Defence

To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Armed Forces to provide chiropractic care, and to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide special pay for chiropractic officers in the Armed Forces.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Authorizes the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Army, Navy, or Air Force Medical Service Corps. Provides special pay to chiropractic officers on active duty for not less than one year. Increases such special pay with service. Authorizes the payment of additional special pay for any 12-month period during which such an officer is not undergoing chiropractic internship training, with appropriate increases for years of service. Requires such an officer, to receive such additional special pay, to execute a written agreement to remain on duty for no less than one year. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to terminate the payment of such additional special pay at any time, with an appropriate refund required from the officer concerned for any period paid but unserved. Requires an officer who voluntarily terminates service for a period for which a special payment was made to refund the proper amount to the United States.

Industrial Base Recapitalization Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Industrial Base Recapitalization Act - Directs the Defense Science Board to submit to the President a list of industries, products, and technologies deemed essential for the production of current and future defense systems. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a corporation certified by the Secretary of Defense as a producer of essential parts, goods, or materials to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Treasury to establish an industrial base recapitalization fund. Declares the purpose of such fund to provide new or modernized plant and equipment in the United States for the production of such parts, goods, or materials. Establishes tax incentives, including the nontaxability of qualified deposits, for contributions to such funds. Allows small manufacturers to elect a ten percent investment tax credit for qualified manufacturing equipment in lieu of establishing an industrial base recapitalization fund.

To designate May 17, 1991, as "High School Reserve Officer Training Corps Recognition Day".

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Designates May 17, 1991, as High School Reserve Officer Training Corps Recognition Day.

To recognize the independence of Lithuania.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that President Bush should: (1) recognize the independence of Lithuania; (2) condemn the use of military force and economic sanctions by the Soviet Union against Lithuania; and (3) urge Soviet President Gorbachev to recognize Lithuania as an independent state.

Philip S. Kaplan, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Deputy United States Representative to the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

United States · United States Senate · 16 May 1990

Selective Service Standby Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Selective Service Standby Act of 1990 - Amends the Military Selective Service Act to prohibit, after November 30, 1990: (1) requiring a person to submit to registration under the Selective Service System (SSS); (2) the President from appointing a person as a member of a civilian local board, civilian appeal board, or similar local agency of the SSS; and (3) any such board from meeting. Prohibits a person from being denied any right, privilege, benefit, or employment position under Federal law by reason of failure to so register after such date.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat as sale proceeds of a residence amounts paid by the Secretary of Defense representing the reduction in the value of the residence on account of a military base closing.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as amounts realized on the sale of a residence any amounts paid by the Secretary of Defense which represent the reduction in value of the residence on account of a military base closing.

To prohibit the shipment of chemical munitions to Johnston Atoll for demilitarization or storage.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transporting chemical munitions to Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean for demilitarization or storage. Authorizes the President to suspend such prohibition during a period of war.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for adjustments on a State-by-State basis of income thresholds for eligibility for health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, on January 1 annually, to adjust on a State-by-State basis the income threshold for eligibility for hospital and nursing home care and medical services for veterans residing in above-median income States. Defines an "above-median income State" as a State having a median family income (based on a family of four) in excess of the national median family income.

To amend title 32, United States Code, to authorize Federal support of State defense forces.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990

Amends Federal provisions relating to the National Guard to add a new chapter concerning the formation of State defense forces. Defines a "State defense force" as a military force organized by a State to become operational when the State National Guard forces are federalized or otherwise unavailable or inadequate for the defense needs of such State. Provides that, as general policy, State defense forces are in the national interest as a reserve force of the States, for specified reasons. Provides that membership in a State defense force shall be determined by the individual States, but that a member of the U.S. armed forces shall not also be a member of a State defense force, unless specifically authorized to do so. Provides further that membership in a State defense force does not exempt a person from any required duty under the Military Selective Service Act, nor does such membership limit a person from enlistment or appointment in an armed force. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to issue or loan military equipment, supplies, or uniforms to a State for use in connection with its State defense force. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe policies and procedures to be followed in the issuing and loaning of such equipment. Authorizes the sale (by the Secretary of the military department concerned) and the wearing of military uniforms by members of a State defense force, as long as such uniforms have been approved by such Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide a member of a State defense force and States with defense forces training and training assistance for such forces. Authorizes such training, in the alternative, to be provided by an executive department and an independent agency of the Federal Government in the interest of national security and when not detrimental to the primary operational requirements of the department or agency concerned. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to require reimbursement from a State for the cost of providing training or training assistance to the State defense force of such State. Declares that reimbursement normally should be required in the case of training provided a member of a State defense force for a period exceeding 14 days. Directs that the chief executive officer of a State sponsoring a State defense force is the responsible official for that force. Provides that the Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall serve as the means of communication between a State and the Federal Government on matters involving the State defense forces. Provides that a member of a State defense force is not to be considered a member of the U.S. armed forces for any reason, including eligibility for federally-sponsored health care or disability benefits. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to conduct such background investigations for potential members of State defense forces as considered necessary and appropriate by such Secretary for the granting of appropriate security clearances for such personnel. Encourages a State sponsoring a State defense force to make available to officials of the State defense force all appropriate criminal history information, and to maintain a record of criminal history information pertaining to a member in order that security clearances may be expedited in time of mobilization or national emergency.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that the prohibition on the payment of attorneys' fees in connection with Department of Veterans Affairs benefits proceedings applies only where the individual is applying for benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1990

States that the prohibition on the payment of attorneys' fees in connection with Department of Veterans Affairs benefits proceedings applies only where the individual is applying for such benefits, and not when the Government is proceeding against a person to collect an indebtedness or in cases in which other attorneys' fees statutes apply.

Defense Management Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990

Defense Management Improvement Act - Title I: Military Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to terminate a selective reenlistment bonus when the term of the reenlistment is not completed or the person ceases to perform in the specialty for which the bonus was paid. Makes permanent the authority of the Secretary to pay such reenlistment bonuses. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the active-duty officer personnel end strength as of the end of a fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to redistribute authorized personnel end strengths among: (1) Selected Reserve personnel; (2) active-duty personnel who are paid from active-duty personnel funds; and (3) active-duty personnel and full-time National Guard duty personnel who are paid from reserve personnel funds. Authorizes the necessary transfer of appropriations to pay such redistributed personnel. Prescribes redistribution limitations. Authorizes the involuntary release by the Secretary of the military department concerned of a regular active-duty officer with less than eight years of active commissioned service and the transfer of such officer to the Ready Reserve for the remainder of that officer's period of obligated service. Allows an officer who is retired in a grade below the highest grade held while on active duty, upon approval of the Secretary concerned, to retain the rank and insignia of the highest grade achieved on active duty for a period of 18 months and to be considered to have retired in the higher grade for all purposes other than the computation of retired pay. Provides for the involuntary retirement of Navy commanders and captains who have failed to be promoted to the next higher grade for the second time (commanders) or who have completed 38 years of active naval service (captains). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive the requirement of the convening of a promotion board in certain circumstances in the selection and promotion of officers to the grade of captain (in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps) or lieutenant (in the Navy). Allows such officers to be considered instead for promotion under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Provides that officers for whom such waiver is applied and who are not placed on a promotion list by the Secretary concerned shall be considered to have failed to be selected for promotion. Entitles an officer who is directed to perform duty at a location within the limits of his duty station that requires such officer to use overnight accommodations to travel and transportation expenses. Repeals a current limitation on the authorized daily average of enlisted members in pay grades E-8 and E-9 (senior enlisted grade levels). Title II: Acquisition - Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1990 concerning limitations on multiyear contracting authority of DOD. Commercial Products Acquisition Act of 1990 - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, jointly with the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the Secretary of Defense, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to develop regulations that set forth commercial-style procedures for the acquisition of commercial products by Federal agencies. Requires such regulations to be incorporated into the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Directs the Administrator to prescribe additional regulations to implement this section as it relates to automated data processing equipment. Defines commercial products as products that are: (1) competitively available and sold in significant quantities in the commercial market; and (2) required in the same form as they are available in the commercial market or with only minor modifications that do not alter their essential performance or functional characteristics. Requires that such regulations provide for: (1) a requirement that procedures conducted under this Act be advertised by public notice in the Commerce Business Daily; (2) authority for agency contracting officers to require product offerors to demonstrate the suitability of their product for the agency involved; (3) a waiver of the requirement that a product be sold in significant quantities in the commercial market, under certain circumstances; (4) the issuing of product acquisition solicitations by the contracting officer involved, as well as follow-up activity with respect to such solicitations; (5) prompt publication in the Commerce Business Daily of a notice announcing the award of a contract; and (6) the use of commercial-style contract terms and conditions to the maximum extent that they are consistent with the interests of the Government. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to direct an agency contracting officer to use commercial-style procedures to procure commercial products unless the officer purchases them under simplified small purchase or multiple award schedule procedures or determines and documents that another authorized method of acquisition is more appropriate. Exempts such procured products from certain contracting requirements. States that this section shall apply to the acquisition of automatic data processing equipment. Specifies certain Federal procurements under current Federal law to which the provisions of this section shall not apply. Allows the Secretary of Defense to authorize selected components of DOD, for three years after commercial product procurement regulations are implemented, to conduct a pilot program to test procedures for resolving protests of actions taken in conducting procurements pursuant to such regulations. Outlines procedures for the filing of a protest, its impartial review within ten days, the staying of the award of a contract until such review is completed, a final written decision within 30 days of the filing of the protest, and the designation of the official to decide the protest. Repeals provisions concerning commercial pricing certifications with respect to the purchase of spare or repair parts by the head of a Federal agency. Applies the authority of an agency head to award a contract without discussions with the offerors to any situation in which the greatest benefit to the United States is gained under standards such as price, quantity, design, performance, management or technical capability, delivery, or risk. Specifies provisions of the Small Business Act to which Federal provisions allowing simplified procedures for small purchases (less than $425,000) shall not apply. Replaces specified dollar limitations (ranging from $2,500 to $25,000) after which a procurement will no longer be considered a small purchase (and therefore require certain solicitation and award procedures to be implemented) with the small purchase threshold as established under armed forces defense procurement provisions and under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. (Generally, this threshold is an amount of less than $25,000 at which simplified small purchase procedures may be followed.) Amends the Federal Procurement Policy Act to revise the authority of members of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to designate certain officials to attend meetings and serve on the Council in place of such members. Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare an acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program prior to completion of full-scale development of such program. (Currently, such strategy must be prepared before full-scale development may begin.) Requires such acquisition strategy to ensure that there will be competitive alternative production sources available for each major program and subsystems of such major program when the establishment of two or more production sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs; (2) would not result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling DOD needs; and (3) is otherwise in the national security interest. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold relating to Federal defense procurement contracts. Repeals a Federal provision requiring short-term repair work on Naval Reserve vessels homeported on the west coast of the United States to use competitive bidding procedures without regard to the area of repair. Repeals: (1) a provision requiring the Secretary of the Navy to ensure, prior to the awarding of a contract for the repair or overhaul of a naval vessel following competition between public and private shipyards, that certain criteria must be met; (2) a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990 which prohibits the use of funds to enter into vessel repair or overhaul contracts for west coast vessels which include interport differential charges as an evaluation factor for award; (3) a provision restricting the acquisition of core logistics functions by commercial contracts; and (4) a provision pertaining to the performance by defense contractors of commercial activities for the Government. Authorizes the provision of severance pay to foreign nationals under defense contracts in order to comply with the laws of the host nation. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authority of working-capital funded activities of the Army to sell supplies, services, or work outside of DOD. Allows commercial printing and binding work and services to be used in connection with technical data to be delivered under DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot program for up to six major defense acquisition programs in order to test methods to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the acquisition process. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of his intent to include a major defense acquisition program in the pilot program. Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to increase from $2,000 to $250,000 the threshold contract amount after which prevailing wage rate provisions for laborers and mechanics under Federal contracts must apply. Outlines provisions for the determination by the Secretary of Labor of the prevailing wage rate for laborers, mechanics, or helpers under Federal contracts to which such Act applies. Revises a provision of the Act concerning the exclusion of Federal or federally assisted project data from prevailing wage rate determinations. Provides for a separate classification of helpers to laborers and mechanics. Requires a prevailing wage rate determination to be made for such helpers. Prohibits splitting up large contracts into contracts of less than $250,000 in order to avoid the application of wage rate determinations. Outlines actions to be taken by the Secretary of Labor when such contract-splitting has occurred. Requires the Secretary to notify the entity in question that an investigation will be conducted concerning an alleged violation of the Act. Amends the Copeland Act to reduce from weekly to quarterly certain reports required with respect to the weekly wages paid each employee by a contractor or subcontractor required to meet standards of the Davis-Bacon Act. Title III: Civilian Personnel - Repeals a provision which generally prohibits the civil service employment of retired military personnel within 180 days of their retirement. Provides for the waiver of performance rating appraisals for temporary DOD employees serving less than one year unless such individuals are being considered for a pay increase or reappointment. Authorizes reimbursement to Federal employees for house hunting trips to Alaska and Hawaii. (Currently, such reimbursement is permitted for trips only within the continental United States.) Includes employees or family members assigned to Alaska or Hawaii and employees who have signed mandatory mobility agreements as a condition of employment among those for whom transportation of remains, dependents, and effects are authorized. Includes the Republic of Panama as a post of assignment for which separate maintenance allowance may be authorized. Authorizes the President to adjust the maximum ten-dollar remote worksite allowance when considered necessary to alleviate deterrents to hiring and retaining employees at remote work sites. Repeals the requirement that the Congress must authorize civilian personnel end strengths for each component of DOD. Provides that the management of civilian personnel in any fiscal year shall not be subject to any statutory end strength limitation or work year floor or minimum staffing level. Repeals provisions which place numerical limitations on the number of personnel assigned or detailed to management headquarters activities, management headquarters support activities, or to DOD headquarters staff. Amends the Demonstration Cities Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to provide homeowners assistance to Federal employees and nonappropriated fund personnel serving overseas with reemployment rights when a base closure or reduction in the scope of activities is involved. Title IV: Real Property - Directs the Secretary of Defense to request the Administrator of General Services to dispose of land under the control of DOD that is determined to be excess property. Requires the Administrator to deposit half of the net proceeds to a special DOD account to meet DOD's national defense requirements. Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned to receive half of the net proceeds received as rent for leases of property under the control of DOD. Requires the remainder of such proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (Currently, all of such rent proceeds are deposited into the Treasury.)

To express the sense of the Congress that weapons and other military equipment removed from Europe should not be transferred to areas of armed conflict in the developing world.

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) military equipment subject to a treaty on conventional forces reduction in Europe should be eliminated under a carefully monitored verification regime; and (2) excess defense equipment resulting from unilateral arms reductions should not be transferred to areas of armed conflict in the developing world.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veteran Affairs to make grants (in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense) for the establishment of research centers at qualifying medical schools to carry out medical research in areas of interest to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

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 of such 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 from medical schools desiring to receive such grants. Requires the Secretary, in considering such applications, to give priority to applications 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's 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.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the limitation on the amount of separation pay that may be paid to an officer of the Armed Forces involuntarily separated before becoming eligible for retirement, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

Repeals the limitation on the amount of separation pay that may be paid to an officer of the armed forces involuntarily separated from active duty before becoming eligible for retirement. Prescribes the method of payment of such pay.

Defense Production Act Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

Defense Production Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to make permanent the provisions of titles I, III, and VII of such Act concerning national defense materials production, supply, priorities, and allocations. (Currently, such provisions terminate as of August 10, 1990.) Restates the defense mobilization preparedness policy of the United States which shall provide for a maximized response to early warning indicators to ensure the timely availability of adequate industrial production and supply for national defense requirements. Increases from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 the maximum industrial resource shortfall authorized to be reached by the President before a specific authorization by law is required. Extends the term to enter into defense production purchases or purchase commitments to avert shortfalls from September 30, 1995, to no later than ten years from the initial date of such purchase, commitment, or sale. Repeals the requirement of presidential reporting on the effects of offsets on the defense preparedness, industrial competitiveness, employment, and trade of the United States. Repeals a provision which grants immunity from civil and criminal suits and a defense to antitrust law actions for those persons engaging in voluntary agreements for preparedness programs and expansion of production capacity and supply. Provides in lieu defenses for persons against such suits and actions, under certain conditions. Authorizes the President, with respect to certain Defense Production Act activities, to exempt persons who are employed without compensation from Federal antitrust laws or any similar State laws. Requires any such employee who is not required to file a financial disclosure under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to file a confidential disclosure with the appointing department or agency. Authorizes the President to exempt from such laws members of the executive reserve who become employed by the Government during periods of emergency, or who are engaged in the national defense executive reserve training program. Requires financial disclosures from such employees to their appointing department or agency when they are not required to file such disclosure under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Provides exemptions from the principal conflict of interest laws for Government employees serving without compensation and national defense executive reservists when the President certifies in writing that the national interest requires a waiver of such laws. Repeals certain financial reporting and conflict of interest provisions of the Department of Energy Organization Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out loan guarantees, loans to private businesses, and purchases of raw materials and installation of equipment for the expansion of defense production capacity and supply. Exempts certain steel plating and thermoelectric coolers from purchase and installation dollar limits. Increases from $1,000 to $10,000 the civil penalty for violations of rules, regulations, and orders under title III of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (the expansion of productive capacity and supply of defense raw materials).

Acknowledging the sacrifices that military families have made on behalf of the Nation and designating November 19, 1990, as "National Military Families Recognition Day".

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 19, 1990, as National Military Families Recognition Day.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Armed Forces to provide chiropractic care, and to amend title 37, United States Code, to provide special pay for chiropractic officers in the Armed Forces.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Authorizes the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Army, Navy, or Air Force Medical Service Corps. Provides special pay to chiropractic officers on active duty for not less than one year. Increases such special pay with service. Authorizes the payment of additional special pay for any 12-month period during which such an officer is not undergoing chiropractic internship training, with appropriate increases for years of service. Requires such an officer, to receive such additional special pay, to execute a written agreement to remain on duty for no less than one year. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to terminate the payment of such additional special pay at any time, with an appropriate refund required from the officer concerned for any period paid but unserved. Requires an officer who voluntarily terminates service for a period for which a special payment was made to refund the proper amount to the United States.

A joint resolution to designate June 25, 1990, as "Korean War Remembrance Day".

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Designates June 25, 1990, as Korean War Remembrance Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on such day in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in the Korean War.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for: (1) the defense agencies for procurement; (2) the reserves for procurement of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment; (3) the Defense Inspector General; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program (the destruction of lethal chemical weapons in accordance with the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986). Transfers certain FY 1990 Army appropriations for the M-1 tank program. Transfers certain FY 1990 Air Force appropriations for the F-15 aircraft program. Title II: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Earmarks funds authorized to the defense agencies for: (1) the Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering; and (2) the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Title IV: Personnel Authorization for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Permits such end strengths to vary no more than two percent. Authorizes end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve for such fiscal year. Authorizes such end strength to be increased whenever members of the Selected Reserve are released from active duty. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1991 for members of the reserves on active duty in support of the reserves. Increases the number of certain enlisted and officer personnel of the armed forces authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes and specifies average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Repeals: (1) the current Federal requirement of a separate budget request for the procurement of equipment for the reserve components; (2) the requirement of a separate authorization of civilian personnel of the Department of Defense (DOD) by end strength; (3) the requirement for reductions in, and the permanent ceiling on, employees in headquarters and nonmanagement headquarters activities and support activities; (4) required reports on unobligated balances within DOD and on budgeting for inflation; and (5) a report on annual defense outlays as required under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991.

Small Business Machine Tool Access Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Small Business Machine Tool Access Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transfer excess industrial plant equipment to small business concerns. Requires such small businesses to hold such equipment for at least two years after such transfer. Allows the Secretary to require that such equipment remain available to the Secretary during such period for defense production in the event of a national emergency.

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States remains firmly committed to its Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of Korea and is steadfastly dedicated to the promotion of security and peace on the Korean peninsula.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that, notwithstanding the announced U.S. troop reductions in the Republic of Korea, the United States remains firmly committed to its Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of Korea and to the promotion of security and peace on the Korean peninsula.

Concerning human rights, democracy, and illicit narcotics production and trafficking in Burma.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Calls upon the Government of Burma (now known as Myanmar) to: (1) create the conditions necessary to ensure free and fair elections in Burma on May 27, 1990, by releasing persons imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their views, permitting all Burmese citizens committed to peaceful participation in the political process an opportunity to contest elections, lifting electoral campaign restrictions that provide the authorities with nearly unlimited power to limit debate, establishing an impartial election commission, and permitting access to Burma for international election observers; and (2) demonstrate a commitment to human rights by abandoning martial law restrictions on the right to a fair trial, ending rape, torture, extrajudicial executions, and forced porterage of civilians, and ordering investigations and pursuing prosecutions against those believed responsible. Calls upon: (1) the international community to withhold foreign assistance from, and to end all military cooperation (including arms sales) with, such Government; and (2) the President to discourage other countries from providing such assistance and cooperation and to encourage international observation of the election process. Denounces the Burmese Government's practice of accommodation and cooperation with drug traffickers. Urges the President to: (1) pressure such Government to cease such cooperation and pursue more vigorous antinarcotics policies; (2) use his position to focus international scrutiny on Burma's antinarcotics record; and (3) refrain from expanding U.S. antinarcotics programs in Burma until the Burmese Government has demonstrated a willingness to respect the human rights of its citizens and a sincere interest in combatting narcotics.

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Martha Raye.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Declares that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Martha Raye in honor of her service in the form of entertainment and nursing care to members of the U.S. armed forces.

Defense Reports Reduction Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1990

Defense Reports Reduction Act of 1990 - Title I: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces provisions, annual defense authorization and military construction Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Military Selective Service Act. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies existing defense reporting requirements by reducing the frequency of certain reports from a bimonthly to a semiannual basis, from a semiannual to an annual basis, or from an annual to a biennial basis. Increases the threshold amounts for certain spending or costs triggering reporting requirements. Title II: Report Provisions Previously Terminated Under Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals specified reporting requirements under armed forces provisions which were terminated by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 and restores others. Repeals the provisions of such Act that generally terminated all report, notification, or study requirements under Federal armed forces provisions. Title III: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes conforming and clerical amendments. Extends from July 1, 1990, to January 1, 1993, the deadline for full integration of fixed wing aircraft at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, into the range instrumentation system for attack helicopters. Removes as a condition for the transfer of obsolete naval vessels the failure of the Congress to pass a concurrent resolution opposing the transfer.

A joint resolution designating November 11 through November 17, 1990, as "National Women Veterans Recognition Week".

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1990

Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.

To require the Administrator of General Services to renovate the Pentagon Federal Office Building and Complex.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990

Names the fund for real property management established under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as the Federal Buildings Fund. Establishes within the Fund the Pentagon Restoration Account. Requires the Administrator of General Services to renovate the Pentagon Complex, Arlington, Virginia. Requires annual renovation progress reports to the Congress.

To amend title 32, United States Code, to require States to allow space at National Guard facilities to be used to provide overnight shelter for homeless individuals when that space is not actively being used for National Guard purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Directs the Governor of each State to make available for use by a homeless organization any space at a National Guard facility that is not actively being used for National Guard purposes. Authorizes each Governor to provide to such homeless organizations, without reimbursement, certain incidental services (such as utilities and bedding) in connection with the use of such facilities. Provides certain limitations on the use of such facilities for such purpose.

A bill to redesignate the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health Services and Research and to redesignate the Chief Benefits Director of that department as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990

Redesignates: (1) the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health Services and Research; and (2) the Chief Benefits Director of the Department as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits.

Veterans' Employment and Training Amendment of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990

Veterans' Employment and Training Amendment of 1990 - Provides eligibility for veterans' counseling, training, and placement services to veterans who have served on active duty for more than 180 days and who are eligible for discharge or release from such duty under conditions other than dishonorable within 90 days.

Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990

Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Amendments of 1990 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the payment of disability compensation due to certain diseases and disabilities presumed to be service-connected to remove the current limitation on the required manifestation period (either 40 or 30 years from the date on which a veteran last participated in a radiation-risk activity). Adds cancer of the salivary gland and cancer of the urinary tract to the list of diseases that will be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of such disability compensation. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to compile a list of military activities that are likely to have resulted in exposure to ionizing radiation above background levels. Requires the Secretary, immediately after including an activity on such list, to direct the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards to determine whether an association exists between the maximum level of exposure experienced by an individual and one or more of the diseases listed as presumptively service-connected for purposes of veterans' disability compensation. Requires the Secretary, after receiving a report from the Committee on such activities, to: (1) establish a presumption of service-connection between such activity and any of the diseases listed; or (2) determine that available scientific evidence clearly establishes that there is no reasonable possibility of an association between that disease and participation in that activity.

To direct the Secretary of the Navy to close the strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, and to provide for a moratorium, pending a reassessment, of the strategic homeporting program of the Department of the Navy.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1990

Directs the Secretary of the Navy to close the Stapleton strategic homeport at Staten Island, New York, to designate such facility as excess, and to provide for its transfer or disposal. Directs the Secretary to: (1) cease all military construction or operations of current naval strategic homeports in the United States; and (2) provide a moratorium on such operations pending an assessment by the Secretary of their cost-effectiveness.

Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1990

Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Amendments of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to institute a Selected Reserve member stipend program under the Armed Forces Educational Assistance Program. Requires an individual, in order to be eligible for such assistance, to: (1) be accepted or enrolled as a full-time student at a qualifying educational institution in a course of education or training approved by the Secretary and that leads toward completion of a degree in a health profession involving direct patient care or care incident to such direct patient care; (2) be entitled to benefits under the Selected Reserve GI Bill program; and (3) have achieved a certain qualifying score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test. Authorizes the Secretary to pay a qualifying individual $400 monthly under such program. Requires a period of obligated service as a full-time employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs from a participating individual in return for such assistance. Makes such an individual liable to the United States for failure to serve in the Department at a health-care facility for the agreed upon period. Increases the Selected Reserve member stipend amount whenever there is a general Federal pay increase.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the Navy to permit and facilitate the construction in United States shipyards and related facilities of combatant vessels and components for allies of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1990

Directs the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) permit and facilitate the construction in U.S. shipyards and related facilities of combatant vessels and components for nations allied with the United States, subject to the required safeguarding of sensitive warship technology; and (2) ensure that no effort is made by the Department of the Navy to inhibit, delay, or halt the provision of any U.S. naval system to such an allied nation if such system is approved for export to a foreign nation. Authorizes the President to restrict such activities of the Secretary in the interest of national security. Requires the President to notify the Congress within 30 days if he exercises such restriction.

A bill to amend chapter 32 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the pursuit of flight training under that chapter.

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to approve the pursuit of flight training for an individual entitled to post-Vietnam era veterans' educational assistance if: (1) such training is necessary for the attainment of the individual's vocational objective; (2) the individual possesses a valid pilot's license and meets all medical requirements necessary for a commercial pilot's license; and (3) the flight school courses are approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and the State. Sets forth the amount of assistance and other conditions for such flight training, including receipt by the Secretary of a certificate from the individual and institution involved of the flight training completed and the tuition and other fees.

A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to convey a certain parcel of land at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990

Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey a parcel of land at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

Act for the Use and Disposition of Designated VA Facilities

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Act for the Use and Disposition of Designated VA Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use agreements (a written agreement for the use of a Department of Veterans Affairs facility consistent with the Department's mission in return for the payment of consideration to the Department) with respect to designated facilities and to direct the disposal of such facilities. Requires cash received as such consideration to be deposited into the Enhanced-Use Fund. Requires notice of designation to be provided by the Secretary to the Veterans' Affairs Committees 30 days prior to entering into such agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to direct the disposal of such a facility by requesting the Administrator of General Services to perform a special disposition. Terminates the authority to enter into enhanced-use agreements on September 30, 1993.

Defense Tax Rebate Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Defense Tax Rebate Act - Title I: Individual Income Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of tax on individuals and provide a phase-in for such reductions beginning in 1991 and ending in 1995. Modifies the withholding tables to reflect such reductions. Title II: Determination of Defense Budget Outlays - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress on the required rates of tax in any fiscal year in which the reductions in actual defense budget outlays are less than the reductions in Federal revenues by reason of amendments made by this Act.

To provide that members of the Reserve and National Guard who participated in open-air nuclear tests during the 1950's and early 1960's and who have contracted certain radiation-related diseases shall be deemed, for purposes of certain benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, to have contracted those diseases in the active military, naval, or air service of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Provides that members of the Reserve or National Guard who participated in atmospheric nuclear detonation testing during active duty for training or inactive-duty training and who have contracted certain radiation-related diseases within specified periods following such testing shall be deemed to have contracted such diseases during active military services for purposes of eligibility for the following benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs: (1) disability compensation; (2) dependency and indemnity compensation; (3) hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, and medical care; (4) burial, cemetery, and memorial benefits; and (5) survivors' and dependents' educational benefits.

Industrial Defense Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Industrial Defense Act of 1990 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, in the procurement of goods or services or in the negotiation of any memoranda of understanding with foreign countries, from waiving any Buy American Act requirements unless the waiver is specifically authorized by statute and: (1) the Secretary has attempted to procure American goods or services; (2) the requirements are waived on a case-by-case basis; and (3) the Secretary has found that the waiver is justified and will not weaken the defense industrial base of the United States or otherwise endanger national security.

To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey a certain parcel of land at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey a parcel of land at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve safety on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways by transferring rearward, to other internal axle groups, a part of the load weight carried on the steering axle of a three axle truck-tractor and triaxle semi-trailer.

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990

Amends Federal law regarding vehicle weight limitations on the Interstate Highway System to prohibit the apportionment of Federal funds to any State which prohibits vehicles with certain triaxle weights from using the Interstate System within its boundaries. Authorizes such highways to be used by vehicles with two consecutive sets of tandem and triaxles carrying a gross load of 70,000 pounds if the distance between such axles meets certain measurements. Exempts a group of three or more consecutive axles from specified tandem axle requirements.

Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the urgent famine situation in Ethiopia.

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the administration should: (1) be commended for its quick action in addressing the humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia; and (2) impress upon Ethiopia's opposition groups that the U.S. attitude toward each such group will be greatly influenced by their cooperation in facilitating relief efforts and by steps they take in negotiating a lasting political settlement. Requests the President to urge: (1) the parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia to agree to a ceasefire, to accept free passage of relief, and to permit the United Nations (U.N.) to assume a prominent role in coordinating international relief efforts; (2) Soviet President Gorbachev to press the Ethiopian Government to agree to such actions; and (3) nations supplying military assistance to the warring parties in Ethiopia to use their influence to facilitate a ceasefire and end external military flows. Urges the President: (1) until the Ethiopian Government takes such actions, to oppose favorable treatment of such Government by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to continue to oppose upgrading of U.S. diplomatic relations with such Government, and to prohibit the importation of Ethiopian coffee; and (2) after the Ethiopian Government takes such actions and has made substantial progress in effecting macroeconomic reform and in negotiating a settlement of Ethiopia's internal wars, to begin the normalization of relations and to support an expanded World Bank and IMF role in Ethiopia.

Veterans' Nondependent Heirs Inheritance Limitation Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990

Veterans' Nondependent Heirs Inheritance Limitation Act of 1990 - Provides that, in any case in which a veteran having neither spouse, child, nor dependent parent is receiving disability compensation, is rated by the Department of Veterans Affairs as incompetent, and has an estate of $25,000 or more, further payments of compensation shall not be made until the estate is reduced to $10,000. Provides for lump-sum payment to a veteran six months after a finding of competency of amounts held back due to the provisions of this Act, unless death or returned incompetency occurs before the required date of such payment.

A joint resolution to provide for the erection of a memorial in the Arlington National Cemetery to honor United States combat glider pilots of World War II.

United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990

Requires the Secretary of the Army to provide for the construction and maintenance of a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery to honor U.S. combat glider pilots of World War II. Requires construction expenses to be paid entirely from non-Federal funds.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to restore the five-year service obligation for graduates of a service academy and the seven-year service obligation for graduates of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990

Reduces to five years (currently six) the service obligation of graduates of the service academies. Reduces to seven years (currently ten) the service obligation of graduates of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Veterans' Employment and Training Amendment of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990

Veterans' Employment and Training Amendment of 1990 - Provides eligibility for veterans' counseling, training, and placement services to veterans who have served on active duty for more than 180 days and who are eligible for discharge or release from such duty under conditions other than dishonorable within 90 days.

Dual Basing Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1990

Dual Basing Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for the dual basing of Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps units. Defines "dual basing" as the stationing of units on a permanent basis inside the United States with rotating short-term assignments to military installations outside the United States for training, exercises, or carrying out international security responsibilities. Provides for implementation of such dual basing by the Secretary after review and identification of those units that should be exempted from dual basing requirements.

Veterans' Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990

Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 1990 - Title I: Educational Assistance and Vocational Rehabilitation Program Improvements - Eliminates the reference to a high school equivalency certificate (as a requirement for eligibility for educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill), instead requiring that an individual have certain alternate school credentials accepted by the armed forces, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Defense, which are equivalent to a secondary school diploma. Makes persons receiving outpatient medical care or services pending discharge from active military service eligible for veterans' vocational rehabilitation if such persons are being treated at a hospital under contract or agreement with the Secretary of Defense. Extends by one year the period of automatic disenrollment for veterans' educational assistance benefits to allow for the filing of a claim for such benefits. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with an individual whereby the individual agrees to perform work-study service and the Secretary deducts the allowance otherwise payable to such individual from indebtedness resulting from any overpayment received by such individual under Department of Veterans Affairs-administered education, rehabilitation, or training benefits. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to reduce or eliminate such individual's indebtedness, to waive certain work-study program eligibility requirements and limitations, as well as certain debt collection requirements. Prohibits such an agreement from continuing in force after the individual's debt has been liquidated. Requires the Secretary to compensate such an individual for work-study services performed after such debt had been liquidated. Title II: Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires an honorable discharge from active duty as an eligibility condition for veterans' basic educational assistance for individuals placed on the retired list, transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, or placed on the temporary disability retired list. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary to make advance payment of the rehabilitation subsistence allowance. Eliminates the required advance payment of the portion of the work-study allowance payable to an individual participating in the veteran-student services program. Eliminates educational assistance for persons enlisting for active duty in the armed forces as an education program for which expenses incurred by a State approving agency will be reimbursed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance for the operation and maintenance of State veterans' cemeteries, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to States to defray the expenses of operating and maintaining veterans' cemeteries. Sets a maximum yearly grant limit for each State. Makes States ineligible to receive both operation and maintenance grants and a plot allowance for the burial of certain veterans in State veterans' cemeteries.