United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to designate employees of the Library of Congress as police for duty with respect to the Library buildings and adjacent streets. Requires the rank structure and pay for such employees to be the same as that for the Capitol Police.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to remove specified accounts related to railroad retirement funds, taxes, and revenues from inclusion in the Federal budget totals submitted by the President or the Congress, and to exempt such accounts from any general budget limitation imposed by law on Federal expenditures and net lending (budget outlays). Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to prohibit from inclusion in the Federal budget totals submitted by the President or the Congress certain railroad unemployment insurance accounts, taxes, and funds, and to exempt them from any general statutory budget limitations imposed upon Federal expenditures and budget outlays. Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to direct the Railroad Retirement Board (the Board) to submit an annual budget program to the Office of Management and Budget which shall include separate statements of the Board's requested appropriations. Directs the President to include such requested amounts (without revision) in the budget transmitted to the Congress. Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that the Board's authority to determine the number of individuals it shall employ shall not be subject to review by other Federal administrative or accounting personnel. Precludes regulations promulgated by the Board from being subject to review by other Federal administrative or accounting personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Provides for the appointment of a delegation of Members of Congress to participate in ceremonies to be held in New York City in April 1989 commemorating the 200th anniversaries of: (1) the implementation of the Constitution as the form of government of the United States; (2) the inauguration of George Washington as the first President; and (3) the proposal of the Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Invites the President to join the delegation in participating in the ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1987 - Requires that all telephones sold, rented, or otherwise distributed in the United States be hearing aid compatible, except telephones that are manufactured before the effective date of this Act or that are not required to be registered with the Federal Communications Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Requires the head of each Federal agency to establish a program under which agency employees shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the adoption of a child. Allows a reimbursement only: (1) after the adoption becomes final; (2) if, at the time of adoption, the child is under 18 years of age and unmarried; and (3) if appropriate written application has been filed as may be required. Provides that a reimbursement shall be payable only if, or to the extent that, similar benefits have not met the full amount of adoption expenses. Prohibits a reimbursement from exceeding $2,000. Provides for determining reimbursement amounts when both adopting parents are Federal employees. Prohibits the denial of a reimbursement from being based on the marital status of the applicant. Allows the Office of Personnel Management to issue general guidelines for the uniform administration of this Act. Makes this Act applicable to Postal Service employees.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a program under which any member of the uniformed services who adopts a child shall be reimbursed for any adoption expenses. Allows a reimbursement only: (1) after the adoption becomes final; (2) if, at the time of adoption, the child is under 18 years of age and unmarried; and (3) if appropriate written application has been filed as may be required. Provides that a reimbursement shall be payable only if or to the extent that similar benefits have not met the full amount of adoption expenses. Prohibits a reimbursement from exceeding $2,000. Provides for the determination of reimbursement amounts when both adopting parents are eligible for reimbursement under this Act. Prohibits the denial of a reimbursement from being based on the marital status of the applicant.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1987
Amends Federal law to include among the purposes of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission the development of programs to educate young people with respect to Reverend King's contributions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require foods to include on their labeling the presence and amount of any palm, palm kernel, or coconut oil along with a statement that such oil(s) is a saturated fat.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit practitioners from dispensing oral, non-vaccine drugs for profit, except as specified in emergency, rural, or other limited circumstances. Retains to the States authority over the regulation of drug dispensation. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon request, to assist States in enforcing this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
National Policy and Technology Foundation Act of 1987 - Establishes, as an independent agency, the National Policy and Technology Foundation to develop and coordinate the collection, analysis, and dissemination through existing information systems of information as it relates to national and international economies, economic and industrial trends, technological advances, and related matters. Requires the Foundation to become a repository of such information and to provide a full array of informational and statistical services as well as monitor the quality of U.S. life through economic and other indicators. Establishes in the Foundation, in order to facilitate its purposes: (1) a National Policy and Technology Board; (2) an Office of Director of the Foundation; (3) a National Information Office; (4) an Office of National Policy, Analysis, and Assessment; (5) an Office of National Programs; (6) an Office of the Professions; (7) an Office of Institutional and Human Resource Development; (8) an Office of Small Business; and (9) an Office of Intergovernmental Technology and Professions Delivery Systems. Transfers to the Foundation: (1) the National Bureau of Standards; (2) the Patent and Trademark Office; (3) the National Technical Information Service; (4) the Office of Small Business Research and Development; (5) the Directorate for Engineering; (6) the Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation (exclusive of the nonengineering programs of the industry/university cooperative research projects program element) of the National Science Foundation; (7) the Intergovernmental Programs section of the National Science Foundation; (8) the Office of Industrial Technology; (9) the Center for the Utilization of Federal Technology; (10) the Division of Policy Research and Analysis of the National Science Foundation; and (11) functions of the Departments of Energy and Defense, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and of the Public Printer which relate to the sale of Government information to the public. Transfers to the Foundation all the functions and authorities of the National Science Foundation and the Secretary of Commerce under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980. Requires the Foundation to monitor and assess such information, developing indicators and evaluating the impact of such information on current or proposed policy and the impact of policy upon economic indicators. Requires the Foundation to support research and professional development. States that advisory councils covering the full range of Foundation responsibilities shall be appointed by the Director. Requires the Director to coordinate Foundation programs with other government and private programs. States that a National Foundation Coordinating Board shall be appointed. Authorizes the Foundation to award scholarships and graduate scholarships. Requires the foundation to report biennially to the Congress and the President on the activities, issues, and recommendations of the Council. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
National Advanced Technician Training Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out an advanced technician training program, making matching grants to two-year community and technical colleges to provide training in technical competencies in strategic fields. Requires such program to emphasize on-the-job training and recruitment of the unemployed. Requires that an inventory of available programs be accessible. Requires the Director to appoint a National Advisory Council on Advanced Technician Training to review and report to the Director and to the Congress on the effectiveness of the program, with recommendations as needed. Requires the Director to designate ten centers of excellence among such colleges to serve as clearinghouses, half for advanced technician training and half for undergraduate education in mathematics and science. Requires the Director to make at least 20 grants annually. Requires that funds under this Act be used to strengthen programs in advanced-technology occupations, for faculty development in advanced-technology fields such as laser, robotic, and computer technology, and the development of cooperative training and information networks with other schools and the private sector. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Provides that a Federal employee who participates in the Federal health benefits program for a continuous period of 25 years shall be eligible to continue enrollment as an annuitant without regard to a break in service of less than one year during the five-year period before retirement.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Stratospheric Ozone Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations controlling aggregate emissions of fully halogenated alkanes from the United States, setting a schedule which ultimately requires a 95 percent reduction from 1986 levels within seven years of enactment. Sets forth an emissions calculation formula which multiplies each fully halogenated alkane by its ozone depletion weight, adjusting aggregate amounts for imports, exports, production, and destruction or encapsulation. Requires the Administrator to establish a monitoring network to detect or predict modifications in the ozone layer. Requires the Administrator to conduct a detailed scientific assessment before implementing each stage of required reductions, adjusting the control measures as necessary. Prohibits, within one year of enactment, the import of fully halogenated alkanes in bulk from any nation without sufficiently stringent control measures. Prohibits, within three years of enactment, the import of all products containing fully halogenated alkanes from any nonequivalent nation. Sets forth a schedule of trade restrictions concerning the import or export of such alkanes, the technologies used to produce them, and the products produced by them. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress annually on aggregate emissions and compliance. Sets forth enforcement provisions, including provisions allowing citizen suits.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
United States Peace Tax Fund Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit conscientious objectors to designate their income, estate, or gift tax payments for nonmilitary purposes. Establishes within the Treasury a United States Peace Tax Fund (Fund) to receive such tax payments. Makes these tax designation procedures available to any individual who by reason of religious training and belief is opposed to participation in war in any form and either: (1) has been exempted from combat training and service in the armed forces under the Military Selective Service Act; or (2) satisfactorily demonstrates conscientious objection to war in any form. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to deny such status to a taxpayer upon a finding that the taxpayer is not entitled to make such a designation. Allows a taxpayer to challenge such a denial by bringing an action in the United States Tax Court or in U.S. District Court for a declaratory judgment as to whether the taxpayer is an eligible individual for purposes of such designation. Requires that each publication of general instructions accompanying income tax returns include specified information about the Fund, including the purposes of the Fund and the criteria governing one's eligibility to designate tax payments for such Fund. Requires every taxpayer who makes such a designation for any taxable year to file a questionnaire return during such year for the purpose of determining whether the taxpayer is an eligible individual. Permits the setting aside of criminal or civil penalties imposed upon a taxpayer for nonpayment of tax prior to 1988 if the taxpayer pays the tax due (with interest) and establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the nonpayment was due to religious beliefs. Directs the Comptroller General to determine the percentage of actual appropriations made by the United States from the Federal budget during the preceding year for military purposes. Requires the publication of such information in the Congressional Record. Establishes a United States Peace Tax Fund Board of Trustees to distribute funds for eligible nonmilitary activities and research. Sets forth the Board's membership structure and its duties. Directs the Board to publish regulations to govern applications for funds. Includes as activities qualified for funding: (1) research directed toward developing nonviolent solutions to international conflict; (2) disarmament efforts; (3) special projects of the United States Institute of Peace; (4) improvement of international health, education, and welfare; and (5) retraining of workers displaced by conversion from military production activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Hazardous Materials Rail Safety Act - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations regarding emergency response procedures for rail carriers in accident or emergency situations involving the transportation and storage of hazardous materials. Prescribes the contents of such requirements. Prohibits railroad tank cars built before November 6, 1971, from being used in commercial hazardous materials transportation unless they meet all safety and design requirements imposed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences for a study of railroad tank car design, and to report the results of such study to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) condemn France, Italy, Israel, West Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Switzerland for their continued violations of United Nations Resolution 418 (calling for an arms embargo against South Africa); (2) call upon such nations to halt any further sale of weapons or military-related equipment or transfer of military technology to South Africa; (3) commend any actions taken thus far by these governments to sever economic and military ties with South Africa; and (4) urge these nations to place pressure on the Government of South Africa to dismantle the system of apartheid.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act - Prohibits first-class mail parcel service (excluding letters) for any plant- or animal-related article unless the sender permits an agricultural inspection of such parcel. Makes it unlawful for a sender not to declare such articles. Provides for the: (1) detention of interstate mail (including mail from Puerto Rico); (2) inspection of international mail; and (3) detention of mail from outside the United States. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) coordinate activities under this Act with the United States Postal Service and the United States Customs Service; and (2) conduct a public education campaign. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Portable Pension Plan Act of 1987 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require, at an employee's request, any employer who has not maintained a qualified pension plan for five years prior to such request to establish a salary reduction arrangement providing for employee coverage under a simplified employee pension plan. Provides that employers are not required to make contributions to such plan. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make conforming amendments. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe by regulation a simplified method of compliance with simplified employee pension plans. Makes participation and vesting requirements of ERISA applicable to such plans and funding requirements inapplicable to such plans. Increases from ten percent to 20 percent the additional tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans. Exempts from such tax early distributions from individual retirement plans for medical expenses. Requires the consent of the participant before the immediate distribution of a vested accrued benefit in excess of $3,500. Provides for the portability (transfer) of amounts between plans upon a participant's preretirement separation from service. Allows the distribution of vested amounts that do not exceed $200. Makes conforming amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of Labor to take such action as necessary to facilitate and encourage the establishment and continued maintenance by small employers of employee pension benefit plan coverage, including providing access to instructional information and information by toll-free telephone. Directs the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on the extent to which efforts have been made to meet such requirement. Requires the Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office to report to the Congress on the retirement plan qualification process and the portability of pension benefits, together with recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Sugar Program Improvements Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to set sugar price supports at 12 cents per pound through 1991. (Current price support levels are 18 cents per pound through 1990.) Limits payments to persons who produced 1985 or 1986 sugarcane or sugar beet crops and who produced sugarcane or sugar beets from at least two of the 1982 through 1984 crops. Sets forth payment rate provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
National Advisory Panel on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to make grants for the development, establishment, and operation of a national advisory panel on acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Requires the Secretary to request an application for such grant from and make such grant to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, with provision for grants to other appropriate nonprofit private entities if the Institute submits no acceptable application. Requires the panel to: (1) advise the Congress and the President concerning policies and programs regarding AIDS; (2) make recommendations for changing health care services, public health activities, and research relating to AIDS; (3) monitor the spread of AIDS among given populations; (4) evaluate certain research activities associated with AIDS; (5) evaluate health services provided to individuals with AIDS; (6) analyze Federal, State, and local public efforts to combat AIDS; (7) assess efforts among different geographic areas to coordinate and share information about AIDS; (8) study the legal and ethical issues relating to AIDS; (9) examine problems encountered by AIDS victims in the areas of employment, education, housing, and insurance; (10) study potential violations of the civil rights of individuals with AIDS; (11) study the effect of AIDS on the armed services; (12) evaluate public and private efforts to provide education about AIDS; (13) identify financial resources available to address various aspects of AIDS; (14) encourage participation by both public and private entities in efforts to prevent and treat AIDS and to assist AIDS victims; and (15) encourage public and private agencies to participate in international efforts regarding AIDS. Sets forth criteria relating to the panel and its activities that must be met by applicants for grants to develop, establish, or operate the panel. Requires that the Secretary submit specified data relating to the panel's activities to the President, each panel member, and each appropriate congressional committee. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Declares that the House of Representatives: (1) calls for the immediate release of all the children detained under state of emergency regulations in South Africa; and (2) pending the release of the children, calls on South Africa to permit parental access to the children, make public their names and their location, provide them with adequate food, clothing, and protection, and permit an international organization to verify the above and make sure that such children are not abused or tortured.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Disabled Americans Work Incentive Act - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to continue the part A eligibility of physically or mentally impaired individuals who were eligible for such benefits by reason of their entitlement to disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act, but whose title II benefits have been terminated because they engaged in substantial gainful activity. Sets forth enrollment, special enrollment, and coverage periods as well as the contingencies terminating one's enrollment. Conditions such continued part A eligibility upon the payment of a monthly premium. Requires individuals who are entitled to part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) Medicare benefits only by reason of their continued part A eligibility provided by this Act to pay a monthly premium set at four times the amount otherwise required under part B. Prohibits such part A and B premiums from exceeding a specified percentage of the individual's adjusted gross income, unless the premium thereby sinks below 25 percent of the premium determined without income restraints. Prohibits the benefits provided by this Act from supplanting employer group health plan benefits. Amends title II of the Act to provide that when individuals become entitled to OASDI disability benefits by reason of a disability which previously entitled them to such benefits, both periods of entitlement shall count toward the two-year period of OASDI disability benefit entitlement required for Medicare eligibility despite an intervening period of gainful employment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Encourages State and local governments and local educational agencies to provide quality daily physical education programs for all children from kindergarten through grade 12.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Indochinese Refugee Resettlement and Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a specific time period in which the President must consult with the Congress regarding emergency refugee admissions. States that the Secretary of State shall have sole authority to admit certain South Asian refugees. Prohibits denial of refugee status to aliens who are otherwise eligible for immigrant classification. Allocates a specified number of FY 1988 through 1990 refugee admissions for: (1) East Asians; and (2) the Orderly Departure Program (from Vietnam). Expresses the sense of the Congress that under the leadership of the United States renewed efforts should be made to settle Indochinese refugees who have lived in camps for at least three years. Allocates specified numbers of FY 1988 through 1990 East Asian entries for: (1) persons who have lived in refugee camps for at least three years; and (2) other camp residents. 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.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for an employer to monitor an employee's work phone call unless a repeating audible warning tone is utilized. Allows any person whose call is monitored in violation of this Act to recover civil damages.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Pension Plan Assets Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to disallow reversions of residual assets to employers upon single-employer plan termination. Provides that, if any assets of the plan remain after all liabilities to participants and their beneficiaries have been satisfied, such assets shall be equitably distributed to such participants and beneficiaries in the same proportions as assets of the plan are allocated to the benefits of such participants and beneficiaries in satisfying such liabilities. Provides for the applicability of rules with regard to fiduciary duties in relation to plan terminations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
District of Columbia Speedy Trial Act - Amends the District of Columbia Code to create a new chapter relating to speedy trials. Establishes time limits for: (1) setting or listing criminal cases for trial; (2) filing informations or indictments; (3) arraigning defendants; (4) refiling of complaints, informations, or indictments; and (5) subject to a specified extension, retrials. Makes transition rules regarding such time limits as they apply to the period between arrest and indictment. Excludes specified types of delays from the computation of such time limits. Specifies factors a judge must consider when determining whether to grant a continuance. States factors which may not serve as reasons for granting a continuance. Establishes rules regarding the: (1) calculation of time limits when a plea of guilty or nolo contendere is subsequently withdrawn; and (2) treatment of persons charged with an offense who are serving a term of imprisonment in any penal institution. Sets sanctions to be imposed for failure to meet such time limits (extended as provided by certain provisions of this Act), including dismissing the complaint, information, or indictment, with or without prejudice. Establishes rules regarding the effective dates of such time limits. Provides for interim time limits in certain circumstances and for a sanction for failure to timely commence trial in such circumstances. Requires the Superior Court to conduct a continuing study of the administration of criminal justice and to adopt, after consultation, a plan for the disposition of criminal cases in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the Court to modify such plan, after consultation, at any time. Requires the plan and any modifications to be forwarded to the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Requires the Court to adopt other plans regarding the disposition of cases during specified periods over four years. Makes the plan adopted under this Act and recommendations of the planning group public documents. Requires the plan to include: (1) specified information regarding the implementation of the time limits of this Act; (2) specified information and statistics concerning the administration of justice; (3) specification of needed rule changes, statutory amendments, and appropriations; and (4) recommendations for reporting forms, procedures, and time requirements. Requires the Superior Court, by specified deadlines, to submit periodic reports to the Congress and to the Council of the District of Columbia detailing the plan. Requires such reports to include recommendations for legislative changes and additional appropriations. Requires the Superior Court, within 60 days of the enactment of this Act, to convene a planning group to advise the Court regarding formulation of plans. Requires the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to advise and assist the planning group and the Superior Court in regard to their duties under this Act. Sets forth regulations regarding collection and use of certain information required by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1978 to carry out the initial phases of planning and implementation of speedy trial plans under this Act. Prohibits expenditure of such funds except by two-thirds vote of the planning group. Authorizes the Chief Judge of the Superior Court, in certain circumstances, to order a suspension or extension of certain time limits imposed by this Act. Places restrictions on any such suspension or extension. Requires the Executive Officer of the District of Columbia courts, within ten days of such an order, to report the order to the Council of the District of Columbia, together with a written report with specified contents. Prohibits the Chief Judge from ordering an additional period of suspension without the consent of the Council, unless the Council fails to act within six months on the Chief Judge's request for such consent.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that for each nuclear power plant that does not currently possess a full-power operating license, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should apply its regulations so that such a license may be issued only if all of the Commission's emergency planning requirements are met. Includes in such requirements: (1) submission of off-site emergency plans to the Commission by State and local governments; and (2) a finding by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and a determination by the Commission, that such plans and emergency preparedness are deemed adequate to protect the public safety in the event of a serious reactor accident.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to interpret the origins and development of the U.S. Constitution at National Park units associated with the Constitution, making Independence National Historical Park the focal point of the National Park System's celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. Directs the Secretary to establish a memorial to the Constitution at such Park. Requires the Secretary to appoint an advisory committee to develop such memorial. Requires the development of educational and interpretive materials and research on the Constitution. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Medicare and Medicaid Catastrophic Acute and Transitional Care Act - Title I: Medicare (Federal Medigap Insurance) - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover the amount by which a part B enrollee's out-of-pocket expenses exceed $500 in 1989, adjusting such ceiling thereafter to reflect changes in total Medicare per capita expenses. Excludes from the computation of a beneficiary's out-of-pocket expenses, amounts above the full part B payment to physicians and others who do not accept assignment. Covers a Medicare beneficiary's prescribed drugs to the extent they exceed an annual $300 deductible, adjusted annually to reflect changes in the cost-of-living. Imposes a copayment of two dollars per prescription. Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program to require that an inpatient hospital deductible be paid only for the first period of continuous hospitalization in a calendar year. (Currently, such deductible must be paid for each "spell of illness" requiring inpatient hospital services.) Removes durational limitations on the coverage of inpatient hospital services, except with respect to inpatient psychiatric hospital services. Eliminates the coinsurance requirement for inpatient hospital services. Drops restrictions on the coverage of extended care services which are not post-hospital extended care services. Covers post-hospital extended care services for 150 days in each calendar year. (Currently, such coverage is limited to 100 days for each "spell of illness".) Revises eligibility requirements for extended care and home health services. Includes rehabilitative services within the scope of extended care and home health services. Covers 50 percent of the reasonable charges for prescribed respite care if the entity furnishing such care accepts payment under part B of the Medicare program on an assignment-related basis. Includes in-home care, adult day health care, and short-term institutional care within the definition of "respite care." Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set a limit on annual respite care payments made on behalf of an individual. Excludes transitional care, as defined by the Secretary (to include home health and extended care services, but not respite care), from Medicare coverage, unless a plan has been established for furnishing such care. Creates an extension period of hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries which is to follow the two 90-day periods and the subsequent 30 day period of hospice care coverage currently provided in an individual's lifetime. Reduces the deductible imposed under part A on the first three pints of blood furnished to an individual during a calendar year to the extent such blood is replaced or a blood deductible has been imposed on the individual under part B of the Medicare program within such year. Requires the Secretary to establish three-year demonstration projects examining "managed care" approaches to providing transitional nursing home, home health, and respite care to Medicare beneficiaries. Sets forth reporting requirements. Title II: Medicaid Program Improvements - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act to allow States to extend Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and infants under age one whose income exceeds current income eligibility standards, but does not exceed 185 percent of the Federal poverty level. Requires States to extend Medicaid coverage to children: (1) under age 18 (or, in the case of a child in school, a job, or job training, age 21) who meet the income and resource requirements of the State plan under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Act; and (2) under age five whose family income is at or below the Federal poverty level. Authorizes States to accelerate the coverage of poor children under age 18 (or, in the case of a child in school, a job, or job training, age 21). (Currently, such coverage is extended gradually.) Requires States to provide Medicaid coverage for Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance payments for which Medicare-eligible individuals whose income does not exceed the Federal poverty level would otherwise be accountable. Separates the income and resources of an institutionalized individual from the income and resources of his or her community spouse in determining the institutionalized individual's Medicaid eligibility. Requires that, after a personal needs allowance is deducted from an institutionalized individual's monthly income, a monthly income allowance be paid to his or her community spouse (in addition to a family allowance for each family member residing with such spouse) to the extent such spouse's monthly income falls short of a minimum monthly maintenance needs allowance (allowance) determined pursuant to a specified formula. Gives the institutionalized spouse the right to a hearing to establish that the allowance is not adequate to support the community spouse without financial duress so that an adequate amount of support will be substituted for the allowance. Prohibits the allowance from being less than court ordered support payments. Permits an institutionalized spouse to transfer resources to the community spouse to the extent $12,000 exceeds the amount of resources otherwise available to the community spouse. Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Act to increase the personal needs allowance of an eligible institutionalized individual or his or her institutionalized spouse. Title III: Financing of Improvements - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose additional excise taxes on cigarettes. Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of such excise taxes after 1988. Imposes a tax surcharge on the income of individuals who are age 65 or older to cover the additional Medicare expenditures occasioned by this Act which are not covered by other revenues raised by this Act. Increases the Medicare supplementary medical insurance premium by ten dollars for each month in 1989, with subsequent monthly adjustments reflecting changes in the cost-of-living. Applies 50 percent of the revenues from the additional cigarette taxes and all of the revenues raised by the tax surcharge on the income of elderly individuals to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Applies 12 1/2 percent of the revenues from the additional cigarette taxes to the reduction of the State share of Medicaid costs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the remaining 37 1/2 percent of the revenues raised by such taxes should be used to reduce the Federal cost of Medicaid.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements. Requires such veteran, if receiving another pension administered by the Veterans Administration (VA), to elect which pension he will receive. Provides for the payment of a monthly pension of $100 to surviving spouses of World War I veterans who meet certain marriage requirements. Requires such surviving spouses to choose between pensions if they are currently receiving another pension through the VA.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1987
Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds available to the Department of Defense for the direct or indirect benefit of the Nicaraguan democratic resistance, unless such funds were specifically authorized and appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to designate employees of the Library of Congress as police for duty with respect to the Library buildings and adjacent streets. Requires the rank structure and pay for such employees to be the same as that for the Capitol Police. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make Library of Congress police eligible for public safety officers' death benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the appointment by the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands of electors of the President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which such territories would be entitled if they together were a single State, but in no event more electors than the least populous State appoints.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1987
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to provide that, with respect to the sale, consignment, or distribution of motor fuel, the term "franchise" includes any contract between specified parties which is economically necessary to the operation of the leased marketing premises. Provides that the termination or non-renewal of a franchise relationship, upon expiration of an underlying lease for a marketing premises, is reasonable in the event that the franchisor: (1) has an option to renew or purchase an underlying lease or premises and, at least 90 days before such option expires, provides the franchisee with the name, address, and phone number of the owner or lessor; and (2) agrees not to terminate the franchise relationship solely because of the lease and option expiration during any term during which the franchisee is able to retain possession of the premises as a result of entering into an agreement with the owner or lessor.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1987
Minimum Wage Restoration Act of 1987 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for specified annual increases in the minimum wage. Provides, after such increases reach a certain level, for annual indexing of the minimum wage to 50 percent of the average hourly rate in the private sector.
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