Housing

Jesse Gray Housing Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989

Jesse Gray Housing Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a program to construct new public housing units. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1998 appropriations. Requires the Secretary to make financial assistance available for public housing projects, especially those likely to be disposed of or demolished. Increases annually the aggregate amount of contract budget authority for such purposes through FY 1998. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project demolition application. Requires public housing agencies to carry out job training and employment programs in connection with certain housing construction and revitalization projects. Gives program participation preference to housing residents. Reduces lower income rent contribution amounts under the National Housing Act, the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Housing Act of 1949, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, and the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983. Excludes welfare or social security cost-of-living adjustments from such adjusted income determinations. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a comprehensive report concerning proposed limitations on Federal housing assistance.

Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989

Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and the National Housing Act to provide assistance for the purchase and installation of elder cottage housing opportunity units.

Thrift Early Capital Attraction Plan Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989

Thrift Early Capital Attraction Plan Act of 1989 - Amends the National Housing Act to allow savings and loan holding companies to purchase shares of qualified stock issued by undercapitalized insured institutions or holding companies. Provides that any interest acquired in connection with a qualified stock issuance shall not be treated as a controlling interest unless the purchasing savings and loan holding company owns or controls more than 25 percent of the voting shares of the issuing insured institution or holding company. Provides that such a purchase must be approved in advance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Specifies approval procedures and factors. Allows an officer or director of a purchasing savings and loan holding company to serve as a director, officer, or employee of an issuing insured institution or holding company. Makes conforming amendments to the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act.

Medicare Adult Day Care Amendments of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989

Medicare Adult Day Care Amendments of 1989 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of adult day care programs providing certain health services to chronically-impaired adults in a group setting outside their homes for up to 125 days on a less than 24-hour basis. Requires providers of such services to have a multidisciplinary group of health care personnel conduct a written assessment of the status of each chronically-impaired adult before the adult's admission to the program and thereafter periodically develop and coordinate an individualized treatment plan for, and with the cooperation of, the adult. Defines a "chronically-impaired adult" as an individual 18 years of age or older who has a physical, emotional, or mental impairment which, but for the provision of adult day care, would require the provision of care in a hospital, skilled nursing, or intermediate care facility. Makes deductibles inapplicable to adult day care, requiring only the payment of a specified coinsurance amount. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations regarding adult day care programs.

Low-Income Housing Revitalization Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1989

Low-Income Housing Revitalization Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code (IRC) provisions relating to the low-income housing credit to: (1) increase the credit from four percent to nine percent with respect to new buildings that are federally subsidized; (2) reallocate unused credit amounts among other States for their housing credit agencies; and (3) permit carryover to the succeeding year of a housing credit amount, if it is reasonably likely that the building will be put into service then. Extends the low-income housing credit through 1991. Amends IRC accounting provisions to exempt low-income housing credit activities from limitations on passive losses. Revises the accelerated cost recovery system in connection with low-income residential rental property to reduce the applicable recovery period from 27.5 to 20 years. Disallows an income tax deduction for any expense relating to residential rental units that violate State or local building, health, or safety codes and are not brought into compliance. Requires the regulatory agency that notifies a taxpayer of the substandard conditions to file an information return with respect to affected taxpayers. Excludes deductions for business expenses, interest on indebtedness, and taxes from calculations to determine the passive loss limitation in connection with rental real estate activity relating to a qualified low-income housing project in which a noncorporate taxpayer actively or materially participates.

Public Housing Gateway Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989

Public Housing Gateway Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to make gateway program grants to public housing agencies to use public housing in the provision of employment training and services to economically disadvantaged public housing residents who are not more than 25 years of age. Requires that such grants be made with the advice and participation of the Gateway Task Force established under this Act. Requires public housing agencies to make the following training and services available to eligible individuals through the gateway program they must establish when they receive such a grant: (1) information on training, education, or services offered by the agency; (2) literacy training and bilingual training; (3) remedial education and training in basic skills (including communication skills, arithmetic, and problem-solving); (4) development of work habits and other personal management skills; and (5) free child care to facilitate participation in training and other services. Specifies additional training and services which may be offered to eligible individuals who are qualified through literacy training, training in basic and employment skills, and support services. Requires participants in gateway program training and services to be: (1) residents of public housing; (2) not more than 25 years of age; (3) economically disadvantaged; and (4) educationally disadvantaged. Limits mandatory child care services to: (1) participants in gateway program training or services during participation; (2) unemployed former participants who have successfully completed the program, for a specified period; and (3) employed former participants who have successfully completed the program, for a specified period. Permits support services to continue for up to 18 months to any individual after termination of participation in program training or services only if the individual has completed the training or services. Requires public housing agencies receiving such grants to attempt to employ in the gateway programs qualified residents of the public housing project involved. Prohibits consideration of earnings of and benefits to any individual resulting from participation in gateway training and services as income for public assistance or rent limitation purposes during specified periods of participation or post-participation employment. Provides that the use of the facilities of a recipient public housing agency in the provision of gateway training or services shall have no effect on the amount of operating assistance to such agency under the United States Housing Act. Establishes an interagency Gateway Task Force (the Task Force) to advise and assist the Secretary in carrying out this Act. Directs the Secretary to provide the Task Force with necessary information and facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Health and Human Services to each appoint members of the Task Force. Terminates the Task Force five years after its first regularly called meeting. Directs the Secretary to review at least annually compliance with this Act by public housing agencies receiving gateway program grants. Directs the Task Force to review gateway programs at least annually to determine their merits in enhancing the employability of public housing residents, and report its recommendations to the Secretary. Sets forth procedures for withholding grant payments in cases of agency noncompliance. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the President and the Congress: (1) annual reports on Task Force activities and recommendations; and (2) a final report, by the date of Task Force termination, on Task Force findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990.

To direct the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to develop a master plan for expanding the National Air and Space Museum at an airport and construct facilities necessary for housing such expansion.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989

Directs the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to develop a master plan for the expansion of the National Air and Space Museum at an airport while allowing such airport to continue its normal operations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the development of such plan. Directs the Board, using funds obtained from private sources, to design and construct any new facilities which are needed under such master plan.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt depreciation on qualified low-income housing projects from the passive loss rules.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1989

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt depreciation on qualified low-income buildings from passive loss rules.

Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989

Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1989 - Title I: Reorganization Within Department of Agriculture - Amends Federal law to rename the Department of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Retitles the Secretary of Agriculture the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development. Establishes the Rural Development Administration within such Department. Renames the Farmers Home Administration the Farm Administration. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the Secretary to provide employment-related technical assistance in economically distressed rural areas. Directs the Secretary to carry out the provisions of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, except for specified loan provisions, through the Rural Development Administration. States that titles V and VI of the Rural Development Act of 1972 shall be carried out through the Rural Development Administration. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to expand the number of designated assistance areas. Transfers certain conservation loan programs from the Farmers Home Administration to the Soil Conservation Service. Title II: Administration of Federal Rural Housing and Community Development Programs - Transfers to the Rural Development Administration current Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan programs for: (1) business and industry; (2) community facilities; (3) water and waste disposal (including grant authority); and (4) rural development and planning, excluding farm production. Transfers to the new Farm Administration current FmHA single-family housing loan programs. Makes conforming amendments to the Housing Act of 1949. Provides for farm ownership assistance to be carried out through such Administration. Makes conforming amendments to the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973. Title III: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions.

Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989

Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 1989 - Amends the National Housing Act to remove the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). Places the FSLIC under the direction of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Specifies that all functions and activities of the FSLIC relating to the regulation of savings and loan holding companies shall be transferred to the FHLBB. Expands the membership of the FDIC Board of Directors to include the Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and an additional public member.

Homeownership Assistance Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989

Homeownership Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the National Housing Act to create a special mortgage insurance program for first-time homebuyers. Defines "first-time homebuyer" as an individual who or whose spouse has not owned a principal residence during the 18 months prior to a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured home purchase. Authorizes downpayment reductions. Authorizes an FHA demonstration program to insure 100 percent of a home's value for a first-time homebuyer. Authorizes FHA to insure adjustable rate mortgages with annual interest rate increases of up to two percent (currently one percent). Repeals the aggregate annual limit. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to provide for secondary market purchases of such downpayment mortgage loans. Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to exempt such loans from specified offset debt collection provisions. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit annual program reports to the Congress.

Community Revitalization Tax Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1989

Community Revitalization Tax Act of 1989 - Amends Internal Revenue Code income tax accounting rules to treat rehabilitation investment credits and low-income housing credits as credits not derived from passive activities. Revises the limitation on the general business credit to allow a maximum annual credit equal to the first $20,000 of an individual taxpayer's income tax liability plus 80 percent of any excess liability.

A bill to amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 with respect to the eligibility of Indian tribes for urban development action grants.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to repeal a provision restricting the eligibility of Indian tribes to receive urban development action grants.

A joint resolution to designate April 1989, as "Fair Housing Month".

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of April 1989 as Fair Housing Month.

An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for the 101st Congress.

American Conservation and Youth Service Corps Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

American Conservation and Youth Service Corps Act of 1989 - Title I: American Conservation Corps - Establishes the American Conservation Corps (ACC), to be administered by Federal agencies and through a State grant component. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to establish the Federal component of the ACC within their agencies to administer programs on Federal lands. Encourages Federal agencies to enter into program agreements with program agencies, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program of grants to States to administer the State component of the ACC involving work on non-Federal public lands and waters. Directs each Governor to designate a State program agency. Authorizes any local government to establish a program agency to carry out the State component within its political subdivision if the State program agency has not been designated at the commencement of a fiscal year. Requires States carrying out such programs to provide mechanisms for participation by local governments and nonprofit organizations. Authorizes the ACC to carry out conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement projects relating to: (1) wildlife habitat, rangelands, parks, recreational areas; (2) urban revitalization and historical and cultural sites; (3) fish and fisheries; (4) roads and trails; (5) erosion, floods, droughts, and storm damage assistance and control; (6) streams, lakes, waterfront harbors, and ports; (7) wetlands protection and pollution control; (8) insect, disease, rodent, and fire prevention and control; (9) improvement of abandoned railroad beds and rights-of-way; (10) energy conservation, renewable resources, and biomass recovery; (11) reclamation and improvement of strip-mined land; and (12) forestry, nursery, and cultural operations. Limits such projects to those on public lands or Indian lands, except where the administering Secretary determines that a project involving other lands will provide a public benefit. Encourages any land or water conservation or related program administered in any State under authority of any Federal program to use ACC services. Title II: Youth Service Corps - Requires the Director of the ACTION Agency to appoint an Assistant Director to make grants for youth service projects to eligible public and private nonprofit agencies, and to otherwise administer Youth Service Corps (YSC) programs under this title. Provides for designation of specific activities as eligible service categories if: (1) they are of substantial social benefit in meeting unmet human, social (especially poverty-related), or environmental needs in a community; (2) they will not interfere unreasonably with employment availability and terms of employees of sponsoring organizations; and (3) participants are qualified for such activities. Allows such service categories to include service in: (1) State, local, and regional governmental agencies; (2) nursing homes, hospices, senior centers, hospitals, local libraries, parks, recreational facilities, day care centers, and schools; (3) law enforcement, penal, and probation agencies; (4) private nonprofit social services organizations; (5) rehabilitation or improvement of public facilities or neighborhoods, literacy programs, weatherization and repair of low-income housing, energy conservation (including solar energy), removal of public facility architectural barriers to the handicapped, and conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources on publicly held lands; and (6) any other nonpartisan civic activities and services determined appropriate by the Assistant Director. Prohibits such service categories from including any position in any: (1) business organized for profit; (2) labor union; (3) partisan political organization; (4) religious organization, unless the position does not involve any religious functions; or (5) domestic or personal service organization. Title III: Youth Skills Enhancement - Requires the administering Secretary or the Assistant Director (as the case may be) to provide guidance and assistance to States in securing certification of training skills or academic credit for competencies developed under this Act. Directs each program agency to: (1) maintain or enhance, through programs and projects under this Act, the educational skills of program enrollees; (2) assess an entering enrollee's educational level; (3) use at least ten percent of program funds to provide in-service training and educational materials and services for enrollees and persons serving in such projects; and (4) use at least ten percent of program funds for post-service education and training assistance. Directs appropriate State and local officials to certify standards and procedures for awarding academic credit and certifying educational attainment in such programs. Requires such standards and procedures to specify that any person serving in a program or project under this Act: (1) who is not a high school graduate shall participate in an educational component progressing toward a high school diploma or its equivalent; and (2) may arrange to receive academic credit in recognition of learning and skills obtained from service satisfactorily completed. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth: (1) requirements for award of grants to eligible entities, including matching requirements and limitations on use of funds; and (2) provisions for approval of applications and supervision of programs. Limits enrollment in the ACC and YSC to individuals who, at the time of enrollment, are: (1) 16 through 25 years old; and (2) U.S. citizens or nationals or lawful permanent resident aliens. Requires that special efforts be made to recruit individuals who are economically, socially, physically, and educationally disadvantaged. Prohibits acceptance for service of any person without a high school diploma or equivalent, unless that person has not been enrolled as a high school student during the three months before the acceptance date. Limits individual enrollment to a total of 24 months. Prohibits individuals (except special members) from remaining enrolled after attaining age 26. Prohibits any enrollee from performing services on any project for more than a six-month period. Requires the State job training coordinating council to appoint an advisory board for oversight and review of projects under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years to carry out this Act. Title V: Commission on National Service Opportunities - Establishes the Commission on National Service Opportunities to study: (1) opportunities for young people to perform voluntary national service; and (2) the effect on Federal and other employees of improving the quality and expanding the number of such opportunities. Requires the Commission's final report and recommendations to be transmitted to the President and the Congress within 15 months after its first meeting. Requires each executive department and agency affected by such report to submit to the President recommendations for implementing it. Directs the President, within 90 days after the Commission's final report is transmitted to the Congress, to transmit an interim report to the Congress on: (1) the desirability, feasibility, and cost of implementing the Commission's recommendations, and the actions taken or planned with respect to that implementation; and (2) recommendations on legislation needed for implementation. Directs the President to transmit a final report, within 90 days after such interim report, detailing any implementing actions taken and any further recommendations. Terminates the Commission 180 days after its final report.

To improve the collection of housing-related data in the decennial census.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

Directs the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that each short form and long form used in the 1990 decennial census of population includes: (1) all of the questions proposed to be included on each form as reported to the Congress by the Secretary on or about March 31, 1988; (2) one or more questions relating to plumbing facilities in the respondent's housing unit; and (3) one or more questions relating to whether the respondent's housing unit is part of a condominium. Directs the Secretary to ensure that each long form includes one or more questions relating to the heating of the housing unit, including at least one question relating to the type of equipment used in such heating.

To amend title V of the Housing Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to provide loans and grants for the purpose of providing housing for farm laborers who are legally admitted to the United States for temporary residence.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1989

Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to cover temporary or seasonal agricultural workers under its farm labor housing loan and grant program.

Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1989

Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989 - Title I: Establishment of the Citizens Corps - Establishes the Citizens Corps, which shall provide the following national service options: (1) Civilian Service; (2) Service in the armed forces; and (3) Senior Service. Allows individuals to serve in the Civilian Service who: (1) are age 17 or over; (2) have received a high school diploma or its equivalent; and (3) are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Allows individuals to be eligible to enlist for service in the armed forces as Citizen Corps members (subject to existing personnel requirements of the armed forces) who: (1) have received a high school diploma or its equivalent; (2) satisfy applicable enlistment requirements; and (3) satisfy other eligibility criteria established by the Secretary of Defense. Allows individuals to serve in the Senior Service who: (1) are age 65 or over; and (2) meet eligibility criteria established by the Corporation for National Service. Makes such Civilian Service one year of full-time national service, with the option of requesting an additional year. Makes such Armed Forces Service either: (1) two years of active duty in the armed forces, two years in the Selected Reserve of a reserve component, and four years in the Individual Ready Reserve; or (2) eight years in the Selected Reserve of a reserve component. Makes the Senior Service for such time period as the Corporation for National Service allows and either full- or part-time. Provides that Civilian Service or Senior Service members may perform national service to meet the unmet needs of a State, local government, or other community. Allows such service to include the following types: (1) educational service (such as literacy and numeracy programs, Head Start, tutoring, and service in schools, libraries, and adult education centers); (2) human service (such as service in hospitals, hospices, clinics, community health centers, homes for the elderly, and child-care centers, and in programs assisting the elderly, poor, and homeless, including improving their housing); (3) conservation service (such as conservation of urban and rural natural resources, community betterment); (4) public safety service in support of the criminal justice system (including police, courts, prisons, and border patrol); and (5) service in existing national programs (such as the Peace Corps and VISTA). Directs the Secretary of Defense to designate appropriate national service positions for Citizens Corps members serving in the armed forces. Sets forth application requirements for Civilian Service and Senior Service. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a system to enlist individuals for service in the armed forces as Citizens Corps members. Title II: Administration of the Citizens Corps - Subtitle A: Administration of the Civilian Service and Senior Service - Makes the Corporation for National Service (CNS) responsible for administering the Civilian Service and Senior Service of the Citizens Corps. Establishes the Corporation for National Service as a nonprofit corporation which shall not be considered an agency or establishment of the U.S. Government. Makes the CNS subject to this Act and, if consistent with this Act, the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act. Directs CNS to establish: (1) types and amounts of allowances and support for Civilian and Senior Service members; (2) appropriate types of national service activities for such members; (3) procedures to monitor provision of financial assistance under title III of this Act to assure that Citizens Corps members and graduates faithfully perform and complete their service; (4) procedures to examine the effect of such national service on the availability and terms of employment in an area; and (5) rates of pay, eligibility criteria, and terms of service for Senior Service members. Directs CNS to make general grants, pursuant to a specified allocation formula, to assist States in: (1) paying civilian and senior service member stipends and wages; (2) providing and administering national service opportunities for such members; and (3) making grants to national service councils in each State. Authorizes CNS to make supplemental grants during a fiscal year to: (1) States which have an unusual increase in Civilian and Senior Service members (excluding those serving with Federal agencies) in such fiscal year; and (2) Federal agencies to assist them in placing Civilian and Senior Service members for such fiscal year. Directs CNS also to: (1) serve as a clearinghouse for national service opportunities information; (2) assist States in placing applicants in out-of-State positions, if they are unable to place them in within-State positions; (3) assist Federal agencies in acquiring national service participants; (4) investigate claims of abuses in placement or administration; and (5) issue rules for administering and monitoring service performance and provision of service opportunities. Subtitle B: Provision of National Service Positions for Members of the Civilian Service and Senior Service - Directs each State Governor to: (1) prepare a national service plan for the State, specifying priorities; and (2) designate volunteer service areas in the State. Requires each volunteer service area to have a national service council. Requires such councils to: (1) recruit and place volunteers; (2) prepare and implement a plan for such purposes; (3) provide oversight; and (4) perform other duties. Conditions provision of funds to a national service council upon its being certified and its volunteer recruitment and placement plan's being approved. Requires councils to consider agency effectiveness and community-basing in selecting service sponsors, i.e. the public agencies or public or nonprofit organizations with which the Civilian or Senior Service members are placed. Requires the Council to take measures to prevent worker displacement. Requires each State to establish grievance procedures for resolving complaints of regular employees or their representatives that placement of Service members violates such prohibitions of worker displacement. Provides for appeal of State decisions under such procedures to CNS. Authorizes CNS to require private nonprofit corporations to pay to CNS up to $1,000 per Service member placed in a position with such organization. Provides for reduction of such payment to reflect part-time or less than full-year service. Subtitle C: Administration of the Citizens Corps with regard to Service in the armed forces - Makes the Secretary of Defense responsible for administering the Citizens Corps with regard to service by Citizens Corps members in the armed forces, and to issue rules for such purpose within 60 days. Title III: Benefits for Participating in the Citizens Corps - Requires States and Federal agencies to provide $100 per week stipends to Civilian Service members. Requires CNS to provide such members with health insurance. Authorizes CNS to provide other appropriate support assistance. Requires States and Federal agencies to pay an hourly wage determined by CNS to Senior Service members. Authorizes CNS to provide other appropriate support assistance. Requires that Citizens Corps members serving in the armed forces receive 66 percent of the rate applicable to other armed forces members of the same pay grade and years of service, for their basic pay and basic allowances for subsistence and quarters. Makes such Citizens Corps members and graduates ineligible for specified benefits for other members and veterans of the armed forces. Establishes certain educational and housing benefits for those who complete Citizens Corps service in the Civil Service or in the armed forces. Provides that such financial benefits shall be to assist such individuals to: (1) pursue a program of education or training at an educational institution or training establishment; or (2) purchase or construct a dwelling to be owned and occupied by such individuals as their primary residence. Excludes such assistance from gross income for income tax purposes. Sets the amount of such education and housing benefits for Civilian Service at not to exceed $10,000 for each year of the term of service completed. Allows CNS to provide portions of such assistance to individuals who are released from such service for just cause. Sets the amount of such education and housing benefits for Citizens Corps service in the armed forces at: (1) not to exceed $24,000 for completion of two years honorable service on active duty, if the member agrees to complete the honorable service obligation selected; and (2) not to exceed $12,000 for each year of satisfactory participation in training in the Selective Reserve, if the member agrees to complete the honorable service obligation selected. Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide portions of such assistance to Citizens Corps members released with an honorable discharge from completing a service obligation in the armed forces. Limits the use of such assistance to the ten-year period after completion of service, unless it is determined that an individual was unavoidably prevented from using such assistance during such time period. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Entitles individuals who successfully complete terms of service in the Peace Corps or VISTA to educational and housing benefits. Provides that entitlement to benefits shall be in the same manner as for a member of the Civilian Service, even though such individuals are not members of such Service, but reduces such benefits to reflect the amount of compensation received by such volunteers over and above the amount of the stipend for Civil Service members. Conditions individual eligibility for Federal higher educational assistance under student loan or loan guarantee programs on current membership or successful completion of a term of service in the Citizen Corps. Makes such condition effective on October 1, 1995 (five years after the effective date of this Act). Sets forth the following exceptions to such condition, if such individuals are otherwise eligible for such assistance: (1) individuals enrolled in an educational institution before the end of such five-year period; (2) individuals age 26 or over; (3) individuals who served honorably in the armed forces; (4) individuals determined by CNS to be ineligible for national service because of physical or mental handicap, compelling personal circumstances, or unavailability of a national service position after a reasonable period; (5) individuals receiving assistance provided by the Department of Defense to members of the armed forces (or the Department of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) if further military service is a condition of the assistance; (6) individuals receiving assistance provided by the Directors of the Peace Corps or the ACTION Agency, the head of a Federal agency, or a State, if the condition of such assistance is Peace Corps or ACTION service or national or community service which CNS determines is comparable to Citizens Corps service; and (7) individuals who served in Peace Corps, ACTION, or such Federal or State programs of comparable national or community service. Sets forth similar conditions for parental loan program eligibility. Directs CNS to identify by rule compelling personal circumstances, such as age, family status or size, and income, that may render an individual: (1) ineligible for national service under this Act; but (2) eligible, as an exception, for Federal student loans. Provides for a phase-out of the following Federal higher education student grant programs: (1) Pell Grants; (2) Student Educational Opportunity Grants; and (3) State Student Incentive Grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.

Anti-Drug Abuse Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1989

Anti-Drug Abuse Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1989 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1989 for purposes specified in titles I through VIII and for drug treatment and rehabilitation services and assistance to law enforcement agencies. Title I: Departments of Justice and State and the Judiciary - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) salaries and expenses for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the General Legal Activities Account, U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Federal Prison System (FPS); (2) support of U.S.. prisoners; (3) buildings and facilities of the FPS; (4) the National Institute of Corrections; (5) Office of Justice programs; (6) the National Institute of Justice; (7) the Bureau of Justice Statistics; (8) the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; (9) the Bureau of Justice Assistance; and (10) the State Justice Institute. Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) expenses for development, procurement, and implementation of a machine-readable travel and identity document border security program; and (2) rewards for information concerning narcotics-related offenses. Makes appropriations for the Judiciary for: (1) salaries and expenses for courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services; (2) defender services; (3) fees of jurors and commissioners; and (4) security equipment. Title II: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Department of Labor for substance abuse employee assistance programs in the workplace; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for certain substance abuse prevention and treatment activities; (3) the Department of Education for school improvement programs and for the National Commission on Drug-Free Schools; and (4) related agency substance abuse prevention and education activities. Title III: Department of Agriculture - Makes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Food and Nutrition Service for preparing and distributing drug abuse education materials; and (2) the National Forest Service for Federal law enforcement activities relating to the use and production of narcotics and controlled substances on lands administered by the Service. Title IV: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations to the Department of Transportation for: (1) the Coast Guard for drug interdiction program operating expenses; (2) acquisition, construction, and improvements; (3) the Federal Highway Administration for drunk driving prevention programs; and (4) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to establish a regional pilot program for training law enforcement officers to identify individuals operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances. Title V: Department of the Treasury - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) salaries and expenses for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; (2) salaries and expenses for the U.S. Customs Service, including funding for development, procurement, and implementation of a machine-readable travel and identity document border security program; (3) operations and maintenance for the Customs Service's air interdiction program; and (4) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Makes appropriations for: (1) the National Commission on Measured Responses to Achieve a Drug-Free America by 1995; and (2) the President's Media Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention. Title VI: Foreign Assistance - Makes appropriations to the Department of State for: (1) multilateral assistance authorized by the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988; and (2) military assistance to the armed forces of Colombia to combat illicit narcotics production and trafficking. Title VII: Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations to the: (1) Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Public Housing Drug Elimination Pilot Program; and (2) Department of Veterans Affairs for drug and alcohol treatment programs. Title VIII: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for: (1) Indian alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment; (2) Federal law enforcement activities related to the use and production of narcotics and controlled substances on Bureau of Land Management public lands and in National Park System units; and (3) grants to the Governments of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Palau for specified anti-drug abuse purposes under the United States Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Title IX: General Provisions - Precludes any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal anti-drug abuse program funding levels for FY 1990 should be maintained at the FY 1989 levels provided under specified Acts together with increases authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

Permanent Housing for Homeless Families Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1989

Permanent Housing for Homeless Families Act - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for the construction and rehabilitation of permanent housing for rental to AFDC recipients who would otherwise require AFDC emergency assistance in the form of temporary housing. Requires that such grants be used to provide permanent housing which is: (1) owned by the State, an instrumentality of the State, or a nonprofit organization; (2) available to families who have been unable to find decent, nontemporary housing at rents that can be paid with AFDC aid for shelter; and (3) located in jurisdictions experiencing a critical shortage of such housing. Requires that: (1) the costs of providing permanent housing be lower than costs which would be incurred if, instead, the State made AFDC emergency assistance payments providing temporary housing; and (2) the most costly temporary housing be retired from use in the emergency assistance program as permanent housing becomes available for occupancy, unless temporary housing is demonstrably needed. Sets the State contribution to the cost of constructing or rehabilitating such housing at at least the current State AFDC share increased by ten percent. Prohibits States from requiring their political subdivisions to pay a higher percentage of such costs than such subdivisions otherwise pay under the State AFDC plan.

Homeownership Assistance Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1989

Homeownership Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the National Housing Act to create a special mortgage insurance program for first-time homebuyers, including homebuyers of manufactured homes. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure a mortgage loan of up to 97 percent of appraised value for the first $50,000 (currently $25,000) of a home's value. Repeals the current dollar cap on FHA insured mortgages in high cost areas. Authorizes the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure adjustable rate mortgages with annual interest rate increases of up to two percent (currently one percent). Repeals the aggregate annual limit on such insured loans. Defines "first-time homebuyer" as an individual who or whose spouse has not owned a principal residence during the 18 months prior to an FHA insured home purchase. Authorizes an FHA demonstration program to insure mortgages for first-time homebuyer downpayments where the purchase is primarily financed or assisted by tax-exempt or other government assistance. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize the Government National Mortgage Association to create a secondary market for first-time homebuyer downpayment loans. Authorizes an FHA demonstration program to insure 100 percent of a home's value for a first-time homebuyer provided that the downpayment will be paid within three years by an additional monthly payment. Requires participants to receive financial counseling. Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to empower the Internal Revenue Service to confiscate defaulting taxpayers' tax refunds. Requires the Secretary to submit annual program reports to the Congress.

Homeownership Counseling Reauthorization Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1989

Homeownership Counseling Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to extend and authorize appropriations through FY 1991 for the emergency homeownership counseling program.

To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide a longer transition period with respect to qualifying as housing for older persons for certain purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1989

Amends the Fair Housing Act to extend the transition period with respect to certain provisions relating to older persons' housing.

To exclude foreign reparation payments from consideration as income in determining eligibility and benefits under Federal housing assistance programs.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1989

Excludes foreign reparation payments from consideration as income in determining eligibility and benefits under specified housing assistance programs.

UDAG Reauthorization Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1989

UDAG Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize FY 1990 through 1993 appropriations for the urban development action grant program. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the urban county competition rule through October 1, 1993.

To amend the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to provide transitional relief from the passive loss rules to all investors in projects placed in service on or before August 16, 1986.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1989

Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to redefine "qualified investor" for purposes of transitional rules in connection with limitations on passive activity losses associated with investments in low-income housing projects placed in service before August 16, 1986.

Jack Kemp, of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

United States · United States Senate · 20 January 1989

Housing Certificate and Voucher Assistance Improvement Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1989

Housing Certificate and Voucher Assistance Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit the use of housing vouchers and housing certificate assistance to aid lower income families involuntarily displaced by mortgage prepayments on Department of Housing and Urban Development projects.

Federal Asset Disposition Association Dissolution Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1989

Federal Asset Disposition Association Dissolution Act - Amends the National Housing Act to specify that the purpose of the establishment of a new savings and loan association in connection with a liquidation is for such association to operate as an issuer of savings accounts and a lender and investor and not as an institution having the special purpose of managing or disposing of assets acquired from insured institutions in default. Specifies that provisions of the National Housing Act shall not be construed as authorizing the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) to organize a new Federal association for the purpose of managing or disposing of any assets: (1) of an insured institution for which the FSLIC has been appointed receiver; or (2) acquired by the FSLIC in order to prevent a default. Authorizes the FSLIC to delegate such liquidation functions to an appropriate regional office. Prohibits the Federal Asset Disposition Association (FADA) from engaging in any new activities after the date of the enactment of this Act. Directs the FSLIC to require FADA to assign all its rights and obligations under any contract to the FSLIC. Requires the FSLIC, within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, to revoke the charter of FADA and assume its assets and liabilities. Prohibits the FSLIC from paying any severance pay to employees of the FADA in excess of specified civil service amounts. Prohibits the FSLIC from taking any action which results in the sale of FADA as a going concern or the reconstitution of the FADA as a private corporation. Specifies that this Act shall not be construed as any recognition or ratification by the Congress of: (1) any authority of the FSLIC to charter FADA; or (2) any authority of FADA to act on behalf of the FSLIC. Requires the FSLIC to prepare and submit to the Congress a report describing: (1) the manner in which the dissolution of FADA was implemented; (2) the results of such dissolution; and (3) FSLIC's actions as the receiver of FADA. Specifies certain information to be included in such report. Requires the FSLIC to take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the FSLIC and all officers and employees of the FSLIC maintain full compliance with the competitive procurement requirements of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Requires the FSLIC to liquidate the assets of insolvent savings and loan associations in a manner which: (1) minimizes the cost to the FSLIC; (2) maximizes the return which the FSLIC realizes on the assets; and (3) encourages the use of services of persons in the private sector in managing and disposing of such assets to the maximum extent possible. Requires the FSLIC to ensure that no individuals are employed by the FSLIC under personal service contracts except to the extent that such employment: (1) does not exceed 60 days in any one-year period; or (2) is determined to be necessary because of unusual circumstances which do not allow the position involved to be filled by a civil service employee. Provides that the number of asset liquidation personnel employed by the FSLIC shall not be subject to any limitation imposed by any officer of the executive branch who is not an officer of the FSLIC. Imposes a statutory limit on the number of asset liquidation employees that may be employed at any time by the FSLIC. Requires the FSLIC to establish an employment grade structure for asset liquidation employees which is comparable to the grade structure for employees of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) who manage or dispose of assets. Requires representatives of specified Government agencies and the private sector to conduct a multiagency study on options for reducing the duplication, overlap, and inconsistency among Federal agencies and instrumentalities and for making better use of private sector resources in managing and disposing of assets. Requires that a report concerning the results of such study be submitted to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act.

To authorize the City of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to retain and use certain urban renewal land disposition proceeds.

United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1989

Authorizes the City of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to retain any land disposition proceeds from the financially closed-out Central Business Urban Renewal Project not paid to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and to use such proceeds in accordance with the requirements of the community development block grant program under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

To provide that each State must establish a workfare program, and require participation therein by all residents of the State who are receiving benefits or assistance under the aid to families with dependent children, food stamp, and public housing programs, as a condition of the State's eligibility for Federal assistance in connection with those programs.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Requires that each State establish and maintain an approved workfare program as a condition of its eligibility for Federal payments or other assistance under the: (1) program under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act; (2) food stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) public housing and assisted housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such State workfare program require every State resident applying for or receiving aid under such Federal public assistance programs to perform work in return for, and as a condition for, such aid. Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to promulgate guidelines for approval, supervision, and oversight of such State workfare programs. Exempts from required participation in such programs those who are: (1) under age 18 or over age 65; (2) disabled; (3) regularly employed for at least 40 hours a week; or (4) primarily responsible for the care of a child less than three years old (or for the care of a child more than two but less than six years old if suitable child care is not available at reasonable cost). Requires that each State workfare program provide that if any individual who is required to participate in such program refuses to accept a bona fide offer of qualified employment or to perform qualified employment, in any month, neither such individual nor any other family or household member shall be eligible to receive any aid under such Federal public assistance programs for that month. Requires that State workfare programs include provision for job counseling, assistance in obtaining employment outside the program, and job search activities. Provides for: (1) Federal matching funds to cover administrative costs of such State programs; (2) Federal cut-offs of funds to State agencies for failure to comply with this Act; and (3) Federal agency reports to the Congress on such State programs. Authorizes appropriations.

To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to establish a demonstration program to test whether the net costs incurred in making emergency assistance payments to homeless AFDC families for temporary housing can be effectively reduced through the construction or rehabilitation (with Federal assistance) of permanent housing that such families can afford with their regular AFDC payments.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act to establish a program providing grants to States selected to conduct demonstration projects testing whether AFDC housing costs can be reduced by constructing and rehabilitating permanent housing for rental to AFDC recipients who would otherwise require AFDC emergency assistance in the form of temporary housing. Provides that, to be eligible for selection as one of three States authorized to conduct such a project, a State must: (1) be currently providing AFDC emergency housing assistance; (2) have an acute need for Federal assistance by virtue of the large number of homeless AFDC families, and shortages of low-income housing, in the jurisdiction(s) where such project would be conducted; and (3) submit a plan to achieve significant cost saving over a ten-year period through the conduct of such project. Requires that such grants be used to provide permanent housing which is: (1) owned by the State, an instrumentality of the State, or a nonprofit organization; (2) available to families who have been unable to find decent housing at rents that can be paid with AFDC aid for shelter; and (3) located in jurisdictions experiencing a critical shortage of such housing. Requires that: (1) the most costly temporary housing be retired from use in the emergency assistance program as permanent housing becomes available for occupancy, unless temporary housing is demonstrably needed; and (2) the costs of providing permanent housing be lower than costs which would be incurred if, instead, the State made AFDC emergency assistance payments providing temporary housing. Sets the State contribution to the cost of constructing or rehabilitating such housing at at least the current State AFDC share increased by ten percent. Authorizes appropriations for the grant program for each of the first five fiscal years following FY 1988.

Private Long-Term Care Insurance Promotion Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Private Long-Term Care Insurance Promotion Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that for the purpose of determining the income tax liability of insurance companies guaranteed renewable insurance contracts providing for qualified long-term health care be treated in the same way as noncancellable accident or health insurance contracts. Applies this requirement to contracts covering diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and personal care services that are: (1) required by a chronically ill or disabled individual; and (2) provided by a qualified licensed provider (other than a family member) in a nursing facility, including hospitals and nursing homes, or in a home (if home care is a substitute for care in a nursing facility).

Enterprise Zone Development and Employment Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Enterprise Zone Development and Employment Act of 1989 - Subtitle A: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to designate enterprise zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Limits choices to areas nominated by States and local governments. Limits to 100 the total number of areas that may be designated, and the time period of the designation. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a zone only if the area meets certain locational, demographic, unemployment, and poverty criteria. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action that may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, and providing job training to area residents. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting areas for designation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every four years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Subtitle B: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Part I: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Sets the credit amount at ten percent of the increase in payroll plus a specified percentage of wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers through the first 20 years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of wages earned. Phases out both credits in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Part II: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investments made in certain enterprise zone construction property. Limits the credit to ten percent for new property, including rental property. Requires the recapture of credit amounts upon the early disposition of the property. Part III: Nonrecognition of Qualified Enterprise Zone Capital Gain Where Acquisition of Enterprise Zone Business Property - Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property if, within one year after the sale, the taxpayer acquires qualified replacement property (generally defined as property related to an enterprise zone or to a business within a zone). Part IV: Deduction for Purchase of Enterprise Stock - Allows a taxpayer to deduct up to $100,000 of the aggregate amount paid for the purchase of enterprise stock on its original issue by a qualified issuer. Requires any gain from the disposition of the stock to be treated as ordinary income. Part V: Rules Relating to Private Activity Bonds - Declares that: (1) limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property; and (2) the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to bonds whose proceeds are used to finance facilities in enterprise zones. Part VI: Ordinary Loss Deduction for Securities of Enterprise Zone Business Which Become Worthless - Permits an ordinary loss deduction for securities of enterprise zone business that become worthless during the taxable year. Part VII: Increase in Research Credit for Research Conducted in Enterprise Zones - Increases from 20 percent to 37 1/2 percent the tax credit for increasing research conducted in enterprise zones. Part VIII: Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Part IX: Regulations - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act not later than six months after enactment. Subtitle C: Regulatory Flexibility - Amends Federal law to revise the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve the request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in retaining the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement or present a danger to the public health and safety. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and to consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Subtitle D: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones.

Surplus School Conservation Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Surplus School Conservation Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to local agencies to renovate closed school buildings for educational and social service purposes. Provides that no more than ten percent of such grants shall go to local agencies in any particular State. Directs the Secretary to: (1) serve local agencies as a national clearinghouse on alternative uses of such buildings; and (2) report to the President and the Congress on such grants program.

Public Housing Energy Conservation Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Public Housing Energy Conservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) establish public housing energy conservation performance standards; and (2) revise public housing construction cost limits to reflect structural life-cycle costs and major heating and cooling systems. Requires public housing development and rehabilitation programs begun one year after enactment of this Act to incorporate such standards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide financial assistance to the Chicago Housing Authority in Illinois to implement public housing energy conservation measures; and (2) report annually to the Congress. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1993 appropriations.

Health Security Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Makes every U.S. resident and nonresident citizen eligible for health services covered under this Act. Authorizes the Health Security Board to enter into reciprocal agreements for coverage of nonresident aliens when in the United States and U.S. citizens residing abroad. Entitles every eligible person to have payment made by the Health Security Board for any covered service provided within the United States by a participating provider. Extends coverage to: (1) professional physician services, including psychiatric services to outpatients under specified conditions; (2) dental services; (3) institutional services; and (4) pharmaceutical benefits. Directs the Board to establish, disseminate, and review annually: (1) a list of drugs for use in participating institutions, organizations, and associations; (2) a list of diseases and drugs for use outside such organizational settings, which shall include drug therapy for chronic conditions; and (3) lists of therapeutic devices, appliances, and equipment (including eyeglasses, hearing aids, and prosthetic appliances), and the conditions under which such items are covered benefits. Requires drugs to be listed by their established names as defined in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and also, to the extent the Board deems appropriate, by trade names. Extends coverage to other professional and supporting services, including: (1) services of optometrists and podiatrists; (2) diagnostic and therapeutic services of independent pathology laboratories and radiology services; (3) mental health day care services; (4) alcoholism and drug abuse treatment; (5) family planning and rehabilitation services; (6) emergency and nonemergency transportation services; and (7) other supporting services, such as psychological, physiotherapy, nutrition, social work, or health education services, when furnished on behalf of certain approved organizations. Excludes from coverage: (1) health services furnished or paid for under Federal or State workmen's compensation laws; (2) primary or secondary school health services to the extent specified by regulation; (3) cosmetic surgery; (4) the furnishing of unapproved drugs and appliances; (5) certain medical or surgical procedures which the Board finds are experimental or too costly or scarce to provide on a nationwide basis; (6) certain services which are already furnished or available from another provider; and (7) services of a professional practitioner which are furnished in a nonparticipating hospital. Makes professional practitioners who are licensed on the effective date of enactment of this title eligible providers, but requires practitioners after such date to meet national standards established by the Board in addition to existing State standards. Specifies general eligibility requirements for participating providers, including the filing with the Board of an agreement: (1) not to discriminate in providing services to eligible persons; (2) not to make unauthorized charges; and (3) to comply with reporting requirements. Sets forth specific eligibility requirements for various types of participating providers, including: (1) general and psychiatric hospitals; (2) skilled nursing homes; (3) home health service agencies; (4) group practice organizations; (5) individual practice associations; and (6) other health service organizations and providers, including independent pathology laboratories and radiological services, ambulance services, and providers of drugs, devices, appliances, and equipment. Sets forth criteria for the utilization review plan of hospitals and skilled nursing homes. Requires skilled nursing homes to have in effect an agreement with at least one participating hospital for the transfer of patients and medical and other information. Limits the eligibility of providers operating newly constructed or enlarged facilities which are unnecessary for the furnishing of adequate services. Prohibits damages in malpractice judgments from being awarded for the cost of remedial services for which the injured party is entitled to receive payment under this Act. Excludes institutions and employees of the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, (effective March 1989, Department of Veterans Affairs), and institutions and employees of the Department of Health and Human Services serving merchant seamen, Indians, or Alaskan Natives, from serving as participating providers, but allows reimbursement for services furnished by such institutions to eligible persons who are not part of their normal clientele. Permits a physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist licensed in one State, and meeting the national standards, to furnish Health Security benefits in any other State. Grants similar authority to other professional and nonprofessional health personnel. Establishes the Health Security Trust Fund to receive the net assets of existing (Medicare) funds taken over by the Health Security program, the yield of the Health Security taxes, and the Government's contribution from general revenues amounting to 200 percent of the yield from these taxes. Directs the Board to fix for each fiscal year the maximum amount which may be obligated for expenditure from the trust fund. Establishes in the Trust Fund a health services account, a health resources development account, an administration account, and a residual general account. Provides for the allocation of the health services account among regions of the country. Provides that payments for covered services furnished to eligible persons by participating providers shall be made from the health services account in the Trust Fund. Sets forth specific payment requirements for the various types of participating providers. Sets forth various payment provisions for health care providers, institutions, and pharmacies. Authorizes the Board to: (1) assist in the establishment, expansion, and operation of group practice organizations, other public or nonprofit health service agencies, and nonprofit organizations furnishing comprehensive dental services; and (2) provide for the recruitment, education, and training of needed health personnel. Authorizes special improvement grants: (1) to any public or other nonprofit health agency or institution to establish improved coordination and linkages with other providers of services; and (2) to organizations providing comprehensive ambulatory care, to improve their utilization review, budget, statistical, or records and information retrieval systems, to acquire equipment needed for those purposes, or to acquire equipment useful for mass screening or for other diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Sets the terms and conditions for construction and improvement loans made by the Board. Authorizes grants for the development of programs of personal care services. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of the health services development fund. Creates an administrative structure within the Department of Health and Human Services with exclusive responsibility for the administration of the Health Security Program. Establishes a five-member, full-time Health Security Board serving under the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Board and the Secretary. Provides that this title shall be administered by the Board through the regions of the Department and, within each region, through health service areas, which shall be the same as those areas established by the Secretary under the Public Health Service Act. Establishes a National Health Security Advisory Council. Authorizes the Advisory Council to appoint professional or technical committees to assist in its functions. Directs the Board to appoint regional and local advisory councils and professional and technical advisory committees. Provides for the participation of appropriate State agencies in the administration of the Health Security program. Specifies responsibilities of the Board. Authorizes the Board, with the advice and assistance of the Commission on the Quality of Health Care, to issue and review regulations assuring the quality of care furnished under this Act. Provides for monitoring of such services by a Professional Standards Review Organization. Directs the Board to establish continuing education requirements for physicians, dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists. Sets forth conditions under which major surgery and other specialized services designated in regulations are covered under this program. Establishes the positions of a Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and an Under Secretary for Health and Science. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of this title. Declares that no provision of this Act shall alter any contractual obligation of an employer to provide health services to his employees and their dependents. Title II: Health Security Taxes - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to convert the existing Medicare hospital insurance payroll taxes into Health Security taxes, and raises the rates to one percent on employees and 3.5 percent on employers. Excludes from the gross income of employees, for income tax purposes, payment by their employers of part of the Health Security taxes on employees. Converts the existing Medicare self-employment tax into a Health Security self-employment tax, raising the rate to 2.5 percent. Adds a new 2.5 percent tax on health security unearned income (unless such income is less than $400 a year), subject to the same maximum on taxable income as is applicable to the employee and self-employment taxes. Denies tax deductions for services covered by this Act. Title III: Commission on the Quality of Health Care - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish in the Department of Health and Human Services a Commission on the Quality of Health Care, with the primary responsibilities of: (1) initiating and continuing development of methods of assessing the quality of health care furnished under this Act; and (2) submitting to the Secretary and the Health Security Board appropriate findings and recommendations. Directs the Commission to give special consideration to care furnished for those illnesses and conditions which have a relatively high incidence in the population and which are relatively amenable to medical or other care. Title IV: Repeal or Amendment of Other Acts - Makes conforming and technical amendments to specified Acts. Repeals the Medicare program. Provides that after the effective date of benefits received under this Act no State shall be required to furnish any service covered under Health Security as a part of its State plan for participation under Medicaid. Title V: Studies Related to Health Security - Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, to study the practicability of extending the coverage of health services for U.S. residents in other countries. Directs the Secretary to study the means of coordinating the Federal health benefit programs for merchant seamen and Indians and Alaskan Natives, veterans, and members of the armed forces with the Health Security benefit program.

To amend title 38 of the United States Code to promote the care and treatment of veterans in State veterans nursing homes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Sets forth the amount of reimbursement which the Administrator (effective March 1989, Secretary) of Veterans Affairs shall pay to the States for furnishing domiciliary, hospital, or nursing home care to eligible veterans who receive such care in State facilities.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the exclusion from gross income of Americans working abroad, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate, as of January 1, 1990, the permitted exclusion of foreign earned income and eligible housing expenses from the taxable gross income of U.S. citizens and residents working abroad.

Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

National Homestead and Housing Trust Act - Establishes the National Housing Trust in the Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist first-time homebuyers so the rate of interest payable on the mortgages does not exceed six percent. Sets homebuyer eligibility requirements. Establishes the National Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations.

Enterprise Zone Improvements Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Enterprise Zone Improvements Act of 1989 - Title I: Housing and Community Development Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to require each Federal agency that provides special assistance to enterprise zones or that waives or modifies rules within such zones to report to the Congress and to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development identifying its actions. Broadens the scope of funding sources for State and local government actions required in connection with tax relief and regulatory simplification in enterprise zones. Directs Federal agencies to seek to provide special assistance to enterprise zones, including expedited processing, priority funding, program set-asides, and technical assistance. Authorizes all Federal agencies to waive or modify rules within enterprise zones. (Under current law, only the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and, in some cases, the Secretary of Agriculture may do so.) Adds the promotion of affordable housing and law enforcement as objectives justifying waiver or modification of Federal agency rules in an enterprise zone. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Sets the credit amount at ten percent of the increase in payroll plus a specified percentage of wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers through the first 20 years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of wages earned. Phases out both credits in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investments made in certain enterprise zone construction property. Limits the credit to ten percent for new property, including rental property. Requires the recapture of credit amounts upon the early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Nonrecognition of Qualified Enterprise Zone Capital Gain Where Acquisition of Enterprise Zone Business Property - Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property if, within one year after the sale, the taxpayer acquires qualified replacement property (generally defined as property related to an enterprise zone or to a business within a zone). Subtitle D: Deduction for Purchase of Enterprise Stock - Allows a taxpayer to deduct up to $100,000 of the aggregate amount paid for the purchase of enterprise stock on its original issue by a qualified issuer. Treats any gain from the disposition of the stock as ordinary income. Subtitle E: Rules Relating to Private Activity Bonds - Declares that: (1) limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property; and (2) the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to bonds whose proceeds are used to finance facilities in enterprise zones. Subtitle F: Ordinary Loss Deduction for Securities of Enterprise Zone Business Which Become Worthless - Permits an ordinary loss deduction for securities of enterprise zone business that become worthless during the taxable year. Subtitle G: Increase in Research Credit for Research Conducted in Enterprise Zones - Increases from 20 percent to 37 1/2 percent the tax credit for increasing research conducted in enterprise zones. Subtitle H: Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Subtitle I: Regulations - Directs the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act not later than six months after enactment. Title III: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones.

Inner City Revitalization Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Inner City Revitalization Act - Title I: Tax Incentives for Enterprise Zones - Enterprise Zone Act - Subtitle A: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to designate enterprise zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Limits choices to areas nominated by States and local governments. Limits to 225 the total number of areas that may be designated, and the time period of the designation. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a zone only if the area meets certain locational, demographic, unemployment, and poverty criteria. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action that may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, and providing job training to area residents. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting areas for designation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every four years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Subtitle B: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Part I: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Sets the credit amount at ten percent of the increase in payroll plus a specified percentage of wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers through the first 20 years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of wages earned. Phases out both credits in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Part II: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investments made in certain enterprise zone construction property. Limits the credit to ten percent for new property, including rental property. Requires the recapture of credit amounts upon the early disposition of the property. Part III: Exclusion of Enterprise Zone Capital Gains - Excludes from gross income any capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property if, within one year after the sale, the taxpayer acquires qualified replacement property (generally defined as property related to an enterprise zone or to a business within a zone). Part IV: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Declares that: (1) limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property; and (2) the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to bonds whose proceeds are used to finance facilities in enterprise zones. Part V: Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Subtitle C: Regulatory Flexibility - Amends Federal law to revise the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, and after considering specified questions, to decide whether to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement or present a danger to the public health and safety. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and to consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Subtitle D: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and to expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. Title II: Youth Employment Opportunity Wage - Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to authorize employers to pay employees under 20 years of age, between May and September of each year, 75 percent of the minimum wage rate. Exempts such employees from special certificate requirements. Restricts the authorization to: (1) hours worked by eligible employees in compliance with applicable child labor laws; and (2) youth employed after May 1 of each year. Prohibits the removal of employees ineligible for the subminimum wage rate in order to replace them with employees who are eligible. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act. Terminates the minimum wage rate exception after September 30, 1989. Directs the Secretary of Labor to monitor the implementation of this Act and to report to the Congress concerning the employment effects of the wage authorized by this Act. Title III: Urban Homesteading - Urban Homestead Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish procedures to give families residing in public housing projects an opportunity to purchase their dwelling units. Requires the formation of a resident management corporation as a condition for public housing home ownership. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide comprehensive improvement assistance to projects to ensure that their physical condition, management, and operation are sufficient to encourage home ownership by resident families. Directs the Secretary and the responsible public housing agency to provide the training and technical assistance necessary to prepare the families and the resident management corporation for home ownership. Describes conditions under which purchases may take place. Requires the Secretary to continue annual contributions to a project after purchase. Limits purchase price to 25 percent of fair market value and enumerates possible purchasing arrangements. Directs the relevant agency to assist purchasers by making loans at reduced interest rates. Prohibits the eviction of and authorizes financial assistance to families residing in units sold to a resident management corporation. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress concerning the program. Title IV: Equal Educational Opportunity Act - Equal Educational Opportunity Act - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to permit certain payments to local educational agencies (LEAs) under such Act to be used for programs that permit parents of educationally deprived children to use vouchers to pay for: (1) full-time enrollment at private schools or at public schools outside their school district; or (2) compensatory services provided by the LEA to meet their special educational needs at public schools within their school district. Authorizes State educational agencies (SEAs) to require LEAs to implement voucher programs. Permits LEAs discretion with respect to such programs when not required by the SEAs. Describes program requirements and other projects that LEAs must provide to meet special educational needs of targeted students. Prohibits private schools from redeeming vouchers if they engage in racial discrimination. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information to Department of Justice investigatory personnel in proceedings brought under this Act to determine whether a school follows a racially discriminatory policy.

Permanent Housing for Homeless Americans Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Permanent Housing for Homeless Americans Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide FY 1990 and 1991 housing assistance for homeless or low-income individuals and families under the following programs: (1) section 8 assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (2) section 8 moderate rehabilitation assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (3) modernization of vacant public housing under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (4) rental rehabilitation under the United States Housing Act of 1937; and (5) funding for the rehabilitation of State and local government in rem properties under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Requires an annual program report to the Congress.

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance for emergency repairs in lower income housing projects operated by the Chicago Housing Authority.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide emergency repair assistance to lower income housing projects operated by the Chicago Housing Authority in Illinois. Authorizes FY 1989 appropriations.

Depository Institutions Enhanced Enforcement Powers Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Depository Institutions Enhanced Enforcement Powers Act of 1989 - Title I: Insider Abuse Prevention and Enhanced Enforcement Powers - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, and the National Housing Act to subject employees, agents, and shareholders of banks and thrift institutions to administrative enforcement orders. Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to subject committee members, employees, or agents of an insured credit union to administrative orders. (Current law provides that only officers and directors of depository institutions are subject to such enforcement orders.) Revises the authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB), the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) to issue cease and desist orders concerning depository institutions within their respective jurisdictions. Allows such agencies to issue cease and desist orders to: (1) require affirmative action to correct conditions resulting from certain violations or practices, including making restitution or reimbursement, providing indemnification, rescinding contracts, or disposing of assets or loans; (2) limit the activities or functions of the depository institution or any director, officer, or other person participating in the conduct of institution affairs; and (3) require the cessation of certain activities if the depository institution's books and records are incomplete or inaccurate or require the restoration of books and records to a complete and accurate state. Revises rules concerning the suspension or removal by the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, and the NCUA of a director or officer of a depository institution due to misconduct. Repeals the requirement that the regulatory agency must show misconduct by an officer or director which results in "substantial" financial loss or other damage to the depository institution. (Allows the temporary removal of an officer or director for misconduct pending a permanent removal if necessary for the protection of the institution or depositors). Provides for identical standards for such removal regardless of where the misconduct occurred. (Current law provides for different standards depending on whether the misconduct took place at another institution or business enterprise or at the particular institution from which removal is sought.) Allows the regulatory agency involved to seek such a suspension or removal in cases where an officer or director has violated any written agreement between the institution and the regulatory agency. Prohibits any person who has been removed or suspended from office or prohibited from participating in the affairs of a depository institution by an order of the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, or the NCUA from holding any office in, or participating in the affairs of, any federally regulated depository institution or holding company or subsidiary. (Currently, the regulatory agency can only prohibit persons from participating in the affairs of the institution in which he or she is presently located.) Allows an exception to such prohibition upon written approval of the appropriate regulatory agency. Provides for the judicial review of denial of such an exception. Authorizes the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, and the NCUA to provide notice of the intention to prohibit any person from participating in the affairs of any federally regulated depository institution, notwithstanding the fact that such person has ceased to hold the position of officer or director or has ceased to participate in the conduct of the affairs of such a depository institution before such notice is served. Increases from $1,000 per day to $2,500 per day the civil penalty for the violation of a cease and desist order or an order for the suspension or removal of an officer or director issued by a Federal banking regulatory agency. Imposes a $2,500 civil penalty (in addition to penalties for violations of such orders) for a violation of: (1) any law or regulation; (2) any written condition imposed by the appropriate Federal banking agency in connection with the grant of any application or other request; or (3) any written agreement between the depository institution and the appropriate Federal banking agency. Imposes criminal penalties upon any person who participates in the affairs of any federally regulated depository institution or holding company or subsidiary after having been suspended, removed from office, or prohibited from participating in the affairs of any depository institution by an order of the appropriate Federal banking regulatory agency. (Current law imposes criminal penalties only for participating in the affairs of the institution from which the person was prohibited, removed, or suspended.) Revises procedures for the termination of FDIC deposit insurance to delete provisions requiring 120 days' advance notice by the FDIC to the appropriate Federal and State banking regulatory agencies prior to such a termination. Increases from $100 per day to $2,500 per day the penalty for unauthorized participation in the affairs of a depository institution by any person who has been convicted of any criminal offense involving dishonesty or a breach of trust. Subjects both the depository institution and the individual involved to such penalty. (Current law makes only the depository institution subject to such penalty.) Authorizes the FHLBB and the FSLIC to issue civil enforcement orders concerning a service corporation of an association or a subsidiary of such service corporation, whether wholly or partly owned. (Current law limits such authority to orders concerning an affiliate service corporation of an association.) Amends the Bank Protection Act of 1968 to repeal requirements that depository institutions submit periodic reports with regard to the installation, maintenance, and operation of security devices and procedures. Imposes civil penalties for the filing of false or misleading reports of condition by depository institutions and holding companies. (Current law allows penalties only for late reports.) Requires the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, and the NCUA to publicly disclose all notices and orders with respect to any enforcement proceeding initiated against any depository institution or individual. Deletes the "willful" standard for penalties for violations of the Change in Bank Control Act and the Change in Savings and Loan Control Act. Title II: Report to Congress - Requires the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, and the NCUA to submit annual reports to the Congress concerning: (1) the number of formal and informal supervisory, administrative, and civil enforcement actions undertaken by the agency; (2) the number of individuals and institutions against whom civil money penalties were assessed; (3) a description of all other enforcement efforts and initiatives relating to unsafe and unsound practices; and (4) recommendations concerning the need for additional legislation or financial resources.

Independent Living Trusts and Contributions Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Independent Living Trusts and Contributions Act of 1988 - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (the Act) to exclude from an SSI recipient's income for SSI eligibility purposes: (1) contributions received and used within 30 days to obtain specified social services; (2) contributions of clothing or up to $750 of cash per year for the purchase of clothing; (3) contributions of up to $7,200 per year for rent, mortgage payments, or home maintenance; (4) loans received by or repaid to such individual; and (5) contributions made by any other person to a trust for the SSI recipient if one purpose of the trust is to provide the recipient with such social services, clothing, or home or housing payments. Excludes such contributions from the resources of SSI recipients. Makes this Act's income exclusions applicable under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify SSI applicants and recipients of the opportunities this Act provides them to exercise greater independence and the applicability of the reduction in SSI eligibility thresholds and benefits to individuals living in another person's household and receiving support and maintenance from such person.

Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, for urgently needed assistance for the homeless as authorized in the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act.

United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1989

Title I: Housing and Urban Development - Makes supplemental FY 1989 appropriations for the following Department of Housing and Urban Development programs for the homeless: (1) assisted housing; (2) emergency shelter grants; (3) supportive housing demonstration projects; and (4) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless. Makes supplemental FY 1989 appropriations for: (1) the Federal Emergency Management Agency's emergency food and shelter program; and (2) the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care for homeless veterans program. Title II: Health and Human Services - Makes supplemental FY 1989 appropriations for the following Department of Health and Human Services programs for the homeless: (1) health services; (2) community mental health and mental health services demonstration projects; (3) alcohol and drug abuse treatment; and (4) emergency community services block grants.