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United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of May 1984 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Designates October 1984 as National Down's Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make the present optional State food stamp workfare program mandatory.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Designates the week beginning June 11, 1984, as National Scuba Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should urge Canada to discontinue imposing taxes on travel literature imported from the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
States that the Congress: (1) protests the denial by the International Olympic Committee of accreditation to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondents covering the winter Olympic games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and urges such Committee to grant accreditation to RFE/RL correspondents to cover future Olympic games, including the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles; and (2) calls upon the President to encourage the accreditation by the International Olympic Committee of RFE/RL correspondents who are recognized and supported by the U.S. Olympic Committee to cover the Olympic games.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Designates the week beginning November 11, 1984, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning on November 18, 1984, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Designates the month of June 1984 as Veterans' Preference Month.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Designates the month of September 1984 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Repeals the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that require that ballots and other election materials be available in a language other than English. States that nothing in this Act shall prohibit any State from providing ballots in any language other than English if local conditions so require.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as National Birds of Prey Conservation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates June 6, 1984, as D-Day National Remembrance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a physicians' and surgeons' mutual protection and indemnity association any initial payment made by a member upon joining such an association provided that the member does not elect to claim an income tax deduction for such payment. Allows a member of such an association to elect to claim an income tax deduction as a business expense any initial payment made to the association. Limits the amount of such deduction to an amount which would be payable to an independent insurance company for medical malpractice insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Relief of Pain in the Human Fetus During Abortion Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal offense for any person to perform an abortion on a woman without informing her of the availability of anesthetics or analgesics to abolish or alleviate any pain caused to the fetus. Provides for a fine of not more than $1,000. Establishes exceptions where a medical emergency exists or where such use would decrease the possibility of survival of the fetus outside of the woman.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Housing Finance Opportunity Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the continued issuance of tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Designates the month of March 1984 as Youth Art Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of January as National Eye Health Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that an international prayer breakfast would be an appropriate event to be held in conjunction with the games of the XXIII Olympiad.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Designates chili as the official food of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Designates the week of September 30 through October 6, 1984, as National High-Tech Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
States that the National Open Greco-Roman and the National Open Free Style Championships serve to focus attention on the sport of amateur wrestling. Designates the week beginning April 1, 1984, as National Amateur Wrestling Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1984
Designates the month of November 1984 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Designates January 1 through December 31, 1984, as the Year of Excellence in Education.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Designates the month of June 1984 as Student Awareness of Drunk Driving Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act of 1983 - Title I - The Credit for Increasing Research Activities; ACRS for R&D Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for research and development (R&D) expenditures. Modifies the definition of qualified research for purposes of the R&D credit to narrow the category of eligible activities for which the credit is allowable. Makes depreciation of research equipment eligible for the R&D credit. Eliminates the special three-year accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS) category for research equipment. Increases contract research expenses eligible for R&D credit purposes to 75 percent of the amount paid to others for research on the taxpayer's behalf. Provides that in-house and contract research expenses paid or incurred by a regular corporation will constitute qualified research expenses for R&D credit purposes. Provides that in the case of research being conducted in partnership form, the "in carrying on" test is applied at the partnership level, and the credit is apportioned among the partners in accordance with general partnership rules. Title II - Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education - Establishes a new income tax credit equal to 25 percent of payments to universities for basic research which exceed a fixed, maintenance-of-effort floor. Calculates the maintenance-of-effort floor as the greater of the annual average of university basic research payments over 1982-1983 or one percent of the average annual R&D budget over 1981-1983. Treats the portion of the university basic research payments which is not in excess of the maintenance-of-effort floor as contract research expenses eligible for purposes of computing the regular incremental R&D credit. Allows corporations an income tax deduction for contributions of scientific and technical property or services to an institution of higher education. Defines scientific property to mean computer software or other equipment used in a trade or business, which is donated for the direct education of students and faculty, for research and experimentation, or for research training in the United States in mathematics, the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of the allowable deduction for contributions of scientific property or services. Limits the amount of such deduction to ten percent of taxable income computed without regard to specified deductions. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the scholarships, fellowship grants, student loan forgiveness, or stipends of a graduate student in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or the physical or biological sciences. Specifies that such tax exclusion is not forfeited merely because the student is required, as a condition of the scholarship or fellowship, to perform future service in teaching or research.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Colorado River Disaster Assistance Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide compensation to individuals who have suffered property and income losses resulting from the release of water by the Bureau of Reclamation from dams located along the Colorado River. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate and publish in the Federal Register final regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow members of the clergy and members of the uniformed services to deduct expenses related to tax-exempt housing and subsistence allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude "sources of radiation" from the definition of food additive. Subjects food irradiation to the same regulations that apply to raw agricultural commodity pesticide use. Exempts existing regulations from such requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into negotiations directed toward agreements with non-Federal entities which provide for cost-sharing toward financing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Prohibits any agreement from taking effect until funds are appropriated to carry out such agreement. Authorizes participating non-Federal entities to share in the power and other project services of the Auburn-Folsom South unit. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate House and Senate committees concerning such agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Amends Federal law to authorize certain principal works for the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River Division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Directs that certain expenditures, as determined by the Secretary of the Army, shall be nonreimbursable. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) maintain minimum water flows in the American River (downstream from Nimbus Dam) for fish, recreation, and National Wild and Scenic River System purposes; and (2) release water from the Nimbus Dam necessary for the operation of an expansion of the Nimbus fish hatchery. Requires the cost of water to be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of such hatchery are borne by the State of California. Requires that the costs for maintaining minimum flows in the American River shall be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of constructing and operating the Hood-Clay Pump Connection and Clay Station Reservoir shall be reimbursable. Authorizes appropriations for the Auburn-Folsom South unit in terms of July 1982 prices, starting with FY 1985. (Current law authorizes appropriations of a lesser sum in terms of 1965 prices.) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 provide for the relocation of the southern terminus of the existing Placer County Road from Auburn to Foresthill, California.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Small Business Federal Construction Incentive Act of 1984 - Amends the Small Business Act and the Davis-Bacon Act to increase from $2,000 to $1,000,000 the threshold dollar amount subjecting certain contracts with small businesses to the Davis-Bacon Act and requiring them to specify the minimum wages to be paid to laborers and mechanics. Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to direct the Small Business Administration, not later than 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to study the impact of the amendments made by this Act and report its findings to the Small Business Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Requires a contractor or subcontractor, in the case of a contract with a small business which does not exceed $1,000,000, to furnish wage statements for each employee at the midpoint and the conclusion of the period covered by the contract.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue a new license to an existing licensee for a hydroelectric project authorized under such Act if the United States does not, upon the expiration of the existing license, exercise its right to take over, maintain, and operate such licensee's project, unless the Commission determines that such licensee's project will not meet the licensing standards under such Act. Provides that if the Commission determines that such licensee's project does not meet such standards, the Commission is authorized to issue a new license to a new licensee which may cover the existing licensee's project provided that the new licensee pays just compensation determined by the Commission and enters into any contracts required under the Federal Power Act. (Under current law, the Commission is authorized to issue a new license to the original licensee or a new license to a new licensee if the United States does not exercise its rights with respect to an expired license.)
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Repeals the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that require ballots and other election materials be available in a language other than English.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to delay for one year the effective date of special rules concerning top-heavy employee benefit plans (plans which discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of such special rules and report to specified committees of the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Designates March 1984 as National Eye Donor Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the news media should voluntarily refrain from projecting election results before the polls close; and (2) the news media and industry, trade and professional organizations should voluntarily adopt guidelines to assure that exit interview data is not used to project election results before the polls close.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1983
Designates July 1 through July 8, 1984, as National Duck Stamp Week, and 1984 as the Golden Anniversary Year of the Duck Stamp.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should return to Cuba those Cuban nationals from the 1980 Mariel boatlift who are excludable because of criminal activity.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the President an item veto of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such a bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1983
Designates September 14, 1984, as National Women Veterans Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from Federal income taxes members of the armed forces of the United States who die as a result of hostile action outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exempt from the prohibition against unfair labor practices any agreement between a labor organization and an employer in the construction industry to refrain from doing business with a contractor or subcontractor at the single site of construction, alteration, painting or repair.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Designates December 7, 1984, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Criminal Fine Collection Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code with respect to the imposition, payment, and collection of fines. Lists factors that the court must consider in determining whether to impose a fine, including: (1) the ability of the defendant to pay; (2) the burden that payment will impose on the defendant; and (3) any restitution or reparation made by the defendant. States that payment of a fine is due immediately unless the court requires payment by installment or by any date certain. Permits a sentence to pay a fine to be stayed while an appeal is taken. Makes a fine delinquent if any portion of such fine is not paid within 30 days of when it is due. Provides that a fine is in default if it is more than 90 days delinquent. Allows for the modification or remission of a sentence to pay a fine. Requires the clerk to forward each fine payment to the U.S. Treasury and notify the Attorney General of its receipt. Requires the court to certify to the Attorney General when a fine exceeding $100 is imposed, modified, or remitted. Makes the Attorney General responsible for the collection of any unpaid fine for which certification has been issued. Allows the court to impose interest and monetary penalties for any willful nonpayment. Establishes civil remedies for the satisfication of an unpaid fine. Provides that a judgment imposing a fine may be enforced by execution against the property of the person fined as are judgments in civil cases. Allows the court to resentence a person upon willful failure to pay a fine to any sentence which might originally have been imposed. Provides for a statute of limitations on the liability to pay a fine of 20 years or upon death of the person fined. Provides penalties for criminal default of a fine. Makes payment of a fine a condition of probation or parole in certain circumstances. Requires the Attorney General to include in the annual crime report steps taken to implement this Act and any progress achieved in criminal fine collection.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Amends Federal law to specify the two acre area authorized for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to file a map and a legal description of the specified area with the appropriate congressional committee and to publish such map and legal description in the Federal Register.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Transportation should submit to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than June 30, 1984, full research and development program planning documentation for the expedited civilian use of the Global Positioning System (a system which provides navigational information to aircraft).
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Cable Telecommunications Act of 1983 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize any governmental entity empowered to grant a cable television franchise to require: (1) that a reasonable amount of channel capacity be designated for public, educational, or government purposes; and (2) that rules be promulgated governing the use of such channel capacity, including rules for creating an agency or nonprofit organization to administer the use of such channel capacity. Allows the cable system operator to use such channel capacity for other purposes until there is a demand for use of such capacity for public, educational, or governmental purposes. Prohibits a cable operator from exercising any editorial control over any video programming for such purposes. Requires a cable operator to designate a specified percentage of its channel capacity not required for use under Federal law for commercial use by persons unaffiliated with the operator. Prohibits any Federal, State, or local authority from requiring the designation of a greater percentage of channel capacity for commercial use by unaffiliated persons. Allows an operator to continue using such designated capacity until a written agreement with an unaffiliated person is obtained. Directs the operator to establish prices, terms, and conditions for such use that are sufficient to assure that the operation, financial condition, and market development of the cable system are not adversely affected. Prohibits a cable operator from exercising any editorial control over video programming for such use except to the extent necessary to assure that such cable system is not adversely affected. Prohibits the use of such channel capacity to provide a cable service being provided on the enactment date of this Act in order to avoid providing a diversity of information sources. Authorizes any person aggrieved by the failure of an operator to make channel capacity available for such commercial use to seek to compel that such capacity be made available by bringing an action in the appropriate Federal district court or by petitioning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Authorizes the FCC to prescribe rules necessary to assure that a cable operator or owner provides for a diversity of information sources over the cable system: (1) upon finding that prior adjudications constitute a pattern of such failure by such person; and (2) whenever cable systems with 36 or more activated channels are available to 70 percent of U.S. households and are subscribed to by 70 percent of the households to which such systems are available. Prohibits a person from owning or controlling a cable system if such person: (1) is the licensee of a television broadcast station the predicted grade B contour (field strength) of which covers any part of the community served by such cable system; (2) owns or controls a daily newspaper published in such community; or (3) is a common carrier providing telephone exchange service in any part of such community, excluding specified rural areas. Authorizes the FCC to prescribe rules concerning the common ownership or control of cable systems by persons who own or control other media of mass communications serving the community served by the cable system. Prohibits any State or local authority from regulating the diversity of ownership of mass media interests. Prohibits any State or local authority that has an interest in any cable system from directly or indirectly controlling the content of any programming on such system, except programming on educational, public, or government channels, unless such authority establishes an independent board or separate management company. Prohibits the owner of a multiple unit dwelling from interfering with the provision of cable service requested by a resident. Permits the owner to require that: (1) the costs of installation, construction, operation, or removal of the cable facilities be borne by the subscriber, the operator, or both; (2) the condition of the dwelling and the safety and convenience of other residents are not adversely affected by the installation or construction of such facilities; and (3) the owner be fully compensated by the cable operator for any damages caused by such facilities. Directs the FCC to establish the amount of just compensation to which the owner is entitled. Authorizes a governmental or franchising authority to award one or more cable franchises within its jurisdiction. Directs such authority to assure that the opportunity to purchase cable service is not denied to any class of potential subscribers because of income or economic status. Provides that a franchise shall be construed to authorize the construction of a cable system over public rights-of-way and through easements dedicated for compatible uses, provided the property owners are compensated for any resulting damages. Prohibits a cable system from providing cable service without a franchise. Permits a governmental or franchising authority to require the construction of cable system facilities or the provision of certain equipment as part of an initial franchise or a franchise renewal proceeding. Directs such authority to negotiate and, if necessary, enter binding arbitration with a cable operator over the termination, modification, or deferral of a requirement for facilities or equipment (excluding facilities or equipment for educational, public, or government use) that the operator shows to be impracticable as a result of a significant change in circumstances. Provides that the terms of any franchise agreement resulting from a request for proposals originally issued on or before September 30, 1982, shall remain in effect for the remaining term of the franchise. Declares that no cable system shall be subject to regulation as a common carrier or utility by reason of providing cable service. Authorizes a governmental or franchising authority to require a cable operator to pay a franchise fee not to exceed an annual aggregate of five percent of such operator's gross revenues. Permits a cable operator to pass the cost of any increase in the franchise fee through to subscribers. Prohibits a governmental or franchising authority from requiring the provisions of services, facilities, or other items not related to the provision of cable service under a franchise. Authorizes a franchising authority to regulate the rates for the provision of basic cable service and the installation or rental of equipment necessary for the receipt of such service for any cable system that is not located within the grade B contour of four or more full power television signals with at least one affiliate of each of the three power commercial television networks. Authorizes such an authority to regulate the rates of a franchise in effect on the enactment date of this Act for the greater of five years or one-half of the remaining term of the franchise. Authorizes annual rate increases not exceeding the regional consumer price index if subscribers are given 30 days notice. Provides that requests for rate increases shall be deemed to be granted if not acted upon within 90 days. Bars any other regulation of rates, with specified exceptions, by any Federal, State, local, or other franchising authority. Prohibits any such authority from regulating the provision or content of cable services, except that: (1) any applicable FCC regulation in effect on September 21, 1983, may remain in effect; (2) a franchising authority may enforce the terms of a franchise agreement under which the cable operator agrees to provide particular services; (3) a franchising authority and a cable operator may specify that certain services that are obscene or otherwise unprotected by the Constitution may not be provided; and (4) an operator may be required to offer basic cable services. Allows an operator to rearrange, replace, or remove a service specified in a franchise if there has been a significant change in circumstances. Requires a franchising authority to grant an application for the renewal or extension of an operator's franchise, unless: (1) the operator has not substantially complied with the franchise or applicable law or has committed a felony; (2) there has been a change in the operator's qualifications that impairs the provision of service; (3) the facilities to be provided by the operator are unreasonable in terms of cost and community need; (4) the signal of the operator's system has not met the FCC's technical standards; or (5) the proposals of the application are otherwise unreasonable. Sets forth time requirements and procedures governing the filing, consideration, and denial of applications and the judicial review of adverse decisions. Prohibits a franchising authority, upon the expiration of a franchise, from acquiring an ownership interest in a cable system, or requiring a sale of a system to another person, at less than the system's fair market value. Prohibits a franchising authority from acquiring an ownership interest in a system subject to a franchise termination resulting from a material breach by a cable operator, unless the operator was provided notice of, and a reasonable opportunity to remedy, the breach. Prohibits any cable operator or any other person who provides cable services from using the cable system to collect personally identifiable information on a cable subscriber without the written or electronic consent of the subscriber. Permits the collection of such information solely for billing purposes or for monitoring unauthorized receptions of cable telecommunications. Requires such information to be destroyed when it is no longer used for such purposes. Prohibits the disclosure of such information without the consent of the subscriber or a court order authorizing such disclosure. Requires cable operators to notify subscribers of their rights under the privacy provisions of this Act. Requires each subscriber to have access to all of their personally identifiable information collected and maintained by a cable operator or other person providing cable services. Authorizes civil damages for violations of these privacy provisions. States that cable operators have no liability for programs on public, educational, or governmental channels or for channels designated for commercial use by unaffiliated persons. Prohibits any person from intercepting or receiving cable services or assisting in intercepting or receiving cable services without specific authorization by a cable operator or by law. Sets forth provisions governing civil remedies, the determination of civil damages, and criminal penalities for violations of such prohibition. Provides that a State shall not be considered to regulate the rates, terms, and conditions for pole attachments unless: (1) the State has issued and made effective regulations implementing such regulatory authority; and (2) the State takes final action on a complaint about an individual matter within 60 days.