A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” in the United States

A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”

Act Details

A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” was, as a bill, a proposal (now, a piece of legislation) introduced on 1991-03-21 in the House of Commons and Senate respectively of the 102 United States Congress by John Davison Iv (jay) Rockefeller in relation with: Special weeks, Tourist trade.

A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” became law (1) in the United States on 1991-05-03. It was referred to the following Committee(s): (2)

Senate Judiciary (SSJU)
House Post Office and Civil Service (HSPO)

Sponsor

John Davison Iv (jay) Rockefeller, Democrat, Senator from West Virginia

The proposal had the following cosponsors:

Brockman (brock) Adams, Democrat, Senator, from Washington
Daniel Kahikina Akaka, Democrat, Senator, from Hawaii
Max Sieben Baucus, Democrat, Senator, from Montana
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Democrat, Senator, from Texas
Christopher Samuel (kit) Bond, Republican, Senator, from Missouri

John Berlinger Breaux, Democrat, Senator, from Louisiana
George Hanks (hank) Brown, Republican, Senator, from Colorado
Richard H Bryan, Democrat, Senator, from Nevada
Conrad Burns, Senator, from Montana
William Thad Cochran, Republican, Senator, from Mississippi
William Sebastian Cohen, Republican, Senator, from Maine
Kent Conrad, Democrat, Senator, from North Dakota
Larry Edwin Craig, Republican, Senator, from Idaho
Alan Cranston, Democrat, Senator, from California
John Claggett Danforth, Republican, Senator, from Missouri
Thomas Daschle, Senator, from South Dakota
Dennis Webster Deconcini, Democrat, Senator, from Arizona
Alan John Dixon, Democrat, Senator, from Illinois
Pete Domenici, Senator, from New Mexico
J. James Exon, Democrat, Senator, from Nebraska
Wendell Hampton Ford, Democrat, Senator, from Kentucky
Edwin Jacob (jake) Garn, Republican, Senator, from Utah
Albert Arnold Gore, Democrat, Senator, from Tennessee
Thomas Slade Gorton, Republican, Senator, from Washington
Bob Graham, Senator, from Florida
Chuck Grassley, Senator, from Iowa
Orrin Grant Hatch, Republican, Senator, from Utah
Ernest Frederick Hollings, Democrat, Senator, from South Carolina
Daniel Ken Inouye, Democrat, Senator, from Hawaii
James Merrill Jeffords, Republican; Independent, Senator, from Vermont
John Forbes Kerry, Democrat, Senator, from Massachusetts
Herb Kohl, Senator, from Wisconsin
Carl Levin, Democrat, Senator, from Michigan
Chester Trent Lott, Republican, Senator, from Mississippi
Connie Mack, Republican, Representative, from Florida
John Sidney Mccain, Republican, Senator, from Arizona
George John Mitchell, Democrat, Senator, from Maine
Claiborne De Borda Pell, Democrat, Senator, from Rhode Island
Larry Lee Pressler, Republican, Senator, from South Dakota
David Hampton Pryor, Democrat, Senator, from Arkansas
Harry Reid, Democrat, Senator, from Nevada
Donald Wayne Riegle, Democrat, Senator, from Michigan
Charles Spittal Robb, Democrat, Senator, from Virginia
Warren Bruce Rudman, Republican, Senator, from New Hampshire
(james) Terry Sanford, Democrat, Senator, from North Carolina
John Seymour, Republican, Senator, from California
Alan Kooi Simpson, Republican, Senator
Theodore Fulton (ted) Stevens, Republican, Senator, from Alaska
Steven Douglas Symms, Republican, Senator, from Idaho
Strom Thurmond, Senator, from South Carolina
John William Warner, Republican, Senator, from Virginia

Act Overview

Number: 102 (3)
Official Title as Introduced: A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” (4)
Date First Introduced: 1991-03-21
Sponsor Name: John William Warner
Assignment Process: See Committe Assignments (5)
Latest Major Activity/Action: Enacted
Date Enacted (signed, in general (6), by President): 1991-05-03
Type: sjres (7)
Main Topic: Special weeks
Related Bills: (8)
hjres103-102, Reason: identical, Type: bill
hjres103-102, Reason: related, Type: bill
Summary of A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”: Govtrack. Authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress.
Primary Source: Congress Website

Text of the A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”

Designates the week beginning on the first Sunday in May 1991 as National Tourism Week.

Act Notes

[Note 1] An Act (like A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”) or a resolution cannot become a law in the United States until it has been approved (passed) in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as signed by the President (but see (5)). If the two bodys of the Congress versions of an Act are not identical, one of the bodies might decide to take a further vote to adopt the bill (see more about the Congress process here). An Act may be pass in identical form with or without amendments and with or without conference. (see more about Enrollment).
[Note 2] Proposals are referred to committees for preliminary consideration, then debated, amended, and passed (or rejected) by the full House or Senate. To prevent endless shuttling of bills between the House and Senate, bills like A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” are referred to joint committees made up of members of both houses.
[Note 3] For more information regarding this legislative proposal, go to THOMAS, select “Bill Number,” search on (A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”)
[Note 4] A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”. The current official title of a bill is always present, assigned at introduction (for example, in this case, on 1991-03-21) and can be revised any time. This type of titles are sentences.
[Note 5] The Act is referred to the appropriate committee by the Speaker of any of the two Houses. Bills are placed on the calendar of the committee to which they have been assigned. See Assignment Process.
[Note 6] Regarding exceptions to President´s approval, a bill that is not signed (returned unsigned) by the President can still become law if at lest two thirds of each of the two bodys of the Congress votes to pass it, which is an infrequent case. See also Presidential Veto.
[Note 7] Legislative Proposal types can be: hr, hres, hjres, hconres, s, sres, sjres, sconres. A bill originating in the Senate is designated by the letter “S”, and a bill originating from the House of Representatives begins with “H.R.”, followed, in both cases, by its individual number which it retains throughout all its parliamentary process.
[Note 8] For information regarding related bill/s to A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”, go to THOMAS.

Analysis

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Special weeks
Tourist trade

A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”

A joint resolution designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week” in the United States