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294 ingested laws from United States in 1988. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Designates January 4, 1989, as National Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service Centennial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to revoke the exemption from classification as a banned toy for use by children granted for lawn darts and other similar sharp-pointed toys, unless the Commission finds that such products do not have the potential for causing puncture wound injury.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Provides for the counting of electoral votes on January 4, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 - Title I: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communcation Disorders and Health Research Extension Act of 1988 - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and Health Research Extension Act of 1988 - Subtitle A: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (Institute) as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Removes communicative disorders from the title and purpose of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. Requires the Director of the Institute, with the advice of the Institute's advisory council, to establish a National Deafness and Other Communications Disorders Program (Program). Requires the Director to prepare and transmit to the Director of NIH a plan to initiate, expand, intensify, and coordinate activities of the Institute respecting disorders of hearing, balance, voice, speech, language, taste, and smell. Describes the minimum activities of the Program. Requires the Director to establish a National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Data System for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of data and a National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse. Requires the Director, after consultation with the advisory council, to provide for the development, modernization, and operation of new and existing centers for studies of disorders of hearing and other communication processes. Sets forth requirements for the centers, including conducting research and training programs and information and continuing education programs for health professionals, and public information programs. Authorizes centers to provide stipends for health professionals in their training programs. Describes other programs the centers may undertake. Requires the Director to provide for an equitable geographical distribution of centers and to give appropriate consideration to the need for centers for the elderly and for children. Limits support of a center to seven years, with one or more additional periods of not more than five years, if recommended by a peer review group established by the Director, with the advice of the advisory council. Subtitle B: Biotechnology Information - Amends part D (National Library of Medicine) of title IV of the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Biotechnology Information to focus and expand the collection, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of the results of biotechnology research by information systems and to support the development of new information technologies regarding the molecular processes that control health and disease. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990. Subtitle C: National Institutes of Health - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish scientific program advisory committees without regard to Federal law governing appointments in the competitive service, classification, and pay rates. Adds to the list of elements mandated for inclusion in the biennial report to the President and the Congress regarding the NIH a requirement of a description of the health related behavioral research supported by the NIH in the preceding two-year period and a description of any plans for future activity in such area. Subtitle D: General Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes - Revises provisions relating to the authority of the directors of the national research institutes to: (1) establish technical and scientific peer review groups and appoint their members; and (2) publish information with respect to the purpose of the Institute without regard to provisions of Federal law requiring all Government printing to be done by the Government Printing Office. Declares that the ex officio members of each national research institute's advisory council shall be nonvoting members. Changes the makeup of: (1) the advisory councils which the Secretary must appoint for each research institute; and (2) the National Cancer Advisory Board. Authorizes appropriations for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for FY 1989 and 1990. Requires, for FY 1989 and subsequent fiscal years, that amounts available to the NIH be available for payment of nurses and allied health professionals in accordance with authorities provided, under specified provisions of Federal law, for nurses of the Veterans' Administration. Subtitle E: National Cancer Institute - Amends provisions stating the purpose of the National Cancer Institute to include rehabilitation from cancer. Makes miscellaneous changes to the special authorities of the Director of the National Cancer Institute relating to the provision of information to the public, patients, and physicians, incorporation of state-of-the-art cancer treatments into clinical practice, maintenance and operation of the International Cancer Research Data Bank, and the services of experts or consultants. Amends provisions relating to grants for cancer research and demonstration centers to add control of cancer as one of their purposes. Subtitle F: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - Requires the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to place special emphasis on collaborative efforts with both the public and private sectors to: (1) increase awareness and knowledge regarding prevention of heart and blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases and the utilization of blood resources; and (2) develop and disseminate information designed to encourage adults and children to adopt healthful habits concerning the prevention of such diseases. Authorizes the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources Program to establish certain types of programs involving rehabilitation from such diseases. Requires consultation with (currently approval of) the Institute's advisory council before the Director may obtain the services of experts or consultants. Authorizes the national research and demonstration centers for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases, sickle cell anemia, and blood resources to engage in rehabilitation activities. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Interagency Technical Committee on Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources. Subtitle G: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - Removes a provision requiring that the National Diabetes Advisory Board, the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board, and the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board expire on September 30, 1988. Subtitle H: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases - Adds skin diseases to the provisions dealing with the plan and activities of the national arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases program. Adds rehabilitation to the responsibilities of multipurpose arthritis and musculoskeletal disease centers. Subtitle I: National Institute on Aging - Requires the Director of the National Institute on Aging to enter into cooperative agreements and to make grants for the development or expansion of centers of excellence in geriatric research and training of researchers. Transfers to the Public Health Service Act specified provisions of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act of 1986 relating to the National Institute on Aging. Subtitle J: National Library of Medicine - Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts under specified provisions relating to the National Library of Medicine for FY 1989 and 1990. Increases the limit on the amount of grants for establishing, expanding, and improving the basic resources of medical libraries and related instrumentalities. Subtitle K: Awards and Training - Authorizes appropriations for payments under National Research Service Awards and under grants for such awards for FY 1989 and 1990. Subtitle L: Fetal Research Moratorium - Sets at 24 months after enactment of this Act the termination of the moratorium on the Secretary's authority to grant, under specified Federal regulations, a modification or waiver for fetal research. Extends the repeal of this provision to October 31, 1990. Authorizes appropriations for the Biomedical Ethics Board and the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee for FY 1989 and 1990. Changes the due date for a report by the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee regarding the nature, advisability, and biomedical and ethical implications of exercising any waiver of the risk standard in specified Federal regulations to 24 months after enactment of this Act. Subtitle M: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to conduct a study of thyroid morbidity of the population in the vicinity of Hanford, Washington, during the years 1944 through 1957. Requires the Director to establish a peer review committee to make, along with the CDC, determinations as to the conduct of the study. Allows the Director to contract out any portion of the study, except that the contractor may not have any direct or indirect interest in the outcome of the study, including current or former contracts with the Department of Energy which represent a conflict of interest or the appearance of such conflict. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research to conduct a study and develop a long range plan for the use and organization of national resources to deal with sleep disorders research and medicine. Sets forth reporting requirements. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of its final report. Empowers the Secretary to authorize persons engaged in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, or other research to protect the privacy of individuals who are the subject of the research by withholding identifying information about such individuals. (Current law empowers the Secretary to so authorize persons engaged in mental health research, including research involving alcohol and other psychoactive drugs.) Title II: Programs with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - AIDS Amendments of 1988 - Subtitle A: Research Programs - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on research with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, not later than December 1 of each year, to submit to the Congress a report on expenditures by the Secretary with respect to AIDS. Specifies information to be included. Directs the Secretary to expedite the award of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for research projects relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Provides for time limitations for submission of and final action on applications submitted in response to a solicitation by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary to adjust the limitations. Requires annual and, for FY 1989, quarterly reports regarding time limitations and processing of applications. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) or the Administrator of General Services to respond within 21 days to any request for the allocation of personnel or for administrative support to carry out activities with respect to AIDS (priority requests) made by the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, or the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Requires such requestors to transmit a copy of each priority request to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), to establish the AIDS Clinical Research Review Committee to: (1) advise the Director on research; and (2) review research, issue reports, conduct studies, and convene meetings regarding clinical treatment. Directs the Secretary, through the Directors of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the NIAID, to establish in each Institute a clinical evaluation unit. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, if the Secretary determines that there is preliminary evidence that a new drug has effectiveness in humans with respect to the prevention or treatment of AIDS, to encourage an application for an exemption for investigational use of the new drug under regulations issued under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Requires the AIDS Clinical Research Review Committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to new drugs appropriate for such a determination. Directs the Secretary, in the case of a drug for which such an exemption is in effect to encourage licensed medical practitioners to use the drug in the treatment of individuals who are infected with the etiologic agent and who are not participating in the clinical trials under the exemption. Authorizes the Director of the NIH, through the NIAID, to make grants and enter into contracts for planning and conducting, in the community involved, of clinical trials of experimental treatments for infection with the etiologic agent that are approved by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for investigational use. Requires such community-based clinical trials to: (1) include specified types of activities; (2) be approved by the Commissioner, an Institutional Review Board, and the Director of the NIAID; and (3) be designed to encourage participation by and support from private industry and schools of medicine. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to establish a program for the evaluation of drugs which are not approved by the Commissioner for AIDS treatment and which are being used by individuals infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements for the purpose of conducting the drug evaluations. Includes as eligible for the grants, contracts, and agreements nonprofit private organizations established for the purpose of evaluating AIDS treatments and consisting primarily of individuals infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Directs the Secretary to establish scientific and ethical guidelines for the evaluations. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with international organizations concerned with public health: (1) through the Director of the NIH, for international research on vaccines and treatment; and (2) through the Director of the CDC, to support projects for training individuals in skills and technical expertise and to support epidemiological research. Authorizes the provision of technical assistance for foreign governments. Requires support provided by the Secretary to be in furtherance of the World Health Organization's Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of NIAID, to make grants and enter into contracts for centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Prohibits the grants and contracts from being used to provide training for which National Research Service Awards may be provided. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and operate a program with respect to information on research, treatment, and prevention activities relating to infection with the etiologic agent; (2) provide for toll-free telephone communcations to provide information with respect to AIDS to health care professionals, allied health care providers, and professionals providing emergency health services; (3) establish a data bank of information on the results of AIDS research; and (4) establish a data bank of information on clinical trials and treatments with respect to infection with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for projects to develop model protocols for the clinical care of individuals infected with the etiologic agent. Requires that a grantee either be a provider of comprehensive primary care or agree to enter into a cooperative arrangement with such an entity. Prohibits a grantee who routinely imposes a charge for services under the grant from imposing the charge on an individual who is unable to pay the charge. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to establish a program of research and education regarding blood donations and transfusions. Requires the education programs to be directed at health professionals, patients, and the community. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, directly or through cooperative agreements and contracts, using representative sampling and other methods, to provide for the continuous collection of data on the U.S. incidence of AIDS and of infection with the etiologic agent. Directs the Secretary to encourage each State to enter into a cooperative agreement or contract with the Secretary. Requires publication of the data collected at least once a year. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to develop an epidemiological data base and provide for long-term studies. Authorizes grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. Authorizes grants for long-term research into treatments for AIDS developed from knowledge of the genetic nature of the etiologic agent for AIDS. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants for scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences relate to AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to establish fellowship and training programs to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, and laboratory analysis relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to conduct or support fellowship and training programs to train individuals at the graduate or postgraduate level to conduct scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences relate to AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the NIH, to: (1) establish and provide administrative and support services to an Office of AIDS Research, to be headed by a Director appointed by the Director of the NIH; (2) coordinate activities relating to AIDS conducted by the national research institutes and the agencies of the NIH; and (3) develop and expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for infection with the etiologic agent for AIDS, including for women, infants, children, hemopheliacs, and minorities. Authorizes the Director to: (1) establish or support efforts using specialized biological materials; (2) support research and training outside the United States; (3) encourage and coordinate research by industrial concerns; (4) acquire and maintain real and personal property; (5) make grants for the construction or renovation of facilities; (6) acquire buildings in or around the District of Columbia; and (7) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements as necessary to expedite and coordinate research. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires the Director of the NIH to establish projects to promote cooperation in research. Defines "infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome," for the purposes of the new title added by this title, to include any condition arising from infection with the etiologic agent for such syndrome. Mandates specified minimum numbers of additional personnel for the Public Health Service, subject to appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act regarding the allocation of such personnel among the agencies of the Public Health Service. Repeals these provisions effective October 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to conduct a study of AIDS mortality rates among various groups, among geographic areas, and among individuals with varying financial resources for the payment of health care services. Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences and other similar institutions to report regarding the establishment of consortia for research and development. Sets forth reporting requirements. Subtitle B: Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on health services with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each of the FY 1989 and 1990, to make an allotment for each State. Defines "eligible individual" as an individual infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS who either is medically dependent or chronically dependent. Requires that a State agree that, in using payments under the allotment, it will: (1) provide for home and community-based health services for eligible individuals under written plans; (2) provide for outreach to eligible individuals; (3) provide for coordinating similar services by public and private entities; and (4) give priority to outreach and services to eligible individuals with low incomes. Authorizes a State to provide such services through grants to public and nonprofit private entities and through contracts with public and private entities, giving priority to public and nonprofit private entities with experience delivering such services to individuals with the etiologic agent. Requires that States submit a description of the intended uses of a grant. Sets forth restrictions on the use of a grant, including limiting payments for a fiscal year to a State to not more than 65 percent of the national average payment for extended care services under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires States to provide for a financial and compliance audit. Requires that the reports and audits be available for public inspection. Directs the U.S. Comptroller General, from time to time, to evaluate the expenditures by the States. Requires that a State agree that: (1) its legislature will conduct public hearings on the proposed use and distribution of the payments; (2) if charges are imposed for the home and community-based services, the charges will be set forth in a public schedule, they will not be imposed on individuals with incomes below the official poverty line, and the charges will be adjusted to reflect to income of individuals with incomes above the poverty line; (3) the State will provide for periodic independent peer review of the services provided; (4) the State will cooperate with Federal investigations under provisions of this Act; (5) the State will expend for such services for persons infected with the etiologic agent not less than the average level of such expenditures for the previous two years; and (6) the State will not make payments from allotments for any item or service covered by another source. Sets forth a formula for determination of the amount of allotments. Provides for repayment or withholding of payments for failure to comply with agreements. Directs the Secretary to conduct investigations of compliance. Provides for criminal penalties for certain false statements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide to a State: (1) technical assistance without charge; and (2) supplies and services in lieu of grant funds. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990. Repeals provisions of this Act relating to grants from allotments to States for home and community-based health services, effective with respect to appropriations made for any period after fiscal year 1990. Defines "patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus" as persons who have or are recovering from a disease attributable to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), resulting in a need for subacute-care services. Directs the Secretary to conduct three demonstration projects to determine the effectiveness and cost of providing subacute-care services to patients infected with HIV, and the impact of the services on the health status of the patients. Requires subacute-care services to be designed to meet the specific needs of the patients, including: (1) care and treatment by providing subacute care, emergency medical care and specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services, and case management services; and (2) technical assistance directed towards education and training of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals. Requires the demonstration projects to be conducted during a four-year period beginning not later than nine months after enactment of this provision at geographically diverse sites that have the highest incidence of AIDS and the greatest need for subacute-care services. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires each demonstration project to provide for other research to be carried out at the site of the project, including clinical research on AIDS, concentrating on the neurological manifestations resulting from HIV infection, and the study of the psychological and mental health issues related to AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to ensure the furnishing, through demonstration projects, of services to eligible veterans under specified provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to provide opportunities for individuals to undergo counseling and testing with regard to the etiologic agent: (1) without being required to provide identification; and (2) through the use of a pseudonym. Requires grantees to provide counseling which includes coverage of specified points before testing, after a negative test result, and after a positive test result. Requires grantees, where appropriate, to provide opportunities for women, children, hemophiliacs, and emergency response employees to undergo counseling under conditions appropriate to their needs. Allows grantees to use the grant to provide counseling without testing. Requires all individuals receiving counseling under these provisions to be counseled about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such activities. Prohibits funds from being used to provide counseling that is designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous drug abuse, but declares that this may not be construed to prohibit a counselor from providing accurate information about means to reduce an individual's risk of exposure to, or the transmission of, the etiologic agent, provided any informational materials used are not obscene. Authorizes appropriations for such counseling and testing grants to States for FY 1989 and 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for demonstration projects for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to provide counseling and mental health treatment for individuals with a positive test result, and for their families and others, who experience serious psychological reactions. Mandates that the counseling include counseling relating to prevention of exposure to, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent. Allows the grants to be used to train individuals to provide the counseling and mental health treatment. Directs the Secretary, subject to appropriations, to make a minimum of six grants for FY 1989. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to provide technical assistance and administrative support to grantees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subtitle C: Prevention - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Requires all programs of education and information receiving funds under this title to include information about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such activities. Prohibits funds from being used to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse, but declares that this may not be construed to restrict the ability of an education program to provide accurate information about various means to reduce an individual's risk of exposure to, or the transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS, provided any informational materials used are not obscene. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each of the FY 1989 through 1991, to make an allotment for each State to: (1) develop, establish, and conduct public information activities relating to prevention and diagnosis for those populations or communities at risk; (2) develop, establish, and conduct public information activities for the general public relating to prevention and diagnosis; (3) develop, establish, and conduct risk reduction activities, including prevention research; (4) conduct demonstration projects for prevention; (5) provide technical assistance to public and nonprofit private entities, schools, and employers in the development of information programs; (6) conduct education and training programs, relating to prevention, for health professionals, including allied health professionals, public safety workers, including emergency response employees, teachers, school administrators, and other education personnel; (7) conduct education programs for school-aged children, after consulting with the local school board; (8) make information available to physicians and dentists, updated at least annually, including measures for the prevention of exposure to, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent; (9) carry out the initial implementation of the guidelines and model curriculum developed under specified provisions of this Act; and (10) make grants for education programs directed toward individuals at increased risk and risk reduction activities. Requires States to: (1) submit to the Secretary a description of the intended uses of the payments; and (2) make that description open to public comment. Sets forth: (1) restrictions on the uses of the payments; (2) reporting and auditing requirements; and (3) a requirement of evaluations by the U.S. Comptroller General. Sets forth additional required agreements by the State, including that: (1) information provided will be scientifically accurate and factually correct; (2) in a State with a substantial number of intravenous substance abusers, the State will place priority on activities directed at them; (3) in a State with a significant incidence of AIDS, the State will expend specified percentages for grants and contracts, with specified subportions of that going to entities located in and representative of communities and subpopulations reflecting the local incidence of AIDS: (4) programs under grants will contain material and be presented in a manner specifically directed toward the intended group, and be planned in consultation with local officials and organizations comprised of and representing the specific population to which the effort is directed; and (5) the State will maintain expenditures at a level not less than the average for the preceding two-year period. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of allotments. Provides for: (1) measures to be taken if a State fails to comply with agreements; and (2) criminal penalties for certain false statements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to the States and to provide, on request of a State, supplies and services in lieu of grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to annually prepare a comprehensive plan, including a budget, for a National Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Information Program. States that the authority of the Director to carry out the Program and the plan is not the exclusive authority for the Director to carry out information activities regarding AIDS. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to establish a clearinghouse to make information on AIDS available to Federal agencies, States, public and private entities, and the general public. Allows the clearinghouse to: (1) develop and obtain educational materials, model curricula, and methods regarding reducing the transmission of the etiologic agent; (2) provide instruction and support for individuals who provide instruction regarding prevention of AIDS; and (3) conduct evaluations of such materials, curricula, and methods. Directs the Secretary to provide for toll-free, 24-hour telephone communications to provide AIDS information to the public. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the CDC, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities and directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with public and private entities for the development and dissemination of public service announcements and paid advertising messages that warn individuals about activities which place them at risk of becoming infected with the etiologic agent. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities, migrant health centers, and community health centers to assist in providing information on AIDS to underserved populations, giving preference to applicants who have the ability to disseminate the information rapidly. Authorizes appropriations for specified information programs for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, from amounts appropriated, to make specified sums available for assistance to minority entities for provision of services to minority populations. Subtitle D: National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Act - Establishes the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome to: (1) promote the development of a national consensus on policy concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); and (2) study and make recommendations for a consistent national policy concerning AIDS. Declares that the Commission shall succeed the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic. Requires the Commission to: (1) monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the Presidential Commission; (2) evaluate the financing of health care and research needs relating to AIDS; (3) evaluate Federal adequacy of the dissemination of information on AIDS; (4) address behavioral changes needed to combat AIDS; (5) evaluate Federal and State laws on civil rights relating to AIDS; (6) evaluate the adequacy and capability of the Federal Government to make and implement policy concerning AIDS (and possibly other known and unknown diseases in the future), including research and treatment, availablity of clinical trials, education and the financing thereof, and including specifically the streamlining of rules, regulations, and administrative procedures; and (7) evaluate international coordination and cooperation concerning AIDS. Requires the Commission to file with the President and the appropriate committees of the Congress, an interim report one year and a final report two years after the Commission is fully constituted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and in subsequent fiscal years as necessary. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of its final report. Authorizes the President to extend the life of the Commission for not more than two years. Subtitle E: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Office of Minority Health, to conduct a study of the level of knowledge within minority communities concerning AIDS and the effectiveness of Federal, State, and local AIDS prevention programs. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to establish an office to ensure that the Secretary develops and implements AIDS prevention programs targeted at minority populations and provides appropriate technical assistance. Directs the Secretary, not later than 90 days after enactment of this title, through the Director of the CDC, to develop and disseminate emergency guidelines to all health workers and public safety workers, including emergency response employees (EREs), concerning reduction of the risk in the workplace of becoming infected with the etiologic agent. Directs the Secretary to transmit the guidelines to the Secretary of Labor for use in standards issued under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, not later than 90 days after enactment of this title, through the Director of the CDC, to develop a model curriculum for EREs with respect to the prevention of exposure to the etiologic agent during the process of responding to emergencies. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to assist in developing the model curriculum. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit organizations composed of, or representing, health care providers for training such providers in infection control procedures to reduce the transmission of the etiologic agent for AIDS and in the provision of care and treatment to individuals with AIDS or related illnesses. Limits the grants to entities which will provide services in a geographic area or to a population not served by a substantially similar program. Requires non-Federal matching contributions in a specified ratio, in cash or in kind. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to public and nonprofit private entities carrying out programs, projects, and activities relating to AIDS. Amends the Public Health Service Act to add the Administrator of Health Resources and Services to the list of individuals with whom the Secretary must consult before determining that a public health emergency exists. Authorizes appropriations sufficient to increase by 50 percent the amount of the standard level to be in the Public Health Emergency Fund at the beginning of each fiscal year. Prohibits funds provided under this Act from being used to provide individuals with hypodermic needles or syringes so that they may use illegal drugs, unless the Surgeon General determines that a demonstration needle exchange program would be effective in reducing drug abuse and the risk that the public will become infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Requires the Congressional Biomedical Ethics Board to report to the Congress on the ethical issues connected with the administration of nutrition and hydration to dying patients. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the laws and policies of the States relating to: (1) confidentiality and disclosure of information with respect to records of the counseling and testing of individuals regarding the etiologic agent; and (2) discrimination against individuals infected with or regarded as being infected with the etiologic agent. Sets forth reporting requirements. Title III: Preventive Health, Health Services, and Health Promotion - Subtitle A: Preventive Health and Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for preventive health and health services block grants. Amends provisions specifying the uses for such grants to include grants related to elevated serum cholesterol, chronic diseases, immunization services, communications equipment for emergency medical services systems, and uterine and breast cancer. Requires that the annual application mandated by current law include a statement of the public health objectives expected to be achieved through the use of the payments. Specifies additional information and evaluations which must be included in the annual report mandated by current law. Allows grants for demonstration projects for emergency medical services for children to be for not more than a two-year period, subject to annual evaluation by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Current law limits such grants to a one-year period and makes no reference to an evaluation.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants to States with regard to: (1) health information and health promotion; and (2) identification of needs for block grants relating to preventive health and health services. Subtitle B: Programs with Respect to Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Information, and Health Promotion - Revises provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to grants concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome and sexually transmitted diseases. Authorizes appropriations for sexually transmitted disease projects and programs for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 to carry out the provisions of title XVII (Health Information and Health Promotion) of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, not later than 18 months after enactment of this Act, to develop model programs through which employers in the public sector and employers that are small businesses can provide for their employees a program to promote healthful behaviors and discourage unhealthful behaviors. Directs the Secretary to provide related technical assistance. Title IV: Organ Transplant Amendments of 1988 - Organ Transplant Amendments Act of 1988 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants under existing provisions for consolidation as well as for establishment, initial operation, and expansion of organ procurement organizations. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for special projects designed to increase the number of organ donors. Directs the Secretary, in making grants for planning, consolidation, establishment, initial operation, or expansion of such organizations, to give special consideration to proposals from existing organ procurement organizations. Prohibits certain grants for such organizations and projects from exceeding a specified amount in a year. Revises organ procurement organization provisions concerning organ procurement and distribution. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Requires that the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: (1) establish membership criteria and medical criteria for allocating organs and provide a periodic opportunity for public comment on the criteria; (2) assist organ procurement organizations in the distribution of organs (current provisions require the Network to assist procurement organizations in the distribution of organs which cannot be placed within the service areas of the organizations); (3) in addition to the existing requirement to adopt and use standards of quality for the acquisition and transportation of donated organs, adopt and use standards for preventing the acquisition of organs that are infected with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome; (4) prepare and distribute samples of blood sera from potential recipients on, as practicable, a national and a regional basis; and (5) carry out studies and demonstration projects regarding organ procurement and allocation procedures. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for considering comments received from interested persons relating to how the Network is carrying out its duties. Directs the Secretary to establish, by grant or contract, a registry of voluntary bone marrow donors. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990. Requires the Secretary to maintain an identifiable administrative unit in the Public Health Service regarding organ procurement through FY 1990. (Current provisions require such a unit through FY 1988.) Revises specified reporting requirements. Revises the definition of "human organ" as it applies to provisions prohibiting organ purchases to declare that the term includes specified human organs and any other human organ, or any subpart thereof, including that derived from a fetus, specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services by regulation. Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to establish an Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Block Grant program to provide drugs to patients for the prevention of rejection of transplanted organs and tissues. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Provides formulae for the allotment of appropriated funds to the States. Establishes a minimum allotment of $50,000 for each State. Authorizes, in the event a State does not submit an allotment application or notifies the Secretary of Health and Human Services that it does not intend to use the full amount of the allotment, an organ transplant center in the State to apply for the amount of the allotment not allocated to the State. Enumerates the purposes for which the States may use such allotments. Details the application procedures and grant requirements. Terminates the provisions of this Act regarding immunosuppressive drug therapy block grants on January 1, 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the impact of this Act. Title V: Food and Drug Administration - Food and Drug Administration Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish by law the Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services and to require that the appointment of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs be subject to Senate confirmation. Title VI: Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988 - Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988 - Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to set ceilings for FY 1989 through 1991 on the total principal amount of new loans made and installments paid to borrowers covered by Federal loan insurance. Provides that if, in any fiscal year, no ceiling has been established, any difference carried over shall constitute the ceiling for making new loans and paying installments for such fiscal year. Extends from September 30, 1991, to September 30, 1994, the cutoff date for the making of new loans. Requires that the total principal amount of Federal loan insurance available be granted without regard to any apportionment or other similar limitation. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in providing loan insurance certificates, to give priority to lenders that agree to make loans at interest rates below the prevailing rates or otherwise under terms more favorable to the student than the terms generally available. Requires interest on federally insured student loans under title VII to be compounded not more frequently than semiannually. (Current law requires the interest to be compounded semiannually.) Prohibits provisions relating to the eligibility of student borrowers from being construed to limit the authority of any school to make allowances for students with special circumstances. Allows a lender to assign its insurance rights to a public entity in the business of purchasing student loans. Declares that lenders as well as holders are required to exercise reasonable care in the making of loans and substantial effort in collection. Requires a lender, subject to exception, to prosecute an action for default. Authorizes the Secretary to sell without recourse notes or other evidence of loans received through assignment after coverage by the Secretary of a default. Directs the Secretary to make or deny payment within 60 days of notification of entry of judgment. Authorizes the Secretary to establish limits for default rates in each of the health professions and, if the eligible institutions within any of the professions, taken as a group, exceed the limits, suspend, terminate, or restrict the eligibility of the group for borrowing under specified provisions. Allows any borrower who received a loan insured under specified provisions bearing an interest rate that is fixed in excess of 12 percent to: (1) enter into an agreement with the lender that made the loan for the reissuance of the loan in order to permit the borrower to obtain the interest rate in effect on the date of application for reissuance; and (2) obtain a loan from a new eligible lender, for the purpose of discharging the loan from the original lender, at the interest rate in effect on the date of application for the new loan. Allows the lender to charge the borrower a limited fee to cover administrative costs. Requires holders of loans to notify borrowers of these reissuance and refinancing options. Defines "eligible lender" to include the Student Loan Marketing Association. Declares that provisions dealing with standards regarding loan collection may not be construed to require schools to reimburse the student loan fund for loans that became uncollectable prior to August 1985 or to penalize the schools with respect to such loans. Reduces the required interest rate on the loans from nine percent to five percent. Adds to the list of periods excluded from the ten-year repayment period any time during which the borrower is pursuing a full-time course of study at certain types of schools. Requires a capital distribution if a school terminates a loan fund. (Current law requires a capital distribution between September 30, 1991, and December 31, 1991.) Directs the Secretary to establish a program in which allied health personnel and allied health professions students would agree, in consideration of payment by the Federal Government of portions of the principal and interest of educational loans, to serve as an allied health professional in specified agencies or settings for not less than two years. Specifies the percentages to be paid for each of three years of service. Makes provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program apply to this program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Amends provisions relating to scholarships for students of exceptional financial need to remove requirements that the students be in their first year of study. Allows the scholarships to include a monthly stipend not in excess of a specified amount. (Current law requires such a stipend at the amount specified as a maximum in this Act.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes appropriations for capitation grants for schools of public health for FY 1989 through 1990. Repeals provisions of the Public Health Service Act dealing with capitation grants for such schools, effective October 1, 1990. Authorizes appropriations for project grants to establish, maintain, or improve departments of family medicine for FY 1989 through 1991. Reduces from six to four the number of individuals who must be enrolled in first-year positions in internship or medical residency training programs in area health education centers. Directs the Secretary to waive a requirement that an area health education center not have certain relationships with a school of medicine or osteopathy for a center having, at the time of initial application for a contract for the planning and operation of such a center, an operating program supported by both appropriations of a State legislature and local resources. Adds nurse midwives to the list of personnel who must be included in the interdisciplinary training and practice conducted by area health education centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for area health education center programs. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts for developing and operating health education and training centers to improve the supply, distribution, quality, and efficiency of personnel providing health services: (1) in the United States along the border with Mexico; and (2) to any population group having serious unmet health care needs. Directs the Secretary to designate the geographic area in which each health education and training center will operate. Mandates that each applicant agree to establish an advisory group, develop a plan for carrying out the center's purpose, and be responsible for the evaluation of the program. Directs the Secretary to make available 50 percent of the amounts appropriated for allocation to border centers. Authorizes appropriations for contracts for border and other health education and training centers for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary, in making grants and entering into contracts for training, traineeships, and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and resident teaching activities with existing departments of family medicine, if any. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for: (1) grants for training, traineeships, and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics; (2) residency programs in the general practice of dentistry; and (3) training and education relating to family medicine. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for a residency program or an advanced educational program in general dentistry, and for traineeships and fellowships for participants in such a program who are in financial need. Allows grants and contracts for health professions educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to be used for stipends for education at any public or private nonprofit health or educational entity. (Current law limits stipends to use for health professions education at a school of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry.) Requires certain types of schools receiving a grant under existing provisions for educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase, during a period of three years, their first year enrollments of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by at least 20 percent. Directs the Secretary to give priority in funding, in years after that three year period, to schools that attain such increase. Authorizes appropriations for educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires that ten percent of amounts appropriated be obligated for community-based programs. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish a supplemental grant program to award grants to specified types of health professions schools that demonstrate sufficient graduation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Sets forth a payment formula. Requires grant funds to be used, with regard to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, for financial aid services, retention services, or other retention purposes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to maintain and improve schools that provide the first or last two years of education leading to the degree of doctor of medicine or osteopathy. Allows grants to schools that were in existence on September 30, 1985, to be used for construction and the purchase of equipment. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for the development and implementation of model projects in development of faculty, curriculum, and new clinical training sites. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application unless a peer review group has recommended it for approval. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, osteopathy, and public health to plan, develop, or improve residency training programs in preventive medicine and to provide financial assistance to residency trainees. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to plan, develop, and operate programs for the training of physician assistants. Requires applicants to have mechanisms for placing graduates in positions for which they have been trained. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for residency programs in primary care for podiatric physicians, providing financial assistance in the form of traineeships. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for two-year schools, faculty and curriculum development, new clinical training sites, residency programs in preventive medicine, training physician assistants, and primary care training for podiatric physicians. Amends provisions relating to grants to health professions schools for minority education to: (1) limit grants to periods not exceeding three years; and (2) require the applicant to have received a contract under specified provisions relating to advanced financial distress assistance in FY 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with health professions schools for assisting in meeting the costs of the schools of providing projects relating to geriatric training. Requires peer review of applications. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, schools of osteopathy, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs for residencies, traineeships, and fellowships to train physicians and dentists who plan to teach geriatric medicine or geriatric dentistry. Authorizes appropriations for costs of geriatric training and for traineeships and fellowships in geriatrics for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for the training of physician assistants. Requires that any grants approved, under provisions relating to the areas of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, or dentistry, for a third or subsequent fiscal year be for at least 20 percent of the average grant to that grantee in the consecutively preceding fiscal years. Requires grant applications in internal medicine, pediatrics, or dentistry to be submitted to peer review groups. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish peer review groups as necessary. Prohibits approval of an application unless a peer review group has recommended approval. Directs the Secretary to make available with respect to Hispanic individuals at least 10 percent of amounts appropriated to carry out provisions relating to scholarships for first-year students of exceptional financial need, programs for physician assistants, educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, and allied health personnel. Requires that studies mandated by current law of health professionals by specialty and geographic location include studies of the number, supply, and requirements for: (1) health professionals who are members of minority groups, including Hispanics; and (2) health professionals to serve miniority groups, including Hispanics. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and report to the Congress regarding Hispanics in medically underserved areas and: (1) health care provided by individuals unable to communicate in the most appropriate language and cultural context; and (2) reliance on allied health personnel as the primary source of health care. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with schools of public health for projects for: (1) preventive medicine; (2) health promotion and disease prevention; (3) increasing the enrollment of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; and (4) improving access and quality in health care. Requires applications to be recommended for approval by a peer review group. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Reduces, for programs with minority enrollment under 45 percent, the number of students who must complete a graduate program in health administration during the year the grant is received in order for the program to be eligible for the grant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for traineeships for students in graduate programs in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning. Increases by one the number of appointees to the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education and mandates inclusion on the Council of a representative of a graduate program in clinical psychology. Adds such programs to the list of schools and training centers which must promise not to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to receive a grant, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy payment under title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for public health traineeships Replaces provisions relating to advanced financial distress assistance to health professions schools with provisions authorizing the Secretry to make grants and enter into contracts to assist schools and graduate departments with regard to health care needs, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary to give preference in making grants to projects which will train: (1) health professionals who will provide treatment for minority individuals with AIDS; and (2) minority health professionals and minority allied health professionals to provide treatment for individuals with AIDS. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a grant application unless the appropriate peer review group has recommended approval and the Secretary has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to assist dental schools and post-doctoral dental education programs with respect to the unreimbursed costs of providing oral health care to AIDS patients. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with eligible entities to assist in meeting the costs of planning, developing, establishing, operating, and evaluating specified types of allied health projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational entities to meet the costs of projects: (1) involving doctoral programs for the advanced specialty training of allied health professionals who plan to teach and conduct research; and (2) provide financial assistance in the form of traineeships or fellowships to certain doctoral and postdoctoral students in an allied health discipline. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and provide technical assistance to, any non-profit entity to establish a uniform allied health professions data reporting system to collect, compile, and analyze data on the allied health professions personnel. Sets forth reporting requirements. Amends the Public Health Service Act to remove from title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) all references to "osteopaths." Directs the Secretary to conduct annually a program to determine the proficiency of individuals who do not meet criteria established in specified provisions for determining the qualifications of laboratory technicians and technologists. Requires the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study regarding the practices and policies of the States in licensing by endorsement physicians who are graduates of schools of medicine outside the United States; and (2) complete the study within nine months of enactment of this Act and submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate. Directs the Secretary to identify and notify entities that would be appropriate applicants for grants under provisions relating to two-year schools of medicine. Prohibits any program of research under the Public Health Service Act which was carried out, or was appropriate to be carried out, by an agency other than the Health Resources and Services Administration in FY 1987 from being carried out by such Administration for each of the FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to solicit applications for grants under provisions relating to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and dentistry at least twice a year if unobligated appropriations are sufficient with respect to a second solicitation. Requires a preliminary review of applications for technical sufficiency, with an opportunity to submit a timely second application. Directs the Secretary to establish and implement a program in which health professionals agree to conduct, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), research with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in return for payment by the Federal Government of not more than $20,000 of their educational loans for each year of service. Limits eligibility for the agreements to those who: (1) have substantial educational loans relative to income; and (2) were not employed by the NIH during the one-year period before enactment of this Act. Makes provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, except as inconsistent, apply to the program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires that certain funds appropriated for National Research Service Awards be made available to the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration. (Current law does not specify to whom the funds are to be made available.) Declares that, with respect to Federal regulations for lenders, provisions relating to the Federal program of insured loans to graduate students in health professions schools may not be construed to preclude the applicability of such regulations to the Student Loan Marketing Association or any other entity in the business of purchasing student loans. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible applicants for interdisciplinary training projects relating to health care in rural areas. Declares that allowed uses for funds include stipends to students, post-doctoral fellowships, training of faculty, or purchase or rental of transportation and telecommunication equipment. Declares that not more than ten percent of the individuals receiving training shall be trained as doctors of medicine or doctors of osteopathy. Requires applications to: (1) be jointly submitted by at least two eligible applicants with the purpose of assisting individuals in academic institutions in establishing long-term collaborative relationships with health care providers in rural areas; and (2) designate one or more rural health care agencies for clinical treatment or training. Directs the Secretary to contract for a study of manpower training needs in rural areas: (1) paying particular attention to the needs of the rural elderly and the rural population that is not eligible for Medicare; and (2) evaluating existing models for health care training and service delivery and proposing innovative alternative models. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the delivery models developed with funds made available under these provisions and compare such models with programs designed to increase the availability of health care providers in rural areas, including the National Health Service Corps and the area health education center program. Sets forth reporting requirements. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application unless the Secretary, through the Director of the Indian Health Service, has submitted it for peer review and received a recommendation for approval. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions of the Indian Health Care Amendments of 1988 relating to health care for rural areas. Directs the Secretary to make available, for each of the FY 1989 through 1991, a certain amount to advance the health care services furnished by qualified hospitals. Defines "qualified hospital" to mean a hospital in a location meeting specified criteria. Directs the Secretary, not later than 18 months after enactment of this Act, to request the chief executive officer of each State, the District of Columbia, and specified territories to submit to the Secretary an assessment of the greatest health manpower shortages, by discipline of health care providers and by allopathic and osteopathic specialty, in each such jurisdiction. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze the information and report to the appropriate Committees of the Congress as a part of the October 1, 1991, report required by specified provisions. Title VII: Nursing Shortage Reduction and Education Extension Act of 1988 - Nursing Shortage Reduction and Education Extension Act of 1988 - Subtitle A: Special Projects - Replaces provisions of title VIII (Nursing Education) of the Public Health Service Act relating to nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds with a new subpart on the same topic. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application for a grant or contract until after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Removes provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to: (1) provide retraining for nurses after periods of professional inactivity; (2) demonstrate clinical nurse education programs which combine educational curricula and clinical practice; and (3) demonstrate methods to encourage nursing graduates to practice in health manpower shortage areas. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for continuing education for nurses with provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to demonstrate improved geriatric nursing training. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts to increase the supply or improve the distribution of nurses with provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to: (1) increase the supply of nurses, including bilingual nurses, to meet the needs of rural areas; and (2) provide nursing education courses to rural areas through telecommunications via satellite. Revises the description of nursing education special projects eligible for certain grants and contracts with regard to: (1) priorities in training and education to upgrade the skills of paraprofessional nursing personnel; and (2) development of curricula for certain nursing baccalaureate degree situations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to collect the names and addresses of health facilities and nursing students and nurses willing to enter into agreements under which the facilities would repay the educational loans of the individual. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for geriatric nursing training. Requires applications for grants and contracts to be subject to peer review. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from the peer review group and has consulted with the Advisory Council on Nurses Education. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for demonstrating innovative hospital nursing practice models which include restructuring the role of the nurse, testing innovative wage structures, and evaluating the effectiveness of various benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to nurse training entities: (1) to demonstrate innovative nursing practice models for services in the home and long-term care facilities designed to increase recruitment and retention of nurses and improve nursing care; and (2) to develop projects to increase the exposure of nursing students to clinical practice in nursing home, home health, and gerontologic settings. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for special projects in nurse education and for advanced nurse education for FY 1989 through 1991. Revises the guidelines for programs for the education of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives to require that they have not less than six full-time equivalent students. (Current law requires that they have eight students.) Allows service commitments by nurse practitioner or nurse midwife traineeship recipients to include service in an Indian Health Service health center, a Native Hawaiian health center, a migrant health center, a rural health clinic, or a community health center in addition to the currently-allowed service in a health manpower shortage area or a public health care facility. Authorizes appropriations for certain nurse practitioner and nurse midwife programs for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to make available, from the amounts appropriated for FY 1989 through 1991 to carry out titles VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) and VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act, specified amounts each fiscal year to: (1) enhance the ability of a hospital meeting stated criteria to provide high quality inpatient services; and (2) improve the health care services furnished by a hospital meeting stated criteria. Mandates that commissioned nurse officers in the Regular and Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, while on active duty, be paid the same incentive special pay as commissioned nurse officers of the armed forces under specified Federal law. Provides that, with respect to the Federal program of insured loans to graduate students in health professions schools, if in any fiscal year no ceiling has been established for the amount of new loans made and installments paid, any difference between the loans made and installments paid and the ceiling in a previous fiscal year which is carried over into the current fiscal year shall constitute the ceiling. Extends from September 30, 1991, to September 30, 1994, the termination date for the granting of insurance or the paying of installments. Subtitle B: Assistance to Nursing Students - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for traineeships for students enrolled at least half-time in nursing masters degree programs who agree to complete the degree requirements by the end of the academic year in which the student is to receive the traineeship. Authorizes appropriations for traineeships for advanced education of professional nurses for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for traineeships for licensed registered nurses to become nurse anesthetists and for projects to develop and operate programs for the education of nurse anesthetists. Limits traineeship payments to amounts necessary for tuition and fees and a stipend and allowances, including travel and subsistence expenses, for trainees. Authorizes appropriations for traineeships for nurse anesthetists for FY 1989 through 1991. Prohibits provisions relating to collection, by schools of nursing, of student loan funds from being construed to require such schools to reimburse the student loan program for loans that became uncollectable prior to 1983. Lowers the cap on the amount of loans to any student made by nursing schools in the first two academic years, but raises the cap on the aggregate of the loans for all years. Requires the schools to give preference in making the loans to persons with exceptional financial need as well as to those given priority under current law. Requires that all loan recipients be in financial need. (Current law requires all loan recipients to be in exceptional financial need.) Allows a loan repayment deferral for up to ten years (currently, five years) for borrowers pursuing certain nursing studies half-time (currently, full-time). Lowers the interest rate from six to five percent on such student loans. Removes provisions allowing the Secretary to repay loans for certain persons from a low-income or disadvantaged family. Requires that certain unexpended nursing student loan funds be available to carry out provisions of this Act relating to nursing scholarships. Applies such requirement retroactively to September 30, 1988, subject to exception. Delays until the last calendar quarter of 1994 the period during which there must be a capital distribution of the balance of the nursing school student loan fund established under specified provisions. Includes, as qualifying for loan repayment under specified provisions, nursing service in an Indian Health Service health center, a Native Hawaiian health center, a public hospital, a migrant health center, a community health center, a nursing facility, a rural health clinic, or a health facility determined by the Secretary to have a critical shortage of nurses. Sets forth financial need and geographic priorities in entering into loan repayment agreements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for scholarships for nursing students in financial need. Requires applicant schools to agree to: (1) give priority in providing scholarships to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; and (2) require student recipients of the scholarships to agree to serve as nurses at least two years in specified types of facilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to individuals to assist the individuals in attending schools of nursing if the individuals enter into contracts with health facilities to engage in full-time employment as nurses for a period of time not more than the period during which they receive loan assistance. Directs the Secretary to give preference to disadvantaged and minority individuals underrepresented in the nursing profession. Sets forth requirements for students and health care facilities. Directs the Secretary to designate underserved geographic areas. Limits loans to 100 percent of the costs of tuition, reasonable living expenses, books, fees, and transportation. Limits interest to five percent. Directs the Secretary to make available at least 35 percent of amounts appropriated for a fiscal year for loans to individuals who will serve as nurses in rural areas designated as underserved geographic areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Terminates the authority to make loans on September 30, 1991. Subtitle C: General Provisions of Title VIII - Renames the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training as the Advisory Council on Nurses Education. Changes its composition to increase the number of members and require representation by practicing professional nurses and from associate degree schools of nursing. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, directly or through contract, for evaluations of projects carried out under the title and for dissemination of information developed as a result of the projects. Sets forth reporting requirements. Subtitle D: Waiver of Liability for Certain Sale of Facility Under Program of Construction and Modernization of Medical Facilities - Declares that, if the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies compliance with conditions of this title, provisions of the Public Health Service Act imposing liability in the nature of recovery by the Government of funds provided for the construction or modernization of medical facilities shall not apply to the sale of a specified facility in San Juan county, Utah, on November 26, 1986. Sets forth the conditions which must be met, including: that (1) the transferor county, a political subdivision of the State of Utah, establish and administer an irrevocable trust to satisfy, with respect to such facility, its obligation under Federal laws and and regulations to provide for adequate facilities to furnish needed services for persons unable to pay; and (2) the transferee corporation agree to satisfy the obligation of the county to provide such services for persons unable to pay. Directs the Secretary to make such determination within 12 months after enactment of this Act and to certify the determination to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to monitor compliance and, if conditions are not met or either party fails to carry out its duties, to ensure that proceedings are commenced to recover the amounts as provided by current law. Title VIII: Revision and Extension of Programs of Health Care for the Homeless - Subtitle A: Categorical Grants for Primary Health Services and Substance Abuse Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to limit Federal matching funds after the first fiscal year to 66-2/3 percent of service costs with regard to grants for health assistance for the homeless. (Current law provides for 75 percent Federal funding.) Authorizes the continued provision for up to 12 months of certain health (including mental health) services to former homeless persons currently living in permanent housing. Includes persons living in transitional housing within the definition of "homeless individual" for purposes of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 1991. Subtitle B: Block Grant for Community Mental Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1991 for community mental health services block grants. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make grants to the States on a competitive basis if annual appropriations are insufficient for minimum allotments; and (2) make unallotted State funds available to public and private nonprofit agencies for mental health services to the homeless in such State. Makes Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands eligible for mental health services allotments. Sets minimum allotments at $50,000 for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations for Community Demonstration Projects - Amends the Act to authorize additional appropriations through FY 1991 for mental health services for homeless persons with chronic mental illness. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1991 for alcohol and drug abuse treatment for homeless persons. Subtitle D: General Provisions - Sets forth effective dates for specified provisions of this title. Title IX: Testing of Convicted Felons - Requires, in order to be eligible to receive funds under provisions of this title, that the chief law enforcement officer of a State establish a State program to provide for the confidential testing of any individual convicted under State law of an intravenous drug or sex offense after enactment of this title. Prohibits a person receiving identifying information regarding an individual tested from disclosing the information to any person. Provides for a waiver of the confidentiality for: (1) correctional personnel, under State laws or policies; and (2) victims of rape, if the person convicted of the rape tests positive for exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Requires the chief law enforcement officer of a State receiving funds under these provisions to provide education and counseling through existing prison facilities to any individual tested for exposure of HIV. Requires the testing program to be conducted in part using funds made available under these provisions, with the State assuming 50 percent of the cost. Requires the State to agree to provide, through existing facilities, education and pre- and post-testing counseling to any individual tested for exposure to HIV. Directs the Attorney General to issue regulations to carry out these provisions, including a determination of the amount of funds each State is entitled to receive. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Attorney General, not later than one year after enactment of this title, to complete a study and report to the appropriate committees of the Congress concerning the appropriateness of mandated prison sentences for any individual convicted of an intravenous drug or sex offense who thereafter knowingly places others at risk of becoming infected with HIV.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to make the provisions regarding civil penalties against food stores for food stamp program abuse effective on October 1, 1988. (The effective date under current law is the earlier of July 1, 1989, or the date the Secretary of Agriculture issues implementing regulations.)
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2026
Clinical laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit soliciting or accepting materials from the human body for laboratory procedures without a certificate issued by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Makes certificates valid for a maximum of two years. Requires certain criteria to be met for issuance or renewal of a certificate, including that the laboratory makes agreements regarding: (1) inspections by the Secretary; and (2) treating proficiency testing samples in the same manner as other materials. Requires a laboratory which only performs simple examinations and procedures which have an insignificant risk of an erroneous result, and which complies with other requirements, to be issued a certificate of waiver which exempts it from complying with provisions of this Act relating to standards (including proficiency testing) and inspections. Authorizes a laboratory to be accredited for certification if it meets the standards of an approved accreditation body and if the laboratory authorizes that body to submit information to the Secretary as the Secretary requires. Allows the Secretary to approve an accreditation body if the body agrees to: (1) inspect the laboratories it accredits; (2) apply standards which are at least as stringent as the Secretary's (3) assure that the laboratory continues to meet standards; (4) notify the Secretary of any denial, suspension, withdrawal, or revocation of accreditation, or of changes in the body's standards, and (5) notify each laboratory if the body's approval is withdrawn by the Secretary. Provides for temporary continuation of a laboratory's license if the accreditation body's approval is withdrawn. Directs the Secretary to evaluate annually the performance of each accreditation body. Directs the Secretary to issue standards to assure consistent performance, including standards regarding: (1) quality assurance and quality control; (2) maintenance of records, equipment, and facilities; (3) qualifications of personnel; and (4) qualification under a proficiency testing program. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the proficiency testing programs for certified laboratories to be conducted by the Secretary, an approved private nonprofit organization, or an approved accrediting body. Mandates that proficiency be tested for each examination and procedure quaterly, subject to exception. Directs the Secretary to establish a system to make proficiency testing program results available, on a reasonable basis, upon request of any person, with explanatory information. Directs the Secretary to establish national standards for quality assurance in cytology services. Authorizes the Secretary, on an announced or unannounced basis, to enter and inspect, during regular hours of operation, certified laboratories. Grants the Secretary access to all facilities, equipment, materials, records, and information. Directs the Secretary to conduct inspections of laboratories to determine their compliance with requirements and standards. Provides for intermediate sanctions, including directed plans for correction, civil money penalties, and payment for the costs of onsite monitoring. Allows the Secretary, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to suspend, revoke, or limit a certificate for specified causes. Allows suspension or limitation before a hearing in certain circumstances. Prohibits any person who has owned or operated a laboratory which has had its certificate revoked from owning or operating a certified laboratory within two years of revocation. Requires suspension of the certificate of a laboratory which has been excluded from participation under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act because of actions relating to quality. Allows temporary and permanent injunctions under suit by the Secretary. Provides for: (1) judicial review of certificate suspensions, revocations, and limitations; and (2) sanctions, including criminal fines and imprisonment. Directs the Secretary to require payment of fees for issuance and renewal of certificates and, in certain circumstances, for inspections and proficiency testing. Requires fees to vary by group or classification of laboratory. Allows fees to be based on the dollar volume and scope of the testing being performed. Directs the Secretary, on April 1, 1990, and annually thereafter, to compile and make available to physicians and the public information which is useful in evaluating the performance of a laboratory, including information relating to: (1) convictions for fraud and abuse, false billings, or kickbacks; (2) certificate revocations, suspensions, or limitations; (3) sanctions or intermediate sanctions; (4) withdrawal or revocation of accreditation; (5) injunctions; and (6) exclusions from participation under title XVIII (Medicare) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Permits the Secretary, by agreement, to use and pay for the services or facilities of any Federal, State, or local public agency or nonprofit private organization. Allows the Secretary to exempt laboratories from compliance with these provisions where State laws are at least as stringent. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to conduct studies on various aspects of validity, reliability, and accuracy of tests performed by clinical laboratories and to report the results to the Congress not later than May 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Asbestos Information Act of 1988 - Requires that those who manufacture or process asbestos or asbestos-containing material report to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within 90 days after this Act's enactment, on the years of manufacture, the types or classes of product, and other identifying characteristics reasonably necessary to identify or distinguish such material. Requires the Administrator to publish such information within 180 days after this Act's enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to add provisions authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States to assist in the provision of drugs determined to prolong the lives of individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits grants from being made after March 31, 1989. Declares that the provisions added by this Act shall cease to exist on March 31, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to store specified acre-feet of Rio Grande system water at Abiquiu Dam, New Mexico, in lieu of water storage already authorized, to the extent that contracting entities no longer require such storage. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, as necessary, interests in lands required for such storage. Subjects the authorization to store water and to acquire lands to the provisions of the Rio Grande Compact and the resolutions of the Rio Grande Compact Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Generic Animal Drug and Patent Term Restoration Act - Title I: New Animal Drug Applications - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to authorize abbreviated applications for the approval of a new animal drug. Requires such application to show that permitted uses, ingredients, dosages, labeling, and other factors are the same as or bioequivalent to a new animal drug already approved. Requires such application to contain a certification relating to patents covering the approved drug. Requires an applicant who makes such a certification to state in the application that a specified notice has been given to each owner of the patent (or owner-representative) and the holder (or holder-representative) of the approved application for the drug or drug use claimed by the patent. Requires the permission of the Secretary of Health and Human Services before an abbreviated application may be submitted for a new drug whose route of administration, dosage form, or strength differ from that of an approved new animal drug or whose use with other animal drugs in animal feed differs from that of an approved new animal drug. Requires the Secretary to publish and update a list of the official and proprietary name of each new animal drug which has been approved and continues to be approved for safety and effectiveness, including patent information as it comes in. Directs the Secretary to approve an application for a drug unless the Secretary makes specified findings, such as faulty manufacture or insufficient information. Sets forth a formula for determining when an approved application becomes effective, based upon the nature of the certification relating to patents. Prohibits an abbreviated application for a new animal drug based upon a nonabbreviated application approved after this Act's enactment until five years after the nonabbreviated application is approved, except as specified. Requires a three-year wait for abbreviated applications based upon nonabbreviated applications approved after this Act's enactment which contain essential new investigations of an ingredient already approved. Requires the applicant to file with the application (or amend it when the information becomes available) the patent number and the expiration date of any patent which claims the drug or a method of using it and with respect to which a claim of patent infringement could reasonably be asserted if a nonlicensee engaged in the drug's manufacture, use, or sale. Requires the Secretary to disapprove the application if it does not contain certain patent information, or to withdraw approval if the patent information was not filed within a specified time after notification. Requires that safety and effectiveness data be made available to the public, except as specified. Provides for the promulgation of regulations to administer the amendments made by this title. Prohibits the dispensing of certain drugs for animal use without a prescription. Deems the act of dispensing a drug in violation of this Act to be an act resulting in misbranding while the drug is held for sale. Specifies that such drugs are considered misbranded if their labels fail to bear the statement, "Caution: Federal law restricts this drug to be used by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian." Prohibits the Secretary from approving an abbreviated application for a new animal drug which is primarily manufactured using recombinant DNA, recombinant RNA, hybridoma technology, or other processes involving site specific genetic manipulation techniques (biotechnology). Title II: Patent Terms - Amends the patent laws to include animal drugs under the patent extension provisions applicable to human drugs which compensate for regulatory delays. Provides that it is shall be a patent infringement to make, use, or sell a patented animal drug or veterinary biological product which is primarily manufactured using a process involving site specific genetic manipulation techniques solely for uses reasonably related to the development and submission of information under a Federal law regulating the manufacture, use, or sale of drugs. Specifies that it shall be an act of infringement to submit an application under the FDCA for a drug claimed in a patent, or an application under related Federal provisions for a drug or veterinary biological product which is not primarily manufactured using biotechnology and which is claimed in a patent, if the purpose of the submission is to obtain approval under such Act to engage in the commercial manufacture, use, or sale of such drug or product before the expiration of such patent.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Waives certain laws with respect to the printing (on parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment of any general appropriations bill making appropriations for FY 1989. Declares that the enrollment of such bills shall be in such form as the Committee on House Administration certifies to be a true enrollment. Provides for the subsequent, post-enactment preparation of printed enrollments of such bills.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988 - Title I: San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area - Establishes the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona. Reserves a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes of such area. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop, within two years, a comprehensive management plan for such area to protect the natural riparian, wildlife, cultural, and recreational resources. Directs the Secretary to establish a San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area Advisory Committee. Permits the Secretary to acquire land interests within the Area. Requires the Secretary to report within five years, and every ten years thereafter, to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: City of Rocks National Reserve - Establishes the City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho, for natural and historic preservation and recreational use. Requires the Secretary, acting through the National Park Service, to formulate a comprehensive management plan for the Reserve, to be transmitted to specified congressional and State officials. Requires the Secretary to: (1) pass control of any or all of such lands to a State or local government agency with adequate protective regulations; (2) provide technical and financial assistance to such agencies; and (3) make grants to pay up to 50 percent of the annual operation costs. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands only with the consent of the owner. Transfers Federal land and water interests in such Reserve to the jurisdiction of the Secretary to be administered by the National Park Service. Requires the Secretary to withdraw upon notice any transfer of lands if such lands are not being managed in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the United States to acquire certain water rights. Withdraws Federal lands within the Reserve from entry or disposition under public land and mining laws. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument - Establishes the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands within such area. Authorizes the United States to acquire any water rights necessary to manage such Monument. Continues existing irrigation pumping and electrical generating and transmission facilities. Requires the management plan for such Monument to include scientific research. Withdraws Federal lands within the Monument from entry or disposition under public land and mining laws. Authorizes apppropriations. Title IV: Arizona - Florida Land Exchange - Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of the real property used for the Phoenix Indian High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Ratifies the Agreement Among the United States, Collier Development Corporation, Collier Enterprises, and the Barron Collier Company under which the United States agrees to exchange such property for certain lands in Florida located in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge owned by Collier and specified monetary proceeds. Requires the Secretary, if such Federal property is conveyed, to convey 20 acres of such property to the city of Phoenix to provide for public open space and recreation, to transfer jurisdiction and control of 11.5 acres of such property to the Veterans Administration (VA) for expansion of a VA hospital, and to transfer jurisdiction and control of 4.5 acres of such property to the VA for conveyance to, and use by, the State of Arizona as a site for a veterans home. Provides that such property conveyed to Phoenix and Arizona shall revert to the United States if not used for the prescribed purposes. Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to: (1) cooperate with the city of Phoenix in the planning and development of the property conveyed to the VA for expansion of the VA hospital; and (2) transmit to specified congressional committees semiannually a report describing the VA's efforts in carrying out such cooperative planning. Directs the Administrator: (1) to convey the parcel of 4.5 acres, without reimbursement, to the State of Arizona when the Administrator has approved the State of Arizona's application for assistance in construction of a State veterans' facility on such parcel and the State has appropriated sufficient funds to pay for its portion of the costs of construction of such facility; and (2) to transfer jurisdiction and control of such parcel to the Secretary if the State does not submit such an application for assistance and appropriate such funds within three years after such parcel is transferred to the VA. Directs the Secretary to offer such property for sale to the city of Phoenix or another purchaser. Directs the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Administrator for the temporary use by the Administrator of the gymnasium constructed on the school property in 1975. Requires Collier to provide 135 days' advance notice of its intention to accept the offer of the United States under the exchange agreement to the Secretary, the Mayor of Phoenix, the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, the InterTribal Council of Arizona (ITCA), the governing body of the Navajo Tribe, and the Governor of Arizona. Prohibits Collier from providing such notice prior to the later of one year after the enactment of this Act or the submission of a specific plan for the Phoenix exchange property. Requires the Secretary, not later than 30 days after receiving such notice from Collier, to publish notice that the Secretary will consider offers by persons other than Collier for the school property. Requires any such offer to provide for: (1) a single cash payment of a minimum acceptable price; (2) an agreement to make annual payments into the Arizona InterTribal Trust Fund or the Navajo Trust Fund; and (3) an offer to enter into a planning and development agreement with the city of Phoenix. Provides that: (1) if no qualifying offer is received, Collier may accept the U.S. offer under the exchange agreement; (2) if a qualifying offer is received, Collier will be allowed to match that offer; and (3) if Collier declines to match the best qualifying offer, the Secretary shall accept such offer. Provides for the management of school property which is not conveyed or which reverts to the United States under this Act. Requires the U.S. Comptroller General to report to the Congress and specified House and Senate committees on: (1) a specific plan as it relates to final zoning proposals of the Phoenix exchange property; and (2) the actions taken subsequent to the submission of such plan relative to the disposition of such property, the value received by the United States, and the process by which such value was determined. Provides for the deposit of the monetary proceeds from the school property into the Arizona InterTribal Trust Fund and the Navajo Trust Fund. Allows the Secretary to elect to receive such proceeds in a lump-sum payment or in 30 annual payments. Requires the Secretary to close the Phoenix Indian High School between June 1, 1991, and September 1, 1991. Requires the Secretary to notify the tribal governing body of each affected Arizona tribe and each student, or parent or guardian of each student, enrolled at the school by January 30, 1991. Directs the Secretary, between January 30, 1991, and March 1, 1991, to: (1) identify each eligible Indian student enrolled or preenrolled for attendance at the school who did not graduate from a secondary program; (2) inform each student of the closing date and the alternatives available to each student and their families, including attendance at the Bureau of Indian Affairs facility at Riverside, California; and (3) develop individual education plans for such students. Requires such plans to include: (1) an identification of the special needs of each student and the alternative service provider chosen by the student or parent to provide educational services; (2) any actions taken to contact and coordinate such provider, the tribe, Bureau social service entities, and the Office of Indian Education Program; and (3) any actions to be taken by the Bureau to provide additional support to students who attend programs which do not include the services of the education plans. Directs the Secretary to reserve specified amounts from funds appropriated for the support of Phoenix Indian High School to finance such plans for FY 1991 to FY 1993. Requires the area education director and area director to implement such plans and conduct activities to determine those eligible Indian students who reside within Arizona and are of legal age to be attending school but are not enrolled in a program. Directs the Secretary to transfer administrative jurisdiction of the school property from the Bureau to the National Park Service within 60 days after the closure of the school. Authorizes the National Park Service to manage and control the property consistent with the requirements of the exchange agreement, although the school property will not be considered a unit of the National Park System. Expands the attendance boundaries used by the Bureau to govern placements in the Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California, to include such boundary served in FY 1991 by the Phoenix Indian High School. Authorizes the superintendent of the Sherman Indian School to pay the recruitment and retention allowance authorized under the Education Amendments of 1978. Requires the Secretary to inventory all property located at the Phoenix Indian High School. Provides that the superintendent of the Sherman Indian High School shall have first option on the property and requires the Secretary to move such property to such school. States that the personnel ceiling at such school shall be adjusted to reflect employees who transfer from the Phoenix Indian High School and any increase in the student population projected by the closure. Provides that the two schools shall be considered as one employment area for purposes of conducting the reduction in force and that outplacement job assistance will be available to employees who do not transfer to the Sherman Indian School. Provides for the establishment of the Arizona InterTribal Trust Fund and the Navajo Trust Fund. Specifies that each fund shall consist of the portion of the monetary proceeds from the school property allocable to the fund. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) invest any lump-sum payments into the trust fund into interest bearing securities and deposits; or (2) hold the security provided by the purchaser in trust if payment into the trust funds is made in the form of annual payments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, at the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to invest any portion of the trust income not used. Declares that the purpose of the trust funds is to supplement Federal efforts. Prohibits the Secretary from changing any distribution of funds to which any Indian tribe or students covered by this title may be entitled. Expresses the intention of the Congress that in determining the amount of any funds to provide services to such tribes or students, there shall be no amendment within future congressional action occasioned by such funds. Limits use of the trust income to supplemental educational and child-welfare programs, activities, and services and the design, construction, improvement, and repair of related facilities. Authorizes the Secretary, pursuant to appropriations and with the approval of the governing body of the affected tribe, to make grants from the trust funds to public school districts on or near the reservations. Directs the Secretary to make annual payments in an amount equal to five percent of the appropriate trust income to the ITCA and the governing body of the Navajo tribe. Limits the use of such income to education, child welfare, community development, and general administrative purposes. Prohibits the use of any part of the trust income for scholarship grants for higher education. Provides for the allocation of the monetary proceeds from school property into the trust funds, with 95 percent of the payment to be deposited into the Arizona InterTribal Trust Fund, and five percent to be deposited into the Navajo Trust Fund. Title V: Santa Rita Public Lands Exchange - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to the State of Arizona a portion of the lands in the Santa Rita Experiment Station lying outside of the National Forest System to satisfy the remaining Federal debt to Arizona for the Central Arizona Project. Requires the Secretary to use the remaining lands in the Santa Rita Experiment Station to acquire lands within Catalina State Park and other specified State trust lands in Arizona in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Provides that lands in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge that are acquired in accordance with this Act shall be added to the National Wildlife Refuge System and managed in accordance with the National Wildlife Refuge System Act of 1966. Requires certain lands near Lake Pleasant and within the Black Canyon Corridor that are acquired under this Act to be administered by the BLM in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Provides that lands in the Catalina State Park, Madera-Elephant Head Trail area, and Arivaca Lake area that are acquired pursuant to this Act shall be included in the Coronado National Forest. Modifies the exterior boundary of the National Forest to include such lands. Provides that the Catalina State Park lands shall be managed cooperatively by Arizona and Federal authorities for public access and recreation purposes. Withdraws such lands from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under Federal mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws concerning mineral and geothermal leasing. Provides that the lands added to the Coronado National Forest by this Act shall be administered under the laws applicable to National Forest System lands except that such lands shall be exempt from any further planning requirements of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 until the final 1986 plan for the National Forest is revised. Declares that future management direction for such lands will be determined as part of the planning for the entire National Forest at the time of such revision. Revokes executive and public land orders which withdrew the Santa Rita Experimental Range for a Forest and Range Experiment Station. Withdraws specified lands in the National Forest from: (1) entry, appropriation or disposal under public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under Federal mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws concerning mineral and geothermal leasing. Requires such lands to be used for research purposes. Revokes a certain public land order which withdrew such lands for forest administrative sites. Revokes executive and public land orders, which withdrew and established administrative jurisdiction for the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, with respect to specified lands. Restricts use of such lands to those uses which will conserve, protect, and enhance the bighorn sheep and other wildlife and plant species contained on such lands. Places such lands under the jurisdiction of the BLM to be administered as public lands. Designates certain portions of the New Water Mountains Wilderness to be part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Releases specified lands as a part of such wilderness. Incorporates specified lands into the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Withdraws certain Federal lands of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge and the New Water Mountains Wilderness from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under public land laws; (2) location, entry, or patent under Federal mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws concerning mineral and geothermal leasing. Incorporates specified Federal lands into the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Defense to enter into a memorandum of understanding providing that such lands shall be managed pursuant to the Military Land Withdrawal Act of 1986. Revokes certain orders which withdrew lands from the Colorado River Storage Project, for the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, for the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, and in aid of the Salt River Project. Requires all patents issued by the Secretary of the Interior for such lands to: (1) reserve a right-of-way to the Salt River Project for electric transmission lines and access purposes for specified portions of such lands; (2) absolve the United States and the Salt River Project from any liability for damages to such lands which may be caused by flooding; (3) hold the patentee liable to the United States or the Salt River Project for damages caused by the holder's activities which alter drainage and adversely affect adjacent lands, project facilities, or protective works of the United States or the Salt River Project; and (4) reserve a right-of-way to the United States for road purposes. Adjusts certain boundaries of the Coronado National Forest. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations to provide for at least ten full-time equivalent employees of the BLM to perform resource management and law enforcement activities as a part of the administration of: (1) certain lands transferred from the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge to the BLM under this Act; and (2) BLM lands in the Black Canyon Corridor.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Designates the United States Post Office and Courthouse at 151 West Street, Rutland, Vermont, as the Robert T. Stafford United States Courthouse and Post Office.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates the week of June 18 through June 24, 1989, as National Grasslands Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Sipsey Wild and Scenic River and Alabama Wilderness Addition Act of 1988 - Title I: Wild and Scenic Rivers Designation - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of the Sipsey Fork River, Alabama, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to construct a dam to establish a lake for recreational use within the Bankhead National Forest. Directs the Secretary to: (1) construct a road from an appropriate public highway to such lake; (2) construct recreational facilities, including camp sites, picnic areas, and boat launching ramps surrounding the lake; and (3) monitor waters flowing into Lewis Smith Lake and take appropriate actions to control any conditions causing injurious water quality. Title II: Wilderness Designation - Designates the following lands in Alabama as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Sipsey Wilderness in the William B. Bankhead National Forest; and (2) the Cheaha Wilderness in the Talladega National Forest. Authorizes the Secretary to take measures to control fire, insects, and diseases within the Sipsey Wilderness. Directs the Secretary to take actions within designated wilderness areas to identify and correct harmful conditions causing injurious water quality. Requires the Secretary, at his discretion, to convert existing roads within the Sipsey Wilderness Addition into hiking or horse trails. Requires the Secretary to permit continued use of horse drawn vehicles on routes designated by the Secretary in the Addition. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System lands in Alabama shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases National Forest System lands in Alabama which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending the revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Alabama reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of National Forest System lands in Alabama without express congressional authorization. States that the provisions above shall also apply to National Forest System roadless lands in Alabama which are less than 5,000 acres in size.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 2025
Bangladesh Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 - Expresses support for assistance programs for the people of Bangladesh in response to the 1988 floods. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to permit funds generated from the sale of U.S. agricultural commodities to be used, with U.S. approval, for disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance in any area of a country participating in the Food for Development Program that is affected by a serious natural disaster. Provides for the retroactive application of this Act. Calls for: (1) a specified amount of the local currencies generated under Food for Development agreements with Bangladesh to be used for assistance for victims of the 1988 floods; and (2) an extension of the period during which such currencies must be used. Requires the President, with the assistance of the Office of Technology Assessment, to report to the Congress on efforts by the international community and governments of the region to develop regional programs for the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins that are designed to ensure a predictable water supply in the dry season and to promote flood control.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Handicapped Programs Technical Amendments Act of 1988 - Title I: Amendments to the Education of the Handicapped Act - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) to make technical and conforming amendments, including making terminology gender neutral, updating cross-references, and revising language referring to people with handicaps or disabilities. Removes references to the National Advisory Committee on the Education of the Handicapped (whose statutory authority has already been repealed under other Federal law). Specifies that the term "institution of higher education" includes community colleges receiving funding from Secretary of the Interior under the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978. Revises provisions for preschool grants for special education and related services for handicapped children aged three through five to provide that appropriations for such grants program for FY 1987 and 1988 received by a State whose allotment for the succeeding fiscal year is adjusted downwards shall remain available for obligation by such State, and by its local educational agencies and intermediate educational units, during the two fiscal years succeeding the fiscal year for which they were made. Revises provisions for grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education for traineeships. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make a grant of sufficient size and scope to each State educational agency which applies and to an institution of higher education in any State where the State educational agency does not apply for such a grant. Authorizes the Secretary also to make a limited number of such grants to State educational agencies on a competitive basis (up to ten percent of the total amount expended in the preceding year). Authorizes the Secretary to make continuation grants for FY 1989 to institutions of higher education that received competitive grants for FY 1987. Sets forth a special rule for FY 1987 preschool grants. Allows a State educational agency to use funds made available in FY 1986 under the preschool grants program in FY 1987 in accordance with statutory and regulatory provisions in effect for FY 1986 and its application for FY 1986. Makes inapplicable to children aged three through five in any State for any fiscal year for which the State receives a preschool grant under EHA certain Federal regulations requiring a public agency to make free public education available to all of its handicapped children of the same age in the same disability category, if it provides education to 50 percent or more of its handicapped children in any disability category in the three to five age group. Title II: Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA) to make technical and conforming amendments, including making terminology gender neutral and updating cross-references, and revising language referring to people with handicaps and disabilities. Renames: (1) the National Council on the Handicapped as the National Council on Disability; (2) the Interagency Committee on Handicapped Research as the Interagency Committee on Disability Research; and (3) the Office of Information and Resources for the Handicapped as the Office of Information and Resources for Individuals with Disabilities. Revises provisions relating to membership and expiration of members' terms on the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. Changes the wording of certain provisions from "employment of the handicapped" to "employment of people with disabilities" and from "handicapped individuals" to "individuals with handicaps." Corrects provisions for an authorization of appropriations to reflect an authorization through FY 1991. Title III: Amendments Relating to the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities - Amends a specified Joint Resolution to change: (1) a certain commemorative week to a commemorative month; (2) the name from National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week to National Disability Employment Awareness Month; and (3) references to "handicapped workers" to references to "workers with disabilities." Amends another specified Joint Resolution to change the name of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week to the President's Committee on People with Disabilities. Authorizes such Committee to: (1) accept voluntary and uncompensated services; and (2) accept, use, and dispose of money or property received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise. Title IV: Amendments Relating to the American Printing House for the Blind - American Printing House for the Blind Amendments of 1988 - Terminates on October 1, 1989, the perpetual trust fund and the permanent annual appropriations established under specified Federal law providing for the American Printing House for the Blind (APHB). Makes a conforming amendment to another specified Federal law, thereby preserving its authorization of appropriations for APHB while removing a reference to the permanent annual appropriation. Deems compensated by the appropriation to APHB for FY 1990 any and all rights of APHB determined to have vested in the permanent trust fund. Provides that references to the permanent trust fund and permanent annual appropriations shall not be given any effect, notwithstanding any Federal law. Title V: Amendments to the Helen Keller National Center Act - Amends the Helen Keller National Center Act to extend through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations for the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates October 30, 1988, as Fire Safety at Home Day--Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to establish the Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator as an independent establishment in the executive branch. (Currently such office is part of the Executive Office of the President.) Extends from June 1, 1989, to November 1, 1989, the deadline by which the Monitored Retrievable Storage Commission must report to the Congress regarding the need for a monitored retrievable storage facility as part of a national nuclear waste management system.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Federal Crop Insurance Commission Act of 1988 - States that the purpose of this Act is to: (1) ensure the review of the Federal crop insurance program; and (2) recommend changes necessary to lessen or eliminate the need for additional disaster payment programs in order to reduce Federal costs and provide farmers with equitable and predictable natural disaster protection. Establishes the Commission for the Improvement of the Federal Crop Insurance Program. Sets forth membership and operating provisions. Directs the Commission to: (1) determine why crop insurance program participation is lower than anticipated; (2) identify States and commodities with low participation; and (3) recommend program improvements. Sets forth particular areas to be examined, including: (1) program insurance coverage; (2) use of crop field information; (3)related government subsidies; (4) sales commission rates; (5) claims adjustment services; (6) information collection; (7) compliance efforts; and (8) premium pools. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) an interim report to the appropriate congressional committees by April 1, 1989; (2) a final report to such committees by July 1, 1989; and (3) monthly reports to such committees from the period beginning July 1, 1989, through December 31, 1990. Terminates the Commission as of December 31, 1990, except that the Secretary of Agriculture may extend the Commission's life beyond such date. Directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to make specified FY 1989 funds available to the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Amends the Congressional Award Act to extend the termination date of the Congressional Award Board from November 16, 1988, to November 16, 1989. (The Board is responsible for administering the Congressional Award Program.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025
Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to limit fiscal year assessment collection and administrative cost incurred by the Egg Board. Eliminates egg producer assessment refunds subject to a two-year delay of any refund referendum.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Dwight David Eisenhower Commemorative Coin Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of one dollar silver coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of the coins after December 31, 1990. Requires the Secretary to deposit in the Treasury all surcharges received from the sale of the coins, to be used to reduce the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates the week of October 2 through October 8, 1988, as National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Week, marking the 20th anniversary of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey certain lands in Okaloosa County, Florida, to the State of Florida in exchange for certain real property adjacent to the Eglin Air Force Base, including any land within the tract which may have been created by natural accretion or dumping of dredge spoil. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) ensure that public access for recreational purposes to the property adjacent to the Eglin Air Force Base continues to be permitted; and (2) except from any conveyances any existing easements for roads and public utilities. Requires the Secretary to require any lands conveyed to Florida that are not being used for educational purposes by ten years after such conveyance to revert to the United States. Requires any lands conveyed to the United States that the Secretary determines are not needed by the Department of Defense to be transferred to the National Park Service for incorporation into the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Designates November 4 through November 10, 1988, as the Week of Remembrance of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass).
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 - Establishes in the Treasury the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund (Compensation Fund). Requires the Panama Canal Commission to make deposits on a regular basis to the Compensation Fund, beginning on October 1, 1988, to accumulate an amount sufficient to cover the liability for workers' compensation benefits and other payments for the disability or death of employees of the Commission or its predecessor agencies on account of injuries sustained between October 1, 1988, and December 31, 1999, subject to exception. Provides for calculation of the amounts to be deposited and for investment of amounts in the Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Secretary of Labor, to transfer funds from the Compensation Fund to the Employees' Compensation Fund (Employees' Fund) to reimburse the Employees' Fund for the cost of such payments made on or after October 1, 1988. Directs the Secretary of Labor, upon the termination of the Commission, to make a final determination of the amounts estimated to be necessary to make such payments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Compensation Fund from the Panama Canal Revolving Fund (Revolving Fund) sufficient amounts to make such payments. Provides for handling deficiencies or surpluses in the Compensation Fund by making transfers from or to the Revolving Fund. Declares that specified provisions of Federal law relating to compensation for injuries for government employees continue to be the exclusive remedy for the disability or death of any employee of the Commission, or its predecessor agencies, for injuries while in the performance of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Bicentennial of the United States Congress Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five dollar gold coins, one dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins emblematic of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Congress. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after June 30, 1990. Requires the Secretary to deposit all surcharges received from the sale of such coins in the Capitol Preservation Fund. Declares that no law governing procurement or public contracts is applicable to the procurement of goods and services for carrying out this Act, except that this provision does not relieve any person from complying with any law relating to equal employment opportunity.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates the month of April 1989 as Actors' Fund of America Appreciation Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Designates October 15, 1988, as National Fire Fighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 2023
Sets forth conditions for resolving the labor-management dispute (referred to in a specified Executive Order) between the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (a common carrier by rail in interstate commerce) and certain of its employees represented by the United Transportation Union. Requires the parties to such dispute to take all necessary steps to restore or preserve the conditions out of which the dispute arose as such conditions existed before August 4, 1988, with specified exceptions. Makes the report and recommendations of a specified Emergency Board binding on the parties, with the same effect as an agreement under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), except that nothing in this joint resolution shall prevent a mutual written agreement to any terms and conditions different from those established herein. Requires binding arbitration, on the request of either party, for unresolved issues after ten days following enactment of this joint resolution. Directs the National Mediation Board to appoint an arbitration board for such arbitration, to be conducted, enforced, and reviewed as if it were under the RLA. Designates the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, as the court in which such arbitration award is to be filed and reviewed. Requires binding arbitration to be completed within 30 days after enactment of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Directs the President to: (1) exert U.S. leadership to achieve negotiation of an international convention to preserve biological diversity; and (2) report to the Congress on the progress toward such negotiation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Indian Health Care Amendments of 1988 - Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for specified Indian health programs for FY 1988 through 1992, including scholarship programs and continuing education allowances. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) from denying scholarship assistance solely on the basis of an applicant's scholastic achievement if such applicant has been admitted to, or maintained good standing at, an accredited health professions institution. Directs the Secretary to grant Indian Health Scholarships to Indians enrolled full-time in certain schools for health professionals. States that the active duty service requirements of the Public Health Service Act can be met by service: (1) in the Indian Health Service (Service); (2) in a program conducted under a contract entered into under the Indian Self-Determination Act; (3) in a program assisted under this Act; or (4) in private practice if it is in a health professional shortage area and addresses the health care needs of a substantial number of Indians. Makes conforming amendments relating to the Indian Health Scholarship Program under the Public Health Service Act. Amends the Public Health Service Act to make Native Hawaiians, subject to available appropriations, eligible for scholarships under the Indian Health Scholarship Program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Directs the Secretary, under the Snyder Act, to maintain a Community Health Representative Program to provide for the training and the use of Indians as health paraprofessionals to Indian communities. Establishes the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program to assure an adequate supply of health professionals by allowing repayment of educational loans for obligated service in an Indian Health program. Requires annual reports to the Congress on operation of the program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the travel expenses of health professionals seeking Service positions. Requires the Secretary to fund Indian projects to recruit, place, and retain health professionals. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a program of advanced training and research for Indian health professionals, requiring obligated service for three times the period during which the person participates in the program. Title II: Health Services - Enumerates the health services for which the Secretary is authorized to expend funds for the improvement of the health of Indians. Prohibits the use of such funds to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Conditions the allocation of such funds upon the health resource deficiency level of the affected Indian tribes. Permits the allocation of such funds on a service unit basis. Directs the Secretary to establish a review mechanism for tribal petitions regarding the health resource deficiency level of a tribe. Makes programs administered by tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act eligible for specified funds on an equal basis with programs administered directly by the Indian Health Service. Provides that a reasonable portion of funds from the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund that are used for contracts under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act may be used for health planning, training, technical assistance, and other administrative support functions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a current health services priority system report, including the methodology for determining tribal health resources deficiencies, and the funds needed to raise all tribes to a zero level deficiency. Directs the President to include with the submission of the budget a separate statement identifying funding requests. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for specified health services. Designates such appropriations as the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund. Establishes an Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund to meet the extraordinary medical costs for victims of disasters or catastrophic illness. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the use of such funds to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Requires the Secretary to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians. Requires the Secretary to include in each health services priority system report an evaluation of the health promotion and disease prevention needs of Indians and the resources that are necessary to meet them. Establishes a diabetes prevention, treatment, and control program with diabetes screening, model diabetes project continuance and establishment, and diabetes control officer positions. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish in the State of Hawaii, as a demonstration project, a Native Hawaiian Program for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to meet the unique health care needs of Native Hawaiians. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations to assist the Secretary in providing health care services under the Native Hawaiian demonstration project. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with a Native Hawaiian organization to: (1) conduct a study to determine the incidence of diabetes among Native Hawaiians and ways to reduce its incidence; and (2) prepare an inventory of health care programs within Hawaii that are available for the treatment, prevention, or control of diabetes among Native Hawaiians. Requires such organization to prepare and transmit a report to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to submit such report to the Congress and the President. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations to: (1) establish a diabetes control program; (2) promote coordination between all health care providers in the delivery of diabetes-related services to Native Hawaiians; (3) establish a model diabetes program to serve Native Hawaiians in Hawaii; (4) develop an outreach program to assure the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diabetes among Native Hawaiians; (5) develop a standardized system to collect, analyze, and report diabetes data among Native Hawaiians; and (6) conduct diabetes research and coordinate such research with State agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services. Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports to the Congress. Requires the Secretary to: (1) include in contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations conditions to ensure that the objectives of such contracts are achieved; (2) develop procedures to evaluate compliance with, and performance of, contracts entered into by Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) conduct an annual onsite evaluation of each Native Hawaiian organization. Sets forth specified actions the Secretary may take if a Native Hawaiian organization does not comply with the conditions of a contract. Permits the Secretary, at the request or consent of a Native Hawaiian organization, to amend contracts entered into with such organizations. Requires each Native Hawaiian organization to submit to the Secretary a quarterly report of its activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1992. Provides that the United States shall have the right to recover reasonable expenses incurred by the Secretary in the provision of health services, through the Service, to individuals. Requires all funds reimbursed to the United States by reason of the provision of such services to be retained and be available to carry out the programs to provide health care services to Indians. Title III: Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary to consult with any Indian tribe that would be significantly affected by an expenditure for health facilities before the Secretary makes a commitment for such an expenditure. Conditions the closure of any health care facility upon the Secretary's submission to the Congress of an impact assessment one year prior to the contemplated closing. Directs the President to include with the budgets submitted for FY 1990 through 1992 program justification documents for the construction of 20 Indian health facilities. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report relating to the current health facility priority system. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance for the operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities, utility organizations, and emergency repairs of sanitation facilities. Directs the Secretary to implement a ten-year plan to provide safe water and sanitary sewage and solid waste disposal facilities to Indian homes and communities. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report with respect to current Indian sanitation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Permits tribes, subject to acceptance by the Secretary, to expend certain non-Indian Health Service funds for the renovation of Indian Health Service facilities, subject to specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to exchange certain real property with the Bethel Native Corporation (Alaska). Title IV: Urban Indian Health Services - Directs the Secretary to contract with urban Indian organizations to administer health services programs in urban areas. Sets forth specified requirements to be included in such contracts. Lists criteria for the selection of such organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to determine the health status and unmet health care needs of urban Indians in affected urban areas. Delineates the requirements of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop evaluation procedures for the performance of the contracts entered into under this title; and (2) conduct annual onsite evaluations of each contracting urban Indian organization. Prescribes guidelines for the renewal of health care or referral services contracts. Prohibits renewal of contracts for determination of unmet health needs if such an organization's performance has been noncompliant or otherwise unsatisfactory and problems cannot be resolved. Sets forth other specified contract requirements. Requires urban Indian organizations to submit a quarterly report to the Secretary. Redefines "urban Indian organization" to mean a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center and governed by an urban Indian controlled board of directors. Title V: Organizational Improvements - Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an automated management information system for the Indian Health Service; and (2) provide such systems to Indian tribes and tribal organizations that provide health services under contracts with the Service. Directs the Secretary to reimburse each tribe and tribal organization for the cost of the operation of such system that is used for the treatment of Service patients. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into legal agreements with Indian tribes or tribal organizations in order to provide compensation for facility space costs associated with the administration and delivery of health services by the Indian Health Service or by tribally operated programs. Extends to FY 1991 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the Congress containing specified data determining which Indians in California should be eligible for health services. Specifies those Indians considered eligible until the Congress takes further action. Designates the State of California, excluding specified counties, as a contract health service delivery area. Provides that the Service shall fund tribal contract facility costs for clinic repairs, employee training, employee cost of living increases, and other health services expenses on the same basis as such funds are provided to facilities operated directly by the Service. Restricts circumstances under which the Secretary may remove a member of the National Health Service Corps who is performing obligated service in a health facility operated by or under the Service. Authorizes the Secretary under certain circumstances to provide medical care or benefits by the Service to otherwise ineligible persons. Sets a deadline by which the Secretary must develop and implement a plan to reduce Indian infant and maternal mortality and fetal alcohol syndrome rates. Directs the Secretary to provide contract health services to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who reside in the Trenton Service Area of specified counties in the States of North Dakota and Montana. Requires the Secretary to examine the feasibility of the sharing of medical facilities and services between the Service and the Veterans Administration. Requires the implementation of an agreement allowing reciprocal care between Service facilities at Fort Duchesne, Utah, and VA facilities at Salt Lake City, Utah. Requires the Secretary to report certain reallocations of base resources to the Congress. Requires the Secretary to make grants to: (1) the Tohono O'odham Tribe of Arizona to establish a four-year demonstration project for assumption of the health care delivery system for the Tribe; and (2) the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, to provide substance abuse treatment services. Requires the Secretary to provide health care services for Indians in Montana. Requires a study to determine the number of active nuclear resource development sites on Indian lands and the associated health hazards. Requires a report to the Congress. Prohibits the use of Depo-Provera for contraceptive and other purposes by the Service. States that any limitation on the use of funds contained in a Department of Health and Human Services appropriation Act with respect to the performance of abortions shall apply for the same period with respect to the performance of abortions using funds contained in an Indian Health Service appropriations Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Expands the Quinault Indian Reservation to include specified lands within the Olympic National Forest. Directs the United States to hold those lands in trust for the Quinault Nation. Provides that the Forest timber receipts of adjacent counties shall not be affected. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from approving the sale for export of unprocessed timber from such lands, unless he determines that such timber is surplus to domestic needs. Requires such lands to be administered in the same manner as lands subject to restrictions of the Grays Harbor sustained yield unit administered by the Forest Service. Continues to recognize any valid right-of-way, lease, permit, or other right or interest which may exist in the lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant right-of-way through the lands to assure access to National Forest land. Directs the Secretary to establish a separate account for timber receipts from the lands. Provides that these funds can be used by the Quinault Nation only for paying costs incurred in preparing and administering timber sales, mitigating adverse environmental impacts from timber harvest activities, reforesting timber lands, and purchasing land that is within reservation boundaries.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 to the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force for procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for the following: (1) procurement by the defense agencies; (2) the chemical demilitarization program; and (3) procurement by the Reserves and National Guard. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, under specified limitations and conditions, to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of certain weapons and defense systems. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from selecting a second source for production of a certain assembled package for 155 millimeter M864 ammunition until the program enters full-rate production and the Secretary reports to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) on an acquisition plan for the establishment of a second source for the program. Places certain requirements, restrictions, or limitations on the following Navy procurement programs: (1) the Trident II Missile program; (2) the DDG-51 Destroyer program; (3) the 5-Inch Semi-Active Laser Guided Projectile program; (4) AH-1W Ground Support Equipment; and (5) AN/SQR-17A Acoustic Processors. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) the procurement of one DDG-51 class destroyer; and (2) certain electronic warfare equipment. Prohibits FY 1989 Air Force funds from being obligated or expended in connection with the launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than December 1, 1988, to submit to the Congress a detailed report on the current and projected requirements of the Navy for aircraft. Extends through April 30, 1997, the deadline for completion of the chemical demilitarization program (the destruction of lethal chemical weapons) under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Directs the Secretary to notify the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) of any delays in meeting such deadline. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 to the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Repeals a specified provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 which limited the funds authorized to be obligated for the AAWS-Medium (anti-tank weapon system) until the Secretary of the Army completed evaluation of the MILAN II anti-armor weapon system. Prohibits funds from being used for procurement or for research, development, test, or evaluation of the MILAN II or the Bofors BILL medium anti-tank system. Earmarks specified funds for the Navy Trident II missile. Disallows any general defense program reductions to be taken from such program. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 1989, from carrying out an electromagnetic pulse program in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with the Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator Program for Ships (EMPRESS). Earmarks specified funds for the making of a grant to the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in connection with a program of research relating to manufacturing technology. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of developing a common launch control system for the MX rail garrison program and the Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program. Directs the Secretary to proceed with such a system if it is found to be feasible and cost-effective. Directs the Secretary, through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to conduct a review of the small ICBM program, requiring certain estimates as part of such review. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the potential vulnerability of a small ICBM system to special operations forces of a potential enemy or to domestic saboteurs. Directs the Secretary to submit the results of such studies, together with comments and recommendations, to the defense committees and the Senate and House Appropriations Committees no later than March 1, 1989. Earmarks funds for such studies and the Small ICBM and MX rail garrison programs. Earmarks specified funds for the following defense agency programs: (1) an Optoelectronics Materials Center; (2) the Consolidated Department of Defense (DOD) Software Initiatives program; and (3) extended air defenses (tactical missile systems). States the focus of the Balanced Technology Initiative program (BTI) to be the development of innovative concepts and methods of enhancing conventional defense capabilities, including the development of concepts and methods which will accelerate the rate of obsolescence of equipment, doctrine, and tactics of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. States particular initiatives, programs, and weapons to be given emphasis under BTI. Earmarks specified funds for this program as well as for BTI programs authorized under prior defense authorization acts. Requires the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to determine the amount of funds appropriated to the armed forces and the defense agencies for BTI. States that the Conventional Defense Initiative is not an element of BTI. Prohibits required defense budget reductions from being taken from BTI funds. Prohibits such earmarked funds from being used in connection with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Requires the Director, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the defense and appropriations committees of the Congress on the implementation of these BTI provisions. Prohibits any funds from being obligated for BTI programs until such report has been received, and 30 days have elapsed since the receipt of such report. Limits the obligation of funds for advanced tactical aircraft within the Navy and Air Force until the Secretary has made certain certifications to the Congress concerning sufficient budgeting for demonstration and validation programs in connection with such aircraft. Limits the obligation of funding for combat identification systems until the Secretary has made certain certifications to the Congress relating to sufficient funding for specified parts and programs within such combat identification system. Limits funding for specified air-to-air missile programs unless the Secretaries of the Navy and Air Force establish joint program offices for the co-development of such programs. Limits the authorization of appropriations for specified defense programs. Directs the Secretary to reduce such authorized amount to achieve a total reduction of $10,000,000. Earmarks specified funds for the purchase of high-technology manufacturing equipment and the installation of such equipment in a private, nonprofit center for advanced technologies for the purpose of training, in a production facility, machine tool operators in skills critical to the defense technology base. Outlines requirements necessary before the obligation of such funding, including a congressional notice-and-wait period. Prohibits funding during FY 1989 for the BIGEYE binary chemical bomb until the Comptroller General makes certain certifications to the Congress relating to the testing, design, and production of such weapon. Earmarks specified research and development funds for product evaluation activity conducted by DOD. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - States the total amount to be obligated for the SDI program, stating specific amounts for each sub-system within SDI. States that funds appropriated to DOD may not be used to establish a Strategic Defense System Operational Test and Evaluation activity. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after 1989 funding for SDI is enacted by legislation, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees of the Congress a report on the allocation of SDI funding for FY 1989. Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD for FY 1989 from being obligated or expended: (1) for any development or testing of anti-ballistic missile systems, with a specified exception; or (2) for the acquisition of any material or equipment required to be used for the development or testing of anti-ballistic missile systems or components, with a specified exception. States that such limitation does not apply to certain SDI funds for FY 1989. Part D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary, no later than December 31, 1988, to submit to the defense committees a report on the plans and projected expenditures for the Long-Range Conventional Cruise Missile program. States certain findings of the Senate with regard to strategic missile modernization. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the authorization of funds in this Act for research and development in connection with the Small ICBM and the MX Rail Garrison does not constitute a commitment or express an intent by the Senate to provide funds to procure and deploy the Midgetman missile or to deploy any MX missiles in a rail-mobile basing mode or both. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department, unless the quantity of a material in the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) is lower than the required amount, to loan to a foreign government supplies, materials, or equipment for the purpose of carrying out a program of cooperative research, development, testing, or evaluation. Authorizes the Secretary to accept as a loan or a gift such materials, supplies, or equipment for such purpose. Permits the materials, supplies, or equipment loaned to a foreign government under this provision to be consumed if the Secretary concerned: (1) determines that the success of the research or development depends on the consumption of such item; and (2) approves of the expenditure or consumption of such materials, supplies, or equipment. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to require an annual report concerning the designation of major non-NATO allies only when a country or countries have been added to or deleted from such list. (Currently, such report is required annually even if there have been no changes in such list.) Authorizes funds made available for the University Research Initiative Program to be obligated in any State without regard to any limitation on the amount that may be expended under such program in any one State. Directs the Secretary, no later than the date on which the President submits the FY 1990 budget to the Congress, to submit to the defense committees a comprehensive report on space control capabilities of the armed forces of the United States. Earmarks specified funds to conduct a program to develop and demonstrate compliance monitoring capabilities in support of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons proposed by the United States in the Conference on Disarmament. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for operation and maintenance for the following: (1) the armed forces; (2) the defense agencies; (3) the Reserves; (4) the National Guard; (5) the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice; (6) environmental restoration, defense; (7) the Court of Military Appeals; and (8) humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for unbudgeted increases: (1) in fuel costs; and (2) as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Directs that the amount authorized for humanitarian assistance be used for the purpose of providing humanitarian relief to persons displaced as refugees because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Specifies a certain amount of such assistance to be used for humanitarian relief supplies to the non-Communist resistance organization near the Thailand-Cambodian border. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Secretary of State funds for such purpose. Provides that the transportation of such supplies shall be under the direction of the Secretary of State, requiring such transportation to be achieved by the most economical means possible. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services and Foreign Relations (Affairs) Committees, within 60 days after the enactment of this Act and no later than June 1, 1989, and no later than June 1 of each subsequent year until such funds are expended. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to contract for the performance of firefighting and security guard functions required by the Navy at a radar site at Amchitka, Alaska. Directs DOD to establish a video teleconferencing center for the Tripler Army Medical Center. Part B: Limitations - Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 1989, from taking any steps to convert the operation of specified activities from the operation of an activity financed by the Navy Industrial Fund to operation as an activity financed by direct appropriations. Part C: Permanent Law Changes - Prohibits a private contractor operating a commissary store on a military installation from procuring the products to be sold in such store or from managing such store. Requires DOD personnel to perform such functions. Part D: Defense Supplies Security and Control - Directs the Secretary to carry out a study to determine the effectiveness of DOD procedures for ensuring security and control of supplies at DOD depots. Directs the Secretary, no later than 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the defense committees on the results of the study, and to transmit a copy of such report to the Comptroller General. Directs the Comptroller General, within 90 days, to review the report and report to the defense committees any findings and recommendations on procedures for ensuring the security and control of such supplies. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the practice of selling surplus DOD munitions to the public; and (2) report to the defense committees, within 180 days after the enactment of this Act, describing and discussing each such practice. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop improved methods for the identification and accounting of individual items of DOD supplies that are susceptible to pilferage; and (2) submit to the defense committees, no later than one year after the enactment of this Act, a report containing a description and discussion of each such method. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare a plan for the modernization of supply facilities and supply distribution procedures of each of the military departments and defense agencies; and (2) transmit a copy of such plan to the defense committees within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1 annually, to submit to the defense committees a report on security and control of DOD supplies for each of the three fiscal years following the fiscal year in which this provision is enacted. Outlines information to be included in such report, including a summary of inventory program plans, a discussion of deficiencies in security and control of DOD supplies in the preceding fiscal year, and available budget authority in order to implement improvements in the security and control of such DOD supplies. Directs the Secretary to require an investigation of each discrepancy in an accounting for supplies of DOD involving an amount exceeding an amount as determined by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to require that the job functions of supply ordering and supply receiving be performed by different individuals and offices. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) DOD and armed forces personnel assigned to manage DOD supplies are skilled in the management of such supplies; and (2) no DOD employee or armed forces member is assigned to perform such function for disciplinary reasons. Directs the Secretary to omit information from certain fiscal years in such report because of inadequate records. Expresses the findings of the Congress that: (1) the use of undercover investigative techniques by DOD employees enhances the ability of DOD to detect and investigate theft of Government property from the DOD supply system; and (2) the Secretary is urged to continue such undercover investigations. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a centralized computer system for recording and organizing information on the loss of DOD supplies. Directs the Secretary to report the theft or other loss of any ammunition, destructive device, or explosive material from the stocks of DOD to the Secretary of the Treasury within 24 hours after its discovery. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes the end strengths for active duty personnel of the armed forces as of September 30, 1989. Provides for reductions in FY 1990 in the end strength of active duty officers in the officer corps and in the number of Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes the end strengths for Selected Reserve personnel as of September 30, 1989. Authorizes the end strength for reserves on active duty in support of the reserves for the same period. Increases the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training - Authorizes the average military training student loads for the armed forces, the Reserves, and the National Guard for FY 1989, requiring such student loads to be adjusted consistent with end strengths authorized for military personnel in general. Part D: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD as of September 30, 1989. Outlines administrative provisions relating to the determination of such civilian personnel ceilings. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Requires information furnished to military personnel selection boards to include information relating to the need for either a minimum number or maximum number of officers with particular skills within a competitive category. Prohibits such information from being modified, withdrawn, or supplemented after the board submits its report to the Secretary of the military department concerned, except in limited circumstances. Revises provisions concerning actions to be taken by the Secretary after review of reports submitted by such selection boards. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate the authority delegated to the Secretary by the President to approve or disapprove the report of a selection board. Amends the Military Family Act of 1985 to expand the preferenced hiring of qualified spouses of military personnel to include hiring for any GS-level positions. (Currently, such preference is limited to levels above GS-1 level.) Reduces from 90 days to 30 days the time that must elapse after the Secretary submits a manpower estimate to the defense committees before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development of a major defense acquisition program. Waives such required period during time of war or national emergency declared by the Congress or the President. Reduces such period to 10 days if such estimate submitted to the Secretary with respect to such program indicates that no increase in military or civilian end strength will be required. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment to military pay for FY 1989 in conformity with the GS-level adjustment applicable to Federal employees, instead authorizing an increase of 4.3 percent in the rate of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence. Increases cadet and midshipman pay for FY 1989. Prescribes the weight allowances (for the transportation of household goods) authorized for members of the armed forces (and their dependents) according to a table which increases such allowance with each military grade increase. Part B: Other Personnel Benefits - Authorizes the payment of a continuation bonus to an aviation officer who executes a written agreement to remain on active duty in aviation service for at least one year. Limits the maximum annual bonus to be so paid, and limits to eight years the length of such an agreement. Outlines administrative provisions relating to such bonus payment, including bonus prorating, officer applicability, and refund procedures in case of default by the officer concerned. Prohibits new agreements under current Federal special pay provisions for aviation career officers. Limits the total amount of bonus pay obligations that may be made by the Secretary of the Air Force during FY 1989 as the result of such agreements. Terminates the authority of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Transportation to enter into such an agreement as of September 30, 1989. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than December 1, 1988, to submit to the defense committees a comprehensive report on the retention of aviators in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of variable special pay for medical officers within certain pay grades who have at least eight years of creditable service according to specified rates which vary depending on the length of such service (such special variable pay decreasing as the length of service increases). Authorizes the payment of additional special pay for an officer with at least eight years creditable service for any 12-month period that the officer is entitled to additional special pay due to having achieved the grade of 0-6 or above while serving in a medical officer capacity. Specifies the rates at which such higher-grade officers are to receive such additional special pay, such rate increasing as the length of service increases. Limits the total compensation to be paid to such officers to the total compensation paid to comparable physicians in private practice, as determined by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, no later than November 15, 1988, to report to the defense committees describing the manner in which such additional pay authority is to be used. Directs the Secretary, no later than December 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees with: (1) the Secretary's recommendation for legislation necessary to attract and retain needed health-care professionals; and (2) the Secretary's assessment of the adequacy of the existing compensation system for such health-care professionals. Limits the total obligation for such additional payments in FY 1989. Terminates the authority to make such additional payments if such reports are not received in a timely manner. Authorizes the payment of special pay, at an annual rate not to exceed $10,000, for officers of the Selected Reserve who are qualified in a specialty designated by regulations as a critically short wartime specialty and who execute a written agreement to serve in the Selected Reserve for not less than one year nor more than three years beginning on the date the officer accepts such such special pay. Requires an appropriate refund when such officer fails to complete such additional duty. Terminates the authority to enter into such agreements as of September 30, 1990. Provides that such pay authority shall be used only for the purpose of conducting a pilot test program to determine its effect on the retention of officers who are qualified in critically short wartime specialties. Limits the total amount to be obligated for such pay authority for FY 1989. Directs the Secretary, no later than September 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees a description of the manner in which such pilot test program is to be structured. Limits to the grade in which a member of the armed forces retired the computation of retired pay in the case of a member who, after initially becoming eligible for retired pay, is reduced in grade pursuant to a sentence of a court-martial. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay a specified monthly annuity to any unremarried surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who: (1) died before November 1, 1953; and (2) was entitled to retired or retainer pay on his or her date of death. Requires such annuity to be reduced by other survivors' benefits to which such surviving spouse is entitled. Directs such annuity to be increased whenever military retired or retainer pay is increased. Entitles military personnel assigned on temporary duty overseas to travel and transportation allowances incident to personal emergencies. Adds to the definition of a military "dependent" for travel purposes of military personnel any child for whom care and support is provided by the member pursuant to an order of custody issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. Revises provisions relating to a civilian clothing allowance for members of the armed forces to allow such allowance only for officers who are required to wear such clothing as part of their regular duties. Permits (rather than requires) such clothing allowance to be paid. Changes from mandatory to discretionary the payment of a travel and transportation allowance incident to the voluntary extension of an overseas tour of duty. Authorizes the unremarried former spouse of a member or retired member of the armed forces to use commissary stores for the benefit of a dependent child if: (1) such former spouse has legal custody of such child; (2) such member is authorized to use commissary stores; and (3) such dependent child is unable to use such commissary stores because of administrative restrictions on the use of such stores by dependent children. Amends Federal provisions relating to the Reserve Officers' Training Candidates (ROTC) program to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned to prescribe and conduct practical military training for such candidates, in addition to field training and practice cruises currently authorized for such individuals. Provides coverage as Federal employees for such candidates who experience injury, disability, or death from an injury incurred while on such military training, field training, or practice cruise. (Currently, such coverage is provided to such candidates for disability or death from injury, and does not cover practical military training, as added by this provision). Includes coverage while on practical military training of at least four weeks in duration for such candidates under applicable veterans' benefits provisions. Part C: Health Care Provisions - Extends through 1991 the authority for the use by the armed forces of public health service hospitals, as authorized under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Repeals a specified provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 which requires a specified percentage of the growth in the number of Navy officers for such fiscal years to be allotted to Navy officers employed in certain health professions. Includes within the definition of a military "dependent" the grandchild of a member if the grandchild is dependent on the member for over one-half of his or her support and if the parent of the grandchild qualifies as a dependent of the member or former member. Title VII: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Increases from five to ten percent the number of waivers (from the requirement of either education in joint duty specialties or a tour of joint duty) authorized to be granted each year by the Secretary of Defense for assignments to the joint duty specialty. Requires, for critical joint duty assignments, that not less than 80 percent of the positions so designated by the Secretary shall be held at all times by officers who have the joint specialty. Reduces the required length of a joint duty assignment: (1) in the case of general and flag officers from three to two years; and (2) in the case of all other officers from three and one-half years to three years. Authorizes the Secretary to decrease such required tour in the case of an officer who has a military occupational specialty designated as critical. Prohibits the Secretary, in any case, from prescribing the length of a joint duty assignment to be less than two years. Adds to the list of assignments which will be considered full tours of joint duty the following: (1) a joint duty assignment outside of the United States for which the normal accompanied-by-dependents tour of duty is at least two years in length, if the officer serves in the assignment for at least the accompanied-by-dependents tour length; or (2) a joint duty assignment during which the officer is selected for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half), if the officer served at least two years in such assignment. Revises provisions concerning the determination of cumulative credit for purposes of the required length of joint duty. Authorizes the Secretary to accord constructive credit in the case of an officer who, for reasons of military necessity, is reassigned from a joint duty assignment within 60 days of meeting the tour length criteria, allowing an amount of constructive credit in the amount otherwise necessary to meet the required length, but in no case more than 60 days. Modifies the definition of "joint duty assignment" to allow the Secretary to include as such an assignment, after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not more than 250 assignments which the Secretary designates as assignments that provide significant experience in joint matters. Provides as an exception to the normal requirement of a joint duty tour of duty before promotion to general or flag officer the case of a Navy officer designated as a qualified nuclear propulsion officer, who may be promoted to rear admiral (lower half) without the required tour of joint duty. Provides a further exception to such requirement in the case of an officer who began a joint duty assignment before January 1, 1987, and served a period of sufficient duration (at least 12 months) in such position to have been considered a full tour of duty under regulations in effect at such time. Amends the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 to make joint-duty-waiver provisions under such Act consistent with the above changes. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to submit to the defense committees a report on joint officer management policies. Requires such report to be submitted no later than February 1, 1990. Authorizes the President to defer until October 1, 1989, the retirement of the officer serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the term beginning October 1, 1987. Adds U.S. elements of binational or multinational military commands to the forces to which the Secretary of a military department is required to assign forces under his or her jurisdiction. Adds to the responsibility of the commander of the special operations command the submission to the Secretary of Defense of program recommendations and budget proposals for special operations forces. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1989 from being used for: (1) establishing or operating an Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; or (2) paying the salary of such an Assistant Secretary. Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for presidential appointments of General Counsels of the military departments. Requires various information relating to defense capabilities assessments to be included in an annual report from the Secretary to the Congress on the defense capabilities and programs of the armed forces of the United States and its allies as compared with those of their potential adversaries. Requires each such report to be transmitted to the Congress at the same time that the President submits the budget to the Congress. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Directs the Secretary to develop each year, in conjunction with the five-year defense program submitted to the Congress in such year, a plan that ensures that the following policies of DOD are structured to meet the long-term needs of DOD for industrial resources and technology innovation: (1) policies relating to progress payments or other financing of contractors by DOD; (2) policies relating to the return on contractor investment under DOD contracts; and (3) policies relating to the division of contract risk between DOD and a contractor. Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a report which contains the above plan and an explanation of the manner in which the policies referred to above enhance the ability of DOD to obtain industrial resources and encourage technology innovation. Requires each such report to be submitted at the same time that the five-year defense program is submitted to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to prescribe guidelines that provide that a fixed-price contract should be awarded in the case of a development program only when: (1) the level of program risk permits realistic pricing; and (2) the use of a fixed-price contract permits an equitable allocation of program risk between the United States and the contractor. Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to determine that such criteria have been met before a fixed-price contract in excess of $10,000 may be awarded. Limits the power of the Under Secretary to delegate such authority. Declares that a defense contractor, when certain proposals (relating to the future availability and competition for items of procurement) are required to be submitted by a contractor as part of such contractor's proposal, shall not be required to provide for future competition between identical items for an item developed exclusively at private expense by a contractor or subcontractor, unless the head of the defense agency determines that: (1) the original supplier of such item will be unable to satisfy program schedule or delivery requirements; or (2) the price of such item in economic order quantities to the Government will not be reasonable based on an analysis of cost and performance comparisons with competing substitutes. Outlines further administrative provisions relating to such proposals. Expresses congressional findings for the essential need of a strong defense industrial base for the enhancement of U.S. national security. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to: (1) provide overall policy guidance and direction to the military departments and the defense agencies on matters relating to the maintenance, expansion, and readiness of the defense industrial base of the United States; (2) analyze the capabilities of the defense industrial base to fulfill requirements of the national defense strategy in time of peace or in time of war or national emergency; (3) develop and direct the implementation of plans and programs that promote the ability of the defense industrial base to meet certain production and readiness requirements; and (4) identify and plan for the procurement of items of supply that are suitable substitutes for military standard items of supply which are anticipated to be unavailable from existing sources in time of war or national emergency and which are commercially available from domestic sources. Directs the Under Secretary to require that each defense acquisition program designated by the Under Secretary include a requirement for an analysis of the capability of the defense industrial base to develop, produce, maintain, and support the system to be acquired under such program. Outlines factors to be considered as part of such analysis. Provides that the Under Secretary shall be responsible for compiling and analyzing the data obtained from such analysis to ensure that: (1) the capabilities of the defense industrial base to meet program requirements have been assessed by the military department or defense agency carrying out such program; and (2) the capabilities of the defense industrial base to meet the aggregate requirements for all such programs have been assessed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Under Secretary to establish and implement acquisition policies which provide for: (1) expanded use of commercial manufacturing processes rather than military standard requirements; (2) elimination of barriers to, and facilitation of, the integrated manufacture of commercial items and items being produced under defense contracts; and (3) encouragement of the military departments and defense agencies to identify commercial items that are suitable substitutes for military standard items incorporated into weapon systems or other items of equipment. Authorizes the Under Secretary to establish a defense production innovation center to be the principal office in DOD for the development of policies and plans regarding the conduct of programs for the improvement of the defense industrial base of the United States. Outlines action to be taken by the head of such center, the Defense Production Base Director, in regard to the improvement and enhancement of the defense industrial base of the United States. Provides that the Under Secretary, during FY 1989, shall require each military department to initiate at least one analysis of the capability of the defense industrial base to develop, produce, maintain, and support systems to be acquired under acquisition programs carried out by such department. Requires all such analyses to be completed no later than September 30, 1990. Directs the Under Secretary, no later than February 1, 1991, to report to the defense committees on such analyses. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Commerce in the negotiation and renegotiation of memoranda of understanding between DOD and one or more foreign countries relating to defense trade, cooperation on defense research, or production of defense equipment. Directs the Secretary, no later than 30 days after any such memorandum is entered into, to report to the defense committees a description of the anticipated effects of the implementation of such memorandum on the defense industrial base of the United States. Authorizes the President to waive such requirement in the event of war or national emergency. Makes certain congressional findings with regard to DOD offset policy (the making of contracts with foreign firms where some or part of the work under such contract or investment under such contract must be performed by or invested in such foreign firm or foreign country). Directs the Secretary, acting with and through other designated officials, to establish a comprehensive policy with respect to contractual offset arrangements. Prohibits any U.S. official from entering into a memorandum of understanding or other agreement with a foreign government that would require the transfer of U.S. defense technology to a foreign country or foreign firm in connection with a contract that is subject to an offset arrangement, if the implementation of such memorandum or arrangement would significantly and adversely affect the defense industrial base of the United States and would result in a substantial financial loss to a U.S. firm. Waives such prohibition if such waiver will result in strengthening the national security of the United States and is so certified to the Congress by the Under Secretary. Requires any U.S. firm entering into a contract with a foreign firm subject to an offset arrangement exceeding $50,000,000 in value to notify the Secretary of the proposed sale. Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations with foreign countries that have a policy of requiring an offset arrangement in connection with the purchase of defense equipment or supplies from the United States, pursuing an agreement to: (1) limit the effect of such arrangements on the defense industrial base of each such country; and (2) prohibit such offset arrangements after a specified date. Directs the Secretary to attempt to achieve, within two years after the enactment of this Act, an agreement limiting the adverse effects of such arrangements, and, within four years after the enactment of this Act, a final agreement prohibiting such arrangements. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress at least once each year for four years on the progress of such negotiations. Directs the Secretary, no later than November 15, 1988, to report to the defense committees on contractual offset arrangements required of U.S. firms for the supply of weapon systems to foreign countries or foreign firms. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 15, 1989, to report to the defense committees a discussion of appropriate actions to be taken by the United States with respect to purchases from U.S. firms by a foreign country when that country or firm requires an offset arrangement in favor of such country. Requires that certain Federal regulations concerning the allowability of contractor costs shall provide that foreign selling costs shall be allowed to the extent that such costs are: (1) allocable, reasonable, and not otherwise unallowable; and (2) within dollar ceilings established in advance agreements negotiated between the Secretary and the contractor or subcontractor during the fiscal year covered by such arrangement and entered into after the Secretary determines that cost savings to the United States will result. Allows the awarding of a defense contract under procedures other than competitive procedures in the case of a contract run by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition if the senior level official designated by the Under Secretary approves the justification of such contract. Adds to the purposes of the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program the encouragement of eligible entities to furnish to business entities procurement technical assistance that facilitates the exporting of defense-related products and services by such business entities. Revises provisions to limit the value of the assistance furnished by the Secretary to any eligible entity to carry out a program of procurement technical assistance under a cooperative agreement, allowing one amount for a program operating on a State-wide basis and a lesser amount in the case of a program operating on less than a State-wide basis. Extends through FY 1989 the authority for procurement technical assistance for Indian tribal organizations. Directs the Under Secretary, no later than December 1, 1988, to report to the Congress on the current programs regarding simplification of procedures governing the acquisition process of DOD and an assessment of the results of those programs. Requires policies prescribed by the Under Secretary to provide for coordination of the annual plans developed by different elements of DOD for the conduct of oversight and audit functions within each contracting activity. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to study and make recommendations to the Secretary on ways to enhance cooperation between DOD and industry regarding matters of mutual interest, including: (1) procedures governing the debarment and suspension of contractors from doing business with DOD; (2) the role of self-governing oversight programs established by defense contractors; (3) expanded use of alternative dispute resolution procedures; and (4) the desirability of establishing a permanent advisory panel on government-industry relations. Directs the Secretary to submit a copy of the panel's report, together with the Secretary's comments and recommendations, to the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the evaluation by DOD of professional and technical services contract proposals should be made on the basis of a 40-hour work week standard. Directs the Secretary, no later than April 1, 1989, to report to the defense committees on the extent to which institutions of higher education offer and conduct educational programs and courses on Government contracting and acquisition management. Directs the Secretary to complete a certain study, initiated by DOD in 1985, concerning the supply of minority and women scientists, engineers, and technologists needed by defense industries and DOD to fulfill the national defense mission. Directs the Secretary to prescribe by regulation the authority and responsibilities of DOD acquisition program managers and contracting officers. Establishes within DOD an office for the supervision and coordination of product evaluation activities within DOD. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department and the head of each defense agency to establish and conduct a product evaluation activity. Requires the producer of the product evaluated to pay one-half of the cost of conducting such evaluation. Directs the Under Secretary, no later than March 15 annually, to report to the defense committees a plan for developing the 20 technologies considered by the Secretary and the Secretary of Energy to be the technologies most essential to develop in order to ensure the long-term qualitative superiority of U.S. weapon systems. Requires both product and process technologies to be considered in selecting the technologies to be included in such plan. Directs the Inspector General of DOD to: (1) conduct periodic audits of contractual actions by the defense agencies, DOD field activities, and the military departments; and (2) after each audit, report to the Congress on the management of undefined contractual obligations by the head of an agency. Deletes the requirement of the use of a competitive prototype program strategy in the development of a subsystem of a major weapons system (requiring such strategy only in the development of the major weapons system itself). Amends the Small Business Act to provide that a subcontracting plan negotiated by a Federal agency and a contractor for specified purposes shall apply to the contractor or, if the plan so provides, only to the organizational components of the contractor that perform the contract. Revises provisions concerning the necessity of a Small Business Administration certificate of competency in the case of a small purchase defense contract (a contract for an amount which does not exceed $25,000). Provides that the Secretary of a military department procuring a spare or repair part that is critical to the operation of an aircraft shall require the contractor to supply a part that meets applicable qualification and quality requirements. Defines such qualifications. Title IX: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, as deemed necessary in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in titles I through III for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Limits the total amount that may be so transferred. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase the amount authorized to be transferred between authorizations for that fiscal year in that Act or any prior defense authorization Act. Requires the Secretary, in determining the purpose for which such transferred amounts will be used, to: (1) ensure that an appropriate portion is used for the payment of FY 1988 depot maintenance activities and civilian personnel salaries; (2) give special consideration and priority to civilian personnel of DOD, readiness, and more efficient acquisition processes; and (3) provide funds for other high priority readiness items. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of specified funds appropriated for the following programs in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1988: (1) Maxicube cargo system under research, development, test, and evaluation for the Army; (2) Coastal Defense Augmentation; (3) AN/SQR-17 Acoustic Processors for the Mobile In-Shore Undersea Warfare Group; and (4) P-3C aircraft under procurement of National Guard and reserve equipment. Prohibits Army procurement funds from being obligated or expended for a certain air defense system unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to the Congress that the system has met or exceeded full system requirements. Prohibits Navy aircraft procurement funds from being obligated or expended for procurement of any A-6 aircraft configured in the F model configuration. Permits the use of specified funds appropriated for the modification of M60 tanks for procurement or modification of M1 tanks. Provides that, for purposes of certain transfer authority provided under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989, the above amounts prohibited from being obligated or expended under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1988 shall be deemed to have been authorized under such Act in equal amounts to the Army, Navy, and Air Force for operation and maintenance to prevent the furlough and separation of civilian employees, and for funding other high-priority readiness programs. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Expresses certain congressional findings regarding confidence-building measures designed to increase openness and predictability of military activities in Europe. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should give high priority to developing stabilizing and verifiable proposals for expanding the regime of confidence-building measures (with regard to the verification of military activities in Europe) in light of a specified international conference and talks on such subject. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to add specific information (relating to Soviet compliance with, or violations of, applicable arms control agreements) in a report due annually from the President to the Congress under such Act. Directs the President, no later than December 1 annually, to submit to the Congress a report containing a comprehensive discussion and analysis of the arms control strategy of the United States. Outlines specified information to be included in such report, including the current military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the military balance between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact countries. Requires the President, in making such report, to explain the methodology used in determining the military balances. Increases the amount of liability that the United States may accrue in a fiscal year for the acquisition of supplies from NATO-member countries. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain sales charges (required as arms sales charges under the Arms Export Control Act) made by DOD to the Maintenance and Supply Agency of NATO in support of certain weapon system partnership agreements. Increases to $100,000 the maximum amount of an advance payment (before final settlement of a claim) that may be made for any person who was injured or killed, or whose property was damaged or lost, under circumstances for which allowance of a claim is authorized by law. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to delegate the authority to make such payment in an amount not to exceed $25,000. Revises annuity computation provisions for judges of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals who complete their terms of service. Prohibits an annuity reduction for judges who complete their appointed terms. Provides an annuity computation for a former judge of the U.S.Court of Military Appeals who is retiring under immediate retirement provisions, such computation taking into account all service as a member of the Congress, a congressional employee, and a judge. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to accept from any person voluntary attorney, paralegal, clerical, or related services for members of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease aircraft for Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group activities if the cost of such leasing is less than the cost of operating and maintaining the same number of existing Navy aircraft. Makes certain congressional findings relating to the special operations airlift. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) a plan (relating to the operation of such airlift previously submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of Defense) is a sound proposal to redress the serious deficiency in airlift capacity for special operations forces; (2) the Secretary should formulate a five-year defense program for FY 1990 through 1994 that includes sufficient funds for the procurement or modification of airlift aircraft; and (3) the President should submit budgets to the Congress for FY 1990 through 1992 that include sufficient funds for the procurement or modification of such aircraft used for such airlift. Directs the Secretary to: (1) close all military installations recommended for closure by the Commission on Base Realignment and Closure; (2) realign all military installations recommended for realignment by the Commission; and (3) initiate all such closures and realignments no later than September 30, 1991, and complete all such closures and realignments no later than September 30, 1995. Outlines conditions required to be met before taking such action (prior congressional notification and recommendations for closure by the Commission). Terminates the authority of the Secretary to carry out any closures or realignments on October 1, 1995. Provides for reports and statements required of the Commission to the Secretary and the Congress in carrying out their recommendation responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to take all necessary action to implement such recommended closures or alignments, including the provision of: (1) economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; and (2) community planning assistance to any community located near a military installation to which functions are to be transferred as a result of such closure or realignment. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out activities for the purpose of environmental restoration of such affected areas. Directs the Secretary, before any sale or exchange of real property or a facility is made due to such base closure or realignment, to inform other instrumentalities of the Federal Government of the availability of such property and to transfer such property for fair market value to any such instrumentality offering to purchase such property. Outlines further action to be taken by the Secretary if there are no instrumentalities of the Government desiring to purchase such property at fair market value, including selling such property to another Government entity at less than fair market value. Directs the Secretary to provide, as part of such a conveyance under the above provisions, that title shall revert to the United States if such property or facility is used for any purpose other than the one for which it was conveyed. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Congress, as part of each annual request for authorization of appropriations: (1) a schedule of the closure or realignment actions proposed and an estimate of the total resulting cost savings; and (2) a description of the military installations to which functions are to be transferred as the result of such closures or realignments, together with the Secretary's assessment of the environmental consequences of such transfers. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of actions planned with respect to military installations outside the United States which may affect the recommendations of the Commission, and to report to the appropriate congressional committees, no later than September 15, 1988, on the findings and conclusions of such study. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees when: (1) a decision is made to carry out a construction project for a military installation; and (2) the cost of the project will be greater than the maximum amount for a minor construction project. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure Account. Authorizes appropriations and provides for the deposit of funds for such Account. Directs the Secretary, no later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year in which the Secretary carries out activities under the above provisions, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the amount and nature of deposits into, and the expenditures from, the Account during such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary, no later than 60 days after the termination of his or her authority to carry out an alignment or closure, to report to the appropriate congressional committees an accounting of all funds deposited into, expended from, and remaining in, such Account. Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action with regard to the report of the Commission if, within 45 days after the Congress receives such report, the Congress enacts a joint resolution disapproving the Commission's plan. Expresses congressional findings relating to the need for the modernization of NATO's nuclear theater capabilities. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) modernization of such capabilities is essential to the deterrence strategy of the NATO alliance; (2) continued U.S. modernization of such capabilities should be undertaken in close consultation with our NATO allies; and (3) the United States should proceed with ongoing activities for satisfying the identified alliance requirement for a Follow-on to Lance (a new nuclear weapon deployment). Directs the Administrator of General Services to enter into negotiations with commercial air carriers to achieve agreements that permit personnel of defense contractors traveling solely to perform defense contract duties to be transported at the same discount air fare rate as such carriers charge for Federal employees traveling at Government expense. Requires each defense contract awarded by DOD to include a provision requiring contractor personnel to travel using such discount rates, unless other travel is required for the performance of the contract. Directs the President to conduct a study regarding the antiballistic missile capability and activities of the U.S.S.R. Outlines certain assessments to be included as part of such study, including the ability of the United States to modify its existing strategic offensive forces to effectively counter a Soviet ABM system over the same period of time required for the Soviets to deploy it. Directs the President, by October 1, 1989, to prepare and submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate a report of the results of such study and assessment, together with recommendations. Authorizes the services of DOD to establish a program of incentives for conserving and otherwise making more efficient use of energy by the services. Directs the head of each service, in carrying out such program, no later than 120 days from the enactment of this Act, to implement procedures for the identification, verification, accrual, and use of the first year's energy cost savings resulting from contracts entered into under title VIII of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act. Allows any energy-cost saving to be treated as an unobligated balance available to the service for: (1) additional energy efficiency projects by the service; and (2) appropriate morale, welfare, and recreational purposes and minor construction projects. Expresses Senate findings concerning human rights violations by the Polish Government. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski is condemned for violating the fundamental rights of the people of Poland; and (2) any improvements in relations between the United States and Poland must be predicated on a fundamental improvement in human rights in Poland, including the release of political prisoners, the rights of independent trade unions to organize, and steps toward genuine national reconciliation and dialogue. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, no later than 90 days from the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on plans for establishing competition in the development and production of components for the Advance Tactical Reconnaisance System. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than January 15, 1989, to report to the Congress detailing the programs to be included in the NATO Defense Program. Earmarks specified funds for the Global Positioning System and for Space Boosters. Expresses certain congressional findings regarding U.S. military bases on the Philippines. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, and in consultation with the Secretary of State, to prepare and transmit to the Congress a study of: (1) the costs and benefits of relocating such bases to potential alternative host countries; (2) the cost and benefits of maintaining such bases in the Philippines; and (3) any alternative means of funding payments to the host country of such bases. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to prepare and transmit to the Congress a review of the current and planned defense assets that might be utilized to reduce and prevent unlawful foreign fishing in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. Prohibits the sale of arms to be made by the United States to Saudi Arabia or any other nation in the Middle East which has procured certain Chinese-made missiles, unless the President has first certified to the Congress that such nation does not have chemical, biological, or nuclear warheads for such missiles. Requires separate certification for each proposed arms sale. Makes certain congressional findings regarding Japanese contributions to global stability and the security of the leading industrialized democracies. Directs the Secretary to include within a report currently required under Federal law a report on Japan's overseas development assistance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should enter into discussions with Japan to reach a more equitable distribution of the burden of financial support for the indivisible security of the leading industrialized democracies; (2) the objective of such discussions should be to establish a gradual increase in Japanese overseas development assistance to approximate the average level of such spending by current NATO-member nations; (3) the President should report to the Congress within 180 days after this Act's enactment on the progress of such discussions; and (4) if the President's report does not reflect substantial progress in the desired more equitable distribution of such cost-sharing burden, then the Congress should review the extent of the distribution of the mutual security between the United States and Japan and consider whether additional legislation is appropriate. Expresses certain congressional findings concerning missile technology personnel deficiencies. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Secretary should file a certain report specifying personnel requirements to implement the Missile Technology Control Regime Policy as soon as possible, but no later than July 30, 1988; and (2) DOD personnel deficiencies which prevent effective performance of missile technology control responsibilities should be rectified as soon as possible. Urges the President to ensure that any military base closing commission established by this or any other legislation: (1) takes into account the total economic cost to the country as a whole in making decisions regarding the closing or functional realignment of any military installation; and (2) is appropriately briefed on basing requirements and implications before issuing any report recommending the closing or realignment of any military installation. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to ensure that the Secretaries of the military departments have issued uniform regulations to provide for the delivery of members of the armed forces to civilian authority when such members have been accused of offenses against civil authority. Directs the Secretary, no later than 120 days after this Act's enactment, to transmit to the defense committees a copy of such regulations and any recommendations concerning the need for additional legislation concerning such matters. Outlines specific conditions for the transfer by the United States to Saudi Arabia of F-15 fighter aircraft, including model and numerical limits. Provides that no country signatory to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Final Act) which did not enjoy a most favored nation trade status as of May 1, 1988, shall be extended such status unless the President certifies to the Chairman of the Foreign Relations and of the Foreign Affairs Committees that such country is in complete compliance or in substantial compliance with such Final Act, particularly the human rights and humanitarian affairs provisions. Identifies "substantially complete compliance" for purposes of such provision. Expresses congressional findings regarding the need for analysis of alternative strategic nuclear force postures for the United States under a potential START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Directs the President to provide to the Congress, prior to the conclusion of such a treaty but in no event later than September 15, 1988, a comprehensive report on the implications such an accord might have for future strategic force postures of the United States in the 1990's. Expresses congressional findings concerning military assistance in Federal drug enforcement activities. Directs the Secretary to provide annually to the Secretaries of the military departments and to the commanders of the combatant commands written guidelines to direct the effective detection by the military of all potential aerial and maritime threats to the national security of the United States. Directs the President, no later than 30 days after this Act's enactment, to designate a single lead agency for detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the United States. Directs the President, no later than 90 days after this Act's enactment, to report to the Congress his plan for the integration within DOD of command, control, communications, and intelligence assets of the United States dedicated to the interdiction of illegal drugs. Directs the President, no later than 120 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress his plan for assignment of responsibility for operating the command, control, communications, and intelligence network described above. Directs the President, as soon as practicable after the enactment of this Act, to deploy radar surveillance aircraft in sufficient numbers for such drug interdiction purposes. Directs DOD to make available to the Coast Guard and Customs Service aircraft to be used by such agencies for such drug interdiction purposes. Authorizes specially-trained members of the armed forces to assist or perform any of the law enforcement functions of the Coast Guard for such drug interdiction purposes. States that any action brought against any members of the armed forces relating to the performance of such drug interdiction shall be considered an action against the United States, with all appropriate defenses available to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to provide to the Governor of a State who submits a plan which specifies how that State's National Guard personnel are to be used in drug interdiction operations sufficient funds for the pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and certain other expenses for such personnel. Directs the Secretary, before such funds are provided, to consult with the U.S. Attorney General as to the adequacy of the plan submitted by the Governor to the Secretary. Directs the President, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the potential effectiveness of using the National Guard and reserves for drug interdiction efforts along the borders and at ports of entry into the United States. Directs the President, no later than September 1, 1988, to report to the Congress on legislative proposals to enhance the capability of DOD to perform such drug interdiction assistance functions. Expresses certain congressional findings concerning possible drug-related indictments against Panamanian General Manuel Noriega. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) no negotiations should be conducted with Noriega which would involve the dropping of drug-related indictments against him; and (2) any negotiations or arrangements would send the wrong signal about the priority which the United States attaches to the war on drugs, would not further the restoration of a democratic government in Panama, and would not serve the overall national security interest of the United States. Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any change in the alert status of any National Guard unit in the strategic air defense mission in the northern portion of the United States, or in the deployment of units assigned to that mission, from the status and deployment in effect as of April 10, 1988. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, after certain radar systems are deployed as replacements for a previous system, to report to the Congress on the new systems. Expresses Senate findings concerning the need to protect non-nuclear cruise missiles in light of the nuclear weapons reductions as a result of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Expresses the sense of the Senate that, in START, no restrictions shall be established on current or future non-nuclear cruise missiles. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees no later than March 1, 1990, on the approximate quantity of disposable plastic items that are used annually and which of such items are and are not biodegradable. Expresses congressional findings concerning the use of small Navy patrol boats to carry out certain missions. Directs the Secretary of the Navy, within 60 days after this Act's enactment, to report to the Congress regarding the capability of the Navy to carry out missions requiring the use of small patrol boats. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 120 days after the enactment of this Act, to issue regulations that prohibit a contracting officer: (1) from knowingly receiving any offer in connection with a contract awarded by DOD from an officer or employee of the Federal Government or from any business concern owned or substantially owned by one or more of such officers or employees; and (2) from knowingly awarding a contract to any person who received an offer from such person in connection with such contract or to any business concern who received an offer from such person in connection with such contract. Permits exceptions in the interest of national security. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to authorize printing, binding, and related services needed by DOD to be procured from small business concerns, historically black colleges and universities, and minority institutions. Expresses congressional findings concerning the five-year ABM Treaty review. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should propose an early date to conduct the overdue five-year review of the ABM Treaty and immediately thereafter inform the Congress of the results of that review. States that the Congress: (1) condemns the Government of Ethiopia for its blatant disregard for human life as demonstrated by its human rights record; (2) urges the Government of Ethiopia to allow foreign relief personnel to return and allow the international relief campaign to resume oerations; (3) urges rebel groups to cease attacks upon relief vehicles and relief distribution points; (4) urges the President and the Secretary of State to press for an "open roads/own risk" policy that will allow for resumption of international relief efforts in northern Ethiopia, to press the Ethiopian Government and the rebels to reach a lasting settlement, and to press the Government of Ethiopia to implement genuine and effective reform in its failed agricultural policies; and (5) urges the President and the Secretary of State to engage in direct discussion with the U.S.S.R. in order that peaceful resolution of the crisis in northern Ethiopia becomes a high Soviet priority and that the approach of the Soviet Union is consistent with that of the West. Urges and authorizes the President to impose such economic sanctions upon Ethiopia as determined appropriate if such Government engages in certain actions with respect to forced resettlements or interference with international relief. Requires the President, at specified intervals, to report to the Congress on whether, during any of the previous period, the Government of Ethiopia engaged in any of the banned conduct, as well as the U.S. response to such conduct. Directs the President to issue regulations in order to implement any sanctions imposed. Directs the President, no later than June 30, 1989, to report to the Congress a review of the relationship of the arms control objectives of the United States with the responsiveness of research and development of monitoring systems for weapons verification. Directs the President, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish a Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities. Directs the Commission, on a biennial basis, to: (1) prepare a report listing active and non-active military facilities that DOD has identified as fit for closure, underutilized, or placed on the surplus property list; (2) identify those facilities that could be utilized or renovated as minimum security prisons or as housing for nonviolent persons for drug treatment; and (3) present such list to the President and the Congress. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any assistance to the Panamanian Defense Force until the President has certified to the Congress that no armed forces of the U.S.S.R., Cuba, or Nicaragua are present in Panama and that General Manuel Noriega has been removed as Commander of the Defense Force there, barred from all offices and authority, and prohibited from designating a successor. Directs the President, ten days after the enactment of this provision, to report to the Congress on: (1) whether such banned military personnel are present in Panama; and (2) whether the Panamanian Defense Force has worked with or received support from such personnel. Requires that, in authorizing the civilian and military end strength for DOD personnel in any fiscal year, account should be taken for the number of such personnel that will be assigned to on-site inspection activities during such fiscal year. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: Army (sic) - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads for a specified amount at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of all military construction projects authorized under this title. Extends authorizations for certain FY 1985 through 1987 military construction projects. Title XXII: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Earmarks specified funds for a certain shipyard modernization project at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a specified number of family housing units located on the Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois. States the amount of charge to be made by the Secretary for the leasing of such units after acquisition by the Secretary. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to acquire such property on October 1, 1994. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of all military construction projects authorized under this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions. Limits the total cost of all military construction projects authorized under this title. Extends authorizations for certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes the Secretary to contribute funds to the Government of the Netherlands for the U.S. share of the cost of the International Elementary and High School project in Brunssum, the Netherlands. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1989 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects for the construction of conforming storage facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Fort Meade, Maryland. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to relocate a military construction project (for the construction of an armed forces medical facility) in the United Kingdom. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of all military construction projects authorized in this title. Extends the authorization for a certain prior-year military construction project. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for military construction projects to be accomplished at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Seoul, Korea, in advance of appropriations therefor, under a specified condition. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program, and authorizes appropriations for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for the Guard and Reserve Forces for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Authorizes appropriations for the following military construction projects: (1) an aircraft parking ramp/holding pad at Yeager Airport, Charleston, West Virginia; and (2) the Army Reserve Center, Gordo, Alabama. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations; Effective Date - Provides, with specified exceptions, that all authorizations contained in title XXI through XXV of this Act for military construction projects, land acquisition, family housing projects and facilities, and contributions to the NATO Infrastructure Program shall expire on October 1, 1990, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing military construction projects for FY 1991, whichever is later, except where appropriations have been obligated. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Miscellaneous - Expands the authority of the Secretary to aid in planning local community adjustments to include the making of grants to aid in planning adjustments required by: (1) a publicly-announced planned major reduction in DOD spending that would directly and adversely affect a community; or (2) the encroachment of a civilian community on a military installation, if the Secretary determines, in either case, that such action would have an adverse consequence or would impair the continued operational utility of the military installation. Requires, in the case of the planned major reduction, that such reduction will result in the loss of 1,000 or more full-time DOD and contractor employee positions over a five-year period in the locality in order to be eligible for such grant assistance. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to any other grant authority, to provide community planning assistance grants for: (1) communities located near newly-established light infantry division posts; and (2) communities located near newly-established Navy strategic dispersal program homeports. Terminates such grant authority on September 30, 1991. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to allow (currently requires) a rental housing lease agreement to include a provision rendering the agreement null and void if the owner of the housing fails to maintain a satisfactory level of operation and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department (or the Secretary of Transportation, in the case of the Coast Guard), in the case of housing located on land owned by the United States and with respect to which housing is guaranteed, to: (1) require the United States to provide utilities, trash collection, snow removal, and entomological services at no cost to the occupant to the same extent that such services are provided to occupants of Government-owned housing; and (2) provide for rent collection and for operation and maintenance under a separate contract or use Government personnel to provide such services. Increases from 20 to 32 years the authorized length of long-term facilities contracts entered into by the Secretary of a military department. Increases from 36,000 to 38,000 the authorized number of family housing units that may be leased in foreign countries to provide military family housing. Deletes a Federal provision prohibiting a military construction project to be placed under contract if there are variations of more than 25 percent in either the scope of the work to be performed or the project cost over the project ceiling. Deletes a provision allowing the project approved amount to be increased upon certain determinations by the Secretary concerned. Revises provisions relating to the waiver on limitations on cost increases if certain conditions occur (such as written notification to the appropriate congressional committees followed by a waiting period). Increases from $100,000 to $200,000 the maximum limit on real property transactions triggering a report by the Secretary concerned to the defense committees. Deletes the requirement of a report from the Secretary concerned to the appropriate congressional committees if the Secretary purchases an interest in land of more than $100,000. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to issue solicitations for proposals for the acquisition of such office space within the National Capital Region as determined necessary to meet the needs of the Navy. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary receives responses to the proposal solicitations, to report to the defense committees regarding such proposals. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to increase the amount authorized for certain construction at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Authorizes the Society of the Third Infantry Division to erect in Arlington National Cemetary a memorial in honor of the men of such Division who have served their country in World Wars I and II and Korea. Outlines administrative provisions concerning site selection, design and plans, and maintenance for such memorial. Terminates such authority five years after the enactment of this Act, unless certain conditions are met. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to sell or lease Air Force Plant No. 85 located in Columbus, Ohio, under specified terms and conditions. Part B: Real Property Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the San Diego Unified Port District of San Diego, California, certain real property in San Diego in exchange for certain parcels of land adjacent to the San Diego Naval Station. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such an exchange until he has notified the defense and appropriations committees and 21 days have expired since such notice. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to Orange County, California, for the construction and maintenance of flood control improvements at the northern boundary of the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. Provides the consideration for such conveyance, and provides additional terms and conditions to such conveyance. Directs the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain vacant land at the Suitland Federal Center, Suitland, Maryland, that the Administrator determines to be: (1) excess to present and future needs at the Center; and (2) adequate to accommodate the needs of the Navy for construction and operation of a Navy Intelligence Command Headquarters. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell and convey a portion of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city of Lompoc, California, all rights and interest to specified real property, to be used by such City for educational purposes only, and subject to reversion otherwise. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations (sic) - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1989 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs involving: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Limits the amount of such DOE funds that may be obligated or expended for the following: (1) programs, projects, and activities of DOE relating to SDI; and (2) the inertial confinement fusion program. Restricts the obligation of funds for: (1) the short-range attack missile II; and (2) the construction of a cooling tower at the K reactor, Savannah River Plant, South Carolina. Authorizes certain remaining unobligated balances to be transferred and made available, to the extent provided in an appropriations Act, for the Defense Waste and Environmental Restoration activities at Richland, Washington, to be used in specified amounts for operating expenses, construction, and capital equipment. Provides that funds made available for DOE for the special isotope separation project in Idaho Falls, Idaho, may not be obligated or expended for site preparation for such project before March 1, 1989. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this title for any program where the costs of the program exceed by five percent or by more than $10,000,000, whichever is less, the amount authorized for that program under this title. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this title for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have expired since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any authorized general plant construction project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports from the Secretary to specified committees when revised costs of a project exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate committees whenever such planning and design exceeds $300,000, and requires specific legislative authorization whenever such services exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Authorizes increases in amounts authorized under this title in order to account for increases in salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits as authorized by law. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Energy to request the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a review of the inertial confinement fusion program of DOE and to submit to the defense committees, no later than January 15, 1990, and September 15, 1990, reports on the results of such review. Directs the Secretary to review such reports and, no later than 30 days after receipt of each, to submit to the same committees comments and recommendations concerning such reports. Directs the Secretary, no later than July 31, 1988, to submit to the defense committees a report containing the Secretary's recommendations for the site for construction of a new production reactor and the Secretary's recommendation for the preferred technology for a new production reactor. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees, at the same time that the budget for FY 1990 is submitted to the Congress, with information pertaining to a new production reactor. Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology for the purpose of entering into an agreement with the Institute to provide funds for the work of the Environmental Evaluation Group for a term of five years. States the purpose of the Group to be to conduct a thorough review of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant project in New Mexico. Sets forth administrative provisions concerning staffing, functions, and funding for the Group. Authorizes the Secretary to pay to Los Alamos County in New Mexico an agreed-upon amount to provide for the final settlement of all obligations of the United States to make community assistance payments to the County as required under the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955. Limits the total amount authorized to be paid to such County as such final payment. Outlines terms and conditions of such settlement. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and supplement funds in order to assist State and local governments and regional organizations in planning and supporting community adjustment required by the closure of the N Reactor in Hanford, Washington. Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require under such Act a report by the Secretary of Defense to the President as to whether and how the construction and operation of a nuclear waste repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, would jeopardize the national security by reason of interference with national defense activities, if any, occurring nearby. Part D: Independent Nuclear Safety Board Oversight Over Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities - Expresses certain congressional findings relating to the need for independent oversight of safety operations at DOE nuclear facilities. States the purpose of this part to be to establish a Defense Nuclear Safety Board to ensure the protection of public health and safety in activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes such Board, outlining administrative provisions relating to Board composition, functions, powers, and responsibilities. Requires the Board to review and evaluate the implementation of the health and safety standards of DOE at each DOE nuclear facility and to recommend to the Secretary specific measures that should be adopted to reduce substantially the likelihood that actual or potential nuclear incidents will occur. Provides that if the Secretary of Energy determines that any action recommended by the Board or any action proposed by the Secretary in response to the Board's recommendation might affect DOE's ability to meet the annual nuclear weapons stockpile requirements, then the Secretary shall inform the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the appropriations and defense committees of such recommendation and shall consult with the Secretary of Defense on such action. Outlines further administrative action authorized to be taken by the Board or the Secretary in specified circumstances. Requires all recommendations made by the Board to the Secretary of Energy to be made available to the public. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Board a statement as to whether he accepts or rejects the recommendations submitted, a description of the actions to be taken in response to the recommendations, and his views on such recommendations. Outlines further administrative provisions relating to the Secretary's response to the Board's recommendations, the preparation of a plan by the Secretary implementing any accepted Board recommendations, and the implementation of such plan in a timely manner. Requires additional notice to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the appropriations and defense committees when a Board recommendation relates to an imminent or severe threat to public health and safety. Outlines action to be taken by the Secretary of Energy if he determines that the implementation of a Board recommendation is impractical because of budgetary considerations, or that implementation would affect the Secretary's ability to meet the annual nuclear weapons stockpile requirements. Requires the Board to submit annually, at the same time that the President submits the budget to the Congress, a report concerning the activities and recommendations made by the Board during the preceding year. Directs the reports to be submitted to the appropriations and defense committees. Directs the Secretary of Energy to submit, to the same committees at the same time, a written report concerning the activities of DOE during the preceding year. Authorizes assistance to the Board on all matters under its consideration from specified Federal agencies, advisory bodies, and organizations outside the Federal Government. Terminates the Board upon the expiration of the six-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this part. Requires the fifth annual report submitted by the Defense Nuclear Safety Board to the defense committees (as required under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954) to include an assessment of the Board's actions and recommendations. Includes members of the Defense Nuclear Safety Board in the Executive Schedule Level III pay scale within the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary of Energy to transfer to the Defense Nuclear Safety Board a specified amount to carry out its responsibilities. Title XXXII: National Defense Stockpile - Directs the President to obligate a specified sum during FY 1989, out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund, for: (1) the acquisition of strategic and critical materials as required under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act; (2) transportation, storage, and other expenses related to such acquisition; and (3) the upgrading of stockpile materials and expenses related to such upgrades. Authorizes the President to dispose of specified amounts of materials currently determined to be excess to the needs of the National Defense Stockpile. Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to require that any proposed expenditure or disposal relating to materials in the stockpile that is not obligated or executed in the appropriate fiscal year may not be obligated or executed until the expenditure or disposal is resubmitted in a subsequent annual materials plan or is resubmitted to the appropriate congressional committees. Title XXXIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 for civil defense functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 2025
Southwestern Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act - Grants congressional approval to the Southwestern Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact, which provides for cooperation among the States of California, Arizona, and any other eligible State in the management of low-level radioactive waste. Lists North Dakota and South Dakota as eligible States.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Omnibus Drug Initiative Act of 1988 - Title I: Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs - Subtitle A: Money Laundering Control - Money Laundering Control Amendments of 1988 - Amends Federal law to prohibit financial institutions from issuing checks or money orders to individuals in connection with transactions involving U.S. money in amounts or denominations of $3,000 or more unless the individual provides proper identification and the institution verifies that the individual has an account there. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to require any domestic financial institution to obtain information, keep records, and submit reports concerning: (1) its transactions involving monetary instruments that exceed amounts the Secretary prescribes; and (2) other parties to the transactions. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to deny confidentiality of financial information when a financial institution or supervisory agency provides the Attorney General or a State law enforcement agency with financial records of any officer, director, employee, or controlling shareholder (or a major borrower acting in collusion with any of these), if there is reason to believe the record is relevant to either crimes by these persons against such an institution or agency or violations of statutes governing recordkeeping and reporting on monetary instruments transactions. Revises the good faith defense to account for this exception. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to delegate to the Postal Service powers and duties in connection with records and reports on monetary instruments transactions. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Housing Act to impose a civil penalty of up to $10,000 on insured institutions and their principals and personnel that willfully violate recordkeeping and reporting requirements. Increases from $1,000 to $10,000 the corresponding penalty with respect to uninsured financial institutions. Revises provisions describing the range of uninsured entities subject to financial recordkeeping requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the feasibility of withdrawing the legal tender status of $100 Federal Reserve notes. Enumerates required report contents, to be submitted to the Congress within 180 days of this Act's enactment. Subtitle B: International Provisions - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to permit pre-FY 1993 Export-Import Bank financing of sales of defense articles or services to economically less developed countries if: (1) the Bank is requested to guarantee or insure the sale and the authority to do so would not exceed ten percent of the Bank's guarantee and insurance authority in any given fiscal year; and (2) the President determines, in accordance with prescribed criteria (pro-democratic and anti-drug) that the sale is in the U.S. national interest. Requires both a presidential determination that the required Bank guarantee would be in the national interest and notification to the Congress of this determination before the Bank Board may approve the guarantee in question. Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the Inter-American Development Bank to initiate pertinent discussions with other executive directors and to advocate and support specific country lending programs and policies, including region-specific development plans, designed to reduce or eliminate the economic dependence of the particular borrowers on illicit drug production and trafficking. Title II: Committee on Education and Labor - Subtitle A: Drug Education and Prevention Relating to Youth Gangs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, to make grants and contracts for drug education and prevention projects and activities to: (1) prevent and reduce youth drug abuse and participation in gang-committed, drug-related crimes; and (2) support local law enforcement outreach activities. Sets forth grant application requirements, as well as application approval priorities. Directs the Secretary of HHS to coordinate this program with the programs and activities of the Attorney General and with those under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subtitle B: Alcohol Abuse Education Programs - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to develop materials for innovative alcohol abuse education programs, especially ones that focus on the effect of alcoholism on the families, particularly the children, of alcoholics. Requires programs for which such materials are developed to be designed for young children, particularly those in grades five through eight. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to training programs for educators that are designed to: (1) increase awareness of children's problems that may be caused by an alcoholic parent; (2) enhance educators' ability to identify children at risk for alcohol abuse; (3) inform educators concerning referral of children of alcoholics for appropriate professional treatment; and (4) train educators to inform the public about the special problems of children who have an alcoholic parent. Subtitle C: Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Programs for Incarcerated Individuals - Amends the Adult Education Act to allow certain funds set aside by a State to be used for the cost of drug abuse education and prevention programs and referral to drug abuse treatment programs for criminal offenders in correctional institutions. Subtitle D: National Youth Sports Program - Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to make grants to carry out a national youth sports program. Makes eligible for such grants organizations whose members are institutions of higher education with access to high-quality educational and sports facilities. Requires such a program to provide disadvantaged youth: (1) medical and nutrition services; (2) exposure to college and university campuses; (3) sports instruction and competition in settings that provide high quality facilities and supervision; and (4) related educational and counseling services, including instruction on drug and alcohol abuse prevention, educational and career opportunities, health and nutrition, study practices, and job responsibilities. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires that at least 90 percent of youth participants be from families with incomes below the poverty line. Requires matching contributions from the eligible entities. Sets forth required activities under such program. Directs the Secretary, in the application selection process, to give priority to applicants that propose to carry out drug abuse education and prevention activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Provides that program grants will be used to carry out activities for a one-year period, concentrating the activities in June, July, and August. Subtitle E: Programs Relating to Juvenile Delinquency and to Runaway and Homeless Youth - Part I: Program to Enhance Juvenile Delinquency Prevention - Subpart A: Projects and Activities of State and Local Governments - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants to States to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate projects, directly or through grants and contracts with public and private agencies, to: (1) develop more effective education, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services related to the illicit use of drugs by juveniles; (2) refer juveniles and their families to these and other appropriate services; and (3) coordinate such referral and services. Allots funds to States based on population of individuals under 18 years old. Sets forth minimum allotments of $75,000 for States and $20,000 for specified U.S. territories and possessions. Sets forth application requirements. Requires States to give priority to specified types of projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subpart B: Other Projects and Activities - Directs the Administrator to make grants to and competitively-based contracts with public and private nonprofit entities and individuals for: (1) juvenile delinquency reduction through drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment; (2) research on illicit use of drugs by juveniles, effects on juveniles of illicit use of drugs by family members; (3) community outreach and counseling projects; and (4) training and technical assistance for innovative and effective drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment. Limits grants and contracts to not more than three years' duration. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subpart C: Reports - Directs the Administrator to report to the President and specified congressional leadership. Details required report contents. Part 2: Program for Runaway and Homeless Youth - Directs the Secretary of HHS to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for research, demonstration, and services projects for runaway and homeless youth, especially projects relating to illicit use of drugs. Enumerates possible projects, including: (1) individual, family, and group counseling; (2) community education; (3) rural area assistance; (4) information and training to individuals providing youth services; and (5) research on the effects on such youth of their own or family members' drug abuse, and correlations between such use and suicide attempts. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to agencies and organizations with experience in providing services to such youth. Limits grants to three years' duration. Directs the Secretary to report to the President and specified congressional leadership. Details required report contents. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Part 3: General Provisions - Sets forth application procedures, required contents, and criteria to govern review. Subtitle F: Drug Abuse Education for Participants in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to include: (1) drug abuse among health problems covered by such Act; (2) drug abuse education along with the nutrition education provided under such Act; and (3) drug abuse education and instruction relating to it under specified requirements for State plans. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, within six months after enactment of this Act, to study appropriate methods of drug abuse education instruction. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and succeeding fiscal years to carry out this study. Adds two members to the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition. Requires one of them to be an expert in drug abuse education and prevention, and the other an expert in alcohol abuse education and prevention. Subtitle G: Community-Based Volunteer Demonstration Projects for Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Services and Activities - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to authorize the Director of the ACTION Agency to make grants to public and nonprofit organizations for innovative, community-based volunteer demonstration projects that provide comprehensive drug abuse education and prevention services and activities to youth during the summer months. Enumerates permissible activities, including: (1) extending effective school-based programs to the summer months; (2) offering summer recreational, volunteer service, and youth development activities as positive alternatives to illicit drug use; and (3) incorporating drug abuse education and prevention activities in public and private programs serving youth during the summer months. Gives priority to projects that serve high-risk youth and provide opportunities for parent involvement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subtitle H: Amendments to the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 - Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to limit the amount that may be used for administrative expenses of the chief executive officer of the State under provisions for State and local programs. Allows up to ten percent of participants in innovative State programs under such Act to be individuals who are not high-risk youth, if the Secretary of Education determines that their participation will not significantly diminish the amount or quality of services provided to high-risk youth. Revises standards for drug abuse education curricular and teaching materials and the information from which they are developed. Subtitle I: Miscellaneous - Defines terms for purposes of this title. Title III: Committee on Foreign Affairs - Subtitle A: General Provisions - International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 - Defines terms used in this title. Subtitle B: Latin American Regional Anti-Narcotics Force and Integrated Plan to Fight the International Cocaine Trade - Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning the need for a Latin American regional anti-narcotics force. Instructs the President to direct the U.S. representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) to consult with other member nations on the feasibility of establishing a Latin American regional anti-narcotics force. Directs the President to call for a meeting of heads of state of member nations, if there is a positive response within OAS, to conclude an agreement for the establishment of such a force, with appropriate member contributions of personnel, training, equipment, and financial resources. Requires the President to direct the Secretary of Defense to provide appropriate assistance for the force. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees not less than 15 days before obligating funds authorized under this subtitle. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters (Assistant Secretary) should: (1) seek the establishment of a regional anti-narcotics training center in the Caribbean; and (2) contribute funds or other resources and seek contributions from other countries to such a center. Urges the President to seek the establishment of other regional anti-narcotics forces. Directs the Secretary of State to consult with other Government officials and the governments of relevant countries about the feasibility of a comprehensive multinational plan designed to reduce or eliminate the international cocaine trade. Requires a report to the Congress not later than six months after this title's enactment. Subtitle C: Authorizations and Earmarkings of Foreign Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) to authorize FY 1989 appropriations for international narcotics control assistance to other countries and to international organizations. Sets a minimum expenditure level for the testing and use of safe, effective herbicides for aerial eradication of coca. Makes available a portion of FY 1989 grant military assistance funds to arm, for defensive purposes, extant aircraft used in narcotics eradication or interdiction efforts. Applies the standard 15 days' notice requirement to specified congressional committees in connection with this reprogramming. Earmarks amounts from funds for international military education and training to be used solely for: (1) education and training involving equipment used in narcotics interdiction and eradication efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean; and (2) the expenses of deploying Department of Defense mobile training teams in a requesting country to conduct training in military-related skills to improve its tactical operations in narcotics interdiction. Limits this assistance to foreign law enforcement agencies or other units organized expressly for narcotics enforcement and to countries that meet criteria set out in this title. Waives provisions that would prohibit the use of grant military assistance funds to procure weapons or ammunition for foreign law enforcement entities when they are organized specifically for narcotics enforcement in countries meeting the criteria of this title. Directs the President to report to the Congress within 15 days before funds are obligated for this type of assistance. Describes required report contents. Provides for human rights reporting with respect to countries authorized to receive assistance. Earmarks an amount to be available solely for assistance for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Directs the President to reallocate funds withheld from countries failing to take adequate steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking for use by countries that have met their illicit drug eradication targets or have otherwise taken significant steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking. Prescribes conditions to govern transfers among international narcotics control assistance funds and reprogramming of security assistance resulting from these reallocations. Authorizes supplemental FY 1988 appropriations, to remain available until expended, for activities to increase awareness of the effects of illicit narcotics production and trafficking on source and transit countries. Subtitle D: Provisions Relating to Specific Countries - Urges the Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters to pay greater attention, and provide more narcotics control assistance, to those countries that are drug-transit countries (but not major ones) cooperating with U.S. international narcotics control efforts. Earmarks a minimum FY 1989 amount to be available for their assistance. Permits security assistance to Bolivia for FY 1989 only if the President certifies to the Congress that the Government of Bolivia has enacted and is implementing specified types of legislation to eradicate illicit coca production. Sets nonwaivable conditions that the Government of Bolivia must meet before the President may make the certification necessary to obligate and expend FY 1989 U.S. assistance funds suspended because of major illicit drug activities (certification). Requires that project agreement documents for projects in particular areas of Brazil contain a clause calling for suspension of FY 1989 development assistance if specified coca-related objectives are not met. Deletes a provision of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988 that earmarked funds for narcotics interdiction and control programs for Bolivia. Directs the President, in making FY 1989 determinations with respect to the certification necessary for assistance to Peru, to give foremost consideration to whether the Government of Peru made substantial progress in meeting its coca eradication targets during the previous year. Describes conditions that must be met before FY 1989 funds may be made available for the Agency for International Development's project in the Upper Huallaga Valley of Peru. Limits FY 1989 international narcotics control assistance made available for Mexico. Withholds a portion of these funds until the President reports to the Congress the Mexican Government's compliance with conditions relating to the murder and torture of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents. Directs the President, in making FY 1989 determinations with respect to the certification necessary for assistance to Mexico, to consider the Mexican Government's response to U.S. proposals to establish and implement a joint U.S.-Mexico airborne apprehension capability and air surveillance operations. Encourages the Government of Mexico, upon ratification of the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States, to furnish banking information pursuant to the treaty that would permit the successful U.S. investigation and prosecution of major narco-terrorists who use Mexican financial institutions to launder their profits. Includes Colombia among the countries authorized to have more than six members of the U.S. armed forces assigned to carry out international security assistance programs. Authorizes supplemental FY 1988 appropriations, to remain available until expended, to be used exclusively for defense articles to the Colombian armed forces to support their anti-narcotics efforts. Earmarks amounts, to be available until expended, to assist Colombia in providing protection against narco-terrorist attacks on judges, other government officials, and members of the press. Requires congressional notification at least 15 days before funds may be obligated. Directs the President, in making determinations with respect to the certification necessary for assistance to Pakistan, to take into account the extent to which the Government of Pakistan is increasing specified anti-narcotics activities. Directs the President to review and report to the Congress by December 31, 1988, on U.S. narcotics raw material policy, determining the options available to reduce U.S. reliance on licit opium gum from foreign sources. Directs the President to make a certification for FY 1989 with respect to India only if he determines that the Government of India has taken certain actions to curb illicit opium cultivation and production. Requires the President, if certification is made, to include a detailed report on what steps were taken and an estimate of the amount of licit opium still being diverted to the illicit market. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should pursue efforts to press the Government of Afghanistan, and work with the Mujahadeen, to reduce heroin production and trafficking in areas under their respective control and to encourage eradication, interdiction, and crop substitution in Afghanistan; and (2) an initiative should be developed which could be put in place as the Mujahadeen and successors to the present Kabul regime begin to exert greater civil authority. Directs the President to prepare and transmit to the Congress quarterly reports containing determinations with respect to any involvement by the Government of Laos (and other governments in the region) in illicit drug production and trafficking. Describes required report contents, depending on the determinations reached. Prohibits U.S. assistance to Laos and directs the U.S. representative to any multilateral development bank to vote to oppose any loan or other use of funds for the benefit of Laos, if the Government or any senior official of Laos is involved in illicit drug production or trafficking, unless the President certifies to the Congress that overriding vital national interests require the assistance and it would improve the prospects for cooperation with Laos in halting the flow of illegal drugs. Subtitle E: Annual Report and Certification Process for Foreign Assistance Programs - Requires the President's annual report to the Congress pursuant to the FAA to: (1) express in numerical terms the maximum reductions in illicit drug production achievable during the next fiscal year; and (2) describe the U.S. assistance for the preceding fiscal year that was denied to each major illicit drug producing country and each major drug-transit country. Requires certification to include the determination that a government has taken the legal and law enforcement steps necessary to eliminate, to the maximum extent possible, corruption by government officials. Establishes a timetable according to which the Secretary of State must establish numerical standards and other guidelines for determining which countries will be considered as major drug-transit countries for FAA purposes. Requires reports to appropriate congressional committees in connection with these standards and their modification. Sets forth a transitional timetable for 1988. Revises the FAA definition of "bilateral narcotics agreement" for purposes of certifications made on or after March 1, 1989. Amends related FAA provisions to permit multilateral agreements as an alternative to bilateral ones. Waives restrictions on FY 1989 U.S. assistance to any major drug-transit country if the President certifies to the Congress that: (1) significant drug-related money laundering is not occurring there with government knowledge or complicity; (2) the country previously was a major illicit drug producing country but has effectively eliminated illicit drug production during each of the preceding two years; and (3) the country is cooperating fully with the United States or has taken adequate steps on its own in satisfying specified anti-narcotics goals. Revises procedures governing congressional review of presidential certifications associated with suspensions of U.S. assistance. Revises the FAA definition of "United States assistance" to exclude certain assistance for narcotics education and awareness activities. Directs the President to report to the Congress annually, rather than biannually, listing each major illicit drug producing country and major drug-transit country. Includes this report in the required midyear report on international narcotics control activities and operations. Deletes FAA provisions requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of various multidevelopment banks to vote against any loan or other use of institution funds to or for major illicit drug producing or drug-transit countries. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Assistance Programs - Applies the standard reprogramming procedures of the FAA to any transfer by the U.S. Government to a foreign country for narcotics control purposes of any property seized by or otherwise forfeited to the Government in connection with narcotics-related activity. Requires annual reports to the Congress regarding such transfers. Expresses the sense of the Congress that suppression of international narcotics trafficking is among the most important U.S. foreign policy objectives. Directs the President to take all reasonable steps to ensure that assistance under the FAA and the Arms Export Control Act is not provided to or through any individual or entity that the President knows or has reason to believe: (1) has been convicted of a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, any U.S. or foreign law relating to narcotics, psychotropic drugs, or other controlled substances; or (2) is or has been an illicit trafficker in any such substance. Requires the President to issue regulations, subject to congressional review, specifying steps to be taken in carrying out this provision. Urges the Secretary of State to take appropriate corrective action to improve the Department of State's procurement operations in order to assure timely and efficient procurement of property and services for international narcotics control assistance. Prohibits the use of narcotics control assistance funds to acquire real property for use by foreign military, paramilitary, or law enforcement forces. Corrects technical errors in the FAA and in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Amends the FAA to permit reimbursement for Department of Defense services in providing international narcotics control assistance. Subtitle G: Department of State Activities - Makes the Secretary of State responsible for coordinating all Government assistance to support international efforts to combat illicit narcotics production or trafficking. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to the appropriate congressional committees. Describes required report contents. Allows reports to be classified to the extent necessary. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize appropriations, without fiscal year limitation, for rewards for information leading to the arrest or conviction of individuals for certain extraterritorial narcotics-related offenses. Prohibits the issuance of a passport and requires the Secretary of State to revoke any passport previously issued to any individual who is convicted of certain drug law offenses if the individual used a passport or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense. Applies these restrictions during the period when the person is either imprisoned or on parole or other supervised release in connection with the offense in question. Permits exceptions in emergency circumstances or for humanitarian reasons. Empowers the President to prescribe, by regulation, procedures for indicating an individual's drug law violations on passports, other travel documents, and identification papers used during immigration and customs inspections. Authorizes supplemental FY 1988 appropriations, to remain available until expended, solely for State Department expenses in developing and implementing a machine-readable visa system. Directs the Secretary to place greater emphasis on updating extradition treaties and on negotiating mutual legal assistance treaties with major illicit drug producing and drug-transit countries. Requires the Secretary and the Attorney General jointly to develop a model extradition treaty with respect to narcotics-related violations, a model mutual legal assistance treaty, and model comprehensive anti-narcotics legislation. Directs the Secretary to distribute these materials to each U.S. mission abroad and to report to the Congress within six months of this title's enactment. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Regional Security Officers and other security personnel at U.S. embassies and other civilian posts abroad should be directed to expand their investigative activities with respect to illicit drug use and trafficking by Government personnel and their dependents. Urges the Secretary to permit the assignment of additional DEA agents to U.S. diplomatic missions in foreign countries where illicit narcotics production or trafficking is, or is likely to become, a significant problem. Title IV: Committee on Government Operations - Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 - Sets forth drug-free workplace requirements for Federal grantees and contractors. Sets forth grounds for suspension, termination, or debarment of grantees or contractors who have violated such requirements. Sets forth rules for related proceedings and the effect of such debarment. Requires grantees or contractors, within 30 days after receiving notice from an employee of a conviction for a drug law violation in the workplace, to: (1) take appropriate personnel action, up to and including termination against the employee; or (2) require the employee to participate satisfactorily in an approved drug rehabilitation program. Provides for waiver of the requirements of this title in the interest of the Federal Government or the general public. Sets forth the authority of boards of contract appeals under this title. Title V: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Subtitle A: Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment - Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to direct the Secretaries of the Interior and of Health and Human Services (HHS) to submit, with their FY 1990 budget requests, a joint report to specified congressional committees on the minimum performance standards developed for Federal agency program responsibilities under the Memorandum of Agreement in connection with inter-departmental coordination of Indian alcohol and substance abuse programs. Requires Tribal Action Plans to include provisions for developing and implementing a remedial plan for complying with minimum performance standards. Adds as duties of the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse: (1) monitoring the performance in achieving compliance with minimum performance standards through remedial plans of Tribal Action Plans; and (2) reporting to the Congress instances when remedial plans are needed to address program deficiencies. Permits Tribal Action Plans to include provisions for Plan modification. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for grants to Indian tribes to develop Tribal Action Plans. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior and of HHS to enter into long-term leases of tribally owned facilities to house programs under this title if there is no Federal facility available and if the cost of constructing one would exceed the cost of the lease. Permits the leasing of a tribal facility for use as a regional treatment center only if all the tribes within the Indian Health Service area served consent to the lease. Specifies permitted uses of halfway houses. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for halfway houses and emergency shelters for Indian youth. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to assist the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York in developing tribal law enforcement and judicial systems to aid in the investigation and control of illegal narcotics traffic on their reservation along the Canadian border. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1990 appropriations for this assistance. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for assistance to the Tohono O'odham Tribe of Arizona for illegal narcotics traffic investigation and control. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for: (1) marijuana eradication programs in Indian country; and (2) Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement and judicial training programs. Prohibits the Indian Health Service from refusing to give necessary interim treatment to any Indian youth arrested or detained for offenses relating to alcohol or substance abuse. Authorizes FY 1990 and 1991 appropriations for the construction or renovation of juvenile detention centers and FY 1990 appropriations for staffing and operating these types of centers. Makes corresponding provisions with respect to youth regional treatment centers under the Indian Health Service Youth Program. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for training and community education. Decreases funds authorized for the Navajo Alcohol Rehabilitation Demonstration Program for FY 1989 and 1990. Authorizes appropriations for the Program for each subsequent fiscal year. Establishes an urban Indian program under which the Secretary of HHS is authorized to make grants to certain urban Indian organizations to provide health-related services in school and community-based education, prevention, treatment, or rehabilitation of alcohol and substance abuse in urban centers. Sets forth grant criteria. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations. Authorizes a separate FY 1990 amount for research. Calls for separate accounts with respect to funds appropriated for coordination of Department of the Interior and of HHS resources and programs and for Indian youth programs of Indian Health Service programs. Subtitle B: National Park System, Public Lands, and National Forest System - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to authorize additional appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for FY 1989 and thereafter to be used for the employment and training of National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management law enforcement personnel and associated equipment and facilities. Authorizes corresponding appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture for Forest Service law enforcement personnel. Establishes criminal penalties for creating a serious hazard to life or the environment when the violator knowingly uses a poison, chemical, or other hazardous substance on Federal lands in connection with unlawful acts relating to controlled substances. Subtitle C: Insular Areas - Insular Areas Drug Abuse Amendments of 1988 - Amends the United States Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to add the Secretary of Education as a principal in administering such Act's enforcement and administration provisions. Applies such Act to substance abuse generally rather than limiting it solely to drug abuse. Replaces current authorizations with an authorization for FY 1989 and subsequent fiscal years for grants to the Governments of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (amounts to remain available until expended), and Palau, to be spent in accordance with an approved plan. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide the Government of American Samoa with a vessel for narcotics enforcement and other law enforcement activities. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for a grant to the Government of Guam to be spent for drug abuse law enforcement equipment in accordance with an approved plan. Authorizes FY 1990 and subsequent fiscal year appropriations, to remain available until expended, to the Government of the Virgin Islands, to be spent in accordance with an approved plan. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Education to provide appropriate law enforcement training, technical assistance, and equipment upon the request of the government of any insular area covered under such Act. Directs the Attorney General to assign necessary personnel to serve in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands to assist in the prosecution of narcotics law violations. Authorizes appropriations, effective FY 1989, for a grant to the Virgin Islands Government to be used for a substance abuse facility in accordance with an approved plan. Brings Palau within the jurisdiction of such Act. Authorizes the major Federal law enforcement entities, including the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Customs Service, upon the request of the Palau Government, to cooperate with Palau's law enforcement agencies in investigating U.S. criminal law violations there. Sets October first as the transmission date for the President's annual reports to specified congressional committees on the illegal transit of controlled substances from insular areas into the United States and from other nations into the insular areas. Suspends the expenditure of funds for both the Office of Territorial and International Affairs of the Department of the Interior and the Office of Freely Associated State Affairs for the relevant fiscal year if the reports are not timely. Title VI: Committee on the Judiciary - Anti-Drug Abuse Amendments Act of 1988 - Subtitle A: Chemical Diversion and Trafficking - Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish recordkeeping and reporting requirements for persons who manufacture, distribute, import, or export a listed precursor or essential chemical, a tableting machine, or an encapsulating machine. Prohibits transactions involving these items unless the recipient provides both a certificate of lawful use and proper identification. Requires the Attorney Generally to report annually, not later than March 31, on the number and types of these certificates during the preceding fiscal year, along with an analysis of the law enforcement effectiveness of their issuance. Includes confidentiality provisions with respect to records, authorizing an aggrieved person to bring a civil action against violators. Authorizes the Attorney General to prescribe necessary regulations to govern reporting and recordkeeping. Lists criteria to be met by any such regulations, including a one-year limitation on any regulation's effectiveness. Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to require importers and exporters of listed chemicals to notify the Attorney General of importations or exportations within 15 days before the transaction in question. Provides for exceptions with respect to transactions with regular business customers of the regulated person, if the relationship is reported to the Attorney General. Authorizes the Attorney General to order the suspension of a transaction. Requires written notice justifying such an order. Entitles the affected regulated person to a hearing, if requested. Establishes criminal penalties for persons who knowingly or intentionally import or export a listed chemical with intent to manufacture a controlled substance or with reasonable cause to believe that the chemical will be used for such a purpose. Applies civil penalties to persons who fail to meet notification requirements, unless the failure is intentional, in which case criminal penalties apply. Lists the precursor chemicals and essential chemicals regulated under this Act. Describes transactions exempted from reporting and recordkeeping requirements, including certain lawful distributions in the usual course of business between agents or employees of a single regulated person and transactions involving listed chemicals contained in a drug lawfully marketable under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to apply criminal penalties to persons who knowingly or intentionally: (1) possess a listed chemical with intent to manufacture a controlled substance; (2) possess or distribute a chemical having reasonable cause to believe that it will be used for such a purpose; (3) distribute a listed chemical unlawfully; or (4) possess listed chemicals with knowledge that recordkeeping or reporting requirements have not been met and fail to remedy the violation. Authorizes as an additional penalty an injunction preventing any person convicted of a felony violation of controlled substances laws regarding listed chemicals from engaging in any regulated transaction involving a listed chemical for up to ten years. Amends sections of the Controlled Substances Act that describe prohibited acts and penalties to account expressly for new violations instituted in this subtitle. Grants the Attorney General subpoena power with respect to precursor and essential chemicals. Subjects all listed precursor and essential chemicals, drug manufacturing equipment, tableting and encapsulating machines, and gelatin capsules that have been imported, exported, manufactured, possessed, or distributed in violation of such Act (as well as all conveyances and equipment) to forfeiture to the United States. Subtitle B: Asset Forfeiture Amendments - Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal judicial code to require annual Comptroller General audits of the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. Directs the Attorney General to deposit in the Treasury at the end of each fiscal year up to $5,000,000 of Fund amounts in excess of its obligations. Repeals provisions authorizing transfers of excess Fund monies to the Building and Facilities Account of the Federal Prison System. Authorizes the Attorney General to exempt certain contract services from specified advertising and procurement requirements if necessary to maintain the security and confidentiality of an investigation. Decreases the percentage of program related use required in connection with automatic data processing equipment purchased or leased with Fund monies. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exempt conveyances from forfeiture for drug abuse violations, to the extent of the interest of an owner who did not know of or consent to the relevant unlawful act or omission. Directs the Attorney General to assure that equitable sharing principles are applied with respect to property transferred to a State or local law enforcement agency that participated directly in the seizure or forfeiture. Instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and maintain a joint plan to coordinate and consolidate post-seizure administration of property seized under controlled substances laws. Establishes expedited procedures for seized conveyances. Subtitle C: State and Local Assistance - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1988 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to earmark five percent of funds appropriated to the Bureau of Justice Statistics for grants to States and to local governments to improve the accuracy and completeness of criminal history information. Transfers responsibility for the appointment of the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (Bureau) from the Attorney General to the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Bureau to make grants to States for the purpose of developing and implementing antiterrorism plans for deep draft ports, international airports, and other facilities. Revises application requirements for drug law enforcement grants to States to require certification that the State is undertaking specified types of activities to reduce the demand for controlled substances. Adds provisions to: (1) govern State distribution of funds to local governments under formula grants for drug law enforcement programs; and (2) permit local governments to apply directly to the Bureau Director for grants. Describes application procedures, the review process, allocation and distribution criteria, and recordkeeping and reporting requirements in connection with these grants. Decreases the Federal percentage of expenditures under the grants. Revises the allocation of funds for discretionary grants to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations for drug law enforcement programs. Authorizes discretionary grants to States and local governments for a special discretionary fund to finance drug law enforcement officer incentives, training, and recruitment programs. Earmarks amounts for these grants. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1992 appropriations for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and for grants to States and local governments for criminal justice facility construction under a pilot program. Increases the FY 1989 authorization for grants to States and local governments for drug law enforcement programs and authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations for such grants. Includes programs for alcohol-dependent offenders and provision of automated fingerprint identification systems among activities authorized under the block grant program of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Subtitle D: Authorizations of Appropriations for the Department of Justice and for Prisons - Authorizes FY 1989 and additional FY 1988 appropriations to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Earmarks a portion of the FY 1989 amount for voice privacy equipment. Authorizes FY 1989 appropriations to the DOJ for Federal Bureau of Investigation drug enforcement and related activities. Authorizes additional FY 1989 DOJ appropriations for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement and for Immigration and Naturalization Service interdiction efforts and related activities. Authorizes FY 1989 appropriations for the Federal Prison System. Directs the DEA Administrator to take actions to establish and operate a special purpose facility for the DEA's Air Wing, to be located at a site with direct aircraft access to public aviation facilities. Authorizes appropriations for this purpose. Subtitle E: Money Laundering - Money Laundering Prosecution Improvements Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize expressly the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service to investigate certain violations concerning the laundering of monetary instruments and monetary transactions in property derived from various unlawful activities. Excludes monetary transactions involving bona fide attorney fees from consideration as unlawful activity for particular racketeering law purposes. Revises the definition of "monetary instrument" for money laundering purposes. Establishes criminal penalties for knowingly conducting or attempting to conduct a financial transaction involving proceeds of specified unlawful activity with intent either to evade or defeat tax or to make fraudulent and false statements. Subtitle F: Sense of Congress that Proposals to Legalize Illicit Drugs Should be Rejected - Expresses the sense of the Congress that proposals to legalize illicit drugs should be rejected and consideration given only to proposals that directly attack the supply and demand for illicit drugs. Subtitle G: Firearms Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties applicable to any person who knowingly: (1) travels to another State to acquire or transfer a firearm for use in racketeering, drug law violations, or a crime of violence; or (2) transfers a firearm knowing that it will be used to commit a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime. Brady Amendment - Establishes a seven-day waiting period to precede transfer of a handgun to an unlicensed individual. Requires the transferor to send to the local chief law enforcement officer the sworn statement of the transferee detailing specified information relating to the proposed transaction. Exempts from the waiting period the purchase of a handgun certified by the chief law enforcement officer as necessary because the transferee's life is threatened. Directs the transferor to submit required additional information to the law enforcement officer upon receiving notice that the transfer is unlawful. Sets forth recordkeeping requirements. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of these handgun transfer provisions. Denies Federal preemption with respect to State law on the same subject if it provides for a waiting period of at least seven days or for an alternative pretransfer determination by a law enforcement officer that the transferee is qualified lawfully to receive a handgun. Subtitle H: Investigative Powers of Postal Service Personnel and National Forest System Drug Control - Amends the Federal criminal code to permit certain Postal Service personnel to carry firearms and make seizures of property under specified circumstances. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow the Postal Service to carry out the Attorney General's civil forfeiture activities with respect to controlled substances and related articles and conveyances. Directs that proceeds of forfeitures conducted by the Postal Service be deposited in the Postal Service Fund. Amends the National Forest System Drug Control Act of 1986 to revise provisions under which the Secretary of Agriculture may designate and specially train Forest Service employees as officers to enforce controlled substances law and other Federal criminal law relating to National Forest System lands. Removes the limitation on the number of employees who may be so designated. Empowers the Secretary of Agriculture to designate law enforcement officers of other Federal agencies to exercise specified law enforcement powers when assisting Forest Service personnel in relevant activities. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney General each to submit to specified congressional committees a report on their respective activities in expediting investigations with respect to criminal laws relating to controlled substances manufactured or distributed on National Forest System lands. Subtitle I: Travel Expenses and Health Care of Department of Justice Personnel Serving Abroad - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize Department of Justice appropriations for any fiscal year to pay travel and health care expenses of employees serving abroad and their families. Subtitle J: Program-Related and Study Provisions - Amends the Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act of 1978 to increase amounts authorized for FY 1988 and 1989 for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' program of drug aftercare for certain conditionally released offenders. Instructs the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to establish a one-year demonstration program of mandatory drug testing of criminal defendants. Sets out a general framework for the program. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on its effectiveness. Instructs the Director of the National Institute of Corrections to establish and operate a national center for training Federal, State, and local prison officials to conduct drug rehabilitation programs for criminals convicted of drug-related crimes and for drug-dependent criminals. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations. Subtitle K: Manufacturing Offenses - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose criminal penalties for creating a substantial risk of harm to human life while illegally manufacturing a controlled substance. Subtitle L: Common Carrier, Locomotive, and Motor Vehicle Offenses - Amends the Federal criminal code to revise criminal penalties for operating vehicles while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to: (1) include the operation of locomotives within the penalty framework; and (2) increase penalties in cases involving death or serious bodily injury. Defines criminal penalties for drunk or drugged driving in Federal areas to be those under the law of the relevant State or other jurisdiction. Limits driving restrictions, including license restrictions, imposed as penalties for such crimes to the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Presumes that individuals operating motor vehicles in Federal areas consent to submit to alcohol and drug tests upon reasonable grounds. Describes procedures associated with such testing. Revokes driving privileges in such areas to any person who declines to submit to testing after being informed of his or her rights. Title VII: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Coast Guard Drug Enforcement Act of 1988 - Amends Federal law to indemnify commanders of surface naval vessels on which Coast Guard personnel are assigned from penalties or litigation for damages for firing at or into vessels that refuse to stop upon proper warning. Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to indemnify Coast Guard members and employees against claims or judgments arising out of acts committed within the scope of official law enforcement duties. Amends the Suits in Admiralty Act to disallow actions against the United States or against U.S. employees for acts or omissions while acting within the scope of employment with respect to enumerated types of claims. Amends the Public Vessels Act to disallow any libel or petition against the United States for damages caused by a public vessel in connection with the same enumerated types of claims. Revises the scope of primary duties of the Coast Guard to include the enforcement of Federal laws above the high seas and waters. Directs the Secretaries of Transportation and of the Treasury to enter into an agreement to increase the effectiveness of Coast Guard and Customs Service maritime drug interdiction activities in the Great Lakes area. Encourages the Secretary of State to negotiate with appropriate Canadian officials to establish an agreement for increased cooperation and information sharing between U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officials with respect to efforts on the Great Lakes border. Exempts conveyances from forfeiture for drug abuse violations, to the extent of the interest of an owner who did not know of or consent to the relevant offense. Authorizes FY 1989 appropriations to the Coast Guard for acquisition, construction, and improvements and FY 1989 through 1992 appropriations for operating expenses. Makes all of these amounts available until expended and supplemental to other amounts and personnel strengths. Title VIII: Committee on Public Works and Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration Drug Enforcement Assistance Act of 1988 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Federal Aviation Administrator to modify systems relating to aircraft registration, airman's certification, and fuel system alterations in order to make these systems more responsive to the needs of drug law enforcement authorities. Cites the areas to be modified. Requires the Administrator to issue final regulations implementing such modifications within ten months after the date of enactment of this title. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and collect user fees to cover the costs associated with these modifications. Prescribes user fee guidelines. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct annual audits of fee collection and use during the first five years of their imposition. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress for a five-year period regarding the progress made under this title. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this title and sets forth administrative procedures and jurisdictional requirements in connection with their imposition. Establishes criminal penalties for an enumerated series of aircraft registration violations. Cites conditions under which an aircraft used in connection with violations under this Act may be seized by drug law enforcement authorities. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress for a three-year period on progress regarding: (1) informational assistance to drug law enforcement authorities; (2) registration and certification suspensions; (3) assessments of the appropriate relationship among Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informational assistance resources; and (4) the training of FAA personnel with respect to controlled substances traffic. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on the funding resources needed on an annual basis to implement this Act during a five-year period. Requires that budget requests transmitted to the President or the Secretary of Transportation relating to implementation of this title be concurrently submitted to certain congressional committees and officials. Requires the Office of Personnel Management to report to the Congress within 120 days after enactment of this title regarding the results of its review of a certain FAA position classification scheme. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress the results of a feasibility and cost/benefit study (with respect to drug interdiction) of requiring aircraft entering the continental United States to have an operating transponder installed and to have a flight plan filed with the FAA before such entry. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress the results of a study of: (1) the feasibility of intercepting aircraft deviating from established flight corridors across the borders of the continental United States; and (2) the impact of the establishment of such corridors on safe and efficient aircraft movement and upon drug interdiction. Applies this title only to aircraft that are not used to provide specified air transportation. Title IX: Committee on Ways and Means - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations for the United States Customs Service - Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize FY 1989 appropriations for the U.S. Customs Service for: (1) salaries and expenses incurred in both commercial and noncommercial operations; (2) operation and maintenance of the air interdiction program; and (3) purchase and construction of an x-ray imagery vapor sensitive cargo scanning device. Subtitle B: Other Customs Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to: (1) increase the penalty for failure to declare controlled substances; and (2) add options for the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with forfeited property, permitting the Secretary to retain property for official use or transfer it to a foreign government that cooperated in joint law enforcement operations. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Transportation jointly to issue air carrier controlled substance interdiction regulations for a two-year demonstration program subject to the jurisdiction and oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. Sets forth criteria to govern these regulations, to be applied to at least three U.S. international airports classified by the Customs Service as high-risk and based upon the highest volume of cargo and number of aircraft arriving from high-risk points of departure. Requires that the regulations establish procedures for the development and approval of supplemental inspection practices reflecting the nature and level of controlled substance threat that particular foreign locations pose and the ambient security conditions at each foreign airport. Exempts participating air carriers that comply with the program from fines, penalties, and seizure provisions associated with drug smuggling. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer a specified aircraft to the Office of the Sheriff of Marion County, Indiana, for drug enforcement and prisoner transportation uses. Subtitle C: Annual Certification Procedures - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to increase from 30 days to 45 days the congressional period in connection with sanctions against uncooperative major drug producing or drug-transit countries. Revises, beginning on March 1, 1989, the criteria used to determine a country's cooperation for purposes of certification procedures under such Act to require the country to have a bilateral narcotics agreement with the United States or a comparable multilateral agreement. Requires the agreements to mandate actions to effect an enumerated list of anti-narcotics objectives. Requires, effective FY 1989, a country designated in the previous year as a major drug producing or drug-transit country to be party to such an agreement for certification purposes. Waives certification requirements if vital U.S. national interests so demand. Directs the Secretary of State annually to establish numerical standards and other guidelines for identifying major drug-transit countries. Title X: Committee on Energy and Commerce - Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Amendments Act of 1988 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and reorganize provisions relating to mental health and substance abuse programs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make FY 1989 through 1991 allotments and payments to the States and territories for the purpose of preventing the transmission of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by eradicating intravenous drug abuse. Requires States to make non-Federal contributions available as matching funds in connection with these programs, except for FY 1989. Enumerates permissible grant uses, including AIDS testing and drug treatment programs. Sets forth requirements to be met by States seeking grants, including a requirement that the State assure that it will prohibit the operation of any public bath knowingly operated in ways that render it a public health hazard with respect to AIDS. Describes application requirements. Sets forth formulas for determining allotments among the various States and territories. Directs the Secretary of HHS to make categorical grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist grantees. Limits funding for these grants to amounts appropriated for State allotments but not paid for various noncompliance reasons. Requires: (1) evaluations of programs carried out by these grantees; and (2) the collection and dissemination of information relating to the programs and to AIDS and intravenous drug abuse. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations. Lists conditions applicable to these appropriations, including requirements about information to be included in counseling of persons under funded programs. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, to make allotments and payments to States and territories each fiscal year to establish and carry out, through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements with public and nonprofit private entities, substance abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and related activities. Specifies application procedures and requirements, including a requirement that a State agree to use specified portions of the payments for programs and activities related to: (1) alcoholism and alcohol abuse; (2) drug abuse; (3) prevention and early intervention in connection with alcohol and drug abuse; and (4) such programs and services designed for women. Requires, in addition, that grants be made for demonstration projects offering residential treatment services for expectant mothers. Sets forth a formula for determining allotments, including special provisions for direct payment to Indian tribes or tribal organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to develop and evaluate alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary of HHS, acting through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, to make allotments and payments to the States and territories each fiscal year to plan, develop, and provide community mental health and related support services. Describes application procedures and criteria, including requirements that a State, in order to receive payment, must agree to: (1) respect specified priorities in connection with grant monies; (2) develop and coordinate comprehensive mental health services that meet enumerated criteria; and (3) establish and maintain a mental health planning council with specified duties. Sets forth a formula for determining allotments, including special provisions for direct payment to Indian tribes or tribal organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to develop and evaluate community mental health programs and services. Authorizes the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health to establish research centers to carry out the evaluations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to develop and make available a model plan for a community-based system for the care of chronically mentally ill individuals. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations. Enumerates general provisions applicable to the block grants instituted under this title. Includes requirements that applicant States: (1) submit descriptions of the programs and activities to be funded by the grant, as well as identifications of populations and geographic areas to be served; (2) provide public notice and opportunity for comment; (3) respect listed restrictions on the use of payments; (4) agree to enumerated conditions concerning reporting, spending levels, independent peer review, and provision of services without regard for a person's ability to pay or past health conditions; and (5) report annually and make records available to the public. Requires repayment of funds if a State fails to comply with required agreements. Applies criminal penalties to persons who make false statements or withhold relevant information in connection with grant-related payments or services. Prohibits discrimination with respect to programs and activities funded under this title's provisions. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action against any State or entity that violates nondiscrimination requirements. Directs the Secretary to provide free technical assistance to a State or other entity receiving payments under specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide supplies and services in lieu of grant funds. Requires the Secretary, no later than October 1, 1990, to report to the Congress on the activities of the States carried out under the grant programs relating to AIDS and intravenous drug abuse and for community mental health services. Prohibits the Secretary of HHS from providing Federal financial assistance for AIDS counseling and testing unless the applicant agrees to ensure the confidentiality of information and records with respect to individuals counseled or tested. Requires a written, signed statement of informed consent by the individual to be tested, with special provisions relating to testing through the use of a pseudonym and anonymous testing. Requires recipients of Federal assistance to include specified topics in their counseling before testing, after a negative test result, and after a positive test result. Requires grantees, where appropriate, to provide opportunities for women, children, and hemophiliacs, to undergo counseling under conditions appropriate to their needs. Allows grantees to use the grant to provide counseling without testing. Prohibits the Secretary from providing Federal financial assistance for AIDS counseling and testing unless the applicant agrees to comply with these confidentiality, informed consent, and counseling content requirements, even if Federal funds are not used for the testing. Prohibits States from receiving Federal financial assistance for AIDS counseling and testing unless the State assures that it will require: (1) testing entities confidentially to report to the State public health officer information necessary for statistical and epidemiological analyses; (2) the State public health officer to carry out a program of contact tracing; and (3) testing of each individual who is convicted of prostitution or any crime relating to sexual assault or intravenous drug abuse. Requires the State to notify the individual before the test is performed. Requires, on request of a victim of a crime relating to sexual assault, that the victim be notified of the test results. Requires State grantees to establish a civil cause of action and a criminal penalty for actions by an infected individual that expose another individual to the etiologic agent through: (1) donation of blood, semen, breast milk, or an organ; (2) sexual activity; and (3) any behavior with intent to expose another individual. Provides for an exception if the person exposed gives prior consent to the exposure. Allows the State chief executive officer to certify, in lieu of enactment of any statute or issuance of any regulation, that the law of the State is in substantial compliance. Requires recipients of Federal assistance for AIDS counseling and testing, to the extent permitted under State law, to offer substantial opportunities for an individual to undergo counseling and testing anonymously and through the use of a pseudonym. Prohibits requiring testing as a condition of receiving other health services, unless the testing is medically indicated in the health services being sought. Prohibits Federal financial assistance for AIDS counseling and testing to be expended to carry out programs for distributing sterile needles or bleach to clean needles for hypodermic injections of illegal drugs. Establishes standards and requirements to govern confidentiality with respect to AIDS counseling and testing. Prohibits certain persons, without regard to whether they receive Federal financial assistance, from disclosing identifying information with respect to a protected individual or a contact of such individual. Authorizes consensual disclosure of identifying information through a specified procedure that requires consent of the protected individual, consent of the guardian of a legally incompetent person, or consent, after the death of the protected individual, by the claimant of life insurance proceeds, for disclosure to the insurance company. Provides for nonconsensual disclosure: (1) to a health care provider in connection with counseling or testing; (2) to the protected individual or to the guardian of an incompetent individual; (3) to a health care provider who is likely to be occupationally exposed to the etiologic agent; (4) to a State public health officer if required by State law; (5) in connection with donation of blood, semen, breast milk, or an organ; (6) to a person preparing the body of a protected individual for burial; (7) intraorganizationally as necessary; (8) from a person receiving disclosure to any authorized person for authorized purposes; and (9) in connection with certain sales, transfers, mergers, or consolidations of organizations. Authorizes a court of competent jurisdiction, with respect to the protected individual or contact involved, to: (1) order disclosure of identifying information to a State health officer in order to prevent a clear and imminent danger of transmission of the etiologic agent by the individual or contact; and (2) authorize the officer to disclose identifying information to the extent reasonably necessary to prevent such danger. Sets forth procedures, including in camera hearings, use of pseudonyms, and sealing of records. Authorizes physicians and counselors to make nonconsensual disclosures to spouses, sexual contacts, and people with whom the protected individual has shared a hypodermic needle, in certain circumstances. Provides for nonconsensual disclosures to victims of sexual assault. Requires, subject to exception, that: (1) disclosures be accompanied by a written declaration that redisclosure may be prohibited by law; and (2) in certain circumstances, the protected individual be notified in writing of the disclosure. Provides for civil penalties and causes of action for intentional or negligent violation of disclosure provisions. Authorizes injunctive relief initiated by the Secretary of HHS and a civil cause of action by any aggrieved individual. Provides for in camera proceedings, use of pseudonyms, and sealing of records. Imposes criminal penalties for intentional violation of disclosure provisions. Provides for termination of grants and contracts with any Federal agency and for suspension or debarment of any Federal grantee or contractor for violation of certain disclosure provisions. Supersedes any State law that provides penalties or causes of action for failure to make disclosures not authorized by this title or for making authorized disclosures. Directs the Secretary of HHS annually to collect data on: (1) persons who are both infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS and admitted to hospital emergency rooms as a result of intravenous drug abuse; and (2) the number of cases of mental illness resulting from cases of asymptomatic infection with the etiologic agent for AIDS and from cases of AIDS itself. Directs the Secretary to act through the Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and of the National Institute of Mental Health in gathering the respective types of information. Authorizes fund transfers between a State's block grant allotment for alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services and that for community mental health services. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of HHS to establish a program for the certification of laboratories to perform toxicological urinalysis for drug testing programs. Requires the program to conform in all material respects to the mandatory guidelines for Federal workplace drug testing programs published by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration on April 11, 1988 (53 Fed. Reg. 11979). Requires, in addition, that the program include the scientific and technical requirements and all standards and requirements for the certification of laboratories engaged in urine drug testing for Federal agencies under the above-referenced mandatory guidelines. Catalogues a series of required program features, including provisions relating to blind proficiency challenges, sanctions for laboratories for incorrect reporting, and oversight provisions. Prohibits: (1) waivers of or deviations from the certification program; (2) subcontracting to a non-certified laboratory; (3) self-certification; and (4) certification or recertification of laboratories under certain circumstances. Precludes any unlicensed or unaccredited laboratory from being certified. Directs the Secretary, no later than one year following this title's enactment, to revise the program to include requirements for the safe collection and accurate toxicological analysis of blood specimens in connection with drug testing programs. Institutes civil and criminal penalties for the following unlawful acts: (1) the solicitation or acceptance by any person other than a certified laboratory of urine or blood for drug testing; (2) disclosure of drug test results, except within the framework of the certification program; (3) the knowing alteration or false reporting of test results; (4) testing without required consent; (5) taking adverse action against test subjects based on refusal or failure to provide consent or based upon a positive test result that has not been accurately verified in accordance with program procedures; and (6) failure to comply with the certification program. Empowers aggrieved test subjects to institute a civil action for appropriate relief, subject to a three-year statute of limitations. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to bring actions to restrain violations. Indemnifies against the reporting laboratory any person conducting tests who takes adverse action against a test subject based upon a laboratory report of a positive test result later found to have been inaccurate. Supersedes all laws and programs protecting test subjects or imposing requirements in connection with laboratories performing toxicological analysis of urine or blood specimens or persons conducting drug testing programs, unless the existing law provides greater protection or imposes more stringent requirements. Preempts State or local law, except for related criminal law imposing sanctions for reckless conduct leading to loss of life, injury, or damage to property. Directs the Secretary to impose fees on laboratories in connection with the certification and recertification process, including annual fees by certified laboratories. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations for programs of the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention, earmarking particular amounts for support programs of clinical training of substance abuse counselors and other health professionals and for model projects for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of HHS, acting through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, annually to collect data, through representative sampling, on the incidence and prevalence of various forms of mental illness and substance abuse, both nationally and in major metropolitan areas. Instructs the Administrator, acting through the Directors of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to ensure that specified types of data are collected. Requires annual surveys in connection with alcohol and drug abuse data collection. Directs the Secretary of HHS, acting through the Director of the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention, to make grants to establish projects for drug and alcohol abuse prevention, education, and treatment with respect to pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Gives priority to projects for low-income women and for innovative projects regarding the use of drugs, including cocaine and crack, about which insufficient information exists. Describes application and evaluation procedures. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities in order to expand the capacity of grantees to carry out drug abuse treatment programs. Enumerates criteria to govern these grants, including eligibility requirements. Authorizes appropriations, to remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to provide for independent evaluation of federally funded drug abuse treatment and treatment research programs. Enumerates program features to be evaluated. Requires the Secretary to report the findings to the Congress not later than one year after this title's enactment. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations for alcohol abuse and alcoholism research. Authorizes corresponding appropriations for drug abuse research, earmarking certain amounts for projects that deal with both drug and alcohol abuse and for demonstration projects relating to intravenous drug abuse and AIDS. Empowers the Secretary, acting through the Director of NIDA, to make grants to public and private entities for demonstration projects to: (1) determine the feasibility and long-term effectiveness of offering drug abuse treatment and vocational training in exchange for public service; (2) conduct outreach activities in connection with drug abuse and AIDS; and (3) provide drug abuse treatment services to pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Requires the Secretary to provide for program evaluations and for the dissemination of derivative information. Includes individuals between 21 and 24 years old among those to be expressly targeted in suicide-related information that the Secretary of HHS publishes and makes available to the public and to health professionals. (The current focus is on persons 21 years old and younger.) Directs the Secretary, through the NIMH Director, to: (1) make grants and enter into agreements with public and nonprofit private entities to undertake research and studies concerning the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of mental illness; (2) establish a National Mental Health Education Program for a variety of treatment improvement, research support, and data collection purposes, including the establishment of a clearinghouse for mental health research and treatment programs; and (3) make grants to States and nonprofit private agencies for mental health services demonstration projects and research projects involving community services for chronically mentally ill individuals, seriously emotionally disturbed children and youth, the elderly, and homeless chronically mentally ill persons. Authorizes similar grants for demonstration projects covering prevention services for persons at risk of developing mental illness. Lists permissible grant uses. Limits grants to no more than three consecutive one-year periods. Authorizes FY 1989 and 1990 appropriations, earmarking a specified percentage for projects in rural areas. Makes miscellaneous amendments to the Public Health Service Act to: (1) designate the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention as an agency of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; (2) require triennial rather than annual reporting on the Administration's prevention activities; (3) eliminate the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Advisory Board; (4) authorize the Administrator to accept voluntary services and to conduct certain kinds of research training; (5) permit the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to make grants (authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 funding) of up to $100,000 for the acquisition of small instrumentation necessary for research, on the condition that the grant will be contemporaneously utilized by at least two grantees; and (6) target expressly pregnant women and their children in connection with certain grant programs. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to extend the deadline by which the Secretary of HHS must report to the Congress on the extent to which drug abuse treatment is covered by private insurance, public programs, and other payors. Declares butyl nitrite to be a banned hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act, except in connection with commercial purposes other than use in products for inhaling or otherwise introducing it into the human body for euphoric or physical effects. Declares any criminal conviction for violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act involving anabolic steroids or a human growth hormone subject to criminal forfeiture under the Controlled Substances Act to be a conviction for a violation of this latter Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within 180 days of this title's enactment, to develop and publish guidelines and advise law enforcement agencies with respect to dealing with illegal drug laboratories to protect the public health and environment. Directs the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to make grants and enter into contracts for demonstration projects for the safe clean up and disposal of potentially dangerous substances associated with illegal drug laboratories. Requires evaluations of these activities, as well as reporting to specified congressional committees. Makes available to the DEA Administrator FY 1989 amounts to carry out this grant program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Interstate Compact - Grants congressional approval to the compact between the States of North Carolina and South Carolina which provides for the establishment of the Lake Wylie Marine Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act - Provides for the partition of the joint Hoopa Valley and Yurok Reservation. Requires the Hoopa Valley Tribe to waive all claims against the United States before the partition shall become effective. Establishes the Hoopa Valley and Yurok Reservations. Requires the unallotted trust lands and assets of each tribe to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the respective tribes. Places all national forest lands within the Yurok Reservation in trust for the use and benefit of the Yurok Tribe, subject to valid existing rights and subject to the adoption of a resolution of the Interim Council of the Yurok Tribe. Sets the boundary between the Hoopa Valley and Yurok Reservations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage the unallotted trust land and assets of the Yurok Reservation until the tribe has organized. Requires, thereafter, that such land and assets be administered as tribal trust land and governed by the Tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands or interests in lands, including rights-of-way for access to trust lands in the Reservation. Establishes the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Fund for distributions pursuant to this Act. Divides fund assets between the tribes based on settlement roll calculations. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund. Prescribes preparation and eligibility criteria for the Hoopa-Yurok settlement roll. Allows an election among the following settlement options: (1) Hoopa tribal membership option (based on the criteria of the court decision in the Short case); (2) Yurok tribal membership option; and (3) lump sum payment option. Extinguishes interest in tribal property of persons receiving payments. Provides for division of the remaining settlement funds. Ratifies the existing documents of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and confirms its status. Provides for recognition and organization of the Yurok Tribe. Establishes an Interim Council preceding the election and installation of the tribal governing body. Allows the land assignment on the Hoopa Valley Reservation made to the Smokers family to continue to relatives of one-fourth or more Indian blood. Provides for a merger of the Rancherias with the Yurok Tribe if certain conditions are met. Adds representatives of the Yurok Tribe and the Karuk Tribe to the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force. Specifies the term of office. Provides that the proceeds of the sale of timber from Indian trust lands, after deduction for administrative expenses, shall be used: (1) as determined by the governing bodies of the tribes concerned and approved by the Secretary; or (2) in the absence of such a governing body, as determined by the Secretary for the tribe concerned. Sets limitations on actions challenging the joint reservation partition under this Act. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report describing any claims decisions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates January 28, 1989, as National Challenger Center Day. (The Challenger Center is an institution offering children and teachers activities and information derived from American space research.)
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates October 2 through October 8, 1988, as National Paralysis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Declares as nonmailable matter any plant, fruit, vegetable, root, bulb, seed, or other plant product subject to interstate quarantine under the Plant Quarantine Act. Directs the Postal Service to prescribe rules and regulations permitting the mailing of such plants consistent with procedures relating to the inspection, disinfection, and certification of, and other conditions for, the delivery and shipment of plants otherwise subject to quarantine. Imposes criminal penalties upon: (1) whoever knowingly mails or causes to be mailed a nonmailable plant; or (2) whoever forges or counterfeits agricultural certifications. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Postal Service and the Department of Agriculture should engage in a joint effort to educate the public to the types of harm which can result from the transmission to different parts of the country of plants, fruits, vegetables, and other matter which may be carrying dangerous plant diseases or pests.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Designates the Federal building and United States Courthouse at 109 South Highland, Jackson, Tennessee, as the Ed Jones Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Education Amendments of 1978 concerning: (1) Bureau of Indian Affairs funded schools; (2) the formula for allotment of funds to schools; (3) administrative cost grants; (4) school board training; (5) coordinated programs among the tribe, the school board, and the local public school district; (6) consultation between the Bureau and interested parties; and (7) compensation of, and involuntary furloughs by, Bureau educators. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) reserve from the funds available for distribution for each fiscal year an amount equal to one percent of such funds to meet emergency and unforeseen contingencies; and (2) restrict the expenditure of such funds to education services or programs at a school site. (Current law does not specify any percentage of funds to be reserved or place such restriction on the expenditure of such funds.) Makes technical amendments to the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 concerning personnel compensation, recruitment, and retention studies. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 concerning: (1) grants to tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the eligibility of tribally controlled schools for grants; (3) the duration of the eligibility determination; (4) the payment of grants; and (5) the applicability of certain provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to grants. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Indian Education Act of 1988 concerning: (1) grants to local educational agencies; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including fellowships for Indian students and the establishment of centers for gifted and talented Indian students at tribally controlled community colleges; and (3) definitions. Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to provide that such Act shall not be construed to affect the obligation of the Bureau to implement legislative provisions enacted before April 28, 1988. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 concerning: (1) the use of Bureau facilities; and (2) the White House Conference on Indian Education. Repeals the provision requiring the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for the Bureau to submit a report every other year on the education of Indian children.
United States · United States Congress · 28 August 2025
District of Columbia Revenue Bond Act of 1988 - Waives the period of congressional review for certain District of Columbia Acts authorizing the issuance, sale, and delivery of revenue bonds by specified organizations. Makes such Acts effective upon enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Provides that certain regulations relating to sea turtle conservation, promulgated by the Secretary of Commerce on June 29, 1987, shall not be effective before September 30, 1988, except in the Canaveral area of Florida where they shall continue in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Extends a temporary prohibition of strikes or lockouts, under specified provisions of the Railway Labor Act, with respect to the Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company labor-management dispute referred to in a specified Executive Order.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to revise the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to seek civil penalties against persons who participate in illegal insider trading. Authorizes the SEC to seek to impose civil penalties upon any person who, at the time of the violation, directly or indirectly controlled the person who committed the illegal insider trading. Limits the civil liability of a controlled person to the greater of $1,000,000 or three times the amount of the profit gained or loss avoided as a result of the controlled person's violation. Specifies that a controlling person shall not be subject to civil penalties unless the SEC establishes that: (1) such controlling person knew or recklessly disregarded the fact that the controlled person was likely to engage in prohibited acts and failed to take appropriate steps to prevent such prohibited acts; or (2) such controlling person knowingly or recklessly failed to establish or enforce any policy or procedure required under provisions of the Securities Exchange Act and of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Sets forth procedures for the collection of any such civil penalty imposed. Specifies a statute of limitations of five years for any such action brought by the SEC. Authorizes the SEC to award a bounty of up to ten percent of any civil penalty imposed to the person or persons who provide information leading to the imposition of such penalty. Requires every registered broker or dealer to establish, maintain, and enforce written policies and procedures to prevent the misuse of material, nonpublic information by such broker or dealer or any person associated with such broker or dealer. Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to impose parallel requirements with respect to investment advisers. Requires the SEC to make recommendations to the Congress with respect to the extension of its authority to impose civil penalties or administrative fines to other violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Increases the monetary penalties for any criminal violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from an individual maximum of $100,000 to $1,000,000 and a maximum for non-natural persons from $500,000 to $2,500,000. Makes all non-natural persons subject to the higher penalty. (Current law imposes the higher penalty only on exchanges.) Allows a private right of action against any person who violates insider trading rules to be brought by anyone: (1) who contemporaneously with the purchase or sale of securities that form the basis of such violation, purchased or sold securities of the same class; and (2) any other person who can demonstrate an injury due to a violation of insider trading rules. Limits the total amount of damages in such a contemporaneous trading action to any profit gained or loss avoided and reduces any such damages by the amounts the violating person is required to disgorge pursuant to a court order obtained by the SEC. Specifies a statute of limitations of five years for any such private right of action. Imposes joint and several liability on anyone who communicates insider information to the same extent as those who directly profit from the insider trading. Specifies that the authority to bring such an action shall not be construed to: (1) limit or condition any implied private rights of action; or (2) bar or limit any action by the SEC or the Attorney General. Authorizes the SEC to provide investigatory assistance to foreign securities authorities. Directs the SEC to appoint a panel of experts to make a study and investigation of the adequacy of the Federal securities laws for the protection of the public interest and the interests of investors. Requires the SEC to report to the Congress concerning the results of such study and investigation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such study and investigation. Authorizes appropriations to the SEC for: (1) official reception and representation expenses; and (2) maintaining membership in, and contributing to, the operating expenses of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Designates October 22, 1988, as National Chester F. Carlson Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Legal Immigration Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce quarterly and yearly levels of lawful immigration admissions. Establishes a National Commission on Independent Immigration to review the impact of such independent admissions and recommend admissions levels based on labor market conditions and other economic factors. Requires an annual report to the President and to the appropriate congressional committees. Establishes annual admission levels for independent immigrants at 150,000. Allocates such visas as follows: (1) one-third for members of the professions or persons with exceptional skills; (2) one-third for skilled or unskilled workers, investors, or retirees; and (3) one-third for persons chosen on a point system basis. Directs the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Labor and Education, to establish such point system based on the following criteria: (1) age; (2) education; (3) occupational shortage; (4) additional skills; and (5) prearranged employment in a low unemployment area. Amends petitioning procedure provisions to permit special immigrant petitions to be filed with the Attorney General. Amends labor certification provisions to exclude certain classes of immigrants unless the Secretary of Labor certifies that there are not sufficient qualified U.S. workers and that employment of aliens in such positions will not adversely affect U.S. workers' wages and conditions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and hold public hearings, about the labor certification process and to report to the appropriate congressional committees. Makes 800,000 additional immigrant visas available in FY 1990 through 1994 for spouses and children of legalized aliens. Makes 200,000 additional second preference (spouses and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent residents) visas available for FY 1990 and 1991. Extends through FY 1993 the program of additional visas (50,000 for FY 1989 through 1993) for nationals of countries adversely affected by Public Law 89-236 (1965 immigration amendments).