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United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Requests the President to designate August 13, 1981, as "National Blinded Veterans Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the first full week of June of each year as "National Garden Week."
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1981
Establishes a new position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. Changes the existing position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Regulatory Procedure Act of 1981 - Title I: The Analysis, Management, and Organization of Agency Functions - Requires the head of each Federal agency to publish for each proposed major rule a preliminary regulatory analysis which describes: (1) the need for the rule; (2) the reasonable alternative approaches; (3) regional differences; (4) the projected benefits, adverse economic effects, and effectiveness of the proposed rule and alternatives; and (5) the advantages and disadvantages of adopting performance standards rather than design standards. Requires that each agency publish for each final major rule a final regulatory analysis which includes: (1) an explanation of the selection of the rule considering its adverse economic effects; (2) a summary of the significant issues raised by public comments; and (3) the total costs to the agency of the preliminary and final regulatory analysis. Directs each agency to: (1) include in the notice of each proposed and final major rule, instructions of how the public may obtain copies of such analyses; and (2) send a copy of such analyses to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Authorizes an agency to delay completing such analyses by publishing a finding that the rule is being adopted in response to an emergency that makes completion of such analyses impossible. Terminates any such emergency rule if such analyses are not completed within 180 days of the publication of the rule. Bars judicial review of such regulatory analyses. Requires the Director of OMB and the Comptroller General to report to Congress on agency compliance with the requirements of this title. Requires each agency to publish in the Federal Register, semiannually, a regulatory agenda containing a list of major and other rules for the next year and certain specified information concerning such rules. Directs each agency to submit its proposed major rules to the President for incorporation into a semiannual Calendar of Federal Regulations. Requires the Director of OMB to review and publish a list of rules submitted which potentially duplicate or conflict with other proposed or existing rules. Directs each agency: (1) include in the notice of a rulemaking or adjudicatory proceeding the date by which the agency intends to complete such proceeding; and (2) to prepare and publish in the first regulatory agenda of the year a report on such proceedings which includes the number of proceedings the agency failed to complete by the established deadline and the reasons for such failure. Requires that such report also disclose specified information concerning the use of funds by the agency for procuring services for the preparation of any report in connection with such a proceeding. Requires each agency, within 6 months of the effective date of this Act, to: (1) establish an office, within such agency, to be responsible for regulatory planning and management; (2) issue guidelines for determining which rules are significant rules; and (3) issue guidelines to insure that an adopted major or significant rule meets certain criteria including requirements that: (a) the rule is written to be easily understood; (b) there has been full consideration with affected State and local governments; and (c) the public has been given a full opportunity to participate in the rulemaking process. Requires that each agency submit to OMB and publish in the Federal Register a draft schedule for the review, over a ten-year period, of its major rules and practices. Sets forth guidelines for such review. Directs each agency to publish a final review schedule within one year. Requires that each agency announce the review date for each major rule upon its publication. Requires each agency to publish an assessment of each precept reviewed. Declares that such review requirements shall not apply to any rule or practice involving the internal revenue laws of the United States. Title II: Reorganizing and Improving Agency Proceedings - Requires that the general notice of a proposed rule include: (1) a statement that the agency seeks proposals from the public of alternative methods; and (2) a statement of where the file of the rulemaking proceeding may be inspected or how file copies may be obtained. Subjects rules concerning public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts to notice and comment rulemaking procedures. Directs each agency to maintain a file of each rulemaking proceeding. Requires each agency to transmit semiannually to the appropriate Congressional committees an agenda listing all areas in which the agency intends to propose major rules during the following year. Directs each agency to transmit a copy of each final rule to each House of Congress and to such committees on the day the rule is published. Prohibits the rule from becoming effective: (1) until 30 days after it is received by such committees; (2) until the earlier of the expiration of 60 days after the date on which a committee reports a resolution disapproving the rule or the date on which such resolution is rejected; or (3) if such a resolution is enacted. Exempts from such time constraints any major rule promulgated in response to an emergency situation. Prohibits an agency from promulgating a new rule substantially the same as a disapproved rule. Requires agencies to respond in an appropriate manner to good faith requests from interested persons for interpretations of agency rules. Creates a new procedure for administrative proceedings required by statute. Establishes an "expedited procedure" which applies to any proceeding predominantly concerning policy issues of a general character, including rulemaking and initial licensing. Requires "trial-type procedures" for proceedings which predominantly concern specific factual questions, including proceedings to assess a civil penalty or fine or to determine a claim for certain individual benefits. Directs the agency to conduct a hearing in such a proceeding to afford parties an opportunity to submit written data, arguments, and responses, and, at the request of any party, an opportunity for oral argument. Requires the presiding employee to designate a disputed question for formal cross-examination upon determining, at the conclusion of the hearing, that there is a substantial dispute of fact which can be resolved sufficiently only by formal cross-examination and upon which the decision of the agency is likely to depend. Sets forth procedures for issuing subpoenas in formal proceedings under the expedited or trial-type procedures. Enumerates the powers and responsibilities of a presiding employee at proceedings under trial-type procedure. Allows an agency to designate an appropriate employee to recommend a decision for a proceeding under expedited procedure when the presiding employee submits the record of the proceeding without a recommended decision. Authorizes each agency to establish employee boards to review the decisions of presiding employees. Directs each agency to specify conditions under which it will accept an appeal of a decision of a presiding employee or such a board, and the conditions under which it will exclude a decision from the jurisdiction of a review board. Requires an action to be brought in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the review of an agency rule for which there is no applicable special statutory review procedure. Prohibits a court reviewing an agency action involving a rule from making any presumption in favor of or against the agency action. Requires such court to determine the agency's jurisdiction on the basis of the language of the authorizing statute or other evidence of legislative intent.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Extends through September 30, 1984, the period of Vietnam-era veterans' eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to a named individual in full satisfaction of a claim against the United States arising out of the death of the individual's son during an Army training exercise.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Limitation on Government Recordkeeping Requirements and Actions Act of 1981 - Prohibits any Federal agency from: (1) requiring any person to maintain, prepare, or produce records (other than records relating to a dangerous material) of an event more than four years after the event has occurred; and (2) commencing an action against a person for a violation of a regulation more than four years after such violation has occurred, except as otherwise provided by the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Declares it the public policy of the United States to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and use of leg-hold and steel-jaw traps in the United States and abroad. Prohibits the shipment in interstate or foreign commerce of fur or leather products from animals trapped in a State or foreign country which has not banned such traps. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to publish a list of States and foreign countries which have not banned such traps. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to designate 30 days as the maximum period which an individual accused of a Federal crime may be held for examination in order to determine whether such person is insane or otherwise so mentally incompetent as to be unable to stand for trial. Revises the procedures to be taken upon a finding of mental incompetency, to direct, where possible, commitment of the accused to State or local authorities for hospitalization according to State or local law.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Specifies that any abandoned historic shipwreck (as defined by this Act) which is located on the outer Continental Shelf or on lands beneath navigable waters within the boundaries of a State shall belong to the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the location, salvage, restoration, and preservation of such ships to the extent and in the manner the Secretary deems advisable. Authorizes a State to acquire shipwrecks lying beneath the navigable waters within the boundaries of such State if it has developed a plan for the location, protection, salvage, and restoration of such wrecks which meets the requirements set forth in this Act. Limits the power of a State to acquire a right, title, or interest in any shipwreck from the United States should the Secretary order or contract for its salvage before such a plan is adopted. Permits the modification of a State plan with the approval of the Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from exercising his authority to break up, remove, sell, or otherwise dispose of such vessels without the prior approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Provides civil penalties for individuals found to be in violation of this Act. Terminates all right, title, and interest of a State in and to each shipwreck acquired by that State pursuant to this Act should the Secretary determine that State is not in compliance with its plan.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Sunset Review Act of 1981 - Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to jointly develop and maintain an inventory of all Federal programs and tax expenditures. Requires such inventory to classify all such programs and expenditures according to the jurisdiction of the various legislative committees of the two Houses. Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO), before the beginning of the 98th Congress, after consultation with the appropriate legislative committees and the Congressional Budget Office, to submit a draft inventory to the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Requires such Committees to notify each legislative committee of the programs and tax expenditures which are classified within its jurisdiction. Allows any legislative committee to propose revisions of such inventory within 30 days after notification. Requires that such inventory be published in a single document. Requires that an update be made of such inventory at the beginning of every Congress. Specifies information to be contained in such an inventory. Directs the GAO to publish a supplement to such inventory which includes certain budget information. Requires each legislative committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, by a specified date, to report a resolution setting forth an agenda for the sunset review of selected Federal programs within its jurisdiction, or, in the case of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, of selected tax expenditures. Directs the committees of each House to develop their sunset review agenda in consultation with any other committee which has concurrent jurisdiction over any programs or tax expenditures involved. Requires, where practicable, that related programs and expenditures be reviewed during the same Congress. Requires the report accompanying any agenda reported in the 104th Congress and every fifth Congress thereafter to summarize the programs and expenditures reviewed and not reviewed during the five previous Congresses. Prohibits either the House or the Senate from considering a primary expense resolution for any legislative committee in any Congress until that committee has developed and submitted its sunset review agenda. Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to incorporate such agendas into a consolidated sunset review agenda and to report such consolidated agenda to its House in the form of a concurrent resolution, within seven legislative days after all committee sunset review agendas have been submitted. Requires the consolidated sunset review agenda to be adopted in the House and in the Senate no later than March 30 in the first session of each Congress. Sets forth the procedures for the consideration and adoption of such agenda. Requires each committee of the House or the Senate, not later than May 15 in the second session of each Congress, to report a bill or bills modifying, continuing, or terminating each program or tax expenditure which it has been directed to review under the consolidated sunset review agenda adopted during the first session. Requires such bill to be accompanied by a report. Requires each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch of the Government which is responsible for the administration of a Federal program or tax expenditure selected for sunset review to provide the appropriate Congressional committees with its views, information, and assistance. Directs the Comptroller General to supply specified information on audits. Exempts foreign intelligence or counterintelligence programs designated by the President as requiring protection from unauthorized disclosure. Directs the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate to review such programs pursuant to the spirit of this Act. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to include the consolidated sunset review agendas and the Congressional inventory of Federal programs as part of the House Committee on Rules' functions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a minimum income tax of ten percent of individual net income which exceeds $30,000 for any taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requires that each State establish and maintain an approved workfare program as a condition of its eligibility for Federal payments or other assistance under the: (1) program of aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act; (2) food stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) public housing and assisted housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such State workfare program shall require every State resident applying for or receiving aid under such Federal public assistance program to perform work in return for, and as a condition for, such aid. Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to promulgate guidelines for approval, supervision, and oversight of such State workfare programs. Exempts from required participation in such programs those who are: (1) under age 18 or over age 65; (2) disabled; (3) regularly employed for at least 40 hours a week; or (4) primarily responsible for the care of a child less than three years old (or for the care of a child more than two but less than six years old if suitable child care is not available at reasonable cost). Requires that each State workfare program must provide that if any individual who is required to participate in such program refuses to accept a bona fide offer of qualified employment or to perform qualified employment, in any month, neither such individual nor any other person in the family or household of which such individual is a member shall be eligible to receive any aid under such Federal public assistance programs for that month. Requires that State workfare programs include provision for job counseling, assistance in obtaining employment outside the program, and job search activities. Provides for: (1) Federal matching funds to cover administrative costs of such State programs; (2) Federal cut-offs of funds to State agencies for failure to comply with this Act; and (3) Federal agency reports to Congress on such State programs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Establishes a Peacetime Veterans' Educational Assistance Program for persons who enter military service after September 30, 1980, and serve on active duty for a period of two years or more, or are discharged or released from such duty for a service-connected disability. Entitles eligible veterans to 36 months of educational assistance under such program. Makes such veterans eligible to participate in the Predischarge Education Program and eligible for education loans. Provides that such veterans are eligible for educational assistance for the ten-year period following their discharge or release date. Sets forth procedures extending any applicable time period for such veterans who are prevented from initiating or completing a program of education under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay tuition costs and a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in the program. Makes technical and conforming amendments to existing laws relating to veterans' educational assistance. Terminates the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program after September 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Defense Production Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to prohibit any Government acquisitions officer who is authorized to administer procurement contracts for an executive agency from accepting compensation from any contractor who received funds under contracts administered by such officer for two years following such officer's last day of Federal employment. Makes it a felony for a contractor to offer such compensation. Authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to issue regulations as necessary to implement this Act. Permits an officer who is offered compensation and the contractor offering such compensation to apply to the OPM for an advisory opinion concerning the legality of such compensation under this Act. Directs the OPM to: (1) publish notice of such application; (2) issue an interim opinion within ten days and a final opinion within 30 days; (3) provide an opportunity for interested parties to present information or comments concerning issuance of such opinion; and (4) publish and give Congress specified information justifying the Office's opinion. Specifies conditions under which the OPM may determine that such compensation does not violate the intent of this Act. States that reliance on such advisory opinion shall be a defense to a civil or criminal case brought under this Act. Requires all meetings of the OPM to consider applications for an advisory opinion to be open to the public. Requires the Office to report annually to Congress concerning its activities and its recommendations for promoting high ethical standards for government employees. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony. Defines such offense as using a firearm to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a firearm during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "illegally." Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense from one to ten years' imprisonment to five to ten years' imprisonment for a first offender and from two to 25 years to ten years to life imprisonment for a second or subsequent offender. Extends to first offenders the directions, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence or grant probation and that the additional sentence not run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the offense itself. Makes a first offender ineligible for parole for five years and a second or subsequent offender ineligible for ten years. Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Intelligence Officer Identity Protection Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for: (1) past or present employees of the United States or members of the uniformed services; and (2) anyone having lawful access to information identifying individuals as associated with a United States agency engaged in foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, who discloses classified information concerning any such association to anyone not authorized to receive it. Establishes additional penalties for any disclosure or false assertion which prejudices the safety of the individual identified or damages the foreign affairs functions of the United States. Authorizes the head of any such agency to apply to an appropriate United States district court for injunctive relief to prevent an anticipated violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Eliminates the current authority of Federal magistrates to hear the following types of criminal proceedings: (1) evidentiary hearings in Federal court for habeas corpus relief for a person in custody under a State court judgment; (2) applications for posttrial relief by individuals convicted of offenses in State court; and (3) prisoner petitions challenging conditions of confinement. Permits a writ of habeas corpus to be granted on behalf of a person in custody under a State court judgment only if the application is made within three years of the date the judgment becomes final and any of the grounds of the application were not considered in the State proceeding. Specifies that the lack of such consideration must be prejudicial to the person and not caused by the action of the applicant. Revises the standards governing proceedings in Federal court for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in custody under a State court judgment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
States that beginning with fiscal year 1983, military retired pay shall be paid by the Civil Service Commission and that appropriations for such payments shall be made to the Commission. Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission to issue jointly such regulations as may be required to effectuate the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to remove the existing 70-year upper age limit to which the discrimination prohibitions apply, thus extending coverage to all individuals who are at least 40 years of age. States that no exceptions to the prohibitions are permitted based on the nature of employment of an individual or entitlement to retirement benefits. Repeals mandatory retirement provisions for Federal civil service employees, District of Columbia employees, and Foreign Service employees.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Increases the stipend for individuals participating in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Amends the Public Health Service Act to make former members of such program who have completed all obligated service in one of the military departments eligible for special grants under such Act to engage in private practice in a health manpower shortage area.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to direct the Consolidated Rail Corporation to pay specified employees a sum to insure that such employees were not disadvantaged by deprivation of employment between April 1 and September 30, 1976, with respect to pre-retirement life and medical insurance benefits. Excludes such sum from the aggregate amount of paid-out benefits reimbursable by the Railroad Retirement Board.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a program of grants to instruct public elementary and secondary school students in the principles of citizenship and ethics. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 by adding: Title V: Classification and Safeguarding of National Security Information. States that national security information may be designated and protected only in accordance with this title. Sets forth three classifications ("Top Secret," "Secret," and "Confidential") by which national security information may be designated. Promulgates standards defining each classification. Grants authority to originate the classification of material only to such officials as the President may designate, or any subordinate of such official who is designated as having frequent need of such authority. States that Congress shall periodically review the designations of such subordinates. Requires the President to prescribe regulations for the classification of material by agencies having no designated official. Identifies information which may be classified, including any information which if disclosed could cause identifiable damage to the national security. Prohibits the classification of information in order to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment to any individual or agency, to restrain competition or independent initiative, or to prevent for any reason the release of information the dissemination of which will not damage the national security. Sets forth regulations governing the identification of an item of classified material. Sets forth procedures to be followed by a holder of classified material who does not believe that such material has been properly classified. Requires the declassification of classified information as early as national security considerations allow. Directs the President to prescribe regulations to: (1) establish procedures for the periodic review of classified information to downgrade, declassify, or destroy such information; and (2) carry out this Act, including provisions assuring the security and accountability of such information. Declares that nothing in this Act shall affect any requirement made under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Sets forth: (1) criminal penalties for the knowing disclosure of classified information or material to any officer or agent of a foreign government or organization who is not authorized to receive such information or material; and (2) procedures for determining whether such material is lawfully classified. Establishes a penalty consisting of a fine of up to $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, for the classification of material to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment, to restrain competition or independent initiative, or to prevent or delay the release of information which should not have been classified.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Abolishes the National Security Council and establishes the Central Intelligence Agency directly under the President.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
States that a member of the armed forces may be given only one of the following discharges: (1) an Honorable Discharge; (2) a Discharge from Service as regulated under this Act; (3) a Bad Conduct Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general court-martial; or (4) a Dishonorable Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general courts-martial. Requires that a narrative statement describing the service of a former member be issued to such member upon request at any time following separation from service. Limits the information which may be included in such a statement. Sets forth the composition of administrative discharge boards which shall consider whether a member should be separated with a Discharge from Service only upon a finding, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that: (1) the member has engaged in misconduct; (2) in the case of an officer, cadet, or midshipman, that such member has engaged in moral or professional dereliction; (3) the retention of such member would be contrary to the interests of national security; or (4) such member has been convicted previously in a civilian court or previous courts-martial under specified circumstances and the retention of such member is not warranted. Authorizes the use of such discharge by the President in time of war, when the individual has been absent without authority for one year, or where the member has requested such discharge, after consultation with counsel, in lieu of board action under this Act or a courts-martial. Sets forth the rights of the member concerned before the board and procedures regarding the board's actions. Directs such Judge Advocate General to establish a Court of Administrative Review to review recommendations for separation with a Discharge from Service. Requires the Court of Military Appeals to review the record upon which such a discharge was issued after final action by the Court of Administrative Review if the Judge Advocate General orders such review. Authorizes the Court to review the case upon petition by the member affected. Sets forth the conditions under which an administrative discharge board shall be precluded from determining whether a member should be issued a Discharge from Service.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Makes individuals who became widowed during the 18-month period after the enactment of the Armed Forces Survivor Benefit Plan eligible for annuities under such plan (previously only those widowed within 12 months of the enactment of such plan were eligible for annuities).
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, if so requested by an urban county, to exclude areas of such county consolidated with a city having a population of over 100,000 from determinations of distress levels for purposes of the urban development action grant program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Federal Agency Control and Review Act - Requires the Office of Management and Budget to study the structure, efficiency, and effectiveness of each Executive agency every ten years and to submit a report to the President and Congress containing any recommendations for the reorganization or abolition of any agency. Abolishes each agency upon the due date of such report unless, during the ten-year period since the last report, legislation to continue such agency has been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Voting Rights for the Elderly and the Handicapped Act - Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to prescribe standards for polling and registration facilities which will insure ready access to the physically handicapped and the elderly. Permits designation of facilities for Federal elections which do not comply with such standards only where conforming facilities are unavailable. Requires election officials to report to the Attorney General on the designation of such polling and registration locations. Requires States to provide alternative registration and voting methods for physically handicapped and elderly persons assigned to inaccessible registration facilities or polling places. Requires that a paper ballot be made available or a voting assistant be permitted to a person unable to operate a voting machine.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to make such benefits payable to a resident alien only if such alien has continuously resided in the United States for at least five years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board to promulgate regulations prohibiting air carriers from dispensing on-board alcoholic beverages or tobacco to passengers without charge.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Crimes in Labor Disputes Act of 1981 - Establishes criminal penalties for any act of violence, threat of violence, or conspiracy to accomplish such act in a labor dispute by any person or organization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act - Requires any person who attempts or is retained to influence legislation by direct communication to file with the Comptroller General a notice identifying the person's employer and area of legislative interest, and to describe any lobbying activity for which the person will receive a fee. Directs such person to keep a detailed record of any income received or expenditures made to influence legislation, and to submit semiannual reports on such information to the Comptroller General. Directs such person to file a notice upon terminating his or her lobbying activities. Authorizes the Comptroller General to propose such rules as are necessary to carry out this Act. Requires that any such rule be submitted to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House and the Select Committee on Standards and Conduct of the Senate. Prohibits any such rule from becoming effective if either Committee disapproves it by majority vote. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requires any person who reports a contribution, expenditure, cost, or other amount to the Federal Election Commission to report to the Commission any offset, refund, or notice of reporting error relating to such contribution, expenditure, cost, or amount. Requires the Commission to publish such reports within ten days of receipt.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the unified credit against the estate tax shall not be reduced by gifts made after September 8, 1976, which are includible in the gross estate of the decedent. Limits the application of this Act to estates of decedents dying after December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to acquire the necessary land and establish a national cemetery in Duval County, Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Prohibits any Federal agency from entering into any contract or making any grant for the performance of research, until after 30 days from the date upon which a prospectus concerning such research is submitted to the committees of Congress with jurisdiction over such agency or area of research. Specifies that the provisions of this Act shall not apply where the sum of Federal funds involved is less than $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide identical income tax rates for single persons and married couples filing joint returns. Limits the earned income that must be reported by a married person filing a separate return to the amount actually earned by that individual.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Congressional Pay Raise Deferral Act - Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to state that any adjustment in the rate for Members of Congress proposed during any Congress shall not take effect earlier than the beginning of the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Includes as creditable service for purposes of determining the amount of an individual's civil service annuity payment, any military service performed by that individual after December, 1956, regardless of that individual's eligibility for Social Security benefits for such military service.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Authorizes and directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to construct a general medical and surgical Veterans' Administration hospital at Jacksonville, Florida, and to secure the cooperation of the University of Florida College of Medicine in training medical students at Jacksonville.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Foreign Crimes Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make any U.S. citizen or national who, in certain circumstances, commits an act outside U.S. jurisdiction while serving with, employed by, or accompanying U.S. armed forces, liable if such act would constitute a Federal crime if committed within the United States. Sets forth standards and procedures for the apprehension, restraint, removal, and delivery of such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Authorizes the discharge of dredged material from Federal projects for the construction of the Fernandina Harbor Jetties and a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretaries of State and Energy, to specify information pertaining to items on the U.S. Munitions list which must be protected from disclosure in order to preclude the possibility of unauthorized export. Prohibits the disclosure of such information unless the Secretaries determine that such withholding is not in the national interest.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Year End Spending Control Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to apportion appropriations to Federal agencies for fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984 in a manner which insures that no more than 20 percent of the total appropriations available to an agency in a fiscal year may be obligated during the last two months of that year. Authorizes the Director to waive such a spending limitation upon determining that it would seriously disrupt an agency program or operation, if the Director reports on such waiver to Congress before the agency violates such limitation. Requires the Director to report to Congress concerning violations of spending limitations, the results and impact of this Act on procurement and apportionment processes, and recommendations on continuing the spending limitations. Exempts reserves established to comply with a spending limitation under this Act from reporting requirements of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Directs an agency to consider an employee's compliance with agency rules and procedures applicable to year-end expenditure practices when: (1) evaluating the performance of a member of the Senior Executive Service; and (2) determining any pay increase for a supervisor or manager under the merit pay system.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Eliminates the jurisdiction of Federal courts established under article III of the Constitution to modify any State court order which is subject to review by the highest court of the State.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Regional Presidential Primaries Act of 1981 - Prohibits any State from conducting a Presidential primary election except in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Establishes six regional primaries to be held in each Presidential election year. Sets the dates for such primaries. Sets requirements for voter eligibility in the primaries conducted under this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil suit in United States district courts in those instances where he has reason to believe that a State is holding a primary in violation of this Act. Requires Presidential candidates in a primary, in order to be eligible to receive payments from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, to agree to enter at least one State primary in each of the six regions and to notify the Federal Election Commission of which primaries will be entered. Authorizes necessary appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit expenditures by any candidate or political committee unless there are sufficient funds in the checking account maintained by such committee to pay the amount of such expenditure. Prohibits any person from providing goods or services to a candidate or political committee until such person has received payment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Apalachicola and Osceola Wilderness Act of 1981 - Designates the following lands in Florida as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Bradwell Bay Wilderness Addition and the Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness in the Apalachicola National Forest; and (2) the Big Gum Swamp Wilderness in the Osceola National Forest. Prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing phosphate leases in the Osceola National Forest, Florida, unless and until the United States determines that the mining of phosphate deposits in such leases would be necessary to the national interest. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, within three years from the date of enactment of this Act, with respect to specified applicants for phosphate preference right leases which have made discoveries of valuable deposits, to exchange their applications for leases covering other minerals. Requires such an exchange to be of equal value, with a payment of money to the Secretary or the applicant if necessary, so long as such payment does not exceed 25 percent of the value of the leases to be issued by the Secretary. Permits disapproval of any such exchange, within 60 days, by a specified committee of either House. Provides that the designation of the Big Guam Swamp Wilderness will not alter phosphate lease rights applicable to lands within the wilderness.