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United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991
Authorizes and requests the President to designate January 1, 1992, as National Ellis Island Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991
Designates October 30 of each year as Refugee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991
Designates October 1991 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1991
Audio Home Recording Act of 1991 - Amends Federal copyright law to: (1) set forth definitions relating to digital audio recording devices and media; and (2) prohibit certain copyright infringement actions based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital or analog audio recording device or medium, or the use of such device or medium for making phonorecords, except when done for commercial advantage. Sets forth a mandatory recordation and filing procedure for the importation, manufacture, or distribution in the United States of digital audio recording devices or media. Requires importers and manufacturers to file quarterly and annual statements of account with the Register of Copyrights (the Register). Mandates Register verification of such statements. Sets forth verification guidelines. States that verification audit costs shall be borne by interested copyright parties. Sets forth confidentiality guidelines with respect to such mandatory statements of accounts. Prescribes royalty payment guidelines for digital audio recording devices and media imported, manufactured, or distributed in the United States. Requires that royalty payments be deposited into the Treasury. Identifies interested copyright parties entitled to royalty payments. Prescribes royalty payment allocation and distribution procedures. Permits alternative royalty collection and distribution arrangements to be negotiated among interested copyright and manufacturing parties. Maintains the Copyright Tribunal jurisdiction over such negotiated arrangements insofar as nonparticipant interests are affected. Prohibits: (1) the importation, manufacture, and distribution of any digital audio recording device or audio interface device that does not conform to certain standards and specifications to implement the Serial Copy Management System; and (2) the circumvention of such System. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to publish in the Federal Register a certain Technical Reference Document which sets forth the standards and specifications pertinent to the Serial Copy Management System. Authorizes the Secretary to implement such System according to the prescribed guidelines. Sets forth civil remedies for violations of this Act, including impoundment, remedial modification and destruction of non-complying devices, and binding arbitration.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1991
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to acquire land for watershed protection at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center at Edgewater, Maryland. Authorizes appropriations to the Board to carry out such purposes for FY 1992 and succeeding fiscal years. Requires that such sums be matched equally with funds from non-Federal sources. Amends Federal law which authorizes the Board to plan, design, construct, and equip specified space in the National Museum of Natural History to provide that the appropriation authorized for such purpose: (1) is for FY 1991 and succeeding fiscal years; and (2) is to remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1991
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for eligibility for home health services on the basis of a need for occupational therapy.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1991
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require air carriers that have acquired a certificate transferring air route authority from another air carrier to hire from such air carrier, in order of seniority, no less than the number of employees required to operate such route. Affords such hired employees seniority integration protections provided in Tiger International Seaboard Acquisition Case, CAB Docket 33712. Provides for the enforcement of such seniority protections by U.S. district courts. Amends the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 to declare that air carrier employees who are furloughed or terminated by an air carrier (other than for cause) prior to the last day of the 17-year (currently, ten-year) period beginning upon enactment of such Act shall have first right of hire, regardless of age in his or her occupational speciality by any other air carrier that is hiring additional employees.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1991
Medicare Enrollment Improvement and Protection Act of 1991 - Title I: Improving Enrollment - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services' annual notice to Medicare beneficiaries to inform certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries of the requirements to qualify for Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) payment of their premiums, deductibles, and copayments under Medicare and how to apply for such benefit. Requires the notice described above to be prepared in a manner suitable for posting and distributed to physicians, hospital offices, and other medical facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish a toll-free telephone number for information about such benefit. Amends the Medicaid program to require the Secretary to develop a simplified form for applying for such benefit for processing at social security offices. Amends the Medicare program to provide for mandating direct enrollment of part A (Hospital Insurance) eligibles. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State agencies and approved organizations for the provision of outreach assistance to older individuals who may be eligible for such benefit. Authorizes appropriations to fund such grant program. Title II: Retroactivity - Amends the Medicaid program to permit retroactive payments of medical costs incurred by certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries in or after the third month before the month in which such an individual applied to have Medicaid cover such costs. Title III: Refunds - Allows those individuals whose incomes would have qualified them for Medicaid payment of Medicare costs, but who were not eligible for such benefit because they did not apply, to apply to have such costs refunded. Title IV: Report - Directs the Secretary to submit reports to the Congress on Department activities to ensure enrollment and full implementation of the program under the Social Security Act for Medicaid payment of Medicare costs and the effectiveness of each such activity, along with any recommendations for appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1991
Designates November 1991 as National Accessible Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Fruit and Vegetable Producers Emergency Assistance Act of 1991 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Fruits and Vegetables - Provides disaster payments for and prevented planting credit for fruit and vegetable producers who suffered 1991 crop reductions due to 1990 or 1991 adverse weather conditions. Bases payment rates on crop loss percentages. Makes payments on a crop-by-crop basis. Prohibits 1991 payments unless a producer agrees to obtain 1992 and 1993 crop insurance, with specified exceptions. Authorizes 1991 crop quality reduction payments for producers incurring specified crop production deficiencies. Limits the Federal share of such assistance to 50 percent. Reduces disaster payments for producers receiving Federal crop insurance payments. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) program fund transfers; (2) de minimis yields; and (3) producer eligibility. Prohibits double payments on replanted acreage. Subtitle B: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) timing and manner of assistance; (2) use of the Commodity Credit Corporation; (3) duplicative payments; and (4) authorization of emergency designation of outlays. Title II: Other Emergency Provisions - Provides disaster assistance loan guarantees (through the Rural Development Insurance Fund) for rural businesses adversely affected by 1990 or 1991 weather conditions. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to $500,000; and (2) aggregate program guarantees to $300,000,000. Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize disaster assistance for rehabilitation or restoration of damaged trees. Increases assistance limits. Amends the emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal worker program to: (1) increase assistance limits; (2) include packing house workers; and (3) provide housing cost assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Securities Investor Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide that private rights of action may be brought either: (1) five years from the date on which violations of this Act occurred; or (2) two years from the date on which such violation was discovered or should have been discovered through reasonable diligence.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1991
Establishes the United States Census Commission to investigate and study the 1990 census and to report recommendations to the Congress for any reforms needed for the 2000 census.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1991
Health USA Act of 1991 - Title I: Universal Eligibility and Enrollment - Declares eligible for health care services and long-term services, under the State program in the State of primary residence, each individual who is a U.S. resident and is a U.S. citizen and national or a lawful resident alien. Provides for enrollment, including requiring coverage of an eligible individual who otherwise is not enrolled in any State. Title II: Benefits and Providers - Lists covered health care services, including hospital care, physician and other professional medical services, tests, drugs, preventive services, mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, hospice care, and post-hospital skilled nursing facility services. Provides for limitations, including those necessary to allocate expenditures in a manner that will optimize improvements in the health and well being of the population. Lists covered long-term care services, including institutional and noninstitutional services and respite care services for the health, social, and personal needs of individuals with limited self-care capabilities in order to promote maximum functional independence. Requires individual needs to be determined by care managers through standardized assessments. Requires the National Health Care Commission, established under title IV of this Act, to prescribe rules similar to those under specified provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act regarding the conditions of participation for health care providers in State programs. Requires that each State program provide for the approval of health services plans in the State and sets forth minimum requirements for approval. Requires each State program to have at least one approved plan, either operated by the State program or under contract with a private plan. Title III: Financing - Subtitle A: Budget Process - Requires the Commission to: (1) recommend to the Congress an annual fiscal year budget which estimates total expenditures to be made by States and the Federal Government for health care services, long-term care services, and care management services; and (2) compute the national average per capita cost for each such service, with adjustments by risk group and by State. Sets the Federal contribution at 87 percent of the aggregate, with payments to a State ranging from 82 to 92 percent of that State's expenditures. Provides for payments to States. Requires all revenues (including State revenues) for the State program to be deposited into a Care Fund for the State. Requires each Care Fund to have prevention, capital, and education and research special accounts. Subtitle B: Payments to Approved Plans, Providers, and Care Managers - Provides for payments: (1) on a monthly basis from States to approved plans; and (2) to individual and institutional providers. Requires providers who receive funding under this Act to accept the payment amount recognized under the State program as payment in full. Requires approved plans to pay providers for: (1) the care of all individuals enrolled in the plan; (2) all eligible individuals in the State not enrolled in any other approved plan; and (3) the costs of approved experimental treatment, regardless of the plan in which the individuals are enrolled. Requires provider payment to be based on schedules established by each State program. Allows alternative payment mechanisms so long as aggregate payments do not exceed the aggregate under the schedules. Requires care managers to: (1) be paid under schedules; and (2) accept the schedule amount as payment in full. Subtitle C: Sources of Revenues - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to impose: (1) an income tax on employees; (2) an excise tax on employers; and (3) an income tax on self-employed individuals. Allows employers to elect to pay the employee tax. Amends provisions relating to railroad retirement tier 1 taxes to add references to the taxes imposed by these provisions. Defines the applicable contribution base for purposes of the taxes imposed by these provisions. Increases the top marginal individual income tax rate to a specified percentage. Imposes taxes on: (1) individual unearned income; and (2) the amount paid or incurred by employers for individual or family health care coverage of retired employees. Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to increase the OASDI taxable wage base. Amends the IRC to increase: (1) the percentage of Social Security benefits which are subject to taxation; (2) the maximum corporate income tax rate; (3) taxes on cigarettes; and (4) taxes on distilled spirits. Imposes taxes on cigarettes. Requires the Commission to recommend to the Congress increases in other excise taxes under the IRC. Makes each State responsible for establishing a financing program for the implementation of the State program. Entitles each State to: (1) receive start-up funds from the National Health Care Trust Fund established in this title; and (2) funding from the Commission in the amounts provided for in subtitle A of this title. Provides for cost-sharing, including deductibles and copayments. Establishes in the Treasury the National Health Care Trust Fund (Trust Fund). Transfers to the Trust Fund: (1) the taxes imposed by or received as a result of specified provisions of the IRC or this Act; and (2) funds in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Applies certain provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to the Trust Fund as they apply to the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Authorizes additional appropriations as required to make payments to States and other expenditures under this Act. Prohibits including the receipts and disbursements of the Trust Fund and the associated taxes in the totals of the Federal budget and exempts them from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending. Title IV: Administration - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the National Health Care Commission. Makes the Commission responsible for the overall administration of this Act and guidelines to permit States to carry out this Act. Sets forth other Commission duties, including those relating to minimum standards, uniform reporting, technology assessment, effectiveness research, practice guidelines, services to medically underserved areas, service delivery, and malpractice and liability reform. Mandates a National Advisory Board to advise the Commission. Requires each State (or neighboring States) to submit its State program (their regional program) to the Commission for approval. Prescribes sanctions for failure to achieve and maintain approval, including censure, reduction in Federal payments of up to a specified percentage, and placing the State program in receivership under the jurisdiction of the Commission. Requires each State program to provide for the appointment of a State Commission on Quality to implement national minimum standards. Establishes a Resource Enhancement Fund, to be administered by the Commission, to augment the capability of any medically underdeveloped area to provide services under this Act and to strengthen the area's abilities to provide local services. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Effective Date; Repeals; Transition; Relation to ERISA - Sets forth the effective date of the program established under this Act. Repeals: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) certain provisions of Federal law relating to health insurance for Federal officials and employees; and (3) specified provisions of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Authorizes appropriations for financial assistance to States in planning and developing State programs. Declares that the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) are superseded to the extent inconsistent with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1991
Declares that the Congress finds that both Czechoslovakia and Hungary have: (1) recognized fundamental human rights with respect to their citizens; (2) introduced economic reforms based on market-oriented principles; and (3) demonstrated a desire to build a friendly relationship with the United States. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of both countries.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1991
Designates March 19, 1992, as National Women in Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1991
Urges the President to call on the President of Syria to permit the extradition of the Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for trial in Germany.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991
Designates November as National American Indian Heritage Month, beginning in 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the corporate income tax exclusion of contributions to the capital of the taxpayer. Includes as a qualifying contribution any amount of money or property received by a regulated public utility (a utility required to provide electric energy, gas, water, or sewage disposal services) that: (1) is a contribution in aid of construction (as defined by regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury); (2) meets certain expenditure requirements; and (3) is not included in the taxpayer's rate base. Excludes amounts paid as customer connection fees.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1991
United States-China Act of 1991 - Prohibits the extension for a 12-month period beginning July 3, 1992, of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to China under the Trade Act of 1974, unless the President submits to the Congress a specified report stating that China has: (1) accounted for and released prisoners who have been detained and imprisoned as a result of the nonviolent expression of their political beliefs; (2) ceased exporting to the United States products manufactured by convict or forced labor; (3) ceased the supply of military arms to the Khmer Rouge; and (4) adhered to the Joint Declaration with the United Kingdom on Hong Kong. Requires such report to state whether China has made significant progress in: (1) engaging in high-level discussions on human rights issues; (2) preventing gross violations of such rights (including in Tibet); (3) terminating harassment of Chinese citizens in the United States; (4) ensuring access of international human rights monitoring groups to prisoners; (5) providing protection of U.S. intellectual property rights; (6) providing U.S. exporters access to Chinese markets by lowering tariffs, removing nontariff barriers, and increasing the purchase of U.S. goods and services; and (7) adopting a national policy consistent with specified missile, nuclear, and chemical and biological control agreements. Terminates most-favored-nation trade status for China unless the President certifies to the Congress that it has not transferred ballistic missiles or missile launchers for the M-9 or M-11 weapon systems to Syria, Iran, or Pakistan. Requires the President, if he determines such transfers to have occurrred, to: (1) notify the Congress; and (2) terminate most-favored-nation treatment for Chinese products.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1991
Department of Energy Science and Technology Partnership Act - Establishes a program in the Department of Energy (DOE) under which the Secretary of Energy shall encourage departmental laboratories to enter into partnerships for research in: energy efficiency, energy supply, high-performance computing, environmental problems, human health, advanced manufacturing technologies, education and training. Authorizes such partnerships with colleges and universities, industry, and other Federal agencies. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish a career path program for the recruitment of promising and gifted employees of DOE's national laboratories to serve in critical and other positions as a stage in realizing the full potential that such employees contribute to the strategic defense and energy security posture of the United States. Increases the number of Under Secretaries in DOE from one to three, and the number of Assistant Secretaries from eight to 11.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1991
Prohibits the proposed sale to the United Arab Emirates of AH-64 APACHE attack helicopters and related defense articles and services, and design and construction services described in the certification submitted to the Congress pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act on June 11, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1991
Unemployment Insurance Reform Act of 1991 - Title I: Optional Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Program - Allows States to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to provide optional supplemental unemployment compensation under this Act in lieu of extended unemployment compensation under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Act of 1970 (if the State has a State unemployment compensation law approved by the Secretary under which such extended compensation is payable). Allows a State to terminate such agreement upon 30 days written notice to the Secretary. States that supplemental benefits are for unemployed workers who have exhausted their basic 26 weeks of regular benefits in States experiencing specified elevated levels of employment. Provides for up to 26 weeks of such supplemental benefits for an eligible individual. Requires that the supplemental benefit period in a State last at least 26 weeks, but that no other such period shall begin until five weeks after the close of a prior such period. Bases the State "on" indicator or trigger for a week of such supplemental benefits on whether, for the most recent three calendar month period for which data are available, the seasonaly adjusted average rate of total unemployment (TUR) in the State equals or exceeds: (1) seven percent; and (2) 120 percent of the average of such rates for the corresponding three-month period ending in each of the preceding two calendar years. Establishes a special rule to declare there is a State "on" indicator if: (1) the State TUR for such period is at least six percent but less than seven percent; and (2) the national TUR for such period is seven percent or more. Declares there is a State "off" indicator for a week when the most recent three-month period does not satisfy such requirements. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of any optional supplemental benefits account, with a variable limit based on the State's average unemployment rate. Provides for payments to States having agreements for the payment of optional supplemental compensation benefits. Authorizes appropriations to the extended unemployment compensation account in amounts necessary to carry out this Act. Sets forth sanctions for fraud and overpayments. Makes conforming amendments to the Social Security Act. Title II: Extended Unemployment Compensation Reform - Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to revise the State "on" and "off" indicators or triggers for a week. Declares that there is State "on" indicator for a week if there is: (1) a State TUR, for the most recent three-month period for which data are available, which is seven percent or more and which is 120 percent or more of average of certain earlier rates; or (2) a national TUR for the most recent such period of eight percent or more. Declares there is on "off" indicator for a week when such "on" requirements are met. Amends the Social Security Act to establish a contingency fund for costs of unemployment compensation administration during periods of high unemployment. Provides for an additional specified amount to be appropriated for every increase of 100,000 persons (with pro rata amounts for smaller increases above the first 100,000 increase) in the insured unemployment level above that assured in the President's budget proposal for that fiscal year. Designates such appropriations emergency direct spending and an emergency requirement in reports required under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Repeals specified provisions of Federal law which limit ex-military service personnel's eligibility for regular unemployment benefits to the 13 weeks after a four-week waiting period (thus making such individuals eligible for such benefits on the same basis as other unemployed workers, that is, for 26 weeks after a one-week waiting period). Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to approval of State unemployment compensation laws to: (1) allow States (by making benefit denial discretionary rather than mandatory) to pay unemployment benefits to nonprofessional employees (i.e. support staff) of educational institutions between academic years or terms if they are otherwise eligible; and (2) require States to determine eligibility for compensation on an individual's work history, which includes such history for the most recent calendar quarter (setting specified deadlines for a State to meet such requirement).
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1991
Designates the week beginning October 20, 1991, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Welfare Dependency Measurement and Assessment Act - Mandates a study and report to the Congress identifying indicators of current and future welfare dependency. Requires an annual report to the Congress using such indicators and, from time to time, review of the indicators. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Designates June 1991 as National Forest System Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Designates the month of November 1991 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Racial Justice Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal judicial code to make it unlawful to impose or execute sentences of death under color of State or Federal law in a racially discriminatory pattern. Prohibits a person from being put to death in the execution of a sentence imposed pursuant to any law if that person's death sentence furthers a racially discriminatory pattern. Provides that ordinary methods of statistical proof shall suffice to establish a racially discriminatory pattern. States that it shall not be necessary to show discriminatory motive, intent, or purpose on the part of any individual or institution. Establishes the requirements for a prima facie showing that a racially discriminatory pattern exists. States that a State or Federal entity may rebut a prima facie showing by establishing by clear and convincing evidence that identifiable nonracial factors explain the racial disparities constituting the pattern. Requires any State or Federal entity that provides for the imposition of the death penalty to collect and maintain pertinent data on the charging, disposition, and sentencing patterns for all cases of death-eligible crimes. Provides for the appointment of counsel for all indigent clients (and the furnishing of investigative and other services) for habeas corpus actions arising under this Act. Provides that no State court determination on the merits of a factual issue pertinent to a claim under this Act shall be presumed to be correct unless: (1) the State has collected and maintained the necessary death penalty data; and (2) the determination was made in a court proceeding where the defendant was afforded his rights required under this Act. States that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect the lawfulness of any sentence of death that does not violate this Act. States that the failure to raise such a claim before the enactment of this Act shall not bar future claims.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to revise the process under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) may disallow a State's claim for Medicaid matching funds to: (1) give States the opportunity to come into compliance with Medicaid procedural requirements on a prospective basis before the Secretary may disallow the claim involved; (2) allow the HHS Appeals Board, if it upholds a disallowance, to reduce its amount; (3) prohibit disallowances if the State is in compliance with its HHS approved plan; (4) require interest to be paid to States by the Federal Government for disallowances for which they elected to repay, but were later overturned on appeal; and (5) prohibit disallowances three years after the filing of the State's claim.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1991
Designates October 6 through October 12, 1991, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1991
Designates August 1, 1991, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1991
Family Planning Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require family planning projects under existing provisions to offer adoption referral services. Removes provisions authorizing a reduction in grant amounts by the value of supplies or equipment furnished. Authorizes appropriations for the projects. Repeals provisions authorizing formula grants to States for family planning services. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for training personnel to carry out the family planning projects with provisions authorizing grants and contracts for technical assistance, clinical training for personnel, training for educators and counselors, and training of other personnel to carry out the family planning projects and information and education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Allows grants and contracts for research on contraceptive development to be used: (1) for contraceptive evaluation; and (2) to improve the clinical management and direct delivery of family planning services. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct, and make grants and contracts for the conduct of: (1) applied research into the development of new or improved contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods; and (2) evaluations of the acceptance, convenience, safety, efficacy, and cost of contraceptive devices, drugs, and methods. Authorizes appropriations. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for developing and making available family planning and population growth information to all persons desiring such information with provisions authorizing grants or contracts to establish community-based information and education programs to assist individuals in making responsible choices concerning human sexuality, pregnancy, and parenthood, and to enable individuals to prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct, or make grants and contracts for the conduct of, training and technical assistance activities to assist in carrying out the information and education programs; and (2) make grants and contracts for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of educational and informational materials. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to annually collect data on: (1) the numbers of low- and moderate-income individuals and adolescents at risk of unintended pregnancies; (2) the sources of funding for family planning services; and (3) the number of individuals who receive family planning services from grantees and contractees under certain provisions amended by this Act and the types of services chosen by those individuals. Authorizes grants and contracts for the collection of the data. Requires the data to be: (1) made public; and (2) included in an annual report to the Congress, mandated by current law, on family planning and population research. Requires that all grantees under the title of the Public Health Service Act relating to population research and family planning provide education to patients concerning self breast examinations. Requires that projects receiving assistance under such title offer pregnant women information and counseling concerning all legal and medical options regarding their pregnancies. Requires that women requesting such information be provided with nondirective counseling, and referral on request, concerning alternative courses of action, including: (1) prenatal care and delivery; (2) infant care, foster care, or adoption services; and (3) pregnancy termination.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the American public should observe the 100th anniversary of filmmaking in 1993 and recognize the American Film Institute's leadership role in preserving the art of film.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1991
Social Security and SSI AIDS Disability Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an AIDS Disability Advisory Panel to conduct a study and report to the Secretary and the Congress on the disability criteria needed for individuals who are HIV positive to determine eligibility for benefits under titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act, with special concern focused on women, children, and intravenous (IV) drug users with AIDS or who test HIV-positive. Terminates the Panel five years after submission of its initial report. Provides for interim disability criteria, inclusive of medical conditions specific to women, children, and IV-drug users, for determining cases until Panel recommendations become law. Requires the Secretary, during the Panel's tenure, to establish and maintain a database on OASDI and SSI applicants with AIDS. Requires annual reports to the Congress containing such information. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Alternative Fuels Incentive Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the costs of qualified clean-burning (natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, or alcohol) motor vehicle fuel property or refueling property. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make equivalent payments to States and to local governments in connection with qualified property.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Amends the Federal criminal code to require that any individual seeking a Federal license to deal in firearms comply with State and local firearms licensing laws and submit a written statement signed by the chief of police of the locality or county sheriff certifying that the information available to the signer of the statement does not indicate the applicant is ineligible to obtain such a license under the law of such State and locality.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Federal Mass Transportation Act of 1991 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (the Act) to declare that one of the purposes of the Act is to provide assistance to State and local governments in their efforts to implement programs that support national goals, improve air quality, energy conservation and independence, international competitiveness, and mobility for elderly, disabled, and economically disadvantaged persons. Redesignates the Urban Mass Transportation Administration as the Federal Transit Administration. Declares that the Congress strongly supports a Federal policy that promotes increased use of commute-to-work benefits and that is consistent with national objectives of energy conservation, reduced reliance on energy imports, lessened congestion, and clean air. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to make discretionary grants or loans to States and local agencies to finance mass transportation services to meet the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons. Authorizes the Secretary to pay any costs (inclusive of debt service) to retire any long-term debt incurred by an applicant to finance mass transportation projects, including debt to complete such a project for which a letter of intent or full funding contract has been issued by the Secretary when the debt is incurred, in spite of an approved project budget, because of lack of funds made available in an appropriations Act. Revises criteria for the award of grants or loans for the construction of any new fixed guideway system or extension of such a system to require a project to be based upon a thorough assessment of a variety of innovative financing mechanisms in connection with its construction and operation, as well as for its long-range finance plan for meeting overall system capital and operating costs. Sets forth specified factors to be considered by the Secretary in making such grants or loans. Requires the Secretary to make specified determinations with respect to such projects. Requires the Secretary to consider specified factors in assessing the availability of local funding for such projects. Requires such projects to be implemented by means of a full funding contract. Allocates such grants and loans based on a percentage formula for: (1) rail modernization; (2) new fixed guideway systems and extensions; and (3) purchase of buses and the construction of bus-related facilities. Requires apportionment of funds based on a percentage formula for urbanized areas with fixed guideway facilities. Revises provisions relating to the development and planning of transportation systems in urbanized areas. Authorizes the Secretary, as an alternative to grants and contracts with State and local agencies to enter into working agreements with other Federal departments for the planning of public transportation projects and for other technical studies. Revises the formula for apportioning public transportation block grantees for urbanized areas according to fixed guideway revenue vehicle or route miles. Includes in such formula, in the case of routes where multiple tracks or lanes are in use in the same direction, all such tracks or lanes in the computation of total fixed guideway route miles. Provides for a special apportionment of block grants based on the fixed guideway revenue vehicle miles whenever grantees can certify to the Secretary certain energy or operating efficiencies without a reduction in service. Requires block grantees to submit to the Secretary an annual certification that such grantee has continuing control, through operation or lease, including domestic and offshore safe harbor lease transactions, over the use of facilities and equipment (excluding track, signal and communications, and other wayside equipment). Allows grant recipients, when developing a program to propose the sum of proposed program projects concerning activities for local planning purposes, to propose projects whose sum exceeds annual mass transportation apportionments made to urbanized areas. Includes certain supplies (excluding fuel and lubricants) as associated capital maintenance items. Requires a recipient of a mass transportion project grant to retain net income received from the use, lease, or sale of certain acquired airspace or adjacent property acquired or derived from the disposal of certain fungible items. Prohibits the Secretary from awarding grants or making loans on the condition that such net income must be used to finance part of any mass transportation project, or to reimburse the United States for grants or loans made with respect to such projects, or use such net income in any calculation of net project costs. Authorizes the use of a specified percentage of mass transportation funds to finance capacity expansion construction projects, improve the movement or use of mass transit and shared ride programs, or facilitate the development of intermodal facilities. Prohibits the award of a grant unless the recipient certifies that basic transit maintenance needs have been addressed in the metropolitan planning process, and projects have been programmed in the transportation improvement program to meet such needs. Authorizes designated recipients of mass transportation funds prior to enactment of this Act for urbanized areas with populations under 200,000 to continue to receive and dispense such funds. Authorizes the Governor of a State to transfer an amount of the State's apportionment of grants and loans for mass transportation services to meet the needs of the elderly and handicapped to supplement funds apportioned to such State for public transportation projects and technical assistance to non-urbanized areas. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations providing for the delegation of environmental review, decisionmaking, and other action pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to certified recipients of mass transportation assistance. Authorizes a grant for the research and investigation by nonprofit institutions of higher learning of urban transportation problems to cover the safety aspects related to such problems. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the National Cooperative Transit Research Center to research short-term operating problems experienced by assisted public transportation service providers. Authorizes the Secretary to permit recipients of mass transportation assistance to transfer, under specified conditions, facilities and equipment that are no longer needed for a mass transportation project to a public body for a public use, with no further obligation to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to allow the leasing to public transit operators of vehicles purchased by States, local agencies, private nonprofit corporations, and associations for elderly and handicapped persons. Prohibits a State from imposing further terms or conditions with respect to the administration of public transportation grants awarded to it for non-urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for mass transportation projects. Makes specified amounts available: (1) from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund; (2) for substitute mass transportation projects; (3) for rural transportation programs; (4) for planning and design of mass transportation facilities for elderly and handicapped persons; (5) for research, planning, and training programs; and (6) for administrative expenses. Requires the Secretary to make a report to the Congress that includes: (1) actions taken to identify conditions in any facility, equipment, or manner of operation as part of findings and determinations required in providing mass transportation grants and loans; (2) actions to correct or eliminate conditions that create a serious hazard of death or injury as a condition for making such grants and loans; (3) a summary of passenger-and employee-related deaths and injuries resulting from unsafe conditions in such facilities, equipment, or manner of operation, including actions taken to correct or eliminate such conditions; (4) a summary of actions taken to alert transit operators to such conditions; and (5) recommendations to the Congress of any legislative or administrative actions necessary to ensure that recipients of transportation assistance will institute the best means available to correct or eliminate hazards of death or injury. Makes a specified amount of Mass Transit Account funds available: (1) to the Secretary for grants or contracts for specifed mass transportation planning and research projects, including special demonstration initiatives and transit technology development; and (2) for State and local transit cooperative research and planning and research programs. Sets forth a formula for the apportionment and allocation of such funds among the States. Authorizes the Secretary to charge fees for planning and research conferences, seminars, and training sessions. Requires the Secretary to establish an Industry Technical Panel consisting of representatives of transportation suppliers and operators and others involved in technology development to assist in the identification of priority technology development areas and in establishment of guidelines for project development, sharing, and execution. Requires a 80 percent matching Federal share for State and local planning and research programs, with specified exceptions. Requires the Secretary to negotiate and execute a letter of intent and a full funding agreement that provides the Federal share of the cost of construction of the Queens Local/Express Connection in New York City. Directs the Secretary to provide mass transportation funds to the State of New York to meet the transportation needs associated with the staging of the 1993 World University Games. Requires the Secretary to determine, in cooperation with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the environmental impact as required by NEPA of the Cross-County Metro project from Morrisville to Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Requires the Secretary, upon a finding that NEPA requirements have been met, to enter into a Full Funding Grant Agreement with SEPTA for the construction of such project. Directs the Secretary to prepare a multiyear funding contract for the rehabilitation of the Drake/Library and Overbrook trolley lines in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the status of completion of such agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Tropical Forest Consumer Information and Protection Act of 1991 - Prohibits manufacturing or distributing any tropical wood or tropical wood product unless: (1) it bears a label or mark indicating the country in which the wood was grown and the name of the wood; or (2) that information is provided to the buyer at the point of sale. Requires sellers through a catalog or communications media to disclose the country of origin and the name of the wood. Mandates: (1) an annual report on tropical hardwood importation; (2) a program to assess the progress of tropical countries in managing and conserving their forests; and (3) an annual report on the status of forests in each tropical country. Declares that: (1) policies, incentives, and education encouraging the sustainable management of tropical forests and labeling of country of origin should be supported; and (2) it should be U.S. policy to pursue adoption of such measures pursuant to its activities within the International Tropical Timber Organization. Provides for civil monetary penalties for violation of the labeling requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Designates October 6, 1991 and 1992, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Designates June 15, 1991, as Magna Carta Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements to which Iran is a party. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge the Government of Iran to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant element in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Radiation Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require Federal agencies to comply with all Federal, State, and local requirements concerning the imposition of fees for the storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste in the same manner as nongovernmental entities. Amends the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to apply requirements concerning the disposal of Federal low-level radioactive waste at non-Federal facilities to the storage of such waste at such facilities. Declares that no Federal law may be construed to prohibit or otherwise restrict the authority of a State to regulate, on the basis of radiological hazard, the disposal of low-level radioactive waste designated a State responsibility for which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not require disposal in a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility licensed by the Commission or by an Agreement State. Provides that no Federal law may be construed to preclude or otherwise restrict the authority of any State to impose standards for the protection from radiological hazards more stringent than the Commission's for such disposal. Revokes certain policy statements of the Commission relating to radioactive waste below regulatory concern. Prohibits the Commission or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing policies exempting radioactive materials or practices from regulation unless there is advance notice of the proposed regulatory action in the Federal Register and the public is provided an opportunity to comment or to participate in an adjudicatory hearing.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Condemns the murder of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and others in the bomb explosion on May 21, 1991. Expresses regret over the deaths of Gandhi and other victims of election violence in India. Offers condolences to Gandhi's widow and children and to the people of India. Stands in solidarity with the Indian people in their effort to sustain the most successful democratic tradition in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Tibet is an occupied country under established principles of international law and that its true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Germany and Austria should take steps to halt the distribution of specified neo-Nazi video games and prosecute anyone found in possession of such games to the full extent of the law.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1991
Mental Health Care Amendment Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of the services of marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, and clinical mental health counselors and supplies furnished incident to such services.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1991
Grants the United States Claims Court jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render judgment upon any claim for back pay by the estate of a named individual against the United States arising out of the termination of her employment at the United States Information Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title establishing a Center on Tobacco and Health within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to conduct and coordinate Federal education, research, and law enforcement with regard to tobacco products and to monitor and restrict the use of tobacco additives. Authorizes contracts and cooperative agreements to carry out the title. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC Director, to: (1) conduct certain educational and research activities; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to conduct public information campaigns concerning the use of tobacco products, using any mode of conveying information the Secretary considers appropriate. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to designate between ten and 20 model States and make grants to them to assist in improving State leadership in activities that prevent initial tobacco use among minors, encourage cessation among youth and others, and enforce a prohibition of tobacco product sales to minors. Declares eligible for the grants those States which have and enforce laws prohibiting sales to minors, laws reducing use of or access to cigarette vending machines by minors, and prohibit (or seek to prohibit) the provision of free tobacco product samples. Mandates that the Secretary, through the Director and on request, provide certain types of assistance with regard to retail establishments, including printed materials, assistance in planning events to educate the establishments, assistance in developing systems to report establishments that consistently sell tobacco products to minors, and assistance in developing systems to notify such establishments. Authorizes appropriations for grants to model States. Directs the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements for educational activities to reduce the incidence of tobacco use among workers with high prevalences of tobacco use. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to inform the public of the health dangers presented by cigarette smoking including, with regard to the health effects of cigarette smoking and passive smoke: (1) conducting and supporting research; (2) coordinating all activities of the Department of Health and Human Services; (3) maintaining liaison with private and public agencies; (4) collecting, compiling, and disseminating information; and (5) establishing an outreach program to youth under the age of 18. Directs the Secretary to establish an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to inform the public of health dangers from the use of smokeless tobacco, including educational programs, research, and dissemination of information. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and make grants to States to assist in the development and distribution of educational programs and materials, and to assist States in enacting laws and regulations establishing 18 as the minimum age for purchasing smokeless tobacco. Prohibits certain acts, including: (1) acts relating to adulterated or misbranded tobacco products; (2) subject to exception, the using or revealing of any trade secret acquired under these provisions; (3) the false representation or suggestion that an approval of any tobacco product is in effect under certain provisions; and (4) failure to transmit certain product information to any individual on request. Directs the Secretary, in order to carry out the prohibitions, to establish within the Public Health Service, or designate an existing entity within the Service, as an Office of Regulatory Affairs. Provides, with respect to a State designated under this Act as a model State, for denial of delivery and a ban on shipping tobacco products to a retail establishment with a pattern or practice of selling tobacco products to minors. Authorizes U.S. district courts to enforce the prohibitions as described under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows an individual, or a class or organization on behalf of an individual, to bring a civil action for injunctive relief, monetary damages, and attorney's fees. Requires manufacturers, importers, or packagers of any tobacco product brand name to provide to the Secretary: (1) a complete list of the levels of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide for each brand and each tobacco additive used and the range of quantities of the additive used in all names manufactured, imported, or packaged by the person; and (2) on request of the Secretary, information regarding the health impact of the additives. Directs the Secretary to prescribe requirements for manufacturers to place information in packages of tobacco products regarding tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and additives. Allows spices, flavorings, fragrances, and colorings to be so designated without specifically naming each. Considers a tobacco product misbranded unless it is labeled as required in these provisions. Authorizes the Secretary, if an additive, by itself or in conjunction with any other additive, significantly increases the human health risk of the product, to require the levels of the additive to be reduced, or to prohibit its use. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package any tobacco product brand name unless the warning labels required by the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act meet certain requirements. Considers a tobacco product adulterated if an additive level exceeds the limit set, or if other conditions are met. Authorizes the Office of Regulatory Affairs to conduct examinations and investigations under these provisions through officers and employees of the Department of Health and Human Services or through any health officer or employee of any State duly commissioned as an officer of the Department. Requires the Center, when a sample of a tobacco product is collected for analysis and on request, to provide a part of the official sample for examination or analysis by any person named on the label of the product, or the owner, or their agent. Considers any product that contains nicotine but is not a tobacco product to be a drug under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Prohibits interpreting anything in the title added by this Act, the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, or the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984 to relieve any person from liability under common law or State statutory law to any other person. Declares that nothing in the title added by this Act, the Cigarette Labeling Advertising Act, or the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act shall prevent a State or local government from enacting additional restrictions on the sale or distribution of tobacco products or on the placement or location of stationary outdoor or transit advertising of tobacco products. Directs the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to assist schools in the implementation of effective programs and policies to prevent tobacco use. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts to assist in such implementation. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to: (1) change the contents of required label warnings; (2) remove certain requirements regarding warning presentation; and (3) remove provisions protecting the confidentiality of information submitted to the Secretary regarding the ingredients added to tobacco. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to add tobacco use prevention, intervention, and education to the types of activities which may be carried out under State programs. Adds references to tobacco use to provisions specifying the uses of funds for local drug abuse education and prevention programs. Allows materials on drug abuse education and prevention to be disseminated under specified provisions of this Act. Adds references to tobacco to provisions relating to drug use and alcohol abuse education and prevention activities directed to students at all educational levels. Authorizes appropriations to enable the Secretary of Education to make incentive grants to State education agencies to establish smoke free schools, with the grant funds used to disseminate materials to school personnel and students, and to hold conferences and meetings, concerning the health hazards of tobacco uses by students. Repeals provisions of the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act relating to smoking research, education, and information. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Mandates a study of pesticides in tobacco products and their effect on human health.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1991
Support for Democracy, Human Rights, and Fair Trade in China Act of 1991 - Prohibits most-favored-nation treatment for Chinese products. Terminates such prohibition upon the President's certification to the Congress that China: (1) has ceased committing violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) has ceased persecution of pro-democracy movement members; (3) permits unrestricted emigration; (4) has ceased religious persecution in China and Tibet; (5) has provided adequate protection of U.S. intellectual property rights, opened access to markets, increased purchases of U.S. goods and services, and has not attempted to hide the origin of goods manufactured in China; (6) has demonstrated its good faith participation in international efforts to control the proliferation of sophisticated military weapons and chemical, biological, and nuclear technologies; and (7) has ceased exporting products manufactured by forced or convict labor.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1991
Designates October 16, 1991, and October 16, 1992, as World Food Day.