Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1989

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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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 23 September 1988

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• 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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