United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Title I: Higher Education - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise the administration of the National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education. Revises student aid eligibility for students and institutions located in any of the freely associated states, rather than a State. Amends the HEA and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, with respect to teacher training and student assistance programs, to rename the Northern Mariana Islands and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Title II: Elementary and Secondary Education - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Adult Education Act, the Star Schools Program Assistance Act, and the Education of the Handicapped Act to rename the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands as the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 2023
Provides for the convening of the second session of the 101st Congress on January 23, 1990. Requires the President to transmit to the Congress by January 22, 1990, the Budget for FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require that any television with at least a 13-inch screen which is manufactured, or imported for use, in the United States be equipped with built-in decoder circuitry designed to display closed-captioned TV transmissions. Prohibits shipping in interstate commerce, manufacturing, assembling, or importing any such television except pursuant to rules by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Requires such rules to provide performance and display standards for such built-in decoder circuitry. Requires the FCC, within five years, to evaluate compatibility issues and advancement in TV technology and take any action it deems necessary to amend such rules as to ensure that such decoder chip circuitry is capable of continuing service to closed-caption consumers regardless of new broadcast technologies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 2023
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize Minnesota to implement a family investment demonstration project to determine whether the project more effectively helps families to become self-supporting and enhances their ability to care for their children than: (1) the Food Stamp Program; and (2) the aid to families with dependent children program and the job opportunities and basic skills training program of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Establishes the Newberry Volcanoes National Monument in Oregon as a part of the Deschutes National Forest and a component of the National Forest System. Abolishes previous designations of lands within the Monument as having status as a national landmark, the Lava Butte Geological Area, and the Lava Cast Forest Geological Area. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for such Monument. Establishes the Newberry Volcanoes National Monument Advisory Council. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Selma to Montgomery National Trail Study Act of 1989 - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (traveled by the march dramatizing the need for voting rights legislation), for study for potential addition to the national trails system.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Title I: Department of State - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations; Allocations of Funds; Restrictions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State for: (1) diplomatic operations (allocates such amounts as may be necessary for the Office of Munitions Control); (2) the diplomatic security program; (3) international organizations and conferences (with earmarked funds for the South Pacific Commission for FY 1990); (4) international peacekeeping activities; (5) international conferences and contingencies; (6) international commissions; (7) migration and refugee assistance, including assistance for refugees resettling in Israel; and (8) other programs, including bilateral science and technology agreements and Soviet-East European research and training. Earmarks specified amounts of migration and refugee assistance for: (1) displaced Tibetans in India and Nepal; (2) displaced Burmese on the Thailand-Burma border; and (3) Turkey for assistance to ethnic Turkish refugees fleeing Bulgaria. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated for international conferences and contingencies for any U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), unless such delegation includes individuals representing the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide that if an amount appropriated pursuant to an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and the Act provides for earmarked funds, such funds shall be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Authorizes amounts appropriated to the Department of State to be obligated for 12-month contracts to be performed over two fiscal years. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act to prohibit the use of any funds for the conduct of the Middle East peace process dialogue with any representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) who has participated in a terrorist activity resulting in the death or kidnapping of a U.S. citizen. Part B: Department of State Authorities and Activities: Foreign Missions - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to use appropriated funds for: (1) obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945; (2) telecommunications services; and (3) the provision of maximum physical security in Government-owned and -leased properties and vehicles abroad. Authorizes special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to make arrests without warrant for any offense concerning passport or visa issuance if there are grounds to believe that a person has committed or is committing such offense. Removes violations of specified sections of the criminal code from a list of violations for which such agents are authorized to make arrests without a warrant. Adds the Department of State to the list of agencies to which criminal justice agencies are required to make available criminal record information regarding individuals under investigation by the Department for determining the eligibility of such individuals for access to classified information or assignment to sensitive national security duties. Amends the Diplomatic Security Act of 1986 to direct the Secretary to develop and implement programs for the safe and efficient evacuation of U.S. Government personnel, dependents, and citizens when their lives are endangered. Requires such policies to include measures to identify high risk areas where evacuation may be necessary and, if appropriate, to provide staff to U.S. missions abroad to assist in such evacuations. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Secretary, in the case of a major disaster or incident abroad which affects the health and safety of U.S. citizens, to provide prompt notification of all information concerning such disaster or incident to the next-of-kin of such individuals. Directs the Secretary to establish a liaison with foreign governments and U.S. air carriers concerning the transportation and disposition of remains and personal effects of citizens who die abroad. Requires the Secretary to consider establishing a toll-free telephone number to facilitate inquiries by next-of-kin in cases of such disasters or incidents. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the implementation of such plans. Allows the Secretary to require foreign missions to obtain benefits or comply with other terms of the Secretary if necessary to implement an exchange of property with a foreign country to be used in connection with diplomatic or consular establishments. Authorizes the Secretary, if determined that the purposes of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 can best be met by such exchanges, to transfer funds for the acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad to the Working Capital Fund. Permits only certain transferred funds to be used for such exchanges. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees prior to entering into an agreement for such an exchange. Requires the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations, to enter into contracts for debt collection services to recover indebtedness owed by persons, other than foreign countries, to the United States arising from Department of State activities. Directs the Secretary to disclose delinquent debt of more than $100 to credit reporting agencies. Requires a specified amount of Office of Munitions Control registration fees to be credited to a Department of State account to be used for contract personnel to assist in the evaluation and monitoring of munitions control license applications and the automation of munitions control functions. Authorizes funds appropriated in connection with the use of Blair House for FY 1990 and 1991 to be credited to the appropriate account and to be available for maintenance and other expenses of Blair House. Amends the International Center Act to authorize the Department of State to charge Federal agencies a fee for the use or lease of certain International Center facilities. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 concerning the closing of diplomatic and consular posts in Antigua and Barbuda. Changes the due date for annual country reports on terrorism required under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989. Repeals a provision of a specified Act relating to the solemnization of marriages by consular officials. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take all practicable steps to reopen the American consulate in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Provides that preferences for U.S. contractors under the Diplomatic Security Act shall not apply to the construction or renovation of the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a plan for a pilot program to increase participation by economically and socially disadvantaged enterprises in contract, procurement, grant, and research activities of the Department of State and the United States Information Agency (USIA). Sets forth plan requirements. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1990 and 1991, to report to such committees on such program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the advisability of reorganizing the Department of State's regional and functional bureaus, including the creation of bureaus and the transfer of jurisdictional responsibilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should give serious consideration to the establishment of a Bureau of South Asian Affairs within the Department. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 concerning the termination of a prohibition on exclusion or deportation of aliens on certain grounds. Part C: Diplomatic Immunity, Reciprocity, and Security - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make ineligible to receive a visa and to exclude from admission into the United States any alien who has committed a serious criminal offense and for whom immunity from criminal jurisdiction was exercised with respect to such offense. Waives such excludability under certain conditions. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of establishing a program to compensate U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens for physical injury or financial loss resulting from criminal activity committed by individuals with diplomatic immunity. Outlines the requirements of such report. Amends the Diplomatic Security Act to modify the preference for U.S. contractors with respect to certain bids for diplomatic construction involving physical or technical security. Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 to direct the Secretary to: (1) develop policies to use persons with appropriate U.S. security clearances for maintenance and repair work in classified areas of U.S. diplomatic or consular posts abroad; and (2) report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the feasibility of requiring clearances for contractors performing such work in certain diplomatic facilities abroad. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the Soviet mission to the United States to occupy a consulate facility in the United States after the Secretary certifies to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that the U.S. mission in Kiev is able to occupy an interim facility for the conduct of unclassified activities. Requires the Secretary, no later than January 30, 1991, to submit to the Congress a plan and budget for permanent facilities for the U.S. mission in Kiev. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to revise provisions regarding construction security certifications. Requires the Secretary, with respect to local guard contracts for Foreign Service buildings which exceed $250,000 and are entered into after this Act's enactment, to: (1) ensure that solicitations for such contracts are advertised in the Commerce and Business Daily; (2) ensure that diplomatic and consular post management assure that U.S. persons are not disadvantaged during the solicitation and bid evaluation process due to distance from the post; and (3) give preference to such persons when competitive and qualified to carry out the contract. Requires at least ten percent of the funds obligated for such contracts to be allocated, respectively, to U.S. small business and minority small business contractors. Prohibits prime contractors from subcontracting more than 50 percent of the total value of a contract for such projects. Part D: Personnel - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, when a foreign national employee so elects, to transfer such employee's interest in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund to a trust or other local retirement plan (except a social security plan). Deems such transfers to be a complete and final payment of benefits under Federal provisions governing civil service compensation. Requires such transfers to occur after October 1, 1990. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to prohibit members of the Foreign Service selection boards from being foreign agents or from receiving income from foreign governments while serving on such boards. Authorizes judicial review of any separation for cause of a Foreign Service member. Provides that certain members of the Foreign Service who are separated for cause shall be subject to reinstatement with back pay unless convicted of a crime related to the separation for cause. Authorizes the establishment of a Visiting Scholars Program at the Foreign Service Institute. Prohibits extra credit for foreign service at an unhealthful post from being used to determine the eligibility of a person to qualify as a former spouse of a Foreign Service employee or to compute such person's pro rata share of employee credit. Prohibits such credit for service as a part of a tour of duty. Entitles qualified former spouses of former USIA and Agency for International Development (AID) employees to Foreign Service health, retirement, and survivor benefits if such an employee retired before participation in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System was possible and the marriage lasted at least five years during the overseas assignment. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State, during FY 1990 and 1991, to make grants to child care facilities to offset the cost of such care in Moscow and at no more than five other posts abroad where the Secretary determines that such facilities are necessary to the efficient operation of the post. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to revise provisions concerning the payment of travel expenses for Foreign Service members and their families in emergency situations. Directs the Secretary to establish a Foreign Service Internship Program to introduce qualified individuals who reflect cultural and ethnic diversity to the practice of diplomacy. Provides that such Program shall consist of three successive summer internships and shall place special emphasis on preparation for the Foreign Service examination. Makes eligible for internships students enrolled full-time in institutions of higher education from groups which are underrepresented in the Foreign Service in terms of cultural and ethnic diversity. Sets forth Program admission requirements. Directs the Secretary to select students on the basis of demonstrated academic achievement. Sets forth the primary focus of the internships, including: (1) the study of international relations and the nature of the Foreign Service; (2) the assignment to a specific bureau of the Department of State; and (3) the assignment to a U.S. mission abroad. Requires each intern to be assigned a career Foreign Service officer as a mentor. Directs the Secretary to give special preference to officers who volunteer for such assignment. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the feasibility of administering the Foreign Service examination in annual increments. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on such Program. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to post-secondary institutions or students (with special emphasis on minorities) to promote awareness of, and interest in, Foreign Service employment. Requires satisfactory educational progress by grant recipients for continued receipt of such grants. Prohibits the Secretary from denying requests by the Drug Enforcement Administration to authorize danger pay allowances for employees of such agency. Requires recommendations made by the Foreign Service Grievance Board which were reviewed before the enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to be considered final actions of the Department of State. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to assure that equal efforts are undertaken in each region of the United States to recruit policy and professional Government service employees and Foreign Service officers for the Department of State and affiliated agencies. Requires the Secretary to implement such plan no later than January 1, 1990. Directs the Inspector General of the State Department to report to the Congress on the composition of such employees and officers with respect to geographic distribution, race, ethnicity, gender, and handicapping conditions. Includes as a prohibited discriminatory Foreign Service personnel practice discrimination based on geographic or educational affiliation within the United States. Requires the Secretary to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations concerning improvements in the recruitment and promotion of Hispanic Americans at the Department of State and within the Foreign Service. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on Department of State efforts to increase the percentage of individuals who are at the assistant secretary and head of bureau levels from ethnic groups which are underrepresented in the Foreign Service. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with a private organization for a review and evaluation of the Foreign Service examination. Requires such review to: (1) evaluate the ability of the examination to measure an individual's aptitude for, and potential in, the Foreign Service; (2) consider the relevance of the examination to the work of a Foreign Service officer; and (3) make recommendations to remove any element of bias in such examination. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress the findings of such review, together with measures initiated by the Secretary in response to adverse findings. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Foreign Service fellowship program to provide fellowships to international affairs faculty members of institutions of higher education. Requires such program to give priority consideration in the award of such fellowships to individuals teaching in international affairs programs which serve significant numbers of students from cultural and ethnic groups which are underrepresented in the Foreign Service. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Department of State polygraph program. Requires the Secretary to contract with a private organization to: (1) conduct a study concerning sexual harassment at the Department of State and USIA; and (2) report the findings of such study, along with comments, to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Directs the Secretary to establish and implement an appropriate housing policy and space standards in consultation with agencies or employees who participate in the overseas housing program. Prohibits such policy from providing housing or related benefits based solely on the representational status of the employee, unless such individual is the ambassador, deputy chief of mission, permanent charge, or consul general. Waives such status restriction where a documented need for such exception is established. Requires the Secretary to prepare an annual list of such exceptions. Part E: Foreign Language Competence Within the Foreign Service - Directs the Secretary to designate as model foreign language competence posts at least six Foreign Service posts in each of the Department of State's five geographic bureaus in countries where English is not the common language. Requires Government employees assigned to such posts to possess an appropriate level of competence in the language common to the foreign country. Provides that at least one of the designated posts shall be in a country where the principal language is Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian. Requires such posts to continue as model foreign language posts at least until September 30, 1994. Directs the Secretary to report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on such program. Authorizes the Secretary to make exceptions to the requirements of the program if unanticipated exigencies so require. Prohibits certain posts from being designated as model foreign language posts under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on an entrance requirement for the Foreign Service of at least one world language at the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level or one nonworld language at the next lowest level. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Foreign Service promotion panels should: (1) only promote candidates to the Senior Foreign Service who have demonstrated foreign language proficiency in at least one language at the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level; (2) strive for a minimum proficiency in two such languages; and (3) have at least one person on each such panel who has attained at least the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level. Directs the Department of State, AID, and USIA to revise the evaluation reports for foreign service officers to include an assessment of an employee's effectiveness in using a foreign language tested at the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level. Requires the directors of personnel at such agencies to instruct promotion panels to take account of language ability and give precedence in promotions to officers who have achieved such level in one or more foreign languages. Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Part A: United States Information Agency - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1990 and 1991 for USIA (other than Voice of America (VOA)); and (2) FY 1990 for U.S. participation in the World's Fair in Seville. Prohibits the use of certain USIA funds for USIA salaries or expenses. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to require the USIA Director to make motion pictures, films, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad available to the Archivist of the United States for domestic distribution 12 years after the initial dissemination abroad. Requires the Director to make available to the Archivist a master copy of the film entitled "Long Journey Home." Directs the Archivist to reimburse the Director for any expenses incurred in making such film available and to make such film available for purchase and public viewing in the United States. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to redesignate the Board of Foreign Scholarships as the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board. Requires the Board to ensure that academic and artistic freedoms of grant recipients are protected. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the USIA Director to acquire time on commercial or U.S. Government satellites to transmit materials and programs to posts and other users abroad. Outlines the programs authorized to be acquired, produced, or broadcast. Requires the Director to give preferences to programs produced by U.S. public or commercial broadcasters where such programs are available at an equivalent or lower cost than USIA television programs. Earmarks specified amounts of USIA funds for USIA-TV. Requires the Director to transmit quarterly reports to the Congress on USIA-TV expenditures for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of USIA funds for the purchase or use of programs produced with grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or produced by U.S. public broadcasters. Waives certain restrictions concerning television broadcasting under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 for FY 1990. Revises provisions regarding the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Authorizes the crediting of fees for USIA publications, English-teaching and library programs, and motion picture and television programs (with specified limits) to the applicable appropriation. Requires the USIA Director, subject to the availability of appropriations, to enter into contracts for debt collection services to recover indebtedness owed by persons, other than foreign countries, to the United States arising from USIA activities. Directs the Director to disclose delinquent debt of more than $100 to credit reporting agencies. Requires USIA to establish an international narcotics information network to disseminate information to foreign governments concerning U.S. programs to: (1) eliminate the illicit production, trafficking, and abuse of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances within the United States; and (2) promote drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation. Directs the USIA Director to maintain and submit to the Congress an Afghanistan country plan. Requires the U.S. Comptroller General to study and report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the operations of the National Endowment for Democracy. Directs the USIA Director to report to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House on the use of public television and radio programming material acquired in FY 1988 and 1989 and the projected use of such materials through FY 1992. Part B: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1990 for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, including funds for: (1) the International Visitors Program; (2) the Fulbright Academic Programs; (3) the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program; and (4) the Arts America Program. Earmarks funds for: (1) VOA training of media personnel from developing French-speaking countries; (2) scholarships for Tibetan students and professionals outside Tibet; and (3) scholarships for Burmese students and professionals outside Burma. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to establish within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs an Office of Citizen Exchanges to support private nonprofit organizations engaged in such exchanges between the United States and other countries. Transfers to such Office all functions carried out by the Office of Private Sector Programs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that USIA should consider broadening the placement of Humphrey Program fellows to provide exposure to the processes of the Congress and Federal, State, and local governments. Part C: Voice of America - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for VOA. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit VOA from selecting candidates who must be or are preapproved for employment by a foreign government or entity. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to participants in VOA's exchange programs or clerical, technical, or maintenance staff at VOA offices in foreign countries. Requires the USIA Director, in the event that such prohibition would require termination of a specific VOA language service, to report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on: (1) the number and location of speakers of the applicable language who could be recruited without violating the prohibition; and (2) the efforts made by VOA to recruit such persons for employment. Directs USIA to establish and maintain through VOA a system of public service announcements focusing on child survival techniques. Requires the USIA Director to: (1) establish VOA broadcasts to Tibet to occur at least two hours daily during FY 1990 and 1991; and (2) report to the Congress on such programming. Authorizes additional appropriations for such programming. Permits the Director to transfer excessive USIA television and film service funds to VOA Tibet Service. Authorizes the Director to: (1) enter into a contract for the construction of Thailand's VOA facilities for a period not to exceed five years; or (2) delegate such authority to the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers if there are sufficient funds to cover the Government's liability for payments for the first fiscal year plus the amount of cancellation costs. Requires VOA, during FY 1990 and 1991, to broadcast its programs at least 12 hours each day into China. Expresses the sense of the Congress that USIA and VOA should ensure that VOA equipment abroad is properly maintained to prevent deterioration. Part D: Television Broadcasting to Cuba - Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act - Requires USIA to provide television broadcasting to Cuba. Designates such broadcasts as the USIA Television Marti Program. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to assign a frequency to such broadcasts. Prohibits such broadcasts if the FCC determines that such broadcasts are causing interference with domestic broadcasts. Requires the FCC to assist domestic licensees in overcoming the effects of such interference, including the authorization of increases in the radiated power of domestic television stations. Directs the FCC to notify the appropriate congressional committees if Television Marti broadcasts are ceased and to report on the progress in eliminating objectionable interference from the Program. Requires the FCC to monitor and periodically report to the appropriate congressional committees on domestic interference from Cuban television and radio stations and from the Television Marti Program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should establish a task force to analyze the level of such interference. Requires the USIA Director to establish within VOA a Television Marti Service. Amends the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act to redesignate the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba as the Advisory Board for Cuba Broadcasting. Revises administrative provisions regarding the Board. Authorizes assistance to USIA from other Federal agencies to carry out this Act. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for television broadcasting to Cuba. Prohibits such funds from being expended unless the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees that such broadcasting is feasible pursuant to a test under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 and will not cause domestic interference. Requires the President to report the findings of such test to the appropriate congressional committees. Extends the period for such test. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the Board for International Broadcasting for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes appropriations for the Board for FY 1990 and 1991 for radio transmitter construction and modernization and construction of a relay station in Israel. Provides that at least ten percent of the amount available for U.S. contracts for the Israel project shall be only for contracts and subcontracts with economically and socially disadvantaged enterprises. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the Board: (1) unless such funds are appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations; or (2) in excess of the authorized level of appropriations. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to extend the authority of the Secretary to procure legal services to the chairman of the Board. Title IV: International Organizations and Commissions - Authorizes the President to maintain U.S. membership in the International Sugar Organization and the International Tropical Timber Organization. Allows U.S. contributions to such organizations to be paid from funds appropriated for contributions to international organizations, beginning in FY 1991. Authorizes the President to maintain U.S. membership in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for specified international environmental organizations and conventions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for the Commission on the Ukraine Famine. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should ensure that the United Nations continues to pay sufficient attention to the United States and other major financial contributors in consensus-based decision-making procedures on budgetary matters. Directs the President to withhold up to 20 percent of funds for the U.S. assessed contribution to the United Nations or its agencies until the President determines that the United Nations or any such agency: (1) has continued implementing decision-making procedures in such a manner; (2) is making progress toward the elimination of secondment in the United Nations Secretariat; and (3) is implementing the 15 percent reduction in staff of the Secretariat and such reduction is being equitably applied among the nationals on such staff. Requires the President to notify the Congress upon making such determinations. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the voting practices of governments represented at the United Nations and the responsiveness of such governments to U.S. policy. Repeals provisions of specified Acts concerning such voting practices. Requires the President to use authority to deny any individual admission to the United States as a United Nations representative if such individual has been found to have engaged in espionage activities against the United States or poses a threat to U.S. national security interests. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should monitor closely the changes achieved in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and should work with U.S. allies and the UNESCO leadership to promote U.S. reentry into UNESCO. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the activities of UNESCO after December 31, 1984. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to revise a provision regarding contributions to the United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations. Commends and supports U.S. efforts to broaden the compulsory jurisdiction and enhance the effectiveness of the International Court of Justice. Authorizes the expenditure from appropriations available to the International Boundary and Water Commission for repairs of sanitation works threatened or destroyed by flood waters of the Colorado or Tijuana Rivers and for taking emergency actions against health threatening sanitation problems by repairing or replacing capital infrastructure along the United States-Mexico boundary. Permits the President to carry out preliminary surveys, operations, and maintenance of the system constructed to intercept sewage flows from Tijuana and selected canyon areas. Prohibits the operation of the Anzalduas diversion dam for irrigation or water supply purposes in the United States unless arrangements have been made with the prospective users for repayment to the Government of the allocated portions of such dam. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct investigations relating to the drainage of transboundary waters between the United States and Mexico. Directs the Secretary to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on U.S. participation in all bilateral and multilateral commissions for which appropriations are authorized under the international commissions account of the Department of State. Prohibits any funds authorized to be appropriated under this or any other Act from being available to the United Nations or any specialized agency which accords the PLO the same standing as member states. Provides for the reprogramming of such funds to any other Department of State or AID account. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) international burdensharing of the costs of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is crucial to the survival of such organization; (2) the Secretary should redouble efforts to promote such burdensharing; and (3) regular and substantial contributions by the Arab states to UNRWA would reflect the commitment of Arab states to a peaceful political settlement in the Middle East. Requires the Secretary to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the progress with regard to the promotion of such burdensharing. Declares that: (1) the United States should use all appropriate means to obtain rescission by the United Nations General Assembly of Resolution No. 3379 (maintains that Zionism is a form of racism) and calls on the General Assembly to do so; and (2) the United Nations constitutes an inappropriate forum for the sponsorship of any international conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict as long as such resolution is in effect. Prohibits the expenditure of funds authorized to be appropriated in this Act for assistance with respect to the Tripartite Agreement among Angola, Cuba, and South Africa until the President certifies to the Congress that the United States has received assurances from each of the parties to the Bilateral Agreement between Angola and Cuba and the United Nations Secretary General that all Cuban troops will be withdrawn from Angola by July 1, 1991. Prohibits the expenditure of such funds if: (1) the Government of Cuba fails to comply with its obligations under the Bilateral Agreement relating to the redeployment and withdrawal of Cuban troops; or (2) any Cuban troops remain in Angola after such date. Requires the President, no more than 15 days after each scheduled phase of the redeployment and withdrawal of Cuban troops, to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on whether the signatories of the Tripartite Agreement are complying with such Agreement. Provides that funds appropriated for the implementation of the Tripartite Agreement shall be available only if the President certifies that: (1) parties to such Agreement are in compliance with such Agreement and Cuba has complied with redeployment and withdrawal provisions of the Bilateral Agreement; (2) Cuba has not engaged in any offensive military actions against the Union for the Total Independence of Angola; (3) the United Nations has terminated all funding for the South West Africa People's Organization; and (4) the United Nations Angola Verification Mission is demonstrating diligence and professionalism in verifying the departure of Cuban troops and the recording of troop rotations. Title V: Asia Foundation - Amends the Asia Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for the Asia Foundation for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for the expansion of programs and services for Oceania. Title VI: Inter-American Foundation - Amends the Inter-American Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for FY 1990 and 1991. Title VII: Refugee and Other Provisions - Amends the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to make technical amendments to a provision regarding audits of funds received by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to specified congressional committees on U.S. immigration and refugee policy toward Burmese pro-democracy protesters who have fled from the Burmese Government and are now located in border camps or inside Thailand; and (2) recommend any policy or legislative changes to meet the asylum, refugee, parole, or visa status of such persons. Condemns the brutal treatment of, and blatant discrimination against, the Turkish minority by the Government of Bulgaria. Calls upon the Bulgarian authorities to cease all such discriminatory practices, release all those imprisoned because of their participation in nonviolent political acts, and honor obligations concerning the right of all Bulgarians to emigrate. Urges the President and Secretary of State to make strong diplomatic representations to Bulgaria protesting its treatment of its Turkish minority and to raise this issue in all appropriate international fora. Title VIII: PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 - PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 - Reiterates the U.S. policy that any dialogue with the PLO shall be contingent upon the PLO's recognition of Israel's right to exist, its acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and its abstention from, and renunciation of, all acts of terrorism. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States, in any discussions with the PLO, should seek: (1) the prevention of terrorism and other violent activity by the PLO or its factions; and (2) the implementation of concrete steps by the PLO consistent with its commitments to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism. Requires the U.S. representative, during the next round of talks with the PLO, to obtain from the PLO representative a full accounting of specified attempted incursions into Israel which occurred after Yasser Arafat's statement of December 14, 1988. Directs the Secretary to report to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House any such accounting. Requires the President, as long as the dialogue between the United States and the PLO continues, to report every 120 days to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the PLO's progress in achieving concrete actions to further the peace process. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on policies of Arab states toward the Middle East peace process, including: (1) public recognition of Israel's right to exist in peace and security; (2) ending the Arab economic boycott of Israel; and (3) ending efforts to expel Israel from international organizations or denying participation in such organizations. Title IX: People's Republic of China - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President is to be commended for his condemnation of the actions of the Chinese Government in the killing and persecution of participants of the prodemocracy movement in China; (2) the consultative approach used by the President in coordinating the U.S. response to such atrocities with other countries should be supported; (3) it is essential that the President be given flexibility to respond to rapidly-changing situations so that the long-term interests of the United States are not damaged; (4) the President should continue to emphasize that resumption of normal diplomatic and military relations between the United States and China will depend on the halting of executions of prodemocracy supporters, releasing those imprisoned for political beliefs, and increasing respect for human rights; (5) the United Nations should condemn such repression, including the abuse of African students, and urge the Chinese Government to enter into negotiations with representatives of the prodemocracy movement; (6) U.S. policy toward China should be linked with the situation in Tibet; (7) the President should convey to the Chinese leadership the importance of living up to its international undertaking with respect to the 1984 Joint Declaration for Hong Kong; (8) the Secretary should convey to the British Government U.S. concern for continued respect for human rights in Hong Kong and the need to accelerate progress toward representative government through free and fair direct elections; (9) the United States should offer admission to the United States to any Chinese national who is under the threat of severe penalty as a result of participating in prodemocracy activities; and (10) the President should be commended for providing temporary refuge to Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian at the U.S. embassy in Bejing and should continue to provide refuge to such individuals to ensure their safety. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Export-Import Bank should postpone approval for financing of U.S. exports to China; (2) U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions should oppose the extension of financial assistance to China; (3) the President should review the advisability of continuing to extend most-favored nation trade treatment to Chinese products, all bilateral trade agreements between the United States and China, bilateral commercial agreements concerning satellite launches, and the Chinese-American Agreement for Cooperation on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy signed in July 1985, if systematic repression in China deepens; and (4) the President should consult with members of the Coordinating Committee on Exports to Communist Countries, and the other signatories of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to review China's status with regard to such organizations, if such repression deepens. Continues the suspension to China of Overseas Private Investment Corporation financial support, assistance from the Trade and Development Program, munitions and crime control equipment exports, and exports of U.S. satellites intended for launch by a Chinese launch vehicle unless the President reports to the Congress that: (1) China has made progress on a program of political reform throughout the country, including Tibet; or (2) it is in U.S. national security interests to terminate such a suspension. Suspends licenses for export to China of goods or technology which could be used for nuclear explosive purposes until the President: (1) has certified to the Congress that China is not assisting and will not assist any non-nuclear nation in acquiring nuclear explosive devices or materials; and (2) the President makes a certain required report. Requires the President to negotiate with governments participating in the Coordinating Committee to suspend any liberalization of controls on exports of goods and technology to China under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Directs the President to oppose any liberalization by the Committee until six months after this Act's enactment or until the President reports that such suspension should be terminated. Exempts from the suspension on the issuance of munitions export licenses any systems and components designed specifically for civil products and controlled as defense articles only for purposes of export to a controlled country, unless the President determines that the recipient of such items is the Chinese military or security forces. Requires the President to report to the Congress on the effect and status of sanctions imposed against China and the steps taken by China to institute a program of political reform. Title X: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to increase the amount of rewards for furnishing information on international terrorism. Requires the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service to assign to the U.S. Mission to the European Community in Brussels at least three commercial officers and other support staff. Authorizes the Secretary, with the concurrence of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Commerce, to award to a domestic firm a contract that would be awarded, under competitive procedures, to a foreign firm if: (1) the final product of the domestic firm will be completely assembled in the United States; (2) at least 50 percent of such product will be domestically produced when completely assembled; and (3) the difference between the bids submitted by the foreign and domestic firms is not more than six percent. Urges the United States to recognize the bicentennial of Benjamin Franklin's death and calls on Federal agencies to recognize the preservation goals of the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House and the American Franklin Friends Committee. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the proposal concerning the establishment of an Association of Democratic Nations offered by Prime Minister Bhutto of Pakistan is in the interest of the United States; and (2) the President should consider implementing such proposal and should report to the Congress on the merits and estimated costs of establishing such Association. Calls on the Secretary General of the United Nations to: (1) act upon a resolution concerning human rights in Cuba; and (2) urge the Government of Cuba to release at least 26 persons held in detention because of human rights activities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that all international agreements pertaining to the international boundaries of the United States should be submitted to the Congress for consideration. Requires the Secretary to report annually (for two years) to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on U.S. policy with respect to Oceania, including recommendations to ensure a strong U.S. presence in such region. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the feasibility and effect of a meeting among Canada, Mexico, and the United States to discuss greater economic integration and cooperation; (2) the factors related to an economically integrated and cooperative border region between Mexico and the United States; and (3) the adequacy of resources of the Department of State in addressing U.S. relations with Mexico. Earmarks a specified amount of Department of State funds for FY 1990 for continued support for the establishment of a Latin American and Caribbean data base. Title XI: Budget Act Compliance - Sets forth limitations on spending and contract authorities under this Act. Waives certain provisions earmarking funds during FY 1990 and 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 2022
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations for the Taft Institute - Amends the Education Amendments of 1980 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government in New York, New York. Title II: Extension of School Dropout Demonstration Program - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to extend through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations for certain school dropout demonstration programs under part A of title VI of ESEA. Provides that no funds are authorized for such programs in any fiscal year in which assistance is made available to local educational agencies (LEAs) under other specified provisions for secondary school programs for basic skills improvement and dropout prevention and reentry. Reserves a specified amount for evaluating the school dropout demonstration programs under part A of title VI. Increases from 25 percent to a range of from 25 to 50 percent of certain funds for dropout programs the amount which is to be allotted to educational partnerships between LEAs and businesses or other specified entities. Extends the deadline for evaluations by the Secretary of Education of programs under title VI (Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Skills Instruction of ESEA. Title III: Higher Education - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to provide that any student who meets certain general requirements concerning U.S. citizenship or permanent residency or who is a resident of the freely associated states (certain U.S. territories and possessions), and who attends a public or nonprofit institution of higher education in any of the freely associated states rather than a State, is eligible, if otherwise qualified for specified student assistance programs. Provides that an institution of higher education that is located in any of the freely associated states, rather than a State, shall be eligible, if otherwise qualified for assistance under specified provisions of HEA. Replaces references to the Northern Mariana Islands and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands with references to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and to Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, under specified provisions of HEA and under the provisions for the Territorial Teacher Training Assistance Program under ESEA. Title IV: Elementary and Secondary Education - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), the Adult Education Act, the Star Schools Program Assistance Act, and the Education of the Handicapped Act to replace references to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands with references to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Drunk Driving Victims' Protection Act - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to prohibit the bankruptcy court from granting the discharge of any debt arising from a judgment against the debtor for driving while intoxicated.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
Amends the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 to permit parties engaged in collective bargaining to bargain over the establishment and administration of trust funds to provide financial assistance for employee housing.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2026
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990 - Title I: General Provisions - Provides for budget compliance of this Act for FY 1991 through 1992. Title II: Interagency Council on the Homeless - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (SBMHAA) to authorize appropriations through FY 1992. Extends the Interagency Council on the Homeless through FY 1992. Title III: Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program - Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program through FY 1992. Title IV: Housing Assistance - Amends the SBMHAA to extend through FY 1992: (1) the emergency shelter grants program; (2) the supportive housing demonstration program; (3) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; and (4) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Title V: Health Care for the Homeless - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize through FY 1992: (1) categorical grants for primary health services and substance abuse services; (2) block grants for community mental health services; and (3) alcohol and drug abuse treatment of homeless individuals. Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for Community demonstration projects. Title VI: Education, Training, and Community Services Program - Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for specified education, training, and community services programs through FY 1992. Title VII: Veterans Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for veterans medical programs through FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to a named individual in full settlement of all claims arising out of non-receipt of two Treasury checks.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Chehalis River Basin Fishery Resources Study and Restoration Act of 1989 - Requires the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake a study of the fishery resources and habitats of the Chehalis River Basin in Washington, including Grays Harbor, and develop plans for the restoration and conservation of such resources and habitats. Requires a report to the Congress. Requires that the State of Washington, the Chehalis Tribe, and the Quinault Indian Nation be invited to participate in the study. Requires that the study take advantage of ongoing watershed planning efforts to identify fishery resource problems in the Basin. Requires cost-sharing of at least one-third by non-Federal participants before Washington, the Chehalis Tribe, and the Quinault Indian Nation may participate in the study. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 2023
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for the U.S. contribution to the: (1) International Development Association; (2) Inter-American Development Bank; (3) Asian Development Fund; (4) African Development Bank; (5) International Finance Corporation; (6) African Development Fund; (7) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (8) Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Limits the amount of funds appropriated to the International Finance Corporation that may be expended for purchases of stock. Withhold a certain amount of funds appropriated for the Inter-American Development Bank. Permits such funds to be obligated only if the Secretary of the Treasury certifies that the Board of Executive Directors of the Bank has adopted policies providing that recipients of Bank assistance must agree that the procurement of goods or services shall not discriminate, on the basis of nationality, against any member country, firm, or person interested in providing such goods or services. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. executive director of the Bank to oppose assistance to any recipient who refuses to agree to conduct procurement in such manner. Withholds a certain amount of funds appropriated for the International Development Association. Permits such funds to be obligated after January 1, 1990, only if the President certifies to specified congressional committees that: (1) the Association has not provided any new loans to China since June 27, 1989; or (2) if such loans were provided, the U.S. Government believes that such loans will support the process of increasing individual freedoms and improving human rights in China. Limits the amount of the callable capital portion of the U.S. share of stock in the African Development Bank. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility of the IMF until the Secretary assures the Appropriations Committees that the current IMF and U.S. Government policy requiring all congressional inquiries to IMF employees to be cleared through the U.S. executive director of the IMF has been reversed to allow unmonitored contact between such persons. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for international organizations and programs. Prohibits such funds from being made available to the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for certain international organizations and United Nations programs. Prohibits funds from being made available for the International Fund for Agricultural Development until agreement has been reached on the third replenishment of the Fund. Provides that such funds may be made available to the International Atomic Energy Agency only if the Secretary of State reports to the Congress that Israel is not being denied its right to participate in the Agency. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for agricultural, rural development, nutrition, and development assistance. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for: (1) development projects of private entities and cooperatives using surplus dairy products; (2) the Vitamin A Deficiency Program; (3) agricultural activities in Poland managed by the Catholic Church or other nongovernmental organizations; and (4) the Farmer-to-Farmer program for Poland. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for development and population planning assistance. Prohibits funding for coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for health and development assistance. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for: (1) research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries (with earmarked funds for the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS); (2) the Child Survival Fund; and (3) education and human resources development assistance (with earmarked funds for the Caribbean Law Institute, primary and secondary education, the International Student Exchange Program, leadership programs for the Americas, technical training for Poles and Hungarians, and educational and cultural exchanges with Poland and Hungary). Directs the Agency for International Development (AID), in FY 1990 and 1991, to initiate three new bilateral projects in primary and secondary education, at least two of which shall be in Subsaharan Africa. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for private sector, environment, and energy assistance. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for: (1) cooperative projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries; (2) the Cooperative Development Program; (3) the Central American Rural Electrification Support project; (4) elephant conservation and preservation; (5) an air quality monitoring network in Krakow, Poland; (6) the improvement of water quality and water availability in Krakow; (7) a regional environmental center in Budapest, Hungary; (8) clean coal technology assistance to Poland; and (9) technical assistance to Poland and Hungary for the implementation of labor market reforms. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for science and technology development assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of development and economic support assistance for micro-enterprise development. Permits local currencies to be used for micro-enterprises. Provides that such currencies shall be in lieu of earmarked funds. Reduces the earmarked amount by an amount equal to such currencies. Earmarks specified amounts of development and economic support assistance for private sector development in Hungary and Poland. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for Subsaharan Africa (with earmarked funds for programs in primary and secondary education, elephant conservation and preservation, and the Southern African Development Coordination Conference). Requires development assistance for Zaire to be made available through private and voluntary organizations to the maximum extent practicable. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance for displaced children and women in development. Earmarks a specified amount of development and economic assistance for prostheses and related assistance for civilians injured as a result of civil strife and warfare. Prohibits any development assistance funds from being made available to U.S. private and voluntary organizations (except cooperative development organizations) which obtain less than 20 percent of annual funding for international activities from sources other than the U.S. Government. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for: (1) the private sector revolving fund (with limits on the amounts for obligations of assistance and loan commitments); (2) American schools and hospitals abroad; (3) international disaster assistance (with earmarked funds for children who have become orphans as the result of such disasters); (4) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (5) operating expenses of AID (with limits on the amount for foreign affairs administrative support); and (6) operating expenses of the AID Office of the Inspector General. Prohibits the relocation of the overseas offices of the AID Inspector General to a U.S. location without the approval of the Inspector General. Requires the number of positions authorized for such office in Washington to be at least 240 at the end of FY 1990. Limits the amount of assistance available for housing and credit guaranty programs for FY 1990. Prohibits such loans from being issued or held by the Federal Financing Bank. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend the authority to issue housing guarantees through September 30, 1991. Limits the total commitments to guarantee loans under such program. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for the Economic Support Fund (ESF). Earmarks specified amounts of such assistance for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt, including an amount for the Commodity Import Program; (3) El Salvador's Special Investigative Unit; (4) the West Bank and Gaza Program; (5) Jordan; (6) Cyprus; (7) Pakistan; (8) Morocco; (9) tied aid credits; (10) the provision of medical supplies and hospital equipment to Poland, including expenses of training personnel; (11) Solidarity; (12) humanitarian relief, medical treatment, and vocational training for victims of the December 1988 Armenian earthquake; (13) Poland; and (14) democratic organizations and activities in Poland and Hungary. Authorizes the provision of cash transfer assistance (out of earmarked funds) to Egypt if Egypt undertakes significant economic reforms. Makes Egyptian pounds generated from ESF assistance available to enable the U.S. embassy in Cairo to: (1) restore the U.S. Government Trustee endowment to the level established in Public Law 99-88; and (2) establish an endowment to support U.S. educational programs in Egypt. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the recommended levels of ESF assistance for Egypt and Israel are based on their continued participation in the Camp David Accords and upon the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain administration of justice assistance through FY 1990. Prohibits the provision of ESF assistance to Zaire. Requires the President, prior to the obligation of assistance for El Salvador, to report to the Congress on the progress made by the Government of El Salvador in settling expropriation claims of American citizens. Prohibits the reduction of the amount of FY 1990 assistance for any Central American country by a percentage greater than the reduction from amounts allocated for any other Central American country. Requires the President to report to specified congressional committees prior to obligating any economic support assistance. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for: (1) the International Fund for Ireland; (2) the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines; (3) independent agencies and the African Development Foundation; (4) the Inter-American Foundation; (5) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) (limits amounts for direct loans and total commitments to guarantee loans and earmarks funds for projects for Poland); (6) the Peace Corps (prohibits abortion funding); (7) international narcotics control (makes funds available for a multilateral antinarcotics strike force to exclude Communist or Warsaw Pact countries with notification of the Appropriations Committees); (8) the U.S. contribution to the International Red Cross and assistance to refugees; (9) the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; and (10) antiterrorism assistance. Earmarks specified amounts of migration and refugee assistance for: (1) refugees resettling in Israel; (2) refugee entrant assistance; (3) refugee admissions (with an amount allocated for first asylum refugees from East Asia); (4) a Thailand-Cambodia border refugee protection program; (5) the antipiracy program (prohibits the use of such funds by any government to deny asylum to any individual); (6) Turkey for assistance to ethnic Turkish refugees fleeing Bulgaria and resettling in Turkey; and (7) displaced Burmese students at camps on the border with Thailand. Amends the African Development Foundation Act to require that no more than four members of the Foundation's Board are from any one political party. Repeals a provision of such Act requiring the expiration of the Foundation's authorities on September 30, 1990. Prohibits the provision of migration and refugee assistance to assist in the migration to any Western Hemisphere nation of any person not having a security clearance. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988 to extend the period of validity of Amerasian visas to one year. Revises the required departure period for Amerasians emigrating from Vietnam to the United States. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for 1990 for: (1) international military education and training (prohibits the use of such funds for countries whose annual per capital GNP exceeds $2,349 unless such countries agree to fund transportation and living allowances of their students); and (2) the foreign military financing program. Earmarks specified amounts of foreign military financing for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt; (3) Pakistan; (4) Jordan; (5) Morocco; and (6) countries in Subsaharan Africa. Excludes requirements for repayment of the United States in grant financing documents. Requires the interest rate on foreign military financing loans to be at least five percent annually. Limits: (1) the principal amount of direct loans; (2) the amount of foreign military financing for Greece, Turkey, El Salvador, and Zaire; (3) the amount of nonlethal assistance for Guatemala; (4) the amount of foreign military financing for the procurement of defense articles and services not sold by the U.S. Government for countries other than Israel, Egypt, or countries for which assistance was justified in the FY 1989 congressional presentation for security assistance programs; (5) foreign military financing for Haiti to non-lethal items to be available only through congressional notification procedures; and (6) the amount of funds for administering military assistance and sales. Makes available a specified amount of such funds on a grant basis for Greece if Turkey receives financing on a grant basis. Requires funds previously obligated for the Philippines to be used only to finance sales under the Arms Export Control Act. Prohibits foreign military financing from being made available to Sudan or Somalia except through regular notification procedures of the Appropriations Committees. Directs the Department of Defense, as requested by the Defense Security Assistance Agency, to conduct audits of private firms whose contracts are made directly with foreign governments and are financed under this title. Makes certain funds available for foreign military sales debt reform under the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988 available only after FY 1990. Amends such Act to make provisions concerning such debt reform which are currently applicable to loans with interest rates of ten percent or higher applicable to loans with interest rates of eight percent or higher. Directs the Secretary of Defense to issue notes to the Secretary of the Treasury to finance activities when the Guaranty Reserve Fund is insufficient. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for peacekeeping operations. Limits obligations for purposes of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Title IV: Export Assistance - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank of the United States to make expenditures within the limit of funds and borrowing authority and to make any necessary contracts and commitments. Prohibits the use of Bank funds for nuclear exports to a non-nuclear weapon state. Limits, during FY 1990: (1) gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, pursuant to the medium-term financing program; (2) commitments to guarantee loans; and (3) administrative expenses of the Bank. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for tied aid grants and interest subsidy payments, subject to certain limitations and congressional notification procedures. Prohibits interest subsidy payments from being used in conjunction with any loan guaranteed by the Bank. Permits the Bank to participate in the financing of commercial sales of defense articles and services destined for Greece and Turkey. Prohibits the procurement of such articles or services for use on Cyprus. Provides that the direct loan, tied aid grant, and interest subsidy authorities shall remain available until September 30, 1991. Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for the Trade and Development Program. Prohibits any Act, other than an Act appropriating funds for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, from making funds available for the Program. Limits total commitments to guarantee loans for Central America and Poland under the Trade Credit Insurance Program. Extends the deadline for entering into commitments to guarantee under such program to the end of FY 1990. Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act (other than funds appropriated for international organizations and programs) for any water or related land resource project which has not met specified standards and criteria for such projects proposed for construction in the United States. Limits the percentage of appropriations, with specified exceptions, that may be obligated during the last month of availability. Prohibits using certain funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act for: (1) retirement pay for any person serving in the armed forces of any recipient country; (2) making payments on procurement contracts which do not authorize the termination of such contract for the convenience of the United States; or (3) paying any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any member of the United Nations. Prohibits using any of the funds contained in title II of this Act to carry out the transfer of funds to international or multilateral lending organizations. Limits the amounts of funds made available under this Act to be used for: (1) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of AID; (2) entertainment expenses and representation allowances for foreign military financing programs, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Trade and Development Program; and (3) entertainment expenses for international military education and training programs and the Peace Corps. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act (other than funds for international organizations and programs) to finance the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to: (1) assist any foreign government in repressing the legitimate rights of its population; (2) finance assistance or reparations to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, South Yemen, Iran, or Syria (including assistance provided by the Export-Import Bank or its agents); or (3) finance assistance to any country whose elected head of government is deposed by military coup. Prohibits obligating funds made available under this Act under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated, unless the President provides a written policy justification to the Appropriations Committees. Continues the availability of certain AID funds, subject to limitations, provided the Appropriations Committees are notified. Prohibits appropriations contained in this Act from remaining available after expiration of the current fiscal year, except as provided in this Act. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to: (1) be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States; (2) assist a country in default for more than a year on a U.S. loan under a program for which funds are appropriated under this Act (exempts from such prohibition funds for narcotics-related activities in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru); (3) be made available to any international financial institution whose U.S. representative cannot obtain the amounts and names of borrowers for all loans of such institution; or (4) be made available for any such institution whose U.S. representative cannot obtain any document developed by or in the possession of the management, unless such representative certifies to the Appropriations Committees that such document's confidentiality is essential to the institution's operation. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act for direct assistance, the Export-Import Bank, and OPIC to finance any loan or other assistance to establish or expand production of any commodity for export by a foreign country if such commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar or competing commodity. Exempts the Export-Import Bank from such prohibition if the Bank determines that the benefits to industry and employment in the United States are likely to outweigh the injury to such producers. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if it is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar or competing commodity. Sets forth congressional notification procedures for the obligation of specified funds made available under this Act. Limits expenditures for consulting services through procurement contracts. Prohibits using funds appropriated under this Act to lobby for abortion. Prohibits any of the international organizations and programs funds from being available for the U.S. proportionate share of any programs for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Southwest Africa People's Organization, Libya, Iran, or, at the discretion of the President, Communist countries to which foreign assistance is prohibited. Prohibits the United States from making a contribution to the United Nations or any of its affiliated agencies if such an agency grants full membership to any organization that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood. Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the voting practices of governments represented at the United Nations and the responsiveness of such governments to U.S. policy. Repeals provisions of specified Acts concerning such voting practices. Authorizes Israel to use any loan made available under the Arms Export Control Act for which repayment is forgiven before using any other loan made available under such Act. Prohibits U.S. employees from recognizing or negotiating with the PLO so long as the PLO does not recognize Israel's right to exist, does not accept Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and does not renounce the use of terrorism. Declares that it is U.S. policy that economic support fund assistance for Israel shall not be less than the annual debt repayment from Israel to the United States. Requires congressional notification prior to making funds available for military aircraft in Central America. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever helicopters or military aircraft are provided to Central American countries by any foreign country. Expresses the policy of the United States that sustainable economic growth must be predicated on sustainable use of natural resources. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) instruct U.S. executive directors of multilateral development banks to promote programs which address the problems of global climate change; and (2) report to the Congress on the progress made by such banks in implementing such programs. Requires the Secretary to request such banks to prepare analyses of the impact that current forestry sector loans will have on borrowing country emissions of carbon dioxide and the status of proposals of forestry sector activities to reduce such emissions. Directs AID to: (1) issue guidance to all AID bureaus detailing the elements of a Global Warming Initiative to emphasize the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to accelerate sustainable development strategies; (2) increase the number and expertise of personnel devoted to energy and environmental activities; (3) accelerate the activities of the Multi-Agency Working Group on Power Sector Innovation to enable completion of case studies of at least ten countries in FY 1990; and (4) devote at least ten percent of resources allocated for forestry activities to the preservation and restoration of natural forests. Makes funds available to reimburse personnel of AID's environmental sector. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this Act for biological diversity activities (with allocations for the Parks in Peril project and the National Science Foundation's international biological diversity program). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) instruct the U.S. executive directors to specified international financial institutions to support lending portfolios which allow debtor developing countries to reduce or restructure debt in concert with the sustainable use of natural resources; (2) report to the Congress on such program; (3) instruct such directors to seek the support of other donor countries in the implementation of such program; and (4) instruct the U.S. executive director to the World Bank to seek implementation by the Bank of the recommendations set forth in an April 1988 report on debt-for-nature swaps and to report to the Appropriations Committees on such program. Requires the Secretary to incorporate natural resource management initiatives in the implementation of the Brady Plan and to report to the Appropriations Committees on the incorporation of such initiatives. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. executive director to the Inter-American Bank to: (1) seek implementation of the environmental reform measures agreed to in the Bank's seventh replenishment; (2) seek adoption of Bank policies regarding indigenous people, relations with nongovernmental organizations, and the protection of wildlife and unique natural and cultural features; (3) require the Bank to demonstrate how it has improved, and will improve, the monitoring of environmental and social components of loans; and (4) report to the Appropriations Committees on the progress in implementing such reforms. Requires AID to focus: (1) tropical forestry assistance programs on the key middle- and low-income developing countries which are projected to contribute large amounts of greenhouse gases; and (2) energy assistance activities on countries where assistance would have the greatest impact on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Permits the use of funds made available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for such programs, subject to certain restrictions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) AID should increase its efforts in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy planning; and (2) such increase should take place with respect to key countries and countries with large ESF assistance. Requires AID to report to the Congress on: (1) potential contributions of developing countries to future global emissions of greenhouse gases under different economic growth scenarios; (2) an estimate of the relative contributions of such countries to global greenhouse gas emissions; and (3) specific key countries which stand to contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions and in which actions to promote energy efficiency, reliance on renewable energy resources, and conservation of forest resources could significantly reduce such emissions. Requires at least five percent of Export-Import Bank financing for energy sector exports to be used for renewable energy projects. Directs the Bank to take steps to finance information exchanges and training to link U.S. producers in the renewable energy sector with assistance programs and potential foreign customers. Requires the Chairman of the Bank to report annually to the Appropriations Committee on such financing. Prohibits the use of development assistance funds to pay for: (1) abortions or involuntary sterilizations as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any persons to practice abortions or undergo sterilization; or (2) any biomedical research concerning abortions or involuntary sterilization as a method of family planning. Reaffirms the congressional commitment to population, development assistance, and the need for informed voluntary family planning. Earmarks specified amounts of development and economic support assistance appropriated by this Act for the Afghan people and for the United Nations Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated by this Act available to a private voluntary organization which fails to provide the records necessary for an AID audit or which is not registered with AID. Withholds a specified amount of military aid and financing from El Salvador until the President reports to the Appropriations Committees that El Salvador has: (1) substantially concluded all investigations with respect to those responsible for the January 1981 murders of specified U.S. and Salvadoran land reformers; and (2) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial and obtain a verdict of those responsible for such murders and the murders of ten peasants near San Francisco, El Salvador. Expresses the sense of the Congress that all countries receiving U.S. foreign aid should cooperate in facilitating lasting solutions to refugee situations. Calls upon the President to direct AID to work in a global effort to provide enhanced support toward achieving the goal of universal access to childhood immunization by 1990. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated by this Act available for: (1) costs of Ethiopia's forced resettlement or villagization programs; or (2) Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Lebanon, Zaire, or Somalia, except through regular congressional notification procedures. Earmarks certain appropriated funds for child survival activities and activities relating to research on, and the treatment and control of, AIDS in developing countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should oppose all loans to Chile from international financial institutions, except those for basic human needs, until the Government of Chile: (1) ends its practice and pattern of gross abuse of internationally recognized human rights; and (2) takes steps to restore democracy. Prohibits making certain assistance available to Chile except for assistance supporting efforts to establish the importance of an independent judiciary. Declares that the Congress supports the democratic transition underway in Chile and intends to assist the new democratically elected government with assistance to strengthen democratic institutions and establish a new relationship with the Chilean armed forces appropriate to a democratic government. Permits a certain amount of international military education and training funds for FY 1990 to be made available to Chile if: (1) a civilian, democratically elected president is in power in Chile and has requested such funds; (2) human rights are being respected and the government is exercising independent and effective authority; and (3) the Chilean Government is making good-faith efforts in attempting to resolve the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated under any Act available for any testing, study, variety improvement, or certain other activities related to the growth or production in a foreign country of an agricultural commodity for export which would compete with a similar commodity grown or produced in the United States. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated to AID, other than funds to carry out the Caribbean Basin Initiative, to procure studies or assist in establishing facilities for the manufacture of articles that compete with U.S. exports. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated under this Act available to finance indirectly any assistance or reparations to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, South Yemen, Iran, or Syria unless the President certifies that the withholding of these funds is contrary to the national interest of the United States. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish ESF assistance and foreign military financing to Liberia for FY 1990, to take into account whether Liberia has demonstrated its commitment to economic reform and to increased respect for human rights. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to extend waiver authority with respect to reciprocal leasing agreements through FY 1990. Requires delivery of defense equipment (permitted under special authority during unforeseen emergencies) within 120 days of congressional notification. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit the President, upon notification of the Congress, to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services from the Department of Defense under such Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1952. Limits the amount of articles, services, and training to be provided in any fiscal year. Sets forth additional notification requirements with respect to the transfer of excess defense equipment to NATO. Limits the amount of ESF assistance and foreign military financing (excluding amounts for Israel, Egypt, Poland, and Hungary) to be obligated or expended before March 1, 1990. Requires the President to submit reports to the Congress detailing the extent to which certain objectives regarding the El Salvador peace process have been met. Requires the Secretary of State to transmit copies of all debt relief agreements to appropriate congressional committees. Continues the funding of Middle East regional cooperative programs. Earmarks a specified amount of ESF assistance for scholarships to enable Israeli Arabs to attend U.S. institutions of higher education. Conditions the provision of such assistance on private sector contributions to the endowment for such scholarships. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should use its influence in the Asian Development Bank to secure reconsideration of the decision to designate Taiwan as "Taipei, China;" and (2) the Asian Development Bank should resolve this dispute in a fashion that is acceptable to Taiwan. Prohibits the use of funds provided under any Act for the sale of M-833 or comparable antitank shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to any country except a NATO member country, major non-NATO ally, or Pakistan. Allows earmarked funds to be reprogrammed for other programs within the same account if: (1) compliance with the earmark is made impossible by any Act; or (2) with respect to countries with which the United States has base access agreements, the President determines that the recipient of funds has reduced its military or economic cooperation with the United States. Requires the President, before funds for such countries are reprogrammed, to provide a written policy justification to the Appropriations Committees. Subjects such reprogramming to the regular notification procedures of such committees. Suspends FY 1990 assistance to Haiti unless: (1) the Haitian Government restores the 1987 Constitution, appoints an independent electoral commission, and takes steps to provide electoral security; or (2) the President determines that such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. Excludes certain assistance from such suspension. Prohibits making any funds available for assistance to Panama unless the President certifies to the Congress that: (1) the Government of Panama has demonstrated that progress has been made in assuring civilian control of the Panama Defense Force; (2) an impartial investigation is being conducted of allegations of illegal actions by members of the Panama Defense Force; (3) agreement has been reached on conditions for free and fair elections in Panama; and (4) constitutional guarantees are being restored to the Panamanian people. Expresses the sense of the Congress that if such conditions are met, increased levels of assistance should be considered for Panama. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to direct U.S. executive directors of multilateral development banks to vote against any loan to Panama unless the President makes such certification. Prohibits the import of sugars, syrups, or molasses from Panama during any period in which a quota is imposed unless the President certifies that constitutional guarantees have been restored to the Panamanian people. Provides for the reallocation of quota amounts. Provides for U.S. opposition to assistance to terrorist countries by international financial institutions. Prohibits bilateral assistance to such countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the practice of detaining children without charge or trial is inhumane and must be ended. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated under this Act available for military assistance to Mozambique. Releases a certain amount of ESF assistance to Honduras in consideration of the Honduran Government's good faith effort to settle the Ramirez case. Provides that if a settlement of such case is reached, an additional amount of funds should be released for Honduras. Earmarks specified amounts of ESF assistance for: (1) scholarships to disadvantaged South Africans; and (2) Bolivia, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Peru. Earmarks specified amounts of foreign military financing for: (1) narcotics control activities in Bolivia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, and Colombia; (2) the testing and use of herbicides for the aerial eradication of coca; and (3) arming aircraft used in narcotics control. Prohibits the provision of assistance to countries which fail to take steps to prevent illicit drugs from being sold to U.S. Government personnel or from entering the United States illegally. Sets forth reprogramming procedures for funds for countries which have not taken adequate steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking. Earmarks specified amounts of assistance made available to AID for narcotics education and awareness programs and narcotics related economic assistance activities. Directs the Secretary of State to urge the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control to develop a more comprehensive program for enlisting support for coca control programs and related development activities in South America. Requires that any agreement for the sale or provision of any article on the U.S. Munitions List shall expressly state that the article is being provided by the United States only with the understanding that it will not be transferred to Cyprus or otherwise used to further the severance or division of Cyprus. Directs the President to report to the Congress when such equipment is used for such purposes. Permits the commercial leasing of defense articles (other than major defense equipment) by Israel, Egypt, NATO countries, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for those defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather than by government-to-government sale. Provides that if the President makes available a specified amount of funds appropriated by this Act for the Cambodian non-Communist resistance forces, such funds shall be derived from foreign military financing and ESF assistance funds. Authorizes the President to transfer excess defense articles to eligible NATO southern flank countries and major non-NATO allies on the southern and southeastern NATO flank. Permits the President, subject to certain restrictions and with notification to the Congress, to transfer excess defense articles to any country: (1) which is a major illicit drug producing country in Latin America or the Caribbean with a democratic government; and (2) whose armed forces do not engage consistently in gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Requires such countries to ensure that such articles will be used only in support of antinarcotic activities. Authorizes the transfer of such articles without cost to the recipient country. Declares that the Congress intends that excess defense articles be made available to maintain the military balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Requires the President to ensure, over a 3-year period beginning in FY 1990, that the ratio of the value of such articles made available for Turkey to those made available for Greece closely approximates the ratio of the amount of foreign military financing provided for Turkey to the amount provided for Greece. Directs the Secretary to determine the eligibility of illicit drug producing countries to receive excess defense articles under this Act. Limits the aggregate value of such articles transferred to such a country to $10,000,000 per fiscal year. Provides that all AID contracts and solicitations shall require U.S. marine insurance companies to have a fair opportunity to bid for marine insurance. Requires the necessary amounts for FY 1990 pay raises for programs funded by this Act to be absorbed within the levels appropriated by this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that funds made available for the International Fund for Ireland should be allocated to programs which emphasize jobs creation in areas having the highest rates of unemployment. Prohibits the use of certain assistance provided under this Act for assistance to Afghanistan if such assistance would be provided through the Soviet-controlled government of Afghanistan. Requires at least 25 percent of ESF assistance for El Salvador to be used for certain projects and activities in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires at least ten percent of FY 1990 development assistance and assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa (unless the AID Administrator determines otherwise) to be made available only for U.S. organizations and individuals that are: (1) business concerns or private organizations owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; (2) historically black colleges or universities; and (3) colleges and universities in which more than 40 percent of the students are Hispanic American. Directs the Administrator to: (1) utilize the authority of the Small Business Act; (2) enter into contracts with small business concerns owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals using less than full and open competitive procedures; and (3) issue regulations requiring contracts in excess of $500,000 to provide that at least 10 percent of the contract shall be subcontracted to such organizations and individuals. Requires AID personnel with contracting authority to notify the AID Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization before advertising contracts in excess of $100,000. Directs the Administrator to: (1) include as part of the performance evaluation of any mission director such director's efforts to carry out such activities; and (2) report annually to the Congress on the implementation of such program. Prohibits the United States from selling or making available Stinger missiles to any Persian Gulf country. Makes certain prohibitions concerning the transfer of Stingers inapplicable to Stingers previously transferred to Bahrain if the President notifies specified congressional committees that: (1) the Stingers are needed by Bahrain to counter an immediate air threat or to protect U.S. personnel, facilities, equipment, or operations; (2) no other appropriate system is available from the United States; and (3) Bahrain has agreed to safeguards to protect against diversion of the Stingers as may be required by the United States and to return to the control of the United States all Stingers made available at any time. Authorizes the replacement, pursuant to certain determinations by the President, of Stingers previously made available to Bahrain that were fired or destroyed. Requires such missiles to be returned to the possession of the United States by the end of FY 1991, unless the President determines that certain conditions warranting the control of such missiles by Bahrain continue to apply and specified congressional committees are notified. Prohibits the provision of funds appropriated under this Act to any person undertaking an action prohibited by U.S. law. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which receive AID economic assistance to invest any local currencies which accrue to such organizations as a result of such assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of development and ESF assistance for Lebanon. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to prohibit the Foreign Service Grievance Board from suspending a disciplinary action or involuntary separation of a Foreign Service member if there is reason to believe such member has committed a job-related crime for which a prison sentence may be imposed and has been suspended without pay. Makes such members subject to reinstatement with back pay if no cause for separation is established. Sets forth procedures for the suspension of such members. Prohibits the location of U.S. stockpiles in any foreign country other than South Korea, Thailand, a NATO member country, or a country which is a major non-NATO ally. Limits the dollar amount of additions to such stockpiles for FY 1990. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should convey to China and the United Kingdom strong concerns over the absence of full direct elections in Hong Kong and lack of independent human rights guarantees in the draft Basic Law, pending the colony's scheduled reversion to China in 1997. Rescinds a specified amount of ESF assistance from unearmarked funds and funds for Subsaharan Africa, Sudan, Somalia, and Liberia. Commends Israel's decision to open schools on the West Bank. Expresses the hope that all schools will be opened at an early date and will remain open, will not be used for political purposes, and will be respected and regarded as places of learning. Extends the period during which the President may waive prohibitions on assistance to Pakistan to April 1, 1991. Sets forth requirements for the maintenance of separate accounts for, and the use of, local currencies, cash transfers, and non-project sector assistance. Requires AID to: (1) establish a system of indicators of poverty reduction on a country-by-country basis; and (2) identify poverty reduction objectives set for each country receiving development assistance and the progress achieved and future steps to be taken with respect to such objectives. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) instruct the U.S. executive director to the International Monetary Fund to promote specified policy and staffing changes to provide for the consideration of sustainable management of natural resources and public health and poverty impacts in the Fund's policy; and (2) report to the Congress on such reforms. Welcomes the negotiating process set in motion in Mexico City by the El Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and the willingness of such parties to continue such process. Urges such parties to achieve a cessation of hostilities and a political settlement of the conflict. Calls upon the Secretary of State to consult with the Congress on the status of such negotiations and the efforts taken by the President to support such negotiations. Directs the President to: (1) encourage and participate in the creation of a multi-donor, multi-sectoral coordinating mechanism to be known as the Central American Development Coordination Commission (CADCC); and (2) provide a certain amount of assistance for the implementation of, and U.S. participation in, such Commission. Designates the United Nations Development Programme as the social service and refugee and displaced persons technical assistance secretariat for the CADCC. Authorizes the President to furnish CADCC assistance to Central American countries which are in compliance with the Esquipulas Accords. Urges the President to encourage and secure greater international support for the implementation of the recommendations of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, in attempting to secure support for such recommendations, should exert leadership in multilateral and regional forums and economic summits to further a multi-donor, multi-sector approach to the Central American crisis. Requires OPIC to support projects in Poland and Hungary which enhance the nongovernmental sector and reduce state involvement in the economy. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the International Coffee Agreement is important in promoting economic and political stability in many developing countries; (2) the collapse of such Agreement would undermine Colombia's efforts at fighting illegal drugs; and (3) the Administration should make efforts to conclude a renewal of such Agreement. Urges the President to raise the issue of political rights of the Baltic peoples in all diplomatic contacts with the Soviet Union. Calls upon the Soviet Union to: (1) honor the international agreements it has entered into; (2) allow the Latvian, Estonian, and Lithuanian peoples their right of self-determination; (3) recognize the human rights of all peoples within the Soviet Union and under Soviet influence; and (4) replace the policy of aggressive industrialization in the Baltic States with one of environmental responsibility. Considers to have been lawfully imported into the United States certain defense articles from Poland, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia that: (1) were imported into the United States before June 30, 1989, by, or on behalf of, tax-exempt museums or educational institutions; (2) were manufactured at least 20 years before such importation and have been disabled so that no weapon is functional; and (3) are to be used only for display to the public for educational purposes. Permits such articles to remain in the United States. Calls on the Secretary General of the United Nations to: (1) act upon a specified resolution concerning Cuba which was approved by the Commission on Human Rights; (2) urge the Cuban Government to release 22 persons held in detention because of human rights activities; and (3) expand the United Nations' investigation of Cuba to include an examination of labor rights in recognition of current Cuban law which prohibits the formation of independent unions and has led to the imprisonment of Cuban workers who have tried to organize. Calls on the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to make known U.S. dissatisfaction with the failure of the United Nations to continue to act on such resolution. Makes additional appropriations for the Trade and Development Program. Authorizes the reobligation of funds for activities in Hungary or Poland for similar activities in such countries. Prohibits the expenditure of funds made available for Poland under this Act if: (1) any Polish official initiates martial law without the consent of the Polish Senate and Sejm; or (2) members of the Senate or Sejm are removed from office or arrested through extra-constitutional processes. Waives such prohibition if the President certifies to the Congress that it is in the U.S. foreign policy interest to do so. Directs the Attorney General, in order to identify aliens as targets of persecution for purposes of admission into the United States, to establish categories of aliens who are or were nationals and residents of the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia who share common characteristics identifying them as targets of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. Includes within such categories Soviet Jews and Evangelical Christians and Ukrainian Catholics or Orthodox. Allocates a specified amount of admissions to Ukrainian Catholic or Orthodox refugees. Permits persons within such categories who were denied admission between August 14, 1988, and the date of enactment of this Act to reapply for refugee status. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Judiciary Committees on Soviet refugee processing in Italy and the Soviet Union. Directs the Attorney General to adjust to permanent resident status the status of aliens who: (1) apply for such adjustment; (2) have been physically present in the United States for at least one year and are physically present on the date such application is filed; (3) are admissible as immigrants; and (4) pay an application processing fee. Applies such adjustment only to Soviet, Vietnamese, Laotian, or Cambodian nationals who were granted parole into the United States between August 15, 1988, and September 30, 1990, after being denied refugee status. Waives certain grounds for inadmissibility under the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to such adjustments. Repeals a provision of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 which allows the Attorney General to collect fees to cover the costs of copying and distributing copies of Federal Judiciary tax decisions. Authorizes the allocation of funds made available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for police training assistance for El Salvador, subject to certain conditions. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for FY 1990 for such assistance and for other administration of justice assistance. Allows the President to provide assistance under such Act to Peru, Bolivia, and Jamaica for the production, processing, and marketing of crops which can be economically grown in areas of such countries which currently produce narcotic and psychotropic drug crops. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the success and continuation of land reform in El Salvador is vital to U.S. policy and to political stability, economic development, and maintenance of democratic institutions in such country. Requires the President, when allocating ESF funds to El Salvador, to take into consideration progress in the Salvadoran Land Reform Program. Title VI: Funding Adjustments - Reduces appropriations made under this Act by a specified percentage. Exempts programs exempt from sequestration under the Deficit Control Act of 1985 from such reduction. Makes appropriations for counter-narcotics programs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990 - Appropriates specified sums to the District of Columbia for FY 1990 for: (1) the Federal payment to the District of Columbia, provided there are a specified number of metropolitan police officers; (2) the Federal payment for water and sewer services; (3) a Federal contribution to retirement funds; and (4) a Federal contribution for the operating costs of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Retains in the Treasury specified sums previously appropriated for a Federal payment for the design and construction of a prison facility within the District of Columbia, subject to certain conditions. Requires the District of Columbia to operate and maintain a telephone hotline for prison-area residents to receive information concerning escapes, fires, and riots at the prison. Appropriates a specified amount to close open air drug markets, increase police visibility, and provide for speedier court processing of drug-related violent cases. Appropriates specified sums out of the District of Columbia general fund for the current fiscal year for: (1) governmental direction and support; (2) economic development and regulation; (3) public safety and justice; (4) public education; (5) human support services; (6) public works; (7) the Washington Convention Center Fund; (8) repayments of specified loans and interest; (9) repayment of the general fund deficit; (10) short-term borrowing; (11) employees' optical and dental benefits; (12) capital outlay; (13) the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund and water construction projects; (14) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; and (15) the Cable Television Enterprise Fund. Requires the District of Columbia to operate and maintain a telephone hotline for Lorton-area residents to receive information concerning escapes, fires, and riots at Lorton prison. Directs the Mayor to reduce, by a specified sum, appropriations and expenditures for energy, equipment, and personal services. Sets forth restrictions on the expenditure of appropriations made by this Act. Makes funds available for: (1) transportation allowances for official duties; (2) travel expenses and the payment of dues for organizations concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government; (3) refunds and the payment of judgements entered against the District of Columbia government; (4) the payment of public assistance; (5) the cost, subject to restriction, of overtime or temporary positions; and (6) payments authorized by the District of Columbia Revenue Recovery Act of 1977. Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) the compensation of any permanent employee of the District of Columbia government appointed during any month in which the number of employees exceeds the number of positions authorized by this Act; (2) the compensation of any person appointed to fill a vacant position in an agency under the personnel control of the mayor unless such person is an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department or is a current D.C. employee who will not be moving to a higher grade level in accepting the position; (3) activities which permit or encourage partisan political activities; (4) the salary of any District of Columbia government employee whose work and salary history are not available for inspection by specified congressional committees or, with regard to name and salary, available for public inspection; (5) publicity or propaganda purposes; (6) implementation of a personal lottery for the hiring of firefighters or police officers; (7) reprogramming, unless the reprogramming was approved according to specified procedures; (8) the provision of personal servants for any District of Columbia employee; or (9) the purchase of passenger automobiles with an estimated miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon. Requires the District to implement a residency preference system rather than a residency requirement for career and educational service positions available on or after March 16, 1989. Prohibits use of the Federal funds provided in this Act to perform abortions, except where the life of the mother is endangered. Requires that the annual budget for the District of Columbia government for FY 1991 be transmitted to the Congress by April 15, 1990. Requires the Mayor to develop an annual plan for capital outlay borrowings. Prohibits the Mayor from: (1) borrowing funds for capital projects without the prior approval of the District of Columbia Council; and (2) using money borrowed for capital projects for operating expenses of the District of Columbia government. Sets forth requirements with respect to the compensation of the City Administrator, the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency, and District of Columbia employees generally. Authorizes the Department of Administrative Services to pay rentals and alter and repair rented premises. Directs the Mayor to submit to the D.C. Council, no later than 30 days after the end of the first quarter of FY 1990, the FY 1990 revenue estimate. Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to extend, for one year, the District's authority to sell its general obligation bonds through negotiated sales. Prohibits the renewal or extension of any sole source contract with the District of Columbia government without opening that contract to the competitive bidding process, subject to exception. Requires any sequestration order to be applied to each account appropriating Federal funds in this Act (rather than to the aggregate total of those accounts) which is not specifically exempted from sequestration by specified Federal law. Provides for repayment to the Federal Treasury of any amounts appropriated and paid to the District of Columbia before a sequestration order is issued, applying the sequestration percentage proportionately to each account not specifically exempted from sequestration. Amends the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954 to authorize the District of Columbia to receive direct quarterly payments from the Federal Government for estimated Federal usage of D.C. water and sanitary sewer services from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 1990. Amends the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1982 to eliminate the prohibition against: (1) the promotion or operation of revenue-raising games of chance in the Old Georgetown Historic District; and (2) the promotion of such games on public transportation and at stations and stops. Authorizes the playing of such games in prohibited areas if they are sponsored by and conducted solely for the benefit of a tax-exempt organization. Requires that the D.C. Council receive written notice at least 30 days before funds appropriated for activities for which it has approved a specific budget increase are reprogrammed or reduced. Requires the District of Columbia to pay interest on its FY 1990 quarterly payments to the United States that are made more than 60 days after its receipt of an itemized statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons of amounts due for housing D.C. convicts in Federal penitentiaries. Amends the District of Columbia Code (D.C. Code) to increase the number of associate judges in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 50 to 58, subject to the enactment of authorizing legislation. Directs the Secretary of Education to award certain appropriated funds to the consortium of institutions of higher education in the D.C. metropolitan area for the establishment of an academic research library which links the library and information resources of the universities participating in the consortium. Requires the Director of the Department of Human Services of the District of Columbia to establish the District of Columbia Task Force for Coordinated Service to Drug-Exposed Infants which shall develop, within one year of this Act's enactment, a plan for the most efficient and effective delivery of services to substance abusing pregnant women and infants who were exposed to material substance abuse during pregnancy. Nation's Capital Religious Liberty and Academic Freedom Act - Amends the D.C. Code to deem it not to be an unlawful discriminatory practice in the District of Columbia for any school having a religious affiliation or association to deny or restrict: (1) the use of any fund, service, facility, or benefit; or (2) the granting of any endorsement, approval, or recognition to homosexuals.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Authorizes the Rumsey Indian Rancheria in California to convey certain land in Sparks, Nevada, to any bona fide purchaser for value. Directs that proceeds from the conveyance of such land may be used only for the economic development and social welfare of the Rumsey Indian Rancheria.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Directs the Agency for International Development to use certain unobligated funds to provide medical care and other relief for noncombatant victims of civil strife in Central America. Requires such assistance to be provided only through nonpolitical private and voluntary organizations and international relief organizations. Permits up to half of such assistance to be provided through nonpolitical private and voluntary organizations and international relief organizations operating in Nicaragua. Prohibits such assistance from being provided to or through the Government of Nicaragua.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Amendments of 1989 - Amends the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to provide that the holder of class A notes shall be entitled to interest rates determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average yield on comparable outstanding marketable U.S. obligations as of the last day of the month preceding each issuance of such notes to the Secretary. Limits interest payments until 1990 to 25 percent of gross revenues. Authorizes the Bank to issue replacement class A notes with the Secretary's approval. Mandates that all class A notes be redeemed by October 31, 2020.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 to require State Governors to maintain records on asbestos in school buildings. Deletes a requirement for the submission of asbestos abatement application materials by State Governors to the Secretary of Education. Requires State Governors, in determining the adequacy of financial resources available to a local educational agency for asbestos abatement, to consider the additional costs to such agency of meeting the needs of disadvantaged students. Removes a reporting requirement concerning actions taken by State Governors in accordance with State plans. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve applications for financial assistance no later than April 30 of each year. Prohibits the provision of such assistance to applicants who are not in compliance with title II of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Requires the proceeds from the repayment of Federal asbestos abatement loans and assistance recovery lawsuits to be deposited into the Asbestos Trust Fund. Removes a condition on the provision of financial assistance which requires the submission of an application within five years of the enactment of the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Prohibits the approval of assistance applications unless the local educational agency certifies that it is implementing an asbestos management plan and all abatement activities will be conducted by trained and accredited individuals in conformance with the Toxic Substances Control Act. Removes certain requirements for the promulgation by the Administrator of standards for asbestos removal contractors and the protection of school employees trained to carry out abatement activities. Requires the Administrator to report annually (until 1999) to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the loan and grant program under the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Authorizes appropriations for the asbestos abatement program for FY 1991 through 1995. Revises provisions concerning the allocation of appropriations. Permits up to five percent of appropriations to be reserved each fiscal year for the administration of asbestos abatement activities. Authorizes the Administrator to use up to five percent of such appropriations for grants to States for: (1) assisting local educational agencies in performing periodic reinspections and training activities; and (2) maintaining programs to accredit personnel performing asbestos inspections and response actions. Makes conforming amendments to provisions of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 concerning the Asbestos Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2025
Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 - Title I: Limitations on Outside Employment and Elimination of Honoraria - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to: (1) limit the outside income of Members of the House of Representatives and all other Federal employees and officials (except Senators) who are non-career employees paid at a grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or above to 15 percent of the pay for level II of the Executive Schedule in any calendar year; and (2) prohibit such individuals from receiving any honoraria while employed by the Government, beginning on January 1, 1991. Prohibits payments of honoraria on behalf of such an individual to a charitable organization in excess of $2,000 or to a charitable organization from which such an individual or his or her spouse or any relative derives any financial benefit. Prohibits such individuals from: (1) affiliating with, or being employed by, any entity to provide professional services which involve a fiduciary relationship for compensation; (2) permitting their names to be used by such an entity; (3) practicing a profession which involves such a relationship; (4) serving for compensation as an officer or member of any entity; or (5) receiving compensation for teaching without prior notification and approval of the appropriate supervising ethics office administering this title. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions to enforce this title. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) prohibit such payments to charitable institutions from being treated as received by the employee or official and used as deductions under Federal, State, and local tax law beginning on January 1, 1991; and (2) provide for the nonrecognition of gain for sales of property to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements after the enactment of this Act. Provides that a repeal of the provisions of this Act with respect to salary increases for senior Government officials shall repeal provisions concerning such limitation and prohibitions on outside income. Title II: Financial Disclosure - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require Members of Congress and legislative, executive, and judicial branch employees and officials paid at a grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or above to report the source, date, and amount of payments to charitable organizations in lieu of honoraria and to file, on a confidential basis, a corresponding list of all recipients of such payments with the dates and amounts of such payments after December 31, 1990. Requires the reporting of income other than from employment by the Government and gifts, respectively, totalling $200 or more in amount or value. Lowers the threshold for reporting gifts of transportation to require an individual receiving such a gift of at least $200 to report the dates and places of travel and a description of the nature of the expenses provided. Revises provisions requiring the reporting of liabilities owed to a relative by specifying that such reporting requirement applies only to liabilities owed to the spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child of the reporting individual or such individual's spouse. Revises financial reporting requirements for assets, liabilities, and transactions in real property and securities by establishing new reporting categories above the current threshold of $250,000. Requires the reporting of the source and amount of any honorarium received by a spouse of a reporting individual. Allows the use of alternative forms for financial disclosure. Allows executive branch employees to file a confidential financial disclosure report in a form prescribed by the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Requires the reporting of the category of the value of property interests held in qualified blind trusts. Requires that the trustee and any other entity designated in the trust instrument to perform fiduciary duties be a financial institution, an investment advisor, or a law, brokerage, or certified public accounting firm which is not an individual or entity owned entirely by an individual. Provides that the appropriate ethics office may exempt from reporting requirements the financial interests held by any entity which is either a regulated investment company or a pension, profitsharing, or other deferred compensation plan. Requires Members, officers, and employees of the Congress to file a termination report by May 15 or within 30 days of leaving office for the period before the individual left such office if a financial disclosure report has not been filed unless such Member or individual has accepted employment in another position subject to reporting under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Extends the period of time within which such reports must be made available for public inspection from 15 to 30 days after they are filed. Requires the appropriate ethics office to assess a $200 fine on any individual who files a report later than 30 days after its due date or any extension of the due date. Requires House and Senate Ethics Committees to establish procedures to ensure that each report under this title is reviewed within 60 days after it is filed. Increases the civil penalty from $5,000 to $10,000 for: (1) knowingly and willfully falsifying or failing to file a financial disclosure report; and (2) obtaining and using such a report for certain unlawful actions. Increases the civil penalties from $1,000 and $5,000 to $5,000 and $10,000, respectively, for a trustee of a qualified blind trust who knowingly or negligently: (1) discloses to an interested party any trust information that may not be disclosed; and (2) acquires any holding the ownership of which is prohibited by the trust instrument. Extends the deadline for completion of the General Accounting Office study of legislative personnel financial disclosure requirements to December 31, 1992. Increases from seven to 30 days the period prior to a congressional election in which a candidate in such an election must make a financial disclosure. Requires individuals employed in the Executive Office of the President who are appointed by the President to file financial disclosure statements. Title III: Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation - Redesignates the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries as the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation. Increases the membership of the Commission from nine to 11 members, six of whom are to be selected for appointment without regard to political affiliation from among persons having experience or expertise in such areas as government, personnel management, or public administration. Prohibits Federal employees and officials, individuals registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act, and members of their immediate family from serving on the Commission. Requires the General Services Administration to establish procedures by regulation for: (1) selecting the five remaining members by lot from among names randomly selected from voter registration lists; and (2) providing for the maximum degree of geographic diversity practicable among such members. Establishes a four-year term of office for such members after FY 1993. Requires the President to transmit to the Congress on the first Monday after January 3 of the year after the Commission submits its report his or her recommendations regarding pay rates for certain Federal offices and positions in light of the Commission's report and recommendations, the prevailing market value of the services rendered in the offices and positions involved, the country's overall economic condition, and the fiscal condition of the Government. Requires such recommendations to take effect upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution approving such recommendations in their entirety. Declares that a privileged bill or resolution making such an approval, if offered by the majority leader of either House of the Congress, would be in order in each such House during the 60 days following submission. Requires recommendations of the President for pay adjustments that are approved to take effect as of the date proposed by the President, but only after a November congressional election occurs between the enactment of a bill or resolution approving such recommendations and such proposed date. Requires the Commission to review recruitment and retention problems and any public policy issues involved in maintaining appropriate ethical standards with respect to public service in Government and to report its findings and recommendations to the President. Prohibits any provision increasing the pay rates of Members of Congress, certain legislative positions, judges, justices, and certain other judicial personnel, and Executive Schedule positions from taking effect before the beginning of the Congress after the Congress during which such provision was enacted. Provides that the basic pay rates for positions in the Federal and District of Columbia governments shall be determined as if provisions of law prohibiting increases in pay rates in FY 1989 and 1990 for positions compensated at a rate higher than level III of the Executive Schedule had not been enacted. Authorizes appropriate increases for Federal judges and justices of the Supreme Court. Prohibits any corresponding adjustment in any pay rate until the first pay period after the President's sequestration order of October 16, 1989, is rescinded. Increases the annual salary rates for positions in the Executive Schedule, certain legislative branch positions (except Senators), and offices including the office of the Vice President, the Chief Justice, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, U.S. circuit judges, U.S. district judges, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade by 25 percent beginning on or after January 1, 1991. Revises the method for computing annual cost-of-living increases for certain executive, legislative, and judicial positions by using the most recent percentage change in the Employment Cost Index (a measure of wages and salaries for private industry) minus one-half of one percent. Prohibits the determination of any such percentage change from being less than zero or greater than five percent. Title IV: Miscellaneous Statutory Changes - Amends Federal criminal code provisions regarding the following to provide that the punishment for an offense under such provisions shall be imprisonment for not more than one year, or not more than five years for willful offenses, or for a fine in accordance with the criminal code, or both: (1) compensation to Members of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the Government; (2) practice in United States Claims Court or Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by such Members; (3) activities of officers and employees in claims against and other matters affecting the Government; (4) acts affecting a personal financial interest; and (5) salary of Government officials and employees payable only by the United States. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court against any person who engages in conduct constituting an offense under such provisions. Subjects an individual proven to have engaged in such conduct by a preponderance of the evidence to a civil penalty of the greater of $50,000 for each violation or the amount of compensation the person received for the prohibited conduct. Provides that if the Attorney General believes that a person is engaging in conduct constituting an offense under such provisions or provisions with respect to disqualification of former officers, employees and partners, the Attorney General may petition an appropriate U.S. district court for an order prohibiting that person from engaging in such conduct. Allows such a court to issue an order prohibiting that person from engaging in such conduct if the court finds that the conduct constitutes such an offense. States that the imposition of a civil penalty or the filing of such a petition does not preclude any other remedy which is available by law to the United States or any other person. Includes officers and employees of the District of Columbia among the individuals subject to provisions with respect to: (1) compensation to Members of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the Government; and (2) activities of officers and employees in claims against and other matters affecting the Government. Revises provisions with respect to the disqualification of partners of current officers and employees to apply such disqualification to general partners instead of partners. Prohibits provisions concerning acts affecting a personal financial interest from applying: (1) in the case of a special Government employee serving on an advisory committee if the official responsible for the employee's appointment certifies that the need for the individual's services outweighs the potential for a conflict of interest created by the financial interest involved; or (2) if the financial interest that would be affected by the particular matter involved results solely from the interest of the officer or employee or his or her spouse or minor child in birthrights in certain Indian groups, allotments, or claims funds if the particular matter does not involve such groups, allotments, or funds as a specific party. Requires copies of any determination granting an exemption for such a special Government employee and or a Government employee with interests deemed not likely to affect the integrity of Government service under such provisions to be submitted to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Requires the Director to make all such determinations available to the public. Requires the information from the financial disclosure reports of the officer or employee involved describing the asset or assets that necessitated the waiver to be available to the public. Prohibits public disclosure of classified information with respect to such employees. Revises provisions with respect to gifts to supervisors to: (1) allow voluntary gifts or contributions of nominal value that are given or received in circumstances authorized by the appropriate supervising ethics office; and (2) repeal the requirement that employees violating such provisions be removed from the service and instead to subject such an employee to appropriate disciplinary action or additional remedial action by the employing agency or entity. Prohibits Federal employees and officials from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a person: (1) seeking official action from, doing business with, or conducting activities which are regulated by the employee's or officer's employing agency; or (2) whose interests may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the employee's or officer's official duties. Authorizes each supervising ethics office to prescribe regulations implementing such prohibition and providing for reasonable exceptions. Provides that employees and officials who violate such prohibition shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary and other remedial action. Establishes the President's Commission on the Federal Appointment Process to study the simplification of the presidential appointment process by reducing the number and complexity of forms to be completed by nominees. Directs the Commission to submit a report of such study to the President within 90 days after its first meeting. Terminates the Commission upon the submission of its report. Directs the Administrator of General Services to prescribe by regulation the conditions under which an agency or employee in the executive branch may accept payment from non-Federal sources for travel, subsistence, and related expenses with respect to attendance of the employee at any meeting or similar function relating to the employee's official duties. Requires any cash payment so accepted to be credited to the appropriation applicable to such expenses. Requires a pro rata reduction in any entitlement of the employee to payment from the Government for such expenses for payments in kind. Prohibits an agency or employee from accepting payment for such expenses except as provided under provisions concerning the acceptance of contributions, awards, and other payments. Provides that an employee who accepts payments for such expenses may be required, in addition to any penalty provided by law, to repay the amount of such payment for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury and is prohibited from entitlement to any payment from the Government for such expenses. Amends the Federal judicial code to require a justice or judge who has retired from regular service but still retains the office (Senior status) to be certified by the Chief Justice (for a justice) or by the chief judge of the circuit in which the judge sits in order to continue receiving the salary of the office. Sets forth certification criteria with respect to courtroom participation, judicial duties outside the courtroom, and administrative duties. Provides that in a case in which such justice or judge does not receive a certification, the justice or judge shall continue to receive the salary he or she was receiving when he or she was last in active service. Directs Federal agency or entity heads to prescribe appropriate conditions for the incidental use, for other than official business, of vehicles owned or leased by the Government. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal provisions that exempt Members of Congress in office on January 8, 1980, from the prohibition against converting excess campaign funds to personal use. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to repeal provisions with respect to procurement integrity during procurement of property or services. Amends uniformed services pay and allowances provisions regarding the restriction on payment to certain officers to: (1) repeal the prohibition against the employment of Regular Army or Marine Corps officers by a person furnishing naval supplies or war materials to the United States; and (2) decrease the period during which such payment may not be made from any appropriation to such an officer from three to two years after his or her name is placed on a retired list. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to repeal provisions concerning the: (1) disclosure of energy assets; (2) report on prior employment; (3) postemployment prohibitions and reporting requirements; and (4) participation prohibitions. Title V: Amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives - Amends rule XLIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to: (1) increase from $50 to $75 the fair market value of personal gifts of hospitality which a Member, officer or employee of the House may accept in any calendar year; (2) prohibit such individuals from accepting gifts in any calendar year aggregating more than the minimal value established under provisions regarding the receipt and disposition of foreign gifts and decoration from any person except to the extent permitted by written waiver granted in exceptional circumstances by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct; (3) mandate that House employees who are required to file financial disclosure reports refrain from contacting any executive or judicial branch agency with respect to nonlegislative matters affecting any nongovernmental person in which the employee has a significant financial interest unless such employee first advises his employing authority of such interest and obtains a waiver from such authority stating that his or her participation is necessary. Directs such Committee to amend its advisory opinions relating to the acceptance of gifts to: (1) prohibit the receipt of lodging as personal hospitality in excess of 30 days in any calendar year from any individual unless a written waiver is granted by the Committee; (2) exempt from coverage under rule XLIII gifts of food and beverages consumed not in connection with gifts of lodging. Amends House rules to make changes corresponding to provisions of previous titles of this Act with respect to the conversion of campaign funds. Amends rule XLIV to change the due date for the submission of financial disclosure reports. Directs the Committee to issue an advisory opinion to provide for appropriate conditions for the incidental noncampaign use of campaign vehicles. Amends Rule X to prohibit Members from serving on the Committee during more than three Congresses in any period of five successive Congresses, disregarding any service on such committee for less than a full session in any Congress. Directs each respective party caucus or conference of the House to nominate seven members at the beginning of each Congress to serve on the Committee. Directs the Committee to adopt rules to establish investigative subcommittees. Amends various rules with respect to the committee regarding adjudicatory subcommittees, administrative actions, reports to the House, the statute of limitations applicable to violations that may be investigated, and right to counsel for respondents in investigations. Directs the Committee to establish an Office on Advice and Education to: (1) provide information and guidance to House Members, officers and employees regarding laws and other standards of conduct applicable to such individuals in their official capacities and any interpretations and advisory opinions of the Committee; (2) recommend formal advisory opinions of general applicability; and (3) develop and carry out periodic educational briefings for Members, officers, and employees on those laws or other standards of conduct applicable to them. Amends rule XLVIII to make changes corresponding to provisions of previous titles of this Act with respect to the elimination of honoraria and limitations on outside earned income and employment. Directs the Committee to amend its advisory opinions relating to the acceptance of necessary travel expenses incurred on or after January 1, 1990, in connection with speaking engagements and similar events to: (1) prohibit the acceptance of such expenses for more than four consecutive days for domestic travel and seven consecutive days for foreign travel; and (2) permit the acceptance of travel expenses for the spouse or other family member in connection with any substantial participation event or fact-finding activity.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Redesignates the Calamus Dam and Reservoir in the North Loup division of the Missouri River basin project as the Virginia Smith Dam and Calamus Lake Recreation Area.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 2023
Amends the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Act to entitle members of the Board and the President, Executive Secretary, and other personnel of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation to reimbursement for expenses at rates applicable to Federal judges. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the amount of individual fellowships for graduate study relating to the U.S. Constitution. Authorizes the Board to appoint a President of the Foundation. Provides that the Executive Secretary shall be the chief operating officer (rather than the chief executive officer) of the Foundation. Revises administrative provisions. Authorizes the Foundation to rent office space only in the District of Columbia or its environs. Authorizes the Foundation to expend not more than five percent of its annual operating budget to pay the costs of fundraising activities, including private and public gatherings. Authorizes Federal agency heads, on request of the Foundation Chair, to detail personnel to the Foundation without reimbursement.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Coordinated Clearance and Settlement Act of 1989 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to facilitate the establishment of linked or coordinated facilities for clearance and settlement of transactions in securities, securities options, contracts (and options on contracts) of sale for future delivery, and commodity options. Outlines circumstances under which the SEC may adopt rules concerning transactions of certificated or uncertificated securities. Directs the SEC to establish an Advisory Committee to advise it about State and Federal laws concerning selected aspects of certificated and uncertificated securities transactions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Securities Markets Stabilization Act of 1989 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act to provide that any action of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to summarily suspend all trading on any national securities exchange shall not take effect unless the SEC has notified the President of its decision and the President notified it that he does not disapprove. Grants the Commission emergency powers to limit actions under its jurisdiction (or that of a comparable self-regulatory securities organization) in order to stabilize the securities markets for a maximum period of ten business days. Subjects such action to judicial review. Mandates that each large trader furnish to the SEC whatever information it may prescribe as necessary to monitor the impact on the securities markets of transactions involving a substantial volume or a large fair market value. Requires every registered broker or dealer to keep such records as the SEC may prescribe, including policies, procedures, and monitoring systems for controlling such broker or dealer's financial and operational risks resulting from its activities. Authorizes the SEC to require dealers under its jurisdiction to report on the financial and securities activities of their associates if the SEC has reasonable concerns regarding the stability of such dealers. Sets forth conditions under which the SEC may grant exemptions under this Act. Authorizes the Commission to prohibit or constrain abusive or manipulative practices reasonably likely to result in volatility levels which adversely affect the stability of securities markets. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of SEC regulations. Sets forth the SEC's enforcement powers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Deems a named individual as an employee transferred by the Army from one official station to another for permanent Government duty without a break in service for purposes of reimbursement of relocation expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Restructures repayment terms and conditions for loans made by the Secretary of the Interior to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts for the reconstruction of the Filene Center in Wolf Trap Farm Park in Fairfax County, Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
International Narcotics Control Act of 1989 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) it is crucial to international antidrug efforts that funds be made available to provide alternative sources of income for individuals in major coca producing countries who are dependent on illicit drug production, as well as for eradication, enforcement, rehabilitation, treatment, and education programs in such countries; and (2) the United States and other major donor countries should provide increased economic assistance to major coca producing countries which have taken steps to attack illicit coca production by methods which reduce the flow of cocaine to the world market. Urges the Director of National Drug Policy to develop and submit to the Congress a plan which addresses such needs. Authorizes the President to make funds for foreign military financing under the Arms Export Control Act and international military education and training under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 available to provide defense articles and services and international military education and training to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Earmarks specified amounts of such assistance for narcotics law enforcement training and interdiction activities and procurement of defense articles by enforcement agencies in such countries. Makes such countries eligible only if they maintain democratic governments and their law enforcement agencies do not engage in human rights violations. Requires the President to report to specified congressional committees prior to obligating such funds. Provides for human rights reporting on such countries. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 to earmark specified amounts of international military education and training assistance and anti-narcotics military assistance for FY 1990 for eligible countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Waives provisions of the Arms Export Control Act concerning foreign military financing with respect to financing for narcotics control activities. Prohibits the provision of such assistance to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to require the Special Defense Acquisition Fund to be used to acquire defense articles for narcotics control purposes. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to transfer excess defense articles to any country: (1) which is a major illicit drug producing country in Latin America and the Caribbean with a democratic government; and (2) whose armed forces do not engage in human rights violations. Requires such countries to ensure that such articles will be used only in support of anti-narcotics activities. Limits the aggregate value of articles to be transferred to a country in any fiscal year. Permits such transfers only if: (1) the articles are drawn from existing Department of Defense (DOD) stocks; (2) funds available to DOD for the procurement of defense equipment are not expended in connection with such transfers; and (3) the President determines that such transfers will not have an adverse impact on the military readiness of the United States. Permits such transfers without cost to the recipient country. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees prior to transferring such articles. Waives certain prohibitions on the provision of assistance to countries in default on loan payments to the United States with respect to narcotics-related assistance for FY 1990 for major illicit drug producing countries. Earmarks specified amounts of grant military assistance and foreign military financing for FY 1990 for arming aircraft used in narcotics control eradication or interdiction efforts. Prohibits such funds from being used to purchase new aircraft. Requires the notification of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prior to the use of such funds. Earmarks a specified amount of international narcotics control assistance for FY 1990 for the testing and use of herbicides for the aerial eradication of coca. Limits the amount of FY 1990 international narcotics control assistance to be made available for Mexico. Permits excess assistance to Mexico only if specified congressional committees are notified. Waives a prohibition on assistance to drug traffickers with respect to FY 1990 assistance to major drug transit countries if the President certifies that: (1) certain provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with regard to money laundering do not apply to such a country; (2) such country was previously a major illicit drug producing country but has effectively eliminated drug production during the preceding two years; and (3) such country is cooperating fully with the United States or has taken certain steps with respect to narcotics control. Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. trade policy should be coordinated with U.S. narcotics control objectives, particularly with respect to the International Coffee Agreement. Commends the President for reviewing, and urges him to continue to review whether: (1) the International Coffee Agreement negotiations should be resumed; and (2) the trade benefits provided in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act should be extended to the major coca producing countries of Latin America. Requires the President to report to the Congress on such review. Urges the President to: (1) place debt relief and drug control efforts in Latin American countries among the highest of foreign policy priorities; and (2) ensure that the Director of National Drug Control Policy, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury have leading roles in addressing these problems. Urges the President to consult with Latin American countries to arrange a hemispheric summit to discuss specific illicit drug and debt issues. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the proposal for the promotion of a multilateral anti-narcotics force for the Western Hemisphere should be endorsed; and (2) the United States should work through multilateral organizations to determine the feasibility, and assist in the establishment, of such force. Urges the President to: (1) seek agreement by relevant foreign countries, especially NATO countries and members of the Warsaw Pact, to join with the United States in halting weapons transfers to narcotics traffickers in Latin America; and (2) improve the coordination of U.S. efforts to track the flow of such weapons to international narcotics traffickers and to prevent illegal shipments from the United States. Calls upon the President to direct the U.S. representative to INTERPOL to urge such organization to study the feasibility of establishing an international database on the flow of the types of weapons acquired illegally by international narcotics traffickers. Requires the President to report to the Congress on such actions. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to raise the limit on the amount of rewards for information concerning international terrorism. Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning international narcotics control. Incorporates related provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 into such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for international narcotics control assistance. Requires countries receiving such assistance to bear an appropriate share of the costs for any activity for which assistance is provided. Exempts assistance for narcotics control crop substitution activities from a prohibition on the use of funds to support the production of any agricultural commodity in a foreign country which would compete with a similar U.S. commodity. Authorizes the President to release Bolivia, Colombia, or Peru from obligations to make payments to the United States if such country is participating in a program for the use of herbicides for the aerial eradication of coca. Directs the President to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on international narcotics control activities. Makes technical amendments to, and repeals specified provisions of, the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988, the International Narcotics Control Act of 1986, and the Narcotics Control Trade Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 (the Act) to revise funding distribution for certain programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 for a new emergency grants program. Adds specified new requirements relating to distribution of appropriations. Requires State educational agencies to use specified additional amounts to make grants to local educational agencies for certain programs. Revises priorities for State programs to require that certain grant and contract funds first be provided for innovative programs of drug abuse education for all juveniles in detention facilities within the State. Requires that a specified portion of State program funds be used: (1) to carry out a program to establish drug-free school zones for schools within the State, if such State complies with time limits for establishing increased penalties for drug trafficking within such zones; and (2) for grants to local and intermediate educational agencies and consortia for specified local drug abuse education and prevention programs, if such State is not in compliance with such zone establishment requirements. Requires State applications to include a plan for providing innovative programs of drug abuse education for all juveniles in detention facilities within the State. Revises provisions for State educational agency responsibilities with respect to reallocation of grants to local and intermediate educational agencies. Revises local drug abuse education and prevention programs. Elaborates on the types of activities which may be included in school-based programs of drug abuse prevention and early intervention and in drug abuse prevention counseling programs. Provides for after-school care programs that provide drug and alcohol abuse education for children aged five to 15, including school-sponsored sports or recreational activities. Authorizes State educational agencies to waive any requirement for an assisted program in order to allow a local or intermediate agency or consortium to combine funds under the Act with those from a covered program under other specified Federal laws, for purposes of providing activities relating to drug and alcohol abuse education. Requires local applications to include specified information relating to: (1) school participation in community-wide efforts; (2) provision of trained counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses; (3) distribution of lists of local resources; (4) curricula review; and (5) training for teachers and other personnel implementing the programs. Requires local applicants to submit annual program progress reports to the State educational agency. Requires States to report annually to the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), evaluating State and local program effectiveness. Provides for grants for training teachers, counselors, and school personnel. Adds to Federal activities: (1) use of private nonprofit organizations to develop innovative strategies to communicate antidrug abuse messages to youths and to eliminate drug abuse from the communities of the Nation; and (2) program evaluation. Creates a national emergency grants program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible local educational agencies that demonstrate significant need for additional assistance to combat drug and alcohol abuse by students. Sets forth eligibility criteria and minimum and maximum grant limits. Requires the Secretary, through the National Diffusion Network, to disseminate information and technical assistance with respect to drug abuse education and prevention programs of demonstrated effectiveness. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for development of skills and techniques for administering drug prevention and education programs. Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended by the Child Abuse Prevention Challenge Grants Reauthorization Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-126), to establish a program of emergency child protective services grants. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make such grants to eligible entities to provide services to children whose parents are substance abusers. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1990 and subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, effective for the 1989 and 1990 crops, to consider a cash tenant leasing tribal land separate from the tribal landlord for purposes of certain agricultural payment limitations if: (1) the land was leased pursuant to a Federal law governing the leasing of Indian reservation land; (2) the lease was approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) the tenant has a farming operation approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Amends various Indian Acts to correct technical errors. Amends the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 to apply the restrictions on alienation of Indian lands to all such lands held in trust by the United States for Indians and all lands owned by Indians that are subject to such restrictions even those to which a tribe may have voted not to have such restrictions apply. Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to permit Indian tribes and tribal organizations to purchase or lease land or facilities after entering into an agreement with the Secretary of Interior requiring their use for emergency shelters or half-way houses for Indian youth arrested for drug or alcohol related offenses. Provides that funds appropriated under that Act may be used by any Indian tribe or tribal organization to purchase or lease any land or facilities if the Secretary determines that no Federal land or facilities are available for such shelters or half-way houses. Amends the Public Health Service Act to permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to Native Hawaiian health centers for: (1) preventive health services; (2) research into the prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases and public information and education programs for the prevention and control of such diseases; (3) family planning services; and (4) community health programs. Includes such centers among other medical facilities eligible for designation as health manpower shortage areas for purposes of the National Health Service Corps Program. Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to higher educational institutions and health care facilities to enable such establishments to create programs to enable psychologists who have a doctorate in psychology and who agree to serve in an Indian or Native Hawaiian health program for a certain period to pursue advanced training or research in psychology. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Indian Education Act of 1988 to repeal provisions concerning penalization of local education agencies subject to administrative or judicial proceedings for providing false information during audits. Amends the Education Amendments of 1978 to: (1) repeal provisions concerning equal allowances for national school board training and activities; and (2) increase funding for such training and activities. Amends the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 to require the Executive Director of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) to serve on the White House Conference on Indian Education Task Force and the Chairman of NACIE to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Conference. Provides that salaries for employees of the Departments of Interior and Education who are assigned as staff to the Task Force will be paid out of departmental funds and not from funds appropriated for the Conference. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Conference through FY 1992. Allows Indian tribes in Wisconsin and Montana to continue operation of electronic or electromechanical facsimiles of games of chance or slot machines that were legally operated as Class III games on Indian lands before May 2, 1988, for a one-year period as Class II games under the National Indian Gaming Regulatory Act if the Indian tribe having jurisdiction over the lands on which such gaming was operated made a request, by no later than November 16, 1988, to the State in which such gaming is operated to negotiate a tribal-State compact under that Act. Amends the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to accept as voters eligible to vote on any amendments to the constitution of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan: (1) all those persons who were deemed eligible by the Community to vote in the most recent election for the Tribal Council; and (2) any other person certified by the Council as a member of the Community and eligible to vote in any election for the Council. Amends the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985 to: (1) exempt claims relating to spousal allowance and maintenance payments under Minnesota law from consideration under that Act; and (2) authorize the Secretary of Interior to publish in the Federal Register any allotment or interest claims that are additional to the second list of such claims that have already been published.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Repeal Act of 1989 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Part A of Medicare Program and Supplemental Medicare Premium - Repeals provisions of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (the Act) expanding coverage under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Excepts reductions of the blood deductible from such repeal. Repeals provisions of the Act imposing an annual supplemental Medicare premium on part A beneficiaries whose tax liability equals or exceeds $150 and establishes the Federal Hospital Insurance Catastrophic Coverage Reserve Fund. Delays, from November 30, 1988, to May 31, 1990, the date by which the Secretary of the Treasury must report to the Congress on Federal tax policies to promote private financing of long-term care. Title II: Provisions Relating to Part B of the Medicare Program - Repeals the Act's amendments to part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program, including the financing mechanisms created to support the Act's expansion of part B benefits. Excepts from such repeal the requirement that physician payment requests include diagnostic coding information. Requires the revision of Medicare supplemental health insurance policy standards to reflect this Act's enactment. Directs such policies to inform policyholders who are Medicare beneficiaries of the changes wrought by this Act's enactment and their effect on the policy. Requires Medicare supplemental insurance policies from which an individual terminated his or her coverage as of January 1, 1989 (or the earliest renewal date thereafter), to offer such individual a continuation of coverage respecting treatment of pre-existing conditions and group rating of premiums under terms which are at least as favorable as terms which existed on December 31, 1988. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) take this Act's amendments into account in determining the payments to be made to health maintenance organizations; (2) require such organizations to adjust their agreements with Medicare beneficiaries in consideration of such amendments; and (3) notify Medicare beneficiaries of changes made by this Act's amendments. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments - Repeals the Act's extension of: (1) certain waiver of liability provisions applicable to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies; and (2) the prohibition of new Medicare cost-saving regulations. Abolishes the Advisory Committee on Medicare Home Health Claims and Medicare catastrophic illness case management demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 2023
Amends the Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 to authorize the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire from New York City by condemnation the real property necessary for the construction of a new courthouse annex for the southern district of New York, a Federal and municipal office building, and additional parking space. Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) establish the value of the just compensation for such real property by agreement with the City; (2) provide for payment of such compensation to the City by the contractor responsible for financing the construction of such buildings; (3) take title to such property for the United States after payment of such amount by the contractor; (4) reimburse the contractor for the payment of that amount plus interest over a period not to exceed 30 years out of funds available in the Federal Building Fund for the rental of space; and (5) establish rental rates for the lease of office space and associated parking to the City without applying a credit reflecting the value of the land acquired. Requires such lease to provide for a lease period of 30 years and options for the City to renew the lease for up to three successive lease periods of 30 years each. Prohibits the total rent paid by the City to GSA for each such renewal period from exceeding the City's pro rata share of the cost of the capital replacement, repair, maintenance, and operation of the building in which such office space used by the City is located and any associated parking facility.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1990 - Makes appropriations to the Department of Labor for FY 1990. Makes appropriations for the Employment and Training Administration for: (1) employment and training programs administration; (2) training and employment services; (3) community service employment for older Americans; (4) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (5) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; and (6) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other funds. Requires that specified amounts of funds for training and employment services under the Job Training Partnership Act be used for programs and activities relating to: (1) Native Americans; (2) migrant and seasonal farmworkers; (3) veterans' employment; (4) the National Commission for Employment Policy; (5) the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee; (6) service delivery areas under rural concentrated employment programs; (7) the Job Corps; and (8) job training for the homeless under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. Makes appropriations for Labor-Management Services for salaries and expenses, with a specified amount for a pension plan data base. Makes appropriations for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fund and other expenses. Makes appropriations for the Employment Standards Administration for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) special benefits (including transfer of funds); and (3) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (including transfer of funds). Makes appropriations for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) the Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Labor. Prohibits appropriations under this Act from being used to grant variances, interim orders, or letters of clarification to employers which will allow exposure of workers to chemicals or other workplace hazards in excess of existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards for the purpose of conducting experiments on workers' health or safety. Directs the Secretary of Labor to convey to the State of Oregon, without consideration, all rights, title, and interest of the United States in the real property and improvements of the Emerald Heights Housing Complex in Astoria, Oregon. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1990 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY 1990. Makes appropriations for the Health Resources and Services Administration for health resources and services program operations under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act, Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Social Security Act, and Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986. Earmarks specified amounts for: (1) the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center; (2) non-acute care facilities for AIDS patients; (3) health care for the homeless; (4) grants to States for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug reimbursement; and (5) other specified programs under the Public Health Service Act. Requires that payment of the full estimated cost of Department of HHS administration or operation of an employee health program for any Federal department or agency be made by way of reimbursement or in advances to this appropriation. Makes other appropriations to the Health Resources and Services Administration for: (1) the medical facilities guarantee and loan fund, and Federal interest subsidies for medical facilities; (2) the Health Professions Graduate Student Loan Fund under the Health Education Assistance Loan program; and (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund (requiring such Trust Fund to reimburse the Department of HHS for limited necessary expenses under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986). Makes appropriations for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for disease control, research, and training (including compensation for survivors of victims of the Tuskegee, Alabama, syphilis experiments of 1932 and funds to carry out the National Health and Nutrition Survey). Earmarks specified amounts for CDC high priority construction projects. Requires that certain employees of the Public Health Service and the National Center for Health Statistics be treated as non-Federal employees for specified reporting purposes. Makes appropriations for the National Institutes of Health, for: (1) the National Cancer Institute; (2) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; (3) the National Institute of Dental Research; (4) the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; (5) the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; (6) the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (7) the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; (8) the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (9) the National Eye Institute; (10) the National Institute of Environmental Health Services; (11) the National Institute on Aging; (12) the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; (13) the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; (14) research resources; (15) the National Center for Nursing Research; (16) the National Center for Human Genome Research; (17) the John E. Fogarty International Center; (18) the National Library of Medicine; (19) the Office of the Director; and (20) buildings and facilities. Directs the Secretary of HHS to transfer specified funds for each of the Institutes to be available for extramural facilities construction grants, including an appropriate amount for research animal production facilities. Makes appropriations to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for Public Health Service Act programs relating to mental health, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and for programs under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986 and other specified Federal law. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for: (1) activities for the homeless; and (2) renovation of intramural research facilities. Makes appropriations to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for the Federal subsidy for Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in the District of Columbia. Makes appropriations for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health for: (1) expenses of that Office and of carrying out specified programs under the Public Health Service Act; (2) retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; and (3) medical treatment effectiveness research. Makes appropriations for the Health Care Financing Administration for: (1) grants to States for Medicaid; (2) payments to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds; (3) program management; and (4) the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund. Makes appropriations for the Social Security Administration for: (1) payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds; (2) special benefits for disabled coal miners; (3) the Supplemental Security Income Program; and (4) a limited amount of administrative expenses. Makes appropriations for the Family Support Administration for: (1) family support payments to States or other non-Federal entities; (2) payments to States for work programs for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients; (3) low-income home energy assistance; (4) payments under the Community Services Block Grant Act and the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; (5) program administration; (6) refugee and entrant assistance under the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (with a specified amount for State cash and medical assistance); and (7) interim assistance grants to States for legalization impact under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Makes appropriations for the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services for: (1) the Social Services Block Grant; (2) human development services; and (3) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance. Includes under human development services programs for older Americans, Native Americans, developmental disabilities assistance, child abuse and family violence prevention, dependent care, Head Start, child development centers and child development associate scholarships, runaway and homeless youth, children's justice, adoption opportunities, and abandoned infants assistance. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management for: (1) general departmental management; (2) the Office of the Inspector General; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; and (4) policy research. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of HHS. Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being used to perform abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. Directs the Secretary of HHS to assign not more than 60 Public Health Service employees to assist in child survival activities and to work in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. Allows funds available in this title (except for FY 1990) for activities related to AIDS to be transferred between appropriation accounts by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires that AIDS education programs that receive assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and other education curricula dealing with sexual activity that receive assistance under this Act: (1) shall not be designed to promote or encourage, directly, intravenous drug abuse or sexual activity, homosexual or heterosexual; and (2) with regard to AIDS education programs and curricula, shall be designed to reduce exposure to and transmission of the etiologic agent for AIDS by providing accurate information, including information on the health risk of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous drug abuse. Prohibits funds under this Act or any other law from being used by NIH, any other Federal agency, or any recipient of Federal funds (including recipients located outside of the United States) for any project that entails the capture or procurement of chimpanzees obtained from the wild. Prohibits the use of funds under this title to pay for any research or experimental program involving danger of physical, mental, or emotional damage to human participants without their written, informed consent. Directs the National Institutes of Health to ensure that all experimental drugs for the treatment of AIDS that have shown some effectiveness in individual treatment are tested in clinical trials as expeditiously as possible and with as many subjects as is scientifically acceptable. Prohibits funds under this title for the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration from being used to pay the salary of any individual, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of $120,000 per year. Renames: (1) the Consolidated Office Building as the William H. Natcher Building; (2) the Child Health Neurosciences Building as the Silvio O. Conte Building; (3) the Stone House as the Lawton Chiles International House; and (4) Building Number 36 as the Lowell P. Weicker Building. Reduces funds for the National Institutes of Health by a specified amount as a result of improved procurement policies and other specified savings. Prohibits, during FY 1990, any funds under this Act from being used to impose a payment reduction upon, or to seek repayment from, or to withhold payment to any State under Social Security Act provisions for Child Welfare Services or for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, as a result of a disallowance determination in connection with a a compliance review for any fiscal year preceding FY 1990, until all related judicial proceedings, including appeals, have been finally concluded. Prohibits any use of such funds to conduct further compliance reviews with respect to any State which is a party to such judicial proceedings until such final conclusion. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1990 - Makes appropriations for FY 1990 to the Department of Education for various programs under the following general categories: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) bilingual, immigrant, and refugee education; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research; (7) special institutions for the handicapped (the American Printing House for the Blind; the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University, including continuing education activities, existing extension centers and the National Center for Law and the Deaf); (8) vocational and adult education; (9) student financial assistance (including Pell grants, supplemental educational opportunity grants, grants to States for loan demonstration projects, and direct loans to students in institutions of higher education); (10) the Guaranteed Student Loan program; (11) higher education assistance (including programs under specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961); (12) Howard University; (13) college housing and academic facilities loans; (14) higher education facilities loans; (15) college housing loans; (16) education research and statistics (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and a rural education program); and (17) libraries. Earmarks specified amounts for the new Merit Schools program and the new Magnet Schools of Excellence Program, if such programs are specifically authorized by law before March 1, 1990. Earmarks a specified amount for supporting a consortium of institutions to provide education and vocational rehabilitation services for low functioning adults who are deaf. Sets forth certain prohibitions and refund requirements for student aid programs. Grants college financial aid administrators discretionary authority to make certain adjustments in need-analysis. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management for: (1) program administration; (2) the Office for Civil Rights; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Education. Prohibits funds under this title from being used to force any school or school district which is desegregated to take any action to force the busing of students or the school's abolishment or the transfer of students to or from the school, on account of race, creed, or color, over the protest of the student's parents or as a condition precedent to obtaining otherwise available Federal funds. Prohibits appropriations in this Act from being used for the transportation of students or teachers (or the purchase of equipment for such transportation) to overcome racial imbalance or carry out a racial desegregation plan in any school or school system. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used, directly or indirectly, to require the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home (including any indirect requirement of student transportation to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools). Excludes from such prohibition: (1) transportation of students requiring special education to a school for such purpose; and (2) the establishment of magnet schools. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the following agencies: (1) the ACTION Agency; (2) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (5) the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; (6) the National Commission on Children; (7) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (8) the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality; (9) the National Council on Disability; (10) the National Labor Relations Board; (11) the National Mediation Board; (12) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) the Physician Payment Review Commission; (14) the Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission; (15) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (16) the Railroad Retirement Board (for payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account and to the railroad retirement accounts, with specified limitations on administrative expenses, the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund, and review activities); (17) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (for operation and maintenance, and for construction and renovation of the physical plant); (18) the United States Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care; (19) the United States Institute of Peace; and (20) the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth general provisions relating to appropriations under this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that colleges and universities should demand drug-free campuses and enforce strict but fair policies to eliminate drug use by students. Limits the amounts which may be used by the Departments receiving funds under this Act to procure advisory or assistance services. Requires the head of each such Department to report quarterly to the Congress and the Comptroller General on the amount obligated and expended for such procurement. Requires such reports to include a justification for the award of each such contract and the reason the work cannot be performed by civil servants. Directs the Comptroller General to review such reports and submit recommendations to the Congress. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to execute or carry out any contract with a nongovernmental entity to administer or manage a Civilian Conservation Center for the Job Corps. Reduces funds for salaries and expenses for Labor-Management Services and for the Employment Standards Administration. Reduces funds for salaries and expenses of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that no trust fund limitation shall be reduced. Declares transfers in specified accounts to be necessary (but secondary) results of significant policy changes under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (thus allowing such transfers between fiscal years to be treated as altering the deficit or producing a net deficit reduction).
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Education of Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1989 - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act (the Act) to reauthorize funding and to change references to handicapped individuals or children to references to individuals or children with disabilities. Extends coverage of children with disabilities to include those with autism or with head injuries. Provides for a waiver of State immunity to suits in Federal court for violations of the Act. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) require applicants for grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to demonstrate how they will address the needs of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities from the diversity of racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds; (2) require funding recipients to prepare procedures, findings, and other information in a form to maximize dissemination and use; and (3) conduct at least one site visit for each such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement receiving more than a specified amount annually. Revises requirements for State plans to set forth the components of the comprehensive system of personnel development which such plans must include. Revises evaluation provisions with respect to collection of data, technical assistance, and annual report preparation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such evaluation activities. Requires regional resource centers to focus on special education, related services, and early intervention. Authorizes specified activities for the coordinating technical assistance center. Revises services for deaf-blind children and adults. Mandates that infants and toddlers be included among those served by deaf-blind programs, especially for early intervention services. Authorizes: (1) pilot projects; (2) single- and multi-State centers for technical assistance for program development and expansion; and (3) a national center on deaf-blindness to disseminate materials and information. Revises early education programs for children with disabilities to authorize projects for: (1) early identification of infants and toddlers with disabilities; (2) transition of infants with disabilities from medical care to early intervention and then to preschool education; (3) assistive technology devices and services; (4) early intervention and preschool needs of children exposed prenatally to maternal substance abuse; and (5) synthesis and preparation for dissemination of early education knowledge. Revises programs for children with severe disabilities to authorize demonstration projects for extended school year programs. Revises the postsecondary education program to increase the minimum amount which must be first made available to four regional centers for the deaf before the remainder of specified funds is made available to other model postsecondary programs for individuals with disabilities. Revises secondary education and transitional services for children and youth with disabilities to authorize projects developing and disseminating programs for assistive technology and services for students with disabilities as they make the transition from secondary school. Directs the Secretary to award at least five grants on a competitive basis to joint projects by State agencies for education and vocational rehabilitation to implement and improve transition services for youth with disabilities age 14 through 21. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or contracts for projects to address the various transitions that children with disabilities may face throughout their years in school. Provides for coordination and geographic dispersal of such projects. Provides for programs for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research, demonstrations, and training studies and projects to improve special education and related services for such children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for the specified programs for centers and services to meet special needs of individuals with disabilities. Provides for grants for training of related services personnel and for those involved in personnel preparation of special educators and providers of related services. Allows regular or special education personnel to participate in such training on a preservice or inservice basis. Directs the Secretary to establish priorities for: (1) recruitment and preparation of individuals from the diversity of racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds, and individuals with disabilities, for careers in special education, related services, and early intervention, including leadership; and (2) preservice preparation of such personnel to serve individuals from such diverse backgrounds. Requires that grants to State educational agencies and institutions for traineeships: (1) prepare special and regular education, related services, and early intervention personnel; and (2) assist States in developing and maintaining their comprehensive systems of personnel development, and in recruiting and retaining personnel. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States to implement specified requirements for comprehensive systems of personnel development. Requires the Secretary (who currently is merely authorized) to make a grant or contract or cooperative agreement for a national clearinghouse on the education of individuals with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for specified programs for training personnel for the education of individuals with disabilities. Authorizes the Secretary to make research grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for assessment and improvement of the practice of personnel (and others, including parents) in the provision of special education, related services, and early intervention. Directs the Secretary to make grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for studies and investigations to: (1) improve program management, administration, delivery, and effectiveness necessary to provide full educational opportunities and early interventions for all children with disabilities from birth through age 21; (2) assess progress in implementation of the Act and related efforts by States, localities, and the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) organize, synthesize, interpret, and integrate relevant information. Requires specified types of studies. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance to participating State agencies in assessing the impact of the Act. Requires the Secretary to establish research priorities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for research programs. Revises programs for instructional media to provide for: (1) the captioning of television and video programs and the audio description of video materials; and (2) services for hard-of-hearing and visually impaired individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such instructional media programs. Provides for technology, educational media, and materials for projects that increase access to and use of assistive technology devices and services in the education of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities, and in other related activities authorized by the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such programs. Revises the composition of each State interagency coordinating council.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2026
Amends the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 to permit Indian tribes and tribal organizations to purchase or lease land or facilities after entering into an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior requiring that such land or facilities be used for emergency shelters and halfway houses for Indian youth who are alcohol or drug abusers. Authorizes appropriations.