{"database": "openregs", "table": "legislation", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where bill_type = \"hr\" and congress = 101 sorted by introduced_date descending", "rows": [["101-hr-5959", 101, "hr", 5959, "Oil Consumer Justice Act of 1990", "Commerce", "1990-10-27", "1990-11-20", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law.", "House", "Rep. Staggers, Harley O., Jr. [D-WV-2]", "WV", "D", "S000779", 0, "Oil Consumer Justice Act of 1990 - Establishes in the Department of Justice the Oil Price-Gouging Victims Fund consisting of damages awarded to the United States under the Clayton Act for price fixing relating to crude or refined oil during the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq.  Requires the Attorney General to annually distribute all the monies in the Fund to States for community-based programs, including police and fire departments and providers of emergency services.", "2025-08-26T17:26:17Z", null], ["101-hr-5960", 101, "hr", 5960, "For the relief of Masa Oshiro.", "Private Legislation", "1990-10-27", "1990-11-20", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law.", "House", "Rep. Saiki, Patricia [R-HI-1]", "HI", "R", "S000014", 0, "Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.", "2021-07-01T14:58:41Z", null], ["101-hr-5961", 101, "hr", 5961, "To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit beneficiaries to obtain upgraded items of equipment.", "Health", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Bruce, Terry L. [D-IL-19]", "IL", "D", "B000971", 0, "Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow home medical equipment suppliers who agree to accept the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full for standard home medical equipment to charge Medicare beneficiaries who request upgraded equipment an additional amount if the supplier first offers the standard item to the patient and provides the patient with an itemized list of all charges, including the portion to be paid by Medicare.  Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5962", 101, "hr", 5962, "Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1990", "Armed Forces and National Security", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "An objection was heard to the unanimous consent request to consider the measure.", "House", "Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3]", "MS", "D", "M000865", 3, "Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1990 - Title I:  Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and the clothing allowance payable to veterans with service-connected disabilities and their survivors. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Title II:  Technical Corrections and Extensions of Veterans Housing Loan Authorities - Revises the amount of veterans home loans for certain purposes exceeding $144,000 that is automatically guaranteed by the Government.  Applies such revisions to loans guaranteed beginning December 18, 1989. Repeals the expiration date of the Secretary's property management authority with respect to property acquired by the Secretary as a result of defaults on veterans' housing loans. Title III:  Extension of Certain Health-Care Authorities - Extends:  (1) veterans' health-care eligibility based on Agent Orange or ionizing radiation exposure:  (2) the authority to make contracts and grants to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines; and (3) the authorization for a pilot program of mobile health-care clinics under the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988. Title IV:  Miscellaneous - Extends the date until which a veteran may be considered to be a veteran of the Vietnam Era for purposes of disabled veterans' employment and training benefits. Increases the limitation on pension payments from $60 to $90 a month to or for a veteran having neither spouse nor child for any period after the month in which such veteran is readmitted for hospital or institutionalized care by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out administrative reorganizations with respect to the realignment of management responsibility for:  (1) the Department of Veterans Affairs Data Processing Centers; and (2) Information Resources Management operational functions and components within the Department's Central Office. Authorizes the Secretary to pay the expenses of leases for regional and field offices for any fiscal year using funds available to the Secretary for such fiscal year for general operating expenses of the Department.", "2025-08-26T17:26:47Z", null], ["101-hr-5963", 101, "hr", 5963, "Housing Opportunity through Management/Employee Cooperation Act of 1990", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]", "MA", "D", "M000133", 0, "Housing Opportunity through Management/Employee Cooperation Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to the treatment of welfare benefit funds to add rules governing transfers of certain excess assets from defined benefit pension plans to qualified housing assistance plans established and maintained under collective bargaining agreements.", "2025-08-26T17:25:28Z", null], ["101-hr-5964", 101, "hr", 5964, "Safe Intermodal Container Transportation Act of 1990", "Transportation and Public Works", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the House Committee on Public Works + Transportation.", "House", "Rep. Anderson, Glenn M. [D-CA-32]", "CA", "D", "A000189", 0, "Safe Intermodal Container Transportation Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to investigate the use of intermodal containers in providing commercial motor vehicle transportation and of violations of Federal and State highway weight laws by such use.  Requires the Secretary to have random weight checks conducted at selected highway locations.  Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees the results of such investigation, together with recommendations addressing the problems associated with the use of overweight intermodal containers.", "2025-08-26T17:24:21Z", null], ["101-hr-5965", 101, "hr", 5965, "Coastal Defense Initiative of 1990", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Oceanography and Great Lakes.", "House", "Rep. Anderson, Glenn M. [D-CA-32]", "CA", "D", "A000189", 3, "Title I:  General Provisions - Coastal Defense Initiative of 1990 - Sets forth congressional findings and definitions. Title II:  Coastal Water Quality - Amends the Clean Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit to the Congress a five-year schedule for developing and revising criteria for pollutants which pose the greatest risk to coastal waters.  Requires the Administrator to publish biological and sediment criteria for assessing coastal water quality to complement the pollutant-specific criteria. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to provide technical and scientific assistance to the Administrator with regard to the development of sediment criteria.  Directs coastal States, whenever they review water quality standards, to adopt standards for pollutants for which criteria have been issued.  Requires the Administrator to promulgate standards for States that fail to do so. Directs coastal States to develop coastal water quality protection programs.  Requires such programs to:  (1) identify coastal waters for which standards or designated uses are not expected to be achieved without additional control measures or waters threatened by foreseeable increases in pollutant loadings; (2) implement pollution control measures for such waters; (3) identify coastal waters requiring additional intensive efforts and implement remedial programs for such waters; (4) establish a system to assure that permits and other activities are consistent with pollution control measures; and (5) provide for public participation and improve coordination among State and local officials responsible for land use programs and permitting, water quality planning and permitting, habitat protection, and living resource management.  Sets forth program approval procedures. Prohibits specified Federal assistance with respect to coastal waters to States that fail to submit approved water quality protection programs. Requires the Administrator to issue orders to, or commence civil actions against, States that fail to implement coastal water quality protection programs.  Authorizes citizen suits against the United States for failures to comply with coastal water quality protection requirements. Directs coastal States to designate outstanding coastal resource waters with particular ecological, recreational, or aesthetic values or biological significance, taking into account fisheries and shellfish resources, habitat, and recreational uses.  Requires such States to ensure that the coastal water quality and designated uses of such waters is protected, maintained, and enhanced. Prohibits the issuance or renewal of permits for discharges into estuaries nominated for the National Estuary Program, except in compliance with specified guidelines. Directs the Administrator to review and revise guidelines to prevent the degradation of coastal water quality and to reflect changes made by this Act. Authorizes State Governors to request the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to enter into a cooperative agreement to permit a State or political subdivision to enforce requirements for marine sanitation devices.  Requires such agreements to authorize States or political subdivisions to assess and retain required penalties. Directs the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Administrator to notify the fish and game and water pollution control authorities of each coastal State of the funds available under the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to finance shoreside pumpout stations for marine sanitation devices in conjunction with approved Federal aid projects.  Requires the EPA and the Coast Guard to study and report to the Congress on:  (1) the number of operational pumpout facilities in each State; (2) the number of facilities needed to handle such devices in each State; and (3) the type of marinas and ports where such facilities should be located. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) identify pollution control measures for controlling the introduction of pollutants into coastal waters from nonpoint sources; (2) develop techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of such measures; and (3) make available to State and local authorities technical guidance for implementing and monitoring such measures.  Requires St. Johns River Estuary, Florida, and Morro Bay, California, to be given priority consideration for inclusion in the National Estuary Program. Requires management conferences under the National Estuary Program to be convened for at least ten years (currently, up to five years). Authorizes the Administrator to extend a conference for an additional five years if the affected Governors concur in the extension and the extension is necessary to meet requirements.  Revises approval and implementation procedures for conservation and management plans under the Program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants for the implementation of such plans.  Extends the authorization of appropriations for Program activities. Requires the Administrator to establish an office in the vicinity of Long Island Sound to carry out the Long Island Sound conservation and management plan. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for the implementation of conservation and management plans for Puget Sound, Washington, Albemarle  Sound, North Carolina, and Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.  Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Chesapeake Bay program through FY 1992.  Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the feasibility of designating an alternative site to the mud dump site at a distance at least 20 miles from the shoreline. Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator to submit to the Congress a plan for the long-term management of dredged material from the New York/New Jersey Harbor region.  Directs the Secretary to implement a demonstration project for disposing up to ten percent annually of material dredged from such region in an environmentally sound manner other than ocean disposal.  Permits only dredged material that meets criteria of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act to be dumped at the mud dump site.  Authorizes appropriations. Repeals a provision of the Water Resources Development Act concerning alternatives to the mud dump for disposal of dredged materials.  Directs the Administrator to publish regulations requiring interim measures to control floatables in combined sewer overflow discharges into coastal waters.  Authorizes the Administrator to conduct demonstration projects for:  (1) the control of nonpoint sources of pollution entering coastal waters from Navesink and Shrewsbury River Basin, New Jersey; and (2) the elimination of contamination of the waters in the vicinity of Woodlawn Beach, Hamburg, New York, from nonpoint sources of pollution from surface runoff and septic system contamination entering Rush and Blasdell Creeks.  Requires the non-Federal share of such projects to be 50 percent of the total cost.  Directs the Administrator to implement four model demonstration programs for coastal waters to evaluate innovative nonpoint source pollution control measures through systems for allocating and exchanging discharge credits and pollution offsets between point and nonpoint sources of pollution.  Applies such program only to conventional pollutants, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Sets forth program requirements.  Modifies the New York Harbor collection and removal of drift projects to:  (1) require, after 1990, material collected by the Secretary to be disposed of by alternative methods (other than burning); and (2) prohibit, after 1993, the burning of wood collected in carrying out the project on ocean waters.  Provides that, effective January 1, 1991, and until December 31, 1993, at least half of the wood collected under the project shall be disposed by alternative methods of disposal.  Requires the Administrator to continue to issue permits for the disposal of wood by burning on ocean waters until December 31, 1993, and to designate an interim site for such disposal. Ends such permitting when an alternative method of disposal is determined to be acceptable. Title III:  Coastal Management - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require State coastal management agencies to submit Aquatic Resources Protection Programs to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere for approval.  Declares that the purpose of such programs shall be to develop and implement measures for managing land uses which contribute to the pollution or degradation of coastal waters.  Sets forth required contents of such programs and approval procedures.  Makes States that fail to submit programs ineligible for specified funds under this Act. Requires the Under Secretary to withdraw specified percentages of grants, based on the number of years of noncompliance, from such States.  Provides for:  (1) technical assistance to States and local governments for implementing such programs; and (2) grants (on a matching basis) to coastal States for such programs. Requires the Under Secretary and the Administrator to review the inland coastal zone boundary of each State program to evaluate whether such boundary extends inland to the extent necessary to control land and water uses having a significant impact on State coastal waters.  Directs the Under Secretary to recommend appropriate boundary modifications to the State if such modifications are necessary to more effectively manage land and water uses to protect coastal waters. Requires State agencies responsible for coastal zone management to nominate representatives to serve on management conferences convened under the National Estuary Program for waters within the jurisdiction of such States.  Title IV:  Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Program - Establishes the National Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Task Force to develop and implement a national strategy for conducting coastal water quality monitoring programs.  Requires the Administrator to issue guidelines for such programs.  Directs the Task Force to establish a Regional Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Team for each coastal region.  Requires such teams to designate high priority coastal waters and develop monitoring programs for such waters.  Sets forth requirements for coastal water quaity monitoring programs.  Sets forth submission and approval procedures for such programs. Authorizes the Administrator to develop programs for regions without approved programs.   Prohibits the Task Force from approving any program unless participating States provide at least 25 percent of the cost of implementing the program.  Directs teams to compile information on the quantity, type, and location of contaminated sediments in coastal waters and the degree to which such sediments may pose risks to human health and the environment.  Requires the Administrator, the Under Secretary, and State Governors to ensure compliance with such programs.  Deems requirements of approved programs to be requirements of title I of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 and requires such programs to be submitted for approval as part of a coastal zone management program under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on:  (1) combined sewer overflows from which discharges into U.S. waters occur; and (2) the scope and severity of contaminated sediments in U.S. coastal waters. Title V:  Compliance and Enforcement - Requires the Administrator to provide to Federal agencies a list of persons introducing pollutants into coastal waters who have been found to be in significant noncompliance with:  (1) discharge permits issued pursuant to the Clean Water Act; or (2) requirements for specified management programs or conservation and management plans under such Act.  Provides for the annual revision of such list.  Prohibits Federal agencies from entering into procurement contracts with such persons if such contracts are to be performed at a facility which gave rise to such finding and is owned, leased, or operated by such persons.  Waives such prohibition if the President determines that an exemption will be in the paramount interest of the United States. Prohibits Federal agencies from undertaking any development project or awarding any grant that may adversely affect coastal water quality in any coastal State that has demonstrated a substantial and willful failure to adopt and maintain coastal water quality standards and to protect designated uses for such waters. Requires penalties assessed against a discharger under the Clean Water Act to be in an amount adequate to eliminate economic benefits or savings that may have accrued to such person as a result of the violation.  Makes a conforming amendment to the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Requires States having coastal waters that do not meet applicable water quality standards or protect and maintain designated uses to post and maintain signs at each place of public access to such waters indicating the health and environmental effects that may occur as a result of the failure to meet such standards. Deems violations of this Act to be violations of the Clean Water Act. Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize the Administrator to deny the issuance of permits for the dumping of material which does not comply with specified criteria relating to the effects of ocean dumping on the marine environment.  Increases civil penalties for ocean dumping violations.  Authorizes payments of up to $10,000 to any person furnishing information leading to a finding of liability, civil judgment, or criminal conviction under such Act. Title VI:  Funding - Establishes the Coastal Defense Fund. Authorizes appropriations.  Directs the Administrator and the Under Secretary to make grants from the Fund to coastal States that:  (1) establish a coastal protection fund into which such grants will be deposited; (2) agree to make grants and other expenditures from such fund; and (3) agree to implement periodic reporting and accounting procedures.  Outlines specific criteria to be considered by the Administrator and the Under Secretary in determining grant amounts. Allocates Fund moneys.  Requires the Administrator or the Under Secretary to enter into agreements with States that describe how grants will be used and assist in achieving the objectives of this Act.  Title VII:  Great Lakes Water Quality Improvement - Great Lakes Water Quality Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Clean Water Act to extend from five to seven years the period for conducting study and demonstration projects on the removal of toxic pollutants from the Great Lakes.  Includes Duluth Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in the list of locations to be given priority consideration for such projects. Directs the Administrator to develop:  (1) guidance for numerical limits on pollutant concentrations in the Great Lakes; and (2) guidance for the use by States and local governments in implementing pollution prevention and antidegradation procedures for pollutants. Requires the Great Lakes States (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) to adopt water quality standards which are consistent with such guidance.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards for Great Lakes States which fail to adopt such standards. Requires the Administrator to publish biological criteria for assessing Great Lakes water quality. Directs each Great Lakes State to submit remedial action plans to the International Joint Commission and the Director of the Great Lakes Program Office.  Sets forth deadlines for the completion of specified schedules pursuant to the Great Lakes Agreement for areas of special concern.  Requires the Program Office to provide technical assistance to Great Lakes States for developing such plans.  Sets forth procedures for the extension of deadlines. Provides for revisions of deficient plans.  Requires remedial actions to be included in such States' water quality plans. Directs the Administrator to develop a lakewide management plan for each of the Great Lakes.  Requires the Administrator to submit the plan for Lake Michigan to the Commission for review.  Provides for revisions of such plans, as necessary. Requires the Administrator to establish a program for making grants to Great Lakes States for the implementation of the Great Lakes Agreement and this Act. Directs the Administrator to develop consistent methods of reporting water quality data to the Commission. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Designates a specified laboratory and research facility in Duluth, Minnesota, as the John A. Blatnik National Fresh Water Quality Research Laboratory.  Title VIII:  Extension of Federal Water Pollution Control Program - Amends the Clean Water Act to extend through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations for:  (1) specified research, investigations, training, and information; (2) grants to States for pollution control programs; (3) nonpoint source pollution control in rural areas; (4) interagency agreements to maintain water quality; (5) the clean lakes program; and (6) nonpoint source pollution management programs.  Extends the general authorization for such Act through FY 1992.  Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated for the State water pollution control revolving fund program for FY 1992.  Requires the Administrator to conduct a project to demonstrate the use of constructed wetlands to improve the quality of effluent discharged from publicly owned treatment works operated by the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, into Mud Creek or its tributaries.  Sets forth non-Federal responsibilities with respect to such project.  Authorizes appropriations.", "2025-08-26T17:25:58Z", null], ["101-hr-5966", 101, "hr", 5966, "CO2 Offsets Policy Enabling Act of 1990", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-10", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.", "House", "Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-4]", "TN", "D", "C000754", 1, "CO2 Offsets Policy Enabling Act of 1990 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit new major sources of carbon dioxide from operating without a permit issued under this Act.  Requires new stationary sources to: (1) obtain certified carbon dioxide credits; (2) demonstrate possession of certified credits equal to one year's expected carbon dioxide emissions to the permitting authority before commencing operation; and (3) deposit annually with the permitting authority sufficient credits to compensate for the year's carbon dioxide emissions.  Provides that the receipt by the permitting authority of carbon dioxide offset credits shall be a condition of any permit.  Directs new sources that use biomass as a fuel to obtain credits sufficient to offset only the fossil fuel used in production of the biomass. Requires new sources that use trees as fuel to obtain credits for all carbon dioxide emissions. Directs new major sources emitting excess carbon dioxide to obtain credits as soon as practicable and to pay a penalty of $250 per ton of excess carbon dioxide.  Adjusts such penalty annually according to percentage changes in the Consumer Price Index. Authorizes a permitting authority to certify carbon dioxide reductions as offset credits if the person providing the reduction or purchasing the credit is in compliance with regulations under this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish regulations concerning the certification of stationary source carbon dioxide reductions.  Requires the Administrator to promulgate rules establishing carbon dioxide fixation rates.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate rules concerning the certification of:  (1) carbon dioxide credits from fleet vehicle fuel efficiency improvements beyond the applicable Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency requirement; (2) carbon dioxide credits from appliance efficiency improvements beyond the minimum required under the National Appliance Energy Conservation Amendments; (3) carbon dioxide credits for energy conservation investments; (4) carbon dioxide equivalent credits from the capture and use of coal bed methane; (5) carbon dioxide credits created by construction of cogeneration facilities; and (6) carbon dioxide equivalent credit for the capture and destruction of chlorofluorocarbons. Requires the Administrator to establish regulations identifying the carbon dioxide credits to be granted by fuel switches to less carbon intensive fuels for mobile sources. Authorizes the Administrator to provide for expedited certification of carbon dioxide credits. Requires the Administrator to establish a baseline for sources subject to certification, to be set according to actual performances of such sources during 1990. Authorizes reductions in air pollutants that contribute to global warming to be certified as carbon dioxide offset credits if such reductions meet regulation criteria, except that the amounts of such credits may be reduced or increased based on radiative differences and atmospheric lifetime to reflect the global warming potential of such air pollutants. Requires the Administrator to establish the minimum elements of a permit program to be administered by any air pollution control agency. Requires State Governors to submit permit programs to the Administrator for approval. Directs the Administrator to enforce programs for States failing to make such submission.  Requires permits to set forth inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance certification, and reporting requirements. Directs the Administrator to create a National Carbon Dioxide Offset Bank to ensure adequate supplies of carbon dioxide offsets and to create procedures for the tracking and retirement of used credits.", "2025-08-26T17:28:27Z", null], ["101-hr-5967", 101, "hr", 5967, "Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act", "Native Americans", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.", "House", "Rep. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND-At Large]", "ND", "D", "D000432", 0, "Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act - Declares that:  (1) the Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT) (the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Tribes that reside on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation) are entitled to additional financial compensation from amounts deposited to a TAT Recovery Fund for the taking of reservation lands for the site of the Garrison Dam and Reservoir; and (2) the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) (members of the Great Sioux Nation that reside on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation) is entitled to additional financial compensation from amounts deposited to a SRST Economic Recovery Fund for the taking of reservation lands for the site for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir. Establishes such Funds.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit into each Fund 25 percent of the receipts from deposits to the Treasury for the preceding fiscal year from the integrated programs of the Eastern Division of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Project administered by the Western Area Power Administration, subject to certain limitations. Authorizes appropriations to each Fund.  Makes available only the interest on the moneys in each Fund for use by the Secretary of the Interior in making payments to the SRST for use  for educational, social welfare, economic development, and other programs.  Specifies that:  (1) no payments pursuant to this Act shall result in the reduction or denial of any Federal services or programs to which the TAT or SRST, or any of their members, are otherwise entitled to because of their status as a federally recognized Indian tribe or member pursuant to Federal law; (2) no such payments shall be subject to Federal or State income tax, or affect power rates; and (3) no part of any moneys in either Fund shall be distributed to any TAT or SRST member on a per capita basis. Authorizes the Secretary to develop irrigation within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, subject to a finding by the Secretary of irrigability of the lands to receive water. Declares certain lands in North Dakota to be held in trust by the United States for the TAT as part of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Retains for the United States a flowage and sloughing easement over a specified portion of such lands for flood control and related Garrison Dam and Reservoir project purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to:  (1) sell certain lands and minerals underlying such lands, subject to the right of the United States to continuously or intermittently inundate such lands with water as necessary for the operation of dam and reservoir projects; and (2) give the right of first refusal to any applicant with respect to any land owned by such person immediately prior to its acquisition by the United States.  Requires that any such lands sold be conveyed subject to any lease in effect with respect to such lands at the time of such conveyance. Declares certain lands to be held in trust by the United States for the SRST as part of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Transfers:  (1) certain nontribal lands to those individuals from whom they were taken, or their assignees; and (2) certain lands acquired from the State of North Dakota to the State.", "2025-08-26T17:26:01Z", null], ["101-hr-5968", 101, "hr", 5968, "Wetlands Conservation and Management Act of 1990", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Hayes, James A. [D-LA-7]", "LA", "D", "H000390", 17, "Wetlands Conservation and Management Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise provisions concerning permits for dredged or fill material.  Prohibits, unless such activity is undertaken pursuant to a permit issued by the Secretary of the Army:  (1) the discharge of dredged or fill material into U.S. waters; (2) the draining or excavation of wetlands; and (3) the burning of vegetation on wetlands for purposes of altering the biological character of such wetlands.  Authorizes the Secretary to issue permits for such activities.  Sets forth permit application procedures. Requires the Secretary, upon receiving applications, to:  (1) classify as Type A wetlands wetlands that are of critical significance to the long-term conservation of the ecosystem of which they are a part and which meet specified requirements; (2) classify as Type B wetlands wetlands that provide habitat for a significant population of avian, aquatic, or terrestrial wildlife or provide other ecologically significant wetlands functions; and (3) classify as Type C wetlands wetlands that serve limited ecological functions or that serve such functions but exist in such abundance that regulation of activities is not necessary to conserve wetlands values and functions. Directs the Secretary to notify a permit applicant of the classification and advise such applicant of the right to seek a classification modification.  Sets forth provisions concerning modifications. Permits owners of interests in Type A wetlands to seek compensation for the fair market value of such lands.  Provides that title for such lands shall pass to the United States upon acceptance of an offer for compensation.  Deems such takings to be takings of surface interests in lands only unless the Secretary determines that the exploration for, or development of, oil and gas or mineral interests is not compatible with conservation of the surface interests in lands that have been classified as Type A wetlands.  Authorizes the Secretary to classify such interests as Type A wetlands and to notify the owner that he may receive compensation.  Sets forth provisions concerning court jurisdiction and remedies for taking of interests. Requires the Secretary to deny a permit authorizing activities in Type A wetlands unless:  (1) such activities can be undertaken with de minimis alteration or surface disturbance; (2) there are overriding public interest concerns that require use of the lands for purposes other than conservation; or (3) the proposed use of the land will result in overall environmental benefits.  Authorizes the Secretary to issue a permit for activities in Type B wetlands subject to conditions that ensure that the watershed or aquatic ecosystem of which such wetlands are a part does not suffer loss or degradation of wetlands values or functions.  Imposes requirements for mitigation when such activities result in the permanent loss or degradation of Type B wetlands. Directs the Secretary to establish a mitigation banking program in each State to ensure compensation for loss and degradation of wetlands. Requires the primary objective of such programs to be to provide for the restoration, enhancement, or creation of ecologically significant wetlands on an ecosystem basis. Sets forth requirements of such programs.  Permits activities in Type C wetlands to be undertaken without specified authorization. Authorizes the Secretary to issue general permits on a State, regional, or nationwide basis for activities in Type B wetlands if such activities are similar in nature and will not result in the significant loss of ecologically significant wetlands values and functions. Exempts specified activities from this Act's requirements. Permits States or political subdivisions to submit land management plans for identified wetlands for the Secretary's approval. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to establish standards that govern the delineation of lands as wetlands. Requires the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake a project to identify and classify U.S. wetlands.  Provides for public participation in such project and makes information concerning identification and classification available to the public. Authorizes the Secretary to commence civil actions for permit violations.  Prescribes civil penalties for such violations. Applies a specified exemption from permit requirements for discharges from the construction of Federal projects to activities in wetlands related to such projects. Authorizes States to administer permit programs for activities covered by this Act, subject to the Secretary's approval.", "2025-08-26T17:29:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5969", 101, "hr", 5969, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the interest deduction of foreign corporations that hold interests of less than ten percent in partnerships engaged in business in the United States.", "Taxation", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. McGrath, Raymond J. [R-NY-5]", "NY", "R", "M000458", 0, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that a foreign corporation be treated as owning (or as having incurred) a  pro rata share of the assets and liabilities of a partnership in which it is a partner for purposes of allocating interest deductions (thus barring such deductions on the basis of gross income).", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5970", 101, "hr", 5970, "Public Recreation Area Recycling Incentives and Education Act", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.", "House", "Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]", "MA", "D", "M000133", 0, "Public Recreation Area Recycling Incentives and Education Act - Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to establish a comprehensive recycling program for public recreation areas operated by the National Park Service, the U.S.  Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service.  Requires the Secretaries to establish certain defined criteria under which each Service may exclude portions of public recreation areas from the recycling program.  Permits each Service to use any revenues received from recycling programs for:  (1) resource management, research, and interpretation; and (2) other public purposes relating to the enhancement of the public recreation areas at which the revenues were realized.  Requires the Secretaries to study the effectiveness of the respective recycling programs established under this Act.  Requires the Secretaries to direct each manager of a public recreation area conducting a recycling program to educate visitors to the public recreation area about:  (1) the recycling program for such area; and (2) the benefits to the public recreation area and the local community of such program.  Authorizes appropriations.", "2025-08-26T17:25:49Z", null], ["101-hr-5971", 101, "hr", 5971, "Radon Awareness and Disclosure Act", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.", "House", "Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]", "MA", "D", "M000133", 0, "Radon Awareness and Disclosure Act - Title I:  Three-Year Extension of Indoor Radon Abatement Provisions of Toxic Substances Control Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to extend through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for:  (1) an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publication entitled \"A Citizen's Guide to Radon\"; (2) model construction standards and techniques for controlling radon levels in new buildings; (3) grants to States for radon programs; and (4) regional radon training centers. Title II:  Radon Testing Provisions - Directs Federal agencies and Government-controlled corporations that provide federally related mortgages for house purchases to require, before such mortgages are received, that such houses be tested for radon and that the results of such tests be made available to potential purchasers.  Requires houses owned by Federal agencies or Government-controlled corporations to be tested for radon before sold and provides that test results shall be made available to potential purchasers. Directs the EPA Administrator to establish a program that requires: (1) products offered for sale, or devices used in connection with public services, for radon measurement to meet minimum performance criteria; and (2) operators of devices, or persons employing techniques, used in connection with public services for radon measurement to meet a minimum level of proficiency.  Requires the Administrator to establish user fees for manufacturers of such products or devices and for persons who operate such devices or employ such techniques.  Waives or reduces such fees for persons who agree to test for radon in public and nonprofit child care facilities, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, or other care facilities.  Provides for the deposit of such fees into a Radon Service Account. Directs the Administrator, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs to:  (1) jointly evaluate efforts to promote radon testing and ways to increase radon testing during real estate transactions; and (2) report to the Congress on alternative strategies for promoting such testing. Requires the Administrator to give grant preferences under the Toxic Substances Control Act to States which make efforts to adopt requirements for radon testing in residential real estate transactions. Title III:  Radon in Schools - Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring local educational agencies to:  (1) test each school building under the authority of such agencies; and (2) test, by September 30, 1993, school buildings in areas having a higher than average risk of radon exposure.  Makes the results of such tests available to the public.  Requires radon testing to be carried out by individuals approved by the Administrator pursuant to proficiency programs under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Establishes within EPA a Radon Testing and Mitigation Assistance Program to provide assistance for testing and mitigation devices and methods.  Requires State Governors to establish priority lists of assistance applicants, based on the nature and magnitude of potential exposure to radon.  Sets forth criteria to be considered by the Administrator in ranking such applications.  Authorizes the provision of grants of up to 50 percent of the cost of a testing program and loans for up to 100 percent of the cost of a mitigation program. Prescribes civil penalties for failures to comply with testing in school buildings.  Sets forth provisions concerning citizen complaints. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV:  President's Commission on Radon Awareness - Establishes the President's Commission on Radon Awareness to:  (1) examine public radon awareness programs; (2) act as an administrative and coordinating body for the donation of resources to implement programs and strategies to raise awareness of the health threats of radon; (3) encourage media outlets to provide information to increase radon awareness; and (4) assist in the update of such programs and strategies. Title V:  Radon in the Workplace - Directs the Administrator to set a standard for the level of exposure to radon in the workplace that is associated with no greater health risk than the risk indicated by the EPA's action level for radon developed under the Toxic Substances Control Act.", "2025-08-26T17:29:21Z", null], ["101-hr-5972", 101, "hr", 5972, "Employee Retirement Income Security Act Amendments of 1990", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Michel, Robert H. [R-IL-18]", "IL", "R", "M000692", 0, "Employee Retirement Income Security Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require each multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) to file with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) an annual registration statement beginning in 1991.  Requires that copies of such statements be transmitted to the Insurance Commissioners of States in which the MEWA currently conducts, or intends to conduct, business.  Makes specified persons responsible for such filing.  Repeals the limited scope audit exemption for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 1992.  Requires under conditions for being considered a qualified public accountant for ERISA purposes, after January 1, 1994, that such a person has undergone a peer review of his or her accounting and auditing practice with respect to employee benefit plans during the three-year period immediately preceding an engagement to conduct an audit under specified ERISA provisions.  Requires the following to have a written policy governing the voting of any securities held by the plan and to provide a copy of such policy to the plan administrator: (1) investment managers (for the securities they manage); (2) named fiduciaries who have the authority to direct a trustee in matters related to the exercise of any such voting rights; and (3) trustees, to the extent they retain the power to exercise any such voting rights. Requires plan administrators, upon request of any participant or beneficiary and for a reasonable charge, to furnish a copy of the voting policy of any person responsible for exercising, or directing the exercise of, any voting rights of securities held by the plan.  Requires a court, in a civil action brought by a participant or beneficiary with respect to certain benefit claims, to review the fiduciary's decision without according any deference to any of the fiduciary's findings or conclusions, if the action involves a matter previously decided by a named fiduciary who has a significant interest which would be adversely affected by a decision in favor of the participant or beneficiary.  Allows deference to be accorded such findings and conclusions to the extent that they affirm those of a party who did not have such an interest.  Requires the court, in any action brought by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary under fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA in which judgement is awarded in his or her favor, to award such a plaintiff reasonable attorney and expert witness fees and costs. Makes such requirement inapplicable to actions arising from claims for failure to pay benefits or to approve requests for clarification of rights to future benefits.  Allows the court in its discretion to award fees and costs to a party who is not entitled to such mandatory fees and costs.  Amends both ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code to double (from five percent to ten percent) the amount of the civil penalty and excise tax for a plan's engaging in a prohibited transaction.  Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make a discretionary award of up to ten percent of the civil penalty collected to persons who provide information leading to the initiation of an investigation or the bringing of an action which resulted in the collection of any civil penalties for violations by fiduciaries under ERISA.", "2025-08-26T17:27:13Z", null], ["101-hr-5973", 101, "hr", 5973, "Central Coast National Marine Sanctuary Act", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Panetta, Leon [D-CA-16]", "CA", "D", "P000047", 0, "Central Coast National Marine Sanctuary Act - Declares that the waters of the Central Coast in California meet the standards set forth in specified provisions of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 and designates them as a national marine sanctuary. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to prepare for such sanctuary: (1) a draft environmental impact statement; and (2) a draft management plan.", "2025-08-26T17:24:24Z", null], ["101-hr-5974", 101, "hr", 5974, "To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to establish education and training programs in areas with high rates of foreign workers.", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-27", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Sawyer, Tom [D-OH-14]", "OH", "D", "S000094", 1, "Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to authorize the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to provide grants to States for education and training assistance in areas of labor shortage with high rates of foreign workers. Allows service delivery areas, local governments, employers, employer associations, employee representatives, and private nonprofit organizations to apply to the States for grants to provide such training and education. Directs the Secretary to report biennially on such grants to States and the types of programs assisted. Repeals title VIII (Education and Training) of the Immigration Act of 1990, which provides for education and training assistance similar to that provided under this Act.", "2025-07-21T19:44:15Z", null], ["101-hr-5975", 101, "hr", 5975, "Budget Process Reform Act", "Economics and Public Finance", "1990-10-27", "1990-11-05", "See H.R.5835.", "House", "Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-40]", "CA", "R", "C000830", 111, "Budget Process Reform Act - Title I:  Statement of Congressional Purpose - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to facilitate rational, informed, and timely decisions by the Congress.  Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal budget process should focus the attention of policymakers and the public on the aggregate impact of Federal spending on the economy, and on the tradeoffs that must be made among priorities in order to control overall levels of spending. Declares that the budget process should contain safeguards against delay and inaction, so that temporary shut-downs of the Government may be avoided. Title II:  Binding Budget Law - Requires the Congress to enact a binding budget law, in the form of a joint resolution, by April 15 of the calendar year before that in which the fiscal period commences. Requires the budget law to fit on a single page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings in major functional categories. Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any spending bill affecting spending in a major functional category unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is enacted. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit baseline budgeting.  Requires the budget to include comparisons of current fiscal year and proposed subsequent fiscal year spending. Title III:  Enforcement Mechanisms - Subtitle A:  Super majority Required to Break Budget Law - Requires a two-thirds majority vote in the House and the Senate to consider any spending bill prior to the enactment of the budget law. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to provide to the Congress an estimate of the costs in each major functional category of any spending bill as soon as practicable after its introduction.  Limits such estimates to those bills likely to result in costs of more than $10,000,000.  Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to consider over-budget spending bills. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive any provision of this Act. Subtitle B:  Limited Enhanced Rescission Authority - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit the President's rescission authority to spending that is above the limits of the budget law. Subtitle C:  \"Blank Check\" Appropriations Prohibited - Declares the intent of the Congress to end open-ended, \"blank check\" appropriations which typically authorize spending \"such sums as may be necessary.\"  Requires fixed-dollar appropriations for every account except social security and interest on the debt.  Prohibits open-ended appropriations.  Requires Executive agencies to adjust benefit levels to ensure that appropriations for entitlement programs are not exceeded. Subtitle D:  \"Pay As You Go\" Requirement for New Spending - Prohibits the Congress from considering any legislation which exceeds the budget ceiling unless it offsets such increased spending with an equal amount of reductions.  Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive such prohibition. Title IV:  Sustaining Mechanism - Makes appropriations to provide for an automatic continuing resolution if for any account an appropriation for a fiscal period does not become law before the beginning of such period. Restricts legislation providing funding to the Committees on Appropriations. Title V:  Protection of Social Security - Provides that no reduction in benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act shall be made as a consequence of this Act. Title VI:  Timetable - Revises the timetable for the congressional budget process. Title VII:  Conforming Amendments - Makes various technical and conforming amendments, including changing references to a concurrent resolution on the budget to references to a joint resolution on the budget. Title VIII:  Definitions and Rules of Interpretation - Sets forth definitions for specified terms. Title IX:  Effective Date - Declares the effective date of this Act to be January 1, 1991, applicable to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1991.", "2025-08-26T17:25:15Z", null], ["101-hr-5976", 101, "hr", 5976, "Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1990", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-27", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.", "House", "Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]", "AK", "R", "Y000033", 0, "Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1990 - Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to:  (1) modify the Fort Davis land allotment; and (2) subject such land to valid existing rights and an easement for the Iditarod National Historic Trail. Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to authorize an allotment applicant, who had a valid application pending before the Department of the Interior on December 18, 1971, and whose application remains pending as of the date of the enactment of this Act, to amend the land description to describe land other than that the applicant originally intended to claim if:  (1) the applicant filed an allotment application which described land selected by, tentatively approved to, or patented to the State of Alaska; (2) the amended land description describes land selected by, tentatively approved to, or patented to Alaska of approximately equal acreage to substitute for the land originally described in the application; and (3) the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources for Alaska, acting under the authority of State law, has agreed to reconvey or relinquish the land described in the amended application to the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) accept conveyance or relinquishment of the land described in the amended application from Alaska as an allotment for the benefit of the allotment application; (2) upon such acceptance, to cause the allotment to be surveyed (if it has not already been surveyed) and issue a trust certificate; and (3) adjust his computation of the acreage charged against Alaska's land entitlement. Ratifies certain conveyances to the Montana Creek and Caswell Native Associations and declares that such Associations have received their full entitlement of lands pursuant to ANCSA. Withdraws specified lands, for a period of one year, for selection by the Elim Native Corporation.  Authorizes such Corporation to select such lands in partial satisfaction of its entitlement under ANCSA.  Bars selections from lands within the Iditarod National Historic Trail corridor.  Requires the Secretary to receive and adjudicate such selections as though they were filed in a timely manner and to convey such lands to such Corporation. Specifies that a real property interest distributed by a Native Corporation to a shareholder of such corporation pursuant to a program to provide homesites to its shareholders shall be deemed conveyed and received under ANCSA, provided that certain conditions are met, including that alienability of the Corporation's Settlement Common Stock has not yet been terminated under provisions of such Act. Directs the Secretary to execute such instruments as necessary to release the condition on specified lands (including Beaver Airport) that such lands revert to the United States if such lands are not developed, or cease to be used, for airport purposes. Modifies the boundary of the Chugach National Forest, Alaska. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to convey specified land in Alaska to the Rabbit Creek Lions Club. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the University of Alaska all U.S. interests in the lands of the University of Alaska's Agricultural Experiment Station and Fur Farm Experiment Station.", "2025-08-26T17:27:35Z", null], ["101-hr-5977", 101, "hr", 5977, "For the relief of Velig Mehmed Dag.", "Private Legislation", "1990-10-27", "1990-11-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law.", "House", "Rep. Panetta, Leon [D-CA-16]", "CA", "D", "P000047", 0, "Declares that a named individual shall be considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act if he applies for permanent residence status within a specified period.", "2021-07-01T14:58:45Z", null], ["101-hr-5932", 101, "hr", 5932, "Educational Equity and Excellence Act of 1990", "Education", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1025.", "House", "Rep. Hawkins, Augustus F. [D-CA-29]", "CA", "D", "H000367", 1, "Educational Equity and Excellence Act of 1990 - Title I:  National Goals - Sets forth national goals for education in the following categories:  (1) disadvantaged children's readiness for school; (2) school completion; (3) student achievement; (4) mathematics and science; (5) family literacy and lifelong learning; (6) safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools; (7) teacher recruitment and retention; and (8) equal opportunity for postsecondary education. Title II:  The President's Education Programs - Part A: Presidential Schools of Distinction - Presidential Schools of Distinction Act - Amends chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA chapter 1 programs) to establish a Presidential Schools of Distinction Award program.  Authorizes appropriations. Part B:  Nontraditional Routes to Teacher Certification and Licensure - Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Licensure Act of 1990 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program for alternative routes to elementary and secondary school teacher certification and licensure.  Authorizes appropriations. Part C:  Presidential Awards for Excellence in Education - Amends ESEA title II (renamed as Critical Skills Improvement and Presidential Teacher Awards) to establish a Presidential Awards for Excellence in Education Program for elementary and secondary school teachers.  Authorizes appropriations. Part D:  Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Amends HEA to authorize appropriations for awards to qualified historically Black colleges and universities.  Declares that an institution that receives such an award shall not be eligible for another type of award under other provisions. Title III:  Literacy - National Literacy Act of 1990 - Part A: Literacy:  Strategic Planning, Research, and Coordination - Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Literacy. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to direct the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education to coordinate literacy-related programs. Establishes the National Institute for Literacy and the National Institute Board.  Authorizes the Institute to award Literacy Leader Fellowships.  Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to establish a network of State or regional adult literacy resource centers.  Authorizes appropriations. Part B:  Workforce Literacy - Establishes in the Department of Labor a National Workforce Literacy Assistance Collaborative. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for national workforce literacy strategies grants business, industry, labor, and education partnerships for workplace literacy.  Requires the Secretary of Education, in awarding grants for exemplary demonstration partnerships for workplace literacy, to:  (1) give priority to partnerships which include small businesses; and (2) limit such grant awards to not more than three years. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount, whenever appropriations for workforce literacy partnership grants exceed a certain level, to establish a program of grants for large-scale national workforce literacy strategies.  Authorizes appropriations for AEA workforce literacy programs. Part C:  Investment in Literacy - Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for programs under the Adult Education Act (AEA). Revises the use of funds under the basic State grants program. Requires that basic grants to States also be used for competitive two-year Gateway Grants to public housing authorities for literacy programs and related activities.  Requires biennial evaluations and reports on such Gateway Grants. Revises AEA to give advisory councils, plans, and evaluations literacy-related responsibilities.  Requires States to report biennially to the Interagency Task Force on meeting literacy goals, coordinating workplace literacy services, and building a high quality delivery system for adult literacy programs.  Provides for training educators to recognize and serve illiterate individuals more effectively. Revises targeted assistance programs under ESEA to include training programs to enhance the ability of teachers and school counselors to identify, particularly in the early grades, students with reading and related problems which place them at risk for adult illiteracy. Renames the Even Start program under ESEA as the Even Start Family Literacy Program.  Revises the program to expand eligibility to include community-based organizations, or other nonprofit organizations of demonstrated quality applying in collaboration with a local educational agency (LEA) (as well as LEAs and LEA consortia).  Sets minimum grant amounts.  Makes individual children eligible from birth through age seven (currently from age one through age seven).  Provides for continuation of eligibility for certain participants until the parents become ineligible due to educational achievement, or until all children in the family attain age eight.  Gives priority to applicants demonstrating that the area to be served has a high percentage or a large number of children and adults in need of program services.  Authorizes appropriations for the Even Start Family Literacy Program. Establishes a Family Literacy Public Broadcasting Program.  Authorizes the Secretary of Education, subject to availability of appropriations, to contract with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for production and dissemination of family literacy programming and accompanying materials to assist parents in improving family literacy skills and languages development.  Requires CPB to:  (1) cooperate with local public broadcasting stations; (2) arrange for distribution of audio and video instructional media materials for use, and distribution on loan, to families at sites chosen from among State and local libraries with literacy programs and nonprofit entities serving hard-to-serve populations; and (3) report to the Congress.  Authorizes appropriations. Part D:  Business Leadership for Employment Skills - Amends AEA to provide for education programs for commercial drivers.  Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants for adult education programs which increase the literacy skills of eligible commercial drivers so that they may successfully complete the knowledge test requirements under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986. Requires grantees to refer individuals identified as having literacy skill problems to appropriate adult education programs.  Authorizes appropriations. Part E:  Books for Families - Revises the ESEA inexpensive book distribution program to require that priority be given in selection of additional local programs to those which serve children and students with special needs.  Requires the program contractor (Reading is Fundamental) to report to the Secretary of Education annually on such additional programs. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to direct the Secretary of Education, in awarding grants for library literacy programs and services, to give priority to those that:  (1) will be delivered in areas of greatest need with highest concentrations of adults without secondary education or its equivalent, and which either have few community or financial resources or have low per capita income, unemployment, or underemployment; and (2) coordinate with literacy organizations and community-based organizations providing literacy services. Part F:  Students for Literacy - Amends HEA to authorize appropriations for Student Literacy Corps programs.  Requires individual students in such programs, as a condition of course credit, to perform at least 60 hours of voluntary, uncompensated service as tutors in a public community agency's educational or literacy program. Part G:  Volunteers for Literacy - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to establish a Literacy Challenge Grants program. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency to award such grants to eligible public and private entities to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing, operating, or expanding community or employee literacy programs that include the use of full- or part-time volunteers. Authorizes appropriations for Literacy Challenge Grants, but only if there are specified levels of funding for the VISTA Program and the VISTA Literacy Corps. Part H:  Literacy for Incarcerated Individuals - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to establish requirements for mandatory functional literacy programs for incarcerated adults in State correctional systems and local jails or detention centers.  Requires such a program to be in effect in at least one major correctional facility, for each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with an inmate population, within two years after enactment of this Act.  Requires, if adequate funds are available, each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with over 150 inmates to have such a program in effect within five years after enactment of this Act.  Sets forth required components of such programs, including inmate mandatory  participation penalties and incentives.  Exempts from participation (except for any individual who is serving a life sentence without parole, or terminally ill, or under a sentence of death).  Requires annual reports.  Encourages:  (1) parole agencies to make educational recommendations for those being released who do not have a marketable job skill or a high school diploma; and (2) jails with less than 150 inmates to develop such mandatory functional literacy programs. Title IV:  Teacher Training - Teachers Act - Part A:  Perkins Loans and Douglas Teacher Scholarships - Amends HEA to add special rules for Perkins student loan cancellation for teachers who perform service in specified types of schools. Authorizes appropriations for the Douglas Teacher Scholarship program under HEA. Part B:  Financial Assistance for Teacher Corps and for Other Institutional Recruitment and Retention of Individuals Preparing to Enter the Teacher Force - Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate funds to State agencies to:  (1) establish a Teacher Corps with scholarships and LEA induction and mentor programs; (2) make grants to institutions of higher education for new and innovative programs for recruitment and retention of students seeking teaching careers, with priority on individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and individuals needing financial assistance who demonstrate academic achievement and potential for success in teaching. Provides for allocation of funds to State agencies.  Directs the State agency to award grants from such funds as follows:  (1) 80 percent to institutions of higher education, in accordance with specified priorities, and (2) 20 percent to LEAs for induction and mentor programs, with priority for LEAs with the greatest proportion of disadvantaged students. Sets forth requirements for higher education institution applications, plans, and uses of such funds, including specific recruitment and retention strategies and coordination with Teacher Corps and other related activities.  Requires that at least 35 percent of an institution's grant be used for a Teacher Corps Scholarship program. Sets forth requirements for Teacher Corps scholarship recipients (members).  Sets forth limitations on scholarship amount and duration.  Provides for eligibility, special consideration, and institution-established criteria. Sets forth Teacher Corps scholarship conditions, including agreement to work for five years in one of specified types of schools. Requires scholarship repayment in cases of noncompliance. Sets forth requirements for LEAs receiving grants for Teacher Corps induction programs, including applications and use of funds.  Allows such programs to be developed in cooperation with higher education institutions. Sets forth the Secretary's responsibilities for Teacher Corps programs, including scholarship information dissemination to individuals leaving the armed services and assistance to foster communications among Teacher Corps members. Sets forth reporting and evaluation requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Part C:  Academic Areas of National Importance - Subpart 1: Foreign Languages - Amends the Star Schools Program Assistance Act to authorize appropriations in necessary amounts for FY 1993 to carry out Star Schools program assistance.  Requires applications for such assistance for instructional programming to provide assurances that such programming will be designed in consultation with teachers of the applicable subject matter and grade level. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to eligible consortia to:  (1) operate critical languages and area studies programs; (2) develop and acquire educational equipment and materials; and (3) develop teacher training programs, texts, curricula, and other activities designed to improve and expand the instruction of foreign languages at elementary and secondary schools.  Limits the maximum amount of such a demonstration grant to an eligible consortium in any single fiscal year. Requires that a consortium eligible for such demonstration grants consist of a cooperative effort between entities in one or more States that must include at least:  (1) one institution of higher education;(2) one secondary school with experience in teaching critical foreign languages; and (3) one secondary school in which at least 25 percent of the students are eligible to be counted under certain provisions for education of disadvantaged students (under Chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965).  Allows such consortia to include a not-for-profit organization to provide services not otherwise available from the other entities.  Authorizes appropriations. Subpart 2:  Training and Instructional Materials - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to higher education institutions or nonprofit organizations to develop innovative and model programs that integrate foreign language and culture, democracy and civic education, geography, and international studies into practicing and preservice elementary school teacher education (and, after elementary school teacher needs have been met, into secondary school teacher education).  Sets forth grant proposal requirements.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to various educational entities and consortia to enable them to act as a resource center for:  (1) coordinating development and dissemination of foreign language and culture instructional materials; and (2) encourage expanded use of technology in teaching foreign languages and culture at the elementary school level (and, when those needs are met, at the secondary school level). Requires coordination with materials and technologies developed under the Star Schools Assistance Program.  Authorizes appropriations. Part D:  National Foundation for Excellence - National Foundation for Excellence Act - Establishes a National Foundation for Excellence. Establishes within the Treasury a National Foundation for Excellence Trust Fund. Establishes a National Foundation for Excellence Board. Directs the Foundation to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of awarding scholarships to eligible individuals to pursue teaching careers.  Sets forth merit and need requirements for eligibility, and priorities for awards to disadvantaged individuals.  Limits such scholarships to a maximum of four years of undergraduate and two years of graduate study.  Sets scholarship conditions, including a teaching commitment agreement. Authorizes appropriations. Part E:  National Writing Project - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Writing Project (a nonprofit educational organization) to support costs of programs of teacher training and classroom research to improve the teaching of writing and the quality of student writing and learning.  Directs the Project to establish a National Advisory Board. Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to individuals and higher education institutions for research on the teaching of writing, giving priority to junior researchers. Authorizes appropriations. Part F:  Professional Development Academies - Establishes a program of Augustus F. Hawkins Professional Development Academies to provide in-service training and other activities to teachers and school administrators.  Allows such academies to include preservice training and to serve specified other educational workers as well as teachers. Provides for allocation of 85 percent of funds under this part to State educational agencies (SEAs) on the basis of number of disadvantaged children and school-aged population.  Sets the Federal share at 75 percent, but provides for 100 percent in hardship cases.  Allows the non-Federal share to be provided by LEAs in cash or in kind, including teacher sabbaticals.  Sets the term of each academy grant at five years, renewable. Sets forth authorized local uses of funds, including:  (1) providing specified types of professional development programs for teachers; (2) paying costs of release time, stipends, college or university credit, curricular materials and other necessities; and (3) providing sabbaticals for experienced teachers in accordance with specified requirements for membership in the Career Teacher Corps. Directs the Secretary to reserve five percent of funds under this part to make competitive five-year (renewable) grants to eligible recipients to establish and operate up to four National Professional Development Academies (each in one of specified subject areas). Directs the Secretary to reserve ten percent of funds under this part in each fiscal year to carry out any one or more of the following demonstration programs:  (1) class size research; (2) new careers for teachers; (3) restructuring of schools/school-based management; (4) middle school teaching; (5) national Teacher Job Bank Clearinghouse; and (6) school year extension study commission. School Year Study Commission Act - Establishes a School Year Study Commission, to study and report to the President and the Congress on the advisability of lengthening the school day and the academic year in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools.  Terminates the Commission after its final report. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this part. Part G:  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (the Board) to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of authorized activities.  Authorizes appropriations.  Sets forth terms and conditions for such assistance. Requires the Board to consult at least twice annually with the Fund for Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Board. Requires that Federal funds under this part be used only for research and development activities directly related to the development of teacher assessment and certification procedures for public elementary and secondary school teachers.  Requires the Board, in such activities, to give priority to:  (1) mathematics, sciences, foreign languages, and literacy; and (2) certification of teachers and the need and ability of teachers to teach special educational populations. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to conduct research on the professional preservice and inservice development of teachers, in order to develop models for the successful attainment of professional licensure and certification, to be used by the States or for national voluntary examinations. Declares that voluntary participation in certification assessments by the Board should be open to home school, private school, and public school teachers. Part H:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends ESEA with respect to authorized uses of magnet schools assistance to include payment or subsidization of compensation of teacher aides. Amends GEPA to authorize the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to carry out FY 1991 planning activities in preparation for conducting a specified type of assessment in FY 1994, subject to the enactment of legislation authorizing such assessment.  Authorizes appropriations for specified administrative expenses and functions of the National Assessment Board. Revises the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Act with regard to the President of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation. Title V:  Postsecondary Education Provisions - Amends HEA to revise the Pell Grant program with respect to:  (1) number of academic years of eligibility; and (2) program funding from the next succeeding fiscal year's appropriation whenever current year funds are insufficient to fully satisfy all entitlements. Modifies the method of computation of contributions under Pell Grant needs analysis and general needs analysis for other student assistance programs. Redefines \"independent student\" for Pell Grant and for other student assistance programs. Prohibits guaranty agencies from selling lists of student borrowers under the Stafford guaranteed student loan (GSL) program. Authorizes a State guaranty agency to request from the State licensing board the address of a student borrower whose location is unknown or unavailable to the agency. Revises provisions for reports to credit bureaus and institutions of higher education. Sets forth special disclosure rules on Supplemental Loans to Students (SLS loans) and parent loans (PLUS loans).  Revises the computation of repayment periods. Revises Work-Study Program provisions to add a Student Mentor Pilot Program, to test the feasibility of using work-study funds to provide incentives to eligible students at institutions of higher education to engage in mentor activities to help disadvantaged youths who are at risk of dropping out of elementary or secondary school. Requires financial aid applications for student assistance to disclose the identity of the preparer. Requires student loan borrowers to disclose to the lender their driver's license number and the name and address of their next of kin. Provides that students attending public or nonprofit institutions of higher education located in the freely associated states, rather than a State, are eligible for specified student assistance programs, as are such institutions.  Revises provisions for the territorial teacher training assistance program. Suspends an individual student's eligibility for student assistance for specified periods upon conviction for certain drug-related offenses. Directs the Secretary of Education to maintain and publicize a toll-free consumer telephone hotline for students to report alleged fraud or unfair practices in student aid by eligible institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to require institutions to refund the student's tuition and fees, upon determination of specified violations, failures, or misrepresentation, in accordance with specified procedures. Directs the Secretary, in advance of the 1991-1992 academic year, to provide institutions information specifying the legal restrictions and the requirements of eligible institutions relating to loan counseling and reporting requirements, including disclosure of borrower records to third parties, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any other applicable Federal law. Title VI:  Miscellaneous - Part A:  Law-Related Education - Amends ESEA to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to educate elementary and secondary school students about the history and principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and to foster civic competence and responsibility.  Authorizes the Secretary to contract with the Center for Civic Education to carry out such program, to be known as \"We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution.\"  Sets forth required program contents, including simulated congressional hearings. Authorizes appropriations. Revises ESEA law-related education programs, including priority for statewide programs, grant award period, and application requirements. Part B:  Assessment - Amends the National Summit Conference on Education Act of 1984 with respect to executive committee membership, regional meetings, and agenda. Authorizes the Secretary of Education, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to make grants to establish demonstration projects to develop exemplary and innovative diagnostic assessment systems policies, and practices.  Sets forth eligibility and application requirements and grant award priorities, for LEAs, SEAs, higher education institutions, and consortia.  Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on such grant programs.  Authorizes appropriations. Amends GEPA with respect to the National Center for Education Statistics.  Requires a specified report of such Center to contain nationally comparable and uniform data by State. Part C:  Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) with respect to: (1) the responsibility of State educational agencies (SEAs) to furnish certain information to the Secretary of Education; and (2) enforcement, including administrative law judges, recovery of funds, measure of recovery, and use of recovered funds. Part D:  Amendments to Existing Programs - Amends the Bilingual Education Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to reserve funds for developmental bilingual education projects and special alternative instructional projects in middle school grades.  Requires such programs to feature developmental bilingual approaches for fostering academic achievement and retention by emphasizing the arts and humanities, site-based decisionmaking, magnet schools community involvement, and collaboration with local colleges. Amends ESEA with respect to the Secretary's fund for innovation in education to authorize the Secretary to establish programs for improving the educational performance of and employment opportunities available for elementary and secondary students who are not performing to their educational potential.  Sets forth grant priorities. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to provide for drug abuse resistance education programs. Amends the following Federal laws with respect to treatment of U.S. territories and the freely associated states:  (1) ESEA; (2) AEA; (3) the Star Schools Program Assistance Act; (4) the Education of the Handicapped Act; and (5) the Library Services and Construction Act. Part E:  Planning Grants for Innovative Demonstration Projects and Research - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make three-year grants to SEAs, LEAs, and consortia to plan for the development and expansion of policies, programs, and projects that:  (1) increase opportunities of parents to select their children's school or program, especially parents of disadvantaged, minority, or rural children; (2) advance equity in methods used by States and LEAs to support public elementary and secondary education systems; (3) further parent involvement in education of their children, especially the economically disadvantaged; and (4) further business and community involvement in public education. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, to conduct research, and disseminate its results, on open enrollment systems, parental involvement, school finance equalization, and business involvement in public education.  Requires each recipient of research funds to submit a copy of its final research results to the Educational Resources Information Center.  Provides for Federal dissemination of exemplary programs. Authorizes appropriations. Part F:  Educational Peformance Agreements for School Restructuring - Directs the Secretary of Education to enter into State and local performance agreements for up to 35 local schools nationwide, in order to grant authority to combine Federal and State special needs education, drug education, and training programs.  Grants authority for other Federal agencies to enter into such agreements.  Sets limitations on such agreements, and terminates combination authority after six years, absent subsequent legislation to the contrary.  Provides for:  (1) State assurances and educational performance agreements; (2) local performance agreements; (3) local review and assessment; and (4) evaluations and reports. Directs the Secretary of Education, by January 1, 1992, to prepare a report on the public schools of each State. Part G:  Definitions - Sets forth definitions of certain terms used in this Act. Title VII:  Science Scholarships - Part A:  National Science Scholars Program - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education for awards to National Science Scholars as well as for scholarship continuation awards. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out a National Science Scholars Program of scholarships to students for the study of the physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Requires that such students:  (1) be selected by the President; (2) have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement in such fields; and (3) show promise of continued outstanding academic performance in such fields.  Provides for an initial award for first undergraduate year, and continuation awards for remaining undergraduate years.  Permits National Science Scholars to use their scholarships at any institution of higher education.  Provides for selection of such scholars.  Gives such scholarship recipients, to the extent they are otherwise qualified, priority consideration for federally financed summer employment in federally funded research and development centers that complements and reinforces their educational program. Part B:  Robert Noyce Scholarships - Establishes a Robert Noyce Mathematics and Science Teacher Corps scholarship program for students in a baccalaureate degree program in physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, or engineering who are willing to commit themselves to teaching elementary or secondary school science or mathematics. Provides for initial awards for one year of undergraduate study, a first continuation award for one year to complete undergraduate study, and a second continuation award for additional educational courses for teacher certification.  Provides for the selection process. Requires recipients to serve as elementary or secondary mathematics or science teachers at a school receiving ESEA assistance for the special educational needs of disadvantaged children. Requires such service to be at least two years for every year of scholarship assistance, up to a total of four years, and to be within six years of graduation or the end of scholarship assistance.  Provides for a repayment alternative in the event of failure to complete such service, with specified exceptions.  Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation, for transfer to the Department of Education to carry out this part. Part C:  Additional Provisions - Makes any person who is convicted of certain controlled substance violations or any felony ineligible for, and liable for repayment of, awards under this title. Provides for good cause exemptions. Directs the National Science Foundation to report to the Congress, within one year after enactment of this Act, on current efforts to improve the quality of elementary and secondary mathematics and science education and career potential for the underprivileged through joint efforts of business, school districts, and institutions of higher education, with recommendations for ways the Federal Government may encourage such efforts.", "2025-08-26T17:28:38Z", null], ["101-hr-5933", 101, "hr", 5933, "To provide for the temporary extension of the certain laws relating to housing and community development.", "Housing and Community Development", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-31", "Became Public Law No: 101-494.", "House", "Rep. Gonzalez, Henry B. [D-TX-20]", "TX", "D", "G000272", 0, "Deems:  (1) Public Law 101-402 (housing and community development extensions) to have taken effect  as if such law was enacted on September 29, 1990; (2) the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 to have been in effect on and after September 29, 1990, as if Public Law 101-402 had been enacted on September 29, 1990; and (3) the provisions of such Act, other than section 203, to be amended to read as such provisions were in effect on September 29, 1990. States that if the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (S. 566) is enacted before this Act, the above provisions shall be deemed to have taken effect immediately before its enactment. (This Act was signed into law October 31, 1990; the Cranston-Gonzalez Act was signed into law November 28, 1990.) Amends the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 to extend such Act through the earlier of November 30, 1990, or the enactment of S. 566. Extends through November 30, 1990, under specified conditions:  (1) the Interagency Council on the Homeless; and (2) the Federal Housing Administration mortgage loan limit. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to allocate section 8 and public housing assistance so that each State shall receive annually at least one-half of one percent of the available funds for such programs.", "2024-02-06T19:38:08Z", null], ["101-hr-5934", 101, "hr", 5934, "Micro Enterprise Loans for the Poor Act", "International Affairs", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Gilman, Benjamin A. [R-NY-22]", "NY", "R", "G000212", 0, "Micro Enterprise Loans for the Poor Act - Requires the Administrator of the agency responsible for administering the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make assistance available to financial intermediaries in developing countries to enable them to provide loans and other assistance for micro enterprises, with particular emphasis on loans for self-employment.  Specifies that such assistance may be made available for use by such financial intermediaries:  (1) in extending credit for micro enterprises; (2) in extending credit for such purposes as food processing and production of cloth and clothing; (3) for the start-up costs incurred by a nongovernmental organization in becoming a financial intermediary; (4) for expenses incurred by financial intermediaries in providing training and technical assistance for micro enterprises; and (5) to provide other assistance necessary to the successful functioning of micro enterprises.  Requires the Administrator to issue guidelines for financial intermediaries providing such assistance. Requires the Administrator to place primary emphasis on:  (1) making assistance available to the poorest people in the least developed countries; and (2) the development of the capacity of and use of indigenous nongovernmental organizations (especially those representing women, tribal people, and other minorities) which will provide credit  and other assistance to micro enterprises. Sets forth the total amounts of assistance to be provided for such programs for FY 1992 and 1993.  Specifies that such amounts shall be made available from:  (1) funds made available under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to development assistance and economic support; (2) foreign currencies generated from specified sources; and (3) amounts paid to the United States on loans made to financial intermediaries. Specifies that at least 75 percent of such amount shall be used for direct credit support of micro enterprises. Authorizes the Administrator to use development and economic assistance funds to provide assistance to the governments of devleoping countries on a loan basis repayable in foreign currencies. Requires notification to the Congress of the reprogramming of economic assistance funds made available to financial intermediaries under this Act. Requires the Administrator to encourage economic policies which promote micro enterprises in policy dialogues concerning economic policies with, and efforts to reform economic policies of, countries receiving economic assistance from the United States.", "2025-08-26T17:25:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5935", 101, "hr", 5935, "To amend certain Federal laws to provide the same rights and privileges to deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals who depend on hearing dogs as are provided to blind individuals who depend on guide dogs, and for other purposes.", "Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Public Works + Transportation.", "House", "Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-7]", "NY", "D", "A000022", 0, "Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to include the costs of securing and maintaining a hearing dog trained to assist a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual as allowable medical expenses for the purpose of income-related calculations to determine eligibility for the food stamp program. Amends Federal law to:  (1) include as a benefit to certain veterans the provision of hearing dogs trained to assist deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals; (2) permit hearing dogs trained to assist a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual to be admitted to public buildings and other properties owned by the United States; and (3) permit certain common carriers to continue to establish a special rate for transportation of a hearing-impaired individual when accompanied by a dog trained to assist the individual. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a commission regarding measures that should be taken to provide rights regarding the use of guide dogs by deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals.", "2024-02-07T16:12:44Z", null], ["101-hr-5936", 101, "hr", 5936, "To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to require that certain revenues attributable to tariffs levied on imports of textile machinery and parts thereof be applied to support research for the modernization of the American textile machinery industry.", "Foreign Trade and International Finance", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.", "House", "Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10]", "NC", "R", "B000104", 0, "Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish in the Treasury the Textile Machinery Modernization Fund.  Appropriates to such fund revenues from customs duties imposed on textile machinery and parts imported into the United States for grants to qualified organizations for research projects for the modernization of the U.S. textile machinery industry.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5937", 101, "hr", 5937, "To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal employees to take time off from duty to serve as bone marrow donors.", "Government Operations and Politics", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.", "House", "Rep. Byron, Beverly B. [D-MD-6]", "MD", "D", "B001220", 0, "Allows executive agency employees to take up to five days of leave each year without a reduction in pay or leave to which otherwise entitled in order to donate bone marrow.", "2024-02-06T20:04:02Z", null], ["101-hr-5938", 101, "hr", 5938, "To temporarily suspend the duty on certain lead fuel test assemblies.", "Foreign Trade and International Finance", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.", "House", "Rep. Coyne, William J. [D-PA-14]", "PA", "D", "C000846", 0, "Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to:  (1) liquidate or reliquidate as free of duty any partially assembled lead fuel assembly that was or is imported on March 9, 1990, on September 9, 1990, or before December 31, 1993; and (2) refund any duties paid with respect to such imports if a specified certification is made and submitted to the appropriate customs officer. Describes such an assembly as composed of nuclear fuel rods of zircaloy tubes filled with slightly enriched uranium dioxide pellets.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5939", 101, "hr", 5939, "Shareholder Protection Act of 1990", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.", "House", "Rep. Douglas, Chuck [R-NH-2]", "NH", "R", "D000451", 1, "Shareholder Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require that the beneficial owner of a short position of more than five percent of any class of certain equity securities disclose specified identifying information to:  (1) the issuer of the securities; (2) each exchange where the securities are traded; (3) each registered securities association; and (4) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Exempts from such disclosure requirements market makers and specialists if the short sales they effect are transacted solely for bona fide market-making purposes. Prohibits the use of an interdealer quotation system to execute transactions relating to puts, calls, straddles, or options in violations of SEC regulations. Grants the issuer of registered securities standing to bring legal action for equitable relief against violators of SEC regulations concerning market manipulation practices.", "2025-08-26T17:24:23Z", null], ["101-hr-5940", 101, "hr", 5940, "To amend the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 for the purpose of protecting residential tenants from unnecessary eviction by the Resolution Trust Corporation.", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance.", "House", "Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-19]", "NY", "D", "E000179", 0, "Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 to provide that a conservator or receiver of any insured depository institution shall not disaffirm or repudiate residential contracts or leases that are required by State law.", "2024-02-06T19:38:08Z", null], ["101-hr-5941", 101, "hr", 5941, "To exclude from income amounts received under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act for the purposes of determining the amount of benefits to be provided under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and the United States Housing Act of 1937.", "Social Welfare", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.", "House", "Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]", "MA", "D", "F000339", 0, "Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude aid to families with dependent children assistance (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act) from inclusion as income for purposes of food stamp eligibility. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make a similar exclusion for purposes of rental assistance eligibility.", "2024-02-06T19:38:08Z", null], ["101-hr-5942", 101, "hr", 5942, "To provide for the establishment of industrial recapitalization funds by industries which were injured by unfair import competition, and for other purposes.", "Taxation", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.", "House", "Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]", "MO", "D", "G000132", 0, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a corporation to establish an industrial recapitalization fund if such corporation has been injured by subsidized sales of imported merchandise or forced sales of less than fair value.  Requires such corporation to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Commerce to use such fund to acquire new, or to modernize, plant and equipment in the United States for an essential industry.  Allows non-taxable deposits to be made to such fund during the five years after entering into an agreement.  Makes certain gains, earnings, and profits non-taxable if related to the fund. Allows qualified withdrawals for the 12 years after formation of the fund and provide for the tax treatment of such fund after the close of the tenth year. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to set forth reporting requirements for the Secretary of Commerce concerning the collection of antidumping and countervailing duties. Requires the appropriate Customs Service officer to reliquidate any entry necessary to correct the failure to assess and collect an antidumping or countervailing duty.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5943", 101, "hr", 5943, "Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1990", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]", "MO", "D", "G000132", 1, "Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1990 - Establishes an Institute for Youth Apprenticeship (the Institute) as an independent establishment to administer youth apprenticeship programs set up under this Act. Directs the Institute Board of Directors to study youth apprenticeship programs; and (2) report findings and conclusions to the Secretaries of Labor and of Education and the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the Board Chairperson to establish guidelines, criteria, and procedures for youth apprenticeship programs, based on such report, including curriculum guidelines, criteria for demonstration program sites and for apprenticeship occupations, and competency criteria and certification procedures for apprentices and trainers. Directs the Institute Executive Director to enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private organizations to develop and evaluate youth apprenticeship demonstration programs that establish partnerships between schools and employers. Requires each eligible entity entering into such a contract to establish partnerships between secondary and postsecondary schools and employers to provide apprenticeship training to students. Allows an entity to incorporate into the partnership representatives of organized labor, employment and training agencies, and State education and labor departments.  Makes such partnerships responsible for program and curriculum development, coordination and quality assurances, and assessment and evaluation of apprentices and training programs.  Sets forth requirements for partnership training for various levels of secondary school students and for postsecondary students and current workers.  Sets forth requirements for employers to pay:  (1) up to 100 percent of the apprentice's stipend, depending on the secondary school program level; (2) wages and employee benefits for apprentices in postsecondary programs; and (3) costs of on-the-job training.  States that employers shall not be required to hire apprentices upon completion of the apprenticeships.  Requires participating schools to make in-kind contributions and to allocate resources to meet new demands as young people become more involved in apprenticeship during school. Directs the Institute to coordinate programs by:  (1) providing technical assistance to partnerships; (2) operating an apprenticeship clearinghouse for the partnerships; (3) disseminating model programs and practices to the partnerships; and (4) gathering input from all sources on proposals for the labor mobility of apprentices. Authorizes appropriations. Abolishes the Board and Institute, terminates all programs established by this Act, and repeals this Act and the amendments it makes not later than 69 months after the initiation of the youth apprenticeship demonstration programs.", "2025-08-26T17:24:58Z", null], ["101-hr-5944", 101, "hr", 5944, "To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to operate and maintain recreation activities at the East Park and Stony Gorge Reservoirs, Orland Project, California.", "Water Resources Development", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.", "House", "Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]", "CA", "R", "H000528", 0, "Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to activities at the East Park and Stony Gorge Reservoirs, Orland Project, California, to:  (1) develop, operate, and maintain public recreation resources; (2) manage natural, cultural, historic, environmental, and fish and wildlife resources; and (3) prepare a resource management plan. Authorizes appropriations.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5945", 101, "hr", 5945, "Combat Merchant Mariners Benefit Act of 1990", "Armed Forces and National Security", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Hochbrueckner, George J. [D-NY-1]", "NY", "D", "H000670", 0, "Combat Merchant Mariners Benefit Act of 1990 - Provides that:  (1) service in the U.S. merchant marine during a period of war for a total period equal to at least 12 months shall be considered active duty in determining eligibility for veterans benefits; and (2) such service may be verified by entries in a continuous discharge book, a certificate of discharge to merchant seamen, a certificate of substantially continuous service, or other documentation available from the Secretary of Transportation or the head of any other Federal agency. Limits eligibility to:  (1) service on a U.S. vessel on ocean, coastwise, or intercoastal voyages, during a period of war in a combat zone (where such service was rendered to the armed forces in a capacity considered civilian employment or contractual service); (2) any period of forcible detention or internment by an enemy government or hostile force as a result of hostile action against a U.S. vessel while performing such service on the vessel; and (3) any period (up to six months) of service in the War Shipping Administration, the U.S. Maritime Service, or a maritime training program conducted or recognized by the armed forces. Specifies that:  (1) the minimum active-duty service requirement of any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs shall apply in determining eligibility for veterans benefits under this Act; (2) the 12-month requirement under this Act shall not apply to an individual who is permanently disabled in the performance of such service while the vessel is subjected to hostile action; and (3) such service may have been rendered before the date of enactment of this Act, but an individual who has performed service before such date shall not be paid veterans benefits that accrue as a result of the enactment of this Act for any period of accrual before such date.", "2025-08-26T17:27:04Z", null], ["101-hr-5946", 101, "hr", 5946, "To provide for the establishment of a national park program for children, and for other purposes.", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.", "House", "Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8]", "PA", "D", "K000319", 0, "Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide the opportunity for children to learn about recycling, conservation, animals, and the operations of the National Park System in an educational camp setting at units of the System. Appropriates specified funds for the program.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5947", 101, "hr", 5947, "Exhibition Animal Protection Act", "Animals", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.", "House", "Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8]", "PA", "D", "K000319", 4, "Exhibition Animal Protection Act - Makes it unlawful for a person who uses, exhibits, or trains an animal to be used or exhibited at a carnival, circus, animal act, zoo, rodeo, educational exhibit, or for making of a film to:  (1) handle such animal in a manner which would tend to injure, kill, or otherwise cause it suffering; (2) fail to maintain an animal population control program to avoid overbreeding of animals and ensure that such animals are not sold to persons to be used for hunting, experimentation, testing, or other practice which would jeopardize their health; (3) fail to provide animals with a physical environment adequate to promote the animal's psychological well-being; or (4) elude any prohibition in this Act by leaving the United states. Sets forth provisions with respect to:  (1) notification requirements before moving such animals; and (2) inspections for violations committed under this Act. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate rules establishing standards for a physical environment adequate to promote the psychological well-being of animals protected under this Act.  Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory board to make recommendations with respect to such regulations. Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.  Sets forth specified exemptions.", "2025-08-26T17:27:44Z", null], ["101-hr-5948", 101, "hr", 5948, "To establish the Manzanar National Historic site in the State of California, and for other purposes.", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.", "House", "Rep. Levine, Mel [D-CA-27]", "CA", "D", "L000264", 3, "Establishes the Manzanar National Historic Site in California to protect historical and cultural resources associated with the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II.  Establishes the Manzanar National Historic Site Advisory Commission to consult with the Secretary of the Interior on matters relating to the development, management, and interpretation of the site. Authorizes appropriations.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5949", 101, "hr", 5949, "To deem the Florida Panther to be an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-5]", "FL", "R", "M000350", 15, "Makes the Florida panther an endangered species for purposes of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.", "2021-07-01T14:58:39Z", null], ["101-hr-5950", 101, "hr", 5950, "To deem the Strategic Target System program conducted at Kauai, Hawaii, to be a major Federal action for the purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act.", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2]", "HI", "D", "M000797", 0, "Deems the Strategic Target System program conducted by the Sandia National Laboratories of the Department of Energy at the Kauai Test Facility on the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, to be a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.", "2025-06-06T14:17:56Z", null], ["101-hr-5951", 101, "hr", 5951, "To provide that a period of service on active duty by a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces shall not be considered as a break in service for purposes of determining eligibility to participate in a group health plan.", "Taxation", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Pease, Donald J. [D-OH-13]", "OH", "D", "P000170", 0, "Provides that no deduction shall be allowed under the Internal Revenue Code for expenses paid or incurred by an employer for any group health plan if the service on active duty of an eligible Reserve member is considered a break in service for purposes of determining the eligibility of such member, and his or her dependents, to participate in any such plan. Defines \"eligible Reserve member\" as a member of a reserve component of the armed forces who:  (1) after August 2, 1990, is called or ordered to active duty for a period  of more than 30 days; (2) is an employee of an employer on the date of such call or order; and (3) resumes employment with such employer within 60 days after being released from active duty.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5952", 101, "hr", 5952, "National Literacy Act of 1990", "Education", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Sawyer, Tom [D-OH-14]", "OH", "D", "S000094", 1, "National Literacy Act of 1990 - Title I:  Literacy:  Strategic Planning, Research, and Coordination - Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Literacy (the Task Force), consisting of the Secretaries of Education, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services, the Director of the ACTION Agency, and any other head of an agency that the President considers appropriate.  Requires the Task Force to report biennially to the Congress. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to give the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education responsibility for coordinating:  (1) all literacy related programs and policy initiatives in the Department of Education; and (2) the staff resources and assistance provided to the Task Force. Directs the Assistant Secretary to assist:  (1) in coordinating the related activities and programs of other Federal departments and agencies; and (2) in carrying out the Secretary's responsibilities as a Task Force member. Establishes the National Institute for Literacy (the Institute), to be administered under the terms of an interagency agreement entered into by the Secretaries of Education, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services (the Interagency Group).  Authorizes the Secretary of Education to include in the Institute any research or development center supported under specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) and any other related center, institute, or clearinghouse within the Department of Education.  Requires the Interagency Group to consider seriously the recommendations of the National Institute Board (the Board) in planning Institute goals and implementing programs.  Authorizes the Institute to:  (1) conduct specified research and demonstrations; (2) assist Federal, State, and local agencies in developing, implementing, and evaluating literacy policy by establishing a national data base and providing technical and policy assistance and development model systems; (3) provide program assistance, training, and technical assistance for literacy programs throughout the United States; (4) collect and disseminate information on a variety of promising methods; (5) review and make recommendations on uniform reporting, performance measures, and program standards; and (6) provide a toll-free long-distance telephone line for literacy providers and volunteers. Authorizes the Institute to award fellowships to Literacy Leader Fellows, i.e. outstanding individuals pursuing careers in adult education or literacy instruction, management, research, or innovation in adult education or literacy. Establishes the National Institute Board (the Board) (Presidential appointees who are not Federal officers or employees) to:  (1) make recommendations concerning the appointment of the Institute's Director and staff; (2) provide independent advice on Institute operation; and (3) receive reports from the Interagency Group and the Institute's Director. Directs the Institute to report annually to the Congress for its first two years and then biennially. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute. Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to establish a new program of State literacy resource center grants to:  (1) stimulate coordination of literacy services; (2) enhance State and local organizations' capacity to provide literacy services; and (3) serve as a reciprocal link between the Institute and service providers for sharing information data, research, expertise, and literacy resources.  Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make such grants to establish a network of State or regional adult literacy resource centers.  Allows each State to use up to five percent of its grant funds for a State advisory council on adult education and literacy. Allows a group of States to develop and operate a regional adult literacy resource center if they determine that this is a more appropriate approach.  Authorizes appropriations. Title II:  Workforce Literacy - Establishes in the Department of Labor a National Workforce Literacy Assistance Collaborative (the Collaborative) to improve basic skills of individuals, especially those marginally employed or unemployed with low basic skills and limited opportunity for long-term employment and advancement.  Requires the Collaborative to assist small and medium-sized businesses, associations representing such businesses, and labor organizations to develop and implement literacy programs tailored to workforce needs.  Sets forth various functions of the Collaborative, including planning and technical assistance, program monitoring, and information.  Authorizes appropriations. Revises AEA provisions for workplace literacy grants to require the Secretary of Education to:  (1) consult with the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration; and (2) give priority to applications from partnerships that include small businesses.  Limits such grant period to not more than three years. Establishes a new AEA program of grants for national workforce literacy strategies.  Requires that such grant funds facilitate design and implementation of national strategies to assist small and medium-sized businesses and unions to provide literacy and basic skills training to workers.  Limits annual awards to not more than ten such grants. Authorizes appropriations. Title III:  Investment in Literacy - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to extend through FY 1995 and increase the authorization of appropriations for various AEA programs. Provides that a required preference for certain adult education grant applicants with demonstrated capability to recruit and serve educationally disadvantaged adults is to be applied particularly in areas with a high proportion of adults without secondary school diplomas or their equivalent. Requires that AEA grants to States be used for competitive, two-year Gateway Grants to public housing authorities for literacy programs and related activities.  Directs the Secretary of Education to evaluate Gateway Grants at least biennially and report the results to specified congressional committees. Renames State advisory councils, under AEA, State advisory councils on adult education and literacy.  Makes each council responsible to its State Governor.  Revises council procedures and adds specified new duties regarding review of State plans. Revises components of State plans under AEA.  Requires such plans to:  (1) describe and provide for fulfillment of the literacy needs of individuals in the State; (2) set forth measurable goals for improving literacy levels, retention in literacy programs, and long-term individual learning gains, as well as a comprehensive approach for achieving such goals; (3) report the amount of administrative funds spent on program improvements; and (4) assure that such financial assistance will be used to assist and expand existing programs, and to develop new programs for adults whose lack of basic skills makes them unemployable, keeps them from functioning independently, or severely reduces their ability to help their children achieve literacy. Requires the State agency to evaluate 15 percent of grant recipients each year so that 60 percent shall have been evaluated at the end of the four-year period.  Requires such evaluations to consider the recipient's projected goals and success in recruiting, retaining, and assisting participants in reaching desired literacy goals and obtaining subsequent work experience. Requires the State agency to report biennially to the Task Force on the State's progress in meeting its State plan literacy goals. Revises teacher training under AEA to provide for training professional teachers, volunteers, and administrators, emphasizing: (1) full-time professional adult educators; (2) minority adult educators; (3) educators of adults with limited English proficiency; and (4) teachers to recognize and more effectively serve illiterate individuals with learning disabilities and with a reading ability below fifth-grade level. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise targeted assistance programs to include training programs to enhance the ability of teachers and school counselors to identify, particularly in the early grades, students with reading and related problems which place them at risk for adult illiteracy. Renames the Even Start program the Even Start Family Literacy (ESFL) program.  Makes eligible for ESFL program grants:  (1) a local educational agency (LEA) applying in collaboration with a community-based organization, public agency, higher education institution, or other nonprofit organization; or (2) a community-based organization, or other nonprofit organization of demonstrated quality, applying in collaboration with an LEA.  (Current law provides that LEAs or consortia of LEAs are eligible to receive such grants.) Prohibits a State, with respect to grants for Even Start programs, from:  (1) awarding a grant which is less than a specified amount; and (2) using more than five percent of such funds for administrative costs and technical assistance for program improvement and replication. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to two percent of Even Start funds for program evaluation and for technical assistance for program improvement and replication. Changes the period of a child's Even Start eligibility to from birth through age seven (currently,from age one through age seven), if current parental and residential eligibility requirements are met. Provides for continuation of eligibility to participate in the Even Start program until all children in a family attain age eight and the eligible parent or parents attain the appropriate educational advancement. Revises the Even Start grant award selection process to require applicant proposals to demonstrate that the area to be served has a high percentage or a large number of children and adults who need such services, as indicated by high levels of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, limited English proficiency, or other factors.  Requires the review panel to give grant priority to proposals that demonstrate such an ability to operate an effective program. Requires a representative distribution of Even Start assistance among the States, among urban and rural areas of the United States, and within a State. Increases the authorization of appropriations for Even Start programs. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to arrange for production and dissemination of family literacy programming and accompanying materials to assist parents in improving family literacy skills and language development.  Directs the CPB to:  (1) arrange to have audio and video instructional media materials for distribution at sites chosen from among libraries operating literacy programs and nonprofit entities serving hard-to-serve populations; and (2) report to the Congress on distribution and use of such materials.  Authorizes appropriations. Title IV:  Business Leadership for Employment Skills - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to pay half of the costs of establishing and operating adult education programs which increase the skills of eligible commercial drivers so that they may successfully complete the knowledge test requirements under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986.  Makes eligible to receive such grants:  (1) private employers employing commercial drivers, in partnership with educational agencies, colleges, or universities; (2) local or State educational agencies, colleges, universities, or community colleges; (3) approved apprentice training programs; and (4) labor organizations whose memberships include commercial drivers.  Requires grantees to refer individuals with literacy skill problems to appropriate adult education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Books for Families - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require the Reading is Fundamental organization (RIF), as contractor for the inexpensive book distribution program for reading motivation, to give priority in the selection of additional local programs to programs and projects which serve children and students with certain special needs.  Directs RIF to report annually to the Secretary of Education on the number and description of such additional programs. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to direct the Secretary of Education, in awarding grants for State and local public library literacy programs, to give priority to programs and services which:  (1) will be delivered in areas of greatest need with highest concentrations of adults without secondary education or its equivalent, and which have either few community or financial resources to establish the program or low per capita income, unemployment, or underemployment; and (2) coordinate with literacy organizations and community-based organizations providing literacy services. Title VI:  Students for Literacy - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Student Literacy Corps program. Requires an individual, as a condition for receiving credit in courses under such program, to perform at least 60 hours voluntary service during the academic term as a tutor in an educational or literacy program.  (Current law requires six hours of such service in each week of such academic term.) Title VII:  Volunteers for Literacy - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to establish a Literacy Challenge Grants program. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency (the Director) to award such challenge grants to eligible public agencies and private organizations to pay the Federal share of the costs of establishing, operating, or expanding community or employee literacy programs or projects that include the use of full-time or part-time volunteers. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII:  Literacy for Incarcerated Individuals - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to establish requirements for mandatory functional literacy programs for incarcerated adults in State correctional systems and local jails or detention centers. Requires such a program to be in effect within two years in at least one major correctional faility, for each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with an inmate population. Requires each State correctional system and each local jail or detention center with an over 150 inmate population to have such a program in effect within five years, if funds are available.  Sets forth required components of such programs.  Exempts from required participation any individual who is serving a life sentence without parole, or terminally ill, or under a sentence of death.  Requires annual reports on such mandatory literacy programs.", "2025-08-26T17:29:11Z", null], ["101-hr-5953", 101, "hr", 5953, "Defense Nuclear Workers' Compensation Act", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Skaggs, David E. [D-CO-2]", "CO", "D", "S000462", 5, "Defense Nuclear Workers' Compensation Act - Provides that, except as modified by this Act, an employee at any Department of Energy defense nuclear facility (facility) shall be considered an employee for purposes of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA).  Sets forth special rules for LHWCA coverage of such facility employees. Provides that compensation shall be payable if disability or death results from an injury arising out of and in the course of employment at such a facility. Establishes, in such compensation claim proceedings, a rebuttable presumption that a specified disease (i.e., one of various forms of cancer) is such a compensable injury, if the injured employee has suffered from the described disease, and either:  (1) was employed for ten or more years in a building or facility of such a facility in which radioactive materials were regularly stored, handled, or disposed of; or (2) while employed at such building or facility, received ten REM or more total exposure to ionizing radiation or ten percent or more of the maximum permissible body burden exposure to ionizing radiation. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to extend compensation districts established under the LHWCA, or establish new compensation districts, to include any area to which this Act applies, and to assign to each such district one or more deputy commissioners. Includes among the Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities the following facilities under the control or jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy:  (1) production or utilization facilities operated for national security purposes; (2) nuclear waste storage or disposal facilities; (3) testing and assembly facilities operated for national security purposes; and (4) nuclear weapons research facilities.", "2025-08-26T17:24:26Z", null], ["101-hr-5954", 101, "hr", 5954, "To provide for publication of a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of major United States foreign policy activities through the \"Foreign Relations of the United States\" historical series of the Department of State.", "International Affairs", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Solarz, Stephen J. [D-NY-13]", "NY", "D", "S000673", 3, "Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to set forth provisions concerning the \"Foreign Relations of the United States\" historical series, a documentary record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity. Requires all Federal agencies engaged in foreign policy to develop procedures for their historical offices to coordinate with the Department of State's Office of the Historian in selecting materials for inclusion in the series. Directs the Advisory Committee on the Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series for the Department of State to review and make recommendations concerning the documents to be included.  Requires selected documents to be selected for declassification review.  Directs Federal agencies, if a document is not declassifiable because of a need to protect sources, methods, or sensitive national security information, to make deletions in the text to make the document declassifiable.  Requires Federal agencies, if the meaning of a document is so altered by such deletions that it would be misleading, to prepare an unclassified summary of the document.  Sets forth congressional reporting requirements for agencies that refuse to prepare declassified documents or unclassified summaries. Establishes the Advisory Committee on the Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series for the Department of State. Authorizes the Advisory Committee to approve the withholding of a document or a portion of a document from publication in the historical series if necessary to:  (1) avoid publication of matters which would impede current diplomatic negotiations or official activities of the U.S. Government; or (2) condense the record and avoid repetition of details. Directs the Secretary of State to ensure that the historical series is published within 30 years after the events documented. Requires all Department of State documents to be automatically declassified 30 years after the events documented and made available to the public at the National Archives unless such documents would: (1) compromise weapons technology important to the U.S. national defense or provide access by other nations to weapons design information or to cryptologic systems or codes; (2) disclose the names of living persons who provided confidential information to the United States where disclosure would result in harm to such persons; or (3) impede current diplomatic negotiations or official activities of the U.S. Government. Directs the Advisory Committee to review and report annually to the Information Security Oversight Office, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the State Department's declassification procedures and documents representative of State Department documents that remain classified after 30 years.", "2024-02-07T11:38:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5955", 101, "hr", 5955, "National Fishery Resource Conservation System Act of 1990", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Unsoeld, Jolene [D-WA-3]", "WA", "D", "U000017", 0, "National Fishery Resource Conservation System Act of 1990 - Establishes within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the National Fishery Resource Conservation System (NFRCS) consisting of discrete units of fish habitat that are to be provided protection, conservation, and management by appropriate entities. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) encourage the States to use specified Federal grants to acquire fish habitat; and (2) promulgate regulations to govern administration of the NFRCS. Establishes the Fishery Resource Conservation Board to:  (1) advise the Secretary regarding essential fish habitat; (2) coordinate activities with Federal, State, tribal, local, and other organizations regarding fish habitat; and (3) submit annual recommendations to the Secretary regarding fish habitat areas which should be protected. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual status report, including a habitat priority acquisition list, to the Congress. Authorizes the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to annually sell a series of collectible fishery artwork, and to use the funds generated for fishery resources conservation.  Authorizes the Service and the Foundation to use contributions for fishery conservation purposes.  Authorizes appropriations from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.", "2025-08-26T17:25:30Z", null], ["101-hr-5956", 101, "hr", 5956, "Alaska Peninsula Wilderness Designation Act of 1990", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.", "House", "Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]", "AK", "R", "Y000033", 1, "Alaska Peninsula Wilderness Designation Act of 1990 - Designates the following lands in Alaska as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:  (1) the Aniakchak Wilderness within the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve; (2) the Alaska Peninsula Wilderness within the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge; and (3) the addition of specified lands within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge to the Becharof Wilderness. Provides for the relinquishment of Koniag, Inc., Selection Rights (oil and gas rights) to specified lands in Alaska.", "2025-08-26T17:28:19Z", null], ["101-hr-5957", 101, "hr", 5957, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for adoption expenses for individuals adopting children.", "Taxation", "1990-10-26", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]", "NJ", "R", "S000522", 2, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified adoption expenses.  Disallows such credit for any expense for which a deduction or credit is allowable under other provisions of the Code or for any expenses paid from Federal, State, or local funds.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5958", 101, "hr", 5958, "Tropical Forest Consumer Information and Protection Act of 1990", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-26", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness.", "House", "Rep. Walgren, Doug [D-PA-18]", "PA", "D", "W000044", 0, "Tropical Forest Consumer Information and Protection Act of 1990 - Prohibits manufacturing or distributing any tropical wood or tropical wood product unless it bears a label or mark indicating the country in which the wood was grown.  Requires sellers through a catalog or communications media to disclose the country of origin.  Allows the Secretary of Commerce to assess civil penalties or order compliance.", "2025-08-26T17:24:19Z", null], ["101-hr-5921", 101, "hr", 5921, "Jobs, Growth, and Competitiveness Act of 1990", "Taxation", "1990-10-25", "1990-10-25", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Edwards, Mickey [R-OK-5]", "OK", "R", "E000077", 13, "Jobs, Growth, and Competitiveness Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the ten-percent investment tax credit for property used as an integral part of manufacturing, production, or extraction or of furnishing transportation, communications, electrical energy, gas, water, waste disposal, or pollution control services.  Allows such tax credit to offset 100 percent of certain corporation's minimum tax.", "2025-08-26T17:24:57Z", null], ["101-hr-5922", 101, "hr", 5922, "To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a marine biotechnology research, training, and technology transfer study and program.", "Science, Technology, Communications", "1990-10-25", "1990-10-27", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.", "House", "Rep. McMillen, Thomas [D-MD-4]", "MD", "D", "M000573", 2, "Directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study of the status of marine biotechnology research, training, and technology transfer efforts in the United States, and of the comparative status of such efforts in foreign countries.  Mandates a report to the Congress, including a plan identifying each appropriate Federal agency's role in funding such matters. Directs the Secretary, consistent with the plan's role for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to carry out a program of marine biotechnology research, training, and technology transfer. Authorizes appropriations from sums otherwise authorized to be appropriated.", "2025-01-14T18:51:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5923", 101, "hr", 5923, "Taxpayer Regulatory Relief Act of 1990", "Taxation", "1990-10-25", "1990-10-25", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Anthony, Beryl, Jr. [D-AR-4]", "AR", "D", "A000213", 0, "Taxpayer Regulatory Relief Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe the extent to which rules and regulations may be applied without retroactive effect (or with it). Requires all final, temporary, or proposed regulations and rulings issued by the Secretary to apply prospectively from the date of publication in the Federal Register, unless the Congress supersedes such treatment.", "2025-08-26T17:24:22Z", null], ["101-hr-5924", 101, "hr", 5924, "To repeal the concessioner preferences of the National Park Service Concessions Policy Act, to require that concessions be awarded pursuant to a competitive bidding process, and for other purposes.", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-25", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.", "House", "Rep. Guarini, Frank J. [D-NJ-14]", "NJ", "D", "G000511", 0, "Amends Federal law (commonly known as the National Park Service Concessions Policy Act) with respect to preferential rights to provide new or additional accommodations, facilities, or services to concessioners in areas administered by the National Park Service.  Repeals certain provisions of such Act regarding to:  (1) right of preference for contract renewal; and (2) possessory interest of such concessioner.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and implement a system for:  (1) the renewal and extension of existing contracts and permits; (2) the granting of new contracts and permits on a competitive basis; and (3) provision of new or additional services through concessioners in areas of the National Park System.  Requires the Secretary to review all existing contracts (including the Circle Line Statue of Liberty Inc. contract) to determine if:  (1) any of them were awarded outside of the normal procedures of such Act; and (2) any of them can be legally terminated on that basis.  Directs the Secretary to review the concession serving the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island to determine if their is sufficient access for the public and if the cost of the ferry service to Ellis Island and Liberty Island is justified.  Requires the Secretary to consider providing additional ferry service from additional points of embarkation in New Jersey and New York City to Ellis Island and Liberty Island.  Authorizes the Secretary to construct or allow for the construction of a permanent bridge, open to the public for pedestrian use, connecting Liberty State Park and Ellis Island.  Allows construction of a facility at a National Park System unit for concession purposes only if:  (1) such facility is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the enactment of this Act; and (2) funds are appropriated for such construction.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5925", 101, "hr", 5925, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an employer a credit against income tax for the cost of providing mammography screening for his employees.", "Taxation", "1990-10-25", "1990-10-25", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Hertel, Dennis M. [D-MI-14]", "MI", "D", "H000547", 0, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer a tax credit for 20 percent of qualified mammography screening costs.  Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards to assure the safety and accuracy of such mammography screening.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5926", 101, "hr", 5926, "To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide congregate nutrition services and intergenerational activities in elementary and secondary school facilities.", "Social Welfare", "1990-10-25", "1990-10-25", "Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.", "House", "Rep. Lloyd, Marilyn [D-TN-3]", "TN", "D", "L000381", 0, "School-Based Meals for Older Individuals and Intergenerational Programs Act of 1990 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a program for school-based meals for older individuals and intergenerational activities for older individuals and elementary and secondary school students. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to make grants to States for the establishment and operation of projects that:  (1) are carried out in elementary and secondary schools; (2) provide hot meals to older individuals while such schools are in session, during the summer, and (unless waived by the State) on weekdays in the school year when the schools are not in session; (3) provide intergenerational activities in which older individuals and students interact at such schools; (4) provide social and recreational activities for older individuals at such schools; (5) develop and maintain skill banks to inform school officials of the skills and preferred activities of older individuals, so that they may serve as tutors, teacher aides, living historians, special speakers, playground supervisors, and lunchroom assistants, and assistants in such schools; and (6) provide opportunities for older individuals to participate in school activities and use school facilities. Sets forth application procedures.  Requires annual program evaluation reports by:  (1) States receiving such grants, to the Commissioner; and (2) the Commissioner, summarizing such State reports, to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.  Prohibits program funding for a fiscal year unless certain other programs receive funding for that year which exceeds their FY 1990 levels.", "2025-07-21T19:44:15Z", null], ["101-hr-5927", 101, "hr", 5927, "Superfund Liability Clarification Act", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-25", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.", "House", "Rep. Owens, Wayne [D-UT-2]", "UT", "D", "O000156", 0, "Superfund Liability Clarification Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to exclude from liability as an \"owner or operator\" of a vessel or facility any mortgage lender, insured depository institution, or Federal lending institution (lender) that acquires such vessel or facility through foreclosure or that conducts a restructuring of a loan or other extension of credit with the owner of the vessel or facility, provided such lender complies with specified procedures or guidelines. Specifies that \"participation in the management of a vessel or facility\" (by the lender) for purposes of such Act (in which case such exemption would not apply) does not include:  (1) the sale of collateral; (2) actions taken by a lender to comply with such procedures or guidelines, including the conduct of a Phase I Environmental Audit of the vessel or facility; (3) actions taken by a lender to responsibly manage the vessel or facility upon learning of any contamination so as not to cause a release of a hazardous substance from or at the vessel or facility, or to harm the public health and safety or the environment, during any period while the lender is acting to administer or wind down the affairs of the owner or while diligently proceeding to pass title of the vessel or facility; or (4) the status of having the capacity to affect hazardous waste disposal management decisions of the vessel or facility, without actually making or influencing any such decisions. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to assure that depository and lending institutions and mortgage lenders develop and implement adequate procedures to evaluate potential environmental risks that may arise from or at vessels or facilities subject to their lending and fiduciary activities. States that the exclusion under such Act shall not affect the liability of a person who, by any act or omission, causes or contributes to a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance from or at a vessel or facility. Specifies that a defendant who has acquired real property establishes a rebuttable presumption that he has made \"all appropriate inquiry\" within the meaning of such Act if he establishes that, immediately prior to or at the time of acquisition, he obtained or conducted a Phase I Environmental Audit of the real property which meets the requirements of such Act.  Defines \"Phase I Environmental Audit\" as an investigation of the real property, conducted by a certified environmental professional, to determine or discover any indicators of the presence or likely presence of a release or threatened release of hazardous substances on the property and which consists of a review of:  (1) the recorded chain of title documents; (2) aerial photographs, maps, and other appropriate historical information which may reflect prior uses of the property and which are reasonably obtainable through State or local government agencies; (3) recorded environmental cleanup liens against the property; (4) reasonably obtainable Federal, State, and local government records of sites or facilities where there has been a release of hazardous substances and which are likely to cause or contribute to a release or threatened release of hazardous substances on the property, and other specified environmental records; (5) a visual site inspection of the property and all facilities and improvements on the property; and (6) a visual site inspection of adjacent property, to the extent permitted by the owners or operators of such property. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to the Phase I Environmental Audit. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to expedite the determination of the allocation of responsibility of a person claiming no liability with respect to a release based on the \"innocent landowner defense.\"  Authorizes the Administrator to grant a conditional release from liability to such person.  Requires the Administrator to revoke the conditional release if any new information with respect to such person is obtained during the course of settlement proceedings in connection with such release and, in such case, to determine the allocation of responsibility of such person along with the other potentially responsible parties. Requires that studies, investigations, and other activities regarding the Superfund evaluation process be streamlined with respect to sites that were used for similar purposes and that contain similar contamination. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in carrying out such Act, the Administrator should:  (1) focus the conduct of removal and remedial actions on public health, safety, and environmental considerations, rather than on litigation, through means such as the more frequent use of the authority provided under such Act to enter into de minimis settlements; (2) further delineate priorities within the National Priority List for purposes of ensuring that the sites which present the greatest danger to the public health and welfare are cleaned up first; and (3) provide the Congress with a more accurate estimate of the long-term funding necessary to carry out such Act.", "2025-08-26T17:27:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5928", 101, "hr", 5928, "To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the unauthorized sale, and the unauthorized manufacture or possession with entent to sell, of any identification document which, if completed with information concerning an individual, would describe the individual as legally authorized to deal in firearms.", "Crime and Law Enforcement", "1990-10-25", "1990-11-20", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.", "House", "Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-9]", "CA", "D", "S000810", 0, "Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the unauthorized sale, and the unauthorized manufacture or possession with intent to sell, of any document which would identify such individual as legally authorized to deal in firearms. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.", "2021-07-01T14:58:31Z", null], ["101-hr-5929", 101, "hr", 5929, "To delay the lease sale of certain minerals located in Bezetta Township, Trumbull county, Ohio.", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-25", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources.", "House", "Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]", "OH", "D", "T000350", 0, "Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from offering for lease sale any of the mineral rights of the United States in a certain tract of land in Bezetta Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, until one year after the enactment of this Act.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5930", 101, "hr", 5930, "To provide authority for the President to seize Iraqi-held interests in U.S. entities engaged in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.", "International Affairs", "1990-10-25", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness.", "House", "Rep. Walgren, Doug [D-PA-18]", "PA", "D", "W000044", 0, "Requires the President to:  (1) identify those entities engaged in interstate commerce in the United States that are controlled by Iraqi persons; (2) conduct investigations to determine whether Iraqi control of any such entity might impair the national security; and (3) identify all property or interests in property in which transactions are blocked pursuant to specified executive orders freezing Iraqi assets. Grants the President the authority to:  (1) order the seizure of any such property or interest if the President determines that Iraqi control thereof might impair national security and that seizure is in the national interest; and (2) use the proceeds of any such property or interest to pay the claims of U.S. persons against the Government of Iraq because of its suspension of payments due on credit extended by such U.S. persons or other contractual obligations of such Government that are held by U.S. persons.  Requires that such payments be distributed equally among all U.S. persons having claims against such Government and requires the President to establish claims procedures. Grants the President access to information necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.", "2024-02-07T11:38:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5931", 101, "hr", 5931, "Pollution Prevention Act of 1990", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-25", "1990-11-05", "For Further Action See H.R.5835 (Title IV).", "House", "Rep. Wolpe, Howard E. [D-MI-3]", "MI", "D", "W000682", 1, "Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish within EPA an office to promote pollution prevention through source reduction.   Requires the Administrator to develop and implement a source reduction strategy which:  (1) establishes standard methods for measuring source reduction; (2) coordinates and promotes source reduction activities and techniques in Federal agencies and businesses; (3) improves coordination of, streamlines, and assures public access to data collected under Federal environmental statutes; (4) establishes a training program on multimedia source reduction opportunities; (5) makes recommendations to the Congress to eliminate barriers to source reduction including the use of incentives; (6) develops and disseminates model source reduction auditing procedures designed to highlight source reduction opportunities; and (7) establishes an annual award program to recognize companies operating outstanding or innovative source reduction programs. Directs the Administrator to make matching grants to States for programs to promote source reduction by businesses.  Sets forth criteria to be evaluated in the awarding of such grants.  Limits Federal funds for such programs to 50 percent of the funds made available to a State each year. Requires the Administrator to establish a Source Reduction Clearinghouse to compile information including a computer data base which contains information on management, technical, and operational approaches to source reduction. Directs the Administrator to make such information available to the public. Directs owners or operators of facilities required to file annual toxic chemical release forms under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) to include with each such filing a toxic chemical source reduction and recycling report.  Sets forth items to be included in such reports, including:  (1) the quantity of each chemical entering any waste stream prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal during the reporting year, and the two years thereafter, and the percentage change from the previous year; (2) the amount of the chemical from the facility which is recycled annually, the percentage change from the previous year, and the process of recycling used; (3) the source reduction practices used with respect to such chemicals; (4) a ratio of production in the reporting year to production in the previous year; (5) the amount of any chemical released into the environment which resulted from a one-time event and is not associated with production processes; and (6) the amount of the chemical treated during the year and the percentage change from the previous year. Makes provisions of SARA applicable to the reporting requirements of this Act.  Directs the Administrator to make data collected under this Act publicly available in the same manner as data collected under SARA. Requires the Administrator to report biennially to the Congress on actions and results of the source reduction strategy. Authorizes and allocates appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.", "2025-08-26T17:26:00Z", null], ["101-hr-5908", 101, "hr", 5908, "To amend the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 to require samples of prescription drugs distributed to physicians and other prescribing practitioners to meet special packaging standards under such Act.", "Health", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-19", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness.", "House", "Rep. Brennan, Joseph E. [D-ME-1]", "ME", "D", "B000798", 6, "Amends the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 to require that prescription drug samples distributed by manufacturers to prescribing practitioners meet special packaging standards if they are intended to be dispensed to consumers in the same packages.", "2024-02-05T14:30:09Z", null], ["101-hr-5909", 101, "hr", 5909, "Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-16", "Became Public Law No: 101-605.", "House", "Rep. Fascell, Dante B. [D-FL-19]", "FL", "D", "F000041", 1, "Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act - Designates a specified area in Florida as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary under the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the operation of a tank vessel or a vessel greater than 50 meters in length in a certain Area to Be Avoided (ATBA). Provides that no leasing, exploration, development, or production of minerals or hydrocarbons shall be permitted within the Sanctuary. Requires the Secretary to develop a comprehensive management plan and implementing regulations. Terminates, upon the enactment of this Act, all congressionally mandated studies of existing areas in the Florida Keys for designation as National Marine Sanctuaries. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Governor of Florida to develop a comprehensive water quality protection program for the Sanctuary.  Excludes such program from the comprehensive management plan if it does not meet the purpose for which the Sanctuary is designated or is otherwise inconsistent or incompatible with it. Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Council to assist with the comprehensive management plan. Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the future requirements for funding the Sanctuary.", "2022-12-13T14:12:06Z", null], ["101-hr-5910", 101, "hr", 5910, "To prohibit the incineration of any hazardous material which has been transported in commerce.", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-19", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.", "House", "Rep. Grant, Bill [R-FL-2]", "FL", "R", "G000382", 0, "Makes it unlawful for any person to commercially incinerate hazardous material which has been transported in commerce.  Sets forth penalties for violating this Act.", "2024-02-07T16:02:17Z", null], ["101-hr-5911", 101, "hr", 5911, "To amend the Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a registry of outstanding recreational and scenic river areas, and for other purposes.", "Public Lands and Natural Resources", "1990-10-24", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.", "House", "Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8]", "PA", "D", "K000319", 0, "Amends the Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to establish and maintain a National Registry of Exceptional River Resources comprised of rivers or river segments which exhibit exceptional natural, scenic, recreational, or cultural features. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for the inclusion of river segments on the national registry.  Prescribes general administrative procedures for such inclusion.", "2024-02-07T13:32:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5912", 101, "hr", 5912, "Windfall Oil Profits Tax Act of 1990", "Taxation", "1990-10-24", "1990-10-24", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Levine, Mel [D-CA-27]", "CA", "D", "L000264", 0, "Windfall Oil Profits Tax Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil. Revises the inflation adjustment and declares the base price to be the average price per barrel of taxable crude oil during the four-month period ending on July 31, 1990, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.  Repeals the phaseout of the tax, thus making the tax permanent law.  Limits the category of newly discovered oil to oil from newly drilled wells in previously unproven oil or gas property. Establishes the Alternative Energy Technology and Energy Conservation Trust Fund to carry out programs to develop:  (1) alternative energy sources and technologies that do not adversely affect the environment; and (2) methods of energy conservation that are cost-effective for the general public to employ. Appropriates a percentage of the windfall profit tax to such Fund.", "2025-08-26T17:26:08Z", null], ["101-hr-5913", 101, "hr", 5913, "Olympic Television Broadcasting Act", "Commerce", "1990-10-24", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.", "House", "Rep. McMillen, Thomas [D-MD-4]", "MD", "D", "M000573", 0, "Olympic Television Broadcasting Act - Exempts from the antitrust laws television broadcasting networks in connection with the broadcasting of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.  Bars any such exempt network from interrupting live action in the broadcasting of an olympic contest with a commercial. Prohibits any network from entering into an agreement to broadcast the Olympics unless such agreement is approved by the U.S. Olympic Committee.  Specifies that a violation of such prohibition shall be considered to be a violation of the Communications Act of 1934. Bars any network from entering into an agreement to subcontract the broadcasting rights to the Olympics to any other party without the prior approval of the U.S. Olympic Committee.", "2025-08-26T17:24:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5914", 101, "hr", 5914, "To establish a task force to study and evaluate the taxation of real property by State and local governments, the effects of such taxation on certain taxpayers, and the feasibility of other policies designed to reduce the dependence of State and local governments on such taxation.", "Taxation", "1990-10-24", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations.", "House", "Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12]", "PA", "D", "M001120", 0, "Establishes a Task Force on the Taxation of Real Property by State and Local Governments to study and evaluate:  (1) the taxation of real property by State and local governments; (2) the effects of such taxation on middle income and fixed income taxpayers; and (3) the feasibility of other policies designed to reduce the dependence of State and local governments on such taxation. Requires the Task Force to submit a final report to the President and terminate the Task Force 90 days after such submission.", "2025-02-04T16:54:13Z", null], ["101-hr-5915", 101, "hr", 5915, "Regional Energy Development Act of 1990", "Energy", "1990-10-24", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.", "House", "Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12]", "PA", "D", "M001120", 0, "Chapter I:  Introductory - Regional Energy Development Act of 1990 - Sets forth the purposes of this Act, including the creation of a corporation to promote long-term cooperation among specified Northeastern States regarding energy development and conservation. Chapter II:  Organization, Management, Powers - Authorizes creation of a non-Federal, for-profit organization known as the Energy Corporation of the Northeast.  Sets forth corporation membership eligibility criteria for the Northeastern States.  Requires annual fiscal status reports.  Authorizes withdrawals by member States. Chapter III:  Projects and Programs of the Corporation - Empowers the Corporation to:  (1) engage in financial activities with any combination of equity or debt; (2) provide technical and legal assistance for regional energy projects; and (3) provide for research and development activities related to the energy development of its member States in connection with energy projects.  Prescribes guidelines under which the Corporation may become a project participant. Sets limits upon the Corporation's investment obligations, loan guarantees, and capital costs start-up expenses.  Prescribes guidelines for:  (1) the waiver of such limitations; (2) resource allocation among member States; (3) gubernatorial review of the Corporation's commitments; and (4) the Corporation's active participation as a regional instrumentality in the formulation of the National Energy Policy Plan. Chapter IV:  Financing - Sets forth the Corporation's financial structure, including:  (1) capital contributions by member States; (2) issuance of securities and obligations by the Corporation; (3) the degree of authorized indebtedness; and (4) the pledging of security for the Corporation's obligations.  States that the Corporation's liabilities shall not be deemed a U.S. obligation. Chapter V:  Guarantee of Obligations - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee the obligations of the Corporation with the full faith and credit of the United States.  Sets forth the guarantee terms. Establishes in the Treasury an administrative expense fund to pay administrative expenses with respect to guaranteed obligations. Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) establish loan guarantee funds to provide for timely payments to holders of guaranteed obligations after default; and (2) use the proceeds derived from the sales of certain Liberty bonds to cover administrative expenses and loan guarantee obligations.  Directs the Secretary to report periodically to the Congress regarding the Corporation's financial status.  Sets forth mandatory demand payment terms if the Corporation defaults on its obligations.  Declares that the guaranteed obligations are not exempt from Federal taxation.  Prohibits the United States from purchasing guaranteed obligations. Chapter VI:  State Legislation - Sets forth conditions for Northeastern State membership in the Corporation. Exempts the Corporation from State taxation.  Outlines the terms for coordination between the Corporation and the member States, including eminent domain, interagency assistance, and obligations as legal investments. Chapter VII:  Miscellaneous - Sets forth construction and separability provisions.", "2025-08-26T17:24:55Z", null], ["101-hr-5916", 101, "hr", 5916, "To require the President of the United States to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the event of a domestic energy supply shortage, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the exportation of refined petroleum products except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.", "Energy", "1990-10-24", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.", "House", "Rep. Tauke, Thomas Joseph [R-IA-2]", "IA", "R", "T000053", 0, "Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the President to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the event of a domestic energy supply shortage. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the export of a refined petroleum product except pursuant to an export license specifically authorizing it.  Precludes the issuance of such license without the approval of the Secretary of Energy. Requires the Secretary to notify certain congressional committees of the export license application, the name of the exporter, the destination, and the amount and price of the proposed export. Directs the Attorney General to report to specified congressional committees the findings of a special investigation to determine the extent to which domestic or foreign petroleum product suppliers may be charging excessive prices or manipulating the market in violation of antitrust laws. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should seek equitable payments from Saudi Arabia for the deployment and maintenance of troops in that country.", "2025-01-15T18:51:50Z", null], ["101-hr-5917", 101, "hr", 5917, "Small Disadvantaged Business Fair Share Act", "Government Operations and Politics", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-26", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism, and Rural Development.", "House", "Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7]", "IL", "D", "C000634", 1, "Small Disadvantaged Business Fair Share Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary), acting through the Defense Contract Administration Services, to increase outreach to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) that are potential contractors or subcontractors with the Department of Defense.  Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract with a contractor unless the contractor includes a plan to spend at least ten percent of the contract on subcontracting with SDBs. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to increase from five to ten percent the goal set for subcontract awards to historically Black colleges and universities, small businesses, minority-owned media, and minority institutions. Revises the requirement that at least 50 percent of the contract awarded to an SDB be performed by the awardee.  Permits at least 75 percent of such a contract to be performed by the awardee or other SDBs. Specifies circumstances for waiver of the rule that prohibits an SDB contractor from participating in an SDB contract when the product involved is not SDB-manufactured. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the number or dollar value of contracts awarded under the SDB or related set-aside programs be maintained or increased. Requires, as a condition of approval of a contract with the Department of Defense, that the contract bid must be accompanied by documentation certifying that the potential contractor is in compliance with the equal opportunity provisions of specified Federal regulations. Requires periodic certification updates. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to administer this Act by a certain deadline.", "2025-08-26T17:24:25Z", null], ["101-hr-5918", 101, "hr", 5918, "Act for Micro-Enterprise", "Commerce", "1990-10-24", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.", "House", "Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7]", "IL", "D", "C000634", 0, "Act for Micro-Enterprise - Amends the Social Security Act to exclude from income for purposes of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs business assets received primarily for micro-enterprise business purposes. Extends public assistance benefits (including AFDC, SSI, and Medicaid) for persons with income from or resources in a micro-enterprise (any commercial enterprise with five or fewer employees, one or more of whom own the enterprise). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make eligible for unemployment compensation an individual who starts a micro-enterprise. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make financial assistance available under the Community Development Block Grant and Urban Development Action Grant programs to lending institutions and public and private organizations to provide loans, counseling, and training for micro-enterprises. Amends the Small Business Act to urge that when implementing business loan programs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration consider the needs of micro-enterprises and the institutions which offer them credit or services. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to treat savings association loans to micro-enterprises as qualified thrift investments. Mandates that each Federal banking agency establish a Micro-Enteprise Technicial and Operations Office (ME-TOO) to promote micro-enterprises through technical assistance, outreach and training.", "2025-08-26T17:27:50Z", null], ["101-hr-5919", 101, "hr", 5919, "To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to include with regulations issued by that agency a statement of the anticipated effects of the regulations on small business.", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-26", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunity, and Energy.", "House", "Rep. McEwen, Bob [R-OH-6]", "OH", "R", "M000432", 0, "Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include with any regulations EPA issues a statement of their anticipated effects on small businesses.", "2024-02-07T15:46:26Z", null], ["101-hr-5920", 101, "hr", 5920, "For the relief of Presley Tantoco Santos.", "Private Legislation", "1990-10-24", "1990-11-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law.", "House", "Rep. McMillen, Thomas [D-MD-4]", "MD", "D", "M000573", 0, "Makes a named individual eligible for adjustment of status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.", "2021-07-01T14:58:28Z", null], ["101-hr-5904", 101, "hr", 5904, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief to utilities installing acid rain reduction equipment.", "Taxation", "1990-10-23", "1990-10-23", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Bruce, Terry L. [D-IL-19]", "IL", "D", "B000971", 3, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for a three-year credit period for a percentage of the investment in acid rain control property installed to comply with sulfur dioxide emission limitations under the Clean Air Act.  Allows the use of tax-exempt facility bonds to finance acid rain control property.  Allows a business credit for a percentage of the expenditures paid or incurred for coal cleaning minerals used to remove or reduce the sulfur content of coal.  Excludes from gross income the value of clean air allowances allocated to the taxpayer under the Clean Air Act.  Allows a 60-month amortization of acid rain control property.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5905", 101, "hr", 5905, "Civil Rights Act of 1990", "Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues", "1990-10-23", "1990-11-16", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.", "House", "Rep. Michel, Robert H. [R-IL-18]", "IL", "R", "M000692", 46, "Civil Rights Act of 1990 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide for the burden of proof which the complaining party and the respondent must meet in certain situations relating to unlawful employment practices based on disparate impact.  Allows a rule barring employment of an individual who currently and knowingly uses or possesses an illegal drug unless the rule is adopted or applied with intent to discriminate. Allows establishment of an unlawful employment practice on a demonstration that a certain basis was a motivating factor for a practice, even though other factors also motivated the practice. Prohibits certain types of relief on a demonstration that the respondent would have taken the same action in the absence of any discrimination.  Allows, on such a showing, declaratory and injunctive relief, attorney's fees, and costs. Provides for the finality of litigated or consent judgements or orders, barring actions (challenging an employment practice required by a judgment or order) by persons who had certain types of notice and opportunity. Declares that an alleged unlawful employment practice occurs, with regard to a seniority system, when:  (1) the system is adopted; (2) an individual becomes subject to the system; or (3) a person is injured by application of the system or provision, adopted for an intentionally discriminatory purpose, whether or not the discriminatory purpose is apparent on the face of the provision.  Allows a court, in fashioning remedies for unlawful intentional employment discrimination, to require the respondent to pay a specified amount if:  (1) needed to deter the respondent from engaging in such practices; and (2) otherwise justified by the equities, consistent with the purposes of the equal employment opportunities provisions of the Act, and in the public interest.  Requires all employment discrimination cases to be heard and determined by a judge, except that, if the court determines that the claims presented may require the payments authorized by this paragraph and that a jury trial is constitutionally required for such relief, a jury may be empaneled to determine such issues and no others. Allows expert fees to be included in attorney's fees awarded to the prevailing party in an employment discrimination case. Extends the time limit for an aggrieved employee or employment applicant to file a civil action after notice of final action by a department, agency, or unit of the Federal Government.  Requires the same interest to compensate for delay in payment by the Government as in cases involving non-public parties. Amends Federal law to declare that:  (1) for purposes of provisions relating to equal rights under the law, the right to make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contract; and (2) the rights protected by the amended provisions are protected against impairment by non-governmental discrimination as well as against impairment under color of State law. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to require the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to notify the person aggrieved if an age discrimination charge is dismissed by the Commission.  Allows a civil suit to be brought within a specified time limit after the dismissal. Provides for the application of this Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and instrumentalities of the Congress. Prohibits construing the amendments made by this Act, or any statute amended by this Act, so as to require, permit, or result in the adoption or implementation of quotas. Encourages the use of alternative means of dispute resolution to resolve disputes arising under the Acts amended by this Act.", "2025-08-26T17:29:22Z", null], ["101-hr-5906", 101, "hr", 5906, "Economic Growth and Venture Capital Act of 1990", "Taxation", "1990-10-23", "1990-10-23", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. McEwen, Bob [R-OH-6]", "OH", "R", "M000432", 0, "Economic Growth and Venture Capital Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent.  Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers.", "2025-08-26T17:28:10Z", null], ["101-hr-5907", 101, "hr", 5907, "To clear certain impediments to the licensing of the submersible vessel PC 1805 for employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries of the United States.", "Private Legislation", "1990-10-23", "1990-11-16", "See H.R.4009.", "House", "Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]", "MN", "D", "O000006", 0, "Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for a named vessel.", "2021-07-01T14:58:24Z", null], ["101-hr-5889", 101, "hr", 5889, "Money Laundering Enforcement Amendments of 1990", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-22", "1990-11-15", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance.", "House", "Rep. Annunzio, Frank [D-IL-11]", "IL", "D", "A000212", 8, "Money Laundering Enforcement Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Bank Conservation Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Federal Credit Union Act to authorize the appointment of a conservator for a depository institution convicted of money laundering offenses (including insured Federal and State savings associations and State banks).  Exempts from conservatorship any such institution whose ownership or control has changed after commission of the offense and whose new owner or controlling person was not affiliated with it at the time of the offense. Amends the Revised Statutes, the Home Owners' Loan Act, and the Federal Credit Union Act to prescribe guidelines for the revocation of depository institutions' charters and forfeiture of franchises upon conviction for money laundering offenses (including the conviction of senior level management for such offenses). Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act: (1) to prescribe guidelines for the termination of the insured status of State depository institutions, including State chartered credit unions convicted of money laundering; and (2) to authorize the removal of any party from office or its suspension from participation in the affairs of the institution if the party is determined to have committed certain currency reporting violations. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to require specified regulatory agencies to include in their annual reports to the Congress the identification of depository institutions convicted of money laundering offenses and the agencies' enforcement activities. Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Attorney General to notify the appropriate regulatory agency in writing if any financial institution or its personnel has been convicted of certain money laundering offenses. Amends Federal law regarding monetary transactions to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to:  (1) impose civil money penalties upon a financial institution for negligent violations of this Act or for a pattern of negligent violations; and (2) order a depository institution to request that its customers submit cash transaction reports. Amends Federal law regarding money transactions to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to:  (1) prescribe regulations requiring each depository institution to file identification reports regarding certain financial institution customers; and (2) make such reports available to State financial institution supervisory agencies for supervisory purposes. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should:  (1) establish uniform regulations and licensing requirements (meeting specified criteria) for non-depository institutions engaged in check cashing businesses; and (2) develop a model statute incorporating such uniform regulations. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the progress made by the States in enacting uniform legislation. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should consider, in connection with such uniform legislation, whether fee limitations are appropriate with respect to money cashing or redemption activities.  Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for persons participating in an illegal money transmitting business. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to direct the Secretary to promulgate final regulations requiring insured depository institutions and businesses involved in funds transfers to maintain, for certain kinds of payment orders involving international transactions, records that will have a high degree of  usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings.  Mandates that such records be made available to the Secretary upon request. Prohibits a financial institution or its personnel from disclosing the existence of a Federal information targeting order except as prescribed by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General to issue civil enforcement and prosecutorial guidelines for currency transactions. Amends the Bank Secrecy Act to require a person to certify to the relevant financial institution in writing under penalty of perjury the basis for requesting an exemption from cash transaction reporting requirements.  Requires an annual update of such certification. Requires the Secretary to make currency transaction reports available to any State depository institution's supervisory agency. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) submit periodic status reports to the Congress regarding the use of currency transaction reports and related enforcement activities; and (2) establish an Advisory Group on Reports on Monetary Instruments Transactions to serve as a conduit between the Federal and private sectors regarding the status of currency transaction reporting activities. Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to provide, at the Attorney General's request, information regarding the cash surplus reports of the Federal Reserve banks which may be relevant to investigations under this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish a study group to evaluate:  (1) the feasibility of electronic scanning of Federal Reserve notes; and (2) the impact of such scanning upon the rights of individuals to financial privacy. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of a \"Financial Crimes Enforcement Network\" proposed to be established among Federal agencies and banking agencies. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to:  (1) collect and maintain information on amounts and denominations of currency confiscated in connection with drug seizures and drug-related money laundering operations, as well as the total dollar amount of each denomination of such notes and currency; (2) develop a plan to collect the same information from State and local agencies; (3) report to the Congress on such plan, together with biannual summaries of the information collected; and (4) report to the Congress on the need for additional information regarding how frequently $50 and $100 notes are used in drug trafficking and other illegal activities, and the possible deterrent effect the withdrawal of such notes would have on such activities. Directs the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees on the advantages and disadvantages of:  (1) changing the physical format of United States currency for money laundering enforcement purposes; or (2) using a different color for United States currency in circulation outside the United States. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act to provide that financial records transferred by a regulatory agency to the Secretary of the Treasury for possible criminal violations shall be used only for criminal investigative or prosecutive purposes relating to money laundering by the Department of the Treasury. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to establish additional whistleblower protections for employees of depository institutions and Federal regulatory agencies who provide information about possible banking law violations. Subjects to certain cash reporting requirements any officer or office of either House of the Congress which provides check cashing or deposit services for Members of Congress. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act to exempt from its protections possible crimes committed by insiders against financial institutions with respect to money laundering and/or monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity. Amends Federal law relating to international monetary instrument transaction reporting requirements to prohibit:  (1) failure to file the requisite reports; (2) filing material omissions or misstatements of facts in such reports; and (3) participation in structuring any importation or exportation of monetary instruments.", "2025-01-14T18:20:21Z", null], ["101-hr-5890", 101, "hr", 5890, "Medicaid Access Improvement Amendments of 1990", "Health", "1990-10-22", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Bruce, Terry L. [D-IL-19]", "IL", "D", "B000971", 0, "Medicaid Access Improvement Amendments of 1990 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require States to provide for the receipt and initial processing of Medicaid applications at locations other than those used for the receipt and processing of applications for Aid to Families with Dependent Children under part A of title IV such as hospitals or clinics providing covered services to Medicaid applicants. Prohibits States from discontinuing a child's Medicaid benefits until it is determined that the child is not eligible for such benefits on any basis. Prohibits the application of fixed durational limits to medically necessary inpatient hospital services for all Medicaid-eligible individuals regardless of age.  Prohibits aggregate or institutional volume caps which would limit medically necessary days or result in arbitrary reductions in established payment rates for days exceeding such caps.  Prohibits the waiver of such prohibitions to promote cost-effectiveness and efficiency. Requires outlier adjustments under State prospective payment plans for medically necessary inpatient hospital services for very high cost or exceptionally lengthy cases regardless of the age of the Medicaid-eligible patient. Allows State flexibility in setting adjustments for different types of disproportionate share providers. Prohibits application of visit limits to medically necessary covered outpatient services provided to individuals in disproportionate share hospitals as defined by the States under current law for inpatient payment adjustment.  Requires States to adjust payments for outpatient services provided to individuals by disproportionate share hospitals.  Prohibits the waiver of such provisions to promote cost-effectiveness and efficiency.", "2025-08-26T17:25:52Z", null], ["101-hr-5891", 101, "hr", 5891, "Resolution Trust Corporation Funding Act", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-27", "Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 567.", "House", "Rep. Gonzalez, Henry B. [D-TX-20]", "TX", "D", "G000272", 0, "Resolution Trust Corporation Funding Act - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to mandate that requests for additional funding for the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC):  (1) be submitted to specified congressional committees; and (2) contain a complete and detailed six-month financial plan for spending such resources. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Treasury for FY 1991 to provide interim funding for the RTC and the Oversight Board. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the RTC should not provide assistance to troubled depository institutions or pay their insured depositors any amount in excess of what they would have received if the Corporation had liquidated the institution unless the RTC determines on the basis of written documentation that such assistance or payments are more economical than liquidation of the institution. Requires the RTC to present to specified congressional committees written corroborative documentation that its treatment of uninsured deposits as insured deposits is more economical than the cost of liquidation.", "2025-08-26T17:25:40Z", null], ["101-hr-5892", 101, "hr", 5892, "Enterprise for the Americas Initiative Act of 1990", "International Affairs", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-23", "Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.", "House", "Rep. Crockett, George W., Jr. [D-MI-13]", "MI", "D", "C000919", 0, "Enterprise for the Americas Initiative Act of 1990 - Title I: Enterprise for the Americas Facility - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury the Enterprise for the Americas Facility to support improvement in the lives of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean through market-oriented reforms and economic growth with actions to promote debt reduction, investment reforms, and community based conservation and sustainable use of the environment.  Makes eligible for Facility benefits Latin American or Caribbean countries that:  (1) have in effect, received approval for, or are making progress toward, specified International Monetary Fund arrangements and structural or sectoral adjustment loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the International Development Association; (2) have put in place major investment reforms in conjunction with an Inter-American Development Bank loan or are implementing or making progress toward an open investment regime; and (3) have agreed with commercial bank lenders on a financing program for debt or debt service reduction. Title II:  Debt Reduction - Authorizes the President to reduce the amount owed to the United States (as a result of concessional loans made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or predecessor foreign economic assistance legislation) by any country eligible for Facility benefits. Declares that this title supersedes specified provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the International Development and Food Assistance Act of 1975 concerning repayments of loans outstanding after September 19, 1966, and the settlement of debts owed to the United States. Sets forth requirements with respect to the exchange of obligations, repayment of principal, and interest on new obligations issued by beneficiary countries. Title III:  Enterprise for the Americas Environmental Funds - Requires beneficiary countries that enter into Environmental Framework Agreements to establish Enterprise for the Americas Environmental Funds.  Authorizes the Secretary of State to enter into Environmental Framework Agreements concerning the operation and use of Environmental Funds with countries eligible for Facility benefits.  Directs administering bodies in each beneficiary country to administer the Environmental Funds and to make grants for environmental activities.  Requires grants from the Funds to be used for activities that link the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources with local community development.  Subjects grants of more than $100,000 to veto by the U.S. Government or the government of the beneficiary country. Establishes an Environment for the Americas Board to:  (1) advise the Secretary on the negotiations of Environmental Framework Agreements; (2) ensure that a suitable administering body is identified for each Environmental Fund; and (3) review the programs, operations, and fiscal audits of administering bodies. Declares that the President should encourage other official creditors of beneficiary countries whose debt is reduced under this Act to provide debt reduction to such countries. Requires the President to ensure that Environmental Funds are able to receive donations from private and public entities and private creditors of beneficiary countries. Title IV:  Reports - Directs the President to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the Facility. Title V:  Caribbean Regional Development Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to implement the Caribbean Regional Development Act of 1990. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to development and economic assistance for the Caribbean.  Provides that priority in providing development assistance be given to supporting indigenous democratic Caribbean institutions that represent and benefit the poor. Requires priority in the allocation of assistance to the Caribbean to be given to:  (1) increased food production; (2) rural development; (3) community-based agro-industries; (4) small- and medium-sized farm and manufacturing enterprises; (5) the expansion of tourism; (6) regional integration; (7) the upgrading of technical and managerial skills; (8) support for renewable natural resources; (9) private sector development; (10) democratic development and the administration of justice; and (11) human services and human resources development. Directs the President, in providing assistance to a Caribbean country, to take into account whether the government of such country has failed to protect worker rights and is taking steps to implement laws that demonstrate advancement in providing such rights. Prohibits the Agency for International Development (AID) from providing assistance for the use of any substance in a Caribbean country if such use is prohibited under the country's or U.S. public health laws. Declares that AID should ensure the active participation of women in the development process. States that AID should:  (1) take into account the perspectives of the poor in the development process; and (2) monitor socioeconomic conditions in the Caribbean and the effect of U.S. assistance on such conditions.", "2025-08-26T17:25:23Z", null], ["101-hr-5893", 101, "hr", 5893, "Appraisal Subcommittee Status Act", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security.", "House", "Rep. Barnard, Doug, Jr. [D-GA-10]", "GA", "D", "B000153", 0, "Appraisal Subcommittee Status Act - Provides that certain funds received or collected by the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council shall not be construed to be Government funds or appropriated moneys and shall not be apportioned under any statutory authority (thus giving the Subcommittee the same status as the Council).", "2025-08-26T17:29:13Z", null], ["101-hr-5894", 101, "hr", 5894, "To amend the Small Business Act to establish a credit evaluation program to assist small business concerns located in States in which there is a shortage of credit in obtaining loans from financial institutions.", "Commerce", "1990-10-22", "1990-11-26", "Referred to the Subcommittee on SBA, the General Economy, and Minority Enterprise Development.", "House", "Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]", "MA", "D", "F000339", 0, "Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to develop and implement a credit evaluation program to assist small business concerns located in States in which there is a shortage of credit in obtaining loans from financial institutions.", "2024-02-07T15:46:26Z", null], ["101-hr-5895", 101, "hr", 5895, "Ocean Dumping Companies Conservatorship Act of 1989", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-3]", "NJ", "D", "P000034", 1, "Ocean Dumping Companies Conservatorship Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint a conservator to take over the control of an ocean dumping company whenever:  (1) the owner of a company engaged in transporting sewage sludge to an ocean dumping site intends to cease operations; and (2) an environmentally acceptable alternative for disposal of the sewage sludge does not exist. Requires the conservator to become vested with the title of the company subject to the conservatorship.  Sets forth general duties and powers of the conservator.  Authorizes the conservator, subject to certain conditions, to dispose of any company property during the conservatorship.  Requires the conservator, at the Administrator's direction, to pay all secured obligations. Provides for compensation to the conservator. Authorizes the Administrator to require purchasers of company property to assume the debts of such company. Requires compensation to be made to the owner of the company by the conservator, with the Administrator's approval. Provides for the proceeds from the disposition of any company property to be paid to the owner.  Discontinues the conservatorship when all company property subject to the conservatorship has been disposed or when the Administrator determines the discontinuance to be in the public interest.", "2025-08-26T17:27:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5896", 101, "hr", 5896, "To provide eligibility to members of the Selected Reserve who served in the Persian Gulf area in connection with Operation Desert Shield for benefits under the veterans home loan program.", "Armed Forces and National Security", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-22", "Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-4]", "WV", "D", "R000011", 4, "Makes members of the Selected Reserve who served in the Persian Gulf area in connection with Operation Desert Shield eligible for benefits under the veterans' home loan program.", "2024-02-07T16:12:44Z", null], ["101-hr-5897", 101, "hr", 5897, "To establish a national commission to develop recommendations for the establishment of model programs of treatment for drug abuse, and for other purposes.", "Health", "1990-10-22", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-16]", "NY", "D", "R000053", 0, "Establishes the National Commission on Drug Abuse Treatment Effectiveness to develop recommendations for:  (1) the planning and operation of model programs of treatment for drug abuse; and (2) evaluation criteria for drug treatment programs.  Authorizes appropriations.  Terminates the Commission two years after designation of its first chairman.", "2024-02-05T14:30:09Z", null], ["101-hr-5898", 101, "hr", 5898, "Long-Term Care Incentives Act of 1990", "Health", "1990-10-22", "1990-12-10", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Ritter, Don [R-PA-15]", "PA", "R", "R000277", 2, "Long-Term Care Incentives Act of 1990 - Title I:  Tax Treatment of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Policies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of qualified long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance for purposes of insurance company taxation.  Provides for the exclusion as a death benefit of any amount paid to an individual under a life insurance contract because such individual is terminally ill, has a dread disease, or has been permanently confined to a nursing home. Title II:  Tax Incentives for Purchase of Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance - Allows a tax credit for a percentage of qualified long-term care premiums.  Allows a deduction for expenses relating to long-term care and an exclusion from gross income of benefits received from long-term care insurance.  Allows a deduction for employers of contributions made for long-term care insurance if any refund or premium is applied to reduce the future costs of the plan or increase its benefits.  Allows the inclusion of such insurance in cafeteria plans. Excludes from gross income amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts and certain employer cash or deferred arrangements to pay long-term care premiums and expenses.  Increases the amounts of deductible contributions to individual retirement plans. Excludes from gross income amounts received from the surrender, cancellation, or exchange of any life insurance contract if such amounts are used to pay premiums for long-term care insurance. Authorizes the tax-free use of the gain from the sale of a principal residence for the purchase of long-term health care insurance. Title III:  Medicaid Amendments - Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) to set forth eligibility requirements for long-term care benefits and to require coverage of home and community-based long-term care.", "2025-08-26T17:28:53Z", null], ["101-hr-5899", 101, "hr", 5899, "Breast Cancer Screening Safety Act of 1990", "Health", "1990-10-22", "1990-12-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Schroeder, Patricia [D-CO-1]", "CO", "D", "S000142", 1, "Breast Cancer Screening Safety Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require certification in order for a facility to perform mammograms or mammography services.  Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue and renew certificates for up to two years. Requires, in order to be certified, that a facility be accredited. Allows the Secretary to approve a private nonprofit organization to be an accreditation body which meets certain requirements, including inspecting facilities. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) establish standards for facilities to assure the safety and accuracy of mammography; (2) specify organizations eligible to certify individuals to perform radiological procedures; (3) specify boards eligible to certify individuals to interpret screening mammograms; and (4) establish standards regarding the qualifications for individuals to interpret screening mammograms. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct annual announced and unannounced inspections of certified facilities. Provides for:  (1) intermediate sanctions for certain violations; (2) suspension, revocation, and limitation of certificates; and (3) injunctions.  Requires fees for certificate issuance and renewal, and for inspections, sufficient to cover costs. Requires annual publication of a list of facilities convicted of fraud and abuse, false billings, or kickbacks, facilities that have had certificates revoked, suspended, or limited, and facilities that have been the subject of a sanction or other similar matters. Allows the Secretary to exempt facilities in a State with more stringent requirements from compliance with this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Mammography Registry to maintain information on the former mammograms of women.", "2025-08-26T17:26:01Z", null], ["101-hr-5900", 101, "hr", 5900, "To amend section 11122 of title 49, United States Code, relating to freight cars.", "Transportation and Public Works", "1990-10-22", "1990-11-19", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.", "House", "Rep. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME-2]", "ME", "R", "S000663", 1, "Amends Federal law to provide that regulations adopted by the Interstate Commerce Commission for freight cars owned or leased by small railroads shall apply to freight cars owned or leased by class III rail carriers and by any class II rail carrier which demonstrates to the Commission special circumstances (when the ratio of loaded freight cars to those unloaded on its line during the preceding year exceeds two to one) justifying such application.", "2024-02-05T14:30:09Z", null], ["101-hr-5901", 101, "hr", 5901, "To terminate most-favored-nation treatment for the products of Irag.", "Foreign Trade and International Finance", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-27", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.", "House", "Rep. Solomon, Gerald B. H. [R-NY-24]", "NY", "R", "S000675", 1, "Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to terminate most-favored-nation treatment for the products of Iraq.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5902", 101, "hr", 5902, "Non-Proliferation Act of 1990", "International Affairs", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-22", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-9]", "CA", "D", "S000810", 0, "Non-Proliferation Act of 1990 - Requires the President to prohibit the importation of products from foreign persons that:  (1) export nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology in violation of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978; or (2) export nuclear explosive items which are controlled under the Export Administration Act of 1979, the Arms Export Control Act, or the Military Technology Control Regime.  Requires the President to impose similar sanctions against other entities that are under the control of such foreign person.  Requires the President to make annual determinations with respect to foreign persons engaged in the export of such items.  Authorizes the President to waive imposition of such sanctions if a specified certification is submitted to the Congress.  Authorizes any U.S. person to file a petition with the President requesting an investigation to be conducted to determine whether sanctions are needed.  Authorizes the President to issue an advisory opinion to persons with respect to whether their activities should be subject to such sanctions.", "2025-08-26T17:29:01Z", null], ["101-hr-5903", 101, "hr", 5903, "Savings Association Conversion Moratorium Act", "Finance and Financial Sector", "1990-10-22", "1990-10-23", "Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.", "House", "Rep. Vento, Bruce F. [D-MN-4]", "MN", "D", "V000087", 4, "Savings Association Conversion Moratorium Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prohibit a Savings Association Insurance Fund member from converting to a State savings bank charter between enactment of this Act and December 31, 1991, without the approval of the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision before such period began.", "2025-08-26T17:25:36Z", null], ["101-hr-5886", 101, "hr", 5886, "To clarify the treatment of certain Federal financial assistance provided to savings and loan institutions.", "Taxation", "1990-10-21", "1990-10-21", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Guarini, Frank J. [D-NJ-14]", "NJ", "D", "G000511", 0, "Requires that, except in specified instances, Federal financial assistance be taken into account when determining losses or bad debts of savings and loans institutions (thus denying income tax deductions for losses or bad debts to the extent Federal assistance has compensated for them).", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5887", 101, "hr", 5887, "To require that the House and Senate delegations of the United States group of the North Atlantic Assembly each have two co-chairmen, who shall be members of different political parties.", "International Affairs", "1990-10-21", "1990-10-21", "Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Solomon, Gerald B. H. [R-NY-24]", "NY", "R", "S000675", 5, "Revises membership requirements with respect to U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization parliamentary conferences to require:  (1) both the House of Representatives and Senate delegations to such conferences to have two co-chairmen who are members of different political parties; and (2) at least one of the members from each delegation to be a member from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs or the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as appropriate.  Revises requirements with respect to the appointment of the Secretary of the delegations.", "2024-02-07T11:38:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5888", 101, "hr", 5888, "Rural Health Care Amendments of 1990", "Health", "1990-10-21", "1990-11-19", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.", "House", "Rep. Wilson, Charles [D-TX-2]", "TX", "D", "W000570", 0, "Rural Health Care Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program known as the Rural Health Care Provider Recruitment and Education Program to assist rural communities in recruiting and educating eligible individuals to serve as health care providers. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States that have established State  loan repayment programs to share the costs incurred by local communities and by the States in providing funds to full-time students in a program leading to a degree in medicine or osteopathy or licensure or certification as a nurse midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant.  Requires each student to agree to serve at least two years (but not less than the number of years in which the applicant was provided assistance).  Requires that grant funds provided to States be used for 25 percent of the costs of the education.  Requires students receiving assistance to serve in the rural community represented by the local community that provided assistance. Authorizes appropriations.", "2025-08-26T17:26:40Z", null], ["101-hr-5884", 101, "hr", 5884, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow small commercial finance companies to use the reserve method in accounting for bad debts.", "Taxation", "1990-10-20", "1990-10-20", "Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.", "House", "Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3]", "MD", "D", "C000141", 0, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain commercial finance companies, in lieu of a deduction for wholly worthless debts, a deduction for a reasonable addition to a reserve for bad debts.  Makes a company eligible for such deduction if:  (1) the average adjusted basis of all its assets is $500,000,000 or less; or (2) such company was a member of a parent-subsidiary controlled group and the average adjusted basis of all assets of such groups was $50,000,000 or less.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5885", 101, "hr", 5885, "For the relief of Ghassan Hasbani.", "Private Legislation", "1990-10-20", "1990-10-26", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law.", "House", "Rep. Staggers, Harley O., Jr. [D-WV-2]", "WV", "D", "S000779", 0, "Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.", "2021-07-01T14:58:18Z", null], ["101-hr-5870", 101, "hr", 5870, "Providing for the continued operation of the government in the absence of appropriations, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "1990-10-19", "1990-10-19", "Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Whitten, Jamie L. [D-MS-1]", "MS", "D", "W000428", 0, "Provides that the operations of an agency of the U.S. Government or the District of Columbia may continue for not to exceed two weeks when appropriations have not been enacted by the first of a fiscal year.  Declares that existing unspent funds shall be transferable to help meet such need, subject to replenishment.", "2024-02-05T11:50:03Z", null], ["101-hr-5871", 101, "hr", 5871, "Farm Poundage Quota Revisions Act of 1990", "Agriculture and Food", "1990-10-19", "1990-11-15", "Became Public Law No: 101-577.", "House", "Rep. Hopkins, Larry J. [R-KY-6]", "KY", "R", "H000776", 0, "Farm Poundage Quota Revisions Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the sale of a farm's burley tobacco (burley) quota to another active burley tobacco producer in the same county under specified conditions. Postpones the effective date of the loss of quota for underplanting provisions until the 1994 marketing year.  (Current law makes such provisions effective as of the 1976 marketing year.)  Bases such determination on two of the three previous years' plantings.  (Current law is determined on the previous five years' plantings.) States that when a farm is divided through reconstitution (other than through probate or among family members) the burley tobacco poundage quota which transfers with the divided land shall be at least 1000 pounds. Increases lease limitations from 15,000 pounds to 30,000 pounds. Authorizes the lease and transfer of burley quotas between any two farms within Tennessee or Virginia if a majority of active burley producers within the respective State so approves in a statewide referendum.", "2025-01-14T16:41:20Z", null], ["101-hr-5872", 101, "hr", 5872, "To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require qualifying employer securities to include interests in publicly traded partnerships.", "Labor and Employment", "1990-10-19", "1990-11-08", "Became Public Law No: 101-540.", "House", "Rep. Clay, William (Bill) [D-MO-1]", "MO", "D", "C000488", 0, "Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to include under the definition of qualifying employer security (in addition to a stock or a marketable obligation) an interest in an existing publicly traded partnership.  Requires such an interest to satisfy certain requirements as to maximum percentage held by plan and minimum percentage held by persons independent of the plan, in the case of a plan other than an eligible individual account plan.", "2025-07-21T19:44:15Z", null], ["101-hr-5873", 101, "hr", 5873, "To provide liminted extension for land treatment facilities for which there is pending a petition seeking to demonstrate that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from the disposal unit.", "Environmental Protection", "1990-10-19", "1990-11-19", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.", "House", "Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]", "TX", "R", "B000213", 0, "Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for an extension for the land disposal of hazardous wastes for land treatment facilities for which there are pending petitions to demonstrate that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from disposal units.", "2024-02-05T14:30:09Z", null], ["101-hr-5874", 101, "hr", 5874, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the marginal tax rate for high-income taxpayers.", "Taxation", "1990-10-19", "1990-11-05", "See H.R.5835.", "House", "Rep. Coyne, William J. [D-PA-14]", "PA", "D", "C000846", 0, "Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the marginal tax rate for higher-income taxpayers, including creation of a 35 percent bracket.  Sets the maximum capital gains rate at 28 percent. Repeals the phase-out of the 15-percent rate and personal exemptions.", "2024-02-07T16:32:33Z", null], ["101-hr-5875", 101, "hr", 5875, "To transfer a portion of Fort Sheridan, Illinois, to the Department of Veterans Affairs for use as a National Cemetary.", "Armed Forces and National Security", "1990-10-19", "1990-10-19", "Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.", "House", "Rep. Crane, Philip M. 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