United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to authorize appropriations for: (1) FY 1993 through 1995 for construction and renovation of emergency shelters or half-way houses for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers; (2) FY 1991 through 1995 to the Secretary of the Interior to assist the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York for the development of tribal law enforcement and judicial systems to aid in the investigation and control of illegal narcotics traffic on the St. Regis Reservation along the border with Canada; (3) for FY 1992 through 1995 to the Secretary to construct or renovate juvenile detention centers; and (4) FY 1993 through 1995 to the Secretary for grants to the Navajo Tribe to establish a demonstration program in Gallup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Greens Creek Exchange Act - Title I: Purposes and Definitions - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to encourage economic development of mineral deposits in the Greens Creek area of the Admiralty Island National Monument. Title II: Greens Creek Subsurface Exchange - Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to grant to the Sealaska Corporation the subsurface estate in the Greens Creek lands. Directs the Sealaska Corporation to convey certain specified lands to the United States in exchange for the grant of such subsurface estate. Title III: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions with respect to the Greens Creek subsurface estate.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Directs the Secretary of State to commence negotiations with certain nations which import or export anadromous fish or anadromous fish products to secure a general agreement with them prohibiting international trade in such products unless they are accompanied by a valid Certificate of Legal Origin containing information that they were lawfully harvested. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate regulations providing for the issuance of Certificates of Legal Origin. Requires a certification from the Secretary of Commerce to the President whenever the Secretary finds that a nation is unlawfully engaging in the trade of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
National Teacher Recruitment Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Title I: National Teacher Job Bank - National Teacher Job Bank Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with one or more State entities, nonprofit organizations, or institutions of higher education to pay the Federal share of the costs of establishing a National Teacher Job Bank Clearinghouse or Clearinghouses (either one national job bank or not more than six regional clearinghouses that together provide the services of a national job bank). Title II: Teaching Apprenticeship Program - Teaching Apprenticeship Program Demonstration Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for programs that: (1) compensate for underrepresentation of ethnic and language minorities, individuals with disabilities, and gender among school faculty in the various academic disciplines; and (2) help promising apprentices acquire the education necessary to become employed full-time as teachers. Allows such awards to individual LEAs, consortia of LEAs, and LEA partnerships with other entities. Title III: Teaching Experience for Minorities - Minority Teaching Experience Act of 1990 - Part A: Young Teachers Program - Directs the Secretary to make grants to LEAs with at least 30 percent of total enrollment composed of children eligible for the disadvantaged children program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as well as LEA consortia and partnerships with other entities, for long-term programs to encourage and support young individuals, especially minorities and individuals with disabilities, to become involved in teaching. Allows such funds to be used for both pre-secondary and secondary school activities. Part B: College Student Teaching Program - Directs the Secretary to make three-year renewable grants to institutions of higher education which have existing teacher training programs to recruit and retain minority students and students with disabilities interested in teaching. Title IV: Financial Assistance for Future Teachers - Part A: Paul Douglas Scholarship Enhancement - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise provisions for Congressional Teacher Scholarship Programs (known as Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarships). Extends such program through 1995 and removes a limitation on the number of students who may receive scholarships. Retains the scholarship award amount for the first two academic years of postsecondary education, but increases it for the additional two years of study in preparation for teaching. Gives priority in selection of such scholarship winners to members of groups underrepresented in the teaching profession, such as minorities and individuals with disabilities. Doubles the annual amount of the authorization of appropriations for such program. Extends such authorization through FY 1995. Part B: College Work-Study Teaching Incentive - Amends HEA to provide that the Federal Government shall pay 100 percent of the work-study compensation of college students employed in teaching-related activities for schools and nonprofit organizations. Title V: Special Projects for Outstanding Teachers - Amends HEA to provide for a sevenfold increase in the annual amount of the authorization of appropriations for the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program (a national fellowship program for outstanding teachers). Extends such authorization through FY 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Fair Treatment Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise, with regard to alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services block grants, the formulas for determination of allotments and minimum allotments to States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Conditions U.S. adherence to any treaty terminating Allied occupation rights in Germany and in Berlin on Germany's unequivocal recognition that its present borders are legal and unalterable.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an individual upon the insured's becoming terminally ill. Provides that applicants for or recipients of assistance under the Social Security Act may not be required to elect to receive accelerated death benefits under life insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Innovative Boot Camp Prison Act of 1990 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grants to States to carry out projects that demonstrate innovative alternatives to the imprisonment of individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses. Includes boot camp prisons as such alternatives, in conjunction with drug treatment, literacy education, vocational education, and job training programs. Makes drug testing and treatment mandatory for drug offenders. Sets forth: (1) application procedures and requirements for grants; and (2) procedures for review of applications. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 and 1992 for: (1) grants to tribally-controlled community colleges; (2) technical assistance contracts; (3) the renovation and construction of Bureau of Indian Affairs facilities for use by such colleges; and (4) the Tribally Controlled Community College Endowment Program. Amends the Navajo Community College Act to authorize appropriations for construction grants for the Navajo Community Colleges for FY 1991 and 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979.)
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1990 - Title I: Compensation - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the rates of, and limitations on, Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation to coincide with benefit increases under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Requires such rate increases to be published in the Federal Register. Extends the presumption of service-connection, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' disability compensation, to cover members of the reserves who participated in a radiation-risk activity while serving on active duty for training or inactive duty for training. Title II: Health Care - Extends through FY 1991 a pilot program under the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 for the provision of mobile health-care clinics for the treatment of veterans residing at least 100 miles from a Department of Veterans Affairs treatment facility. Increases the maximum limitations for the provision of certain home health services to disabled veterans. Title III: Insurance - Makes totally disabled veterans qualifying for a waiver of the premium for service disabled veterans' insurance eligible for supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans. Increases from $40,000 to $90,000 the initial amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance available to certain veterans granted assistance in securing suitable housing. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Extends through 1993 the period in which a veteran of the Vietnam era will be considered as such for purposes of eligibility for job training, counseling, and placement services. Expands the current authority of the Secretary to acquire and provide housing for homeless veterans in order to allow acquisitions to provide transitional housing for veterans recovering from substance abuse or mental illness disabilities. Extends such program through 1993. Establishes in the Treasury the Transitional Housing Fund for the provision of housing and loans to assist veterans in recovering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities. Outlines loan conditions and conditions for veterans residing in housing provided. Requires the Secretary to issue guidelines for the operation of such residences. Makes permanent (current law terminates on March 1, 1991) the requirement that the Department provide information and counseling about the effects and alternatives to foreclosure to veterans who default on Department-guaranteed home loans.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates March 23, 1990, as National Energy Education Day to promote and enhance energy education programs at all grade levels of public and private schools.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Calls upon the United Nations to repeal General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism). Commends the President for his commitment to this goal and requires progress reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Title I: National Writing Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract with the National Writing Project (a nonprofit educational organization) to support costs of programs of teacher training and classroom research to improve the teaching of writing and the quality of student writing and learning. Directs the Project to establish a National Advisory Board. Title II: Research and Development - Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to individuals and higher education institutions for research on the teaching of writing. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
CRNA Payment Amendments of 1990 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish uniform national fee schedule payment rates for certified registered nurse anesthetist services.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Provides for a permanent endowment for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that at least half of the annual income on such endowment be available only to assist U.S. fellows in traveling to and studying in emerging European democracies.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates October 14, 1990, as Dwight D. Eisenhower Day commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eisenhower's birth. Requests Members of Congress who are members of the Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission to make arrangements for a joint meeting of the Congress in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Violent Crime Control and Criminal Procedures Reform Act of 1989 - Title I: Federal Death Penalty Act of 1989 - Federal Death Penalty Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. Requires the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading of the jury. Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Sets forth special aggravating factors with respect to the crimes of treason, espionage, homicide, and attempted murder of the President. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant in its consideration of the sentence. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the Court of Appeals, upon considering the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Prohibits requiring any employee of any State department of corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, or any provider of services under contract to participate in any execution if contrary to his or her moral or religious convictions. Limits the circumstances under which the offense of delivering defense information to aid foreign governments is punishable by death. Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for: (1) murders committed by prisoners in Federal correctional institutions; (2) kidnappings which result in the death of any person; (3) attempting to kill the President of the United States (if such attempt results in bodily injury or comes dangerously close to causing the President's death); (4) murder in the aid of a racketeering activity; (5) engaging in a criminal enterprise activity which results in death; and (6) other specified offenses. Title II: Reform of Procedures for Collateral Review of Criminal Judgments - Reform of Federal Intervention in State Proceedings Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal judicial code to condition consideration of a habeas corpus claim by a prisoner on a showing of actual prejudice resulting from the Federal right violated and that: (1) State action precluded assertion of that right; (2) the Federal right did not previously exist; or (3) the factual basis of the claim could not have been discovered by reasonable diligence. Establishes a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners, and a two-year statute of limitations for similar motions made by Federal prisoners. Vests authority to issue certificates for probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. Permits denial on the merits of habeas corpus writs notwithstanding the failure to exhaust State remedies. Prohibits the granting of a habeas corpus writ with respect to any claim which has been fully and fairly adjudicated in State proceedings. Title III: Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that evidence obtained by a search or seizure undertaken in an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution is admissible. States that evidence obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant constitutes prima facie evidence of such a reasonable belief, unless the warrant was obtained through intentional or material misrepresentation. States that, except as provided by statute or a rule of procedure, evidence which is otherwise admissible shall not be excluded on the ground that the evidence was obtained in violation of a law, rule, or regulation. Title IV: Firearms and Related Amendments - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the transfer of firearms to non-residents of the State in which the transferor resides. Provides for the disposition of forfeited firearms. Classifies as serious drug offenses for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 serious drug offenses committed by juveniles. Specifies that if a conviction was for a violent felony involving the threatened or actual use of a firearm or explosives, or was for a serious drug offense, such person shall be considered convicted for purposes of this Act irrespective of any pardon, setting aside, expunction, or restoration of civil rights. Permits the judicial officer to consider pretrial detention with respect to certain firearms and explosives offenses. Provides enhanced penalties for: (1) the use of a semiautomatic firearm during a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense; and (2) possession of a firearm or explosive during the commission of such offenses. Sets forth penalties for smuggling firearms in aid of drug trafficking and for theft of firearms and explosives. Bars the sale or possession of firearms and explosives to or by persons convicted of violent or serious misdemeanor drug or narcotic offenses. Provides for the mandatory revocation of the supervised release of an individual for possession of a firearm. Increases penalties for: (1) making knowingly false, material statements in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a licensed dealer; and (2) a second offense of using an explosive to commit a Federal felony. Prohibits the assembly of semiautomatic rifles or shotguns which are prohibited from being imported into the United States, with exceptions. Title V: Drug Testing of Defendants on Post-Conviction Release - Requires: (1) the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a program of drug testing of criminal defendants on post-conviction release; and (2) the chief probation officer in each district to arrange for the drug testing of such defendants. Requires, as an explicit condition of probation, parole, or supervised release of a defendant involving a felony or a specified violent or drug offense, that the defendant refrain from any unlawful use of a controlled substance and submit to periodic drug tests. Sets limitations on the authority to require such tests and to take action against a defendant based on test results. Title VI: Public Corruption - Anti-Corruption Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prescribe criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who uses any facility of, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of a State, political subdivision, or Indian tribal government of: (1) the honest services of a government official or employee; or (2) a fair and impartially conducted election process through the use of fraudulent ballots or voter registration forms, paying or offering to pay any person for voting, or the filing of fraudulent campaign reports, subject to certain conditions. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed against anyone who deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of the United States of the honest services of a public official. Prescribes criminal penalties to be imposed upon any official who: (1) uses interstate commerce to deprive or defraud the inhabitants of any State, political subdivision, or Indian tribal government, of the right to have government affairs conducted on the basis of complete, true, and accurate information; or (2) in order to carry out or conceal any scheme or artifice to defraud, discriminates, harasses, or takes adverse action against any employee or official of the United States or any State or political subdivision. Authorizes such an adversely affected employee or official to obtain relief through a civil action, provided such person did not participate in the scheme or artifice. Amends mail fraud provisions to prohibit use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. Makes it a class B felony for a public official to corruptly demand or accept anything of value, personally or for another, in return for: (1) being influenced in the performance or nonperformance of any official act; or (2) being influenced to commit, collude in, or allow the commission of any offense against the United States or any State. Makes it a class B felony for a public official to corruptly give, offer, or promise anything of value, to an official or to another, with intent to: (1) influence any official act; (2) influence such official to commit, collude in, or allow the commission of any offense against the United States or a State; or (3) influence such official to do or omit any act in violation of such official's lawful duty. Grants Federal jurisdiction over an offense under this Act (with respect to narcotics-related corruption) which involves or is intended to further or conceal the illegal importation, manufacture, transportation, or distribution of any controlled substance or controlled substance analogue. Title VII: Facilitation of Undercover Investigations - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that, wherever it is an element of an offense that any property was embezzled, stolen, counterfeited, or altered and that the defendant knew that the property was of such character, such element may be established by proof that the defendant, after or as a result of an official representation as to the nature of the property, believed the property to be embezzled, stolen, counterfeited, or altered.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow the imposition of the death penalty, when the crime does not involve killing, upon individuals found to be principal organizers of a continuing criminal enterprise involving the manufacture or distribution of large quantities of illicit drugs or if the criminal enterprise receives $10,000,000 from illicit drug operations. (Current law provides for mandatory life imprisonment.) Changes minimum sentences for crimes involving the killing of law enforcement officers. Amends procedures, guidelines, and aggravating and mitigating factors relating to the imposition of the death penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Benjamin Franklin Memorial Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Minting of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin - Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin Act - Provides for the sale of Benjamin Franklin commemorative coins at a surcharge of which 25 percent shall be paid to the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the remainder be distributed in specified percentages to the National Fire Center and Museum Account, the National Hero Scholarship Account, the Firefighter's Tuition Assistance Account, the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account, the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account, and the Burn Research Grant Account of the Firefighter Assistance Trust Fund (Fund). Prohibits the issuance of such coins from resulting in any net cost to the Federal government. Title II: Fire Service Bill of Rights - Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to establish a fire service bill of rights. Establishes the National Fire Center and Museum in the District of Columbia to provide information about the fire service and safety to the public and fire services. Funds such museum exclusively through the Fund. Establishes a National Hero Scholarship to fund the higher education of the children or spouse of a deceased firefighter. Establishes a scholarship providing tuition assistance to firefighters for higher education in fire safety or protection. Authorizes the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to use amounts in the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account of the Fund to fund other specified programs under the Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Establishes the Firefighters Assistance Trust Fund. Places the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control within the United States Fire Administration. Directs the Administrator to use funds from the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account of the fund to procure computer equipment for fire services that want such equipment. Directs the Administrator to make a grant from the Burn Research Grant Account of the Fund to one national firefighter's burn foundation dedicated to reducing burn injuries. Requires the Administrator to prepare and make available to State fire marshals, upon request, a manual describing Federal procedures for disposing of surplus property and highlighting how fire services could obtain such property. Directs the Administrator to distribute to such marshals information on the infectious diseases to which firefighters are particularly vulnerable.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Missile Equipment and Technology Control Act of 1989 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to set forth measures regarding control by the United States of the transfer of nuclear-capable missile equipment and technology. Requires the President to deny the issuance of export licenses to or ban the importation of products from a foreign person that has exported or imported missile equipment and technology in violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime Annex. Prohibits the U.S. Government from procuring goods and services from such persons, except in specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Fishery Conservation Amendments of 1989 - Amends provisions of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act) relating to determination of the total allowable level of foreign fishing in a fishery subject to the exclusive fishery management authority of the United States to remove references to involvement in that determination of fishery management councils and the Secretary of State. Replaces provisions controlling the setting by the Secretary of Commerce of fees for foreign fishing permits with provisions requiring that the Secretary set reasonable fees. Directs the Secretary of State to begin negotiations to secure international agreement to a moratorium on driftnet fishing beyond the exclusive economic zone of any nation until it is agreed that the adverse effects of such fishing can be prevented and certain goals ensured. Directs the Secretary, if the Secretary identifies any nation that conducts, or authorizes its nationals to conduct, driftnet fishing inconsistent with a multilateral agreement, to certify that fact to the President. Deems the certification to be a certification for purposes of provisions of the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 relating to restrictions on the importation of fishery or wildlife products. Allows staff members of Regional Fishery Management Councils to be reimbursed for expenses. Declares that decisions and recommendations made by scientific and statistical committees of Councils are advisory in nature. Requires a Federal agency responding to a comment or recommendation by a Council, if it concerns anadromous fishery habitats, to include a description of mitigating or offsetting measures being considered. Changes requirements regarding Councils with respect to: (1) closed meetings; (2) participation by members of the public in certain processes; and (3) presentation of false information to Councils. Changes, with regard to fishery management plans: (1) the required and discretionary contents; and (2) requirements regarding the confidentiality of statistics. Adds to the list of prohibited acts: (1) knowingly stealing, removing, damaging, or tampering with fishing gear or fish in fishing gear; (2) forcibly assaulting, resisting, intimidating, or taking other similar actions with regard to any observer on board a vessel under the Magnuson Act; and (3) engaging in driftnet fishing. Makes it a prohibited act under the Magnuson Act to fish in the waters of a foreign nation in violation of an international fishery agreement. Increases the maximum monetary civil penalty for committing a prohibited act. Allows the Secretary, in connection with the commission of a prohibited act, to revoke, suspend, or deny a permit, or to impose additional conditions and restrictions on a permit. Provides for other matters relating to permit sanctions. Adds such assaulting or intimidating of an observer to the list of criminal offenses under the Magnuson Act. Increases the maximum criminal fines and includes references relating to observers in punishment provisions. Creates a rebuttable presumption that any fish of certain types of species that is found on a vessel is of U.S. origin if certain conditions are met. Allows the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of the Treasury, for certain purposes, to make payments from sums received as fines, penalties, or forfeitures for violations of any fishery resource law enforced by the Secretary, including the Lacy Act Amendments of 1981. (Current law authorizes payments from sums received for violations of the Magnuson Act.) Changes the list of acceptable purposes. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Magnuson Act. Prohibits an observer on a vessel under the Magnuson Act who is ill, disabled, injured, or killed from service as an observer from bringing a civil action under any U.S. law against the vessel or its owner, subject to exception. Prohibits requiring a vessel to carry an observer if its facilities are so inadequate or unsafe that the health or safety of the observer or the safe operation of the vessel would be jeopardized. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to specified congressional committees on the status of the National Marine Fisheries Service facilities located in Kodiak, Alaska. Sets forth the sense of the Congress that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council should include in fishery management plans such measures as necessary to meet the economic needs of all individuals and communities dependent on the living marine resources in the exclusive economic zone of Alaska. Authorizes the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to submit a fisheries research plan which: (1) requires observers on vessels to collect fisheries conservation and management data; and (2) establishes fees to pay plan costs. Sets forth plan requirements and authorizes appropriations. Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the conservation and management measures governing the groundfish fisheries under the authority of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council include specified measures. Allows the Council and other Councils to recommend, and the Secretary of Commerce to approve, other specified and analogous measures. Allows, in addition, the Council to recommend, and the Secretary to approve, measures, including time and area closures and gear restrictions, to ensure that fishing vessels associated with eligible economically disadvantaged fishing communities in Alaska are given access to and opportunity to catch groundfish, subject to certain restrictions. Authorizes the Governor of Alaska to recommend that a community be designated as eligible. Directs the Secretary, upon receipt of a recommendation from the Governor, to so designate a community if it meets certain requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Corporate Integrity and Full Disclosure Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to reduce from ten to five days the period within which an acquirer of more than five percent of certain securities must report such acquisition to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and to each registered national securities association. Prohibits additional acquisitions by such a person until after such report has been filed with the SEC. Requires the SEC to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to require specified independent appraisal rules for transactions regarding: (1) repurchase of securities by the issuer (corporate restructures through leveraged buyouts); and (2) additional securities purchases by a person who is the owner of more than five percent of the same issuer's securities. Makes a person who violates the Act's margin requirements liable to certain private persons aggrieved by the violation (including individual shareholders and the issuer of the securities in question). Declares it is unlawful for a securities issuer's affiliate to purchase such issuer's securities in contravention of SEC rules. Defines such affiliate to include corporate managers who acquire five percent or more of a surviving corporation within three years of its stock repurchase. Authorizes the SEC to: (1) bring an action for a civil penalty in Federal district court for certain violations; and (2) seek equitable relief such as injunctions and orders compelling divestiture for such violations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Commends Taiwan on its efforts to strengthen democratic institutions. Urges: (1) the authorities on Taiwan to continue to address human rights concerns and to send a strong signal of Taiwan's continued commitment to democracy and the rule of law, a key test of which will be the elections on December 2, 1989; and (2) the Administration to convey U.S. concern over legal actions taken against Taiwanese citizens because of their political activities and statements while in the United States.
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