United States · Law · HR
H.R. 4775 (100th)
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1989
Introduced
9 June 1988
Last action
22 September 1988 · President
Status
Became Public Law No: 100-440.
Sponsors
Rep. Roybal, Edward R. [D-CA-25]
Subjects
Postal service
Source updated
14 January 2025
Summary
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.
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Timeline
18 February 1988
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
18 February 1988
Referred
Referred to Subcommittee on Treasury - Postal Service - General Government.
Source: Committee
18 February 1988
Introduced
Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
19 April 1988
Committee
Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
4 May 1988
Committee
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Source: Committee
4 May 1988
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
Source: Committee
2 June 1988
Reported
Ordered to be Reported.
Source: Committee
2 June 1988
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
9 June 1988
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
9 June 1988
Calendars
Placed on Union Calendar No: 401.
Source: Calendars
9 June 1988
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-679.
Source: Committee
9 June 1988
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-679.
Source: Committee
9 June 1988
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
10 June 1988
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.469 Reported to House.
Source: Floor
10 June 1988
Floor
Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving Clause 2 of Rule XXI Against Specified Provisions of the Bill; Waiving Certain Points of Order.
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Vote
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 301 - 96 (Record Vote No: 182).
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 301 - 96 (Record Vote No: 182).
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Floor
Separate Vote Demanded on Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Passed
House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Floor
Called up by House as Privileged Matter.
Source: Floor
14 June 1988
Passed
Rule Passed House.
Source: Floor
16 June 1988
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
16 June 1988
Introduced
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
17 June 1988
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 737.
Source: Calendars
17 June 1988
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator DeConcini with amendments. With written report No. 100-387.
Source: Committee
17 June 1988
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator DeConcini with amendments. With written report No. 100-387.
Source: Committee
22 June 1988
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
24 June 1988
Floor
Considered by Senate.
Source: Floor
27 June 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Stennis; DeConcini; Proxmire; Mikulski; Hatfield; Domenici; D'Amato.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
27 June 1988
Floor
Considered by Senate.
Source: Floor
27 June 1988
Vote
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 81-4. Record Vote No: 207.
Source: Floor
7 July 1988
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
2 August 1988
Passed
House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Roybal, Akaka, Hoyer, Coleman (TX), Boland, Yates, Whitten, Lowery (CA), Skeen, Wolf, Conte.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
2 August 1988
Passed
House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
2 August 1988
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: NotUsed
3 August 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
3 August 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
10 August 1988
Passed
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
10 August 1988
Passed
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 August 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Conference Report 100-881 Filed in House.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 August 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report filed: Conference Report 100-881 Filed in House.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
7 September 1988
NotUsed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 010, 011, 016, 031, 045, 046, 047, 062, 063, 071, 076, 085, 102.
Source: NotUsed
7 September 1988
ResolvingDifferences
House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 010, 011, 016, 031, 045, 046, 047, 062, 063, 071, 076, 085, 102.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
7 September 1988
Vote
House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 371 - 30 (Record Vote No: 292).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
7 September 1988
Vote
Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 371 - 30 (Record Vote No: 292).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
8 September 1988
ResolvingDifferences
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
8 September 1988
Passed
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendments nos. 2, 25, 35, 39, 41, 42, 44, 49, 53, 60, 68, 72, 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 88-93, 98, 100, 113, 116, 117, 121, 122, 138, 141-143, 145, 146, 149, and 152-154 by Voice Vote.
Source: NotUsed
8 September 1988
Passed
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
9 September 1988
Floor
Measure Signed in Senate.
Source: Floor
12 September 1988
Floor
Presented to President.
Source: Floor
12 September 1988
President
Presented to President.
Source: President
22 September 1988
Became law
Became Public Law No: 100-440.
Source: President
22 September 1988
Became law
Signed by President.
Source: BecameLaw
22 September 1988
President
Signed by President.
Source: President
Votes
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Public Law (PDF)
Public Law · EN · 23 September 1988
House receded and concurred with amendment
summary · EN · 7 September 1988
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Conference report filed in House
summary · EN · 12 August 1988
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Passed Senate amended
summary · EN · 27 June 1988
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Reported to Senate with amendment(s)
summary · EN · 17 June 1988
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Passed House amended
summary · EN · 14 June 1988
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Introduced in House
summary · EN · 9 June 1988
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Sponsors
- Rep. Roybal, Edward R. [D-CA-25] · D · Sponsor
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Related records
- related to → A resolution waiving certain points of order against consideration of the bill (H.R. 4775) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, and for other purposes.
- amends ← An amendment to exempt certain government employees, including members of Congress, from the 4 percent pay increase provisions of the bill.
- amends ← An amendment to delete provisions in the bill designating a building in Jacksonville, Florida as the "Charles E. Bennett Federal Building".
- amends ← An amendment to exempt certain government employees, including members of Congress, from the 4 percent pay increase provisions of the bill.
- amends ← An amendment to prohibit any funds appropriated in the bill from being distributed to any workplace that is not drug-free. The amendment requires applicants for funds to assure they have a policy to keep their workplace drug-free.
- amends ← To provide that Members of Congress shall vote on any increase in the rates of pay of Members of Congress.
- amends ← For the transfer of the operation and maintenance of the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant from the General Services Administration to the National Defense Stockpile Manager.
- amends ← Of technical nature.
- amends ← To apply the savings resulting from limitations on expenditures for consulting services to the increase in rates of pay for Federal employees.
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