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United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning March 11, 1984, as National Surveyors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Designates September 22, 1983, as American Businesswomen's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Small Business Unemployment Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Small Business Act to require Federal agencies to set aside for small businesses an additional five percent of the procurement contracts for $10,000 or more which are awarded during the three-year period following the enactment of this Act. Requires that small businesses located in any of the ten States with the highest unemployment rates be given priority in the awarding of such contracts and the placement of subcontracts.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Prohibits an individual who is entitled to immunity from the criminal laws of the United States from possessing a handgun without the Secretary of State's approval. States that failure to comply with this requirement shall be grounds for declaring an individual persona non grata or for other appropriate action.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 17 through April 24, 1983, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit States and local governments to provide statements of tax refunds, credits, and offsets to individuals at any time during the calendar year for which such governments make a return, but not later than January 31 of the year following the year of the return. (Current law requires such statements to be furnished in January of the year following the year of the return.) Eliminates the requirement to furnish such statements with respect to any refunds, credits, or offsets made before January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the age for drinking and purchasing alcoholic beverages should be raised to 21 in all States where the drinking age is lower.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Directs the President to negotiate an agreement with the Soviet Union for the establishment of a permanent joint United States-Soviet Communications Center to provide an additional channel for communications between the United States and the Soviet Union in order to reduce the threat of an accidental nuclear war. Declares that the agreement should provide that: (1) the function of the Center would be to serve as a direct and secure means of communications between the two countries; (2) the Center would have no intelligence gathering capabilities and would not be used for espionage; (3) the Center would be located in an agreed upon third country with the operating costs shared equally; and (4) the Center would be staffed by an equal number of personnel from each country. Requires the agreement to be either a treaty or an executive agreement which will enter into force only upon its approval by both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Grants a Federal charter to the Polish Legion of American Veterans, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal the provisions which require the withholding of tax on interest and dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1983, as National Reye's Syndrome Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Expresses the support of Congress for the present strategic arms reductions talks. Urges the Soviet Union to join with the United States to: (1) conclude an equitable and verifiable agreement which freezes strategic nuclear forces at equal and substantially reduced levels; (2) negotiate an effective means of verification of the terms of such agreements; (3) negotiate measures which are likely to reduce the risk of nuclear war by error or misunderstanding; and (4) concentrate on reducing weapons which are judged to be destabilizing.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Hunger to conduct a continuing comprehensive study of the problems of hunger and malnutrition.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Duty-Free Treatment - Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for all eligible articles from Caribbean countries that the President designates as beneficiary countries. Requires the President to notify Congress before making such a designation. Prohibits the President from terminating such a designation unless both Houses of Congress are notified 60 days before the termination. Requires the President to consider only specified countries and territories as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from designating a country as a beneficiary country: (1) if it is a Communist country; (2) if it has nationalized or seized control, or effectively nationalized or seized control, of U.S. property, unless the President determines that a good faith effort is being made to compensate for such seizure; (3) if it fails to act in good faith in recognizing as binding or in enforcing arbitral awards in favor of U.S. citizens or corporations; (4) if it grants preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States which may have a significant adverse effect on U.S. commerce, unless the President reports to Congress that certain assurances have been made; (5) it has a government-owned entity engaged in broadcasting copyrighted material belonging to U.S. copyrighted owners without their express consent; or (6) unless an extradition treaty exists between the United States and such country. Permits the President to designate as a beneficiary country a Communist country, an expropriating country or a country that fails to act in good faith with respect to an arbitral award if the President determines and reports to Congress that such designation will be in the national interest. Lists factors the President should consider in determining whether to grant beneficiary designation. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to grant to imports from U.S. insular possessions, subject to specified provisions of this Act, duty treatment no less favorable than the treatment afforded such imports from a beneficiary country. Directs the President to withdraw or suspend a country's beneficiary designation, if the President determines that changed circumstances in such country would prohibit such designation under the guidelines in this title. Requires duty-free treatment to apply to any article imported from a beneficiary country, unless otherwise excluded from eligibility, if: (1) the article is imported directly from such country into U.S. customs territory; and (2) the sum of specified costs of the article is not less than 35 percent of its appraised value at the time of its entry. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations governing articles eligible for such duty-free treatment, including the requirement that such articles must be wholly the product of a beneficiary country or must be a new or different article of commerce which has been produced in the beneficiary country. Prohibits this duty-free treatment from applying to: (1) textile and apparel articles which are subject to tariff agreements; (2) certain footwear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather wearing apparel; or (3) petroleum or certain petroleum products. Directs the President to suspend duty-free treatment of sugar and beef products that are the products of a beneficiary country if: (1) the beneficiary country, within 90 days of its designation as a beneficiary country, does not submit a Stable Food Production Plan to the President for evaluation; (2) the President determines that the Plan of a beneficiary country does not meet specified criteria; or (3) as a result of the monitoring of the operation of the Plan, the President determines that a beneficiary country is not making a good faith effort to implement its Plan, or that the Plan, although being implemented, is not achieving its purposes. Requires the President, before suspending such duty-free treatment, to offer to consult with the country to formulate appropriate remedial action. Requires the President, biennially, to monitor the operation of the Plans implemented by beneficiary countries and to report to Congress. Sets forth the manner of governing the importation and duty-free treatment of certain sugars, sirups, and molasses. Authorizes the President to suspend the duty-free treatment provided by this title and to proclaim a duty for an eligible article if such action is taken pursuant to certain import relief or national security provisions. Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC), in any report on a petition for import relief under the Trade Act of 1974, to state how its findings and recommendations apply to any duty-free article imported from beneficiary countries. Authorizes the President to reduce or end the application of import relief measures which apply to articles imported from beneficiary countries earlier than otherwise scheduled. Requires the suspension of duty-free treatment provided by this title to be treated as an increase in duty for purposes of the import relief section of the Trade Act of 1974. Prohibits such a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC finds that the harm caused by the imports results from its duty-free treatment by this title. Authorizes the filing of petitions for import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture (the "Secretary"), as well as with the ITC, for injury from imports of perishable products from beneficiary countries. Directs the Secretary to recommend the granting or denying of such petition within 14 days of its filing. Requires the President to take emergency action or to publish a notice of determination not to take emergency action within seven days of receiving the Secretary's recommendation. Sets forth the limits on the duration of the emergency action. Defines perishable products to include certain live plants, certain fresh or chilled vegetables, fresh mushrooms, fresh fruit, and fresh cut flowers. Exempts from proclamations under this title certain fees imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Provides for duty-free treatment of articles imported directly from Puerto Rico and the U.S. insular possessions, so long as foreign materials do not account for more than 70 percent of the total value of the articles (or more than 50 percent of the total value with respect to petroleum and certain petroleum products). Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase to five liters (currently, four liters) the amount of duty-free liquor that may be brought into the United States. Requires that not more than four liters, of such five liter limit, may have been produced outside American Samoa, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorizes the President to withdraw duty-free treatment on rum if the amount of excise taxes on rum that is paid into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands falls below the amount that would have been paid if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to repeal the provision for protecting U.S. possessions against revenue losses caused by concessions granted by the United States in the Tokyo Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Prohibits any action under this title from affecting a tariff imposed by Puerto Rico on coffee imported into Puerto Rico. Exempts from specified sections of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act certain discharges from sources in the U.S. Virgin Islands which are attributable to the manufacture of rum. Requires the ITC to report to Congress and the President on the economic impact of this Act on U.S. industries and consumers during: (1) two year period beginning with January, 1983; and (2) each year afterward, until duty-free treatment under this title is terminated. Sets forth assessments that the ITC shall make and factors to be considered in making those assessments. Terminates duty-free treatment to beneficiary countries under this title after September 30, 1994. Title II: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require excise taxes on rum imported into the United States to be paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate and conclude an agreement for the exchange of information with any beneficiary country. Requires such exchange to consist of such information as may be necessary to carry out and enforce the tax laws of both the United States and the beneficiary country. Provides that such agreements shall be treated as income tax conventions for purposes of disclosures of tax return information. Allows a tax deduction for attending a convention held in a beneficiary country, if such beneficiary country has a tax information exchange agreement in effect with the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Prohibits an individual who is entitled to immunity from the criminal laws of the United States from possessing a handgun without the Secretary of State's approval. States that failure to comply with this requirement shall be grounds for declaring an individual persona non grata.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Iran Claims Act - Authorizes the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to determine the validity of claims by U.S. nationals against Iran within: (1) the jurisdiction of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; or (2) the terms of an agreement for an en bloc settlement. Requires the Commission to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury any awards made. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments of the lesser of $10,000 or the principal amount of an award. Deducts two percent of the amount of an award as reimbursement to the U.S. Government, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and other agencies for expenses incurred in the arbitration of the claim. Declares that such deduction shall not apply to an amount awarded for an en bloc settlement. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for expenses incurred in the settlement or arbitration of such claims.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Board for International Broadcasting Supplemental Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1983 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize additional appropriations for FY 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Americans reaffirm their support for the Polish people; (2) there should be an immediate lifting of martial law, a release of remaining detainees, and a more complete resumption of dialog with Solidarity and the church; (3) an appropriate American response is necessary to reinforce the positive developments in Poland; and (4) such response should embody a policy of positive incentives to the Polish Government to restore to all Polish people their basic rights and to institute economic and political reforms.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the age for drinking and purchasing alcoholic beverages should be raised to 21 in all States where the drinking age is lower.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
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 · 16 September 1982
Congratulates the government and people of Mexico on the occasion of the 172nd anniversary of Mexican independence.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Authorizes the transfer of nine U.S. naval vessels as follows: (1) two patrol combatants to be leased to Colombia; (2) three fast patrol boats to be leased to the Dominican Republic; (3) one auxiliary drydock to be sold to Ecuador; (4) one oceanographic research ship leased to Mexico; (5) one destroyer tender to be leased to Pakistan; and (6) one destroyer tender to be leased to Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Requests the President to designate the week beginning on March 13, 1983, as National Surveyors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Expresses the gratitude of Congress for the service of Special Envoy Philip Habib in Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1982
Requests the President to designate March 1, 1983, as National Recovery Room Nurses Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1982
Requests the President to designate March 1, 1983, as National Recovery Room Nurses Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982
Designates September 22, 1982, as American Businesswomen's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982
Prohibits the use on Cyprus of defense articles sold to Turkey by the United States. Exempts from such prohibition those defense articles that are needed to carry out Turkey's obligations as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Permits employee benefit plans, as defined under this Act, to engage in any qualified mortgage transaction involving any qualified residential mortgage loan, provided transactions between all parties are at arm's length. Permits such plans to participate in any mortgage pool, provided such pool conforms to specified requirements with regard to permitted investments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any and all contrary provisions of State law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits the imposition of Federal excise tax on a plan or pool that engages in a transaction described under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Expresses the support of the Congress for beginning strategic arms reductions talks. Urges the Soviet Union to join with the United States in concluding an equitable and verifiable agreement which freezes strategic nuclear forces at equal and substantially reduced levels. Reaffirms congressional support for the position that the United States should not enter into an arms agreement which provides for force levels inferior to those of the Soviet Union. Declares that the United States should propose practical measures to: (1) reduce the danger of accidental nuclear war; (2) prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties, including terrorists; and (3) halt the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Insists that any arms control agreement must be fully verifiable.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Revitalization Act of 1982 - Authorizes additional FY 1982 appropriations to carry out the purposes of the Economic Support Fund in Caribbean countries. Sets forth requirements relating to the use of funds appropriated under this Act. Earmarks a specified amount for projects which are: (1) consistent with U.S. development assistance policy, as expressed in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; and (2) in accordance with the provisions of such Act dealing with agricultural development in rural areas, agricultural research, population planning and health programs, and education and human resources development. Earmarks a specified amount for: (1) scholarships for persons from Caribbean countries; and (2) the Inter-American Foundation. Limits the amount of funds appropriated under this Act that may be used for aid to any one country. Directs the President to seek a reasonable balance in allocating the funds appropriated under this Act between aid for the public sector and aid for the private sector and between balance-of-payments support and support for development projects. Authorizes providing El Salvador with funds in excess of the per country limitation set in this Act in order to facilitate implementation of El Salvador's land reform program. Sets forth the manner in which such funds shall be used. Prohibits using any of the funds appropriated under this Act for El Savador unless the President reports to Congress that: (1) El Salvador has not altered the land reform program in a manner detrimental to the rights of the beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of the reform; and (2) El Salvador is making substantial progress in implementaing the land reform program. Directs the President to include in the annual report to Congress on foreign assistance programs a report on the disposition of the funds appropriated under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Fair Trade Finance Act of 1982 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1978 to specify the time limits on an inquiry by the Secretary of the Treasury concerning foreign official export credits. Directs the Secretary to begin an inquiry within five days after receipt of information that foreign sales to the United States are being seriously offered involving foreign official export credits that violate international agreements. Requires the inquiry to be completed within 30 days. Directs the Secretary to authorize the Export-Import Bank to provide competitive U.S. sellers with matching financing if: (1) the Secretary finds the information is accurate and requests the withdrawal of the foreign financing; (2) the foreign financing is not withdrawn within ten days of the request; and (3) the Secretary determines that the availability of such foreign official financing is likely to be one of the relevant factors in the sale or sales. (Current law authorizes the Secretary to offer such financing if the financing is likely to be a determining factor in the sale.)
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 1 through August 7, 1982, as National Purple Heart Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Limits the outside earned income of Senators to $18,000 per calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Designates the Federal building in Lima, Ohio, as the Tennyson Guyer Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Designates the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Alzheimer's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) propose at the June 1982 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit meeting that the NATO allies should pool their resources for their common defense; and (2) work with Congress in the development of implementing policies.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1982
Designates September 1982 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982
Professional Sports Stabilization Act of 1982 - Declares that it shall not be unlawful under any antitrust law for a professional sports league and its member clubs to enforce rules: (1) requiring approval by the league membership for the relocation of a member club; or (2) providing for the division of league or member club revenues that promote comparable economic opportunities for member clubs. Prohibits State and local governments from imposing limitations on the collective conduct of sports leagues or member teams authorized by this Act. Specifies the applicability of this Act to actions commenced under the antitrust laws before its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a refundable income tax credit for 50 percent of expenditures incurred to remove formaldehyde foam insulation from a dwelling unit which is used as the principal residence of the taxpayer. Limits such credit to $5,000 for any taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1982 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase, for FY 1983, the : (1) authorized appropriations for the foreign military sales credit and loan guarantee program; (2) ceilings on the amount of such credits and guarantees; (3) allocation of such credits and guarantees to Israel; (4) amount of foreign military sales credits which Israel shall be released from repaying; (5) amount that must be available for loan guarantees to Greece; and (6) amount of foreign military sales credits which Egypt shall be released from repaying. Reaffirms U.S. policy toward the Eastern Mediterranean as stated in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Permits the FY 1983 foreign military sales financing program for Turkey or for Greece to exceed the FY 1982 program for that country only if the President makes a specified certification to the Congress. Limits the amount of FY 1983 foreign military sales financing to Zaire. Permits only loan guarantees to be made to Zaire. Prohibits sales credits to Zaire. Prohibits Economic Support Fund assistance to Zaire in FY 1983. Excludes a pro-rata share of fixed base operations costs from the full-cost recoupment requirement of the section of the Arms Export Control Act dealing with sales from U.S. military stocks. Directs the President to grant congressional committees, upon request, access to security assistance surveys conducted by U.S. personnel in foreign countries. (Current law requires the President to grant Congress access only to defense requirement surveys.) Includes within the definition of security assistance surveys: (1) defense requirement surveys; (2) site surveys; (3) general surveys; and (4) engineering assessment surveys. Amends the provision dealing with quarterly reports by the President to the Congress on the estimated number of U.S. personnel abroad to require the estimate to include an estimate of the number of different categories of personnel abroad and an estimate of the number of each category of personnel who were in each foreign country at any time during the quarter. Includes within such report all such personnel in a foreign country in connection with the implementation of: (1) sales and commercial exports under the Arms Export Control Act; or (2) certain assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes the President to sell defense articles and unclassified defense service publications to a U.S. company for incorporation into end items that will be sold by such company to a friendly foreign country or international organization. Permits such sales only if specified conditions are met. Provides that administrative surcharges for sales of defense articles shall include the recovery of extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out such sales. Prohibits the acquisition for the Special Defense Acquisition Fund of any aircraft designed specifically for export which is not in the inventory of the Department of Defense or is in the inventory solely for training purposes. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 military assistance programs and international military education and training programs. Authorizes the President to provide free training of foreign military personnel at professional U.S. military schools (other than the Service academies) in accordance with reciprocal programs between U.S. and foreign schools. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President to order the use of Federal agency commodities and services, up to a specified value, for emergency peacekeeping operations. Requires the President to notify the Congress before taking such an action. Revises the limitations on the authority of the President to furnish foreign assistance without regard to the provisions of various Acts. Imposes a ceiling on the amount of sales under the Arms Export Control Act that the President may authorize under such section. Allocates the amount the President may authorize between the funds that the President may make available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act and the funds the President may make available for foreign military sales. Limits the amount of funds that the President may make available under such authority to any one country. Makes the amount higher if the country is the victim of Communist or Communist-supported aggression. Exempts from the congressional prenotification requirements the reprograming of international narcotics control programs or military education and training programs if the reprograming involves less than $50,000 and the programs for that fiscal year were justified to Congress. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to change the certification that the President must make to Congress before granting aid to El Salvador. Requires the President to certify that El Salvador's government is: (1) actively engaged in a good faith dialog with all major parties willing to participate in the democratic process to bring about an equitable political solution to hostilities in that country; or (2) unable to proceed with such a dialog because the opposition is unwilling to participate. Directs the President to consult with Congress in making the determinations required in the certification. Requires the President, upon making the first such certification in FY 1983, to also certify to Congress that El Salvador has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador and to bring those responsible to justice. Directs the President to consult with Congress before exercising specified authorities to grant aid to El Salvador. Requires any decision to invoke such authority to take into account the certification criteria established under the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981. Title II: Antiterrorism Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish antiterrorism assistance for foreign countries. Sets forth the purposes for which antiterrorism activities shall be conducted. Permits training services for antiterrorism to be furnished only within the United States. Limits the amount of time U.S. personnel performing services for a foreign country under the antiterrorism aid program may remain in that country. States that antiterrorism aid may not include furnishing defense articles or services. Prohibits furnishing antiterrorism assistance to any country for which one or more types of security assistance is prohibited. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if the President makes a specified certification to Congress. Requires that the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs be consulted in developing and implementing antiterrorism assistance programs. Prohibits furnishing any antiterrorism assistance until a specified time after the President transmits to the Congress a list of the countries being considered as possible recipients of such assistance for FY 1983. Authorizes Federal agencies to furnish services and commodities, subject to payment in advance, to eligible foreign countries to further the antiterrorism program. Makes the antiterrorism provisions inapplicable to certain information exchange activities of Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for antiterrorism assistance. Requires the President to make an annual report to Congress on such assistance. Provides for the administration of the antiterrorism assistance program. Sets forth the expiration date for such assistance. Prohibits furnishing antiterrorism assistance to countries that engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Amends a specified definition to establish a costing formula for sales of commodities and services provided under the antiterrorism assistance program. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Increases the authorized appropriations for the Economic Support Fund for FY 1983. States that priority consideration should be given in negotiating, planning, and administering economic support programs for countries where significant amounts of illicit narcotics are grown to programs which would stimulate broader development opportunities and strengthen the security of such countries. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for the Middle East Special Requirements Fund. Deletes the provisions which earmarked specified amounts for FY 1983 for: (1) Tunisia; (2) Costa Rica; and (3) Nicaragua. Requires consideration to be given to providing assistance to Mozambique. Permits the use of Economic Support Fund assistance for training in South Africa only if the recipients of the training will be able to receive the training in nonsegregated institutions, will be allowed to use all the facilities of those institutions on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, and will not be prohibited from using their training in racially integrated organizations. Provides that any funds not used for such training programs shall be made available for the scholarship program for disadvantaged South African students under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title IV: Development Assistance - Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) education and human resources development programs; (2) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities; (3) international organizations and programs (with specified amounts allocated for certain United Nations funds and programs); and (4) trade and development programs. Extends until September 30, 1983, the agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs. Prohibits the use of funds authorized to be appropriated under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for programs or projects benefitting the Palestine Liberation Organization or South West Africa People's Organization. Requires the Secretary of State to report annually to the Congress on the amount of funds spent by U.S. supported international organizations for such programs or projects. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to set a target number of food for development programs for each fiscal year. Directs the President to explain to Congress the reasons for any failure to reach such target. Requires consideration to be given to using the expertise of U.S. nonprofit voluntary agencies and cooperatives in developing and carrying out food for development programs. Requires the agreements entered into under the food for development programs to provide that commodities made available under those agreements or funds generated from the sale of those commodities shall be used to establish rural projects in famine-prone countries. Title V: Other Authorizations - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for international narcotics control. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should give greater priority to international narcotics control as a component of U.S. foreign policy toward the major illicit drug producing nations. Provides that funds made available to carry out the Economic Support Fund programs shall be used for the operating expenses directly attributable to the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of those programs. States that if the operating expenses of the Economic Support Fund's programs for FY 1983 exceeds a specified amount the funds of another agency may be used. Amends the Peace Corps Act to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for the Peace Corps. Eliminates the ceiling on readjustment allowances for volunteer leaders. Provides for an increase in the readjustment allowances for volunteer leaders that is the same as the increase received by volunteers under an amendment made by the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for migration and refugee assistance. Allocates the increase to combat piracy in the Gulf of Thailand. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance to communist countries if the President reports to Congress that making such countries eligible for such assistance is important to U.S. security. (Current law prohibits assistance to such countries unless the President makes certain findings and report to Congress.) Expresses the sense of Congress that up to a specified amount of the development assistance funds available for FY 1983 should be available for development assistance for Haiti. States that such assistance should be provided, to the maximum extent possible, through private and voluntary organizations. Authorizes spending development and military assistance funds for Haiti and extending military sales credits and guarantees to Haiti only if the President makes a specified certification to Congress concerning Haiti. Directs the President to report to Congress six months after such certification on the actions of the Government of Haiti that were consistent with the certification. Prohibits furnishing Economic Support Fund assistance to Haiti until the President has certified to the Congress that Haiti has met certain fiscal performance targets established by the International Monetary Fund. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to reimpose and extend certain export controls that were imposed for foreign policy purposes. Authorizes the President to extend such controls beyond a specified date in accordance with certain provisions of such Act. Authorizes the President to waive the requirement to reimpose certain export controls if the President determines that the waiver is necessary for U.S. security interests and the President notifies Congress of that determination.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Requests the President to designate 1983 as Year of the Bible.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Grants a Federal charter to the National Association of State Directors of Veterans' Affairs, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Housing and Automobile Industries Recovery Act of 1982 - Title I: Exemption for the Purchase of Certain Bonds by Employee Pension Benefit Plans - Provides a temporary exemption from certain provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code relating to prohibited transactions for the purchase of certain bonds sold to fund residential mortgages and domestic motor vehicle loans. Title II: Interest Reduction Payments - Provides for interest reduction payments by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to assist with the financing of the purchase of certain residences and domestic motor vehicles. Sets forth: (1) requirements and restrictions for eligible loans and mortgages; and (2) guidelines for the allocation of such payments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 through 1988 to carry out this title. Prohibits the Secretary from making any commitments to make interest reduction payments under this title after August 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Permits the President to appoint successors to cadets at the U.S. Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies who have been discharged, graduated, or whose class has graduated without them.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide procedures to accompany reviews of disability determinations for purposes of continuing eligibility for disability insurance benefits. Requires that an individual whose case is being reviewed be notified of such review. Permits such an individual to submit medical evidence, prepared by a physician of his or her choice, with respect to the current status of his or her disability which shall be considered in determining the individual's continuing eligibility for disability benefits. Requires the prompt notification of the individual once his or her continuing eligibility for disability benefits has been determined. Allows an individual who is found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits to submit additional medical evidence with respect to his or her disability within 30 days of notification of the determination and request reconsideration of the determination. Permits the individual to request a hearing if the determination is affirmed after such reconsideration. Requires the State agency or the Secretary of Health and Human Services (whichever is reviewing the case) to terminate an individual's benefits if the individual does not request reconsideration of the eligibility determination or if the determination is reconsidered and affirmed. Allows termination of disability benefits only after an administrative hearing and a final determination by the Secretary in cases where: (1) there is a substantial difference of medical opinion as to an individual's disabling condition between the consultative physician chosen by the Secretary or the State agency and the individual's physician; and (2) an individual is substantially dependent upon such benefits. Prohibits the recovery of overpayment of disability benefits in such cases from benefit recipients whose income is less than 150 percent of the poverty line if the final decision is to stop the payment of disability benefits to them.