To direct the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to develop a master plan for expanding the National Air and Space Museum at an airport and construct facilities necessary for housing such expansion.
1989-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
To prohibit certain railroad employees from leaving their post in the event of a train accident.
1989-03-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for payment of hospitals under the DRG prospective payment system on the basis of a blend of hospital-specific rates and a national rate, depending on the degree of variation of costs within specific diagnosis-related groups.
1989-03-01: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act
1990-06-05: Laid on the table. See S. 580 for further action.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat rural electric or telephone cooperatives in the same manner as other cooperatives for purposes of the book income preference under the minimum tax.
1989-03-01: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To exclude Agent Orange settlement payments from countable income and resources under Federal means-tested programs.
1989-11-17: Laid on the table. See S. 892 for further action.
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that the existing requirement for deeming a parent's income and resources to his or her children under age 18 shall not apply in the case of certain severely disabled children, and to provide that the benefit payable to such children under such title shall equal the personal needs allowance.
1989-04-03: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Maternal Child Health Improvement Act of 1989
1989-04-17: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit institutions of higher education to make loans to their students, if such institutions continue to hold such loans until the beginning of the grace period of the loan, and for other purposes.
1989-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.
Farm and Woodland Owners Tax Simplification Act of 1989
1989-02-22: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To amend chapter 33 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the unauthorized use of the names "Visiting Nurse Association", "Visiting Nurse Service", "VNA", "VNS", or "VNAA", or the unauthorized use of the name or insignia of the Visiting Nurse Association of America.
1989-06-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice.
Used Oil Recycling Act of 1989
1989-07-13: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Nuclear Decommissioning Reserve Fund Act of 1989
1989-03-08: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To modernize circulating coins of which the reverse of the first coin will contain the theme of the Bicentennial.
1989-07-12: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
To prevent the mailing of unsolicited sexually oriented advertisements, and for other purposes.
1989-09-21: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the provision terminating the exclusion for benefits under educational assistance programs and to repeal the provision limiting such exclusion to benefits for undergraduate education.
1989-02-28: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act
1989-04-13: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that any person who receives an unsolicited sexually oriented advertisement through the mails may require the sender to disclose the source from which the recipient's name or address was obtained.
1990-03-05: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Postal Service.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow income from the sale of certain used automobiles to be computed on the installment sales method, and for other purposes.
1990-02-22: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Worker's Option Act of 1989
1989-05-22: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.