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United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to construct a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in south Texas. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the per-bed construction cost to be funded.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1989
Requires the President to award the Legion of Merit to any member of the armed forces who has received three or more Purple Hearts. Directs the President, within two years of enactment of this Act, to award the Legion of Merit to any person who, between September 8, 1939, and the date of enactment of this Act, has received three or more Purple Hearts. Provides that if any such person dies before the award of the Legion of Merit, such award may be presented to the representative of such person, as designated by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1989
Vessel Operating-Differential Subsidy Act of 1989 - Amends title VI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to create a new subtitle on new and amended contracts. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a liner vessel operating-differential subsidy contract with any person eligible under provisions of this Act who meets certain requirements. Directs the Secretary to amend an existing contract upon application by a contractor under provisions of this Act. Requires a contractor who is a party to two or more existing contracts to amend all contracts. Allows such contractor to consolidate the amended contracts or amend them separately. Declares that contracts entered into or amended under this new subtitle constitute prior legal obligations of the United States. Prohibits conditioning or limiting entering into or amending contracts on receipt of budget authority in advance in appropriations Acts. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into contracts under the existing subtitle relating to operating-differential subsidy contracts after enactment of this new subtitle. Specifies persons who are eligible to enter into contracts. Sets forth: (1) procedures for entering into and amending contracts; (2) terms and conditions of contracts; and (3) provisions relating to the determination and limitation of payments under contracts and to the making of payments during periods of dispute. Describes qualified vessels. Changes criteria and establishes procedures for waiver of the prohibition of the payment of operating-differential subsidies with regard to vessels in coastwise or intercoastal trade. Requires operators, before selling a qualified vessel to a person who is not a U.S. citizen, to offer the Secretary a right of first refusal to acquire the vessel for the National Defense Reserve Fleet. Changes the criteria for an exception to the exclusion from subsidy payments for a vessel to be operated in an essential service by U.S. citizens, allowing payments to be made when vessels documented under U.S. laws provide less than 50 percent of that service. (Current law allows the exception if the Secretary finds that the service already provided by U.S. vessels is inadequate.) Changes requirements relating to notice and the conducting of public hearings regarding an application to operate a vessel in an essential service served by U.S. citizens either in addition to or concerning an existing service.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1989
Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to pay to a named individual the additional remuneration to which he would have been entitled had he been promoted to a specified military rank.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1989
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for the storage of defense supplies at sites in the Great Lakes region. Directs the Secretary to designate between three and six sites. Outlines criteria to be used by the Secretary in determining such designations, including proximity to such defense supplies and proximity and accessibility to port facilities and alternative modes of transportation for land shipment of such supplies.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1989
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Title I: The Department of State - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations; Allocation of Funds - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) migration and refugee assistance; (5) bilateral science and technology agreements; (6) Soviet-East European research and training; and (7) the Asia Foundation. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the transfer into the Buying Power Maintenance Account of amounts deobligated from accounts for the administration of foreign affairs. Eliminates a percentage limitation on the transfer of authorized funds between specified Department of State accounts. Provides that if an amount appropriated pursuant to an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and the Act provides for earmarked funds, such funds shall be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Authorizes amounts appropriated for the Department of State to be obligated for 12-month contracts for two fiscal years, provided that the total amount is obligated in the earlier fiscal year. Applies such provisions only to funds appropriated for FY 1987 and thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for U.S. participation in the 1992 Seville World's Fair. Part B: Department of State Authorities and Activities; Foreign Missions - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary to use appropriated funds for: (1) obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945; (2) telecommunications services; and (3) the provision of maximum physical security in Government-owned and leased properties abroad. Authorizes funds received by the Department in connection with the use of Blair House for FY 1990 and 1991 to be credited to the appropriate appropriations account and made available for maintenance and other expenses of Blair House. Amends the International Center Act to authorize the Department of State to charge Federal agencies for the lease or use of International Center facilities used for security and maintenance. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to require foreign missions to obtain benefits or comply with other terms of the Secretary if necessary to implement an exchange of property with a foreign country to be used in connection with diplomatic or consular establishments. Authorizes the Secretary, if it is determined that the purposes of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 can best be met by such exchanges of property, to transfer funds for the acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad to the Working Capital Fund. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to increase the amount of funds authorized for the construction of Foreign Service Institute training facilities. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to credit a specified amount of registration fees collected from manufacturers, exporters, or importers of designated defense articles or services to a Department of State account for FY 1990 and 1991. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 concerning overseas assignments of Drug Enforcement Agency agents. Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act to eliminate the exemption for Agency for International Development (AID) regional inspector general offices from the Secretary of State's oversight for overseas staffing levels. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1989 to remove provisions regarding: (1) a prohibition on the use of funds to relocate AID regional inspector general offices; and (2) the number of positions authorized for such offices. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 which requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on expenditures made from appropriations for emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service. Amends the American-Mexican Treaty Act of 1950 to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for official entertainment and other representation expenses within the United States for the U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission. Authorizes the expenditure of appropriations available to the Commission for repairs of sanitation works threatened by the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and for emergency actions against health threatening sanitation problems. Authorizes the President to carry out preliminary surveys, operations, and maintenance of the system constructed to intercept sewage flows from Tijuana and selected canyon areas. Prohibits the operation of the Anzalduas diversion dam for irrigation or water supply purposes in the United States unless arrangements have been made with the prospective water users for repayment to the Government of the allocated portions of such dam. Authorizes the Secretary of State, acting through the Commission, to conduct investigations relating to the drainage of transboundary waters between the United States and Mexico. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 concerning the operations of diplomatic and consular posts and the United States Information Agency (USIA). Repeals a provision of a specified Act relating to the solemnization of marriages by consular officials. Adds the Department of State to the list of agencies to which criminal justice agencies are required to make available criminal history record information regarding individuals under investigation by the Department for determining the eligibility of such individuals for access to classified information or assignment to sensitive national security duties. Authorizes the U.S. Postal Service to establish branch post offices at diplomatic posts abroad. Requires the Department of State to transfer postal revenues to the Postal Service for expenses incurred in providing airmail service for such posts. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to make arrests without warrant for any offense concerning passport or visa issuance if there are grounds to believe that a person has committed or is committing such offense. Removes violations of specified sections of the criminal code from a list of violations for which such agents are authorized to make arrests without warrant. Part C: Diplomatic Immunity, Reciprocity and Security - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make ineligible to receive a visa and to exclude from admission into the United States any alien who has committed a serious criminal offense and for whom immmunity from criminal jurisdiction was exercised with respect to such offense. Waives such excludability under certain conditions. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to require the President, no later than October 1, 1990, to determine whether steps have been or will be taken to: (1) ensure that a new chancery building for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow can be safely and securely used; and (2) eliminate the damage to U.S. national security from electronic surveillance by Soviet facilities on Mount Alto. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a 1969 agreement (and related agreements, notes, and understandings) between the United States and the Soviet Union on reciprocal allocations for use free of charge of plots of land in Moscow and Washington, D.C., should be terminated if the President cannot make such determinations. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to make grants to child care facilities to offset in part the costs of such care in Moscow and other posts abroad where the Secretary determines that such facilities are necessary to the efficient operation of the post. Amends the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 to exempt the Department of State from a prohibition on administering lie detector tests, in any counterintelligence function, to individuals working under Department contracts. Part D: Personnel - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require the Secretary of the Treasury, at the direction of the Secretary of State and the election of a foreign national employee, to transfer such employee's interest in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund to a trust or other local retirement plan (except a social security plan). Deems such transfers to be a complete and final payment of benefits under Federal provisions governing civil service compensation. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to authorize judicial review of any separation for cause of a Foreign Service member. Makes technical amendments to provisions regarding the payment of travel expenses for Foreign Service members and their families in emergency situations. Revises Federal provisions regarding civil service compensation to extend the time period for which payments to employees whose evacuation has been ordered may be made. Revises Federal provisions regarding quarters, education, and cost-of-living allowances for Federal employees stationed in foreign countries. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to prohibit extra credit for foreign service at an unhealthful post from being used to determine the eligibility of a person to qualify as a former spouse of a Foreign Service employee or to compute such person's pro rata share of employee credit. Prohibits such credit for service as a part of a tour of duty. Entitles qualified former spouses of former USIA and AID employees to Foreign Service health and survivor benefits if such an employee retired before participation in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System was possible and the marriage lasted at least five years during the overseas assignment. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to make grants to post-secondary institutions or students (with special emphasis on minorities) to promote awareness of, and interest in, Foreign Service employment. Requires satisfactory educational progress by grant recipients for continued receipt of such grants. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to authorize Foreign Service members who receive presidential appointments to remain eligible for certain performance pay and leave in lieu of receiving the salary and leave of the appointed position. (Current law makes such members ineligible for performance pay.) Title II: International Organizations - Authorizes the President to continue U.S. membership in the International Sugar Organization and the International Tropical Timber Organization. Allows U.S. contributions to such organizations to be paid from funds appropriated for contributions to international organizations, beginning in FY 1991. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should ensure that the United Nations continues to pay sufficient attention to the United States and other major financial contributors in decision-making procedures on budgetary matters. Authorizes the President to withhold funds appropriated for the U.S. contribution to the United Nations or its agencies unless the United Nations has continued to implement the decision-making process in such manner. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to repeal provisions regarding the U.S. contribution to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the recognition of the Red Shield of David. Title III: Immigration and Refugee Provisions - Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as amended by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to make technical amendments to a provision regarding audits of funds received by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1989
Authorizes appropriations for the Maritime Administration for FY 1990 for: (1) operating-differential subsidies; (2) research and development; (3) manpower, education, and training; (4) operating programs; and (5) national security support capabilities, including the National Defense Reserve Fleet and the Ready Reserve Force. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to revise Federal provisions relating to the making of student incentive payments to individuals enrolled in State maritime academies. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to submit to the Congress a study on providing training opportunities for State, regional, and Federal maritime academy students that will produce licensed graduate officers. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to set the cap on annual payments to regional maritime academies which meet certain requirements at $200,000. Amends the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 to limit the purposes for which the Secretary of Transportation may enter into a contract for maintenance of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, including the Ready Reserve Force.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1989
Requires the cost-of-living adjustments in FY 1990 for persons receiving military retired pay or an annuity under a veterans' survivors' benefits program to take effect. Prohibits any reduction or suspension of such adjustments under any presidential order or any other provision of law, except applicable Federal armed forces provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1989
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to each individual who is the surviving spouse of a reserve member of the uniformed services who: (1) died after September 20, 1972, and before October 2, 1978; and (2) at the time of death would have been entitled to military retired pay but for the fact that he or she was under 60 years of age. Provides conditions for the receipt of such annuity. Sets forth procedures for computing such annuity. Provides that if an individual entitled to an annuity under this Act is also entitled to an SBP annuity based upon a subsequent marriage, the individual may not receive both annuities, but must choose one.
United States · United States Senate · 17 March 1989
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Aviation Career Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends Federal military pay provisions to require an officer, to be eligible for aviation career incentive pay, to perform the prescribed operational flying duties (including flight training but excluding proficiency flying) for nine of the first 12, and 12 of the first 18, years of aviation service. (Current law requires six of the first 12, and 11 of the first 18.) Allows such an officer continuous monthly incentive pay for the first 22 years of his or her officer service if an officer performs the prescribed operational duties for at least ten but less than 12 of the first 18 years of aviation service. (Current law requires at least nine but less than 11 of the first 18 years in order to be eligible for such limited incentive pay.) Increases the rates of such aviation career incentive pay, such rates increasing as the years of service increase. Increases the rates of such incentive pay proportionately whenever the President increases the rates of monthly basic pay. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to delay implementation of such provisions until a proper time as determined by such Secretary. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, FY 1989) the period during which an aviation officer may execute a career continuation agreement and therefore be paid an aviator retention bonus. Directs the following officials, on November 1 of each year beginning with 1989, to submit a report to the Secretary of Defense analyzing the effect that the aviator retention bonus program has had during the preceding fiscal year on the retention of qualified aviators in such officials' departments: the Secretary of each military department, the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to members of the Public Health Service. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than December 1 of each year beginning in 1989, to submit such reports to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees), together with comments and recommendations. Increases the limitation on obligations for aviator retention bonuses to be paid to Navy and Air Force officers during FY 1990. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce, by no later than September 30, 1992, the number of nonoperational flying duty positions in the armed forces by a number equal to not less than five percent below the total number of such positions in existence as of the end of FY 1989. Directs the Secretary to effectuate a reduction of not less than two percent by the end of FY 1991, with the remainder of such reduction to be realized by the end of FY 1992. Prohibits any increase in the number of such positions after September 30, 1991, unless specifically authorized by law. States that the minimum active duty obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a pilot shall be nine years if trained to fly fixed wing jet aircraft, and seven years if trained to fly any other type of aircraft. Provides a minimum active-duty obligation of seven years for navigators or naval flight officers successfully completing such training. Directs the Secretary, no later than December 1, 1989, to report to the defense committees a legislative proposal for an accidental death insurance plan for aviators serving on active duty that provides for the payment of death benefits of $100,000 for death resulting from the performance of operational flight duty. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to conduct a study of the aviator assignment policies and practices of the armed forces, and submit the results of such study to the defense committees no later than February 15, 1990. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should establish a commission to study the reasons for the critical shortage of qualified aviators in both the armed forces and the commercial airline industry; (2) the President should include in such commission representatives from the commercial airlines, the Department of Defense, and other appropriate sources; (3) the President should appoint all members of such commission no later than February 15, 1990; and (4) the commission should be required to report the results of its study to the President and the Congress no later than March 1, 1991, together with specific recommendations for eliminating such shortage of qualified aviators.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Veterans' and Survivors' Compensation Indexing Act - Requires annual cost-of-living increases in the rates of veterans' disability compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and in the clothing allowance for disabled veterans. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to publish such new rates in the Federal Register. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates the week of July 24 to July 30, 1989, 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, 1989, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Capital Punishment Procedures Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. Requires the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits evidence to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of creating unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, or misleading the jury. Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Sets forth special aggravating factors for espionage, treason, homicide, and the attempted murder of the President. Directs the court, or the jury by unanimous vote, to impose the death penalty upon a finding that such sentence is justified based on consideration of both the aggravating and mitigating factors. States that no person who was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense may be sentenced to death. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sex of the defendant or of any victim in its consideration of the sentence. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the court of appeals, upon consideration of the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; and (2) the information supports the finding of every aggravating factor upon which sentence was based, together with any mitigating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Provides for representation by counsel for a defendant who is, or becomes, financially unable to obtain adequate representation or investigative, expert, or other reasonably necessary services before or after judgment. Sets qualifications and provides for compensation of attorneys and the setting of specified fees and expenses. Sets forth procedures for the implementation of the sentence of death. Prohibits requiring any employee of any State department of corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons and any employee providing services to that department or bureau under contract to participate in any execution against his or her moral or religious convictions. Limits the circumstances under which the offense of delivering defense information to aid foreign governments is punishable by death. Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for: (1) murder committed by prisoners in Federal prisons; (2) kidnappings which result in the death of any person; (3) hostage takings which result in the death of any person; (4) attempting to kill the President of the United States (if such attempt results in bodily injury or comes dangerously close to causing the President's death); (5) "murder for hire"; (6) murder in the aid of a racketeering activity; (7) international terrorism (where the killing is a first degree murder); and (8) engaging in a criminal enterprise activity which results in death. Increases the minimum sentence to life imprisonment for the crime of bank robbery which results in death.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Provides for third-party reimbursement to the United States for health care and services furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs to a service-connected disabled veteran for a non-service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Veterans Health-Care Program Improvements Amendments of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide simians and dogs specially trained as assistive animals to any quadriplegic veteran entitled to veterans' disability compensation, and to pay certain incidental expenses incurred in becoming adjusted to such simians or dogs. Directs the Secretary to evaluate such program and report to the veterans' affairs committees on the experience of the Department of Veterans Affairs in providing such assistive animals. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to furnish tobacco to veterans receiving hospital or domiciliary care. Extends through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to furnish respite care to eligible veterans. Extends to February 1, 1990, the deadline for a report from the Secretary to the veterans' affairs committees concerning the provision of such care. Directs the Secretary to establish a program for the furnishing of medical, rehabilitative, and health-related services in noninstitutional settings for veterans who: (1) are eligible for nursing home care; and (2) are in receipt or in need of nursing home care primarily for the treatment of a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary, under such program, to: (1) furnish appropriate health-related services solely through contracts with appropriate public and private agencies that provide such services; and (2) in the case of each veteran provided services under the program, appoint a Department health-care employee to furnish case management services. Authorizes the Secretary to provide in-kind assistance (through the services of Department employees and the sharing of other Department resources) to a facility furnishing such noninstitutional services to veterans. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the provision of such in-kind assistance. Limits the total cost of the provision of such alternative services to eligible veterans to 65 percent of the cost that would have been incurred by the Department if the Department had furnished such nursing home care to such veteran. Directs the Secretary to report to the veterans' affairs committees the Secretary's evaluation, findings, and conclusions regarding the provision of such alternative noninstitutional care. Authorizes the payment of additional pay (premium pay) for nursing assistants employed within the Department in order to retain highly qualified nursing assistants. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain reductions in retired or retainer pay for registered nurses when such waiver is necessary to meet special or emergency employment needs within the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Directs the Secretary of Defense, in the negotiation, renegotiation, and implementation of memoranda of understanding and other agreements with foreign countries relating to research, development, or production of defense equipment, to solicit and consider comments and recommendations of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the commercial implications of such agreements and the potential impact on the U.S. international competitive position. Prohibits the implementation of any such memoranda if the President determines that implementation would have a significant adverse impact on the U.S. position. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to request a review of any existing memoranda or agreement that may have such an adverse impact. Directs the Secretary, after such review, to recommend to the President any appropriate modifications to such memorandum or agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Disapproves the recommendations of the Commission on Base Realignment and Closure as submitted to the Secretary of Defense on December 29, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Veterans' Home Loan Mortgage Indemnity Act of 1989 - Establishes a Veterans' Mortgage Indemnity Fund. Provides that the Indemnity Fund shall be available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for all operations with respect to guaranteed or insured Department of Veterans Affairs housing loans for which fees are collected, other than loans for property which has been disposed of by veterans to purchasers who will assume liability for such loan. Provides that the following sums shall be credited to the Indemnity Fund: (1) all fees collected from such housing loans, other than loans for property which has been disposed of by the veteran to a purchaser who will assume liability for such loan; (2) .25 percent of the original amount of all loans for which a fee is collected for the first three fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year in which such fee is collected; (3) all collections of principal and interest and the proceeds from property held or disposed of with respect to such loans; and (4) all income from investments of the Indemnity Fund that are required to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury in obligations of the United States. Increases the fee for a Department housing loan to 1.25 percent of the total loan amount. Provides that the following fees shall be collected: (1) one percent of the total loan amount with respect to housing loans obtained which are in default; and (2) .75 percent of the total loan amount with respect to loans for purchase or construction for which a down payment of at least five percent of the total purchase price or construction costs has been made. Provides for the waiver of such fees for veterans who are receiving compensation and whose disability is rated at least 30 percent. Provides that the provision prohibiting fee collection with respect to all loans closed after September 30, 1989, shall apply after such date only to loans which are in default or loans for property which has been disposed of to another purchaser. Provides that any veteran who pays a fee for such loans, other than loans which are in default or loans for property which has been disposed of, or who is exempt from paying such fee, shall have no liability to the Secretary with respect to such loan for any loss resulting from a default of the veteran. Revises provisions regarding the Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund to: (1) provide that it shall be available to the Secretary for all housing operations except those carried out by the Indemnity Fund; (2) limit the deposit of housing loan fees in such Fund, other than fees for loans for property which has been disposed of, to fees collected before the effective date of this Act; and (3) limit the deposit of principal and interest and the proceeds from property held or disposed of with respect to housing loans to loans guaranteed before the effective date of this Act. Revises a provision authorizing the Secretary to sell notes evidencing loans which are in default to permit such sale only if the amount received at the time of the sale is at least 90 percent of the unpaid balance of such loan. Revises a provision regarding basic entitlement to housing loans to authorize the Secretary, in computing the amount of guaranty entitlement available to a veteran, to exclude the amount of entitlement used for any loan which has been repaid in full. Allows only the presence of fraud (currently, fraud, misrepresentation, material fault, or lack of good faith) as a bar to the waiver of recovery of payments, overpayments, or benefits made by the Department when the Secretary determines that recovery would be against equity and good conscience. Prohibits the Secretary, in waiving indebtedness following the default of a veteran on a housing loan, to base such waiver on the balancing of fault or on whether such veteran may be able to repay the indebtedness.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Provides for the appointment of enlisted members of the armed forces to the American Battle Monuments Commission. (Currently, such appointments are limited to commissioned officers.)
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Drug Abuse Treatment Technical Corrections Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the formula for allotments to States and territories for alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services block grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, notwithstanding specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act, with respect to FY 1989, to waive a requirement that certain amounts paid to a State for such block grants, obligated by the State, and remaining unexpended at the end of the fiscal year, remain available during the succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirement in specified provisions regarding minimum expenditures by States for alcohol and drug abuse activities if the Secretary determines that the incidence of intravenous drug abuse in the State does not require the level of funding required in such provisions. Amends provisions requiring a set-aside of a portion of the block grant funds for programs and services for women to require that the focus be on alcohol and drug abuse. Declares that provisions requiring States to use a portion of the block grants for group homes for recovering substance abusers do not apply to any U.S. territory other than the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Prohibits an allotment of block grant funds from being made to a State unless its legislature holds public hearings on the proposed use and distribution of funds. (Current law requires such hearings after the first fiscal year in which a State receives an allotment under provisions relating to set-aside for an Indian tribe or tribal organization.) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration to establish program advisory committees and to pay members of the committees. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Board to be established not later than April 1, 1989. Allows exclusion, in computing the maximum number of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service authorized by law to hold a grade corresponding to brigadier or major general, for officers assigned to duty with the Department of Defense. (Current law allows exclusion for such officers only if assigned to duty with the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.) Amends specified provisions of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney Act) and the Public Health Service Act to read as if the amendments made by title VI (Revision and Extension of Programs of Health Care for the Homeless) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 had not been enacted. Amends the McKinney Act so as to authorize appropriations for a National Mental Health Education Program rather than for community mental health services demonstration projects. Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow recipients of grants for health service delivery to homeless individuals to provide dental, vision, and podiatry services as well as mental health and other services.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Directs the Secretary of Defense, in the negotiation, renegotiation, and implementation of memoranda of understanding and other agreements with foreign countries relating to research, development, or production of defense equipment, to solicit and consider comments and recommendations of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the commercial implications of such agreements and the potential impact on the U.S. international competitive position. Prohibits the implementation of any such memoranda if the President determines that implementation would have a significant adverse impact on the U.S. position. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to request a review of any existing memoranda or agreement that may have such an adverse impact. Directs the Secretary, after such review, to recommend to the President any appropriate modifications to such memorandum or agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Includes service in the U.S. merchant marine between May 26, 1940, and January 1, 1948, as military service for the purpose of determining civil service retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Provides for coverage under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services for medical procedures to overcome infertility for spouses and children of members of the armed forces who are on active duty for more than 30 days.
United States · United States Senate · 14 March 1989
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1989
Quality of Life Action Act - Declares that every adult American: (1) able and willing to earn a living has a right to a choice among opportunities for paid employment at decent wages or for self-employment; and (2) unable to work for pay has the right to an adequate standard of living that rises with increases in the health and productivity of the society. Directs all Federal agencies to plan and carry out their policies and programs so all adult Americans may exercise these rights. Prohibits the Federal Reserve System or any other Federal agency from promoting recession, stagnation, or unemployment as a means of reducing wages and salaries or inflation. Directs the President, in each annual budget and economic report submitted after the date of enactment of this Act, to transmit to the Congress a staged program: (1) to help establish and maintain conditions under which the rights set forth in this Act may be enjoyed; and (2) to implement the Government's economic and social obligations under the Employment Act of 1946, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Charter of the Organization of American States. Sets forth program objectives, which include: (1) providing incentives for enlarging employment opportunities; (2) increasing the opportunities for part-time employment; (3) preventing or controlling inflationary tendencies; (4) providing improved Federal incentives for investment, expansion, and increased employment; and (5) promoting conditions for more self-empowerment by those victimized by discrimination. Requires such program to include policies and projects to: (1) achieve American leadership in goods production; and (2) develop American leadership in services. Requires such policies and projects to include Federal grants and other incentives for short-term and long-term public works planning. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such grants and incentives. Requires the Government to cooperate with the United Nations and foreign governments in developing an international community based on rising living standards. Directs the President and the Congress to review laws, regulations, and procedures which may interfere with this Act and propose necessary changes. Requires the Government to make financial support for the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development conditional upon the development and implementation of policies and procedures which will: (1) raise the standard of living in countries receiving assistance; and (2) contribute to the economic viability, credit worthiness, and ability to import goods and services to the United States. Requires the President to propose and promote international and regional conferences on unemployment and underemployment. Directs the President, in the first annual message at the beginning of the first session of the Congress after the enactment of this Act, to include specific proposals for a Conversion Planning Fund, to be administered by agencies determined by the President. Provides that such Fund shall promote short- and long-term plans for coping with declines in civilian or military activities by developing specific policies, programs, and projects (including feasibility studies, education, on-the-job training, and inducements for necessary and desirable labor mobility) for the expansion of economic activities in sectors where additional or improved goods or services are needed. Requires, in addition to such other funds as may be authorized, that such Fund include no less than one percent of the amount appropriated for military purposes during each subsequent year. Directs the President, as part of such annual program, to transmit to the Congress a short- and long-range schedule for implementing the purposes of this Act. Requires such schedule to include recommendations for restructuring Federal budget priorities to provide for: (1) reducing wasteful or unnecessary military expenditures; (2) increasing Federal revenues; (3) reducing the interest on the Federal debt; (4) using public and private pension funds to help attain the goals of this Act; and (5) promoting or creating development banks in areas of high joblessness and poverty. Requires the President to include recommendations for promoting education activities within each State. Requires the Joint Economic Committee to monitor actions proposed or taken under this Act. Requires that budgetary data for specific programs include evaluations and quantitative estimates of impacts on: (1) gross and net outlays computed in terms of estimates of the effects of paid employment on reducing outlays and increasing tax receipts; and (2) benefits and costs to society. Requires that each overall budget message from the President to the Congress be based on policies and programs to reduce unemployment.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1989
Veterans' and Survivors' Compensation Indexing Act - Requires annual cost-of-living increases in the rates of veterans' disability compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and in the clothing allowance for disabled veterans. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to publish such new rates in the Federal Register. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1989
Makes supplemental appropriations for veterans' health care for FY 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1989
American Conservation Corps Act of 1989 - Establishes the American Conservation Corps. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to promulgate regulations to implement such Corps. Sets forth the scope of projects the Corps may carry out, including conservation of wildlife habitat, energy conservation, urban revitalization, and road maintenance. Limits projects to public or Indian lands unless public benefit can be documented. Specifies that State agencies or Indian tribes may apply for participation in the program. Requires the appropriate State Job Training Coordinating Council to comment on each proposed project. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior, of Labor, and of Agriculture to jointly develop regulations for joint projects, including funding under this Act and under the Job Training Partnership Act. Authorizes agreements with the Secretary of Defense to assist the military with such projects. Limits enrollment in the Corps to unemployed U.S. citizens or nationals between the ages of 16 and 25, with special emphasis on the economically, socially, physically, or educationally disadvantaged. Requires program agencies to provide necessary facilities and services, but permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to do so too. Requires enrollees to pay a reasonable portion of the cost of room and board. Sets forth program health and safety standards. Permits the use of volunteers for carrying out this Act if a program agency already has the authority to use volunteer services. Authorizes the Tennessee Valley Authority to use volunteers. Sets forth rates of pay in terms of stipends and other benefits. Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to provide guidance in securing academic credit or skills certification for program enrollees. Sets forth provisions for training and education services for program enrollees. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate the conduct of the program. Requires program agencies to provide job guidance and placement. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to report annually to the Congress. Entitles Federal employees and other employees displaced by enrollees under this Act to appeal or protest as specified. Authorizes and earmarks appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1989
Expresses appreciation for the achievements of Brigadier General Francis Marion, a Revolutionary War hero from South Carolina. Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare a plaque honoring Marion for placement at the Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Act to require one of the six Assistant Secretaries of Veterans Affairs to be responsible for monitoring and promoting the access of minority veterans to services and benefits furnished by the Department. Defines "minority veterans" to include blacks, Native Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Pacific Islander Americans, and women veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive reduced retired pay concurrently with veterans' disability compensation. Provides that the amount of the retired pay reduction shall be 100 percent of the veterans' disability compensation paid less the percentage of the veteran's disability rating.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Amends Federal provisions relating to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to contract with any U.S. citizen for the inclusion or incorporation of defense features (equipment or features which ensure the interoperability of such aircraft with the Department of Defense airlift system) in any new or existing aircraft to be owned or controlled by that citizen, and to contract with U.S. aircraft manufacturers for the inclusion or incorporation of defense features in new aircraft to be operated by a U.S. air carrier. Requires the contractor to repay the amount paid by the United States if the defense features specified in the contract are rendered unusable or are removed from the aircraft. Allows any such contract to include a provision authorizing the Secretary: (1) with the concurrence of the contractor, to contract directly with another person for the performance of the work necessary for the inclusion or incorporation of defense features in such aircraft; and (2) to pay such other person directly for such work.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Coast Guard Environmental Compliance Account Authorization - Requires authorization by law before amounts are appropriated for the use of the Coast Guard for compliance with environmental laws and regulations at Coast Guard facilities. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a program of environmental compliance and restoration at Coast Guard facilities. Applies provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act to contractors entering into response action contracts under these provisions. Requires the Coast Guard to indemnify the contractors to the extent that adequate insurance is not generally available at a fair price.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Prohibits the obligation of funds for the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber Program until the Secretary of Defense reports to the Congress on the following information with respect to the program: (1) total cost, including cost estimates and budget requests for future fiscal years; (2) production schedules; (3) test programs; and (4) the Secretary's views regarding the missions and purposes of such aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Requires the Administrator of General Services or the Secretary of Defense to transfer, without consideration, the United States' right, title, and interest in specified excess property on Guam to the Superior Court of Guam within six months after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary, not later than one year after such date, to determine if a specified parcel of land is excess and to transfer the United States' interest in it, without consideration, to the Superior Court of Guam as soon as practicable after such determination. Prohibits any transfer of land under this Act until the land is determined to be surplus property. Provides that such land will be deemed to be surplus property 30 days after the Administrator of General Services notifies executive agencies that such land is excess property, unless any agency pays to the Administrator the fair market value of the land. Authorizes the Superior Court of Guam to: (1) hold the title to all lands transferred; (2) render decisions on claims of persons and their heirs for eligibility for the transfer of land; (3) transfer to a qualified transferee the Court's interest in such land; and (4) determine the amount of consideration to be paid by a qualified transferee. Provides that if any portion of any property transferred does not remain in the ownership of United States persons it shall revert to the Government of Guam, that the transferred land shall be treated as "after-discovered property" under Guam's probate code, proof of ownership of such lands shall be in accordance with the civil evidentiary laws of Guam, and that determinations of the Superior Court of Guam shall be conclusive on all issues and will not be appealable. Requires the Superior Court of Guam, ten years after the enactment of this Act, to transfer to the Government of Guam all of the Court's remaining interest in the transferred land. Requires that three months after the disposition of all claims related to other property on Guam which may be determined to be excess, the Superior Court shall transfer its remaining interest to the Government of Guam. Provides that if any interest in any property transferred to the Government of Guam is transferred to any person who is not a United States person, that interest shall revert to the United States. Prohibits the transfer of any land to a qualified transferee until he pays to the Secretary of the Treasury an amount equal to the amount of any compensation paid by the United States (adjusted for inflation) which is attributable to such land and either: (1) waives all claims with respect to such land including the right to receive any award pursuant to a specified settlement; or (2) pays the amount of such an award (adjusted for inflation) received to the Secretary of the Treasury within six months after the date on which the Superior Court of Guam decides that such transferee is eligible for land pursuant to this Act. Provides that any person or heir is a qualified transferee if he: (1) is a United States person; and (2) files in the Superior Court of Guam a claim for the transfer of specified land which the United States acquired. Requires the Attorney General to make available to the Superior Court of Guam, without charge, the report commonly referred to as the Middlebrook Report. Requires the Attorney General to assist the Superior Court of Guam in identifying the owners, size, and amount of compensation or settlement award for land transferred to the Superior Court of Guam. Describes excess Federal property on Guam as of the date of the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to execute the instruments needed to modify the conditions under which specified land was transferred to the Government of Guam. Repeals the requirement that the sale by the Government of Guam of specified property conveyed to it by the Secretary of the Navy shall only be for a monetary consideration. Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration to transfer, without consideration, to the Government of Guam all U.S. interest in Apra Harbor Parcel 6 to be used exclusively for plant and wildlife conservation. Provides that such parcel shall revert to the United States if: (1) the parcel is used for any purpose other than plant and wildlife conservation; or (2) the Government of Guam transfers any portion of its interest in the parcel.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Coast Guard Management and Law Enforcement Act of 1989 - Title I: Icebreaking Requirements - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990, in addition to any sums authorized for FY 1990 for the Coast Guard, to renovate the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in certain circumstances, to charter an icebreaking vessel. Title II: Law Enforcement - Amends Federal law to set forth the powers of the Coast Guard in law enforcement, including arrests, searches, and seizures. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to submit to the Congress a report listing all laws enforced by the Coast Guard in the U.S. territorial seas whose application should be extended to 12 nautical miles in accordance with a specified presidential proclamation extending such seas to 12 miles. Title III: Personnel - Amends Federal law providing for continuity of grade for a Coast Guard vice admiral when reappointed to another position as vice admiral to include reappointment of a vice admiral as an admiral. Amends Federal law relating to appointment of Coast Guard personnel to allow appointment to the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) or lieutenant to be made by the President without the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in certain circumstances, to adjust the date of appointment of Coast Guard Reserve officers, including in cases arising before enactment of this Act. Changes the criteria for retention in an active status by reserve officer retention boards. Title IV: Management and Administration - Requires contracts awarded by the Coast Guard for construction or services in States with an unemployment rate higher than the national average to include a provision requiring the contractor to employ local residents. Empowers the Secretary of Transportation, in certain circumstances, to waive such requirement. Establishes within the Coast Guard Reserve a Merchant Marine Reserve. Defines "Secretary," for purposes of Federal shipping law relating to vessels and seamen, to mean the Secretary of Transportation. (Current law defines the term to mean the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.) Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to pay special pay to a medical officer of the Public Health Service who is detailed to service with the Coast Guard and eligible for special pay under specified provisions. Title V: Maritime and Boating Safety - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding regulation of recreational diving activities and display of a divers flag. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to submit a proposal to the International Maritime Organization to recognize the divers flag as an international safety measure. Amends the Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980 to state that nothing in the rules in such Act interferes with the regulation of diving safety, including display of a divers flag, if that regulation prohibits interference with commercial vessel traffic, subject to exception. Requires the addition of a compendium of State regulations of diving safety to the technical annexes to the rules in such Act. Amends Federal law to require an undocumented vessel to have a number issued by the State in which the vessel is principally operated. (Current law applies the requirement only to undocumented vessels with propulsion machinery.)
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Boots and Saddles Tour Study Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, to study specified historic military forts occupied during the Civil War and Indian campaigns in New Mexico and to develop alternative means of interpreting and preserving such forts. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Requires at least 90 days of continuous active-duty service in order for veterans to become eligible for veterans' educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill. Revises the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve Program to provide the monthly educational assistance allowance payable to an individual pursuing a full-time program of apprenticeship or other on-the-job training under such Program. Reduces proportionately the amount of such monthly allowance for each month in which an individual pursuing such a program fails to complete at least 120 hours of such training. Charges each individual's general entitlement to such educational assistance for each month that such individual is paid a monthly educational assistance allowance. Provides that the monthly allowance payable to an individual pursuing a cooperative program under such Program shall be 80 percent of the monthly allowance otherwise payable to such individual. Outlines the amount of educational assistance allowance payable to an individual pursuing a program of education exclusively by correspondence. Charges such individual's general entitlement a specified amount for each month the individual receives the correspondence education allowance. Prohibits an individual who serves in the Selected Reserve from receiving educational assistance credit under both the armed forces' educational assistance program and the veterans' educational assistance program. Requires such individual to elect the program to which such service shall be credited. Revises provisions concerning the secondary school education required before an individual becomes eligible for basic educational assistance. Includes as eligible for veterans' educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill those individuals who: (1) commenced their third academic year at one of the service academies or as a member of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps in a program of educational assistance before January 1, 1977; (2) served on active duty for a period of more than 180 days as a commissioned officer; (3) were discharged or released from such duty under conditions other than dishonorable; and (4) submit to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs before January 1, 1990, an irrevocable election to be eligible for such assistance. Directs the Secretary to refund to any person fulfilling such requirements his or her unused contributions to the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans Education Account. Increases the rates of subsistence allowances for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Revises provisions concerning the computation of the veterans' educational assistance allowance to state the specific amounts of such monthly allowance for full-time, three-quarter-time, and half-time pursuit of educational assistance under the program. Increases such allowance in certain instances. Revises the amount of monthly educational assistance to be paid to an eligible person pursuing an independent study program leading to a standard college degree, providing a different computation of the eligible amount if the individual is pursuing such degree entirely on an independent-study basis or if independent study is combined with resident training. Requires an individual's general entitlement to be charged for a combination of such independent study and resident training on the basis of the applicable monthly training time rate as determined by the Secretary. Outlines the amounts of general entitlement to be charged to the eligible spouse or surviving spouse of a veteran who pursues a program of education exclusively through correspondence and is paid a monthly educational assistance allowance. Increases the amount of the monthly educational assistance allowance available to eligible persons pursuing special restorative training. Provides the specific amount of monthly allowance available to eligible veterans or eligible persons pursuing a program of apprenticeship or other on-the-job training. Requires an individual to begin service in the Selected Reserve within one year of completing certain active duty in order to become entitled to basic educational assistance for service in the Selected Reserve. (Currently, there is no one-year requirement.) Entitles individuals who are discharged or released from active duty for a preexisting medical condition, service-connected disability, hardship, or for the convenience of the Government and who elect to participate in the veterans' educational assistance program by revoking an earlier decision not to participate in such program to the number of months of basic educational assistance equal to the number of months such individuals served on active duty after June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1989 - Increases the rates of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and the clothing allowance payable to veterans with service-connected disabilities and their survivors. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to remove a limitation on pension payments to veterans without spouses or children who are receiving Veterans Administration (effective March 1989, Department of Veterans Affairs) hospital care for a period of over three months.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Reduces from two years to one year the period that a surviving spouse must have been married to a veteran who dies while in receipt of compensation for a service-connected disability in order for such surviving spouse to be eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Federal Maritime Reorganization and Consolidation Act - Replaces provisions of chapter 1 (Organization) of title 49 (Transportation) of the U.S. Code relating to the Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation with a provision establishing the Federal Maritime Administration (Administration) in the Department of Transportation. States that the Administration shall consist of the Coast Guard and the National Maritime Service and be headed by the Under Secretary for Maritime Affairs and Readiness. Redesignates the Maritime Administration transferred to the Department of Transportation by the Maritime Act of 1981 as the National Maritime Service. Transfers to the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administration, certain functions of: (1) the National Ocean Service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce; and (2) the National Weather Service of the Department of Commerce. Redesignates the Commissioned Officer Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the Commissioned Officer Corps of the Administration. Provides for related transfers and terminations. Sets forth savings and transition provisions. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress with recommended methods to consolidate in a single functional category for purposes of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 all budget authority relating to the Administration, including the military programs conducted by the Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Coast Guard Selected Reserve Act of 1989 - Authorizes the end strength for Selected Reserve personnel of the Coast Guard for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to vary such end strength by not more than two percent. Provides for adjustments to such end strength, as specified. Adds the Coast Guard Reserve to the list of matters which must have authorization by law before funds may be appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Coast Guard Environmental Compliance Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a program of environmental compliance and restoration at Coast Guard facilities, including identification, investigation, and cleanup of contamination, correction of other environmental damage, and demolition and removal of unsafe buildings and structures. Directs the Secretary to take action with respect to sites formerly, as well as sites currently, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, subject to exception, to pay fees and charges imposed by State authorities for permit services for the disposal of hazardous substances to the same extent that nongovernmental entities are required to pay. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with any Federal, State, or local government agency for services regarding off-site contamination. Makes the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) relating to response action contractors apply to contractors who carry out response actions under these provisions. Establishes in the Coast Guard the Coast Guard Environmental Compliance Account, to consist of: (1) all sums appropriated to carry out the Secretary's environmental compliance under these or any other provisions of law; and (2) amounts recovered under specified provisions of CERCLA. Requires an annual report to the Congress describing the progress made in implementing this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide immediate relative status to spouses, children, and parents of certain aliens who died while on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of each military department concerned to accept for original enlistment in the armed forces, the reserves, and the Coast Guard certain aliens not already admitted for permanent residence in the United States. Requires such aliens to satisfy any other enlistment qualifications prescribed by the Secretary concerned. Provides that, if within 60 days after the commencement of war or an emergency declared by the Congress, the Congress fails to increase the number of aliens authorized to serve in the armed forces and the Coast Guard, the President may set such number. Requires any alien taking an oath of enlistment to also declare an intention to become a citizen of the United States. Authorizes the chief executive officer of any State, territory, or possession of the United States to provide for the enlistment of aliens in the organized militia. Limits the number of aliens authorized to be enlisted during any fiscal year. Requires at least two-thirds of such enlisted members to be reserved for the Army National Guard. Provides the same conditions of enlistment for such aliens as stated above for aliens enlisting in the U.S. armed forces and Coast Guard. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary concerned or other proper State, possession, or territorial official, to adjust to a temporary lawfully-admitted status any alien who: (1) is an enlisted member of the armed forces or militia; (2) establishes that he or she is otherwise admissible as an immigrant; (3) has not been convicted of any felony or three or more misdemeanors committed in the United States; and (4) has not assisted in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group. Requires any spouse or child of such alien to satisfy such requirements (except for the enlistment requirement) in order to have his or her status adjusted. Directs the Attorney General to adjust such status to lawfully admitted for permanent residence for an alien who: (1) serves no less than three years of honorable service in the armed forces or militia and is not released or discharged under other-than-honorable conditions; (2) applies for such adjustment within a specified time after such service if the Secretary or chief executive officer concerned approves such application; and (3) is admissible as an immigrant. Directs the Attorney General, upon petition by the Secretary or chief executive officer concerned, to waive such three-year service requirement condition for any alien who was wounded in action or held captive or with respect to a family member of an alien killed in action. Provides that certain numerical limitations on the number of aliens lawfully admitted into the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act shall not apply to the aliens admitted under this Act. Prohibits the Attorney General from deporting, detaining, or taking any other adverse action against an alien who has submitted an application for enlistment under this Act pending determination of such enlistment.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Amends Federal armed forces law to repeal legislative veto provisions in various areas, including: (1) defense contracting and procurement; (2) military construction; (3) restoration or replacement of damaged or destroyed facilities; (4) naval vessels; (5) administration of naval petroleum reserves; (6) disposal of obsolete or surplus material; (7) the acquisition of land for use as military test sites; and (8) the reduction of active-duty service periods for members of the armed forces. Amends the War Powers Resolution to specifically empower the Congress to declare war. Repeals certain limitations placed upon the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce U.S. armed forces into hostilities. Amends the Resolution to require that, where consultation is required under it, the President shall consult with: (1) the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate. Requires the President and such Members to establish a schedule of regular meetings to ensure adequate consultation on national security issues. Requires that, whenever a majority of such Members so request, the President shall consult with a permanent consultative group (to be established within the Congress under this Act) unless the President determines that limiting consultation to such Members is essential to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting the most vital security interests of the United States. Requires the membership of the permanent consultative group, in addition to such Members, to include the chairmen and ranking minority members of the House and Senate committees on foreign affairs, armed services, and intelligence. Requires reports from the President to the Congress: (1) in any case in which the number of U.S. forces equipped for combat and located in a foreign country are substantially reduced; and (2) upon the termination of the involvement of U.S. armed forces in hostilities. Repeals provisions of the Resolution requiring the President to terminate any use of U.S. armed forces: (1) within 60 days after such use is required to be reported to the Congress under the Resolution, unless the Congress specifically authorizes their continued use; or (2) if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution. Provides that, whenever U.S. armed forces are engaged in hostilities or other situations described in a report submitted (or deemed to be required to be submitted) by the President under the Resolution without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, it shall be in order in the Senate or House to consider a joint resolution (approved by the permanent consultative group) which either: (1) requires the President to disengage or remove such forces; or (2) provides specific authorization for their continued engagement or use. Sets forth expedited procedures for such a resolution. Directs the permanent consultative group to hold such meetings as may be necessary to carry out its responsibilities whenever such meetings are called by the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, or a majority of its membership.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from imposing charges for outpatient medical or dental care provided at any military health care facility.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Philippine Scout Retirement Pay Equity Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army to redetermine the retired pay for those persons serving as Philippine Scouts during World War II to bring it into conformity with retired pay payable to other members of the armed forces with the same grade and the same length of service. Directs the Secretary to make similar adjustments for the calculation of benefits for survivors of such Philippine Scouts.