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United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Expresses the consent of the United States to certain amendments adopted by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1991
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish criteria and standards and to implement a voluntary accreditation program with respect to laboratory analysis of lead in paint films, soil, and dust. Provides funding for such program through the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Directs the Administrator to conduct research and report to the Congress on methods for evaluating merging products and techniques for detecting lead in paint films and dust, including x-ray fluorescent devices, on-site chemical spot testers, and laboratory methods. Requires the Institute to establish criteria and minimum performance standards to be used in such evaluation. Requires the Administrator to conduct research on the short and long-term efficacy of lead abatement and in-place management techniques for housing based on subsequent levels of lead in dust and in occupants' blood. Requires the Administrator to conduct research on the safety, efficacy, durability, and other performance properties of products for encapsulating or stripping lead-based paint. Directs the Institute to establish performance criteria and standards for encapsulants and strippers. Directs the Administrator to conduct a long-term research study to establish the sources of lead exposure for children with blood lead levels greater than ten micrograms per deciliter. Directs the Administrator to sponsor public education and outreach efforts to increase awareness of the scope and severity of lead poisoning from household sources and the need for abatement and management actions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Youthbuild Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants for Youthbuild projects which shall employ economically and educationally disadvantaged youth to help construct or rehabilitate rental and transitional housing for homeless persons and low-income families. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Surplus School Conservation Act of 1991 - 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.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate, as of January 1, 1991, the permitted exclusion of foreign earned income and eligible housing expenses from the taxable gross income of U.S. citizens and residents working abroad.
United States · United States Senate · 4 January 1991
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to provide that, after FY 1990, the limitation on the number of homes purchased by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for which loan guaranty defaults occurred which may be financed by a loan made by the Secretary shall cease to have effect. Provides that, as of October 1, 1990, the Secretary may sell any note evidencing such a loan with or without recourse if the amount received is not less than the unpaid balance of such loan. Prohibits the Secretary from selling any note evidencing a loan for which the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund is available before October 1, 1993. Repeals the current December 31, 1990, termination date of such property management provisions. Extends through December 31, 1991, current provisions relating to default procedures and the procedure for real estate appraisals to be followed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to certify whether an applicant for assistance under laws administered by HUD is a veteran. Provides that an applicant for a loan made, guaranteed, or insured by the Department of Veterans Affairs shall not be subject to reporting requirements applicable to requests for, or receipts of, Federal contracts, grants, loans, or cooperative agreements, except to the extent that those requirements are provided for in, or by the Secretary pursuant to, the veterans' housing loan guaranty program. Revises procedures concerning the application made by a veteran to the Secretary for waiver of repayment of any overpayment of benefits made by the Department to a veteran when it is determined that such recovery would be against equity and good conscience. Strikes a $144,000 limit on the amount of a housing loan automatically guaranteed by the United States for an eligible veteran's housing loan. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1991 through 1994, to carry out a compensated work therapy and therapeutic transitional housing demonstration program (program). Makes eligible for the program veterans who are furnishing therapeutic and rehabilitative activities through the Department or who are furnished therapeutic work pursuant to activities provided through the Department for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary, under such program, to operate residences as therapeutic transitional housing solely for such eligible veterans. Limits to 50 the number of such residences authorized to be operated. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with non-profit corporations to conduct compensated work therapy programs under the program. Outlines contracting conditions. Authorizes the contract to allow for the Secretary to furnish the corporation with in-kind services. Allows the Secretary to use procurement procedures to purchase or lease residential housing for the purposes of the program. Outlines conditions for such transitional housing, including the payment of rent for resident veterans. Requires a house manager for each residence used for such housing. Authorizes the Secretary to use any suitable residential property for such housing, including property acquired through default of loans under the veterans' home loan guaranty program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe: (1) a procedure for establishing reasonable rental rates for veterans residing in such housing; and (2) appropriate limits on the period such veterans may reside in such housing. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of property after use as such housing and to deposit the proceeds into the General Post Fund of the Department. Requires the Secretary to report on the operation of such program after two years of its existence. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to assist nonprofit organizations in providing transitional housing for veterans who are or recently have been in a program for the treatment of substance abuse. Outlines terms, conditions, and limitations of such loan program. Requires the Secretary to report on the Department's experience with the program 15 months after the first loan under the program is granted. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations and States or political subdivisions to sell real property acquired as the result of a default on a loan made, insured, or guaranteed by the Secretary under the veterans' home loan guaranty program. Sets the following conditions for such agreements: (1) that the Secretary determines that such action will not adversely affect the ability of the Department to fulfill its statutory mission with respect to the veterans' home loan guaranty program; (2) that the entity to which the property is sold agrees to utilize such property solely as a shelter primarily for homeless veterans and their families, to comply with all zoning laws, and to make no use of the property that is incompatible with the area; and (3) that the Secretary determines that there is no significant likelihood of the property being sold for a price sufficient to reduce the liability of the Department or the veteran who defaulted on the loan. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the provision of rehabilitative and therapeutic services to veterans with any appropriate source, whether or not such source is an element of the Department or any other Federal entity. (Current law allows such contractual arrangements with private industry or other sources outside the Department.) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for flat grave markers in the section of the Florida National Cemetery in which preplaced grave liners were installed before July 30, 1988. Provides for credits to the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund in specified amounts depending on the fiscal year made in the case of a guaranteed or insured loan for a home purchase or for construction with respect to which a veteran has made a down payment of ten percent or more of the total purchase price. Ratifies certain actions and inactions taken by the Secretary or the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such loans and their fees when taken between October 1, 1990, and the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Act for Micro-Enterprise - Amends the Social Security Act to exclude from income for purposes of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs business assets received primarily for micro-enterprise business purposes. Extends public assistance benefits (including AFDC, SSI, Medicaid, and Medicare) for persons with income from or resources in a micro-enterprise (any commercial enterprise with five or fewer employees, one or more of whom own the enterprise). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make eligible for unemployment compensation an individual who starts a micro-enterprise. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make financial assistance available under the Community Development Block Grant and Urban Development Action Grant programs to lending institutions and public and private organizations to provide loans, counseling, and training for micro-enterprises. Amends the Small Business Act to urge that when implementing business loan programs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration consider the needs of micro-enterprises, and the institutions which offer them credit or services. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to treat savings association loans to micro-enterprises as qualified thrift investments. Mandates that each Federal banking agency establish a Micro-Enteprise Technical and Operations Office (Me-Too) to promote micro-enterprises through technical assistance, outreach, and training.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Financial Industry Reform and Capital Enforcement Act - Title I: Creation and Control of Depository Institution Holding Companies - Sets forth the terms and conditions under which a depository institution holding company (DIHC) can be established and must be operated. Requires any DIHC seeking to acquire control of an insured bank, an insured institution, a bank holding company, a savings and loan holding company, or a depository institution holding company to comply with the requirements of the Change in Bank Control Act. Permits the appropriate Federal regulatory agency (the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the Federal Home Loan Bank Board) to adopt rules and regulations to prevent an insured bank or institution that is controlled by a DIHC from engaging in unsafe or unsound practices. Subjects DIHCs to the same restrictions on affiliate transactions that are imposed upon member banks (banks which are members of a Federal Reserve bank) under the Federal Reserve Act. Requires the appropriate Federal regulatory agency to notify a DIHC immediately upon finding that an insured depository institution under its control is not in compliance with minimum capital adequacy requirements. Authorizes such agency to require the DIHC to: (1) provide a bond or guarantee; (2) maintain a segregated account of cash or investment securities earmarked for such noncomplying institution; or (3) contribute to the noncomplying institution's surplus capital an amount necessary to bring it into compliance. Prohibits an insured depository institution that has been notified of its noncompliant status from declaring or paying out any dividends. Requires the DIHC to return to the noncomplying institution immediately any dividends received during a specified period before receipt of such notification. Prescribes guidelines for the appointment of a Federal conservator or for divestiture if a DHIC does not bring a noncomplying institution within Federal guidelines. Authorizes judicial review of a Federal conservatorship or divestiture order. Prohibits Federal regulatory agencies from imposing requirements pertaining to the capitalization of a DIHC. Subjects interstate acquisitions: (1) of an insured bank by a DIHC to the same restrictions applicable to bank holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956; and (2) of an additional savings association by a DIHC to the same restrictions applicable to savings and loan companies. Prohibits Federal and State governments from enacting laws that discriminate against DIHCs. Prohibits insured banks and institutions that are associated with a DIHC from: (1) dealing in or underwriting securities; (2) underwriting insurance; or (3) investing in or developing real estate. Subjects DIHCs to the tying provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970 and to the insider lending prohibitions of the Federal Reserve Act. Makes conforming amendments to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to provide that, for the purpose of restricting loans or extending credit to affiliates, a loan or extension of credit shall not be deemed to be made to an affiliate if: (1) the approval of such loan or extension of credit was in accordance with the same standards and procedures and on substantially the same terms that apply to similar loans or extensions of credit; and (2) such loan or extension of credit was not made for the purpose of evading any of the requirements of such Act. Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to make certain provisions which prohibit member banks from becoming affiliated with securities corporations inapplicable to member banks which are controlled by DIHCs. Makes conforming amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Housing Act. Requires the acquisitions of DIHCs controlling insured institutions to be in accordance with the procedures of such Acts. Amends the Clayton Act to exempt acquisitions of insured banks and institutions by DIHCs from the premerger notification requirements of the Depository Institution Affiliation Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the National Housing Act. Makes conforming amendments to the Community Reinvestment Act. Title II: Supervisory Improvements - Establishes a National Financial Services Oversight Committee to: (1) establish uniform principles and standards for the examination and supervision of financial services providers; (2) report to the Congress recommendations for an improved examination process and whether the number or compensation of Federal examiners should be increased; and (3) make recommendations to Federal regulatory agencies to maintain uniformity in Federal regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Closed-Captioned Television in Public Facilities Act of 1990 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to permit participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs only to hospitals which certify that each patient is provided, upon request, with a room furnished with a television capable of displaying closed-captioning and that notice of this service is given to the patient at the time of admission. Exempts hospitals that do not make televisions available to patients. Institutes comparable requirements for nursing care facilities and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, requiring that televisions in common areas of the relevant facility be capable of displaying closed-captioning. Amends the Public Health Service Act and other Federal law to institute the same requirements for Public Health Service facilities and for hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities under the direct jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education and vocational schools, in order to be eligible for student assistance programs, to certify that televisions capable of displaying closed-captioning are available for use in classrooms and common areas, unless the Secretary of Education determines that waiver or modification is appropriate. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to prohibit libraries from receiving funds under such Act unless such libraries certify that they have televisions capable of displaying closed-captioning available for use. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require any local educational agency conducting programs that include television program viewing to certify that the televisions used are capable of displaying closed-captioning unless the Secretary of Education determines that waiver or modification is appropriate. Directs all Federal entities that use television or video programming to provide public information or educational services to make reasonable efforts to caption the programming and make it available to the general public and to organizations that serve the hearing-impaired. Prohibits Federal funding of conferences, seminars, or similar activities held in a public lodging establishment that does not, upon request, provide guests with rooms furnished with televisions capable of displaying closed-captioning. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to waive this prohibition if the entity sponsoring or funding the event certifies that the waiver would be appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Comprehensive Long-Term Care Incentives Act of 1991 - Title I: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance and Plans - Subtitle A: Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance - Provides for the treatment of qualified long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance for purposes of taxation of life insurance companies. Allows employers to offer employees qualified long-term care insurance as a tax-free fringe benefit. Excludes from gross income amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts or qualified pension plans with cash or deferred arrangements for purposes of purchasing long-term care insurance. Permits the non-taxable exchange of life insurance policies for long-term care insurance in the case of an individual who has attained age 59 1/2. Subtitle B: Employer Funding of Medical Benefits - Revises provisions governing medical benefits for retired employees and their spouses and dependents. Provides a tax deduction for employer contributions to health benefits accounts. Defines funded reserve accounts and vesting requirements to qualify for such tax deduction. Establishes a 50-percent tax penalty on early distributions of medical benefits and a 100-percent excise tax on allocated assets that are not used to provide retiree health benefits. Subtitle C: Reverse Mortgage Insurance for Older Americans - Amends the National Housing Act to limit the total number of mortgages to be insured and the amount of such insurance under the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners. Subpart D: Income Tax Credits - Allows a $2,000 per qualified person tax credit for taxpayers who maintain a household which includes a parent, grandparent, dependent, or spouse who requires specified custodial care. Allows a tax credit for 25 percent of the long-term care expenses of certain independent persons (not in excess of $2,000 per qualified person per taxable year). Title II: Federal National Long-Term Care Reinsurance Corporation - Federal National Long-Term Care Reinsurance Corporation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the incorporation of the Federal National Long-Term Care Reinsurance Corporation (Corporation), which shall not be an agency or establishment of the U.S. Government. Requires the Corporation to confine its activities to reinsuring insurance companies for extraordinary loss in the issuance or payment of qualified long-term care insurance benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to exclude from SSI eligibility determinations and benefit calculations the income an individual who has attained age 62 and is a member of an elderly family residing in public housing receives for providing supervisory services to a voluntary tenant patrol organization furnishing public housing security services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
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 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
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 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the low-income housing credit permanent.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Affordable Housing and First Home Buyer Assistance Act of 1991 - Title I: First Home Ownership Accounts - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a personal deduction for specified contributions to a first home ownership account. Treats such account as an individual retirement account upon a first home purchase. Title II: Repeal of Taxation of Gain on Sale of Principal Residence - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the taxation of gain on the sale of a principal residence. Title III: Mortgage Bonds and Credit Certificates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 1993 the issue period for qualified mortgage bonds.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1991 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Title II: Miscellaneous Program Amendments - Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts, devises, and bequests which enhance the Secretary's ability to provide services and benefits. Allows the payment of parents dependency and indemnity compensation less frequently than monthly if the amount of the annual benefit is less than four percent of the maximum annual rate payable. Prohibits a readjustment in the rating schedule from causing a veteran's compensation amount to be reduced unless an improvement in the veteran's disability is shown to have occurred. Makes the presumptive period (the period after service in a radiation-risk activity during which a disease must become manifest in order to be considered service-connected and, therefore, compensable as disability compensation) for leukemia 40 years (currently, 30). Creates a 40-year presumptive period for members of the reserves who were exposed to atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device during active duty or inactive duty for training and who contract specified diseases or illnesses within such period. Increases the amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance available to a veteran owning a home to the lesser of $90,000 or the amount of the loan outstanding on the home. (Currently, the amount is the lesser of $40,000 or such amount.) Increases from one to two years the required time after discharge or release permitted to qualify for National Service Life Insurance (for service-disabled veterans). Repeals the $144,000 housing loan ceiling for veterans' housing loans which will automatically be guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ratifies the guaranteeing of loans applied for since December 18, 1989, which would have been guaranteed if this amendment had then been in effect. Makes permanent (currently ends December 31, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to manage real property acquired by the Secretary as a result of a default on a loan guaranteed by the Department. Extends from December 31, 1990, to April 1, 1991, the eligibility for hospital and nursing home care and medical treatment of veterans exposed to a toxic substance during service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era and veterans exposed to ionizing radiation while serving between September 11, 1945, and July 1, 1946. Extends through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations as well as the authority of the Secretary to make contracts and grants for the care and treatment of veterans in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines. Amends the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1991 (currently 1990) the authority for the operation of a pilot program for the provision of mobile health-care clinics for veterans residing in isolated areas. Extends through December 31, 1992, the period through which a veteran may be considered a Vietnam veteran for purposes of eligibility for disabled veterans' employment and training programs. Increases from $60 to $90 the monthly pension payment authorized to be paid to a veteran having neither spouse nor child who is institutionalized as incompetent. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified administrative reorganizations within the Department involving data processing and information resources management centers. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds currently available for general operating expenses to pay for leases entered into for the collocation of three medical centers of the Department with three administrative centers of such Department. Title III: Agent Orange - Veterans Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service Benefits Act of 1991 - Provides that the disease of chloracne in Vietnam veterans shall be considered to have been service-connected if such disease became manifest to a ten percent or more degree of disability within one year after the last date on which the veteran performed such service in Vietnam. Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected for veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of such service: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma; and (2) soft-tissue sarcoma. Provides a presumption of service-connection in the case of a Vietnam veteran suffering from a disease associated with effects of exposure to certain dioxins or other herbicide agents during such service in Vietnam. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations listing a positive association between any disease and the biological effects of exposure to a herbicide agent in Vietnam. Requires the Secretary to update such list continually. Requires the Secretary, in prescribing and revising such list, to obtain by contract the determinations and estimates of a contract scientific organization. Requires such organization to: (1) determine which diseases have any degree of association with the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent; and (2) estimate the extent of association between each such disease and each such biological effect. Requires the organization to determine such association specifically with respect to lung cancer and each other cancer. Outlines contract provisions required in such agreements between the Secretary and the scientific organization, including surveys, evaluations, and periodic determinations. Requires such scientific organization to provide reports to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees regarding its determinations and evaluations. Requires such organization to determine, in the case of a positive association, whether there is a reasonable basis for concluding that a Vietnam veteran with the highest level of exposure to that herbicide agent in Vietnam was exposed to such agent under the circumstances necessary for such biological effects. Requires a report from the organization to the Secretary and the veterans' committees when there is no such reasonable basis found. Requires the Secretary to make certain determinations and follow-up reports after receiving such reports from the contract scientific organization, including the issuance of a report to the veterans' committees and the promulgation of positive associations regulations if necessary. Requires benefits to be continued even though a disease is removed from the regulations listing diseases having positive associations. Provides special effective dates. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze all clinical data that: (1) is obtained by the Department in connection with examinations and treatment of veterans for disabilities related to exposure to certain herbicides or to service in Vietnam; and (2) is likely to be scientifically useful in determining the association, if any, between the disabilities of such veterans and their exposure to such herbicides and other toxic substances. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the veterans' committees concerning such analysis and its results. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Director of the National Institutes of Health Research and Grants Division (NIH) before compiling and analyzing such information. Requires the Director of NIH to review each annual report submitted by the Secretary and transmit to the Secretary an evaluation of the contents of each report. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed samples of blood and tissue of veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines provisions concerning the security and authorized uses of such specimens, as well as limitations on the acceptance of such samples. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to the extent that an agreement has been reached with NAS serving as the contract scientific organization for the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Director of the Medical Follow-up Agency in the event of no agreement with NAS. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide for the conduct of studies of the feasibility of conducting additional scientific research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in support of U.S. and allied military operations in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and (3) active military, naval, or air service there. Requires the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees on the results of such studies. Requires the Secretary to consult with NAS before undertaking such studies and requires NAS to review such studies and report recommendations to the Secretary and the veterans' committees, to the extent provided under any agreement between the Secretary and NAS. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to require the Secretary to annually furnish updated information to veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Agent Orange Registry on health risks resulting from exposure to dioxin or other toxic agents in herbicides as a result of service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the veterans' committees on the research being conducted to develop treatments for physiological absorption of dioxin and other toxic agents used in herbicides by the United States in Vietnam, including research relating to exposure to dioxin and other toxic agents outside Vietnam. Extends through December 31, 2000, the eligibility for hospital and nursing home care for veterans exposed to toxic substances in Vietnam. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to authorize direct consultation between the Ranch Hand Advisory Committee and Department of the Air Force scientists conducting the Ranch Hand Study (a study of the long-term health effects of exposure to phenoxy herbicides and contaminants). Requires the preparation and submission of annual reports and a final report in connection with such study. Requires the Secretary, upon the request of any Vietnam era veteran who was exposed to dioxins during such service and who has either applied for Department medical care or has filed a claim for, or is in receipt of, veterans' disability compensation, to obtain a blood sample from such veteran to test for the level of a specified dioxin. Requires the Secretary to notify the veteran of test results regarding the likelihood of the veteran's exposure to such dioxin while serving in Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Public Housing Rehabilitation Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the low-income housing credit permanent. Makes such housing credit available for rehabilitation of public housing.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
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.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Enterprise Zone Tax Incentives Act of 1991 - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish a demonstration program of providing incentives for the creation of tax enterprise zones in order to: (1) revitalize economically and physically distressed areas; (2) promote meaningful employment for zone residents; and (3) encourage individuals to reside in the zones in which they are employed. Title I: Designation and Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during calendar years 1992 through 1995. Sets forth eligibility criteria for rural areas. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designation, including: (1) a population of not less than 4,000; (2) pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress; (3) a high unemployment rate; and (4) a required course of action designed to reduce the various burdens borne by employers or employees in the area. Provides that a course of action under private entities may not be federally funded and may include: (1) a reduction of tax rates or fees; (2) an increase in public services; (3) a reduction in government paperwork requirements; (4) business community commitments to provide jobs and job training; (5) special preference to minority contractors; (6) gifts of land for the operation of neighborhood businesses; (7) pooled health insurance; (8) loans by local financial institutions for business start-ups; and (9) special preference to low-income housing projects and private activity bonds. Allows an enterprise zone employment credit to small employers as a general business credit of ten percent of the qualified zone wages paid plus qualified zone employee health insurance costs. Allows such credit for the first five years of the employee's employment. Makes the rehabilitation credit available for buildings in the tax enterprise zone that are at least 30 years old. Allows a 60-month amortization period (in lieu of depreciation) for child care facilities. Allows the deferral of capital gain for ten years if the gain is reinvested in tax enterprise zone property. Limits the dollar amount of deferred gain. Declares that loss on any qualified zone corporate investment shall be treated as an ordinary loss. Sets forth limitations on the aggregate amounts of zone incentives to be allocated by the governmental official responsible for making such allocations in the tax enterprise zone. Allows for purposes of the low-income housing credit any parts of low-income rental buildings that are used for child care centers for children of zone residents to be included in the basis for such credit. Title II: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Tax Enterprise Zones - Requires enterprise zones to receive priority in the designation of foreign trade zones. Title III: Studies - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller General each to report to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance on the effectiveness of the incentives provided by this Act in achieving its purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Enterprise Zone Jobs-Creation Act of 1991 - Title I: 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 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. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of any wages earned as do not exceed a specified amount. Phases out such credit. Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property. Allows a taxpayer a deduction on 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. Title III: 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. Title IV: 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 V: Repeal of Title VII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 - Repeals title VII (enterprise zone development) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Deposit Insurance and Regulatory Reform Act of 1991 - Title I: Purposes - Sets forth purposes of this Act. Title II: Strengthening Deposit Insurance Funds - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide that the assessment base for any insured depository institution shall include foreign as well as domestic deposits (and any obligations which would constitute deposits), except those deposited in a foreign branch of a foreign bank. Authorizes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to set annual assessment rates on foreign deposits independently of any other assessment rates. Directs the FDIC to: (1) establish assessment categories for insurance fund members based upon types and degree of risk posed by the activities of such members; and (2) establish separate rates for such categories. Revises deposit insurance application and approval procedures. Provides that an insured bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve System or an insured State bank which is converted into a national member bank shall continue as an insured bank. Mandates that a credit union representative be seated on the FDIC Board of Directors. Requires such Board to conduct annual reserve-to-asset ratio reviews. Limits FDIC waivers of the prohibitions on brokered deposits to 60 days per waiver (and no more than one waiver in any six-month period). Title III: Improved Capital and Accounting Requirements - Requires that the accounting principles applicable to insured depository institutions be uniform and consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. Authorizes the Federal Depository Institutions Regulatory Agency (FDIRA) (established by this Act) or the FDIC to prescribe accounting principles if either agency determines that the application of any generally accepted accounting principle is inconsistent with the objectives of this Act. Requires the FDIRA to: (1) review and modify, if appropriate, accounting procedures used by insured depository institutions; (2) prescribe regulations which require all assets and liabilities of insured depository institutions to be included in financial statements; (3) prescribe regulations which require all assets and liabilities to be accounted for, if appropriate, at fair market value; and (4) establish uniform requirements for independent audits of insured depository institutions. Mandates an annual on-site examination of each insured depository institution by either the FDIRA, the FDIC, or the appropriate State banking supervisor. Requires the FDIRA and the FDIC each to establish a comparable examination improvement program. Requires independent annual audits of insured depository institutions and institutions applying for insurance (including annual reports on assertions in reports of management responsibilities). Title IV: Deposit Insurance Reform - Requires the FDIC to prescribe regulations limiting deposit insurance of any one person in all insured depository institutions at any one time to $100,000. Exempts certain retirement accounts from this limitation. Requires the FDIC to present to the Congress a detailed implementation report, and to complete final regulations by a specified deadline. Prohibits the FDIC from determining insurance coverage on a pro rata or pass-through basis. Prescribes guidelines under which the FDIC must satisfy obligations to insured depositors at the least cost to the affected deposit insurance fund. Directs the Comptroller General to annually audit FDIC compliance with such guidelines. Revises the procedure for determining claims against a depository institution in receivership. Provides that if a secured creditor's claim against a depository institution in receivership exceeds the market value of the collateral, the receiver may treat the portion which exceeds the market value as an unsecured claim against the institution. Requires that each insured depository institution submit to the FDIC on a regular basis an accurate accounting of the total amount of all insured deposits, preferred deposits, and uninsured deposits. Title V: Early Intervention and Provisions Relating to Conservators and Receivers - Prohibits an insured depository institution from making any capital distribution if that would result in its undercapitalization. Requires the FDIRA and the FDIC to monitor closely the condition of any undercapitalized insured depository institution, and the capital restoration plans and restrictions to which the institution is subject. Sets forth general guidelines for capital restoration plans. Prescribes actions to be taken, including conservatorship or receivership, with respect to undercapitalized institutions that fail to submit or implement a plan. Title VI: Source of Strength - Makes affiliates of an insured depository institution liable to the FDIC for losses incurred by an insurance fund, or for losses which the FDIC reasonably anticipates will be incurred by an insurance fund in default related assistance. Title VII: Limitations on Risky Activities - Authorizes the FDIC, by regulation, to restrict any activity of an insured depository institution that poses a significant risk to any insurance fund. (Currently only savings associations are subject to such restrictions.) Precludes an insured State bank from engaging as principal in any activity that is impermissible for a national bank if the FDIRA has determined that its proposed conduct would be inconsistent with this Act. Places parallel restrictions upon the activities of subsidiaries of insured State banks, State credit unions, and upon equity investments by State depository institutions and credit unions. Prohibits a depository institution from acquiring or retaining any corporate debt security that is not investment grade. Directs the FDIC to require depository institutions and credit unions to divest themselves of equity investments or debt securities which are impermissible for a national bank or are not of investment grade. Title VIII -(Reserved) Title IX - (Reserved) Title X: Single Regulatory Agency - Subtitle A: Federal Depository Institutions Regulatory Agency - Establishes the Federal Depository Institutions Regulatory Agency as an independent establishment in the executive branch. Vests management of the Agency in a Board of Directors appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits Board members from serving in offices of other depository institutions. Transfers to the FDIRA: (1) all functions of the Comptroller of the Currency relating to national banks; (2) all functions of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System relating to Federal Reserve System banks, bank holding companies, their subsidiaries and affiliates; (3) all functions of the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision relating to savings associations and savings and loan holding companies (including their subsidiaries and affiliates); (4) all functions of the National Credit Union Administration; and (5) all functions of the FDIC relating to regulation of State nonmember banks. Establishes within the FDIRA the "consumer division" to conduct separate on-site examinations of each insured depository institution, in conjunction with regular on-site examination, to determine the extent to which the institution complies with consumer protection regulations and community reinvestment laws. Lists additional responsibilities. Requires the Board of Directors of the FDIRA, the Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Housing Finance Board to meet: (1) at least once each calendar quarter to discuss the condition of the financial service industry and economic trends; and (2) on an emergency basis as needed. Subtitle B: Transfer of National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund to FDIC - Establishes the Credit Union Share Insurance Fund and transfers to it all assets and liabilities (including credit union deposits) of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. Abolishes the latter. Provides that: (1) the Credit Union Share Insurance Fund shall be available to the FDIC for use with respect to the Fund members; (2) all amounts assessed against such members shall be deposited into the Fund; (3) any credit union which becomes an insured depository institution shall be a Fund member; and (4) each credit union member of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund is automatically, without application, an insured depository institution under the new Fund. Subtitle C: Abolition of Federal Banking Agencies - Abolishes: (1) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the position of Comptroller of the Currency; (2) the Office of Thrift Supervision; (3) the National Credit Union Administration and its Board. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the approval of both the FDIC and the FDIRA for advances made to individual member banks by a Federal Reserve bank for deposit insurance fund purposes. Requires the FDIRA to submit periodic reports to the Congress on progress in the consolidation of the depository institution regulatory functions within the Agency, and the transition from a multiagency regulatory stucture to a single agency structure. Title XI: Consumer Provisions - Subtitle A: Truth in Savings - Truth in Savings Act - States that a depository institution may refer only to the annual percentage yield when it advertises or solicits accounts. Requires a depository institution to state the following information clearly and conspicuously: (1) the annual percentage yield and the period such yield is in effect; (2) all minimum initial deposit, minimum balance, and time requirements for earning such yield; (3) fees or other conditions that could reduce the yield; and (4) any interest penalty for early withdrawal. Authorizes the FDIRA to exempt advertisements, announcements, or solicitations made by any broadcast or electronic medium or outdoor advertising displays not on the premises of a depository institution from such disclosure requirements if disclosure would be unnecessarily burdensome. Prohibits any depository institution from advertising an account as a free or no-cost account if: (1) there are minimum balance or limited transaction requirements to avoid fees; or (2) there is any service fee, transaction fee, or similar charge imposed for such account. Prohibits any institution from making any advertisement, announcement, or solicitation that is inaccurate or misleading or that misrepresents its deposit contracts. Requires each depository institution to maintain a schedule, written in clear and plain language, of fees, charges, interest rates, and terms and conditions such as minimum balance and time requirements applicable to each class of accounts offered. Requires that such schedule be disclosed to potential customers and requesting individuals and mailed to account holders. Requires that account holders receive 30 days' advance notice of any change to be made in any term or condition required to be disclosed in the schedule if the change might reduce the yield or adversely affect any account holder. Directs the Agency to require modified disclosure requirements concerning the annual yield on variable rate accounts, multiple rate accounts, guaranteed-rate accounts that mature in less than one year, and accounts for which the interest rate is not guaranteed. Mandates that a depository institution clearly and conspicuously disclose on periodic statements to account holders: (1) the annual percentage yield; (2) the amount of interest earned; and (3) any fees or charges imposed. Sets forth payment of interest rules for depository institutions and credit unions. Directs the Board to provide for public notice and comment on, and to publish, model forms and clauses for common disclosures required by this Act. Provides for administrative enforcement of this Act and the civil liability of a depository institution that fails to comply with its requirements. Sets forth limitations on such liability and factors to be considered by the court in determining class action awards. Provides that an institution may not be held liable for a violation if the institution demonstrates that the violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error. Establishes U.S. district court jurisdiction and a one-year statute of limitations for actions brought under this Act. Directs the FDIRA to provide for the similar regulation of credit unions. Subtitle B: Fair Lending Enforcement - Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require banking regulatory agencies to refer to the Attorney General any creditors appearing to violate such Act. Requires notice to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act (but only if the matter is not referred to the Attorney General). Subtitle C: Access to Financial Services - Financial Services Access Act - Requires each depository institution to offer at least one basic financial services account with specified characteristics. Requires: (1) a depository institution which cashes checks for customers in the ordinary course of business to cash government checks under certain circumstances; (2) the FDIRA to prescribe regulations to establish a customer registration program in connection with the government check cashing services program; and (3) each depository institution to post a conspicuous notice in up to three languages informing the public in each location where deposits are accepted that basic financial services accounts and government check cashing services are available. Subtitle D: Notice of Branch Closures by Bank and Thrift Institutions - Bank and Thrift Branch Closure Act of 1991 - Requires any national or District bank which proposes to close any of its branches to provide written notice of such action to the FDIRA and to its customers in accordance with specified guidelines. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to require any Federal savings association which proposes to close any of its branches to provide written notice of such action to the FDIRA and to its customers in accordance with specified guidelines. Subtitle E: Community Reinvestment Act Examination Requirements - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to require the FDIRA to publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the community in which an insured depository institution is located that: (1) such institution is under routine examination for its record in meeting the low- and moderate-income credit needs of the community; and (2) public comment is solicited regarding such record. Requires that the public portion of the FDIRA's written evaluation of such institution be made available at all its offices and branches and at all public depositories in each community in the institution's service area. Requires each FDIRA regional office to maintain a public file containing the two most recent evaluations of each insured depository institution in the region.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
National Health Insurance Act - Title I: Benefits and Eligibility - Makes medical, dental, podiatric, home-nursing, hospital, and auxiliary services available as benefits to eligible individuals and defines such services. Directs the National Health Insurance Board, established by this Act, to survey the resources and needs of each State and to develop in each State a program to assure maximum participation and use of health personnel and facilities. Authorizes the Board to limit health services when personnel, facilities, or funds are inadequate to ensure the provision of all services. Allows every individual eligible for personal health services available under this Act to select the physician, dentist, podiatrist, nurse, medical group, or hospital to render services and to change such selection under certain circumstances. Sets forth eligibility requirements. States that the United States shall be subrogated to all rights of an individual who receives benefits under this Act with respect to any workers' compensation injury or disability. States that Federal grants to States under title XIX (Medicaid) and part A of title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act shall be available to the States for provision of personal health services for noninsured needy individuals. Title II: Participation of Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Hospitals, and Others - Prescribes criteria to govern which physicians, dentists, podiatrists, nurses, hospitals, or providers of auxiliary services will be deemed qualified to perform services under this Act. Authorizes specified State agencies to enter into agreements with qualified individuals or with organizations for the provision of personal health services. Lists provisions to be included in such agreements, including methods of payment for services. Sets standards applicable to rates or amounts of payment for services rendered as benefits under this Act. Directs that such rates and amounts be adapted to take into account relevant regional, State, or local conditions and practices. Authorizes patient limits. Allows health care providers entering into an agreement under this title to accept or reject patients. Title III: Local Administration - Decentralizes the responsibility for administration of this Act's benefit provisions to local administrative committees or local administrative officers within health-service areas designated by each State. Lists the duties of such local administrative committees or officers. Requires the establishment in each health-service area of: (1) a local area committee; and (2) local professional committees representative of the health care providers in the area to assist local administrative committees and officers. Title IV: State Administration - Expresses the intent of the Congress that this Act's benefit provisions be administered by each of the several States, in accordance with an approved plan of operations. Catalogs provisions that must be included in such a plan. Describes procedures to be followed if a State: (1) fails to submit a plan; or (2) fails to comply with an approved plan. Title V: National Health Insurance Board; National Advisory Medical Policy Council; General Administrative Provisions - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services a National Health Insurance Board to administer the provisions of this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Medical Policy Council to advise the Board regarding matters of general policy, the formulation of regulations, and the establishment of professional standards. Requires the Board to undertake certain studies and to make reports to the Congress at specified times. Title VI: Eligibility Determinations, Complaints, Hearings, and Judicial Review - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine benefit eligibility. Describes procedures for complaint investigation and adjudication. Title VII: Application of Act to Individuals Covered Under Medicare Program - States that when an individual is entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare, the personal health services available as benefits under this Act shall be limited to those services for which the individual is ineligible under the Medicare program. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a study of the interrelationship between the program of national health insurance under this Act and the Medicare program. Requires that the Secretary submit to the President and to the Congress, within one year of this Act's enactment, a report of such study, along with certain findings and detailed recommendations. Title VIII: Fiscal Provisions - Declares that funds in the National Health Care Trust Fund, created by this Act, shall be available, subject to exception, for all expenditures necessary or appropriate to carry out this Act. Directs the Board to determine: (1) amounts to be made available from the Fund during a given fiscal year for the provision of various classes of personal health services benefits; and (2) allotments to be made to the States for the provision of such benefits. Sets standards to govern the Board's determinations. Authorizes the Board to make grants to: (1) certain educational institutions or agencies in order to fund endeavors that show promise of making valuable contributions to the training of personnel providing or administering benefits under this Act; and (2) certain individuals participating in courses relating to the provision or administration of personal health services benefits. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. States that personal health services shall first become available as benefits under this Act on October 1, 1992. Title X: Value Added Tax and National Health Care Trust Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a five-percent tax on the taxable amount of each taxable transaction (the sale of property, performance of services, and importing of property by a taxable person in a commercial-type transaction). Sets the tax rate at zero for: (1) retail food, principal residence housing (sale and rental), and medical care; (2) certain transactions involving governmental entities; (3) in certain circumstances, specified tax-exempt organizations. Allows as a tax credit the aggregate tax which has been paid by sellers to the taxpayer of property and services which the taxpayer uses in the business to which the transaction relates. Makes the person selling the property or services liable for the tax. Requires the seller to give the purchaser a tax invoice if the seller has reason to believe that the purchaser is a taxable person. Allows a person whose aggregate taxable transactions for the current calendar year and the next calendar year do not exceed specified amounts to elect to be treated as a non-taxable person for the next calendar year, except for: (1) sale or leasing of real property; and (2) importing. Allows the taxpayer to elect, in certain circumstances, to treat: (1) two taxable businesses as one taxable person; and (2) separate divisions of the same business as separate taxable persons. Mandates notification to the Secretary of the Treasury of any change in the form of a business which might affect the administration of taxes under this Act. Sets forth special rules relating to: (1) coordination with subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) sales which include incidental services and services which include incidental transfers of property; (3) zero rating de minimis transactions; (4) treating importing as both selling and purchasing; (5) treating subchapter S corporations as not corporations; and (6) property and services held for use. Treats as a taxable transaction: (1) personal use by an owner of business property or services; and (2) any gift of business property or services. Sets forth special rules regarding: (1) dispositions of nonbusiness real property; and (2) insurance contracts. Establishes in the Treasury the National Health Care Trust Fund. Appropriates to the Fund amounts equivalent to the amounts received from the value added tax. Allows the Fund to be used only to carry out the program of health benefits under this Act. Title XI: Study and Development of Cost Control Mechanisms - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct a study on controlling costs of benefits under this Act, including the effects of the costs on medical malpractice claims and malpractice insurance; (2) report to the Congress; and (3) implement recommendations in the report.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to increase from $150 to $600 per month the maximum rental amount of premises from which the dependents of a member of the armed forces in military service may not be evicted or distressed, except upon a court action concerning the right of possession to such rented housing. Authorizes the rent maximum to be increased yearly by the same percentage by which retired pay of members and former members of the armed forces is increased for such year. Provides for a stay of such a court action in the case of a member of the reserves called to active duty for a period of more than 30 days. Requires such reserve member to pay as rent an amount equal to the sum of any basic allowance for quarters and variable housing allowance received for such period of active duty. Provides for the repayment of agreed rent that is unpaid during the period of active duty after such period is completed.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the period during which qualified mortgage bonds and mortgage credit certificates may be issued. (Under current law, authority for these programs is due to expire as of 1991.) Provides for the permanent extension of the low-income housing credit.