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United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Declares that the House of Representatives calls upon the President to open multilateral negotiations aimed at opening all nuclear power reactors of the world for safety inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1986
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to issue a permit under the Clean Water Act and the River and Harbor Act of 1899 for the Stacy Dam, Reservoir, and Pipeline Project of the Colorado River Municipal Water District, Texas, not later than November 30, 1986, notwithstanding any pending threatened species proposals by the Secretary of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to repeal prohibitions against the use of natural gas or petroleum as a primary energy source in new and existing electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to direct the Secretary of the military department concerned to conduct an independent operational test and evaluation with respect to a major defense acquisition program under which a major system is to be acquired. Requires such test and evaluation to be conducted before the program may proceed into the production stage. Requires side-by-side testing as part of such test and evaluation. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to independently analyze the results of each such operational test and evaluation, and to report such analyses to the Secretary of Defense. Prohibits the operational testing to be conducted until the Director approves in writing the adequacy of the plans for such operational test and evaluation. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned to contract for low-rate initial production of a program only for the purpose of acquiring items for use in operational tests and evaluations. Prohibits a final decision from being made to proceed with full production of a program until 30 days after the congressional defense committees have received the report of the Director. Authorizes the President to suspend any provision of this Act in time of a declared war.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow, while a declaration of national emergency is in effect: (1) a foreign income tax credit for any income, war profits, or excess profits taxes paid or accrued to Libya; (2) a business expense income tax deduction for any such taxes paid to Libya; and (3) the income tax exclusion of earned income of U.S. citizens living abroad for any income attributable to Libya. Describes such a declaration as a declaration by the President of a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act after a finding that the policies and actions of Libya constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Designates December 1 through December 7, 1986, as National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Prohibits the United States from making available any STINGER air defense guided missile (or any comparable portable ground-to-air missile) to any foreign military or paramilitary force other than: (1) the armed forces of a government with which the United States has diplomatic relations; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; or (3) any other international organization, all of whose members have diplomatic relations with the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Designates April 17, 1986, as National Pension Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in light of specified international human rights agreements, the Soviet Union should approve the exit visa applications of Doctor Naum Meiman and his wife, Inna Kitrosskaya, and arrange for them to go to the country of their choice. Urges the President to: (1) protest the Soviet Government's refusal to consider the exit visa applications of Dr. Meiman and his wife; (2) call upon all other signatory nations of the Helsinki Accords to join in such protest; and (3) instruct the U.S. delegation to the meeting of experts on human contacts organized under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to be held in Bern, Switzerland, to pursue this matter.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Acid Deposition Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Stationary Sources - Amends the Clean Air Act to require States to develop and submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an emissions limitation compliance schedule for sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from fossil-fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units. Requires a two-phase reduction in such emissions, the first to be achieved by 1993, the second by 1997. Requires each State to develop and submit to the Administrator a plan to achieve emissions reductions from other fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units by 1977. Directs the Administrator to conduct and update a comprehensive annual inventory of emissions of sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources, identifying achievable reductions which could be made by 1997. Requires States to submit to the Administrator for approval a plan for achieving such reductions. Grants States discretion in their choice of compliance measures. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress by July 1, 1993, on phase I reductions and the feasibility of meeting phase II reductions. States that phase II reductions will not take effect if the Congress enacts legislation to that effect. Sets forth emissions rates a State without an approved reductions plan must follow. Authorizes the Administrator to impose a fee on the generation and importation of electric energy between December 31, 1988, and December 31, 1996, to subsidize the interest on qualified pollution control debt incurred by the utility. Establishes civil penalties for fee violations. Establishes in the Treasury the Acid Deposition Control Fund to receive such fees and provide interest subsidy payments for pollution control systems meeting specified standards. Revises the standards for nitrogen oxides emissions for new electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and for certain fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units. Requires certain smelters to be in compliance with the applicable emissions reduction standard by January 2, 1988, without extension or delay. Title II: Control of Emission from Mobile Sources - Sets oxides of nitrogen emission standards for motor vehicles for model years 1988, 1989, and beyond. Modifies hydrocarbon standards for trucks after model year 1989. Directs the Administrator to regulate sulfur in diesel fuel for 1989 and beyond. Requires either the use of onboard hydrocarbon control technology or the use of gasoline vapor recovery of hydrocarbon emissions emanating from fueling motor vehicles. Title III: International Cooperation - Expresses the concern of the Congress over transboundary pollution between the United States and Mexico and directs the Secretary of State and the Administrator to conclude an agreement within three months of enactment. Requires such an agreement to cover specified copper smelters. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to report to the Congress within six months on negotiating such agreement. Requires EPA to perform atmospheric field experiments to determine the effects of sulfur dioxide emissions, before and after pollution controls, of the Nacozaria smelter, Mexico, on specified western States. Directs the Secretary to establish an international agency, or utilize an existing agency, to report on the effects of transboundary air pollution from copper smelters on public health and welfare in the United States and in Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit air carriers from providing alcoholic beverages to individuals under 21 years of age. Imposes a civil penalty for a violation of such proscription.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Secure Energy Supply Act of 1986 - Title I: Deduction and Special Net Operating Loss Treatment for Producers for Certain Losses On Crude Oil - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit crude oil producers to deduct as a qualified loss 100 percent of the amount by which the removal price of the oil is below the adjusted base price of such oil plus the amount of the severance tax adjustment with respect to such oil, in the case of independent producer oil, and 80 percent of such amount for all other domestic crude oil. Prohibits the aggregate loss deductions from exceeding the aggregate amount of windfall profit tax paid by such producer. Allows the qualified losses with respect to domestic crude oil to be carried back to each of the six taxable years preceding the taxable year of such loss. Repeals the windfall profit tax. Title II: Increase in Tariffs on Petroleum and Petroleum Products - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the duties on crude petroleum and fuel oils, crude shale oil, motor fuels, kerosene, and napthas imported into the United States (by specified amounts plus applicable offset amounts per barrel). Defines "applicable offset amount." Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the applicable offset amount if the petroleum product on which such duty was paid: (1) was used as heating fuel or in the production of heating fuel; or (2) is necessary to the manufacturing process for products destined for export. Provides that revenues from the increased duties imposed by this Act shall be allocated to the Petroleum Tariff Account. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out of such account any refunds which are allowed under this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any funds in such account that are not needed to make such refunds should be used to reduce the Federal budget deficit. Title III: Filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve with Stripper Well Oil - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be filled with crude oil produced in the United States from stripper wells or crude oil exchanged for stripper well oil. Requires the oil to be purchased at an adjusted base price level established under the Windfall Profit Tax Act. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Title IV: Removal of Wellhead Price Controls and Repeal of Natural Gas Act Jurisdiction Over Certain First Sales of Natural Gas - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act to remove the wellhead price controls on certain natural gas. Repeals Natural Gas Policy Act jurisdiction over certain sales of committed or dedicated natural gas. Repeals provisions relating to: (1) allowing the reimposition of price controls; and (2) reports to the Congress. Title V: Repeal of Certain Restrictions On the Use of Natural Gas and Petroleum - Repeals certain provisions of the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 pertaining to restrictions on the use of natural gas and petroleum, including the restrictions on the construction of gas-burning electric power plants. Title VI: Repeal of Incremental Pricing Requirements - Repeals the incremental pricing requirements contained in the Natural Gas Policy Act. Title VII: Flexibility in Rescheduling or Marking Down Troubled Loans - Directs the chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to promulgate regulations granting financial institutions with energy-related loans greater flexibility in rescheduling or marking down troubled loans.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Agriculture and Energy Assistance Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to direct the appropriate Federal banking agency to allow an agricultural or energy bank which engages in troubled debt restructuring involving only modification of the terms of the original debt agreement to account for the effects of the debt restructuring prospectively and to continue to account for the bank's investment in the original debt agreement in the amount recorded by the bank prior to such restructuring (provided the investment is less than or equal to the anticipated cash receipts from restructuring) to the extent such methods of accounting are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. Directs the appropriate agency to prescribe the manner in which a bank will report any troubled debt restructuring in reports of condition. Authorizes the appropriate agency to limit troubled debt restructuring when necessary to maintain a bank in safe and sound condition. Requires each appropriate agency to allow the capital of a qualified insured bank to fall below its minimum capital requirement. Permits the agency to limit the extent and duration of the shortfall as necessary to maintain a bank in a safe and sound condition. Defines a bank as "qualified" if it: (1) demonstrates that the capital shortfall is attributable to problems in the agricultural or energy sectors of the economy; (2) demonstrates that it is making good faith efforts to restructure troubled debt; (3) applies before January 1, 1988; (4) submits an acceptable plan for increasing its capital to the minimum required level by January 1, 1993; and (5) meets such additional conditions as the agency may establish. Requires the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to report to the Congress annually on their administration of such debt restructuring and capital standard forbearance provisions and on the extent to which banks are utilizing such provisions. Prohibits a national banking association from holding real estate under mortgage or purchased to secure debt for longer than ten years with no extension (currently, five years with a five-year extension if approved by the Comptroller of the Currency). Provides that a national banking association which the Comptroller of the Currency allows to decrease its capital below its required minimum capital level shall, nevertheless, be deemed to have unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus equal to such minimum level for purposes of lending limits.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Designates the week beginning May 4, 1986, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Amends the American Folklife Preservation Act to extend through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for the American Folklife Center, located in the Library of Congress. Repeals a restriction on the Center's use of FY 1985 or 1986 funds to pay for any personnel position established after August 21, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Truth in Negotiations Amendments of 1986 - Amends Federal law relating to defense contracts to require that all cost or pricing data submitted by a contractor or subcontractor must be in accordance with applicable regulations and any cost principles as directed by the head of the agency concerned. Outlines provisions concerning adjustment of a contract price at an administrative or judicial hearing as it relates to cost and pricing data submitted by a contractor and defenses to such adjustments. Outlines the liability to the United States of a contractor who is overpaid by the Department of Defense as the result of submission by the contractor of inaccurate, incomplete, or noncurrent cost or pricing data. Repeals current Federal provisions concerning such overpayments by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the week beginning on November 9, 1986, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates June 21, 1986, as National Save American Industry and Jobs Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates October 20, 1986, as Leyte Landing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Permits the 1986 Special Olympics Torch Relay to be run through the Capitol Grounds.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Continental Scientific Drilling and Exploration Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior through the United States Geological Survey, and the Director of the National Science Foundation to implement the policies of the proposed Continental Scientific Drilling Program of the United States relating to earth science research and technological development. Prescribes guidelines for such implementation, including: (1) taking action to assure an effective cooperative effort in furtherance of the Program; (2) taking administrative and financial measures to assure the effective functioning of the Interagency Accord on Continental Scientific Drilling; (3) assuring the continuing operation of the Interagency Coordinating Group; and (4) assuring that the Interagency Coordinating Group receives appropriate Federal agency cooperation. Requires a report to the Congress within 180 days of enactment which describes: (1) policy objectives; (2) projected schedules of scientific and engineering events that would advance Program objectives; (3) resources and funding levels needed for projected schedules of events and Program policy objectives; and (4) cooperation with the international community.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Designates November 18, 1986, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Attorney General should examine all available evidence regarding the activities of Kurt Waldheim during the Second World War to determine whether he is ineligible to receive a visa and must be excluded from admission into the United States under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Justice should review documents concerning Kurt Waldheim's role, if any, in Nazi war crimes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit Administration and its associated agencies and institutions should take additional actions to alleviate the agricultural financial situation, including restructuring, rather than foreclosing, loans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates the week beginning September 7, 1986, as National Freedom of Information Act Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates July 4, 1986, the centennial of the erection and dedication of the Statue of Liberty, as National Immigrants Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates April 20, 1986, as Education Day, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Amends Federal military pay and allowances provisions to provide increased authority for the temporary storage of household effects of members of the armed forces in connection with a change of duty station.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Designates the weekend of August 1 through August 3, 1986, as National Family Reunion Weekend.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Vatican should grant recognition to and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Proclaims the week of June 15, 1986, as National Agricultural Export Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Recognizes and honors the National Guard for 350 years of service.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal excise taxes and tariffs when incurred by business in the production of income should remain deductible for Federal income tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
National Space Grant College Act - Establishes, within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a national space grant college program to provide financial and other assistance for space-related projects administered by a space grant college, consortium, institute, laboratory, or State or local agency. Provides for: (1) a NASA Director of such programs; (2) grants and contracts to assist space grant programs or projects, programs or projects addressing national needs or problems relating to space, and programs or projects promoting international cooperation relating to space; (3) designation of space grant colleges and space grant regional consortia; (4) space grant fellowships; (5) a space grant review panel; (6) interagency cooperation; and (7) a biennial report and evaluation to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Designates the month of October 1986 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Commends the people and the Government of Spain for their support of continued participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their commitment to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act - Requires States to provide by law for elections for Federal office: (1) absentee registration and absentee voting for uniformed services voters and overseas voters; and (2) the use of alternative write-in absentee ballots by overseas voters. Directs the President to designate the head of an executive department to have primary responsibility for the administrative functions of this Act, including: (1) prescribing an official postcard form containing a voter registration and an absentee ballot application; (2) prescribing an alternative write-in ballot for overseas voters; (3) prescribing forms and designs for balloting materials; (4) distributing election materials; and (5) reporting to the Congress in even-numbered years on its effectiveness. Provides for the distribution of official postcards. Sets forth recommendations to the States in carrying out provisions of this Act. Authorizes the use of the alternative write-in ballots in lieu of absentee ballots under specified circumstances. Directs the Postmaster to expedite the transport of election materials and declares such materials free of postage.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to exempt from any sequestration of funds under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) certain benefits of veterans and their dependents and survivors which are based upon the service-connected disability or death of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Designates 1988 as the Year of New Sweden.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Designates the month of May 1986 as National Child Safety Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Designates the month of April 1986 as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1986
Provides that the Internal Revenue Service may not, before July 1, 1987, enforce its regulations relating to substantiation requirements for the deductions attributable to the business use of vehicles. Requires the Internal Revenue Service to follow the regulations in effect prior to the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1984. Prohibits the issuance of any regulations with respect to the substantiation requirements before July 1, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Medicare Continuing Care, Equity, and Quality Assurance Act of 1986 - Title I: Continuing Care Reforms - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Continuing Care Policy Council composed of members with expertise in geriatrics or rehabilitative practices. Requires the Council to make recommendations to the Secretary concerning the administration of continuing care services under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act and as such services are affected by title I of this Act. Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program to require the Secretary to establish medical claims standards which are to be applied uniformly and take into account a patient's medical profile, condition, and other practical considerations in determining the medical reasonableness and necessity of claims for continuing care services (defined to include extended care and home health services). Requires the Secretary to annually review and, if necessary, revise the standards. Authorizes a fiscal intermediary which has initially determined that some or all of a continuing care services claim may be denied, but has not yet officially denied the claim, to consult with the service provider, patient, and patient's physician to review the determination and approve a modified claim if the services are appropriate and the patient concurs in the modification. Directs the Secretary, in determining whether payments to home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities should be denied, to continue certain presumptions of compliance with reasonable and necessary services requirements until a system providing for case-by-case determinations of authorizations for continuing care services is implemented. Requires system implementation within 30 months of enactment of this Act. Requires a fiscal intermediary to reimburse a provider of continuing care for services provided to an individual for whom there was reasonable evidence of entitlement if the provider makes a timely request that the intermediary determine whether the individual is entitled to such services. Sets forth deadlines by which fiscal intermediaries must respond to provider inquiries concerning the medical necessity of continuing care services. Requires intermediaries to reimburse providers for medically unnecessary services provided over periods during which the intermediary's response is past due. Indemnifies beneficiaries who pay providers for continuing care services without knowing that they are unqualified for such services or that such services are medically unnecessary. Requires the Secretary to investigate allegations that a skilled nursing facility or home health agency has delayed or restricted acceptance of an individual until its receipt of the intermediary's response to its entitlement or medical necessity inquiries. Entitles individuals whose claim for continuing care services has been denied to a hearing by the Secretary and judicial review of the Secretary's final decision. Authorizes provider appeals on behalf of beneficiaries. Provides that, when a fiscal intermediary denies payment for continuing care services or a provider first furnishes such services, such organizations must inform beneficiaries regarding the individual's rights under this Act to appeal payment determinations. Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act to require peer review organizations, in certain situations to be determined by the Secretary, to perform independent medical reviews of fiscal intermediary denials of payment for continuing care services. Requires each peer review organization to annually report to the Secretary regarding such reviews. Directs peer review organizations to authorize payment for services which would not otherwise meet payment conditions where such organization certifies that exceptional circumstances exist to justify the cost-effective provision of the services. Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program to establish a special benefit consisting of payments to hospitals which retain patients who require only the level of care provided in a skilled nursing facility, but cannot transfer to such a facility due to the unavailability of space in such facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish performance standards for fiscal intermediary medical claims review which: (1) weigh the accuracy and timeliness of such review commensurately with cost savings from such review; (2) specify the qualifications required of review personnel; and (3) require an intensive level of review for new providers and providers with poor performance records. Requires the Secretary to annually inform the Continuing Care Policy Council regarding the intermediaries' performance under these standards. Directs the Secretary to establish a Medicare benefits management demonstration program, including projects which: (1) substitute, for the process of submitting separate claims by providers for an individual beneficiary, a single benefits manager that would identify and track the benefits most appropriate to the beneficiary; and (2) provide additional benefits to Medicare beneficiaries, including noncovered benefits if no additional costs are thereby imposed on beneficiaries or Medicare. Title II: Quality Assurance Reforms - Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act to establish a National Council on Quality Assurance. Directs the Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to provide for the appointment of members of the Council. States that the general functions of the Council shall be to: (1) provide oversight on the operations of the quality assurance system under the Medicare program; and (2) make recommendations annually to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Congress for improvements in the system. Sets forth the Council's functions more specifically. Requires the Council to report annually to the Congress on the functioning and progress of the Council. Authorizes appropriations. Requires contracts with peer review organizations to provide that: (1) at least one-half of the organizations' efforts must be on quality assurance activities; (2) quality assurance activities shall be conducted with respect to all the different types of items and services covered by Medicare; and (3) the level of activity for each of the different types of services and items shall reasonably reflect the proportion of Medicare payments made for that type of service or item. Adds to the definition of the term "peer review organization" so as to require such an entity to: (1) include in its composition representatives of other individuals responsible for the provision of services and items for which the organization is responsible for conducting quality assurance activities; and (2) have a consumer advisory board. Defines a "consumer advisory board." Requires any peer review organization to: (1) educate Medicare beneficiaries; (2) provide for a toll-free 24 hour telephone number, which shall be provided to Medicare beneficiaries for the purpose of receiving questions and complaints from Medicare beneficiaries; (3) assist in resolving any such complaints that are legitimate; (4) make available to its consumer advisory boards appropriate information received from the telephone service; and (5) train members of its consumer advisory board. Appropriates funds, in addition to any other amounts appropriated to carry out part B of title XI, from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for distribution to peer review organizations. Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program to require hospitals to implement a discharge planning process which meets guidelines and standards to be established by the Secretary, in conjunction with the Continuing Care Policy Council and Council on Quality Assurance, to: (1) protect against inappropriate early hospital discharges; (2) ensure a timely and smooth transition to the most appropriate type of and setting for post-hospital care; and (3) permit early initiation of the authorization process for continuing care services. Requires peer review organizations to monitor hospitals' compliance with discharge planning process requirements. Sets forth study and reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Designates the week beginning November 24, 1986, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Designates the week beginning May 18, 1986, as National Digestive Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 11 through May 18, 1986, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Postmaster General should issue a postage stamp honoring American servicemen and civilians still unaccounted for as a result of the conflict in Indochina.