consult with appropriate Federal agencies; and (5) arrange for program evaluation. Authorizes the President to make Presidential Awards for service to: (1) individuals demonstrating outstanding community service; and (2) outstanding service programs. Authorizes one individual award and one program award in each congressional district, and one statewide program award in each State. Provides for dissemination of information on such individuals and programs. Directs the President to design a comprehensive Federal service strategy including specified elements. Title V: Expansion of Volunteers in Service to America - VISTA Expansion Act of 1989 - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations increasing amounts for FY 1990 through 1993 for the Volunteers in Service to American (VISTA) program. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Programs - National Older American Volunteer Programs Expansion Act of 1989 - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to require the Director of the ACTION Agency to establish, within each National Older American Volunteer Program, grants to support activities that address national problems on a local level. Sets forth award criteria and grant uses. Gives grant priority for activities assisting: (1) those with chronic debilitating illnesses such as AIDS; (2) drug and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment; (3) teenage parents; (4) mentoring of youth needing guidance; (5) adult and school-based literacy; (6) respite care; (7) before and after-school programs serving children of working parents; (8) boarder babies; (9) child care, especially of children with special needs; and (10) developmentally disabled adult individuals (and, when appropriate, involvement of such individuals as volunteers). Limits funding of such grants to those years when program funding is increased by a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations in increasing amounts for FY 1990 through 1993 for: (1) the Retired Senior Volunteer Program; (2) the Foster Grandparent Program; and (3) the Senior Companion Program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1989 - Title I: National Volunteer Antipoverty Programs - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (the Act) to increase the amounts to be used for publicity, recruitment, and assignment under the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program. Requires the Director of the ACTION Agency (the Director) to appoint a national Administrator of Recruitment and Placement (the Administrator) for VISTA, and to hire appropriate support staff. Revises VISTA publicity, recruitment, application, and assignment procedures. Requires the Administrator to undertake specified recruitment, publicity, and information activities, and to coordinate them with those of the Peace Corps. Includes among such activities publicizing student loan deferment and forgiveness opportunities available to volunteers. Requires attempts to involve former volunteers in information dissemination activities. Requires the Administrator to provide VISTA volunteers assignments which, to the maximum extent practicable, are consistent with their abilities, experiences, and preferences, and with the needs and preferences of the projects or programs. Requires the Director, whenever feasible and appropriate, to assign low-income community volunteers to serve in their home communities in teams with nationally recruited specialist volunteers. Requires the Director to: (1) try to assign volunteers to serve in their homes or nearby communities; and (2) make national efforts to attract other individuals to serve in VISTA. Requires the Director to consider: (1) community-identified needs which cannot be met in the local area; and (2) individual volunteer desires with regard to geographic placement. Allows a sponsoring organization to recruit VISTA volunteers. Directs the Administrator to give such locally-recruited volunteers priority for placements in the sponsoring organization that recruited them. Requires the Director to ensure that, of all VISTA volunteers: (1) at least 20 percent are age 55 or older; and (2) by FY 1991, at least 20 percent are age 18 through 27. Raises the maximum monthly stipend for VISTA volunteers from $75 to $100. Requires the Director to: (1) set a subsistence allowance for VISTA volunteers so that the the average allowance is no less than 105 percent of the poverty line (reflecting higher costs-of-living in certain areas); and (2) report to appropriate congressional committees on methods for setting such allowances. Prohibits termination of VISTA assistance to any project or organization solely on the basis of the duration of assistance previously received. Requires case-by-case consideration of renewal applications, taking into account extenuating circumstances preventing attainment of original goals. Requires that new applications from organizations previously receiving assistance be considered on an equal basis with those that have not received assistance, if the proposed project is clearly distinct from the previously assisted activities. Prohibits taking duration of assistance into account in considering applications from intermediary organizations. Title II: Service-Learning Programs - Renames the Service-Learning Programs under the Act as the Student Community Service Programs. Title III: Special Volunteer Programs - Limits the amount of any grant or contract under the Special Volunteer Programs. Renames certain Special Initiatives as Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Services and Activities. Requires the Director to give priority, in awarding grants and contracts for such activities, to projects that serve communities, including those in rural areas, which have not previously received Special Volunteer Programs assistance for drug abuse education and prevention. Requires the Director to provide for evaluation of activities and projects conducted with assistance under such provisions. Requires applications for such grants in excess of a specified amount to include data on the use of such funds. Title IV: Administration and Coordination - Requires the Director to submit to the Congress within 60 days after the start of each fiscal year a report which includes descriptions of: (1) the annual VISTA recruitment plan; (2) VISTA activities and number of applicants, applicants approved, applicants assigned, and volunteers assigned outside of their home communities; (3) efforts made to involve former volunteers in recruitment and public awareness; and (4) number and location of ACTION Agency employees assigned to VISTA recruitment and public awareness duties. Requires the Director to evaluate the VISTA Literacy Corps as a separate program at least once every three years. Title V: Older American Volunteer Program - Amends title II (Older American Volunteer Programs) of the Act with respect to the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Senior Companion Program. Requires the Director to establish, within each National Older American Volunteer Program, grants to support activities that address national problems on a local level. Sets forth award criteria and grant uses. Gives grant priority to activities assisting: (1) those with chronic debilitating illnesses such as AIDS; (2) drug and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment; (3) teenage parents; (4) mentoring of youth needing guidance; (5) adult and school-based literacy; (6) respite care; (7) before and after-school programs serving children of working parents; (8) boarder babies; (9) child care, especially of children with special needs; and (10) developmentally disabled adult individuals (and, when appropriate, involvement of such individuals as volunteers). Limits funding of such grants to those years when program funding is increased by a specified amount. Increases the amount of stipends or allowances under the Foster Grandparent Program. Revises provisions relating to individuals who are not low-income persons serving as volunteers without stipends under such program. Prohibits the Director from coercing any volunteer applicant or grant or contract recipient to engage in specified conduct with respect to such unpaid volunteer positions. Requires the Director to encourage and facilitate: (1) private organizational efforts to promote National Older American Volunteer Programs; and (2) involvement of older persons as volunteers in such programs. Requires the Director to expend specified funds for special efforts to publicize such programs, including notifying grant and contract recipients of all available information. Title VI: General Provisions - Includes among authorized VISTA volunteer assignments work in addressing significant health care problems, including chronic and life-threatening illnesses and health care for homeless individuals, especially homeless children, through prevention, treatment, and community-based care activities. Requires the Director to ensure that records are maintained to indicate the degree of compliance with a requirement that certain funds for the VISTA Literacy Corps supplement and not supplant other specified funds to address the problem of illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to provide: (1) technical and financial assistance to nonprofit organizations conducting operations in several areas and States for activities addressing the problem of illiteracy; and (2) technical assistance to employers who have established or wish to establish worksite literacy volunteer programs. Requires the Director to: (1) make appropriate cost-of-living adjustments in Federal financial assistance to meet administrative costs of applicants under National Older American Volunteer Programs; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on such adjustments. Authorizes the Director to approve multiple-year grants or contracts for projects. Amends the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986 to revise the Community Services Block Grant Program with respect to partnership agreements addressing the needs of the poor. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services annually to: (1) identify new programs for replication; and (2) evaluate and report to specified congressional committees on programs funded under this Act. Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for the following National Volunteer Antipoverty Programs: (1) the VISTA volunteer program; (2) the VISTA Literacy Corps; (3) Service-Learning programs; and (4) Special Volunteer programs. Requires necessary amounts to be available for increasing numbers of years of VISTA volunteer service for FY 1990 through 1993. Requires the Director to give a reasonable period of advance notice to the relevant congressional committees upon determination that a reallocation is necessary because of insufficient appropriations to carry out VISTA programs. Requires that such reallocation be made from funds for Special Volunteer programs before reallocation from other parts of title I of the Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for administration of the Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for the following National Older American Volunteer Programs: (1) the Retired Senior Volunteer Program; (2) the Foster Grandparent Program; and (3) the Senior Companion Program. Title VIII: Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to the table of contents, headings, and other provisions of the Act. Title IX: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act and the amendments it makes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to authorize the distribution of a meat article or animal without charge to nonprofit private entities or to Federal, State, or local entities engaged in the distribution of food without charge to individuals, if the article: (1) was inspected and found wholesome and not adulterated; and (2) is marked "Not for Sale." Relieves the United States and the person from whom the meat was seized and condemned from legal responsibility for the article if it: (1) was inspected and found wholesome and not adulterated; and (2) is marked "Not for Sale." Amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the distribution of a poultry article without charge to nonprofit private entities or to Federal, State, or local entities engaged in the distribution of food without charge to individuals, if the article: (1) is capable of use as a human food; (2) was inspected and found wholesome and not adulterated; and (3) is marked "Not for Sale." Relieves the United States and the person from whom the poultry was seized and condemned from legal responsibility for the article if it: (1) was inspected and found wholesome and not adulterated; and (2) is marked "Not for Sale."
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Municipal and Industrial Water Conservation Act of 1989 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Office of Water Conservation to perform specified duties, including: (1) the support of programs to reduce water use and loss in municipal, industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential sectors; (2) the support of dissemination of model water conservation programs; and (3) the promotion of least-cost approaches to water planning and regional approaches to management of water and sewer systems. Calls for intergovernmental coordination in water conservation efforts. Requires the Office to provide technical assistance to States, Indian tribes, utilities, local governments, and others in efforts to implement water conservation policies. Requires regular consultations with major water resources development agencies in order to target limited resources. Requires the Office to develop a series of model water conservation programs with policy options for States, Indian tribes, water utilities, and municipalities. Allows such water users to request feasibility studies of their current and potential water conservation activities. Allocates the costs of such studies, allowing smaller studies to be conducted at full Federal cost. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987) to require the Administrator to make capitalization grants to State water pollution control revolving funds for conducting municipal and industrial water conservation activities which will reduce operating and capital costs of and needs for waste water treatment facilities. Directs the Office to provide, upon request, technical assistance to businesses and institutions for water efficiency campaigns, plumbing system leak-detection, water use audits, and other water conservation measures. Requires the development of model water conservation programs for businesses and institutions and studies, upon request, of their programs. Directs the Administrator to establish a National Clearinghouse on Water Conservation to collect and disseminate, free of charge, information on water conservation technologies and practices. Establishes the Advisory Council on Water Conservation to make recommendations to the Administrator on activities under this Act. Requires the President's Council on Environmental Quality to require, by rulemaking authority, the consideration of water conservation activities in all relevant environmental impact studies conducted under specified provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1994 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1989
Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make funds from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund available for the essential air transportation program under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to enter into contracts and agreements to provide essential air services prior to September 30, 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1989
Urban and Community Forestry Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to submit an urban and community forestry report to the Congress. Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act to provide for an expanded urban forestry education and technical assistance program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an urban and community forestry matching grant program; (2) make plants available to urban areas and assist in their selection, planting, and maintenance; and (3) establish a National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council which shall prepare a national urban and community forestry action plan for the Secretary and the Congress. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1999 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1989
Declares it is U.S. policy to provide a national air transportation system which: (1) enhances the general welfare and security of the United States; and (2) is free of regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict the right of citizens to travel by air. Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for a new comprehensive national aviation policy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Foundation for Biomedical Research Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a nonprofit corporation known as the Foundation for Biomedical Research. Declares that the Foundation shall not for any purpose be an agency of the U.S. Government. Directs the Secretary to incorporate the Foundation under the laws of the State of Maryland. Requires that the Foundation: (1) provide funding for the endowed chairs within the intramural research programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA); (2) recruit senior biomedical scientists for such positions; (3) support the staffing, equipment, and space requirements for the research undertaken by those scientists; (4) support the stipends and research expenses of NIH Scholars appointed under the Public Health Service Act, who shall be appointed for six-year terms; and (5) negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the Director of the NIH and the Administrator of ADAMHA that Foundation scientists and personnel shall observe the ethical and procedural standards regulating research and research findings that are followed at the NIH and ADAMHA. Sets forth the powers of the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Biomedical Research Act of 1989 - Title I: Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the Director of Research Resources (Director), to award grants to public or nonprofit private institutions, under provisions relating to biomedical and behavioral research facilities, to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing research facilities or construct new research facilities. Establishes in the Division of Research Resources of the NIH a Technical Review Board on Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities to: (1) advise the Director and the Advisory Council (established under existing law) on matters concerning the construction of facilities; and (2) conduct the peer review of applications under this title. Sets forth requirements for application and selection of grants. Limits the amount of any grant to 50 percent of the cost of construction or, in the case of a multipurpose facility, 50 percent of the cost of construction proportionate to the contemplated use. Allows the Director to waive these limitations for institutions of emerging excellence in biomedical or behavioral research. Provides for recapture of payments in certain circumstances for 20 years after completion of construction. Requires the Director to prescribe regulations with respect to the grants. Requires the Director to mandate peer review of applications for grants under these provisions in accordance with existing peer review provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title II: National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research - Amends the Public Health Service Act to declare that the purpose of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (Center) is to conduct biomedical research and research training, the dissemination of information, and other programs with respect to the rehabilitation of individuals with physical disabilities resulting from diseases or disorders of the neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, or other physiologic systems (medical rehabilitation). Requires the NIH Director to develop a comprehensive plan for the conduct and support of medical rehabilitation research. Requires the Director to establish the Medical Rehabilitation Coordinating Committee to make recommendations with regard to the plan. Requires establishment of the Medical Rehabilitation Advisory Council to assist and make recommendations to the NIH Director and the Center Director. Title III: Scientific Personnel Demonstration Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Senior Biomedical Scientific Service. Requires that: (1) members of the Service be appointed by the Secretary without regard to provisions of Federal law relating to Government organization and employees; (2) the Service be limited to 800 individuals; and (3) members of the Service be outstanding in the field of biomedical research, behavioral research, or clinical research evaluation. Declares that provisions of Federal law relating to retention preference, performance appraisal and performance-based actions, classification, General Schedule pay rates, and adverse actions shall not apply to any member of the Service. Requires that members of the Service be assigned by the Secretary to duties directly involving biomedical research, behavioral research, or clinical research evaluation, or to supervision of such activities. Authorizes the Secretary to determine the basic and supplemental pay of Service members. Sets forth limits on supplemental pay. Provides for retirement of individuals who enter the Service directly from a position as a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service Corps. Requires that the Service be administered in such a manner that, in FY 1990, it does not result in additional appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services. Terminates the Service five years after it attains full membership. Amends provisions of Federal law relating to physicians comparability allowances to include physicians and dentists in the Senior Biomedical Scientific Service in the definition of "Government physician" for purposes of such provisions. Title IV: NIH Director's Discretionary Fund - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to retain a specified percentage of the amount appropriated for extramural grants, up to a specified amount in each fiscal year, in an account for the hiring of staff and the purchasing or renting of equipment and space for research that cannot otherwise be supported adequately because of funding cycle constraints or because the research does not fit clearly into the research assignment of any existing Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Alternative Agricultural Products Research Act of 1989 - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the New Products Research Board to be administered by the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education. States that the Board shall advise the Assistant Secretary with respect to research project selection and evaluation under this Act. Authorizes a plant modification research program focusing on the development and production of new (non-food and -fiber) industrial and commercial products. Gives priority to biotechnological research projects. Sets forth project selection criteria. Authorizes FY 1990 through 2008 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to establish a five-year joint program for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones to assist the forecast and warning program and increase the understanding of the causes and behavior of tropical cyclones. Sets forth the responsibilities of each Secretary. Directs those Secretaries to jointly develop and submit to the Congress management plans for: (1) the program established by this Act; and (2) continued tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance which will adequately protect the citizens of U.S. coastal areas. Mandates that the management plans and programs required by this Act: (1) provide for at least the same degree and quality of protection as currently exists with a combination of satellite technology and manned flights; and (2) in no way allow any reduction in the level, quality, timeliness, sustainability, and area served of both the existing principal and back-up severe storm reconnaissance and tracking systems.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Rural Nursing Incentive Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide direct coverage under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program of nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist services furnished in rural areas. Sets the Medicare payment for such services at 75 percent of the prevailing charge in the area for the services of participating physicians. Requires that such payments be made on an assignment-related basis. Excludes beneficiaries of such services from copayment requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Commends all volunteers of the United States and the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1989
Residential Energy Efficiency Ratings Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to contract with a residential energy efficiency rating organization to develop a uniform residential energy efficiency rating system and to administer it for a four-year period. Sets forth a rating methodology scheme and prescribes its administrative parameters. Authorizes the Secretary to extend such contract for a two-year period. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1989
Title I: Special Status for Persons with Disabilities Whose Earnings Exceed Substantial Gainful Activity - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to continue an individual's entitlement to disability benefits and disability-based child's insurance benefits (other than those based on blindness) while such individual is under a special status, meaning that such individual is earning enough to be considered engaged in substantial gainful activity (currently, $85 per month), but would otherwise continue to satisfy eligibility requirements. Reduces such monthly benefits by 50 percent of a beneficiary's monthly earnings in excess of $85. Applies Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program (title XVI of the Social Security Act), rather than OASDI, benefit reduction rules to the total benefits of an individual who is entitled to disability-based child's insurance benefits and SSI benefits. Prohibits the recovery of overpayments from persons on the same wage record as an individual whose disability-based child's insurance benefits are reduced to recover overpayments resulting from the failure to take such individual's wages into account. Extends to current OASDI disability beneficiaries the rule preventing reductions in the primary insurance amount for prior recipients. Title II: Amendments to Section 1619 of the Social Security Act - Amends the SSI program to deem OASDI disability benefiticaries who lose disability benefits after their trial work period to have been eligible for SSI benefits and thus qualified to participate in the SSI work incentive program if yet disabled. Title III: Conforming Amendments Relating to Title XVI - Excludes spousal income and all costs of attendant care in determining whether a disabled individual should be considered as receiving SSI benefits for Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) eligibility purposes. Excludes impairment-related work expenses from an individual's income in determing the amount of, and his or her eligibility for, a State supplementary payment under the SSI program. Preserves the Medicaid eligibility of individuals who become ineligible for SSI benefits due to a cost-of-living increase in OASDI benefits. Eliminates the requirement that an individual be under age 65 to be considered to be receiving SSI benefits for Medicaid eligibility purposes. Requires States to provide supplementary payments to individuals participating in the SSI work incentive program. Treats royalties, grants, honorariums, scholarships, and fellowships as earned income for SSI eligibility purposes. Title IV: Amendments Relating to Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Amends the OASDI program to set a four-year limit on the Medicare hospital insurance (part A of the Medicare program) eligibility of individuals who owe their eligibility to their special status under the OASDI program. Amends the Medicare program to authorize such individuals to enroll for hospital insurance benefits upon the termination of such four-year limit, provided they enroll for Medicare supplementary insurance benefits under part B. Gives such option to the blind when their hospital insurance eligibility is set to expire. Amends the Medicaid program to cover Medicare cost-sharing amounts for individuals of special status and the blind who are entitled to enroll for Medicare hospital insurance benefits and whose income and resources do not exceed 250 or, at the State's option, 350 percent of the Federal poverty level and the SSI resource eligibility limit, respectively. Requires States to collect a coinsurance percentage from such individuals pursuant to a sliding scale which increases such percentage from 0 to 100 percent in reasonable increments as incomes move from 150 to 250 or 350 percent of the Federal poverty level.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1989
Designates 1992 as the Year of Clean Water and October 1992 as Clean Water Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1989
Designates October 29, 1989, as Fire Safety at Home--Change Your Clock, and Change Your Battery Day. Directs the President to issue a proclamation to urge people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they reset their clocks from daylight savings time.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Comprehensive Illiteracy Elimination Act of 1989 - Title I: Literacy Coordination - Literacy Coordination, Research, and Dissemination Act of 1989 - Establishes the Cabinet Council for Literacy Coordination. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish in the Department of Education an Office on Literacy, to be administered by a Director. Requires the Director to: (1) coordinate the administration of literacy programs within the Department; and (2) work with the Cabinet Council for Literacy to coordinate the related programs of other Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), through the Office on Literacy, to make a grant to establish and operate a nonprofit National Center for Literacy, with a Director of the Center. Requires such grant to be awarded on a competitive basis, and to be limited to not more than five years (renewable). Allows the Center to use such grant funds for: (1) basic and applied research; (2) technical assistance; (3) an information clearinghouse; (4) policy analysis and program evaluation; and (5) a model demonstrative program of remedial training and placement. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Center on policy issues and on Center selection and operation of major research and demonstration projects. Requires the Director of the Center to report annually to the Congress and the Cabinet Council. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the Center, limiting the amount which may be used for its model demonstration program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing and operating State literacy resource centers. Limits the amount and duration of such grants. Allows each State to contract on a competitive basis with a volunteer or community-based or other nonprofit organization to operate such a State center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for such purpose. Title II: Workforce Literacy - Workforce Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Earmarks funds to train professional teachers, volunteers, and administrators, emphasizing minority teacher training and training of teachers to recognize and better serve illiterate individuals with learning disabilities and low-level reading abilities. Provides that, if a majority of the illiterate population assisted under basic program provisions of AEA has been served, the authorization of appropriations for each of the succeeding fiscal years during FY 1991 through 1995 shall be equal to that for the fiscal year in which such determination is made. Provides that adult education programs for which AEA grants have been made to States shall be carried out by public or private nonprofit entities only if the applicable local educational agency has been consulted and has had an opportunity to comment on the application. Requires State educational agencies receiving such basic State grants to assure direct and equitable access to Federal funds to local educational agencies, public or private nonprofit agencies, community-based organizations, and institutions which serve educationally disadvantaged adults. Grants preference to those organizations which will serve adults with a reading ability below the fifth grade level. Raises from 20 percent to 25 percent the limit on the portion of a State's grant allotment earmarked for high school equivalency certificate programs. Requires that at least ten percent of funds received under provisions for business, industry, labor, and education partnerships for workplace literacy be used for research, teacher training (including learning disabled identification and teaching), and technical assistance. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such provisions through FY 1995. Directs the Comptroller General to update, within 18 months, a 1975 study of the adult basic education program. Title III: Families for Literacy - Families for Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for Even Start programs operated by local educational agencies. Establishes a Families for Literacy program under which the Secretary may make ten demonstration grants to nonprofit entities (or consortia of businesses, nonprofit entities, and local educational agencies) to pay 80 percent of the cost of establishing intergenerational learning programs (emphasizing literacy skills) for children aged three and under and their parents. Directs the Secretary to give priority to applicants whose programs serve hard-to-serve populations. Sets forth program requirements for staff teams and community advisory councils. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Corporation for Public broadcasting to produce and disseminate a family literacy program to assist parents in improving their knowledge and skills regarding early childhood education, language development, and literacy. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 through 1995 for the Family Literacy Program demonstration grants; and (2) FY 1991 for the family literacy program public broadcasting contract. Title IV: Books for Families - Books for Families Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends ESEA provisions for the inexpensive book distribution program for reading motivation to require the contractor (the Reading Is Fundamental organization), beginning in FY 1990 and thereafter, to: (1) give priority to programs which target rural and urban areas with large concentrations of economically disadvantaged children and students; and (2) report annually to the Department of Education on the number and description of such individuals. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for making specified grants under title VI (Library Literacy Programs) of LSCA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to make grants for model library literacy centers and for the inexpensive book distribution program. Authorizes the Secretary, under LSCA, to make grants to State and local public libraries to establish model library literacy centers. Requires the Secretary to establish a peer review panel to assist in establishing criteria for awarding such grants. Authorizes the Secretary, under LSCA, to contract with the Reading Is Fundamental organization to promote the establishment of reading motivation programs which include the distribution of inexpensive books. Requires such contract to provide for: (1) giving priority to programs which target rural and urban areas with large concentrations of economically disadvantaged children and students; (2) increasing access to children's books for parents of newborns through children aged five; and (3) developing motivational materials to reach parents most disconnected from the education community, by making children's books available in specified types of places. Title V: Students for Literacy - Students for Literacy Act of 1986 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the Student Literacy Corps; and (2) College Work-Study (CWS) programs. Exempts literacy training programs and the creation and placement of literacy jobs for students from specified caps on CWS funds. Sets the Federal share of the compensation of students employed in literacy work-study training programs at 100 percent. Title VI: Volunteers for Literacy - Volunteers for Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to provide that, whenever they do not exceed a specified amount the funds for the VISTA Literacy Corps shall supplement and not supplant specified VISTA services provided in FY 1989 to address the problem of illiteracy. Establishes service-learning literacy programs. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency (the Director) to make grants to and contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to enable students in secondary schools, secondary vocational schools, and postsecondary schools to serve as volunteers in projects addressing illiteracy. Gives priority to projects using peer tutoring and involving partnerships to meet a wide range of needs. Requires the Director to make grants and contracts for a program of full-time volunteer service to be known as University Year for Literacy, which establishes and supports innovative ways to use full-time students enrolled in higher education institutions as volunteers: (1) in addressing the problems facing illiterate and functionally illiterate individuals; and (2) in assisting organizations which combat illiteracy and those problems. Gives priority to individuals pursuing a course of study related to a career in a field addressing the problem of illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to make grants and contracts to provide training and technical assistance to increase the effective use of full-time and part-time student volunteers to combat illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to provide technical and financial assistance to nonprofit organizations conducting operations in several areas or States that are engaged in, or wish to become involved in, activities to solve the problems of illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to provide technical assistance in obtaining, training, and integrating volunteers to employers who have established or wish to establish worksite literacy programs. Establishes a program of literacy challenge grants. Authorizes the Director to award such grants to eligible public agencies and private organizations for a portion of the costs of community or employee literacy programs that include use of volunteers. Establishes a Retired Senior Volunteer Literacy Program (which may be jointly administered with other Retired Senior Volunteer Programs). Authorizes the Director to make grants to establish such program to enhance the role of senior volunteers in addressing the problem of illiteracy. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the VISTA Literacy Corps. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for specified programs established under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Designates the week beginning September 16, 1990, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Designates September 29, 1989, as National Siblings Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1989
Extends through FY 1994 the pilot program of the furnishing of preventive health-care services for veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Secretary to implement annually at each Department of Veterans Affairs facilities a major preventive health-care and health-promotion initiative for any veteran receiving other care and services administered through the Secretary. Limits expenditures for such programs and initiatives through FY 1994. Directs the Chief Medical Director of the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration to designate an official in such Administration as the Director of Preventive Health-Care and Health-Promotion Programs. Requires such Director to prepare guidance for, to be responsible for, coordinating, and to advise the Chief Medical Director on, all activities carried out under such program and initiatives. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees an interim and a final report on experiences under the pilot program.