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United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1988
Designates October 6, 1988, and October 6 of each year thereafter as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1988
Designates the month of November 1988 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1988
Designates August 20, 1988, as Drum and Bugle Corps Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1988
Declares that the President should: (1) posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charles E. Thornton, Lee Shapiro, and Jim Lindelof in honor of their efforts to document the Afghan struggle for freedom; and (2) present the award to those individuals' families on March 21, 1988, the start of the new year in Afghanistan.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1988
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Sergeant at Arms, in exercising authority to compel the attendance of absent Senators pursuant to rule VI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, should comply with certain conditions in the execution of arrest warrants.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1988
Designates the week beginning June 12, 1988, as National Scleroderma Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1988
Expresses the support and gratitude of the Senate for the efforts and achievements of the U.S. athletes at the XV Winter Olympics.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1988
Expresses the opposition of the Senate to the continued control of the cathedral in Vilnius, Lithuania, by the Soviet Union. Calls upon the President, the Secretary of State, and Members of Congress visiting the Soviet Union to raise the issue of the cathedral's return to the Roman Catholic Church in meetings with Soviet officials. Urges U.S. representatives to speak out forcefully for such a return at international human rights forums. Voices the House of Representatives' support to the Lithuanian people in their efforts to secure basic religious freedoms and the return of the cathedral. Urges the Soviet Government to allow Roman Catholics to worship at the cathedral and to return it to Roman Catholic Church control before the end of 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988
Designates the period commencing November 13, 1988, and ending November 19, 1988, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that rules requiring the capitalization of preproductive costs shall not apply with respect to livestock bred by the taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1988
Designates the month of November 1988 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1988
Designates the week beginning April 10, 1988, as National Child Care Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1988
Designates the week of April 24 through April 30, 1988, as National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1988
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 24 through April 30, 1988, as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1988
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 21, 1988, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Authorizes the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct a statue of a woman Vietnam veteran within the Vietnam Veterans Memorial site in Washington, D.C., to honor and recognize the women of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam conflict. Subjects the location and design of the statue to approval by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the addition of the statue is well within the intent of the law authorizing the establishment of the Memorial; and (2) after the addition of such statue, such Memorial will be complete and no further additions to the site should be authorized or undertaken.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Designates April 9, 1988, and April 9, 1989, as National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Designates the week of June 5 through June 11, 1988, as National NHS-NeighborWorks Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Designates March 4, 1988, as Department of Commerce Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) report to the Congress his intention to initiate negotiations on a new long-term agricultural trade agreement with the Soviet Union; (2) seek to include in the terms of such agreement specified provisions concerning the purchase of U.S. agricultural goods by the Soviet Union; (3) no later than May 30, 1988, report to the Congress on the impact of such agreement on U.S. economic growth and agriculture-related employment; and (4) take appropriate measures to assure the free movement of increased quantities of U.S. agricultural products to the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $45,000,000 to $60,000,000 the amount permissible in the Boat Safety Account in the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund without triggering a prohibition of transfers into the Account from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1988 and thereafter. Extends from April 1, 1989, to October 1, 1999, the date before which expenditures may be made from the Boat Safety Account for recreational boating safety programs. Grants the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating liquidating contract authority with respect to State recreational boating safety programs in an amount equal to one-half (currently two-thirds) of the amount of motorboat fuel taxes transferred to the Boat Safety Account in FY 1988 and thereafter. Increases from one-third to one-half the portion of such funds available for Coast Guard services in connection with recreational boating safety services. Prohibits fiscal year expenditures for Coast Guard expenses from exceeding those for State boating safety programs generally. Amends Federal law to permit a State to use contributions of funds, materials, lands, and services to carry out certain fish restoration and management projects in lieu of paying its share of the activity.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1988
Designates the week of May 8 through May 14, 1988, as National Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1988
Asbestos in Schools Amendment Act of 1988 - Amends the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 to extend, to October 12, 1989, the deadline for local educational agencies to submit asbestos in schools management plans to their State Governors. Extends the deadline for implementing such plans to July 9, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1988
Workers' Health Insurance Demonstration Act of 1988 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title concerning employee health insurance pilot programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve pilot projects for the development and marketing of low-cost small business health insurance plans. Declares that approved plans shall not be subject to State laws concerning certain aspects of health benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects to study the feasibility of a health information brokering service to address the needs of small employers in obtaining health insurance benefits by providing technical assistance. Requires, if such brokering service is feasible, that development funding be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to approve up to three demonstration projects to extend coverage for medical assistance, other than for services under provisions of title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to employees of small employers if: (1) employers are unable to obtain insurance at no more than the average premium cost in their State or locality; and (2) other conditions relating to premium payment and premium cost off-set against the required Federal and State matching shares are met. Requires that the projects be conducted in a rural area, an urban area, and in an industry that has a high number of uninsured workers. Authorizes the Secretary to approve pilot projects to study, develop, and market mechanisms, not including State risk pools for high risk individuals, that address the problems of providing affordable health insurance to targeted elements of the employed, high risk population. Directs the Secretary to develop up to three projects to evaluate the effectiveness of providing subsidies to self-employed individuals as an incentive to purchase health insurance. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act, including the impact of extending the requirements of the Act to all employers in all States. Authorizes the Secretary to approve: (1) a survey of small businesses to identify the factors involved in decisions to offer or not offer employee health insurance; and (2) a pilot project to develop plans and a marketing and delivery system based on the results of the survey. Authorizes the Secretary to waive compliance with any Federal regulation, including the commonality of employment interest restriction, if certain safeguards are present. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a pilot project to develop a regional voluntary employee beneficiary association to provide health insurance in an industry in which the average employer size is less than 25 employees. Authorizes the Secretary to waive compliance with any Federal regulation, including the geographic area restriction, if certain safeguards are present. Prohibits the Secretary from approving certain projects authorized by this Act unless the applicant will expend, from non-Federal sources, at least one-third of the amount of the grant. Requires approved applicants to submit an annual report evaluating their projects. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress an evaluation of the success of any project designed to increase the number of employees of small employers who have health insurance that is conducted by an entity that has received no Federal funds under this Act. Directs the Secretary to transfer amounts appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, for FY 1988 through 1990, for programs that provide medical services for the uninsured, for the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1988
Atomic Energy Law Enforcement Act of 1988 - Specifies that the proposed Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States and the Government of Japan Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy shall not become effective unless: (1) the President resubmits the Agreement to the Congress pursuant to procedures required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 with an exemption from the requirements of the Act concerning nuclear safeguards; and (2) the Congress enacts a joint resolution stating that it favors the Agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1988
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the U.S.S.R. to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates June 14, 1988, as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of the Baltic Republics to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1988
Designates the week beginning October 2, 1988, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1988
Designates the month of April 1988 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the excise tax on diesel and aviation fuels. Declares the tax inapplicable in connection with sales of these fuels for use on a farm for farming purposes. (Although fuel sold for these purposes is tax-exempt under current law, provisions of the Revenue Act of 1987 require purchasers to pay the tax and subsequently apply for a refund based on nontaxable uses of the fuel.)
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
Designates the period beginning May 16 and ending May 22, 1988, as National Safe Kids Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 December 1987
Thanks the Honorable John C. Stennis, President pro tempore, for the manner in which he presided over the Senate during the first session of the 100th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1987
Directs the President to coordinate groundwater related activities conducted by Federal agencies, including the dissemination of information. Directs the President to establish an Interagency Committee on Groundwater Protection to coordinate research, and development, demonstration, technology transfer, training, and information dissemination activities related to groundwater activities conducted by Federal agencies, including establishing priorities. Requires the Committee to report annually to the Congress. Directs the President to establish the Advisory Committee on Groundwater Protection to ensure that the programs carried out by the member agencies of the Interagency Committee on Groundwater Protection meet the needs of State and local governments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1987
Designates May 1988 as Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1987
Public Health Service Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to emergency medical services for children to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States, public and nonprofit private entities, and academic institutions for the development, establishment, and operation of regional centers for pediatric emergency medical services. Requires such centers to: (1) train health professionals; (2) provide for the appropriate use of bilingual personnel; (3) conduct research on prevention and treatment; and (4) conduct activities relating to prevention, including dissemination of information to the public. Directs the Secretary to make a grant for FY 1988 for a feasibility study on establishing and operating a National Center for Pediatric Emergency Medical Services (National Center). Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to submit an application for the grant and, if the Institute submits an acceptable application, to make the grant to the Institute. Directs the Secretary, in the absence of an acceptable application from the Institute, to request an application from one or more nonprofit private entities and to make the grant to the entity submitting the best acceptable application. Directs the Secretary, after reviewing the report prepared under such grant and consulting with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians, if a National Center is feasible, to make grants for FY 1989 and each succeeding fiscal year for the establishment and operation of a National Center. Requires the National Center, with regard to pediatric medical emergencies, to: (1) develop and disseminate standards and quality assurance mechanisms; (2) facilitate training of health professionals; and (3) develop and disseminate to the public information on the prevention of, and responses to, such emergencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) remove certain restrictions on the authority of the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with health professions schools related to geriatric medicine and care; (2) expand the authority of the Secretary to make grants and contracts for geriatric medicine training projects to include podiatrists as well as physicians and dentists; (3) require that the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education include a representative of a school of clinical psychology; and (4) add graduate programs in clinical psychology to provisions relating to discrimination on the basis of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1987
Designates the week of April 17, 1988, as Crime Victims Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1987
Food, Drug, and Device Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to combine into a single class I those medical devices currently in class I (for which general controls are sufficient) and class II (for which performance standards are required). Redesignates current class III devices (devices for which premarket approval is required) as class II. Revises procedures for establishing medical device performance standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish performance standards for any medical device regardless of its classification. (Under present law, the Secretary may establish performance standards only for class II devices.) Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards by informal notice-and-comment rulemaking in consultation with an appropriate advisory committee. Allows the Secretary to obtain injunctions against the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit drugs and the making, selling, or concealing of the equipment used to make them. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary, upon request of a manufacturer, certify batches of antibiotics for conformity to applicable standards of identity, strength, quality, and purity. Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal requirements that the Secretary: (1) study and report to the Congress on State and Federal control of health hazards from electronic product radiation; and (2) submit an annual report on the administration of the electronic product radiation control program. Repeals the Filled Milk Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1987
Designates the period of June 11 through June 18, 1988, as National Dairy Goat Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1987
Designates April 1, 1988, as Run to Daylight Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1987
Designates the week of May 8 through May 14, 1988, as National Soccer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1987
Designates the period of September 5 through September 11, 1988, as National School Dropout Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1987
Designates the week of April 10 through April 16, 1988, as National Productivity Improvement Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1987
Designates the week of May 1 through May 7, 1988, as National Older Americans Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1987
Student Loan Default Reduction Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set forth provisions relating to default rates under the guaranteed student loan program. Allows a guaranty agency, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, to cease to provide insurance for student loans at an otherwise eligible institution if the cumulative default rate of loans from such institution in repayment: (1) exceeds 30 percent of the amount of all guaranteed student loans at that institution insured by all guaranty agencies before October 1, 1991; and (2) exceeds 25 percent of the amount of such loans after September 30, 1991. Provides for reinstatement of such loan insurance if the eligible institution reduces the default rate. Allows the guaranty agency to enter into agreements whereby the eligible institution may make principal and interest payments on defaulted loans in order to reduce such default rate. Requires eligible institutions which have guaranteed student loan default rates in excess of 30 percent to endorse such loans. Makes change of address or status notice requirements applicable to borrowers and institutions both during and after enrollment and attendance. Requires (currently authorizes) guaranty agencies to furnish eligible institutions, upon request, specified information on students who are delinquent or have defaulted on guaranteed student loans. Requires that such information include names and addresses of such students. Requires the eligible institutions to review the names and addresses and report corrections to the appropriate guaranty agency. Authorizes guaranty agencies to request from eligible institutions information on student withdrawals, default rates, admissions policies, and placement rates. Requires eligible lenders to furnish to appropriate eligible institutions lists of names of student borrowers who are delinquent in repayment of guaranteed student loans, their last known address, and the amount of the loan in delinquent status. Requires eligible institutions to report to eligible lenders on the last known address and subsequent change of address of all student borrowers who are delinquent or in default on repayment of guaranteed student loans. Lowers from 100 to 95 percent the portion of the loss resulting from the default of a student borrower for which the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) must reimburse a guaranty agency under the guaranteed student loan program. Directs the Secretary, through the Division of Eligibility and Certification of the Office of Postsecondary Education, to review the default rates of eligible institutions under the guaranteed student loan program at least once in every 12-month period and notify any institution with a cumulative default rate of 30 percent or higher for loans before October 1, 1991, and 25 percent or higher for loans after September 30, 1991, that it is likely to be placed on probation and is, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, subject to loss of its status as an eligible institution for up to one year. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such suspensions. Requires the suspended institution, in order to be reinstated, to demonstrate that it has taken actions to reduce its default rate. Directs the Secretary annually to publish data showing default rates by eligible institutions, guaranty agencies, and eligible lenders. Requires eligible institutions under the guaranteed student loan program to have policies of substantial tuition refunds to students who withdraw from the program after an enrollment period of less than seven days. Revises the definition of administrative costs of supplemental preclaims assistance to exclude reference to preclaims assistance which is merely permitted, rather than required, under specified provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United Nations (UN) and the Human Rights Commission have acted selectively and inconsistently in addressing human rights violations in various countries; (2) the UN General Assembly and the Commission have failed to responsibly address the deplorable human rights situation in Cuba despite overwhelming evidence of abuse; (3) the President, Secretary of State, and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN are to be commended for their efforts to place Cuba on the UN's human rights agenda and urged to continue their efforts; (4) specified countries should be commended for their votes in favor of considering such violations by Cuba; (5) the United States urges specified Commission member States to support the U.S. resolution on Cuban human rights at the next Commission session; (6) the United States should take such vote into consideration in determining U.S. assistance to all countries which are Commission members; (7) the United States should continue to emphasize how other countries vote on fundamental issues such as human rights when determining financial support for the UN and the Commission; and (8) the Commission should include Cuban human rights violations among the highest priorities of its human rights agenda at its 44th session in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1987
Designates March 25, 1988, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1987
Authorizes the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to establish a statue of a woman Vietnam veteran within the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to honor and recognize the women of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam war. Expresses the sense of the Congress that after the addition of such statue, no further additions to the site should be authorized or undertaken. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select a site for the statue within the Memorial. Makes the design proposal subject to the approval of the Secretary and the National Capital Planning Commission. Prohibits the United States or the District of Columbia from paying any expense of establishing the statue. Provides that authorization for the statue shall lapse unless: (1) the establishment of such statue is commenced within five years of the date of approval of this resolution; and (2) the Secretary certifies that sufficient funds to complete the statue are available prior to groundbreaking. Makes the Secretary responsible for the statue's maintenance and care. Exempts the Secretary from the requirement of seeking the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts in implementing this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1987
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to regulate a polygraph as a medical device under such Act. Amends the Civil Rights Act to make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to sanction polygraph testing procedures which include questions for an employee or an applicant for employment concerning race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to sanction polygraph testing procedures which include questions for an employee or applicant for employment concerning membership in or opinions concerning a labor organization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1987
Designates the week of May 8 through May 14, 1988, as National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1987
Designates the week of February 7 through February 13, 1988, as National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1987
Individual Appropriations Act - Requires the committee of conference to report a separate conference report for each title of a bill or joint resolution making continuing appropriations for a period of 30 days or more, together with any amendments in disagreement for each title. Requires each title to be assigned a bill number and considered separately. Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives and the Senate: (1) to consider such bill or joint resolution unless each title corresponds to a regular appropriations bill; and (2) for any general provisions of such bill or joint resolution not to be contained in the appropriate title. Excludes any bill or joint resolution making supplemental appropriations from provisions of this Act. Makes such Act applicable to FY 1988, 1989, and 1990.