United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Provides direct Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) payments to hospitals for hospital-supported nursing or allied health education costs. Prohibits any reduction in Medicare payments to recoup such costs claimed for FY 1984 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1990
Pension Restoration Act of 1990 - Establishes a Federal annuity program, administered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, to compensate participants in plans which terminated before September 1, 1974, for nonforfeitable pension benefits lost by reason of the termination. Sets forth provisions for such annuity program relating to: (1) entitlement; (2) computation; (3) applications; (4) administrative appeals; (5) judicial review; (6) payment; (7) interagency coordination and cooperation; and (8) regulations. Provides for use of certain funds under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to pay such annuities and the administrative costs of such program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1990
Comprehensive Deposit Insurance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 1990 - Requires Federal banking agencies to take specified steps to strengthen capital standards for insured depository institutions, including: (1) requiring enough capital to facilitate prompt corrective action to prevent loss to the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF); and (2) improving risk-based standards and controlling interest-rate risk. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to facilitate the development of accounting principles for insured depository institutions that: (1) accurately reflect the economic condition of such institutions; and (2) facilitate effective supervision and prompt corrective action to resolve troubled institutions' problems at no cost to the BIF or SAIF. Mandates that the accounting principles applicable to insured depository institutions shall be no less conservative than generally accepted accounting principles. Permits the banking agencies to prescribe more conservative accounting principles than generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to meet the purposes of this Act. Prohibits an insured depository institution from making any capital distribution if it would be undercapitalized as a result. Requires an undercapitalized insured depository institution to submit a capital restoration plan within the time-frame established by the appropriate Federal banking agency. Specifies plan contents. Prohibits a Federal banking agency from accepting a capital restoration plan unless each company having control of the insured depository institution guarantees its compliance with the plan until the capital standards have been satisfied for 12 consecutive months and the institution provides appropriate assurances of performance. Mandates the establishment of deadlines by Federal banking agencies for plan submission and review. Prohibits an undercapitalized insured depository institution from increasing its total assets. Sets forth asset growth restriction guidelines. Authorizes banking agencies to set forth certain restrictions upon an undercapitalized insured depository institution that fails to submit an acceptable capital restoration plan within agency-set limits (or that fails in any material respect to implement a plan accepted by the agency). Prohibits an undercapitalized insured depository institution from making certain compensation or bonus payments to its executive officers if it fails to: (1) submit an acceptable capital-restoration plan within agency-set deadlines; or (2) implement a capital-restoration plan accepted by the banking agency. Mandates that Federal banking agencies specify by regulation "critical capital levels" so that problems of insured depository institutions can be resolved at no cost to the BIF or SAIF when the institution's capital falls below that level. Requires the concurrence of the Federal Deposit Insurance Agency (FDIC) for any critical capital level that is less stringent than that specified by the FDIC for State nonmember insured banks. Prohibits an insured depository institution from making any payments of principal or interest on its subordinated debt unless it has capital sufficient to meet the critical capital level after making such payment. Mandates that the appropriate Federal banking agency: (1) appoint a conservator or receiver within 30 days after an institution's capital falls below the requisite critical level; and (2) place specified restrictions upon such institution's activities. Exempts institutions for which a conservator or receiver has been appointed. Requires banking agencies to monitor: (1) undercaptialized insured depository institutions; and (2) compliance with capital-restoration plans and restrictions (including periodic reviews). Requires the inspector general of the appropriate Federal banking agency to report to the Comptroller General and the FDIC with respect to: (1) the agency's supervision of an insured depository institution which has caused a loss to either the BIF or the SAIF; and (2) why the agency failed to resolve the institution's problems at no cost to either insurance fund. Requires public disclosure of such report. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Bank Conservation Act, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to cite as additional grounds for appointment of a conservator or receiver of a depository institution: (1) inability to achieve capital compliance standards by selling shares or obligations; (2) non-compliance with capital standards; (3) failure to submit an acceptable capital-restoration plan within the prescribed time-frame; (4) material failure to implement a capital-restoration plan; and (5) failure to achieve prescribed critical capital levels. Authorizes the Comptroller of the Currency to appoint a receiver for national banks on the same non-compliance grounds. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize: (1) a banking agency to appoint the FDIC as sole conservator or receiver of any insured State depository institution; and (2) the FDIC to appoint itself as conservator or receiver for insured depository institutions to prevent loss to the affected deposit insurance fund. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to conduct an annual on-site examination of each insured depository institution under its purview. Exempts from such requirement institutions for which a conservator or receiver has been appointed. Authorizes the use of private contractors for such examinations. Provides that commitments made to specified regulatory agencies to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution may be enforced under this Act. Authorizes the FDIC to restrict any activity of insured banks that poses a significant risk to the affected deposit insurance fund. Prohibits an insured State bank and its subsidiaries from engaging as principal in any activity that is impermissible for a national bank and its subsidiaries, unless specified conditions have been met. Prohibits an insured depository institution from accepting deposits: (1) from unlicensed intermediaries; (2) unless it is in compliance with prescribed capital standards; or (3) for which it pays interest rates significantly exceeding those paid to non-intermediaries. Directs the FDIC to: (1) prescribe licensing regulations for intermediaries; and (2) establish a telephone verification system for customers to ascertain whether an intermediary is licensed. Authorizes the FDIC to promulgate regulations governing specified transactions between insured depository institutions and intermediaries. Directs the FDIC to satisfy its obligations to an institution's insured depositors according to guidelines for the least possible long-term cost to the affected deposit insurance fund. Provides that an affiliate of an insured depository institution shall be liable to the FDIC for up to a specified maximum of such institution's assets if the FDIC either: (1) incurs a loss in connection with such institution; or (2) provides assistance to an institution in danger of default. Authorizes the FDIC to: (1) establish a risk-based assessment system for insured depository institutions; or (2) obtain private reinsurance covering a specified maximum loss incurred by the FDIC with respect to such institutions; (3) base an institution's assessment rates on the cost of reinsurance; (4) establish separate risk-based and capital-based assessment systems for BIF and SAIF members; and (5) establish a capital-based assessment system for insured depository institutions. Prohibits deposits from being insured on a pro-rata or pass-through basis except for certain tax-exempt trusts and individual retirement arrangements. Requires all deposits at insured depository institutions to be registered under a taxpayer or employer identification number. Sets forth guidelines for the calculation of the amount of deposit insurance. Directs the FDIC to aggregate the amounts of all deposits in an institution registered under the depositor's taxpayer identification and to deduct any offsets. Sets forth guidelines for the certification of noninsured national non-member banks and State banks as insured depository institutions. Mandates that the financial status reports required of insured depository institutions with certain assets include: (1) estimates of the aggregate market value of assets and liabilities and the resulting estimated net worth and supporting data and assumptions used in preparing the estimates; and (2) disaggregated reports of assets, including participation in highly-leveraged transactions, holding of noninvestment grade securities, commercial and industrial loans by sector, and other assets as specified by the appropriate Federal banking agency. Requires each depository institution to submit reports to the appropriate banking agency regarding: (1) the names of holders of more than five percent of the insured institution's equity securities and the maximum amount of securities held by each such holder during the preceding quarter; and (2) a description of activities conducted by the institution and its subsidiaries that are not permitted for national banks or for bank holding companies, with data on the magnitude of the activity. Makes such reports available to the public. Mandates that Federal banking agencies report annually to the Congress regarding: (1) the estimated number and aggregate assets of insured depository institutions likely to fail in the ensuing three years; (2) how insured depository institutions and their subsidiaries conduct activities not permitted for national banks or for bank holding companies; (3) the number and assets of insured depository institutions in various stages of solvency and capitalization; and (4) the extent of compliance with cease-and-desist orders, supervisory agreements, and capital restoration plans. Requires the FDIC to include in its annual status report to the Congress certain information pertaining to failed depository institutions and institutions which are either on the problem bank list or likely to be on it. Sets forth guidelines for confidential access by the Comptroller General and the Congressional Budget Office to a banking agency's: (1) internal rating list of institutions; and (2) list of troubled institutions. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) review the oversight by the Federal banking agencies with respect to required reports of conditions; and (2) audit the failure estimates contained in specified reports. Requires an uninsured depository institution to disclose its uninsured status clearly and conspicuously on signature cards, passbooks, periodic statements of account, and in all advertising. Exempts from the disclosure requirements certain institutions not accepting retail deposits. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to facilitate the development of: (1) disclosure guidelines for the purpose of accurate financial status disclosure and prompt corrective action to resolve troubled institutions' problems at no cost to the BIF or the SAIF; and (2) interpretive guidelines of accounting standards for the early disclosure of problem loans, and to prevent delay in recognizing losses that may result in loss to the BIF or the SAIF.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1990
Take Pride in America Act - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Take Pride in America Office to: (1) establish a public awareness campaign to encourage responsibility toward, and promote participation in, caring for Federal, State, and local lands, facilities, and natural and cultural resources; and (2) conduct a national awards program to honor individuals and entities that have distinguished themselves in such activities. Sets forth administrative provisions concerning the Office. Authorizes the Office to use volunteers and to distribute pamphlets or other novelties to promote its purposes. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for travel, food, lodging, and transportation expenses paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard. Excludes the taxpayer's meal and entertainment expenses from deductibility limitations in this context.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide that the annual assessment rate for Bank Insurance Fund members shall be the rate the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors in its sole discretion determines to be appropriate to either: (1) maintain the reserve ratio at a level equal to the designated reserve ratio; or (2) restore the reserve ratio to the designated reserve ratio if it is less than that. Sets forth a minimum annual assessment for each member. Directs the FDIC to set assessment rates from time to time for insured depository institutions. (Currently such rates must be set annually.) Sets forth semiannual deadlines by which the FDIC must announce any change in the annual assessment rates.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the requirement that nonparticipating physicians file Medicare claims on behalf of all of their patients who are Medicare beneficiaries.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
National Emergency Anti-Profiteering Act of 1990 - Prohibits profiteering with respect to essential commodities following a presidential declaration of a national economic emergency. Establishes criminal penalties and civil remedies for such profiteering (including disgorgement of all profits earned). Sets forth guidelines for the duration of a national economic emergency. Authorizes the Congress to terminate by passage of a joint resolution the designation of a national economic emergency or of the essential commodities with respect to which it exists. Provides for judicial review of the President's determination regarding either an emergency or essential commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use crops. Limits to $100,000 assistance received under this Act or in combination with emergency livestock assistance under the Agriculture Act of 1949. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for assigned farm yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Title II: Orchards - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial orchardists who suffered 1990 weather-caused tree losses in excess of 45 percent. Title III: Forest Crops - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered 1990 weather-caused losses in excess of 45 percent. Title IV: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1989 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Requires assistance applications to be made by April 30, 1991, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title VI: Crop Insurance - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to exclude a 1990 crop's yield from the calculation of Federal crop insurance yields if such crop is eligible for assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1990
Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to increase the amounts of civil and criminal penalties which may be imposed for violations of a presidential embargo under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Children's Health Access and Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend Medicaid coverage to pregnant women, and children who have not attained age six, whose family income is no less than 100 percent and no more than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level. Requires Medicaid coverage of children who have attained age six but who have not attained age 19 and whose family income does not exceed 200 percent of the Federal poverty level if such children are not otherwise covered under the Medicaid program or under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) or part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act. Provides Federal coverage for all of the costs of such coverage. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on cigarettes. Establishes the Medicaid Expansion Trust Fund into which cigarette tax revenues shall be placed to finance this Act's expansion of Medicaid eligibility. Eliminates the cigarette tax increase at the close of FY 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs. (Under current law the exclusion expires for taxable years beginning after September 30, 1990.) Repeals provisions that deny assistance for graduate work.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to local education agencies to establish effective and innovative elementary school counseling programs that can serve as national models. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of School Counseling, headed by a Director, in the Department of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Establishes a National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement to investigate and identify the causes of the savings and loan crisis on both the State and Federal levels. Requires a report to the President and the Congress, and terminates the Commission within 30 days after its submission. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Minority Farmers Rights Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development, to establish policies, and programs and allocate resources necessary to address the needs of minority farmers. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to direct the Secretary to provide outreach education, technical assistance, and legal assistance to assist minority farmers in registering with the National Minority Farmer and Land Registry (established under this Act) and in taking advantage of the goals for Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs. Authorizes the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Advocacy and Enterprise (Office) to enter into grants, contracts, and other agreements with community-based organizations and institutions of post-secondary education (especially certain minority-oriented institutions) with respect to such outreach education. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to develop a computerized national registry of the names of all minority farmers in the United States as well as a legal description of the acreage comprising the minority agricultural land base (the National Minority Farmer and Land Registry). Requires the Secretary to take steps to ensure that the variety, quantity, and distribution of land in such landbase is not reduced from the level existing in the initial publication of the Registry. Specifies methods of preserving such landbase (including creation of minority land banks), and the use of Federal and State land inventories. Directs the Secretary to target a specific percentage of agricultural research funds to certain colleges and research institutions with minority enrollment exceeding 25 percent, or to projects specifically aimed at increasing minority farmer participation. Requires the Secretary to assign Agricultural Extension Service staff according to specified target participation rates for socially disadvantaged groups. Requires the Secretary to: (1) allocate significant portions of Extension Service resources to increase the number of minority farmers and help them develop efficient and profitable farming operations; and (2) review and report on minority participation in crop programs under the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive program administered by the Office to attract, assist, and encourage minority first-time farmers and minority youth to participate in careers in production agriculture and related industries. Requires the Secretary, in addition, to support demonstration programs that do the same. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) an affirmative action program for each USDA agency to enhance opportunities for minority employees; and (2) a program requiring each USDA agency to set aside a percentage of all purchases and other contracting for minority-owned businesses and organizations. Sets forth goals for the latter program. Requires an annual report to the Congress on such programs. Makes the Office a clearinghouse for all complaints of discrimination brought by minority farmers against USDA employees or agencies. Provides for the filing of complaints and appeals and for corrective action. Requires an annual report to the Congress on the number and handling of such complaints. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on actions taken to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Community Mental Health Center Services Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend covered partial hospitalization services to include psychologist and mental health professionals services prescribed by a physician and provided by a hospital or community mental health center to its outpatients as distinct and organized intensive ambulatory treatment services offering less than 24-hour daily care. Extends direct Medicare coverage to cover services furnished by marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, and clinical mental health counselors on-site at a community mental health center or necessarily furnished off-site due to the condition of the service recipient. Refers to such services as qualified mental health professionals services. Sets the Medicare payment for such services at 80 percent of the lesser of the actual charge for such services or the amount determined pursuant to a fee schedule established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires that payment for mental health professionals services be made only on an assignment-related basis.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
1992 Olympic Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1992 Olympic Games commemorative five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins. Prescribes guidelines for the sale and pricing of such coins and directs the Secretary to ensure that their issuance will not result in any net cost to the United States. Mandates that surcharges be paid to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Resident Physician Student Loan Deferment Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow resident physicians to defer repayment of certain student loans while completing a resident training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the Accrediting Committee of the American Osteopathic Association.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Federal Laboratory Education Partnerships Act of 1990 - Requires each Federal "mission agency" to identify each area of scientific academic study critical to its mission and establish or designate: (1) an education office within the agency; and (2) certain programs to assist graduate, undergraduate, secondary, and elementary education in critical academic areas and train agency employees in such areas. Defines Federal "mission agency" as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, or any of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Labor, or Transportation. Requires each Federal laboratory director to enter into education partnership agreements with public schools, colleges, and universities to promote and enhance scientific academic study at all educational levels. Requires mission agency education officials to review such agreements and provide model agreements. Requires each Federal laboratory director to make every effort to reach education partnership agreements with historically black colleges and universities and other public colleges and universities that serve Hispanic and other minority populations. Allows agency or contractor personnel to participate in programs under such agreements. Authorizes each mission agency and Federal laboratory, in carrying out this Act, to conduct or fund educational activities at an agency site, contractor site, or any other appropriate location. Requires each mission agency to report within one year to the Congress and the President on its actions to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution Act of 1990 - Title I: Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Penalties - Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the maximum imprisonment penalty for specified bank fraud and embezzlement crimes from 20 to 30 years. Prescribes monetary penalties and up to life imprisonment for engaging in a continuing financial crime enterprise. Deems a person to be engaging in a continuing financial crime enterprise if such person: (1) violates specified criminal code provisions; (2) violates laws in concert with at least three persons with respect to whom such person occupies a supervisory position; and (3) receives at least $5,000,000 in gross receipts during a 24-month period. Includes within the definition of "racketeering activity" under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) predicate offenses relating to: (1) the receipt of gifts or commissions for procuring loans; (2) financial institution embezzlement; and (3) fraud and false statements. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to provide that in major bank crime cases where the offender derives more than $1,000,000 from the offense, such offender shall be assigned an offense level that is: (1) four times greater than the level that would have been assigned if the offense had not been committed under such circumstances; and (2) at least 24. Title II: Broadening Investigative Authority in Bank Crime Cases - Authorizes the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue administrative subpoenas to compel the production of documents relevant to specified bank crimes. Permits the Secret Service to arrest persons violating specified provisions with respect to financial institutions and the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). Requires the Secret Service to exercise such jurisdiction through the Financial Institutions Crime Strike Forces. Authorizes the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications in connection with specified bank fraud and bribery offenses. Removes from the list of offenses for which such interception is authorized offenses relating to the destruction of energy facilities. Title III: Restructuring the Federal Attack on Bank Crimes - Establishes: (1) the Financial Services Crime Division within the Department of Justice; and (2) ten Division field offices in the Federal judicial districts experiencing the greatest number of offenses relating to the financial services industry. Designates such offices as Financial Services Crime Strike Forces. Sets forth Division reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Expanding Federal Forfeiture and Money Laundering Laws - Subjects to forfeiture property derived from specified offenses affecting insured depository institutions. Provides for the restoration of such property to victims of the offenses. Authorizes the seizure of property subject to forfeiture. Adds specified bank fraud offenses to the list of predicates under money laundering provisions. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prohibit liability incurred as a result of a breach of fiduciary duty from being discharged through bankruptcy. Amends Federal bankruptcy law to disallow the use of bankruptcy to discharge a debtor from commitments to maintain the capital of an insured depository institution. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to expand requirements for the disclosure of administrative enforcement proceedings by Federal banking agencies and the National Credit Union Administration Board. Title V: Increasing Investigators and Prosecutors for Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Cases - Authorizes and allocates appropriations for salaries and expenses of the Financial Services Crime Strike Forces. Title VI: Preventing and Prosecuting Fraud in the Sale of Assets by the Resolution Trust Corporation - Prescribes monetary and/or criminal penalties for the knowing concealment of assets from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or the RTC in such Corporation's capacity as conservator or receiver for an insured depository institution. Subjects to civil and criminal forfeiture property derived from specified violations relating to the sale of assets by the RTC. Authorizes the FDIC or the RTC to institute civil proceedings under RICO for violations affecting insured depository institutions. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to grant the FDIC and the RTC subpoena authority when acting as conservators or receivers. Authorizes courts, at the request of the FDIC or RTC, to place assets of any person under the control of a trustee if: (1) such person is an institution-related party who may be required to pay restitution to the institution or is a debtor of the institution; or (2) such person's assets will be dissipated or placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court or the FDIC or RTC before any recovery may be completed, unless a trustee is appointed. Permits the FDIC or the RTC, as conservators or receivers, to avoid any fraudulent transfer of interest made by an institution-affiliated person or debtor within five years of the date on which the FDIC or RTC was appointed conservator or receiver. Sets forth recovery rights with respect to transferred property. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to grant injunctive relief in actions brought by the FDIC, RTC, or National Credit Union Administration that involve fraud affecting financial institutions. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to require the RTC to maintain a Fraud and Enforcement Review Division. Title VII: Strengthening the Judicial System in the Prosecution of Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Cases - Authorizes appropriations to the Federal courts for salaries and expenses of the Court of Appeals, District Courts, and other judicial services. Allocates such funds among the judicial districts with the highest financial institutions crime case loads. Grants U.S. magistrates the power to accept guilty pleas for specified offenses affecting insured depository institutions. Title VIII: Private Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud and Embezzlement Crimes - Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to authorize private persons to bring civil actions for specified bank fraud crimes, subject to certain conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates the week beginning November 11, 1990, as National Disabled Veterans Week, in recognition of the contributions that disabled veterans have made to the welfare of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1990
Designates August 1, 1990, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3)convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process, including the self-determination of peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Violence Against Women Act of 1990 - Title I: Safe Streets for Women - Safe Streets for Women Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Federal Penalties for Sex Crimes - Amends Federal law to require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to create or amend guidelines to provide for: (1) up to twice the term of imprisonment or fine for violation, after the first conviction, of Federal laws relating to sexual abuse or similar laws of any State or foreign country; and (2) specified minimum terms of imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and abusive sexual contact. Requires that a court order restitution for violations of such Federal sexual abuse laws. Subtitle B: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Reduce Violent Crime Against Women - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to areas of high intensity crime against women. Requires that the grants be used for personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for the more widespread apprehension, prosecution, and adjudication of persons committing violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States, for use by States and their subdivisions, for purposes outlined in this Act and to reduce the rate of violent crimes against women. Authorizes the Director, in addition to the grants under this subtitle, to direct any Federal agency, with or without reimbursement, to use its authorities and resources in support of State and local assistance efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Safety for Women in Public Transit - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, from funds authorized under existing provisions, to make capital grants for the prevention of crime and to increase security in existing and future public transportation systems. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies to increase the safety of public transportation through lighting, camera surveillance, security phones, or other projects. Sets the Federal share of each project at 90 percent of the net cost. Directs the Secretary to provide grants and loans to study ways to reduce violent crimes against women in public transit through better design or operation of public transit systems. Subtitle D: National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women - Establishes the National Commission on Violent Crime Against Women to promote a national consensus on violent crime against women and to make recommendations on reducing such crime. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Commission after submission of its final report, subject to extension by the President for up to one more year. Title II: Safe Homes for Women - Safe Homes for Women Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: Interstate Enforcement - Provides for a Federal term of imprisonment or fine, in addition to any State penalties, for any person who travels or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel in interstate commerce with intent to injure his or her spouse and who violates a law of any State concerning domestic or family violence. Provides for imprisonment and fines for interstate violation of protection orders, including increased penalties for repeated offenses and for offenses involving serious bodily injury. Mandates that a court order restitution to the victim of an offense under this Act. Requires, provided certain conditions are met, that a protection order issued by the court of one State be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Subtitle B: Arrest in Spousal Abuse Cases - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to prohibit a State or locality from receiving a grant under existing provisions if, as a matter of policy or law, it discriminates against family violence victims by prohibiting or discouraging the arrest of persons committing family violence. Declares that proof that a State or locality permits warrantless misdemeanor arrests based on probable cause in domestic violence situations is sufficient, but not necessary, to show such nondiscrimination. Requires certification of compliance. Amends provisions of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 relating to grants for crime victim assistance to require certification that a State does not engage in such discrimination against family violence victims. Makes warrantless misdemeanor arrests sufficient to show compliance. Amends the FVPSA to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States, municipalities, or local government entities, with regard to spousal or family violence, to centralize police enforcement, tracking of cases, prosecution, and judicial responsibility. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to delegate to the Attorney General responsibility for carrying out these provisions and transfer to the Attorney General a limited amount of funds appropriated under existing provisions. Subtitle C: Funding for Shelters - Amends the FVPSA to authorize appropriations to carry out that Act, earmarking at least 60 percent of funds appropriated for State demonstration grants to prevent family violence and provide immediate shelter and related assistance. Subtitle D: Judicial Training - Directs the Attorney General, from funds appropriated under specified provisions of the FVPSA, to provide a certain amount to the State Justice Institute for developing model programs for training judges in the laws of the States on spousal abuse and family violence. Title III: Civil Rights - Declares that all persons within the United States shall have the same rights, privileges, and immunities in every State as are enjoyed by all other persons to be free from crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender (defined as rape, sexual assault, or abusive sexual contact motivated by gender-based animus). Makes any person, including a person who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who deprives another of the rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws as enumerated by this Act liable to the injured party for compensatory and punitive damages.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Korean War Veterans Memorial Thirty-Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should recognize the 38th anniversary of the Korean War by minting and issuing a silver dollar coin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 38th anniversary of the ending of the Korean War. Terminates such authority after December 31, 1991. Mandates that surcharges from the sale of such coins be used for the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990
Economic Growth and Venture Capital Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990
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 prior to the end of the Uruguay Round; and (2) the United States should take the necessary steps to assure such country's membership in the GATT.
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