United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991
Biennial Budget Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting and appropriations cycle and timetable, beginning in the 103d Congress. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Devotes the first session of any Congress to the budget resolution and to appropriations decisions, retaining current deadlines in most cases. Changes relevant deadlines as follows to conform to the biennial scheme: (1) from April 1 to March 31 for the Senate Budget Committee's report on the concurrent resolution on the budget; (2) from June 15 to September 30 for completion of congressional action on reconciliation legislation; and (3) from June 30 to September 30 for completion of congressional action on appropriations bills. Devotes each second session to authorization activity, subject to deadlines of: (1) May 15 for the submission of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report to the Budget Committees; and (2) the last day of the session for completion of congressional action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget authority for the next biennium. Changes from January 15 to February 15 of each year the date by which the CBO Director must submit to the Congress a report on authorizations. Requires the Director of the CBO to issue four-year projections of congressional budget action. (Current projections are on a five-year basis.) Amends provisions relating to the reconciliation process to: (1) increase from 20 to 100 hours the time of debate permitted in the Senate with respect to reconciliation measures; and (2) make it out of order in both the House and the Senate to consider any reconciliation legislation changing any provision of law other than one relating to new budget or spending authority, revenues, or the public debt limit. Revises the extent of projections to be included in CBO analyses of reported bills. Conforms provisions governing the President's budget to the biennial framework. Changes the due date for the President's report on estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority, making the report due at the same time as the President's budget. Requires the Joint Economic Committee to submit its evaluation of these estimates by February 25 of each odd-numbered year. (The current annual deadline is March 1.) Directs the heads of Federal executive agencies, the Comptroller General, and the Directors of the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Congressional Research Service to provide studies, analyses, reports, and other documentation concerning program administration to assist the standing committees of the House and the Senate having jurisdiction over the programs in question. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to conform to the biennial framework.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1991
Establishes a Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress to: (1) make a full and complete study of the organization and operation of the Congress; and (2) recommend improvements in such organization and operation with a view toward strengthening its effectiveness, simplifying its operations, improving its relationships with other branches of the Government, and improving the orderly consideration of legislation. Requires a report to the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than the adjournment sine die of the 102d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
White Clay Creek Study Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania for potential addition to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete and report on the study within three years after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to: (1) prepare a map of the White Clay Creek Watershed in Delaware and Pennsylvania; and (2) to develop a protection and management plan for the Creek. Directs the Secretary to prepare the study and such plan in cooperation with appropriate State and local governments and affected landowners.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays (except those for repayment of debt principal) do not exceed total receipts (except those derived from borrowing), unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts by a three-fifths majority vote of both Houses. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget. Authorizes waiver of these provisions in time of war. Sets a permanent limit on the amount of Federal public debt, prohibiting any increase unless legislation enacted by a three-fifths majority of both Houses becomes law.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow farmers' cooperatives to elect to treat as ordinary income or loss certain capital gains and losses from the disposition of assets used in conducting business with or for patrons.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1991
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise requirements for the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan Program. Revises requirements for guaranty agreements for reimbursing losses. Requires a guaranty agency that receives reimbursement payment from the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to assign, within 30 days of payment receipt, to the Secretary the promissory note for the loan on which such payment has been made. Makes such agency liable to the United States for collection costs if the Secretary succeeds in collecting any payment on such note from the borrower. Requires that any funds thus collected be deposited in the student loan insurance fund. Requires a guaranty agency which has made payment on a default claim to file for such reimbursement by the later of: (1) the 45th day after making such payment; or (2) the 270th day after the loan became delinquent with respect to any installment. Prohibits the Secretary from making any such reimbursement to a guaranty agency when a default claim is based on inability to locate the borrower, unless the guaranty agency demonstrates, in the filing for reimbursement, that diligent attempts have been made to locate the borrower through all skip-tracing techniques, including skip-tracing assistance from the Internal Revenue Service, credit bureaus, and State motor vehicle departments. Repeals specified provisions relating to the Secretary's equitable share of payments made by the borrower. Revises requirements for disbursement of student loans. Prohibits an eligible lender from selling a promissory note for any loan made, insured,or guaranteed under the Stafford Program until all proceeds of such loan have been disbursed. Requires the seller and purchaser of any such loan to notify the borrower at the time of its sale as to the sale and its effects on the borrower. Repeals specified provisions which: (1) limit imposition of civil penalties on lenders or guaranty agencies for specified violations, failures, or misrepresentations; (2) allow them to correct such violations to avoid liability for such penalties prior to an enforcement action; and (3) deem as a single violation subject to a single penalty a number of such violations which arise from a specific practice. Revises the definition of due diligence to cover the making (as well as the servicing and collection) of loans insured under the Stafford Program. Revises provisions for the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make necessary rules and regulations to ensure that the purposes for which Sallie Mae was established are accomplished. Authorizes the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) examine and audit Sallie Mae's books and financial transactions; and (2) require Sallie Mae to report on its activities. Requires Sallie Mae to provide for the conduct of an annual independent compliance audit (in addition to financial audit requirements) by an independent certified public accountant, in accordance with Federal standards, to determine its compliance with HEA. Grants such auditor and the Inspector General access to all items necessary for such audit. Establishes Stafford Program requirements for State approval of proprietary trade schools. Requires such approval to consist of a qualitative review and assessment of the school's facilities and activities, including on-site inspection. Requires that such State higher education agency approval extend for a period of not more than three years. Sets forth proprietary school application approval requirements, State approval criteria, and revocation procedures. Requires separate certification, approval, and accreditation to be obtained if a proprietary trade school or branch changes ownership resulting in a change of control, or if the school opens a new branch. Revises general provisions for program participation agreements, for all HEA student assistance programs, to remove requirements that certain hearings be on the record. Revises HEA to require each loan servicing agency and entity acting as a secondary market to provide for the conduct of annual independent compliance and financial audits. Requires reports to the Secretary on any financial interest held in any other entity participating in any student assistance program by officers, directors, employees, and consultants of specified entities engaged in making decisions or providing advice on administration of any such program or funds or the eligibility of any entity or individual to participate. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish: (1) the position of Assistant Secretary for Student Financial Assistance; and (2) the Office of Student Financial Assistance Oversight and Enforcement, to be administered by that Assistant Secretary. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, or a designee, to assist the Secretary in determining if Stafford Program student loan borrowers are using true and correct social security numbers when applying for such loans. Requires Federal and State financial regulatory agencies to provide the Secretary with information pertaining to an institution participating in any HEA student financial assistance program, upon a request pursuant to the Secretary's oversight responsibilities. Requires the Inspector General to review and report to the Congress on the role of guaranty agencies within the Stafford Program, examining their operations and relationship with State governments. Requires such report to consider and make recommendations on specified topics, including increasing agency oversight of proprietary trade schools, increasing disincentives for high default rate portfolios, and consolidation or elimination of the agencies' role. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress: (1) on the the advisability of statutory protection for officials of accrediting agencies involved in the performance of legitimate Stafford Program activities; and (2) on the feasibility of setting limits on the type of proprietary trade school education that Federal funds should subsidize. Directs the President, with the Secretary's assistance, to report to the Congress on how to: (1) develop greater support and respect for skills training; (2) determine what skills the United States needs; (3) promote the most effective balance between skills training and academic forms of postsecondary education; and (4) develop the most useful balance between Federal loans and grants in the provision of skills training.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Base Community Recovery Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat any former employee of a Federal military installation whose job was terminated by reason of its closing or realignment as a member of a targeted group for purposes of the target jobs credit allowed to employers. Allows such employees a terminated employee tax credit of up to ten percent of wages attributable to private employment within the base closure region for one year. Reduces the depreciation recapture rate for businesses that acquire buildings on such bases, and increases the amount which may be expensed for the cost of new equipment placed in service. Prescribes the treatment of qualified base closure bonds by: (1) making termination dates for qualified small issue bonds inapplicable to them; (2) not taking into account certain capital expenditures; and (3) increasing the State ceiling on the volume cap.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1991
Congressional Budget Office Neutrality Act of 1991 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act to provide that appointment of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office be made after consideration of recommendations of the chairmen and ranking minority members of the House and Senate Budget Committees. (Current law specifies only the recommendations of such Committees). Requires the Director to carry out duties in an objective and nonpartisan manner. Prohibits the Office from altering information compiled at the request of a Member or Committee of the Congress, unless such Member or Committee agrees to the change. Requires the Director to notify the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or the Senate Select Committee on Ethics of any attempt by any Member or congressional employee to unduly influence the Office with respect to the contents of its response to any request for information or any report. Requires cost analysis estimates of congressional legislation to include direct and indirect costs. Establishes a Congressional Budget Office Board to: (1) provide general oversight of Office operations; (2) approve in advance the undertaking of any studies and reports in addition to those required by law; and (3) provide general guidance to the Director in the formulation and implementation of procedures and policies. Directs the Office to establish an Economic Advisory Council to: (1) review and make recommendations to the Board on Office activities; (2) evaluate the quality and objectivity of Office research and reports; and (3) undertake additional tasks as the Board may direct. Subjects the appointment of the Director to approval by concurrent resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1991
Amend the Internal Revenue Code to restore foreign tax credits for taxes paid or accrued to Angola, unless the Secretary of State certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury that the Peace Accords for Angola are not being implemented.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1991
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 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue: (1) five dollar gold coins emblematic of Benjamin Franklin's contributions to the advancement of science; (2) one dollar silver coins emblematic of Benjamin Franklin's contributions to the American Fire Service. Sets forth sale and issuance guidelines, including a general waiver of procurement regulations and surcharge distributions. Title II: Fire Service Bill of Rights - Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to set forth a fire service bill of rights, including the right of responding fire services to: (1) know the kind of danger presented by hazardous materials they face in emergency responses; and (2) be fully informed of infectious diseases their members face during the course of life safety activities. Declares that the bill of rights does not create any private right of action.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1991
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit the noncompetitive awarding of insurance contracts on certain Government-supported exports.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991
Telephone Advertising Consumer Rights Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any person within the United States from: (1) making any telephone solicitation in violation of regulations prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pursuant to this Act; (2) using any telephone facsimile (fax) machine or automatic telephone dialing system that does not comply with prescribed technical and procedural standards, or in a manner that does not comply with such standards, to make any telephone solicitation; (3) using any fax machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement in violation of any such regulations; (4) using any automatic telephone dialing system to make unsolicited calls to an emergency telephone line or pager of any hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, or fire protection or law enforcement agency, to any telephone number assigned to paging, specialized mobile radio, or cellular telephone service; or (5) using a computer or other electronic device to send an unsolicited advertisement via a fax machine unless such person clearly marks the date and time it is sent, an identification of the business sending the advertisement, and the telephone number of the sending machine or business. Directs the FCC to initiate a rulemaking proceeding concerning the need to protect residential telephone subscribers' privacy rights and to compare and evaluate alternative methods and procedures for protecting such rights. Requires the FCC to implement the most cost-effective methods and procedures for protecting such rights, which may entail establishing and operating a single national data base to compile and make available for purchase a list of the telephone numbers of such subscribers who object to receiving telephone solicitations. Directs the FCC to: (1) revise the regulations setting technical and procedural standards for fax machines to require that any fax machine manufactured after six months after the enactment of this Act clearly marks the date and time sent, an identification of the business or other entity sending the advertisement, and the telephone number of the sending machine or business. (Exempts for 12 months fax machines that do not have the capacity for automatic dialing and transmission and that are not capable of operation through an interface with a computer.) Requires the FCC to prescribe standards for automatic telephone dialing systems used to transmit any prerecorded telephone solicitation, including the requirements that: (1) all prerecorded telephone messages clearly state the identity and telephone number or address of the business or other entity initiating the call; and (2) such systems will, as soon as is technically practicable after the called party hangs up, automatically create a disconnect signal or on-hook condition which allows the called party's line to be released. Requires the FCC to prescribe rules to restrict the use of any fax machine, computer, or other electronic device to send any unsolicited advertisement to the fax machine of any person.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991
Designates September 20, 1991, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Authorizes the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Provides that the flag may be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1991 (Memorial Day), and on September 2, 1991 (Labor Day). States that it is the sense of the Congress that the POW/MIA flag be displayed under this Act as an expression and symbol of the concern and commitment of the people and the U.S. Government to resolving the uncertainty relating to members of the U.S. armed forces who are missing in action or whose locations are unknown as result of United States foreign wars (including those members who may still be prisoners of war).
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1991
Employee Benefits Simplification and Expansion Act of 1991 - Title I: Nondiscrimination Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to employee benefit plans. Redefines the term "highly compensated employee" for pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans, etc., purposes. Makes such employee one who is a five-percent owner or who has compensation from the employer in excess of $50,000. Provides a special rule where no employees are treated as highly compensated. Provides that the cost of living adjustment with respect to any calendar year is based on the increase in the applicable index as of the close of the calendar quarter ending September 30 of the preceding calendar year. Requires the rounding of such amounts to the nearest $1,000, except that elective deferrals and elective contributions to simplified employee pensions are to be rounded to the nearest $100. Allows an employer to determine an employee's compensation solely by reference to such employee's base pay. Provides that the minimum participation rule applies only to defined benefit pension plans. Requires such plans to benefit not less than 25 employees, or the greater of 40 percent of all employees or two employees (or if there is only one employee, such employee). Sets forth alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements for cash or deferred arrangements, including specified contribution and notice requirements. Sets forth alternative methods of satisfying the nondiscrimination test for matching contributions. Revises the method for distributing excess contributions to highly compensated employees. Title II: Distributions - Allows distributions from qualified pension plans to be rolled over tax-free to an individual retirement account or another qualified plan or annuity. Eliminates five-year forward averaging for lump-sum distributions from qualified plans. Requires certain tax-free distributions to be made in the form of a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to an eligible individual retirement plan. Sets forth administrative requirements in making such distributions. Requires distributions to be made from qualified plans by April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (1) the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70; or (2) the calendar year in which the employee retires. (Present law requires such distributions no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the employee attains age 70 1/2.) Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the definition of a leased employee to include one whose services are performed under the control of a service recipient, instead of one whose services are historically performed by employees. Replaces the 59 1/2- and 70 1/2-year age requirement with 59- and 70-year age requirements for specified pension plans. Eliminates the special aggregation rules that apply to plans maintained by owner-employees that do not apply to other qualified plans. Makes the 150 percent current liability limitation on the deduction allowed for employer contributions to qualified pension plans inapplicable to multi-employer plans. Repeals the present law annual valuation requirement for such plans and applies the prior law requirement that valuations be performed at least every three years. Sets forth affiliation requirements for employers jointly maintaining a voluntary employees' beneficiary association. Provides that compensation, in the case of a governmental plan, includes any amount which is contributed by the employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which is not includible in the gross income of an employee under cafeteria plans, cash or deferred arrangements, tax-exempt organization or public school annuities, State or local government plans, or deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations. Makes the following limitations inapplicable to plans maintained by State and local governments and certain tax-exempt organizations: (1) excess benefit limitations; (2) compensation limitation on benefits; and (3) limitations on disability and survivor benefits. Allows government plan employers to revoke the grandfather election on the limitation to equal accrued benefits. Modifies provisions relating to simplified employee pensions. Increases the number of allowable participants for salary reduction arrangements from 25 to 100. Allows participation after one year of service (currently, three years of service is required). Repeals the requirement that at least 50 percent of eligible employees participate in a salary reduction arrangement. Eliminates certain requirements regarding contributions on behalf of disabled employees. Allows rural cooperative plans which include cash or deferred arrangements to make distributions to participants after attainment of age 59. Includes reports of pension and annuity payments in information returns and payee statements. Eliminates reports of designated distributions from the scope of the $25 per day penalty. Provides a $10 reporting threshold for designated distributions. Makes tax-exempt organizations eligible for cash or deferred arrangement pension plans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1991
Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 1991 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from diminishing existing allocations of spectrum (available radio frequencies) to the amateur radio service after January 1, 1991. Requires the FCC to provide replacement spectrum to the service for any frequency reallocation after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1991
Impacted Communities Assistance Act of 1991 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to assume jurisdiction over that part of the real property of a closed military installation which is suitable for transfer as soon as the Secretary of Defense: (1) closes such installation; and (2) renders the transferrable property environmentally safe in accordance with Federal law. Directs the Administrator, as soon as possible after assuming such jurisdiction, to offer title to such real property first to the local community affected by the closure of such military installation. Provides that if the local community refuses such property (or fails to accept such property within six months), the Administrator shall offer the property successively to the county involved, the State of the installation, other Federal departments and agencies, and the highest bidder. Provides for the disposition of property located in more than one local community or county. Authorizes the Secretary or the Administrator to sever from property so transferred that property not suitable for transfer because of environmental concerns or other valid reasons, including a finding that development of such property would destroy an environmental heritage. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to include appropriate representatives of the local community in all discussions and decisions concerning the disposition of a closed military installation. Requires the local community, county, or State receiving such property to agree: (1) that if the property is sold within ten years after the date of conveyance, the entity involved must pay the United States 25 percent of the proceeds from such sale; (2) to make available to the Comptroller General all necessary information; and (3) to such other terms and conditions as determined necessary by the Administrator to ensure the acceptance of such property at the earliest possible date by the impacted community. Outlines actions to be taken by the Administrator if a local community, county, or State fails to comply with any such condition. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1991
Alternative Fuels Incentive Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the costs of qualified clean-burning (natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, or alcohol) motor vehicle fuel property or refueling property. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make equivalent payments to States and to local governments in connection with qualified property.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1991
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1991 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for 1992 through 1996. Title II: Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork on the Public - Makes Federal agencies accountable for reducing the burden of Federal paperwork on the public. Makes the Act applicable to all federally sponsored paperwork. Requires a Government-wide paperwork reduction goal of at least five percent and individual agency goals that aggregate to the Government-wide goal. Title III: Enhancing Federal Agency Responsibility and Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork - Makes the senior official charged with carrying out the responsibilities of the agency under the Act the head of a separate office with qualified staff responsible for assuring agency compliance with requirements under the Act. Requires each agency to prepare estimates of burden that will result from proposed collections of information. Establishes a certification process for the review of each information collection request before it is submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. Title IV: Enhancing Government Responsibility and Accountability for Reducing the Burden of Federal Paperwork - Makes the OMB Director responsible for ensuring that all information collection requests display an estimate of the paperwork burden for each response. Requires OMB procedures in order for agencies to estimate the burden to comply with proposed collections of information. Require coordination with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to eliminate paperwork burdens associated with procurement and acquisition. Requires OMB pilot projects to test approaches to improve information management practices and related activities. Reduces the time afforded the OMB Director for approving a routine agency request to collect information. Provides for greater participation by the public and Federal agencies in the review of proposed paperwork burdens generated by agency information requests. Requires the OMB Director to make publicly available any decision to disapprove a collection of information requirement contained in an agency rule, together with the reasons for such decision. Provides protection for whistleblowers of unauthorized Federal paperwork burdens. Provides for expedited OMB review of an agency information request with a reduced paperwork burden. Title V: Additional Government Information Management Responsibility - Revises the statistical policy and coordination functions of the OMB Director. Requires the OMB Director to: (1) establish an interagency working group on statistical policy, consisting of the heads of the agencies with major statistical programs, to coordinate agency statistical activities; and (2) provide training in the statistical policy functions of the chief statistician to Federal employees. Provides for Government-wide standards for sharing public information. Requires the OMB Director to develop a plan for meeting the automatic data processing needs of the Federal Government in accordance with the Act and certain requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Requires the OMB Director to make the Federal Information Locator System available on electronic media to Federal agencies and the public. Requires the OMB Director's annual report to the Congress to list any increased Federal paperwork burdens and describe each agency's plans to implement the applicable policies, standards, and guidelines under the Act. Title VI: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1991
Condemns the murder of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and others in the bomb explosion on May 21, 1991. Expresses regret over the deaths of Gandhi and other victims of election violence in India. Offers condolences to Gandhi's widow and children and to the people of India. Stands in solidarity with the Indian people in their effort to sustain the most successful democratic tradition in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1991
Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments concerned to prescribe the conditions under which female members of the armed forces may be assigned duty in aircraft that are engaged in combat missions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each licensee operating a television (TV) broadcasting station to make available without charge to any legally qualified candidate for the U.S. Senate an amount of broadcast time as determined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during the 45-day period preceding such election. Directs the FCC to: (1) determine the amount of TV broadcast time that such candidates may receive on the basis of the amount of broadcast time used by major party candidates in the previous Senate election, provided that at a minimum such candidates be provided sufficient time to make a complete presentation of views to the electorate in the pending election; and (2) ensure that such TV broadcast time be made available fairly and equitably and at hours of the day which reflect TV viewing habits and contemporaneous campaign practices. Requires that a legally qualified candidate of a party other than a party which obtained five percent or more of the popular vote in the last presidential election be granted an allocation of broadcast time in proportion to the amount of contributions under $250 such candidate has received when compared to such contributions received by candidates of the major parties, provided such proportion exceeds five percent. Directs the FCC to require licensees operating TV broadcasting stations to enter into a pooling agreement to ameliorate any disproportionate financial impact on particular licensees. Conditions the entitlement to TV broadcast time under this Act upon the candidate's: (1) signing an agreement to forego both the purchase of any additional amount of broadcast time and any additional time purchased by another candidate during the period that such time is made available; and (2) filing a copy of such agreement with the FCC. Sets forth penalties for any candidate who purchases or accepts purchased TV broadcast time in violation of such agreement. Subjects any licensee who sells TV broadcast time to a candidate who has filed an agreement in excess of the time to be provided by such licensee pursuant to this Act and FCC regulations to appropriate disciplinary action by the FCC, including an order requiring the licensee to provide an equal amount of time to other candidates for the same office or an order revoking the licensee's license. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude from the definitions of "contributions" and "expenditures" the value of TV broadcast time provided without charge by a licensee pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934. Directs the FCC to: (1) study the application of the provision of free TV broadcast time to Senate candidates and report the results, together with recommendations; and (2) evaluate the desirability and feasibility of extending such provision to primary and other election campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on 3-dimethylaminomethyleneiminophenol hydrochloride.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1996, the suspension of duty on 7-acetyl-1,1,3,4,4,6-hexamethyletrahydronaphthalene.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1991
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on n,n-dimethyl-n'(3-((methylamino)-carbonyl)oxy)-phenyl)-methanimidamide monohydrochloride.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1991
Designates the week beginning July 21, 1991, as Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week. Requires the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1991, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Amends the Home Owner's Loan Act with respect to the qualified thrift lender test to: (1) reduce the required percentage of a thrift's housing related assets; and (2) include as qualified thrift investments domestic residential real estate loans and loans held by savings associations made to purchase any Resolution Trust Corporation asset.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Foreign Tax Simplification Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt foreign corporations that are not doing business in the United States from the uniform capitalization rules in determining earnings and profits. Makes a technical correction to the definition of passive foreign investment company. Applies a separate foreign tax credit limitation for foreign corporations in which U.S. parent companies do not own a controlling interest. Requires that foreign tax credits claimed on foreign income be translated in U.S. dollars at the same rate as the income. Provides that the look-through rules for controlled foreign corporations do not apply to companies with less than $1,000,000 in all of their separate categories.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Designates May 22, 1991, as National Desert Storm Reservists Day to commemorate the accomplishments of the men and women of the reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces who proudly served the United States during Operation Desert Storm.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the accession of Taiwan to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is in the best interest of the United States and of the world trading system and should be achieved in an expeditious manner; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1991
Declares that the Senate expresses its: (1) regret that Senator Pryor's illness will require his absence from the Senate Chamber; and (2) heartfelt wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery, and that he return to his duties, serving the people of Arkansas, in the near future.
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