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11 records in 1988
United States · United States Senate · 10 August 1988
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1988
Postal Service Drug Control Act of 1988 - Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 to authorize the Postal Service to exercise forfeiture authority and to perform enforcement functions under such Act. Provides that amounts deposited in the Postal Service Fund from civil administrative forfeiture may be withdrawn and paid into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 4775 (Department of the Treasury, United States Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1988
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1989 - Title I - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes FY 1989 appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) the Office of the Secretary, including international affairs functions within the Office; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (3) the Financial Management Service; (4) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, including an amount earmarked solely for enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act; (5) the U.S. Customs Service, including specified amounts for the Customs Cooperation Council meeting and for additional personnel in the Honolulu Customs District, as well as amounts for expenses of the Air Interdiction program, the Customs Forfeiture Fund, and customs services at small airports; (6) the U.S. Mint, including a specified amount for research and development; (7) the Bureau of the Public Debt, including amounts for expenses of the National Economic Commission; (8) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including specified amounts for the Statistics of Income Program and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program; and (9) the U.S. Secret Service, including specified amounts for continued construction of the James J. Rowley Secret Service Training Center and for presidential candidate protective activities. Prescribes personnel levels to be maintained by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Customs Service, and in connection with certain IRS taxpayer assistance functions. Requires advance congressional approval in connection with specified categories of U.S. Secret Service expenditures. Limits transfers among funds appropriated to the Department of the Treasury. Prohibits funds from being used to place certain Department functions under the oversight of the Department's Inspector General. Title II: United States Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriation Act, 1989 - Makes FY 1989 appropriations to the Postal Service. Prohibits various uses of these funds. Requires that specified funds be used to continue full postal service and facility upgrading in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes FY 1989 appropriations to the Executive Office of the President for: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the Office of Administration; (3) the White House office; (4) the executive residence at the White House; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) special assistance for the President; (7) the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) the Office of Policy Development; (9) the National Critical Materials Council; (10) the National Security Council; (11) the Office of Management and Budget, subject to a number of limitations; (12) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; and (13) unanticipated needs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes FY 1989 appropriations for salaries and expenses of: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; (4) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; (5) the Federal Election Commission; (6) the General Services Administration (GSA); (7) the National Archives and Records Administration, including provisions for continued construction at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and construction of a new facility in Prince George's County, Maryland; (8) the Office of Personnel Management, including fund transfers; (9) the Merit Systems Protection Board, including fund transfers; (10) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; and (11) the U.S. Tax Court. Appropriates funds among the following GSA accounts: (1) Federal Buildings Fund; (2) Federal Supply Service; (3) Federal Property Resources Service; (4) real property relocation; (5) general management and administration; (6) Information Resources Management Service; (7) Office of Inspector General; (8) allowances and office staff for former Presidents; (9) expenses associated with presidential transition; and (10) National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. Makes funds deposited in the GSA Federal Buildings Fund available for specified expenses, but limits their availability for certain programs, construction projects, purchases, and repairs and alterations. Permits limits on new construction project costs to be exceeded by up to ten percent in proportion to savings effected in other projects. Terminates all funding for direct construction projects and for repairs and alteration prospectus projects on September 30, 1990. Requires advance congressional approval in connection with certain activities. Earmarks an amount of the GSA appropriation for personnel and associated costs in support of congressional district and Senate State offices. Limits fund transfers among GSA appropriations and among activities of the Federal Buildings Fund. Requires proposed transfers to be submitted to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees for approval. Authorizes the use of GSA funds to lease space in buildings on land owned by the United States. Directs the Administrator of General Services to take specific action in connection with: (1) site selection and design for a Social Security Administration facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; (2) property in Avondale, Maryland, used by the Department of the Interior; and (3) a lease-purchase agreement for a building to house the IRS Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Directs the GSA to construct under its lease-purchase authority a facility in Chamblee, Georgia, for the Centers for Disease Control. Prescribes conditions in connection with the project. Title V: General Provisions - Limits or prohibits the availability of appropriations made under this Act for various purposes, including the following: (1) travel expenses; (2) certain veterans' employment practices; (3) the purchase or sale of real estate to establish new offices, whether inside or outside the District of Columbia; (4) obligations beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly provided otherwise; (5) expenditures related to hand or measuring tools not produced in the United States; (6) consulting service procurement contracts; (7) certain building services functions previously performed by GSA employees; (8) administrative expenses in connection with the enforcement of laws governing alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising; (9) competitive procurement of electric utility service; (10) administrative expenses in closing the GSA Federal Information Center in Sacramento, California; (11) elimination of existing requirements for sureties on customs bonds; (12) any activity or the payment of any Government employee that would prohibit the enforcement of a specified provision of the 1930 Tariff Act; (13) transfer of control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, out of the Treasury Department; (14) publicity or propaganda within the United States not authorized by the Congress; (15) salaries of certain U.S. Postal Service employees; (16) procurement of passenger automobiles with fuel efficiency ratings below 22 MPG; (17) funding any abortion, unless the life of the mother is endangered; (18) expenditures in connection with stainless steel flatware not produced in the United States; (19) establishment on a permanent basis of any test or program of the port-of-arrival-immediate-release-and-enforcement determination program; (20) solicitation of bids or contracting with respect to executive seminar centers for the Office of Personnel Management; and (21) contracting out or downgrading the position classification of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. Directs the Administrator of General Services to use all funds authorized and appropriated before January 1, 1985, from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to evaluate and purchase materials to meet specified stockpile goals. Requires the obligation, not later than October 1, 1989, of a specified amount of previously-appropriated funds to upgrade technologically obsolete cobalt deposited in the National Defense Stockpile. Directs the Administrator of General Services to acquire space for the U.S. Courts at a specified site in Tacoma, Washington. Authorizes the availability of appropriations under this Act for Federal employee incentive awards. Authorizes higher pay to certain Federal employees and sets conditions for qualification. Designates the Federal building located at 400 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Florida, as the Charles E. Bennett Federal Building. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits per-vehicle expenditures for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles. Authorizes current fiscal year appropriations for travel expenses to be available also for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances. Prohibits funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being used to pay the salary of any Government officer or employee stationed in the continental United States unless the person meets specified qualifications. Cites exceptions and penalizes persons submitting false affidavits. Makes current year appropriations for: (1) agencies' management and operating expenses available also to pay GSA charges for space and services and for improvements expenses; and (2) administrative expenses of Government corporations available also to pay rent in the District of Columbia. Prohibits current year appropriations from being paid to a person for filling a position for which he or she has been nominated if the Senate has voted against the nomination. Authorizes the use of foreign credits for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current year, but only when the agency concerned reimburses the Treasury. Prohibits appropriations from being used for interagency financing of advisory bodies that do not have prior and specific statutory authorization to receive funding from more than one agency. Permits funds appropriated by this or any other Act to either the GSA or the Postal Service Fund to be used to employ security guards for Federal buildings and areas. Prohibits funds from being used: (1) for administrative expenses connected with the execution of contracts for certain purchase contract projects; (2) to implement any regulation that has been disapproved by a lawfully adopted resolution; (3) by any agency to pay to the GSA higher rental rates than those for the fiscal year of the appropriations; (4) to pay any prevailing rate employee, during specified periods, more than the current rates; or (5) to plan, implement, or administer certain reductions in service areas of the U.S. Customs Service or any consolidation or centralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of their offices. Prohibits funds in excess of $5,000 from being used to renovate, redecorate, or remodel the office of any active department or agency head, unless the Senate and House Appropriations Committees have approved in advance. Outlines conditions under which the Government will lease space to an individual or entity providing child care services during FY 1989 and later, including a requirement that at least 50 percent of those receiving services be Federal employees. Allows space to be provided without charge for rent or services. Permits the use of appropriations to pay travel to the United States for the immediate family of any Federal employee serving abroad in cases of death or life-threatening illnesses of the employee. Requires each executive agency detailing any personnel to report annually to the Appropriations Committees on armed services personnel included in any detail. Prohibits the use of funds to contract for the manufacture of distinctive paper for U.S. currency or securities or to procure foreign-produced paper for passports. Continues temporary authority for experimental programs under which unused accrued annual leave of Federal employees may be transferred to other Federal employees needing the leave because of personal emergencies. Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce certain employee non-disclosure agreements. Increases the pay for Federal employees and military personnel by four percent, effective January 1, 1989. Limits amounts appropriated to provide for this adjustment to 50 percent of the increase in total pay for FY 1989. Prohibits FY 1989 adjustments in elements of military compensation under specified provisions of Federal law. Sets limits on amounts of silver to be supported by the funds available to the Department of the Treasury during the final month of each of FY 1989 through 1991, decreasing the amount each year. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce the amount of silver to be sold upon the determination that the sale will severely disrupt the domestic market for silver. Prohibits Federal agencies from expending funds to procure any product or service that is subject to provisions of Federal law that grant to the GSA the authority to procure automatic data processing and telecommunications resources. Permits limited exceptions in accordance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1988
Postal Service Budgetary Treatment Act of 1988 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Postal Service Fund: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from Federal budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit. Makes the U.S. Postal Service an off-budget Federal entity.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1988
Designates the building located at 2400 Orange Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, known as the Cleveland Ohio General Mail Facility and Main Office as the John O. Holly Building of the United States Postal Service.
United States · United States Senate · 28 March 1988
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1988
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 regarding contributions by the United States Postal Service to the Employees Health Benefits Fund in FY 1988 and 1989 by removing provisions with respect to limitations, implementation plans, progress reports, and compliance.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1988
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 regarding contributions by the United States Postal Service to the Employees Health Benefits Fund in FY 1988 and 1989 by removing provisions with respect to limitations, implementation plans, progress reports and compliance.
United States · United States Senate · 16 February 1988
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1988
Postal Service Disadvantaged Business Procurement Act of 1988 - Establishes in the United States Postal Service an Office of Disadvantaged Business Utilization to implement the goals, objectives, and purposes of this Act. Provides for the Office to be headed by a Director of Disadvantaged Business Utilization (Director). Requires the Postmaster General, after consultation with the Director, to establish annual goals for the participation by disadvantaged business concerns in procurement contracts of the Postal Service. Requires goals for prime contract awards of not less than: (1) ten percent for disadvantaged business concerns owned and controlled by other than women; and (2) five percent for disadvantaged business concerns owned and controlled by women. Sets forth the procurement authorities of the Postal Service so that it can assure that a fair proportion of total purchases for contracts for property and services are placed with disadvantaged business concerns. Authorizes the Postal Service to set aside or reduce procurement requirements for such concerns. Authorizes the Postal Service to enter into single-source negotiations with disadvantaged business concerns for the award of any contract under specified circumstances. Requires such contracts to result in a cost to the Postal Service that is fair and reasonable and that does not exceed the estimated current fair market price of the work to be performed. Entitles a disadvantaged business concern, if the Postal Service withdraws a procurement requirement because the prices offered by the concern exceed the current fair market price: (1) to a written statement, upon its request, from the Postal Service on the method used to estimate the current fair market price; and (2) to protest the use of such method to the Director. Declares the Director's decision on the protest to be conclusive. Prohibits a procurement officer from precluding any disadvantaged business concern or group of concerns from being awarded a contract on any basis dealing with the responsibility of the offeror without referring the matter for a final disposition to the Director. Requires the Postal Service to provide for prompt and expeditious payments due to disadvantaged business concerns. Requires the Postal Service to require its prime contractors to ensure timely payments to such concerns. Requires a clause in all Postal Service contracts that states the policy of the Postal Service with respect to small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and that the contractor agrees with such policy. Exempts from such requirement any contract which: (1) does not exceed $10,000; (2) will be performed outside the United States (and all the subcontracts under such contract); or (3) is for personal services. Requires certain contracts which are awarded through other than the sealed bid method of procurement to contain a clause notifying potential offering companies of the provisions of this Act relating to such contracts. Requires the apparent successful offeror to negotiate with the procurement authority a subcontracting plan with specified contents before the Postal Service awards any contract, or any amendment or modification to any contract already let, which: (1) is to be awarded, or was let, through other than the sealed bid method of procurement; (2) is required to include the clause on Postal Service policy with respect to disadvantaged business concerns; (3) may exceed $1,000,000 in the case of a contract for the construction of a postal facility, or $500,000 in the case of all other contracts; and (4) offers subcontracting possibilities. Provides that if the apparent successful offeror fails to negotiate such subcontracting plan, then the offeror shall become ineligible to be awarded the contract. Prohibits the awarding of a contract to any offeror unless the procurement authority determines that the subcontracting plan provides the maximum practicable opportunity for disadvantaged business concerns to participate in the contract's performance. Authorizes the Postal Service to provide such incentives as may be deemed appropriate in order to encourage subcontracting opportunities for small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, except with respect to contracts let pursuant to other than the sealed bid method. Requires certain contracts to be awarded under the sealed bid method of procurement to contain a clause requiring the incorporation of a subcontracting plan. Makes the bidder selected to be awarded such contract ineligible if it fails to submit the subcontracting plan. Describes the subcontracting plan to be incorporated into contracts let under this Act with respect to providing opportunities for disadvantaged business concerns. Declares that the failure of any contractor or subcontractor to comply in good faith with the clause stating the policy of the Postal Service with respect to disadvantaged business concerns shall be a material breach of contract. Declares that any contract that does not contain a required subcontracting plan shall be considered void. Sets forth the duties of the Director with respect to subcontracting plans. Sets forth penalties for any person who makes or uses any document, writing or entry knowing it to be false for the purpose of obtaining a contract or subcontract let, or to be let, under this Act. Directs the Postal Service to establish annual goals specifically for funding agreements for research or research and development with disadvantaged business concerns. Authorizes each disadvantaged business concern to elect to retain title to any invention first conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of a funding agreement. Sets forth provisions to be included in each funding agreement with respect to the rights of contractors and the Postal Service to the title to any invention conceived under the agreement. Requires Postmaster General approval before the Postal Service can require the licensing to third parties of inventions owned by the contractor that were not conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement. Declares that with respect to any invention in which a disadvantaged business concern has acquired title under this Act, the Postal Service has the right to require the contractor, an assignee, or exclusive licensee of such invention, to grant a nonexclusive, partially exclusive, or exclusive license in any field of use to a responsible applicant upon terms that are reasonable under the circumstances, and if the contractor, assignee, or exclusive licensee refuses such request, to grant such a license itself. Requires the Postal Service to make a written determination that such action is necessary. Prohibits a disadvantaged business concern which receives title to any subject invention and an assignee of such concern from granting to any person the exclusive right to use or sell any subject invention in the United States unless such person agrees that any products embodying the subject invention, or produced through the use of such invention, will be manufactured substantially in the United States. Sets forth the circumstances under which such prohibition will be waived. Authorizes the Postal Service to withhold from public disclosure any invention in which it owns a right, title, or interest for a reasonable time in order for a patent application to be filed. Declares that the Postal Service shall not be required to release copies of any document which is part of a patent application. Directs the Postal Service to publicize notice of certain contracting opportunities in a manner to encourage the maximum practicable participation by disadvantaged business concerns. Authorizes the Postmaster General to exempt any purchase or class of purchases from such requirement if such exemption is determined to be in the public interest or if the notice would substantially impede a legitimate acquisition objective of the Postal Service. Directs the Postal Service to provide means whereby bidders and offerors may identify themselves as a disadvantaged business concern. Requires the Small Business Administration to make a final and binding decision on all disputes regarding the size status of a firm or its status as a socially and economically disadvantaged small business concern. Requires the Postal Service to report annually to specified congressional committees on its compliance with this Act. Requires a special report to such committees if the Postal Service fails to meet procurement goals established by the Director.