Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991

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Introduced

11 July 1990

Last action

5 November 1990 · President

Status

Became Public Law No: 101-509.

Summary

Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991 - Title I: Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1991 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for FY 1991 for: (1) the Office of the Secretary; (2) the Office of the Inspector General; (3) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (4) the Financial Management Service; (5) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; (6) the U.S. Customs Service; (7) the U.S. Mint; (8) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (9) the Internal Revenue Service; and (10) the U.S. Secret Service. Prohibits funds appropriated under this title from being used for the collection of any underpayment of tax, unless collected under specified procedures. Requires the Financial Management Service to be fully reimbursed from the Social Security Trust Funds for the costs it incurs in the issuance of Social Security Trust Funds benefit payments. Requires such reimbursement for all other trust and special funds which are the recipients of service performed by the Service and which before enactment of this provision reimburse the General Fund of the Treasury for such services. Title II: Postal Service Appropriations Act, 1991 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1991. Title III: Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1991 - Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Executive Office of the President, for salaries and/or operating expenses of the following: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the executive residence at the White House; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the White House Office; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) the provision of special assistance to 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; (12) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (13) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and (14) unanticipated needs. Title IV: Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991 - Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for salaries and expenses of the following independent agencies: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; (4) the Federal Election Commission; and (5) the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay. Makes funds deposited in the Federal Buildings Fund available for specified purchases of the General Services Administration (GSA), limiting the availability of such funds for certain programs, construction projects, purchases, and repairs and alterations of GSA. Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for: (1) the Federal Supply Service; (2) general management and administration; (3) the Federal Property Resources Service; (4) real property relocation; (5) the Information Resources Management Service; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) allowances and office staff for former Presidents. Limits the amount of funds that may be transferred between appropriations within the GSA, requiring such proposed transfers to be submitted to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees for approval. Directs the GSA, if unable to correct health and safety problems at the IRS Manhattan District Office, to take such actions as necessary to accomplish the corrections and withhold amounts expended on such corrections from rental payments. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to GSA approximately 14 acres of the United States Geological Survey Western Region Headquarters. Requires GSA to construct additional facilities for the Survey on this site. Authorizes agencies to make rent payments to GSA for lease space relating to expansion needs at commercial equivalent rates specified under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Authorizes appropriations out of the Federal Buildings Fund. Requires the specific approval of the Congress before the obligation or expenditure of funds for the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, and lands in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, both administered by the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to sell the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse located in Boston, Massachusetts. Directs the Administrator to provide specified storage, office and public space in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the New England Regional Archives of the National Archives and of the National Archives and Records Administration. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services by persons employed to provide such services for Federal agencies. Directs the Administrator to coordinate its requirements for office and other space to house Government activities by utilizing assets of the Resolution Trust Corporation and its receivers and conservators. Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for the following purposes: (1) the National Archives and Records Administration; (2) the Office of Government Ethics; and (3) the Office of Personnel Management. Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the United States Tax Court, and the Office of Special Counsel. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made under this Act. Prohibits any of the funds made available under this Act from being used for any of the following: (1) for administrative expenses in closing the GSA Federal Information Center in Sacramento, California; (2) for the purpose of eliminating any existing requirements for sureties on customs bonds; (3) for the funding of any activity or the payment of any Government employee which would prohibit the enforcement of a specified provision of the 1930 Tariff Act; and (4) to transfer control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Georgia, Marana, Arizona, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department. Prohibits the use of any part of an appropriation made in this Act for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service who in any way interferes with another employee's ability to communicate with any member or committee of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment of such officers or employees with the Postal Service. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use of any funds appropriated under this Act to pay for an abortion, or to fund any Federal health plan which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being available to solicit bids or enter into any contracts to close or consolidate executive seminar centers for the Office of Personnel Management. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to acquire space for the United States Courts in Tacoma, Washington, at the site of Union Station in that city. Provides authority to establish pay rates for Federal employees during FY 1991. Prohibits the use of funds to contract out positions or downgrade the position classification of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the nondiscrimination rules for coverage and benefits under certain statutory employee benefit plans under the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the congressional committees on Appropriations on measures to reduce the expenditures incurred when former Presidents and their spouses travel for the purpose of speaking or making an appearance for a payment of money or any thing of value, in excess of any actual and necessary travel expenses. Authorizes the United States Secret Service to accept donations of money to offset costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and their spouses when traveling for the purpose of making an appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing of value. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act: (1) to impose or assess any tax due on the manufacture, production, or import or certain firearms, in cases where less than 50 of such items are manufactured, produced or imported per year; (2) to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry; or (3) to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico, postal facility. Requires the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate such facility. Grants the U.S. Secret Service additional arrest authority with respect to financial institutions. Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth certain requirements for and prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made by this Act. Prohibits any part of any funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being used to pay the salary of any officer or employee of the Government whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States; (3) is a person owing allegiance to the United States; (4) is a lawfully-admitted alien from Poland, Cuba, South Vietnam, or the Baltic countries; or (5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975. States exceptions and provides penalties for those persons submitting false affidavits under this provision. Prohibits funds from any appropriation in the current year from being paid to a person for filling a position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve such nomination. Authorizes the use of foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current year, only when the appropriate reimbursement is made to the Treasury from the agency concerned. Prohibits funds available pursuant to this Act from being available to implement any regulation which has been disapproved by a resolution duly adopted under the laws of the United States. Prohibits any funds made available under this Act from being used to plan, implement, or administer: (1) any reduction in the number of regions, districts, or entry processing locations of the U.S. Customs Service; or (2) any consolidation or centralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of any offices of such Service. Provides for a pay increase of 4.1 percent for Federal civilian employees for FY 1991. Sets forth the conditions under which Federal agencies may procure automatic data processing equipment other than through the procurement known as FTS2000. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any FY 1991 appropriations by any Federal agency or instrumentality unless it has in place and administers in good faith a drug-free workplace policy. Sets forth conditions for the use of Federal grant money to finance the acquisition of goods or services with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000. Authorizes the use of funds for the interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple government entities. Allows the use of funds by participants in the Federal Flexiplace Project to install telephone lines, necessary equipment, and pay monthly charges, in any private residence or apartment. Makes sick leave available to Federal employees for purposes relating to the adoption of a child. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services for Federal employees. Directs the Secretary of Education to release New College of California, Inc., from the requirement not to mortgage or encumber specified property to enable such College to secure financing for repairs due the earthquake activity of October 1989.

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Timeline

11 July 1990
Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 365.
Source: Calendars
11 July 1990
Reported
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 101-589, by Mr. Roybal.
Source: Committee
11 July 1990
Reported
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 101-589, by Mr. Roybal.
Source: Committee
11 July 1990
Floor
Mr. Skeen reserved all points of order against consideration of the bill.
Source: Floor
11 July 1990
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
12 July 1990
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 432 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5241. Waiving all points of order against certain specified provisions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments. Makes in order an amendment, printed in Sec. 2 of the rule, if offered by Mr. Traficant, and waives all points of order against the amenmdent for failure to comply with the provisions ofclause 2 of rule XXI
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
On motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
Mr. Roybal moved to resolve into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
Considered as privileged matter.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
Rule H. Res. 432 passed House.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Vote
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 300 - 72 (Roll no. 233).
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 300 - 72 (Roll no. 233).
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5241.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
On motion to rise and report Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
Mr. Roybal moved for the Committee of the Whole to rise and report.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
Mr. Rostenkowski raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Rostenkowski stated that Section 524 of the bill contains subject matter which is clearly tax related and as such is within the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee. The Chair sustained the point of order.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Floor
The Speaker designated the Honorable Gerry E. Studds to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Source: Floor
13 July 1990
Passed
Pending the foregoing motion, Mr. Roybal asked unanimous consent that the time for general debate be limited to not to exceed one hour, equally divided between himself and Mr. Skeen. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
16 July 1990
Introduced
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
31 July 1990
Committee
Subcommittee on Treasury, U.S. Postal Service. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
1 August 1990
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 757.
Source: Calendars
1 August 1990
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
1 August 1990
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator DeConcini with amendments. With written report No. 101-411.
Source: Committee
10 September 1990
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
11 September 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees DeConcini; Mikulski; Kerrey; Byrd; Domenici; D'Amato; Hatfield.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
11 September 1990
Vote
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 93-6. Record Vote No: 231.
Source: Floor
11 September 1990
Floor
Considered by Senate.
Source: Floor
11 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Senators Glenn; Pryor; Roth; Stevens removed as conferees by unanimous consent.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 October 1990
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 October 1990
Floor
By unanimous consent, the Speaker reserved the right to make further appointments.
Source: Floor
12 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
The chair appointed conferees: Roybal, Hoyer, Alexander, Early, Sabo, Dixon, Whitten, Skeen, Lowery (CA), Wolf, and Conte.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 October 1990
Passed
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
12 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Roybal asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
17 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
17 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
19 October 1990
Passed
Mr. Bevill asked unanimous consent that managers on the part of the House have until midnight on Oct. 19 to file a conference report on H.R. 5241. Agreed to without objection.
Source: Committee
20 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report H. Rept. 101-906 filed with 52 amendments in disagreement.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
20 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 101-906 filed with 52 amendments in disagreement.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
21 October 1990
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 516 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 5241.
Source: Floor
22 October 1990
Passed
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Passed
On motion that the House recede and concur in the Senate amendments Nos. 1, 16, 20, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 51, 53, 59, 90, and 103 Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House recede and concur in the Senate amendments Nos. 1, 16, 20, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 51, 53, 59, 90, and 103 Agreed to without objection.
Source: NotUsed
22 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Roybal moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 3.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Roybal moved that the House recede and concur in the Senate amendments en bloc.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Passed
Mr. Roybal asked unanimous consent to consider enbloc the Senate amendments Nos. 1, 16, 20, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 51, 53, 59, 90 and 103. Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Vote
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 343 - 67 (Roll no. 505).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Vote
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 343 - 67 (Roll no. 505).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Floor
DEBATE - Pursuant to H. Res. 516, the House proceeded with one hour of debate.
Source: Floor
22 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Roybal brought up conference report H.Rept. 101-906 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 516.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 October 1990
Passed
Rule H. Res. 516 passed House.
Source: Floor
23 October 1990
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
23 October 1990
Passed
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendment nos.3, 6, 14, 18, 27, 29, 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52, 54, 56, 57, 69, 70, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 105, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 122, 127, 128, 130, 131, and 134 by Voice Vote.
Source: NotUsed
23 October 1990
Passed
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
23 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 October 1990
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
24 October 1990
Passed
On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment No. 132 Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 October 1990
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 October 1990
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment No. 132 Agreed to without objection.
Source: NotUsed
24 October 1990
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Roybal moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment No. 132.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 November 1990
Floor
Presented to President.
Source: Floor
5 November 1990
President
Presented to President.
Source: President
5 November 1990
Floor
Measure Signed in Senate.
Source: Floor
5 November 1990
Became law
Became Public Law No: 101-509.
Source: President
5 November 1990
Became law
Signed by President.
Source: BecameLaw
5 November 1990
President
Signed by President.
Source: President

Votes

11 September 1990 · Bill Passed · On Passage of the Bill H.R. 5241 · Bill Passed · Official source

Yes 93 · No 6 · Abstain — · Absent/not voting 1

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