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United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1988
Extends the Senate's congratulations to Reverend Norman Vincent Peale on reaching his 90th year with vigor and in good health. Conveys the Senate's best wishes for many more years to Reverend Peale and his wife and children.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1988
Requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, which occurs on June 25, 1988. (The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, formerly known as the Wagner-O'Day Act, provides employment and ancillary support services to blind and handicapped individuals.)
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1988
Designates the portion of 16th Street, Northwest, in the District of Columbia, between the Embassy of Poland and Fuller Street, as Solidarity Corner.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1988
Designates the period commencing August 7 and ending August 14, 1988, as Canoe World Sprints Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1988
Urges the Government of Iran to uphold the human rights of all its nationals, including members of the Baha'i faith, and to restore fully the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Calls upon the President to: (1) monitor and report on developments affecting the Baha'i minority in Iran and in other countries; (2) cooperate with other governments in continuing to make appeals to Iran concerning the situation of the Baha'is; (3) initiate and support efforts in the United Nations and its agencies on behalf of the Baha'is; and (4) provide, and urge others to provide, for refugee and humanitarian assistance for those Baha'is fleeing their homelands to escape religious repression.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1988
Foreign Aid Insurance Reciprocity Act of 1988 - Requires each executive agency or military department responsible for economic or military assistance to foreign countries to take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that U.S. insurance companies have a fair and open competitive opportunity to provide insurance whenever such insurance is necessary or proper in connection with Government-assisted supplies or activities. Specifies that such actions shall include: (1) including in any contract or solicitation for procurement of such supplies or activities a clause requiring that U.S. insurance companies have a competitive opportunity; and (2) certifying to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that all necessary and practicable actions have been taken to provide U.S. insurance companies with competitive opportunities. Provides that if the USTR determines that any foreign government or country discriminates against U.S. insurance companies in connection with U.S. economic or military assistance, insurance for such activities may be provided only: (1) by U.S. insurance companies; or (2) by insurance companies of foreign countries which have entered into agreements concerning nondiscriminatory treatment of U.S. insurance companies or which have provided assurance of such nondiscriminatory treatment. Provides exceptions to such requirements if: (1) no insurance was reasonably available from a U.S. insurance company; or (2) the USTR certifies to the Congress that negotiations concerning discriminatory treatment of U.S. insurance companies are in progress. Requires the USTR to review the actions of each executive agency and military department required by this Act and to include a report concerning such actions in the USTR's required annual report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1988
Provides for the duty-free entry of a carillon imported for use in the State of New York.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1988
Designates the week beginning on the third Sunday in May 1989 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1988
Designates February 1989 as America Loves Its Kids Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1988
Declares that the Senate recognizes Eugene O'Neill for his contributions to the canon of American drama in the 100th anniversary year of his birth.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Designates the period of September 23 through September 30, 1988, as National American Indian Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the low-income housing credit through 1990. (Under current law the credit will expire on December 31, 1989.)
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1988
Designates February 19 through February 25, 1989, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1988
Magnetic Coal Separation Improvement Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct research and development through the Department of Energy and enter into cooperative research and development agreements with public and private researchers to promote high temperature superconductivity technologies for magnetic coal separation and magnetic emissions control technology. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1988
Designates the week of November 6 through November 12, 1988, as National Disabled Americans Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1988
Permits the Secretary of the Interior to establish the former home of Alexander Hamilton as a national memorial at its present location in New York, New York (instead of relocating such home, as is currently specified). Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands, improvements, and associated personal property by exchange, donation, or purchase with donated funds. Repeals the limitation on appropriations authorized for such memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1988
Declares the Senate's abiding respect for William Buckley's life of unequaled service and his death of unexampled fortitude.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1988
Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1988 - Renames the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 the Major Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Amends such Act to establish an emergency assistance program. Sets forth procedures for State governors to request the President to determine an emergency. Describes general Federal assistance under such an emergency, including debris removal assistance. Limits the amount of emergency assistance to $5,000,000, which may be exceeded if the President finds it necessary. Requires the President to report to the Congress on the nature and extent of an emergency when such limitation is exceeded. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum amount of grants to States for improvement, maintenance, and updating of State plans. Allows the consideration of economic status when providing disaster assistance. Requires public and private nonprofit facilities in flood hazard areas to maintain flood insurance. Declares that major disaster and emergency assistance shall not be considered income or a resource when determining benefit levels for Federal programs. Declares that major disaster and emergency assistance shall not be deemed a major Federal action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes the Federal Government to recover the cost of assistance from any person whose negligent act or omission, or whose act or omission while engaged in ultra-hazardous activity, resulted in an emergency of major disaster. Directs the President to conduct audits and investigations necessary to ensure compliance with this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to criminal and civil penalties. Sets forth procedures for State governors to request declarations by the President that a major disaster exists. Requires such request to be based on a finding that effective response to such disaster is beyond the capabilities of the State and local governments and that Federal assistance is necessary. Describes general and essential assistance that the President may provide. Decreases from 100 percent to 75 percent the Federal share of the cost to repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace public facilities and private nonprofit facilities which are damaged by a major disaster. Declares the Federal share of assistance for debris removal to be 75 percent. Provides for temporary housing assistance for up to 18 months after the date of a major disaster. Authorizes the President to extend such period due to extraordinary circumstances. Declares the Federal share of such assistance to be 100 percent of eligible costs. Declares the Federal share to be 75 percent for a group site development of mobile homes or other readily fabricated dwellings. Authorizes the President to contribute up to 50 percent of the cost of implementing hazard mitigation measures which would be cost effective and would substantially reduce the risk of future damage, hardship, loss, or suffering in the area affected by a major disaster. Declares that disaster unemployment assistance is not payable for any week for which an individual is entitled to unemployment compensation or waiting week credit. Provides for reducing disaster unemployment assistance by any amounts received from private income protection insurance compensation. Modifies the requirement that the States repay the advances on matching grants made by the Federal Government for individual and family disaster relief grants by deferring repayment (and the interest accruing thereon) for a maximum period of two years from the date of the major disaster declaration. Increases from $5,000 to $7,500 the maximum aggregate grant amount which an individual or family may receive with respect to any one major disaster. Repeals disaster relief provisions regarding purchasers of Federal timber. Removes the Canal Zone from coverage under such Act. Prohibits a State from being ruled ineligible to receive disaster assistance solely by virtue of an arithmetic formula based on income or population.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1988
Designates the period of July 25 through July 31, 1988, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1988, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1988
Designates October 1, 1988, as National Quality First Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1988
Drunk Driving Prevention Act of 1988 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make basic and supplemental grants to States which adopt and implement certain drunk driving prevention programs. Requires States, in order to receive basic grants under this Act, to provide: (1) an expedited driver's license suspension or revocation system; and (2) a self-sustaining drunk driving enforcement program. Sets forth additional requirements for the receipt of supplemental grants, which include: (1) providing for mandatory blood alcohol content testing whenever a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that a driver involved in a collision that results in a death or serious bodily injury has committed an alcohol-related traffic offense; or (2) providing for an effective system for preventing drivers under the age of 21 from obtaining alcoholic beverages. Provides that no State may receive grants for more than three fiscal years. Sets forth the Federal share payable for such grants for each of the three fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to determine the blood alcohol concentration level at or above which an individual is deemed to be driving while under the influence; and (2) issue and publish proposed and final regulations to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1988
Designates 1989 as the Year of the Young Reader.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the income tax rules requiring cost capitalization shall not apply to the qualified artistic work expenses of freelance writers, artists, and photographers. Excludes from qualified expenses those related to printing, photographic plates, motion picture films, video tapes, and similar items.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1988
Designates the week beginning September 18, 1988, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1988
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988 - Provides that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of handicap in: (1) employment practices and training covered by title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (2) the sale or rental of housing covered by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968; (3) any public accommodation covered by title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (4) transportation services; (5) the actions, practices, and operations of State and local governments; and (6) broadcasts, communications, or telecommunications services. Lists the forms of discrimination which are prohibited by this Act, including: (1) denying any persons the opportunity to participate in or benefit from a service, program, job, or other opportunity on the basis of his or her handicap; (2) establishing (or failing to remove) any architectural, transportation, or communication barriers that prevent the access or limit the participation of persons because of their handicap; (3) failing or refusing to make a reasonable accommodation to permit a handicapped individual to have access to a program, activity, job, or opportunity; (4) imposing any unnecessary standard or criteria that screens out or places the handicapped at a disadvantage; and (5) denying services, programs, jobs, or other opportunities to any person because of that person's relationship to, or association with, a handicapped person. Permits the exclusion or denial of equal access to services, programs, jobs, or other opportunities to persons: (1) for reasons unrelated to the existence of their handicap; or (2) based upon the application of standards or criteria that are necessary and substantially related to the ability to perform essential components of the job, program, activity, or opportunity, and such performance cannot be accomplished by a reasonable accommodation. States that it shall be an act of discrimination, in regard to housing, to discriminate in the sale or rental of a dwelling (or in the terms, conditions, or privileges of such sale or rental) to any buyer or renter because of the physical or mental impairment of: (1) the buyer or renter; (2) a person residing in, or intending to reside in, such dwelling; or (3) any person associated with the buyer or renter. States that it shall be an act of discrimination to: (1) refuse to permit reasonable modifications, at the expense of the handicapped person, to afford such person enjoyment of the premises; (2) refuse to make reasonable accommodation in rules, policies, practices, or services to afford handicapped individuals equal opportunity to use and enjoy the dwelling; or (3) fail to design and construct multifamily dwellings (after a specified date) which are accessible to the handicapped. Provides certain limitations on the duties of accommodation and barrier removal. Sets forth guidelines for the establishment of requirements and promulgation of regulations by specified Federal entities with respect to: (1) the accessibility of buildings and transportation systems; (2) the implementation and enforcement of the requirements of this Act; (3) employment practices; (4) the sale and rental of housing; and (5) the removal of communication barriers. Establishes procedures for the administrative enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Establishes a civil right of action for individuals who are subjected to discrimination in violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1988
Designates August 7, 1989, as National Lighthouse Day and calls for lighthouse grounds, where feasible, to be open to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1988
Designates the decade beginning January 1, 1988, as the Decade of the Brain.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1988
Expresses appreciation and gratitude to Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson for her years of service to our Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1988
Women in Development Act of 1988 - Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to take specific steps to strengthen the Agency's women in development policy, including: (1) incorporating and increasing the active participation of local women and local women's organizations in its development activities; (2) instructing Agency staff and contractors to collect sex-disaggregated data and to insure that country strategies, projects, and programs are designed so that the percentage of women receiving assistance in proportion to the higher of their traditional participation in the targeted activities or their proportion of the population; (3) insuring that project and program evaluations include an assessment of the extent to which the project integrates women in the development process and of the project's impact on women; (4) increasing the number and responsibility of women in professional positions within AID; and (5) establishing within AID a task force on women in development. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that a minimum of $4,000,000 (currently, a maximum of $10,000,000) in funds made available for foreign assistance programs be used for programs to promote the participation and integration of women in the development process in developing countries. Requires that not less than $2,000,000 of such funds be extended as matching funds to support the efforts of AID field missions to integrate women into their programs. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress annually on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to be made available for the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1988
Designates the month of October 1988 as National Lupus Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1988
Designates July 2, 1988, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1988
Designates October 1988 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1988
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a plan to rehabilitate the Canarsie Pier in the Gateway National Recreation Area, New York, and the electrical systems at Floyd Bennett Field and Fort Tilden in such recreation area. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1988
Designates January 20, 1989, as National Skiing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1988
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency should encourage the use of biodegradable plastic bags and other degradable plastic applications; and (2) the General Services Administration should implement, when possible, the use of biodegradable bags and other degradable plastic products in its operations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1988
Designates September 1988 as National Library Card Sign-Up Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1988
Smart Start: The Community Collaborative for Early Childhood Development Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States and localities with approved plans and applications to assist them to expand or establish full-day early childhood development services for prekindergarten children. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out this Act, to: (1) use the expertise of early childhood experts in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (2) ensure that individuals administering this Act have expertise in the area of early childhood development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 to carry out this Act. Sets forth requirements relating to State and local eligibility for Federal assistance under this Act, including establishment or designation of a State Interagency Advisory Task Force and a Local Policy Group. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States. Reserves a portion of the funds for specified U.S. territories and possessions. Sets forth State allotment formulas based on a State's: (1) number of children five years old or under; (2) number of families with two parents, both of whom are in the labor force, who have one or more children five years old or under; (3) tax capacity index; and (4) tax effort index. Sets forth reallotment provisions. Sets forth provisions for Federal allocation of certain funds to localities. Directs the Secretary to make such allocations to localities from amounts that would be allotted to a State but will not be so allotted because the State elects not to participate in programs assisted under this Act. Makes such a grant to the locality equal to the amount to which it is entitled when ranked by the Secretary against other applicants from the same State. Sets forth provisions for within State reservation and allocation. Directs the Governor to reserve 25 percent of the State allotment for specified activities and to allocate the remaining 75 percent to localities with approved applications on a ranking basis. Sets the following limits on apportioning the 25 percent reserved funds: (1) maximum one percent for the State Interagency Advisory Task Force; (2) maximum four percent for administrative costs; (3) minimum five percent for grants to localities in nonmetropolitan areas and to localities to serve migrant and Indian children or, if no such localities apply, for discretionary grants; (4) minimum ten percent for discretionary grants to localities; and (5) minimum five percent for development and implementation of statewide training programs, and technical assistance to localities for training. Sets forth rules for twofold ranking of applications from localities based on the numbers of: (1) children five years old or under in families below the poverty line compared to the number of all children of such ages in the locality; and (2) families with children of such ages. Sets forth allocation rules. Requires that one-half of the funds be allocated to localities on the basis of each of the above indices, in order of their ranking. Requires the State to provide uniform allocations per child and per family throughout the State in allocating Federal funds and the State portion of the non-Federal share. Prohibits any locality funded under specified provisions from receiving less than $25,000 in total Federal and State funds provided this Act. Sets forth provisions for planning grants. Allows any locality to apply for a six-month planning grant to the State or, if the State does not participate, to the Secretary. Requires planning grant funds to be deducted from the total funds the locality would otherwise be eligible for in the first year of the program. Sets forth application requirements. Sets forth provisions for State Interagency Advisory Task Forces. Requires any State desiring to receive assistance under this Act to establish such a Task Force. Requires each Task Force to report annually to the Governor and the Secretary on the status of early childhood development programs and child care programs operating within the States. Allows a State to use an existing comparable task force for such purposes. Sets forth provisions for a Lead State Agency. Directs the Governor to designate such an agency to administer the early childhood development programs assisted under this Act in the State. Requires such agency to be selected from the State educational agency, the State department of social services, or the State agency for child development or child advocacy. Sets forth requirements for the State application and the State plan. Sets forth provisions for Local Policy Groups. Requires any locality desiring to receive a grant under this Act to form such a Group. Requires each Group to report annually to the State Interagency Advisory Task Force on the status of early childhood development programs and child care within the locality. Allows localities to use existing comparable Groups. Sets forth requirements for local applications and service delivery plans included in such applications. Requires selection of a local administering agency by specified local officials from among the local education agencies, local social services agency, local child development agencies, and local resource and referral agency. Sets forth selection criteria and duties of a local administering agency. Requires localities to submit applications to the Lead State Agency in a participating State, or to the Secretary if they are in a nonparticipating State. Sets forth provisions relating to eligible children and families. Sets forth an age requirement for participation. Makes any child eligible to participate in programs assisted under this Act: (1) in the school year prior to the school year in which the child would be eligible under State law to enter kindergarten; or (2) at age four, in localities that do not offer kindergarten programs. Permits any State or locality which has served all children of the eligible age group requesting services to use funds to serve children: (1) in the school year two years prior to the school year in which they would be eligible under State law to enter kindergarten; or (2) at age three. Allows States or localities to use funds to expand existing programs serving children aged three through five years, if specified maintenance of effort provisions are met. Sets forth family contribution requirements. Provides services under this Act without charge to eligible children in families with incomes under 115 percent of the poverty line. Requires, for eligible children form families with incomes above 115 percent of the poverty line, payment of fees on a sliding scale up to the full cost of such services. Requires the State, or the locality in a nonparticipating State, to develop such sliding scale on the basis of income level and family size. Prohibits: (1) total fees for all eligible children in a family receiving services under this Act from exceeding ten percent of a family's gross income; and (2) maximum fees per child from exceeding the cost per child of the services provided. Sets forth provisions for general use of funds by service providers and for authorized activities for which grants may be used. Sets forth minimum standards, for service providers, including maximum group size and child to adult ratios, staff training and credentials, parental involvement, and health, safety, and nutrition requirements. Sets forth administrative provisions including provisions for withholding of payments and judicial review of such withholding. Provides protection for continuing activities of Head Start agencies by prohibiting the denial to any such an agency of continued use of a local educational agency facilities by reason of selection of either to administer a program with funds under this Act. Sets forth evaluation provisions. Requires Local Policy Groups to: (1) arrange for periodic on-site evaluation of local programs by reviewers including community members and early childhood development experts not directly involved in program administration; and (2) report annually to the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to: (1) arrange for periodic on-site monitoring, inspection, and evaluation of programs by reviewers who are not directly involved in program administration; and (2) report annually to the Governor and the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, either directly or by grant or contract, to provide for continuing evaluation of programs, especially on the use of nonparticipant control groups. Requires such evaluations to be conducted by persons not directly involved in the administration of the program being evaluated. Authorizes the Secretary to require States or localities to provide for independent evaluations. Directs the Secretary to arrange to obtain specific views of persons participating in and served by the programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish results of evaluations within 90 days of their completion; and (2) submit copies to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions, including rules against employment or services discrimination on the basis of handicap. Sets forth provisions relating to program payments, the Federal share of program costs, and maintenance of efforts. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce the non-Federal share under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1988
Designates August 9, 1988, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1988
Condemns the use of chemical weapons by Iraq and calls upon Iraq to halt the use of such weapons. Commends the President for his prompt condemnation of Iraq's recent chemical weapons attack on civilians. Urges the President to: (1) seek allied cooperation to tighten controls on the export of chemical compounds to countries seeking to develop a chemical weapons capability; (2) make appropriate diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing or using chemical weapons; and (3) intensify American efforts at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament and in bilateral discussions with the Soviet Union to achieve an arms control agreement banning the production, use, and transfer of chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1988
Designates the period commencing September 25, 1988, and ending October 1, 1988, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1988
Lower Mississippi Delta Development Act - Establishes the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission to study and make recommendations concerning the economic needs and economic development of the Lower Mississippi Delta, defined to include areas in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Directs the Commission, among other things, to: (1) study the projected ten-year economic needs of the region; (2) review existing Federal, State, local, and private programs for business development and financing; (3) develop inventories of the region's business resources and natural resources; (4) study the role of small business in creating jobs in the region; and (5) make recommendations to the Congress regarding tax policies, business development programs, investment incentives, infrastructure development, and a number of other economic development issues. Requires the Commission, no later than one year after its first meeting, to present its required findings and recommendations to specified congressional leadership and committees, the President, and the Governors of the affected States. Requires termination of the Commission within one year after submission of its report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1988
Designates the month of November 1988 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1988
Directs the President to designate the month of May 1988 as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1988
Designates the week of June 5 through June 11, 1988, as National Intelligence Community Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Nurse Education Reauthorization Act of 1988 - Title I: Special Projects - Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to: (1) increase nursing opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by providing faculty development directed at facilitating retention of such individuals; (2) provide training and education to upgrade skills of paraprofessional nursing personnel with priority given to rapid transition programs towards undergraduate degrees; and (3) provide training and education to develop curricula for baccalaureate and masters degrees in nursing. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for various special projects for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, in making grants and contracts relating to advanced nurse education, to give priority to programs with innovative curricula that permit individuals to rapidly achieve advanced degrees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires programs for the education of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives to have an enrollment of not less than six full-time equivalent students. (Current law requires not less than eight students.) Allows those receiving traineeships to fulfill their commitment to practice as a nurse practitioner or nurse midwife in the Indian Health Service, a Native Hawaiian health center, a migrant health center, or a community health center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts with schools of nursing for projects to demonstrate and evaluate innovative nursing practice models designed to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses to provide long-term, home, or nursing home care. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to develop, establish, and operate from one to five regional model professional nurse recruitment centers, including centers in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Assistance to Nursing Students - Authorizes appropriations for traineeships for advanced education of professional nurses for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for traineeships for nurse anesthetists for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing for scholarships to full time undergraduate students in financial need, the amount of the scholarship not to exceed tuition and fees, with priority given to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires that students receiving loans from schools of nursing under specified provisions be in need. (Current law requires them to be of exceptional financial need.)
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Amends the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 to declare that its requirements do not apply to motor vehicles used solely for fire fighting purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Designates April 6, 1988, as National Student-Athlete Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Designates the period of April 17 through April 24, 1988, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Directs the Federal Communications Commission to establish and implement a telecommunications relay system to increase access to Federal departments and agencies for users of Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDDs). Requires the system and its associated plans to include: (1) expansion of the existing relay system to a prescribed minimum service level; (2) accessibility of TDDs in Federal agencies; (3) publication of a TDD directory of Government access numbers; (4) adoption and display of logos identifying TDD stations; and (5) support for the development of cost-effective and hardware-based technologies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988 - Title I: Student Assistance - Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) to exclude from the definition of "allied health professionals" individuals who have received a degree in social work or an equivalent degree. Sets ceilings on the total principal amount of new loans made and installments paid pursuant to lines of credit to borrowers covered by Federal loan insurance under specified provisions relating to loans to graduate students in health professions schools for FY 1989 through 1991. States that no insurance may be granted for any loan made or installment paid after September 30, 1994. Requires that the total principal amount of Federal loan insurance available in each fiscal year be granted without regard to any apportionment or other similar limitation. Requires interest on federally insured student loans under title VII to be compounded not more frequently than semiannually. (Current law requires the interest to be compounded semiannually.) Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to sell without recourse notes or other evidence of loans received by the United States through assignment by the insured after default. Prohibits a State statute of limitations from barring an action by an insured against a borrower if the action is commenced within six years of default. Removes provisions defining "school of allied health" as used in subpart I (Federal Program of Insured Loans to Graduate Students in Health Professions Schools) of part C of title VII. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund with an institution that has a graduate program in clinical psychology or allied health and that is located in a State. Allows institutions to make loans to students to pursue a course of study leading to a doctoral degree in clinical psychology or a bachelor of science in allied health or an equivalent degree. Requires the Secretary to make specified principal and interest payments on behalf of certain loan recipients who have received such degrees. Requires the Secretary to make the payments for a loan recipient who receives those or other specified degrees and who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to practice his profession as a full time faculty member, without receiving a stipend or fellowship, in certain health professions schools. Prohibits a State statute of limitations from barring an action by a school against a borrower if the action is commenced within six years of the date of default. Authorizes appropriations for making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of schools which have established the funds under specified provisions. Requires not less than 30 percent of the amounts appropriated in each fiscal year to be allocated to schools of allied health. Makes all schools which established such funds eligible for reallotment of funds from a student loan fund returned to the Secretary in any fiscal year. (Current law makes schools which established funds during a specified period eligible for reallotment.) Delays the period during which a capital distribution of the balance of the loan fund established by each school is required, changing it from between September 30, 1991, and December 31, 1991, to between September 30, 1994, and December 31, 1994. Amends part C (Student Assistance) of title VII to create a new subpart on traineeships. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to accredited schools of public health to provide traineeships in biostatistics, epidemiology, health administration, health planning, health policy analysis, environmental or occupational health, dietetics and nutrition, preventive medicine or dentistry, or maternal and child health. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Removes a requirement that students be in their first year of study in order to be eligible for certain health professions scholarships for students of exceptional financial need. Sets forth the elements of which the scholarships may consist. (Current law sets forth the same consistency as required rather than allowed.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Grants to Improve the Quality of Schools of Public Health - Amends part E (Grants to Improve the Quality of Schools of Public Health) of title VII of the Public Health Service Act to require capitation grants to be made for schools of public health for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires matching non-Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions setting forth eligibility requirements for capitation grants. Title III: Grants and Contracts for Programs and Projects - Amends title VII of the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in making grants for the establishment of departments of family medicine, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and student and resident teaching activities with departments of internal medicine and pediatrics where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, under existing provisions relating to contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy for the planning, development, and operation of area health education center programs, to enter into contracts to establish and support programs that include training of personnel to offer maternal health services and child health services, including oral health screening and treatment, in underserved areas, giving priority to areas along the border between the United States and Mexico, frontier areas, and areas of disproportionately high infant mortality. Revises project eligibility criteria and program requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, in making grants and entering into contracts for projects concerning residency training programs in internal medicine or pediatrics, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and resident teaching activities with departments of family medicine where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, in making grants and entering into contracts for projects concerning professional training programs in family medicine, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and resident teaching activities with departments of internal medicine and pediatrics where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Revises the list of permissible uses for grants and contracts made under existing provisions to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession, including allowing the paying of stipends to students enrolled in certain structured summer academic enrichment programs. Requires all individuals participating in activities supported by a grant to have completed to 10th grade of high school, or the equivalent. Requires certain types of schools receiving a grant to increase, during a period of three years, their first year enrollments of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by at least 20 percent, subject to exception. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Replaces provisions relating to grants for two-year schools of medicine, interdisciplinary training, and curriculum development with provisions authorizing the Secretary to: (1) make grants to schools that provide the first or last two years of education leading to the degree of doctor of medicine or osteopathy; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts for the development and implementation of model projects in areas such as faculty and curriculum development, and development of new clinical training sites. Requires that priority in making grants and entering into contracts for the model projects be given to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, chiropractic, allied health, and to graduate programs in health administration and clinical psychology. Requires grant applications to be subject to peer review. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, osteopathy, and public health for residency training programs in preventive medicine. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private entities for the training of physician assistants. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless the recipient has mechanisms for placing graduates. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for two-year schools, faculty and curriculum development, training in preventive medicine, and programs for physician assistants for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with health professions schools for assisting in meeting the costs of the schools of providing projects relating to geriatric training. Requires peer review of applications. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, schools of osteopathy, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs for traineeships and fellowships to train physicians and dentists who plan to teach geriatric medicine or geriatric dentistry. Authorizes appropriations for costs of geriatric training and for traineeships and fellowships in geriatrics for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for the training of physician assistants. Changes the eligibility criteria for grants to health professions schools for minority education to require the applicant to have received a contract under specified provisions relating to advanced financial distress assistance in FY 1987. Title IV: Programs for Personnel in Health Administration and in Allied Health - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to grants for graduate programs in health administration to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make annual grants to educational entities to support graduate educational programs in health administration, hospital administration, and health planning. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to certain educational entities for traineeships in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning. Authorizes appropriations for grants for graduate programs in health administration and for grants for traineeships in health or hospital administration or health policy analysis and planning for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions relating to traineeships for students in certain graduate programs, public health traineeships, and training in preventive medicine. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with eligible entities to assist in meeting the costs of planning, developing, establishing, operating, and evaluating specified types of allied health projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational entities offering an allied health program to assist students in meeting the costs of entry level education. Requires that 80 percent of the funds available for the grants be used in connection with programs relating to the rehabilitation needs of the elderly population. Exempts from taxation any payment to or on behalf of a participating student of tuition under these provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational entities to meet the costs of projects: (1) involving doctoral programs for the advanced specialty training of allied health professionals who plan to teach and conduct research; and (2) provide financial assistance in the form of traineeships or fellowships to certain doctoral and postdoctoral students in an allied health discipline. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Replaces provisions relating to educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training with provisions directing the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and provide technical assistance to, any non-profit entity to establish a uniform allied health professions data reporting system to collect, compile, and analyze data on the allied health professions personnel. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991.