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United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated after this Act's enactment for procurement or military construction for the MX rail garrison missile system. Reduces current procurement and construction funds requested for such system.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Defines a "minor child" for purposes of eligibility for burial in national cemeteries as any child under 21 years old or under 23 years old if pursuing instruction at an approved educational institution. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide flat grave markers in the portion of the Florida National Cemetery which had installed pre-placed grave liners as of July 28, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Veterans' Housing Amendments Act of 1990 - Revises the loan fee to be paid by veterans for housing loans guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department of Veterans Affairs to make such fee: (1) 1.75 percent of the total loan amount; or (2) one percent of the total loan amount in the case of loans for veterans for housing in rural areas, loans made to acquire housing by default, or loans made to refinance a housing loan. Deletes provisions allowing the sale of notes evidencing such loans with or without recourse and limiting the amount of a loan made to finance the purchase of real property from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more before the loan fees required to be collected from veterans for housing loans will be waived. Requires loan fees collected for any housing loan closed between January 1, 1990, and September 30, 1990, to be credited to the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund. Terminates a reporting requirement with respect to loans made to purchase manufactured homes and lots. Prohibits the Secretary from guaranteeing such a loan unless it was closed before October 1, 1990, or made pursuant to a guaranty commitment issued by the Secretary before such date. States that such restriction shall not apply to a loan to refinance an existing loan guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department. Deletes a provision prohibiting payment of a claim under a loan guaranty for the purchase of manufactured homes and lots before liquidation of the security for the loan and the filing of an accounting with the Secretary. Provides, in lieu, that the holder of such a loan may submit a claim to the Secretary based upon: (1) the value of the property securing the loan as determined by the Secretary; or (2) the actual proceeds from the liquidation sale of the property securing the loan. Extends to October 1, 1991, the time period authorized for lenders to review appraisal reports in connection with homes for which the Department is guaranteeing loans. Repeals provisions which prohibit the Department from guaranteeing loans for newly constructed residences in areas not served by public or community water and sewage systems. Requires any veteran desiring a housing debt waiver to make such request within 180 days after the notification of such indebtedness, or by September 30, 1992, if notice was provided before October 1, 1990. Makes permanent the foreclosure information and counseling requirements currently provided for veterans foreclosing on a housing loan guaranteed by the Department (currently expires on March 1, 1991). Makes permanent the claim payment and property acquisition upon default provisions currently set to expire on October 1, 1991. Requires the Department, in determining the "net value" of a property, to take into account losses sustained on resale of properties in determining whether or not to acquire a foreclosed property. Makes permanent the vendee loan and property management provisions currently set to expire on December 31, 1990. Repeals the authority for a Direct Loan Revolving Fund (DLRF). Provides that the Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund (LGRF) shall pay for direct loan operations. Transfers present and future payments of the DLRF to the LGRF. Provides that the Secretary shall have no obligation to repay amounts advanced by the Treasury to the DLRF. Permits the Department to collect all debts arising out of the housing loan program by offsetting the debtor's Federal tax refund or Federal salary. Directs the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to issue certificates of veteran status to persons seeking benefits under the National Housing Act or other programs administered by such Agency. Provides that persons applying for Department guaranteed, made, or insured housing loans will not become subject to provisions requiring persons seeking loans exceeding $150,000, which are guaranteed, made, or insured by a Federal agency to disclose their lobbying activities. Requires veterans (other than those exempted due to disability or other hardship) who obtain loans guaranteed by the Department for the purchase, construction, alteration, or repair of a property to make a downpayment equal to four percent of the amount by which the actual costs for such purchase, construction, repair, or alteration exceed $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Medical Care Cost Recovery Amendments of 1990 - Provides for third-party reimbursement of the United States for the cost of health care and services furnished to a service-connected disabled veteran by the Department of Veterans Affairs for treatment of nonservice-connected disability. (Present law applies to a nonservice-connected disability incurred by a veteran entitled to care under a health plan and who does not have a service-connected disability.) Deletes language allowing a third-party insurer to reimburse the United States in accordance with the prevailing rates at which the third party makes payments under comparable health-plan contracts with non-Federal facilities in the same geographical area. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Veterans Affairs Third Party Medical Recoveries Fund to be used for identification, billing, and collection of the cost of care and services furnished by the Department on a reimbursable basis. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer to such Fund in FY 1991 certain full-time employees who had previously been devoted to third party medical cost recovery activities as part of veterans' medical care appropriations. Requires necessary deposits into the Fund by January 1 of each year. Revises the definition of "health-plan contract" to provide that Medicare supplemental insurance plans shall be required to reimburse the Department for services provided to veterans by the Department under such a plan.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Veterans' Medical Care Amendments of 1990 - Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs discretion in determining the circumstances under which the Department of Veterans Affairs will pay the travel expenses of a veteran to obtain health care or vocational rehabilitation services at a Department medical facility. (Current law requires the Secretary to do so if the Secretary determines that any eligible veteran should receive such travel benefits.) Extends the provision of outpatient dental care to all former prisoners of war (currently, limited to former prisoners of war who were incarcerated for 90 days or more and those whose dental problems are service-connected). Extends the provision of outpatient dental care: (1) when medically necessary in preparation for hospital admission or for veterans otherwise receiving veterans' medical care or services; and (2) to veterans of World War I. Requires the Department to obtain a second opinion in cases where the cost of proposed dental care for a veteran by a fee-based practitioner would exceed $1,000 (currently $500). Authorizes periodic review and adjustment of such ceiling amount by the Secretary. Repeals: (1) the September 30, 1991, termination date for the provision of treatment and rehabilitation to veterans for alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities; and (2) the requirement for a current ongoing evaluation of the results of such treatment and rehabilitation program. Extends through FY 1995 the authority to provide contract care to U.S. veterans in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the upgrading and replacement of equipment and facilities for such Center through FY 1995. Decreases such annual authorization amount from $1,000,000 to $500,000. Earmarks the first $50,000 of grants appropriated to the Center for educating and training hospital personnel. Authorizes Department medical centers to convert space at their facility for child care purposes, without reimbursement to the Veterans Canteen Service for the cost of such conversion.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Veterans' Programs Improvement Act of 1990 - Provides that in order to continue to receive payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay after being rated incompetent, a veteran receiving Government hospital treatment or domiciliary care may not have an estate the value of which exceeds $4,500 (currently, $1,500). Increases from 30 to 40 years the period in which leukemia must become manifest in a veteran who engaged in a radiation-risk activity during active service in order to be considered service-connected for purposes of veterans' disability compensation provisions. Increases from three to 12 months the period during which a veteran having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be paid a monthly pension by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires that any amount of pension being withheld from a veteran due to the provision of domiciliary or nursing home care by the Department shall be paid in a lump sum after the veteran's discharge or release. Limits such payment to $10,000. Allows such payment to be made prior to discharge in order to facilitate placement of such veterans outside the institution.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Requires nonservice-connected disabled veterans of certain income categories to pay a copayment for each day of inpatient hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care they receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires a nonservice-connected disabled veteran of the lowest income category to pay nine dollars for each day the veteran receives such care. Requires a veteran of the next-higher income category to pay the lesser of: (1) the nine dollar copayment for every day the veteran receives hospital or nursing home care after that number of days considered in determining the amount for which the veteran is liable; and (2) the cost of furnishing such care as determined by the Secretary. Requires such amount to be increased on January 1 of each year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index. Requires certain disabled veterans eligible for medical treatment on an ambulatory or outpatient basis to pay a copayment of five dollars for each outpatient visit. Requires such veterans in the next-higher income category (those who agree to pay a copayment amount in order to receive such outpatient care) to pay an amount equal to 20 percent of the estimated cost of an outpatient visit or ten dollars for each visit. Prohibits the Secretary from furnishing a prescription drug to a veteran eligible for hospital or nursing home care for a nonservice-connected disability unless such veteran agrees to pay either three or five dollars for each prescription drug received (depending on the income-level category of such veteran). Requires such amount to be increased on January 1 of each year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Veterans Nurse Pay Act of 1990 - Requires the director of each Department of Veterans Affairs health-care facility to review the rates of basic pay paid to nurses by comparable non-Department health-care facilities within the same labor market. Requires such reviews, when feasible, to be based on survey data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Provides that if the survey shows that the rate of basic pay for comparable positions at non-Department facilities is greater than that provided for the first four nurse pay grades (junior, associate, full, or intermediate nurse grade), the Secretary may increase such rates to make them competitive. Provides that if the rate of basic pay for intermediate grade nurse is increased, the Secretary may authorize an increase in basic pay rates for the remaining four nurse grades (senior, chief, assistant director, and director grades). Provides that if the rate of basic pay for intermediate grade nurse is not increased, the four remaining nurse grades shall be rated in accordance with the national nurse pay schedule already prescribed under Federal law. Provides that an employee who is transferred from one Department health-care facility to another shall be paid at the rate of pay in effect at the facility to which transferred. Eliminates, for staff and head nurses, the current time-and-a-half ceiling on nurse overtime pay. Prohibits nurse managers and supervisors other than head nurses from receiving overtime pay under such provision. Authorizes the Secretary to pay incentive pay equal to six percent of a nurse's hourly rate for each hour of service performed as a head nurse if such service is performed for 30 consecutive days or more. Authorizes the Secretary to pay to any nurse serving as Chief of Nursing Service at a Department health-care facility and to any nurse paid at the director grade or above incentive pay of between two and six percent of such nurse's annual basic pay rate. Authorizes the director of a Department facility to increase rates of special pay (paid to retain the services of certain key personnel) to the 28th step of the appropriate grade (currently, the 19th step). Allows only the Secretary or his designee to raise such rate beyond the 28th step. Prohibits such rate from exceeding the rate of basic pay for individuals serving as Assistant Chief Medical Director. Empowers the Secretary or his designee, when there is a severe shortage of well-qualified nurses, to grant exceptions to the reduction in pay required by law for reemployed annuitants employed on an intermittent or fee basis.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Compensation and Labor-Relations Act of 1990 - Title I: Physicians and Dentists Special Pay - Revises provisions of Federal law relating to special pay for health-care professionals of the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration (HSRA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Department). Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified physicians and dentists, to provide special pay upon the execution of a written agreement between the Secretary and the individual involved providing that the individual shall serve a required period of obligated service within the HSRA. Provides that such an individual is not entitled to such special pay during the first three years of such service, except at the discretion of the Secretary for full-time services. Prohibits the payment of special pay to those physician and dentist positions for which there is no significant recruitment and retention problem. Outlines requirements of a written agreement, including provisions providing for: (1) a covered period of one to four years; (2) refunding of special pay for unfulfilled service; (3) the waiver of such refund requirement due to circumstances beyond the control of the physician or dentist; and (4) submission to the Secretary of agreements where an individual is entering into a second or subsequent agreement for a specified amount of special pay. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust amounts of special pay to reflect changes in the status of a physician or dentist. Directs the Secretary to provide special pay to eligible full-time physicians based upon specified factors, including: (1) tenure within the HSRA; (2) service in a medical specialty for which it is extremely difficult to recruit and retain qualified professionals; (3) service in certain executive positions; (4) specialty or board certifications; and (5) service in a geographic location for which there are extraordinary difficulties in the recruitment or retention of qualified personnel. Requires the maximum amount of special pay to be paid to the Chief Medical Director (CMD) and the Deputy Chief Medical Director (DCMD). Directs the Secretary to provide special pay to part-time eligible physicians based upon similar factors. Requires the Secretary to pay each such physician an amount of special pay equal to the proportion of full-time service that a physician performs. Directs the Secretary to provide special pay to eligible full-time and part-time dentists based upon similar factors. Prohibits physicians and dentists provided special pay and serving in certain executive positions from being paid scarce specialty pay (another form of special pay that rewards scarce specialty areas of practice). Requires, with regard to the payment of special pay, determinations: (1) that there are extraordinary difficulties in recruitment or retention; (2) of the amount of special pay based upon the special pay factors for each individual; and (3) of whether there are extraordinary difficulties in a specific geographic location in the recruitment or retention of qualified physicians or dentists. Outlines considerations for determinations with respect to extraordinary recruitment and retention difficulties and the payment of scarce specialty pay for individual medical facilities of the Department. Outlines the manner in which special pay is to be considered for purposes of other benefits laws for Federal employees. States that it is the policy of the Congress to assure that total pay for HSRA physicians and dentists is comparable to total pay of other Government physicians and dentists and to the income of non-Federal physicians and dentists. Directs the Secretary: (1) in order to assist in implementing such policy, to obtain measures of income of such non-Department physicians and dentists and to define the bases for pay distinctions; (2) to report to the President quadrennially on appropriate amounts of special pay to HSRA physicians and dentists to carry out such policy; and (3) to report to specified congressional committees annually on the use of authorities under this title. Directs the Secretary to reimburse any full-time board-certified physician or dentist appointed in the HSRA for expenses incurred, up to $1,000 per year, for continuing professional education. Title II: Nurses Pay Grades and Pay Administration - Directs the Secretary to restructure the current nurse pay grades so as to provide four grade levels (entry, intermediate, senior, and director grade levels). Requires the Secretary to maintain the four new grade levels established for nurses employed in the Department. Provides GS-levels for each nurse grade, with appropriate step increments. Requires Department nurses serving as head nurses to receive basic pay at a rate two steps above the otherwise applicable rate. Authorizes the director of a medical center of the Department to provide step promotions or cash bonuses to nurses who have qualifications, experience, or achievements which the director determines exceed the standards for the nurse's current grade. Outlines factors to be considered by the director in making such determinations. Directs the Secretary to provide that the director of a medical center of the Department may appoint a nurse at a basic pay rate in excess of the minimum rate otherwise applicable if necessary to obtain the services of qualified nurses at that medical center. Requires the director to document and include the reasons for taking such action in his or her next budget submission. Repeals a current limitation on the hourly rate of overtime pay permissible for nurses within the Department. Title III: Labor-Management Relations - Revises Federal provisions concerning personnel administration and collective bargaining procedures within the Department. Includes all employees appointed in the HSRA under such provisions. Provides that the authority of the Secretary to prescribe regulations with regard to such employees is subject to the right of Federal employees to engage in the collective bargaining process with respect to conditions of employment. States that such collective bargaining may not cover, or have any applicability to, any matter or question arising out of professional conduct or competence. Provides that the issue of whether a matter concerns or arises out of professional conduct or competence shall be decided by the Secretary and is not subject to collective bargaining. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations establishing conditions under which employees of the HSRA who are nationally recognized in the area of medical research may be permitted to accept payment from non-Federal entities and individuals for travel and reasonable expenses for attending meetings, performing advisory services, and accepting awards. Requires any person who engages in such extra-professional activities to work a minimum 80-hour biweekly amount. Outlines activities and responsibilities that such a person may not engage in or take on while an employee of the Department. Provides that whenever the CMD brings charges against a Department employee based on conduct or performance and, as a result of those charges, an adverse (disciplinary) action is taken against the employee, the employee shall have the right to appeal the action, either through: (1) a Disciplinary Appeals Board; (2) Department procedures; or (3) grievance procedures provided through collective bargaining, depending on the type of action involved. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register any proposed regulations concerning the collective bargaining or adverse action procedures. States that Disciplinary Appeals Boards shall have exclusive jurisdiction to review any case: (1) which arises out of a question of professional conduct or competence of an employee of the Department employed on a full-time basis under a permanent appointment; and (2) in which a major adverse action was taken (suspension, transfer, reduction in grade or pay, or discharge). Gives employees involved in such a case the right to: (1) advance written notice of the charges and actions that could be taken if the charges are sustained; and (2) an opportunity to be heard both orally and in writing on such charges. Requires a decision on such case by a deciding official within 21 days after the employee's response to the charges. Allows for a delay in a proposed action for up to one year while an employee seeks counseling or treatment for a condition covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Allows the Secretary to require an employee to make a written or oral response to the charges within 30 days of receipt, with extension for good cause shown. Outlines further administrative action to be taken by the Board in a major adverse action appeals procedure, together with time limitations involved in each step. States that the Secretary's execution of the Board's decision shall be the final administrative action in the case, with the affected employee entitled to judicial review of the order or decision. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for the consideration of grievances of Department employees arising from adverse actions in which each action taken either: (1) is not a major adverse action; or (2) does not arise out of a question of professional conduct or competence. States that Disciplinary Appeals Boards shall not have jurisdiction to review such matters. States that review of an adverse action shall be provided through either Department procedures or through grievance procedures provided through collective bargaining. Outlines the rights of employees under the Department procedures to: (1) a formal review by an impartial examiner within the Department; (2) a prompt report of findings; (3) a prompt review of the examiner's findings by a higher official; and (4) legal or other representation. Requires the Secretary to appoint Disciplinary Appeals Boards to hear appeals of major adverse actions taken against full-time Department employees based on professional conduct or performance. Authorizes the chairman of such a Board to authorize disclosure to the affected employee of records or information to be reviewed during an appeal procedure. Provides for the protection of the privacy of the individuals whose records are involved. Requires the Secretary to periodically designate Department employees qualified to serve on Disciplinary Appeals Boards and to announce that a list of such qualified employees is available to any person requesting such list. Requires the Secretary to provide training in the functions and duties of such Boards and grievance procedures for employees selected to be on the panel. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Exempts the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration, Medical Care Account from sequestration or reduction under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain administrative reorganizations of regional and district offices as described in a prior communication to the Congress. Requires judges of the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals to receive the salary rate received by judges of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Makes licensed practical nurses, vocational nurses, and nurse assistants eligible for premium pay on the same basis as registered nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) funds are for the development of a ballistic missile system to protect people and allies of the United States and not merely for research; and (2) the President should deploy the SDI Phase I as soon as the technology becomes available.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Department of Defense Civilian Employee Retirement Incentive Act - Allows certain employees of the Department of Defense serving in entities undergoing a major reorganization, reduction in force, or transfer of functions to elect to have five years added to their age upon separation, their total creditable service, or a combination thereof (not to exceed five years) for purposes of determining retirement eligibility and benefits under the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Prohibits any remedial action from being implemented in an urban area with respect to the St. Louis defense wastes. Requires the Department of Energy to: (1) remove all St. Louis defense wastes from the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County and to transport them to a nonurban site in Missouri for remediation in consultation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources; and (2) restore the properties from which such wastes have been removed to a condition capable of business or recreational uses.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell the Outlying Landing Field, Whitehouse, Florida, and utilize the funds received from such sale (together with funds received from the sale of excess Navy property) to: (1) acquire real property to locate an outlying landing field for the Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida; (2) construct facilities on such property necessary to replace the landing field in Whitehouse; and (3) pay expenses related to that sale.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1990
Prohibits the proposed sale to Turkey of five AH-1W attack helicopters and related defense articles and services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 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 threshhold as established under armed forces defense procurement provisions and under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. (Generally, this threshhold 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 of pricing data threshhold 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 threshhold 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 action 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 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 is 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.)
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to purchase from members of the Air Force and their spouses mobile homes located on the base mobile home park at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, on January 1, 1989, and not moved from there since that time. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the amount of payment; (2) the disposal of mobile homes purchased; (3) funding for payments from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account; and (4) reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Authorizes the awarding of the Purple Heart to persons serving with the armed forces who were taken prisoner or held captive before April 15, 1962.
United States · United States Congress · 4 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 U.S. allies, 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 to such an ally of any U.S. naval system 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.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Renames the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory facilities at Livermore, California, as the Livermore National Laboratory.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Amends Federal National Guard provisions to remove the authority of the President to appoint the adjutant general of each U.S. territory. Removes the requirement that the adjutant general of a territory be a citizen of such jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Designates the week of November 11 through 17, 1990, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Extends the authorized length of temporary employment appointments by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of certain health-care personnel from one to two years for persons who have successfully completed a full course of training as a nurse, physical therapist, practical or vocational nurse, occupational therapist, or pharmacist in a recognized school approved by the Secretary and for whom registration or licensure in a State or certification by a national board recognized by the Secretary is pending. Allows a student who has such a temporary appointment and who is pursuing an academic program leading to an appropriate degree in such a field of study to be reappointed by the Secretary for a period not to exceed the duration of the student's academic program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to consider the sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Defense as an alternative to any "major medical facility project." (Current law applies to any project expected to cost over $2,000,000.) Revises the definition of a "major medical facility project" requiring congressional approval to increase the required expenditure from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy for FY 1991 or thereafter in connection with the Follow-on to Lance Missile program. Prohibits unobligated funds available to either department prior to FY 1991 from being obligated in connection with such program after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Transfers to the Secretary of Defense jurisdiction and control over and responsibility for the operation and management of the Pentagon Reservation in Arlington, Virginia (the Pentagon building and its surrounding grounds and parking facilities). Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel or employees to perform law enforcement and security functions for property occupied or under the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Defense located in the National Capital Region. Authorizes the Secretary to ensure the safe, efficient, and secure operation of the Reservation, including parking and traffic rules. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund for expenditures for management, operation, protection, construction, repair, alteration, and related functions for the Reservation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1990 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - 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. Title II: Miscellaneous Program Amendments - Increases from three to six months the period during which a veteran having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be paid a monthly pension by the Secretary. Requires that any amount of pension being withheld from a veteran due to the provision of domiciliary or nursing home care by the Department shall be paid in a lump sum after the veteran's discharge or release. Limits such payment to $5,000. Provides that in order to continue to receive payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay after being rated incompetent, a veteran receiving Government hospital treatment or domiciliary care may not have an estate the value of which exceeds $4,500 (currently, $1,500). Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts, devises, and bequests which enhance the Secretary's ability to provide services or benefits. Allows the payment of parents' dependency and indemnity compensation less frequently than monthly if the amount of the annual benefit is less than four percent of the maximum annual rate payable.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to extend the assistance program for homeowners adversely affected by base closures to employees of a Defense Department nonappropriated fund instrumentality.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Provides travel and transportation allowances for the parents of a deceased member of the armed forces for attending the burial ceremonies of such member.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Requires the Attorney General to recruit 1,000 additional border patrol agents for the Immigration and Naturalization Service from eligible military personnel discharged involuntarily under honorable conditions after October 1, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Authorizes the payment of separation pay to a regular enlisted member of an armed force who is discharged or released from such armed force (except by sentence of a court martial) if: (1) the member completed more than five but less than 20 years of active service immediately before such discharge or release; and (2) the discharge or release is involuntary or the result of denial of reenlistment. Requires members so discharged or released to receive such pay unless the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that the conditions of the release or discharge do not warrant payment of separation pay.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Democracy Defense Initiative Act - Amends the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to require the United States to provide assistance to Eastern European countries taking steps toward: (1) political pluralism and economic reform; (2) respect for human rights; and (3) a willingness to build a friendly relationship with the United States. Makes eligible for SEED assistance Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and any other Eastern European country reported to be taking such steps. Extends specified debt reduction and stabilization assistance currently available to Poland to such countries. Directs the U.S. Government, to the extent that an Eastern European country continues to evolve toward pluralism and democracy and to implement economic reforms, to urge creditor governments to negotiate debt reduction for such country, provided a specified international financial institution agreement, program, or facility is in effect with respect to the country. Authorizes the President to provide debt reduction to such country subject to the same conditions. Revises provisions concerning debt-for-equity swaps. Requires the President to explore and encourage innovative approaches to the discounted sale of government-to-government debt.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 4404 (supplemental appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
National Commission on Defense and National Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Defense and National Security to analyze and make recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning national security and national defense policies including analysis of developments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, German unification, the future of NATO and the Pacific Basin, and potential instability resulting from regional conflicts or economic problems in the developing world.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Places additional prohibitions on individuals convicted of felonies in connection with Department of Defense (DOD) contracts. Disallows such individuals from having any contact with defense subcontracts or subcontractors during such prohibition. Prohibits the Secretaries of the military departments from allowing the award of DOD subcontracts to suspended or debarred contractors (current law prohibits the approval of such subcontracts). Provides that, in the case of any DOD contact with respect to which the Secretary of Defense is required to approve the contractor's purchasing system, approval will be withdrawn if the contractor awards a subcontract to a contractor who has been suspended or debarred from Government contracting or subcontracting, except where the contractor has established procedures fully protecting the Government's interests. Directs the Secretary to require each DOD contractor to require each of its subcontractors to certify that the subcontractor is not debarred or suspended from Government contracting or subcontracting at the time of the contract award.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 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.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (the Secretary), 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, testing, 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 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 · 26 March 1990
Extends through September 30, 1990, the eligibility for readjustment appointments of certain Vietnam era veterans who qualified for such appointments on December 31, 1989, and lost such eligibility as a result of amendments made by the Veterans' Benefits Amendments of 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Amends Federal provisions concerning enforcement procedures for the reemployment rights of veterans having successfully completed their required military service to authorize a veteran claiming to be entitled to such benefits to file a charge against a private employer, a State, or a political subdivision with the Department of Labor. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training to serve notice on such employer of the filing of charges and to conduct an appropriate investigation. Requires the Assistant Secretary, upon finding that the charges are true, to attempt to correct the violation by informal methods of conciliation or agreement, and if informal methods fail, to refer the case to the Attorney General for a civil action.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Provides for Federal armed forces educational assistance for educational programs beyond the baccalaureate level in the case of assistance earned by service performed under an enlistment, reenlistment, or extension of enlistment by an enlisted member, or an agreement to a period of obligated service by an officer, entered into after September 30, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repay general education loans in the case of service performed by a member of the Selected Reserve. (Currently, such repayment is permitted only if the member of the Selected Reserve is an enlisted member.)
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs for a major construction project to modernize psychiatric and outpatient facilities at the Department's Medical Center at Northport, New York.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
DIC Reform Act of 1990 - Revises the formula for determining the amount of dependency and indemnity compensation paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs to the surviving spouse of a veteran who dies from a service-connected disability or while on active duty. Increases such monthly amount by ten dollars for each year of active duty served by the deceased veteran. Utilizes the current DIC payment table in the case of veterans who died between January 1, 1957, and September 30, 1990, if such amount is greater than the amount determined under the revised formula.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should continue its policy of support for democracy and national self-determination in Lithuania; (2) the United States should immediately establish diplomatic relations with the new Government of the Republic of Lithuania; and (3) any military action by the Soviet Union to intimidate or suppress the Lithuanian people's desire for independence should be condemned and will result in congressional action to prohibit U.S. assistance, trade credits, and trade enhancements to the Soviet Government.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (the Secretary), 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, testing, 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 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 · 21 March 1990
Directs the Secretary of Defense to make available a portion of the funds for closures and realignment of military installations to directly affected communities to provide employment and retraining services to civilian personnel who have lost or will lose their employment at such installations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to provide for the furnishing of gold star lapel buttons to dependents of members of the armed forces who die or died as a result of an illness or injury sustained in the line of duty. (Currently, such buttons are provided only for dependents of members who died while engaged in a military action.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release all reversionary interests of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon. Conditions such release on the requirement that the State of Oregon transfer to the United States Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon, on a contingent basis.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that in any fiscal year for which there is a reduction in national defense spending: (1) the maximum deficit amount should be reduced by one-half of such reduction; or (2) in any fiscal year for which there is no maximum deficit amount, the total amount of non-defense spending should not be increased by more than 50 percent of the reduction in defense spending.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Prohibits FY 1991 Department of Defense procurement funds from being obligated for advance procurement until 30 days after the Secretary of Defense submits a five-year defense program (for FY 1992-1996) to the Congress in conjunction with the President's FY 1992 budget.