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United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
Designates April 9, 1991 and 1992, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, if certain time limitations concerning the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor are waived, the Secretary of the Army shall recommend to the President that such medal be awarded to Tibor Rubin for his heroic conduct during the Korean Conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
Calls on the Soviet Government to cease its military intimidation of the freely-elected Baltic Governments and to respect freedom of speech, assembly, and the press and all internationally-recognized standards of human rights. Urges the President to instruct the U.S. representative to the United Nations (U.N.) to: (1) address the issue in the U.N. Security Council; and (2) raise the issue of human rights violations in the Baltic States and urge the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to take action on this issue during its February 1991 meeting. Calls upon member states of the U.N. to exercise their diplomatic influence with the Soviet Union to bring about a prompt resolution of the Baltic conflict and a restoration of peaceful relations with the Republics of Estonia, Lithuania, and Lativa. Requests the U.N. Secretary General to keep the situation in the Baltic States under constant surveillance and to report to the Security Council and the Commission on Human Rights on further developments.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1991
Condemns the Iraqi Government's: (1) abuse of captured U.S. and allied service members; (2) stated intention to disperse prisoners of war to potential military targets; (3) failure to permit representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit and interview prisoners of war; and (4) flagrant and deliberate violations of the Third Geneva Convention. Calls on such Government to comply fully and immediately with its obligations and responsibilities under such Convention. Urges the President, together with the international coalition partners against Iraq and the United Nations Security Council, to consider appropriate means for bringing to justice any individuals in Iraq who are responsible for violating the rights of prisoners of war under such Convention.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1991
Requires the President to: (1) immediately suspend any extension of official trade credits or other forms of U.S. economic assistance to the Soviet Union; and (2) direct U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to vote to bar assistance from such institutions to the Soviet Union until the President finds that Soviet military forces have relinquished control of political institutions, communications facilities, and other buildings or property of the Baltic States and the Soviet President has entered into good faith negotiations with the representatives of the democratically-elected governments of the Baltic States regarding their future status vis-a-vis the rest of the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1991
Establishes a Federal Interagency Task Force on the Education of Federally-Connected Dependents to review education programs in certain school districts receiving Impact Aid. Requires such review to include specified considerations about the funding, operation, and priorities of the Impact Aid program, with special determinations concerning military dependents and children residing on Indian lands. Directs the Task Force to report to specified Federal officials and to the Congress. Terminates the Task Force five years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1991
Amends Federal law relating to impact aid to increase the minimum local contribution rate for local educational agencies for which the boundaries of the school districts are coterminous with the boundaries of military installations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, upon the discharge or release of a member of the armed forces from active duty, to provide such member with a copy of his or her medical and personnel records.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Overseas Teachers Act - Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act with respect to teacher recruitment, leave, compensation, conditions of employment, and entry into competitive service.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Armed Forces Immigration Adjustment Act of 1989 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for certain aliens (and their dependents) who have served, or are serving, on active duty for a 12-year period in the U.S. armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Military Personnel Pay and Benefits Act of 1991 - Title I: Military Personnel and Compensation Matters - Repeals current provisions prohibiting the payment of imminent danger pay and a family separation allowance during times of war or national emergency declared by the Congress. Establishes a monthly family separation allowance of $100 in lieu of $60. Authorizes the payment of such allowance to either spouse when both are members of the armed forces and have no other dependents. Requires the payment of a basic allowance for quarters to reserve members without dependents called to active duty who are unable to occupy their primary residence owned or rented by such members because of such active duty. Expands eligibility for the payment of foreign duty special pay to include both officers and enlisted personnel (currently, only enlisted personnel) and specifies the amount of such special monthly pay, which increases for each higher enlisted or officer pay grade. Makes survivors eligible for the payment of all accrued leave of members who die while on active duty. Provides that a retired member ordered to active duty and who serves such active duty in a grade higher than his retired grade is entitled, upon release from such new duty, to be advanced on the retired list to the highest grade satisfactorily served on active duty for not less than three years, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Authorizes the President to waive such three-year requirement in individual cases. Removes the ceiling on savings deposits for servicemembers carried in a missing person status during the Persian Gulf conflict. Establishes a standard death gratuity rate of $6,000 for members of all grades. Requires foreign language proficiency pay for members assigned to duty in connection with operations in the Persian Gulf who meet all eligibility criteria for such pay except that they have not been certified by the Secretary concerned to be proficient in a foreign language necessary for national defense purposes. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should request the Government of Germany to contribute medical care to persons living in Germany who are dependents of members of U.S. armed forces in order to replace military medical personnel and equipment deployed to the Persian Gulf region to treat casualties resulting from military operations there. Title II: Internal Revenue Matters - Extends the time allowed for performing certain acts relating to income tax liability under the Internal Revenue Code by reason of service in a combat zone for individuals who performed Desert Shield or Desert Storm services. Includes as such service: (1) any period of hospitalization outside the United States for an injury received during the Persian Gulf conflict; and (2) the period during which an individual so entitled to such extension is in a missing status. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, as part of the permitted time allowed before tax liability is recognized on the rollover of gain from a principal residence, an additional one-year period from the time in which a reserve member of the armed forces is released from active duty pursuant to a call or order. Title III: Student Loan Deferments - Makes eligible for repayment deferment of certain student loans granted under the Higher Education Act of 1965 a member of the armed forces called or ordered to active duty in connection with operations in the Persian Gulf. States that such period of deferment shall not be counted against the grace period normally available to individuals with respect to such loans.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to the Congress monthly reports on Department of Defense obligations and expenditures to carry out Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and on financial contributions made to the United States by foreign countries in support of each Operation.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Historic Forts Study and Preservation Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, to study specific historic military forts occupied during the Civil War and Indian campaigns in Oklahoma and to develop alternative means of interpreting and preserving such forts. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a marker for the grave of each veteran who served as part of the armed forces. Provides an exception if the family of a deceased veteran objects. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Imposes upon the Soviet Union the trade and assistance restrictions described in this resolution unless and until the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union has: (1) ceased all interference with freedom of the press in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; (2) ceased the threat and use of force against the people of such states; (3) ceased its military occupation of all buildings and facilities in such states seized during the crackdown that commenced in March 1990; and (4) entered into meaningful negotiations with the democratically elected leaders of such states for the purposes of establishing the formal recognition of their independence. Specifies as such restrictions: (1) prohibiting the Export-Import Bank and the Commodity Credit Corporation from issuing or paying any insurance or credit guarantee with respect to financing exports to the Soviet Union; (2) making ineffective the U.S.-Soviet trade agreement concluded on June 1, 1990; (3) denying authority to the Secretary of the Treasury and the U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to support any grant of special association status; and (4) requiring the United States to oppose any waiver or modification of restrictions contained in the Charter of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development applicable to the provision of loans to the Soviet Union and to oppose loans by such bank to the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Calls on the Department of Defense to: (1) cease the imposition of military security review panels that could result in unwarranted censorship of the news media; (2) make such military security rules voluntary; and (3) expand news media pool coverage of combat to include as many accredited correspondents as possible and suspend such pool requirements when they are no longer necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Declares that the House of Representatives commends the U.S. maritime industry and maritime community for their commitment to and cooperation with U.S. military forces in Operation Desert Shield.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1991
Condemns the recent violence by Soviet forces in Lithuania. Calls upon President Gorbachev to immediately cease the use of force against the people and the democratically-elected governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and supports President Bush's condemnation of such Soviet actions in Lithuania. Calls upon the President to: (1) make this issue a priority item on the agenda of the upcoming U.S.-Soviet summit or otherwise to convey the message directly to the Soviet Government; (2) review bilateral relations and, in consultation with European allies, consider coordinated economic sanctions if the Soviets continue such actions; and (3) consider other ways to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to nonrecognition of the forcible annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union and to show support for the people of the Baltic States. Calls upon the Soviet Government to: (1) enter into peaceful and meaningful negotiations with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on the nature of their future relations; (2) resolve peacefully disputes with all Soviet republics; and (3) abide by its obligations under the Helsinki Final Act, the United Nations Charter, and other international documents to respect human rights and self-determination. Urges that the new conflict resolution mechanisms created within the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in November 1990 be employed to help resolve this crisis peacefully.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Increases the rate of special pay authorized for military personnel performing duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, effective August 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Servicemen's Group Life Insurance Coverage Enhancement Act of 1991 - Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the maximum amount of life insurance coverage available to servicemen and veterans under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that persons insured under either program are notified of such increase and given an opportunity to increase their coverage. Directs the Secretary to pay a death gratuity to each SGLI beneficiary of each deceased member of the armed forces who dies after August 1, 1990, and before the date of enactment of this Act. Makes the amount of such death gratuity an amount equal to the SGLI coverage at the time of death. Requires the appropriate SGLI recipient to make application to the Secretary for the payment of such death gratuity within one year after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Agent Orange Act of 1991 - Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected and resulting from exposure to dioxins and other herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era unless there is affirmative evidence to the contrary: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma, each soft-tissue sarcoma (with certain exceptions), and chloracne or other consistent acneform diseases becoming manifest to a degree of disability of ten percent or more; and (2) those additional diseases that the Secretary determines warrant such a presumption by reason of having a positive association with a herbicide agent, if they become manifest within the appropriate period. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations providing that a presumption of service connection is warranted whenever it is determined by the Secretary that a positive association exists between the exposure of humans to a herbicide agent and the occurrence of a disease in humans. Requires the Secretary to take into account reports received from the National Academy of Sciences, as well as other sound medical and scientific information. Outlines procedures to be followed by the Secretary in weighing evidence, reporting information, and making conclusions for or against the positive association and, therefore, the service-connection presumption. Provides for the issuance of final regulations listing the diseases for which positive associations have been found or removing the presumption for a disease. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) under which NAS shall review and summarize the scientific evidence (and its strength) concerning the association between exposure to a herbicide agent during service in Vietnam and each disease suspected to be associated with such exposure. Provides for NAS: (1) scientific determinations concerning diseases; (2) recommendations for additional studies to resolve areas of uncertainty relating to herbicide exposure; (3) subsequent reviews; and (4) reports, at least biennially, to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees (the veterans' committees). Terminates the agreement ten years after the fiscal year of the first report from NAS. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with another body if the Secretary cannot reach an agreement with NAS within two months after enactment of this Act. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary to annually furnish updated information on health risks associated with exposure to herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Extends through 1993 the eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care and medical treatment of individuals who served in Vietnam and who have been determined to have been exposed to dioxin or a toxic substance in a herbicide as the result of such service and of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation while serving between September 11, 1945 and July 1, 1946. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze, on a continuing basis, all clinical data obtained by the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with examinations and treatment furnished to veterans by the Department after November 3, 1981, for exposure to herbicide agents in Vietnam and which is likely to be useful in determining the exposure to such agents and the disabilities suffered. Requires an annual report on such compilations and provides funding. Directs the Secretary, for facilitating research on the effects of exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam, to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed blood and tissue samples of veterans who served there. Provides for: (1) specimen security; (2) authorized uses; (3) limitations on acceptance of samples; and (4) authority based on specific funding. Directs the Secretary to establish a scientific research feasibility studies program for conducting research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in Vietnam; and (3) active military service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines program and report requirements. Directs the Secretary to consult with NAS. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a Vietnam veteran who has applied for Department medical care and filed a claim for, or is in receipt of, disability compensation, to obtain a blood sample to conduct a test for the presence of a specified dioxin. Provides for notification to the veteran of test results and significance and requires such blood sample to be maintained as part of the collection of blood and tissue samples required under this Act. Makes conforming amendments and provides for alternative effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Title I: Short Title - End of the Cold War Act of 1991. Title II: Elimination of Ideological Restrictions and Lists - Finds that during the Cold War the United States maintained lists of foreign persons (Lookout Lists) with unacceptable opinions in order to exclude such persons from entry into the United States. Finds that the United States also made it a criminal offense to express opinions concerning the desirability of revolution even when the person in no way incited persons or conspired to commit any criminal offense. Requires the Government to delete from any Lookout Lists the names of any aliens listed because of any past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that would be lawful within the United States. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make excludable from entry into the United States any alien whose entry or activities would have a serious adverse foreign policy consequence for the United States. Prohibits exclusion under such Act due to past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that would be lawful within the United States. Title III: Unification of United States Diplomacy - Requires the transfer to the Secretary of State of all the functions, powers, and duties of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Requires the President, as part of his annual budget submission to the Congress, to include an aggregate amount of budget outlays for the prior fiscal year for national and tactical intelligence activities, including intelligence activities carried out by the Department of Defense. Title IV: Prohibition on Channeling or Diverting Funds to Carry Out Activities for Which United States Assistance is Prohibited - Provides that whenever a provision of U.S. law prohibits all U.S. assistance from being provided to a specified foreign country, region, government, group, or individual, then no officer or employee of the executive branch may: (1) hold, use, or transfer funds for such purpose; (2) use any funds or facilities to assist any transaction whereby a foreign government or person or U.S. person provides such funds; or (3) provide any U.S. assistance to any third party in order to carry out such banned activities. Provides criminal and civil penalties for such prohibited action. Requires the President to notify the Congress whenever such a prohibition exists and any executive branch officer or employee advocates, promotes, or encourages the provision of funds or property by any foreign government, foreign person, or U.S. person for similar activities. Title V: Environmental Compliance - Federal Government Environmental Compliance Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a comprehensive review of existing environmental practices and procedures within the Departments of Defense and Energy and to report to the Congress on the degree to which facilities of such Departments are in compliance with existing State and Federal environmental statutes. Requires the Administrator to notify the Secretaries of Defense and Energy of his findings. Requires such Secretaries to: (1) report to the Congress all previous and ongoing violations of State and Federal environmental regulations; (2) report such violations to all relevant States and municipalities; and (3) submit to the Congress a comprehensive plan for bringing their departments into compliance with such regulations. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Prohibits the following actions until the President makes a specified certification to the Congress under this Act: (1) the financing of exports to the Soviet Union by the Export-Import Bank; (2) the financing of agricultural commodities to the Soviet Union contracted for or approved after January 16, 1991, by the Commodity Credit Corporation; (3) the granting of most-favored-nation treatment to the Soviet Union and the effectuation of any commercial agreement with the Soviet Union; (4) the approval for export to the Soviet Union of any item controlled for national security purposes under any agreement reached after January 16, 1991, with the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) which liberalizes such controls; and (5) the waiver or modification of restrictions contained in the Charter of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) applicable to loans to the Soviet Union and the support of EBRD loans to the Soviet Union. Suspends the U.S.-Soviet energy working group and technical assistance in energy, science, and technology to the Soviet Union until the certification is made. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should not attend the summit meeting with the President of the Soviet Union scheduled for February 1991; (2) the President should extend recognition to the democratically-elected governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and should exchange ambassadors with such governments; and (3) the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the U.S. executive directors of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to oppose the granting of special association status to the Soviet Union. Describes the certification referred to in this Act as a certification that: (1) the Soviet Union has ceased the threat and use of force against the Baltic States; (2) the central Soviet Government has entered into negotiations with the Baltic governments leading to the formal recognition of independence of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; and (3) all Soviet-controlled troops have been withdrawn from such nations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the President as Commander in Chief in the Persian Gulf hostilities. Expresses unequivocal support for the men and women of our armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 (the Act) to prohibit an eviction or distress from being made during a period of military service with respect to a premise for which the agreed rent does not exceed $1,200 (currently, $150) per month, when such premises is occupied chiefly by the dependents of the person in military service, except upon leave of the court granted upon application or in a proceeding affecting the rights of possession. Extends the power of attorney coverage under the Act to include a power of attorney that by its terms expires after July 31, 1990. Provides professional liability protection for persons ordered to active duty after July 31, 1990, who, prior to such date, were engaged in the furnishing of health care services or other services determined by the Secretary of Defense to be professional services and who had in effect a professional liability insurance policy that does not continue coverage during the period of active duty. Requires an insurance carrier to suspend and to reinstate coverage of such affected person upon receipt of a written request from such person. Requires such person to request reinstatement within 30 days after release from active duty. Provides a minimum period of required coverage by the carrier following reinstatement, without an increase in the insurance premiums charged. Provides for the stay of a civil or administrative action for damages on the basis of professional liability of a person whose insurance has been suspended under these provisions if: (1) the action is based on an act or omission that occurred before the suspension was effective; and (2) the suspended insurance would, on its face, cover the alleged professional misconduct. States that the period of such stay shall not be included in any statute-of-limitations period. Outlines provisions concerning the death of a person whose professional liability insurance has been suspended and the consequences with respect to the suspended insurance coverage on previous or suspended (stayed) claims. Provides that, in the case of employer-offered health insurance, an exclusion or waiting period may not be imposed in connection with coverage of a health or physical condition of a person employed and covered under such policy who goes to active military service or training and returns and is reemployed if: (1) the condition arose before or during a person's training or services in the armed forces; (2) such exclusion or waiting period would not be imposed for the condition during a normal period of coverage; and (3) the condition of such person has not been determined by the Secretary to be service-connected. Provides that any person who, by reason of being ordered to active duty after July 31, 1990, is entitled to the rights and benefits of such Act shall be entitled upon release from such service to reinstatement of any health insurance coverage which: (1) was in effect on the day before such service commenced; and (2) was terminated during the period of such service. Prohibits the imposition of an exclusion or waiting period upon such person under the same conditions previously stated for health insurance reinstatement upon reemployment. Requires a court, upon application, to stay a judicial action or proceeding involving any member of the armed forces serving on active duty outside the State in which the court is located until after June 30, 1991. Provides that an application by a person in military service for a stay, postponement, or suspension of the payment of any tax, fine, penalty, insurance premium, or other civil obligation shall not provide the basis for denial or revocation of, or a change in, credit by creditors, a presumption that such individual cannot pay his or her debts due and owing, or refusal of an insurer to insure such individual. Provides reemployment rights for all reservists (currently, only those serving on active duty for not more than 90 days) upon their return from any active duty other than for training.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Agent Orange Act of 1991 - Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected and resulting from exposure to dioxins and other herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era unless there is affirmative evidence to the contrary: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma, each soft-tissue sarcoma (with certain exceptions), and chloracne or other consistent acneform diseases becoming manifest to a degree of disability of ten percent or more; and (2) those additional diseases that the Secretary determines warrant such a presumption by reason of having a positive association with a herbicide agent, if they become manifest within the appropriate period. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations providing that a presumption of service connection is warranted whenever it is determined by the Secretary that a positive association exists between the exposure of humans to a herbicide agent and the occurrence of a disease in humans. Requires the Secretary to take into account reports received from the National Academy of Sciences, as well as other sound medical and scientific information. Outlines procedures to be followed by the Secretary in weighing evidence and report information and making conclusions for or against the positive association and, therefore, the service-connection presumption. Provides for the issuance of final regulations listing the diseases for which positive associations have been found or removing the presumption for a disease. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) under which NAS shall review and summarize the scientific evidence (and its strength) concerning the association between exposure to a herbicide agent during service in Vietnam and each disease suspected to be associated with such exposure. Provides for NAS: (1) scientific determinations concerning diseases; (2) recommendations for additional studies to resolve areas of uncertainty relating to herbicide exposure; (3) subsequent reviews; and (4) reports, at least biennially, to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees (the veterans' committees). Terminates the agreement ten years after the fiscal year of the first report from NAS. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with another body if the Secretary cannot reach an agreement with NAS within two months after enactment of this Act. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary to annually furnish updated information on health risks associated with exposure to herbicide agents during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Extends through 1993 the eligibility for hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care and medical treatment of individuals who served in Vietnam and who have been determined to have been exposed to dioxin or a toxic substance in a herbicide as the result of such service and of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation while serving between September 11, 1945 and July 1, 1946. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze, on a continuing basis, all clinical data obtained by the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with examinations and treatment furnished to veterans by the Department after November 3, 1981, for exposure to herbicide agents in Vietnam and which is likely to be useful in determining the exposure to such agents and the disabilities suffered. Requires an annual report on such compilations and provides funding. Directs the Secretary, for facilitating research on the effects of exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam, to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed blood and tissue samples of veterans who served there. Provides for: (1) specimen security; (2) authorized uses; (3) limitations on acceptance of samples; and (4) authority based on specific funding. Directs the Secretary to establish a scientific research feasibility studies program for conducting research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in Vietnam; and (3) active military service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines program and report requirements. Directs the Secretary to consult with NAS. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a Vietnam veteran who has applied for Department medical care and filed a claim for, or is in receipt of, disability compensation, to obtain a blood sample to conduct a test for the presence of a specified dioxin. Provides for notification to the veteran of test results and requires such blood sample to be maintained as part of the collection of blood and tissue samples required under this Act. Makes conforming amendments and provides for alternative effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Authorizes the President to present a gold medal to the family of the late Captain Don S. Gentile in recognition of his service as a fighter pilot ace of World War II. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Urges the President to immediately review all economic benefits provided by the U.S. Government to the Soviet Union, report to the Congress on whether such benefits should be suspended in light of Soviet actions in the Baltic States, suspend all ongoing technical exchanges, consider withdrawing U.S. support for Soviet membership in the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and withhold Most Favored Nation trade treatment until: (1) Soviet troops refrain from obstructing the functioning of the democratic governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; (2) the troops that were deployed following the January 7 announcement by the Soviet Defense Ministry, (of the deployment of additional troops to specified republics) are withdrawn; (3) Soviet authorities cease their interference with the media in such States; (4) good-faith negotiations between the governments of such States and the Soviet Union on the restoration of sovereignty to such States have begun; and (5) concrete assurances are received from President Gorbachev that grain purchased with U.S. credits will not be used to coerce such States or any Soviet republic to sign the Union Treaty. States that the United States should consult with and encourage its allies to follow a similar policy.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1991
Supports the suspension, with respect to the leadership of Iraq, of Executive Order 12333 (prohibiting assassinations) until Iraq has fully complied with the United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the withdrawal of Iraqi military forces from Kuwait.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Amends the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park Expansion Act of 1989 to expand the boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park in Virginia to include specified lands.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to require (current law authorizes) the Secretary of Defense to allow members of the U.S. armed forces serving under arduous conditions as part of Operation Desert Shield to participate in a savings program designed for military personnel assigned to permanent duty outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense, to make grants to qualifying medical schools to assist in the establishment of new medical research centers. Outlines qualifications for medical schools eligible for such grants, including: (1) being primarily State-supported; (2) having no established research center in the field for which application is made; (3) being located in proximity to a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility which has an affiliation with a medical facility of the Department of Defense; and (4) having demonstrable potential for successful development as a new research center. Requires the Secretary to ensure that centers for which grants are made are geographically dispersed within the United States. Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise a medical school with respect to activities of the center for which a grant is made. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into an agreement to make a grant unless the Secretary finds that the school will maintain arrangements with the Department medical facility with which it is affiliated as to be mutually beneficial in carrying out the mission of the respective medical facilities and the school. Requires facilities of such research centers to be made available on a competitive basis. Requires the fact of Federal funding for such centers to be acknowledged in the activities and publications of the center. Requires that grants may only be provided from funds specifically appropriated for such grants. Requires matching appropriations to the Department of Defense for research, development, test, and evaluation whenever an appropriation is made to the Department for such grants. Requires an agreement for such grants to include certain assurances with respect to the sufficiency of non-Federal funding for such research centers. Authorizes the Secretary to increase grant amounts due to cost increases, within specified limits. Sets forth application requirements for medical schools desiring to receive such grants. Requires the Secretary, in considering such applications, to give priority to those which emphasize research in one or more of the following areas: (1) diabetes and metabolic diseases; (2) prosthetics and rehabilitation medicine; (3) mental health, behavioral medicine, and neurological disease; (4) acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related diseases; (5) alzheimer and dementia; (6) degenerative cardiopulmonary disease; (7) cancer; (8) technology assessment; and (9) toxicology. Requires the Secretary to use a merit review process in considering applications and awarding grants under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1994. Entitles the Secretary to recover from grant recipients any amount not used for appropriate grant purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should immediately review all economic benefits provided by the U.S. Government to the Soviet Union, report to the Congress on whether such benefits should be suspended in light of Soviet actions in the Baltic States, suspend all ongoing technical exchanges, consider withdrawing U.S. support for Soviet membership in the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and withhold Most Favored Nation trade treatment until: (1) Soviet troops refrain from obstructing the functioning of the democratic governments of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; (2) the troops that were deployed following the January 7 announcement by the Soviet Defense Ministry, (of the deployment of additional troops to specified republics) are withdrawn; (3) Soviet authorities cease their interference with the media in such States; (4) good-faith negotiations between the governments of such States and the Soviet Union on the restoration of sovereignty to such States have begun; and (5) concrete assurances are received from President Gorbachev that grain purchased with U.S. credits will not be used to coerce such States or any Soviet republic to sign the Union Treaty. States that the United States should consult with and encourage its allies to follow a similar policy.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of Defense, upon request, to relieve the following members of the armed forces from performing duty in a region designated as an area of hostile fire or imminent danger: (1) the husband or wife if both are assigned to duty in such region and they have a minor child; and (2) a single parent with a minor child who is assigned to duty in such a region. Directs the Secretary to endeavor to reassign a person relieved of such duty to another assignment which does not require the separation of the member from such minor child. Authorizes the Secretary to delay the date of discharge or retirement of a member so relieved, as appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense should revise current guidelines relating to news media coverage of activities in the Persian Gulf region to ensure that the news media has timely access to all unclassified information and activities other than information and activities that, if disclosed, would endanger the lives or security of U.S. forces.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991 - Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct, at least biannually, and report to the Congress annually on joint spectrum planning with respect to: (1) future spectrum requirements for public and private uses and the allocation actions to accommodate those uses; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to submit to the President and the Congress a report identifying band frequencies that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Government use and are eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future needs of the Government; (3) can feasibly be made available for use under the Act (other than for Government stations); (4) will not result in costs to the Government that are excessive in relation to the benefits that may be obtained by non-Federal licensees; and (5) are most likely to have the greatest potential for productive uses. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reallocation, such bands of frequencies. Sets forth conditions for the mixed use of frequencies by both the Government and non-Federal stations. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report which makes a preliminary identification of reallocable frequencies. Directs the Secretary to convene an advisory committee to: (1) review the bands of frequencies identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to the bands of frequencies which should be included in the final report and the effective dates which should be established with respect to such frequencies; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit to the Secretary and specified congressional committees a report on recommendations for the reform of the process of allocating the electromagnetic spectrum between Federal and non-Federal use. Directs the President, after receiving the final report, to: (1) withdraw the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends for reallocation; (2) limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends be made available for mixed use; (3) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which the report recommends be reallocated or made available for mixed use on such delayed effective date; (4) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (5) transmit a notice and description to the FCC and each House of Congress of the actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national defense, important governmental needs, or public health or safety, or where the reassignment will result in costs to the Government that are excessive in relation to the benefits that may be obtained from commercial or other non-Federal uses of the reassigned frequency. Directs the FCC to submit to the President and the Congress a plan for the distribution of the reallocated bands of frequencies under this Act. Authorizes the President to reclaim reallocated bands of frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming bands of frequencies. Authorizes appropriations to cover the costs of reclaiming bands of frequencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Comprehensive Uranium Act of 1991 - Title I - Uranium Enrichment Act of 1991 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to repeal the existing statutory contracting requirements applicable to uranium enrichment enterprises. Establishes the United States Enrichment Corporation as a wholly-owned Government corporation to conduct uranium marketing and enrichment activities as a commercial, profitable, self-financing enterprise. Sets forth the Corporation's corporate office and powers and vests its management in an Administrator (appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate). Grants the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) general supervision over such Administrator only with respect to national security and health and environmental concerns. Establishes a Corporate Board whose members shall be appointed by the President, and who shall advise the Administrator and the Secretary regarding Corporation matters. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) Corporation personnel; (2) certain property transfers from the Department of Energy (DOE); (3) the Corporation's capital structure; and (4) Corporation pricing policies, including user charges for decommissioning, decontamination, and remedial activities. Requires the Corporation to make annual status reports to certain congressional committees, the President, and the Secretary. Prescribes licensing and taxation guidelines for the Corporation. Sets guidelines for payments in lieu of taxes by the Corporation to States and local governments. Requires the Administrator to make recommendations to the President and the Congress by specified dates regarding the transfer of the Corporation's functions and assets to private ownership. Establishes the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund to cover the Corporation's decommissioning and decontamination expenses. Applies Federal environmental and occupational safety and health law to the Corporation as though it were privately owned. Exempts the Corporation from sequestration because the maximum deficit amount has been exceeded under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Prohibits the Corporation's total FY 1991 expenditures from exceeding its total FY 1991 receipts. Title II: Uranium - Subtitle A: Short Title, Findings and Purposes, Definitions - Uranium Security and Tailings Reclamation Act of 1991 - Sets forth findings, purposes, and definitions of this title. Subtitle B: Uranium Revitalization - Directs the Corporation to establish for a minimum five-year period a voluntary overfeeding program to be made available to its enrichment services customers. ("Overfeeding" means the use of uranium in the enrichment process in excess of the amount required at the transactional tails assay, thus reducing customers' power costs). Provides that the resultant savings shall be credited to such customers. Establishes the National Strategic Uranium Reserve, consisting of 50,000,000 pounds of natural uranium, to be restricted to military purposes and Government research under the control of the Secretary. Confers continuing responsibility upon the Secretary for promotion of the domestic uranium industry, but without using any supervisory authority over the Corporation. Directs the Secretary to develop recommendations and implement Government programs promoting domestic uranium exports. Restricts all uranium purchases by Federal entities to uranium purchased from domestic producers. Exempts the Tennessee Valley Authority from such restriction. Subtitle C: Remedial Action for Active Processing Sites - Provides that remedial action costs, such as decontamination, decommissioning, and reclamation at an active uranium or thorium processing site, shall be borne by specified licensees for any activity resulting in byproduct material. Sets forth a reimbursement schedule for: (1) individual active site uranium licensees; (2) all active site uranium licensees; and (3) thorium licensees. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations governing such reimbursement. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Caroline County, Virginia, or to the Commonwealth of Virginia, all right, title, and interest of the United States to a specified parcel of land at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires a conveyance of land to Caroline County, Virginia, only if: (1) construction of a regional correctional facility commences and completes within specified deadlines; and (2) such parcel of land is used only for the construction and operation of the facility. Reverts to the United States all right, title, and interest in and to such land conveyed to Caroline County, Virginia, if the regional correctional facility is not so constructed and operated. Directs the Secretary to convey the reverted land to Virginia if similar conditions are met. Reverts the parcel of land again to the United States if such conditions are not met. Declares that the facility: (1) shall have a maximum capacity of not more than 2,400 inmates; and (2) may not be used to house Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted by, sentenced by, or awaiting trial in the District of Columbia courts. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal provisions relating to the conveyance of certain land at Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia, to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991 - Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct, at least biannually, joint spectrum planning with respect to: (1) future spectrum requirements for public and private uses and the allocation actions to accommodate those uses; and (2) actions to promote the efficient use of the spectrum. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to submit to the President and the Congress a report identifying bands of frequencies that: (1) are allocated on a primary basis for Federal Government use and eligible for licensing pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act); (2) are not required for the present or identifiable future needs of the Government; (3) can be made available for use under the Act (other than for Government stations); (4) are most likely to have the greatest potential for productive uses; and (5) will not result in excessive costs to the Federal Government. Sets forth criteria for identifying, and recommending for reassignment, such frequencies. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report which makes a preliminary identification of reallocable bands of frequencies. Directs the Secretary to convene an advisory committee to: (1) review the bands of frequencies identified in the preliminary report; (2) advise the Secretary with respect to the bands of frequencies which should be included in the final report; (3) receive public comment on the reports; and (4) prepare and submit to the Secretary and specified congressional committees a report on recommendations for the reform of the process of allocating the electromagnetic spectrum between Federal and non-Federal use. Directs the President, after receiving the final report, to: (1) withdraw the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends for reallocation; (2) withdraw or limit the assignment to a Government station of any frequency which such report recommends be reallocated or made available for mixed use; (3) assign or reassign other frequencies to Government stations as necessary to adjust to such withdrawal or limitation of assignments; and (4) notify the FCC and each House of Congress of the actions taken. Authorizes the President to substitute alternative frequencies in the interest of national defense, important governmental needs, public health or safety, or Federal financial considerations. Directs the FCC to submit to the President and the Congress a plan for the distribution of the reallocated frequency bands. Authorizes the President to reclaim reassigned frequencies for reassignment to Government stations. Sets forth procedures for reclaiming frequencies. Authorizes appropriations to cover the costs of reclaiming frequencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Baltic Freedom Act of 1991 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from extending credit with respect to the export of U.S. goods or services to the Soviet Union, unless the President certifies that the overall Soviet military presence in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania does not exceed its overall presence on January 1, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Caroline County, Virginia, or to the Commonwealth of Virginia, all right, title, and interest of the United States to a specified parcel of land at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires a conveyance of land to Caroline County, Virginia, only if: (1) construction of a regional correctional facility commences and completes within specified deadlines; and (2) such parcel of land is used only for the construction and operation of the facility. Reverts to the United States all right, title, and interest in and to such land conveyed to Caroline County, Virginia, if the regional correctional facility is not so constructed and operated. Directs the Secretary to convey the reverted land to Virginia if similar conditions are met. Reverts the parcel of land again to the United States if the such conditions are not met. Declares that the facility: (1) shall have a maximum capacity of not more than 2,400 inmates; and (2) may not be used to house Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted by, sentenced by, or awaiting trial in the District of Columbia courts. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal provisions relating to the conveyance of certain land at Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia, to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1991 - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should not provide assistance or trade benefits for the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union terminates all its economic and military support for Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1991
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the financial costs of Operation Desert Shield should be equitably shared by U.S. allies; and (2) to cover such financial costs to the United States not covered by the allies, first, reductions should be made in military expenditures, and, for any remaining costs, a surtax should be imposed on high-income taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Veterans Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Increases the aggregate unemployment compensation paid in a benefit year to ex-servicemen involuntarily discharged from the armed forces to 26 times an individual's weekly benefit amount for total unemployment.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Allows retired military personnel who are recalled to active duty to serve in the highest grade previously held while on active duty. (Currently, retired personnel who are recalled to active duty must be recalled in the grade in which they retired.) Makes this Act effective as of August 2, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Repeals current Federal law which: (1) prohibits military personnel from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of active service in the armed forces in any benefit year to 13 weeks of compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income compensation received for active service as a member in the armed forces for any month served in a dangerous foreign area. (Current provisions exclude such income for any month served in a combat zone.) Increases from $500 to $2,000 the compensation excluded from the gross income of commissioned officers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans by individuals (and their spouses) ordered to active duty in connection with Operation Desert Shield.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Authorizes persons having claims against the United States for damage to the vessel Iver Chaser as a result of a 1984 explosion in Nicaragua's territorial waters to file claims with the Secretary of State. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay amounts to persons certified by the Secretary of State. Prohibits the Secretary of State from certifying any claim if the Iver Chaser was used for military or security operations by the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua.