(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #333 (82-9))

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1988 - Title I: Department of Commerce - Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1988 - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for activities of the Department of Commerce, including: (1) general administration; (2) the Bureau of the Census; (3) economic and statistical analysis; (4) the Economic Development Administration; (5) the International Trade Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (including transfers of funds); (8) the Patent and Trademark Office; (9) the National Bureau of Standards; (10) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (11) the Export Administration; and (12) the United States Travel and Tourism Administration.

Appropriates funds as necessary for FY 1988 for the provision of specified supplies and services for employees and dependents of Federal agencies in Alaska and other remote, non-foreign localities. Makes appropriations available for hiring passenger motor vehicles, uniforms, and other services. Prohibits the use of funds provided under this title for the sale to private interests of loans made under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 or the Trade Act of 1974, except with the borrower's consent.

Authorizes the National Bureau of Standards to accept contributions of funds from any public or private source to construct a facility for cold neutron research on materials.

Allows the Secretary of Commerce to provide for contingent liability payments in the event of termination of multiyear contracts for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (procured for information processing and telecommunications services of NOAA).

Transfers loans made under the authority of the Trade Act of 1974 to the Economic Development Revolving Fund.

Authorizes the Secretary to exchange land in order to expand the NOAA marine facility at Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish buying power maintenance accounts for the International Trade Administration, the Export Administration, and the United States Travel and Tourism Administration to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or unbudgeted overseas wage and price changes.

Rescinds a certain amount of funds for financial and technical assistance for the Economic Development Administration.

Title II: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1988 - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for activities of the Department of Justice, including: (1) general administration; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities; (4) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (5) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (6) the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); (7) the Federal Prison System (FPS); and (8) Office of Justice programs.

Makes a specified amount of funds appropriated in this title available for official reception and representation expenses in accordance with the distributions, procedures, and regulations established by the Attorney General.

Permits material produced by convict labor to be used in the construction of any highway or portions of any highway located on Federal-aid systems.

Provides that appropriations for the following shall be available for uniforms and allowances: (1) general administration; (2) the U.S. Marshals Service; (3) the FBI; (4) the DEA; (5) the INS; and (6) the FPS.

Provides for the continuation of authorities contained in the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 1980 until the earlier of the termination of this Act or the effective date of a Department of Justice Appropriation Act. Specifies authorization, auditing, and reporting requirements with respect to undercover investigative operations conducted by the FBI and DEA during FY 1988.

Prohibits the use of funds to implement or issue any final rule in a certain rulemaking proceeding regarding temporary visas.

Prohibits any funds appropriated under this title from being available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in the case of rape. Provides that if such prohibition is declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, then this section of this Act shall be null and void.

Permits States which are receiving grants under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and which have made significant progress in meeting the Act's mandate to remove juveniles from adult jails and lockups, to continue to receive funding for such purpose during FY 1988.

Allows the Assets Forfeiture Fund deposits to be used for Federal prison construction.

Directs the Attorney General to report to the Congress on the status of pending requests under the Equitable Sharing Program and the implementation of the administrative changes under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.

Title III: Department of State - Department of State Appropriation Act, 1988 - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for the Department of State, including: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) U.S. bilateral science and technology agreements; (5) a grant to the Asia Foundation; (6) Soviet European research and training; (7) the Fishermen's Guaranty Fund; and (8) the Fishermen's Protective Fund.

Provides that such State Department appropriations shall be available for: (1) uniform, quarters, overseas, and miscellaneous allowances; (2) expert and consultant services; and (3) the hire of passenger or freight transportation.

Requires the Secretary of State to report monthly, beginning November 1, 1987, to the appropriate congressional committees on the obligation of funds provided for diplomatic security and related expenses.

Prohibits the use of funds for the new office building in Moscow except as necessary to demolish the building.

Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit the Secretary of State from permitting the Soviet Union to occupy the chancery building at its new embassy building or any other new facility in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, until: (1) a new chancery building is ready for occupancy for the United States embassy in Moscow; and (2) the Soviet Union provides prompt and full reimbursement to the United States for damages incurred as a result of construction of the U.S. embassy in Moscow.

Directs the Secretary of State to submit a plan to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Relations by March 31, 1988, to establish parity in the numbers, types, and quality of buildings held by the United States in Moscow and by the Soviet Union in Washington, D.C.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that no additional funds should be spent for new embassy construction, except for the completion of projects (other than Moscow), until the management of overseas embassy construction is organized under an Under Secretary who has responsibility for the Office of Foreign Missions and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to convene a panel of outside experts to review and analyze the plans, contracts, and protocols of construction projects of the Office of Foreign Buildings.

Directs the Secretary of State to develop and submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees of the Senate by February 15, 1988, a plan to complete a new office building in Moscow ready for occupancy by December 31, 1990. Requires the plan to provide for all work on the project to be performed by appropriately-cleared U.S. citizens. Directs the Secretary to use the authorities in the Office of Foreign Missions Act to evict the Soviet Union from its current chancery in Washington, D.C., and relocate the Soviet embassy to a comparable facility and to make the unoccupied chancery available to the U.S. Government if, on December 31, 1990, a new office building in Moscow is not ready for occupancy due in whole or in part to the failure of the Soviet Union to provide prompt and full support to the State Department.

Title IV: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1988 - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for activities of the Judiciary, including: (1) the Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the Court of Appeals, district courts, and judicial services; (5) the Administrative Office of the United States Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; and (7) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Provides that appropriations and authorizations for the Judiciary which are available for salaries and expenses shall be available for expert and consultant services. Makes appropriations under this title available for salaries and expenses of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals and the Special Court established under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973.

Declares that the position of trustee coordinator in the Bankruptcy Courts of the United States shall not be limited to persons with formal legal training.

Prohibits the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, or any other agency or instrumentality of the United States, from restricting solely to staff of the Clerks of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts the issuance of notices to creditors and other interested parties. Requires the Administrative Office to permit and encourage the preparation and mailing of such notices at the expense of the debtors, trustees, and such other interested parties. Requires the Administrator of the U.S. Courts to make appropriate provisions for the use of and accounting for any postage required pursuant to such directives. Terminates such directives on October 1, 1988.

Requires that fees collected for the preparation and mailing of notices in bankruptcy cases be used for salaries and other expenses incurred in providing such services.

Declares that during FY 1988 justices and judges shall receive the same percentage increase in salary accorded to Federal employees under the General Schedule.

Authorizes home-to-work transportation for the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.

Declares the salaries of bankruptcy judges and magistrates to be 92 percent of the salary of a judge of the district court of the United States.

Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 to the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. Authorizes the Administration to furnish utilities, services, and repairs to Government property it controls. Prohibits obligations from the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act in excess of the appropriations and limitations contained in this Act.

Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for: (1) the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; (2) the Board for International Broadcasting (including a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America radio relay station in Israel); (3) the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission; (4) the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution; (5) the Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development; (6) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) the Federal Communications Commission; (9) the Federal Maritime Commission; (10) the Federal Trade Commission; (11) the International Trade Commission; (12) the Japan-United States Friendship Commission; (13) the Legal Services Corporation (LSC); (14) the Marine Mammal Commission; (15) the Office of the United States Trade Representative; (16) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (17) the Small Business Administration (SBA) (including a transfer of funds); (18) the State Justice Institute; (19) the United States Information Agency; (20) the Commission on Civil Rights; and (21) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.

Provides that the final rule regarding unsupervised waivers under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act issued by the EEOC shall not have effect during FY 1988.

Directs the United States Information Agency (USIA) and the Voice of America to pursue all relevant information relating to the availability of transmitters and antennas, spare parts, and other technical equipment to determine whether such items can be procured at reasonable prices and in a timely manner under all foreseeable circumstances. Requires such entities to Buy American to the fullest extent possible.

Sets aside specified USIA funds to be used: (1) for a feasibility study on television broadcasting to Cuba; and (2) to support elements of the free press, free radio, and the democratic civil opposition inside Nicaragua which espouse democratic principles.

Title VI: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of any appropriation for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress.

Prohibits any part of any appropriation from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided in this Act.

Limits any expenditure for consulting services through a procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection.

Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under this Act for any activity to alter the per se prohibition on resale price maintenance in effect under the Federal antitrust laws (except for congressional testimony).

Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated to LSC under this Act by LSC or any recipient to participate in any litigation concerning abortion.

Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under this Act to procure any item or service from a foreign country which supports or complies with a boycott imposed by another country against any country which is friendly to the United states and which is not the object of any boycott under U.S. law.

Prohibits, unless the congressional Appropriations Committees are notified 15 days in advance, the reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees.

Prohibits the use of funds, unless the congressional Appropriations Committees are notified 15 days in advance, through the reprogramming of funds in excess of $250,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augment existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by ten percent as approved by the Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by the Congress.

Prohibits the use of funds to sell direct loans held by the SBA or any loan guaranty or debenture guaranty made by the SBA under authority of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and which was held by the Federal Financing Bank on September 30, 1987.

Declares that the SBA may not use funds to: (1) impose a user fee in connection with a program or service for which no user fee was in effect on September 1, 1987; or (2) increase a user fee which was in effect in connection with such program or service on such date.

Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion. Declares that nothing in such prohibition removes the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service outside the Federal facility. Declares that the provision of escort services in no way diminishes the effect of the prohibition on abortion intended to address the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of Prisons.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) at least six Members of Congress should meet on an ad-hoc basis to develop a coordinated congressional policy toward assessed contributions to international organizations; and (2) the Secretary of State should provide such cooperation as may be required by the Members. Requires such Members to prepare and transmit to specified congressional committees a report on the findings and conclusions together with recommendations for appropriate action by such committees.

Title VII: Cuban Political Prisoners and Immigrants - Cuban Prisoners and Immigrants - Provides for the processing of current and former Cuban political prisoners as refugees for U.S. entry regardless of the length of such imprisonment.

Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to Cuban nationals without regard to: (1) provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the refusal to accept the return of nationals; (2) the visa application site; and (3) the date of departure from Cuba for persons applying for visas outside Cuba.

Title VIII: Indochinese Refugee Resettlement and Protection Act of 1987 - Indochinese Refugee Resettlement and Protection Act of 1987 - Requires the President to submit a report within 120 days of enactment of this Act assessing the merit of transferring the authority to admit all refugees under the Immigration and Nationality Act from the Attorney General to the Secretary of State.

Allocates a specified number of refugees admissions for: (1) East Asians; and (2) the Orderly Departure Program (from Vietnam) for FY 1988 through 1990.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that Indochinese refugees who have lived in camps for three years or longer are of special humanitarian concern to the United States and should be considered as eligible for refugee processing. Provides that under the leadership of the United States renewed international efforts should be made to resettle these long-stayers, as proposed in the Report of the Secretary of the State's Indochinese Refugee Panel in April 1986.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allocate specified amounts from FY 1988 and 1989 authorizations for education, economic, and military training border projects in Thailand.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the international community should increase efforts to protect Indochinese refugee camps in Thailand from cross-border attacks, and that international personnel should be present on a 24-hour-a-day basis at camp "Site 2" in Thailand.

Title IX: Polish Permanent Resident Adjustment Act of 1987 - Polish Permanent Resident Adjustment Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the adjustment of status to permanent resident for certain Polish nationals who have continuously resided in the United States since July 21, 1984.

Requires such aliens to apply for status adjustment within two years of enactment of this Act.