United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Declares that the provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 dealing with the President's authority to extend the waiver of requirements that nonmarket economy countries permit freedom of emigration in order to obtain most-favored nation-treatment shall not apply to Hungary and the People's Republic of China during the period between July 3, 1983 and July 2, 1988. Grants to Hungary and the People's Republic of China for that period: (1) most-favored-nation treatment; and (2) eligibility to participate in any U.S. program that extends credits or credit or investment guarantees. Declares that specified bilateral commercial agreements between the United States and Hungary and between the United States and the People's Republic of China shall be treated as having been renewed for that five year period.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the income tax reductions scheduled for July 1, 1983, and the inflation adjustment of the income tax brackets scheduled for after 1984, should not be repealed or postponed.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Extends most favored nation treatment to Hungary beginning July 3, 1983, and ending July 2, 1988. Makes Hungary eligible to participate in any U.S. credit programs and renews for the effective term period the bilateral commercial agreement entered into between the United States and Hungary on March 17, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Dedicates the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to Phillip Burton. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to inform the public of the contributions of Phillip Burton through the use of signs, maps, and interpretive programs and to establish an appropriate memorial to him within the recreation area. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Medicare Voucher Act of 1983 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the method of reimbursement to health maintenance organizations (HMO's). Provides instead for payments to health benefits organizations (HBO's). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine annually a per capita rate of payment for each class of individuals enrolled with a HBO under this Act with which the Secretary has a contract. Directs the Secretary to define appropriate classes of members on the basis of such factors as age, sex, disability status, and place of residence. Provides that the payment rate for each class shall be equal to 95 percent of the adjusted average per capita cost for that class, and that the rate shall be paid monthly in advance. Defines adjusted average per capita cost to mean the average per capita amount estimated in advance that would be payable in any contract year for services covered under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), and types of expenses otherwise reimbursable under parts A and B, if payment for the services were to be made other than as provided for under this Act. Provides that payment to a HBO under this Act for individuals enrolled with a HBO shall be made from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Defines a HBO as a voluntary association, corporation, partnership, or other organization which is lawfully engaged in providing, paying for, or reimbursing the cost of, health services under insurance policies or contracts, medical or hospital agreements, membership or subscription contracts, or similar arrangements, and includes a health benefits plan duly sponsored or underwritten by an employer or an employee organization. Requires the employer under an employment based plan to pay at least 25 percent of the premium for every current or former employee. Requires a HBO to: (1) provide, pay for, or reimburse the cost of at least all the services to which a Medicare enrollee is entitled and the inpatient hospital services for every day the individual is an inpatient; and (2) provide, pay for, or reimburse the cost of emergency services, if they would otherwise be covered under Medicare. Permits a HBO to offer one or more combinations of benefits, as long as the benefits are offered to all enrollees. Provides that all individuals entitled to benefits under part A shall be eligible to enroll with an HBO, except individuals with end-stage renal disease. Entitles an individual enrolled with a HBO who is dissatisfied because of failure to receive benefits to a hearing before the Secretary, and judicial review of the Secretary's determination if the amount in controversy exceeds a specified sum. Prohibits the actuarial value of the amounts (other than premiums) that an individual enrolled with a HBO is required to pay for Medicare covered services from exceeding the actuarial value of the amounts (other than premiums) the individual would be required to pay if the individual were not enrolled with a HBO. Authorizes HBO's to change premiums. Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with any HBO that meets specified requirements. Provides that each contract shall be for a term of at least one year. Requires each contract to provide: (1) that the Secretary shall have the right to inspect the quality and appropriateness of a HBO's services; (2) that the Secretary shall have the right to audit and inspect a HBO's books and records; and (3) that the HBO furnish required information. Makes conforming amendments. Sets forth effective date and transitional provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Health Care Financing Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Medicare - Subtitle A: Changes in Eligibility, Benefits, and Cost Sharing - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase the Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI), (part B of title XVIII) deductible by the percentage increase in the Medicare Physicians' services economic index. Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII of the Act to provide that Medicare eligibility shall not begin until the first full month in which an individual becomes age 65. Revises provisions relating to SMI premiums. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services during September 1983 and annually thereafter to determine the monthly actuarial rate for enrollees age 65 and over which shall be applicable for the succeeding year. Provides that the actuarial rate shall be the amount the Secretary estimates to be necessary so that the aggregate amount for that succeeding year with respect to those enrollees age 65 and over will equal one-half of the total benefits and administrative costs estimated to be payable from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for services performed and related administrative costs incurred in that year. Directs the Secretary during September 1983 and annually thereafter to determine a monthly premium amount applicable for the succeeding year. Provides that amount (except in certain instances) shall be equal to: (1) for 1984, 50 percent of the 1984 monthly actuarial rate for enrollees age 65 and over; (2) for 1985, 55 percent of the 1985 monthly actuarial rate; (3) for 1986, 60 percent of the 1986 monthly actuarial rate; (4) for 1987, 65 percent of the 1987 monthly actuarial rate; and (5) for 1988 and each succeeding year, 70 percent of the monthly actuarial rate for that year. Provides that payments to home health agencies for durable medical equipment shall be the lesser of: (1) the reasonable cost of the equipment and the customary charges for such equipment less an amount equal to 20 percent of the reasonable charge, but in no case may the payment for the equipment exceed 80 percent of the reasonable cost; or (2) if the equipment is furnished by a public home health agency free of charge or at a nominal charge, an amount which provides fair compensation to the agency. Eliminates the SMI deductible for diagnostic tests performed in a laboratory which has entered into a negotiated rate agreement with the Secretary. Provides for a 30 day period of coverage for services furnished by a home health agency following the termination of the agency's agreement. Subtitle B: Changes in Reimbursement - Reduces the "applicable percentage increase" used in computing hospital "target amounts." Provides that in determining SMI reasonable charges for physicians' services, the prevailing and customary charge levels that apply to services furnished after June 1982 but before July 1983 shall also apply to services furnished after June 1983 but before July 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a public or private entity under which the entity accepts specified amounts as full payment for certain SMI items and services. Subtitle C: Administrative Changes - Revises provisions relating to Medicare claims processing. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with intermediaries providing for their determination of the amount of the payments required under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII to be made to providers of services assigned by the Secretary to specific intermediaries, and for the making of such payments by intermediaries to those providers. Defines "intermediary" as: (1) a voluntary association, corporation, partnership, or other nongovernmental organization which is lawfully engaged in providing, paying for, or reimbursing the cost of, health services under group health insurance policies or contracts, medical or hospital service agreements, membership or subscription contracts, or similar group arrangements, in consideration of premiums or other periodic charges payable to the intermediary; or (2) an agency or organization with which an agreement was in effect on the date of enactment of the Health Care Financing Amendments of 1982. Requires all items and services furnished by a hospital to inpatients to be furnished by or through the hospital, except for physicians' services. Prohibits payment for inpatient hospital services furnished to an individual as an inpatient of a particular hospital during a spell of illness after such services have been furnished to the individual for 150 days as an inpatient of that hospital or of another hospital that has previously filed a request for payment for such services during such spell minus one day for each day of inpatient hospital services in excess of 90 received during any preceding spell of illness. Requires the first hospital filing after Medicare payment for inpatient hospital services to be responsible for collecting the deductible. Repeals specified requirements relating to coverage of tuberculosis treatments. Eliminates utilization review requirements. Eliminates the requirement for a separate Railroad Retirement Board carrier contract. Authorizes the United States to bring an action directly against a third party payer (workmen's compensation, automobile, or other insurance plan) for Medicare payments. Prohibits a provider from receiving payment for custodial services or for services not reasonable and necessary. Permits SMI payments to be made to an entity: (1) which provides coverage of the service under a health benefits plan; (2) which has paid the person who provided the service the amount which that person has accepted as payment in full for the service; and (3) to which the individual has agreed in writing that payment may be made. Eliminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Prohibits the Secretary from disclosing any accreditation survey made by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals or the American Osteopathic Association of an institution accredited by either of those bodies as a hospital. Eliminates the requirement that institutional providers include as a part of the required overall plan and budget the three year capital expenditures plan. Eliminates the requirement that a psychiatric hospital must be accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Eliminates the requirement that final cost reports of health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans be independently certified. Provides that only in contracts of above $50,000 (currently $10,000) between a Medicare provider and any of its subcontractors must there be a clause permitting access to the subcontractor's records before reimbursement will be made. Makes the national end-stage renal disease medical information system discretionary with the Secretary (currently, the Secretary is required to establish the system). Authorizes the Secretary, if patient health and safety is not jeopardized, to apply less severe sanctions than are presently available for dealing with an end-stage renal disease facility which is not in compliance with applicable regulations. Prohibits Medicare payment to any physician convicted of Medicare or Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) related crimes. Authorizes the Secretary to deny participation in the Medicare program to any provider: (1) convicted of Medicare or Medicaid related crimes; (2) against whom a Medicare or Medical related civil penalty has been assessed; or (3) to whom Medicare payments have been denied due to knowingly and willfully making a false statement or representation related to Medicare participation. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate an agreement with a provider if any individual who directly or indirectly owns or controls five percent or more of the provider's business has been convicted of certain Medicare or Medicaid related offenses. Authorizes the Secretary to use accrediting organizations to determine whether rural health clinics, laboratories, clinics, rehabilitation agencies, and public health agencies meet Medicare requirements. Eliminates certain reporting requirements of the Secretary. Title II: Medicaid - Subtitle A: Changes in Payments to States - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide 100 percent Federal payment of the administrative costs of processing combined Medicare and Medicaid claims. Provides that Federal Medicaid payments to States for FY 1985 and each succeeding year shall be reduced by three percent. Prohibits payment with respect to any amount spent for an item or service furnished by or through a physician who has been convicted of a Medicare or Medicaid related crime or who knowingly and willfully made false representations related to Medicare or Medicaid. Authorizes the Secretary to reduce the amount which would otherwise be considered as expenditures under a State plan by an amount equal to payments made by the State to any individual or institution that has failed to furnish requested information regarding payment claimed. Subtitle B: Changes in Eligibility, Benefits, and Cost Sharing - Requires (currently, permits) a State to provide for the assignment of rights of payment. Prohibits copayments on services furnished by health maintenance organizations (HMO's) to the categorically needy and to certain long-term care inpatients. Authorizes a State to exempt children and pregnant women from copayments. Authorizes a State to exempt emergency services from copayments. Requires the categorically needy to pay a copayment of one dollar per day for inpatient hospital services and one dollar per visit for outpatient hospital services, rural health clinic services, physician services, and clinic services. Requires copayments two dollars per day and $1,50 per visit by the medically needy for the same services. Subtitle C: Administrative Changes - Repeals provisions prohibiting grants to profit making organizations for research or demonstration projects. Revises provisions under title XIX relating to medical review and independent professional review. Repeals special requirements relating to coverage of tuberculosis treatments. Repeals the requirement that a State plan must have in effect: (1) program of control over utilization of inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facility services, or intermediate care facility services exceeding 60 days (or inpatient mental care services exceeding 90 days); and (2) a utilization review plan with respect to any amount spent for care or services in the above institutions. Requires a State to obtain from each Medicaid applicant or recipient his or her taxpayer identification number. Repeals the requirement that Medicaid management information systems provide written notice to each Medicaid recipient of the services furnished. Requires instead, that each State provide for an effective method of verifying whether services billed by all participating providers were furnished as claimed. Authorizes the Secretary to waive or modify any Medicaid requirement with respect to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands (currently, the Secretary has this authority only with respect to American Samoa), other than a waiver of the Federal medical assistance percentage, the ceiling on total federal payments, or services for which medical assistance may be provided. Authorizes a State to terminate an agreement with a provider if any owner of the institution has been convicted of certain offenses. Eliminates the requirement that a psychiatric hospital must be accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and requires instead that it meet specified standards under the Medicare program. Modifies the type of hearing required before the Secretary may cancel approval of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility. Modifies payment rates for hospital furnishing skilled nursing or intermediate care facility services. Provides those hospitals with the same payment rate as for other hospital services. Revises the Secretary's authority to provide, by waiver, that a State plan may include as medical assistance approved home or community based services in the situation where an individual otherwise would have to be placed in nursing care facility. Provides that the waiver shall be for an initial term of one, two, or three years and, upon the request of a State, shall be extended for additional periods of one, two, or three years, if appropriate. Provides the Secretary with the same authority to issue and enforce subpoenas under Medicaid as the Secretary has under title II (Old age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act. Revises provisions relating to disputed claims on which States are required to pay interest on Federal matching claims. Makes the requirement effective with respect to amounts claimed by the State (currently, expenditures for services furnished) on or after October 1, 1980. Title III: Other Health Care Financing Provisions - Repeals provisions under titles XVIII and XIX of the Act which authorized payments to promote the closing and conversion of underutilized hospital facilities. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act to provide that the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Revises provisions relating to the capital expenditures review program. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Governor and with appropriate local public officials, to make an agreement with any State which is able and willing to do so under which a designated planning agency (which shall be a State governmental agency) may make, and submit to the Secretary, findings and recommendations with respect to capital expenditures proposed by or on behalf of any health care facility in the State that the agency chooses to review. Eliminates the national advisory council which was established to assist the Secretary with respect to the program. Repeals provisions providing for Federal funding of State programs that review health facility capital expenditures. Revises requirements concerning ownership of providers. Eliminates reporting requirements if an individual owns $25,000 or more, but still owns less than five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to bar from participation in Medicare or Medicaid any provider in which an ownership interest of five percent or more is owned by an individual convicted of Medicare or Medicaid related crimes. Repeals part B (Peer Review of the Utilization and Quality of Health Care Services) of title XI of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Health Cost Containment Tax Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in the gross income of an employee any employer contribution to the employee's health plan which exceeds $70 per month ($175 per month for employees with family coverage), beginning in 1984. Provides for a cost of living adjustment to allowable contribution amounts for calendar years after 1984. Treats an employee as having individual coverage unless the employee has a spouse or a dependent who is covered under the plan. Provides that the employer contribution to a health plan will be the cost of coverage of the employee under the plan reduced by the amount of the employee's contributions for such coverage. Specifies rules which must be used to calculate the annual cost of providing coverage for an employee. Excludes any cost allocable to workmen's compensation or to a purpose other than providing medical care for purposes of determining cost of coverage under the plan.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Medicare Catastrophic Hospital Cost Protection Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the time limits on the duration of inpatient hospital care, post-hospital extended care, and inpatient psychiatric hospital care. Prohibits more than two inpatient hospital deductibles per year, no matter how many hospitalizations occur. Revises coinsurance provisions. Provides that coinsurance shall be: (1) eight percent of the inpatient hospital deductible for each of the first 15 days of hospitalization during any spell of illness; and (2) five percent of the inpatient hospital deductible for each subsequent day. Prohibits the total number of days annually for which coinsurance was charged plus the days for which the inpatient hospital deductible was charged from exceeding 60. Reduces the coinsurance imposed on the 21st through 100th day of care for post-hospital extended care services.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize any State having an approved plan under part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of title IV of the Act to conduct one or more pilot projects to demonstrate the use of integrated service delivery systems for human services. Requires a State desiring to conduct a project to submit an application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs the Secretary to approve not less than four nor more than eight of the proposed projects. Directs the Secretary to pay to a State which has an approved project: (1) 90 percent of the first year's costs; (2) 80 percent of the second year's costs; and (3) 70 percent of the third year's costs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Child Support Enforcement Improvements Act of 1985 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to state that the purpose of part D is to assure compliance with the obligations to pay child support to each child in the United States living with one parent. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for payment to a State of past-due child support from Federal tax refunds in cases where collection services have been made available under part D to an individual not otherwise qualified for part D services. Requires a State under part D to maintain a child support clearinghouse: (1) through which support payments will be recorded; (2) into which support payments will be paid and forwarded; (3) which will maintain collection records; and (4) which will have a system for reporting support obligations owed, collected, and disbursed, and for notifying the courts when payments are not made. Requires a State under part D to: (1) seek medical support for children for whom it is seeking financial support; (2) provide for mandatory withholding and payment of past-due support from wages; (3) provide a procedure for imposing liens against property and estates for past-due support; (4) provide for the collection of past due support from State tax refunds; (5) provide that quasijudicial or administrative procedures be available to aid in the establishment and collection of support obligations and in the establishment of paternity; and (6) provide for at least three of the following: voluntary wage assignment to pay support obligations, the use of scientific testing to determine paternity, the imposition of a bond to secure support obligations of absent parents having a pattern of past-due support, a procedure for establishing paternity without participation of the alleged father if such father refuses to cooperate in establishing paternity, or use of an objective standard to guide in the establishment and modification of support obligations by measuring the amount of support needed and the ability of an absent parent to pay such support, so that comparable amounts of support are awarded in similar situations. Amends Federal bankruptcy law to provide that the discharge of a debtor's debts does not discharge the debtor from any debt (currently, the debt must be in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree, or property settlement) to a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor, for alimony to, maintenance for, or support of such spouse or child.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to reduce, for three years, the duty on odd-shaped or fancy watch crystals to the same rate as round watch crystals.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the family planning program under title X of the Public Health Service Act should be administered in the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Child Care Information and Referral Services Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, to establish a grant program to assist public or private nonprofit organizations in the establishment or operation of community- based child care information and referral centers. Sets forth grant application requirements. Limits the duration and amount of grants to a center. Sets reporting requirements for centers receiving such grants. Directs the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 to the General Services Administration for: (1) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; and (2) funds to Federal, State, and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations for the collection, preservation, and publication of historically significant documents.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that certain museums and organizations which operate a library shall be treated as public charities for income tax purposes (taxpayers may deduct contributions to public charities up to 50 percent of their adjusted gross income).
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Employment Act of 1983 - Title I: Modification of the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program - Amends the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 (Subtitle A of title VI of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982) to permit any State to modify its agreement under such Act and the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to continue the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program in the State after March 31, 1983. Sets forth conditions for such modification. Requires that any such modified agreement provide that the State agency will: (1) make Federal supplemental compensation payments to eligible claimants who make timely claims for weeks of unemployment that begin on or after April 1, 1983, and on or before September 30, 1983; and (2) administer the voucher system as provided in this title and in instructions issued by the Secretary. Sets forth: (1) eligibility requirements for claimants; (2) weekly benefit amounts; (3) the maximum benefit amount; and (4) definitions of "high," "intermediate," and "low" unemployment periods for purposes of such period of modification and such voucher system. Authorizes appropriations for Federal supplemental compensation payments payable in accordance with this title. Establishes a system of job voucher employer tax credits. Provides that employers who hire individuals who are eligible or putatively eligible for Federal supplemental compensation may qualify for vouchers to be used as tax credits under the terms and conditions of this title. Gives unemployed individuals the option of using the voucher system in seeking employment. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the period for such election by the individual; (2) the individual entitlement period; and (3) the amount of entitlement for an unemployed individual. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) employer entitlement to vouchers; (2) the amount and number of vouchers to which an employer is entitled; (3) employer claims for vouchers; (4) employer use of certified vouchers as credits against specified tax liabilities; and (5) employer misuse of the voucher system. Authorizes appropriations for the job voucher employer credit system. Title II: Youth Opportunity Wage and Coverage - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit employers, during the period from May 1 through September 30 of each year, to pay employees who are less than 22 years of age at a rate which is the lesser of $2.50 per hour or 75 percent of the applicable Federal minimum wage. Exempts such employment from special certificate requirements. Provides that this title shall not: (1) affect recordkeeping or child labor law requirements; or (2) apply to any youth who has been employed by the employer at any time during the 90-day period prior to May 1 of each year. Prohibits employers from discharging or discriminating against any employee because of such employee's ineligibility for such wage. Provides that youth opportunity wages and employment shall not be covered for purposes of State or Federal unemployment compensation or considered for unemployment tax purposes. Title III: Use of State Unemployment Funds for Retraining and Relocation Assistance - Authorizes States to use money in their unemployment funds to pay for the costs of furnishing retraining and relocation assistance to workers eligible for unemployment compensation under State law. Limits such use of funds in any calendar year to two percent of the total receipts from employers in the State's unemployment fund in the preceding calendar year. Sets forth provisions for limitations on the costs of administering such assistance. Title IV: Additional Provisions - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to provide that individuals under age 22 who are employed, under specified provisions of that Act, during May 1 through September 30 of any calendar year shall be paid at the higher of: (1) the youth opportunity wage provided under title II of this Act; or (2) the applicable State or local minimum wage. Amends the Social Security Act to make revisions relating to the job voucher employer credit system. Makes appropriations to the Unemployment Trust Fund for credit to the account of a State of an amount equal to the value of any such vouchers received from that State during the fiscal year. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish rules for computing the job voucher employer credit.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that provisions of the Internal Revenue Code requiring cost-of-living adjustments for income tax rates should not be repealed and that the effective date of such provisions should not be postponed.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant tax-exempt status to a physicians' and surgeons' mutual protection association established to provide malpractice insurance to its members. Characterizes payment for malpractice insurance made to such an association by its physician or surgeon members as a deductible business expense.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1983
Economic Equity Act of 1983 - Title I: Tax and Retirement Matters - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the maximum deduction for contributions to an individual retirement plan: (1) shall be computed separately for each individual who is married; and (2) in the case of a married individual who has no compensation or less compensation than that of the spouse, shall be determined as if such compensation were the same as that of the individual's spouse. Treats alimony as compensation for purposes of determining an individual's income tax deduction for retirement savings. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to require that a retirement plan that provides an annuity to a participant with at least ten years of creditable service shall provide a survivor's annuity for the spouse of a participant who dies before the annuity starting date in an amount not less than the amount that would have been provided if the participant had survived and retired on such annuity date. Provides that a participant's election not to take a joint and survivor's annuity shall not be effective unless the spouse of the participant consents in writing to such an election. Requires a retirement plan to treat an individual who was the spouse of the participant on the annuity starting date and who survives the participant as if such individual were the spouse of the participant on the date of death of the participant whether or not divorced after the annuity starting date. Allows the assignment of the benefits of a qualified retirement plan in the case of a judgment decree or order relating to child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights pursuant to a State domestic relations law. Amends ERISA to lower the age limitation for participation in a qualified retirement plan from age 25 to age 21. Amends ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code to provide for accruals of creditable service to continue while an individual is on approved maternity or paternity leave at the rate of 20 hours service for each week of approved leave. Entitles former spouses of civil service employees or Members of Congress, who were married to an employee or Member for at least ten years during creditable service, to an annuity based upon a portion of retired or retainer pay unless otherwise provided by a spousal agreement or a state court decree of divorce or annulment. Entitles former spouses to survivor's benefits under the civil service plan unless the former spouse remarries before becoming 60 years of age or the employee or Member and former spouse elect to waive such benefit. Requires that such waiver be jointly made in writing. Includes displaced homemakers as a targeted group for purposes of the targeted jobs tax credit. Defines "displaced homemaker" as a person who: (1) has not worked, except in the home, for a substantial number of years; (2) has been dependent on public assistance or on the income of a family member but is no longer supported by that income; and (3) is a member of an economically disadvantaged family and is experiencing difficulty obtaining or upgrading employment. Increases the zero bracket amount for heads of households from $2,300 to $3,400. Title II: Dependent Care Program - Increases the income tax credit for household and dependent care services from a maximum of 30 percent of amounts paid to a maximum of 50 percent of amounts paid. Reduces such percentage to a minimum of 20 percent based on the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Makes such income tax credit refundable. Treats as tax-exempt organizations certain organizations which provide nonresidential dependent care to the general public. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (through the Commissioner of the Administration of Children, Youth, and Families) to establish a grant program to assist nonprofit organizations in the establishment or operation of community-based child care information. Title III: Nondiscrimination in Insurance - Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act of 1983 - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the consideration of applications for, or the granting of, insurance policies and the terms of such policies. Permits insurers who regularly provide insurance solely to persons of a single religious affiliation to continue to do so. Grants to State or local governments having insurance discrimination laws the primary opportunity to enforce this Act. Permits an aggrieved person to file a civil action in State or Federal court against an insurer, if a State or local authority: (1) has received notice of a complaint and fails to act within 60 days; or (2) has no insurance discrimination laws. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in district court when there is reasonable cause to believe that a person or group is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the rights granted by this Act and that such denial raises an issue of general public importance. Title IV: Regulatory Reform and Sex Neutrality - Requires the head of each Federal agency to: (1) conduct an ongoing review of the rules, regulations, programs, and policies of the agency to identify any which result in different treatment based on sex; and (2) submit annually a report to the Congress on such review. Sets forth rules of statutory construction relating to gender. Title V: Child Support Enforcement - Amends the Social Security Act to specify that the purpose of the child support enforcement program is to assure compliance with obligations to pay child support to each child in the United States living with one parent. Allows offsets of income tax refunds of an absent parent on behalf of children not receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. (Present law permits such offsets only in the case of children receiving AFDC payments.) Requires States to establish a child support clearinghouse through which child support payments can be paid, recorded, and forwarded. Revises State child support enforcement procedures. Allows allotments for child and spousal support to be taken from the pay of Federal employees.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1983
Little Hoover Commission - Establishes the Commission on the Centennial Review of the Civil Service. Directs the Commission to study the history and development of the civil service system over the last 100 years and to recommend methods for continuing or improving its performance. Requires the Commission to consider the retirement and disability system, employee pay and benefits, personnel practices, and labor-management relations under the civil service system. Requires the Commission to submit a final report containing its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for legislation or administrative action to the President and Congress within the first ten days of the Ninety-nineth Congress. Directs the President, within 90 days after receiving the report, to transmit to Congress an evaluation of the report's findings and conclusions together with any recommendations for modifying the proposed legislation. Terminates the Commission 90 days after it submits such report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Air Travelers Security Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to declare congressional policy with respect to the marketing and sale of passenger air transportation. Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to vacate Order 82-12-85, adopted on December 16, 1982, and to adopt as its final decision in docket numbered 36595 the recommended order of an administrative law judge dated June 1, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant one or more extensions of the five-year period within which tax-exempt private foundations must dispose of excess business holdings. Requires the Secretary, in granting or denying an extension, to consider, among other factors: (1) whether the private foundation has in good faith taken reasonable steps to dispose of such holdings throughout the initial five-year period; (2) whether orderly disposition of such holdings can reasonably be expected to occur before the expiration of the extension period; and (3) all other facts and circumstances which the Secretary considers relevant. Requires that the extension so granted be no less than 24 months in duration.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the income tax credit for child care expenses from a maximum of 30 percent to a maximum of 50 percent of such expenses. Reduces such percentage by one percent for each full $1,000 by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $10,000. Grants tax-exempt status to organizations which provide nonresidential dependent care services to the general public for purposes of enabling individuals to maintain employment.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Savings Incentive Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow nondeductible excess contributions to individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities up to a specified amount. Permits withdrawals from such accounts or annuities up to $10,000 without tax penalty, in order to purchase a first home or finance the higher or vocational education of a dependent child.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such a policy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Enterprise Zone Act of 1983 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this Act. Specifies that State and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits the designation of enterprise zones to 75 nominated areas per year over three years (one third of which such designations shall remain in effect. Specifies that the Secretary may designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000 if any portion thereof is located within a standard metropolitan statistical area (with a population of at least 50,000) or 1,000 otherwise, or is within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, or receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to designate enterprise zones on June 30, 1986, or three years after the publication of regulations pertaining to such zones, whichever is later. Describes areas to which preference shall be given in deciding to designate enterprise zones. Exempts enterprise zones from certain requirements relating to Federal environmental policy. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress every four years a report on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this Act be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that designation of an enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Allows a three year carryback and 15 year carryover of such credit. Sets the amount of such credit at ten percent of the increase in payroll (taking into account a maximum of $15,000 in wages per year per employee) plus 50 percent of the wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first three years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages taken into account for such credit. Allows employees located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to five percent of qualified wages earned per year (taking into account a maximum of $9,000 in wages per year). Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investment in certain tangible property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property and ten percent for new zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be predominantly used in the zone, be purchased after zone designation, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle C: Reduction in Capital Gain Tax Rates - Eliminates the capital gains tax on property of corporations acquired after the enterprise zone designation and used in a zone business. Qualifies certain low-income rental housing located in an enterprise zone for such treatment. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Allows noncorporate taxpayers to deduct from gross income 100 percent of any net capital gain from qualified enterprise zone property. Subtitle D: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt industrial development bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property. Provides that the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to industrial development bonds the proceeds of which are used to finance facilities in such enterprise zones. Subtitle E: Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified businesses (as defined in Title II of this Act), governments, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon the request of a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuing the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of a rule shall remain in effect as long as the zone designations remain in effect. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Board to consider on a priority basis, and expedite the processing of, applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that to the maximum extent practicable foreign-trade zones should be established within enterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat research and experimental expenses attributable to activities conducted in the United States as allocable to sources of income within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Social Security Act Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Provisions Affecting the Financing of the Social Security System - Part A: Coverage - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to provide mandatory coverage under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program as of January 1, 1984, for: (1) all Federal employees hired on or after January 1, 1984; (2) the President; (3) the Vice President; (4) all elected officials and political appointees; (5) judges; (6) Members of Congress; and (7) all legislative branch employees who are not participating in the Civil Service retirement System as of December 31, 1983. Provides that salaries of Federal judges under age 70 shall be considered "wages" for purposes of title II. Extends mandatory coverage under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program to all employees of nonprofit organizations for service performed after December 31, 1983. Provides that employees of nonprofit organizations who are age 55 or older as of January 1, 1984, shall be considered fully insured individuals under title II if they acquire a specified number of quarters of coverage according to their age. Prohibits the termination of State coverage agreements (under which State and local government employees may be covered under title II) on or after the enactment of this Act. Makes such prohibition applicable to any agreements in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding pending termination notices. (Currently, coverage under such an agreement may be terminated if the State gives two years' written notice of such intent, following at least five years of coverage of the State or local group involved.) Part B: Computation of Benefit Amounts - Delays the June 1983 cost of living adjustment in OASDI benefits until December 1983. Provides that subsequent cost of living adjustments shall be provided on a calendar year basis beginning in 1984. Requires that the cost of living adjustments to OASDI benefits be based upon the lower of the Consumer Price Index increase or the wage increase percentage, beginning in 1988, whenever the reserves in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund fall below a certain amount. Requires the payment of additional benefits to beneficiaries when the reserves in the trust funds have increased above a certain amount. Reduces the old-age and disability benefits of individuals who reach age 62 after 1985 and who are eligible for a pension based on non-covered employment. Increases gradually the delayed retirement credit received by workers who delay retirement beyond age 65. Part C: Revenue Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in gross income the lesser of: (1) one-half of the social security benefits received by a taxpayer during the taxable year; or (2) one-half of the amount by which the sum of a taxpayer's adjusted gross income plus one-half of the social security benefits received by the taxpayer during the taxable year exceeds a base amount. Defines the base amount as: (1) $25,000 for an individual; (2) $32,000 for married persons filing a joint return; and (3) zero for married persons filing separate returns. Defines as "social security benefits" OASDI benefits and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Railroad Retirement Board to file information returns indicating: (1) the aggregate amount of benefits paid to any individual during a calendar year; (2) the aggregate amount of benefits repaid by such individual during the calendar year; (3) the aggregate reductions in benefits because of amounts received under a workmen's compensation act; and (4) such individual's name and address. Requires that such information be furnished to the individuals named in the returns. Includes in the gross income of a nonresident alien one-half of any social security benefits received by such individual. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose return information from the Internal Revenue Service files on the address and status of such a nonresident alien or a U.S. citizen or resident to the Social Security Administration or the Railroad Retirement Board for purposes of withholding tax from social security benefits. Provides for the treatment of social security benefits as income from sources within the United States for purposes of the tax on nonresident aliens. Appropriates to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and to the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund the revenues generated under this title. Requires that such appropriations be transferred at least quarterly from the Treasury to the trust funds. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Railroad Retirement Board on such transfers. Allows a tax credit in the case of an individual who retires on disability before the close of the taxable year and who, when retired, is permanently and totally disabled. Prohibits the extension of such credit to any nonresident alien. Revises the OASDI tax rates on employees and employers so as to: (1) increase the tax rate for 1984; (2) keep the current tax rate for 1985 through 1987; and (3) increase the tax rate for 1988-1989. Allows a one-time tax credit for the OASDI employee taxes and the tier 1 railroad retirement employee taxes paid during 1984. Increases the OASDI tax rates and the hospital insurance tax rates on self-employment income for taxable years 1989 through 1990. Allows a tax credit for OASDI and hospital insurance taxes paid on self-employment income, beginning in 1984. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to revise the allocations of wages and self-employment income from the Treasury to the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, beginning in 1983. Part D: Benefits for Certain Surviving, Divorced, and Disabled Spouses - Permits the continued payment of OASDI benefits to: (1) surviving divorced spouses who remarry after age 60; (2) disabled widows and disabled widowers who remarry after age 50; and (3) disabled surviving divorced wives who remarry after age 50. Entitles the divorced wife of an individual who is not entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits, but who is age 62 and is a fully insured individual, to wife's insurance benefits if such divorced wife meets the criteria for entitlement to wife's insurance benefits under title II and has been divorced from the insured individual for at least two years. Makes deductions because of the outside income limitation inapplicable to a divorced spouse's benefits. Provides that the benefits of all other persons entitled to benefits on the basis of an individual's earnings record will be determined as if the divorced spouse of such individual were not entitled to wife's or husband's benefits based on such earnings record. Provides that in the computation of benefits for a surviving spouse of an individual who dies before reaching age 62, such individual's primary insurance amount shall be determined based on the year in which the surviving spouse becomes entitled to benefits if it results in a higher benefit than the current method of determining such amount. Increases OASDI benefits for disabled widows and widowers entitled before age 60 to the level of benefits payable to widows and widowers who become entitled at age 60. Part E: Mechanisms to Assure Continued Benefit Payments in Unexpectedly Adverse Conditions - Amends titles II and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require that OASDI tax receipts and hospital insurance tax receipts be transferred from the Treasury to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (as appropriate) monthly on the first day of each calendar month. Sets forth investment requirements for such revenues. Extends until January 1988 the authority for borrowing among the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund whenever the Managing Trustee of the trust funds determines that additional funds are needed to pay benefits from one of the funds. (Currently, interfund borrowing is authorized through December 31, 1982.) Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to recommend to Congress the statutory adjustments necessary whenever the balance of one of the trust funds becomes inadequate to provide timely payment of benefits. Part F: Other Financing Amendments - Amends title II of the Social Security Act to require the lump sum reimbursement of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund by the Treasury for the cost of past and future benefits attributable to noncontributory military wage credits for service before 1957. Provides for lump sum reimbursement to such trust funds of amounts equal to the OASDI and hospital insurance employee and employer taxes that would have been paid after 1956 and before 1983 if military wage credits were treated as "wages" under title II. Provides for annual reimbursement to such trust funds of amounts equal to the OASDI and hospital insurance employee and employer taxes that would be paid after 1982 if military wage credits were treated as "wages" under title II. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to credit either the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, as appropriate, for the amount of all benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within six months after issuance. Title II: Additional Provisions Relating to Long-Term Financing of the Social Security System - Amends title II of the Social Security Act to revise the computation formula for the primary insurance amount to reduce initial benefit levels by approximately five percent by decreasing the percentage factors in such formula by two-thirds of one percent of their present value each year for a period of eight years, starting in the year 2000. Increases the OASDI tax rate for employees, employers, and the self-employed in 2015. Title III: Miscellaneous and Technical Provisions - Part A: Cash Management - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Treasury to jointly undertake a study on the maintenance and adjustment of the float periods (time periods) between the issuance of title II benefit checks from the general fund in the Treasury and the transfer of amounts to reimburse the general fund from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, whichever is appropriate. Requires the Secretaries to report their findings to the President and Congress. Provides for the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust procedures with respect to the float periods based upon the study. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the interest rate on late payments by States pursuant to State agreements for coverage of State and local employees under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program shall be: (1) nine percent during the six-month period beginning on January 1, 1984; and (2) an annual rate equal to the average of the annual rates of interest applicable to special obligations issued to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the six-month period beginning on July 1, 1984, and for subsequent six-month periods thereafter. (Currently, the interest rate on such late payments is six percent per annum.) Amends titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to restrict the investment of trust fund assets in the Federal Old- Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund to interest-bearing public-debt obligations of the United States which are issued exclusively for purchase by such trust funds under Federal law. Requires that the annual report to Congress by the Board of Trustees of such trust funds with respect to the operation of the trust funds include an actuarial opinion by the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration or by the Chief Actuarial Officer of the Health Care Financing Administration, as appropriate, certifying that the techniques and methodologies used in such report are generally accepted within the actuarial profession and that assumptions and cost estimates are reasonable. Provides that the 1983 annual reports by the Board of Trustees of such trust funds may be filed any time not later than 45 days after the enactment of this Act. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require that, for FY 1985 through 1987: (1) the disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund be treated as a separate major functional category in the Federal budget submitted by the President and in the congressional budget; and (2) the receipts of such trust funds be set forth separately in the budgets. Provides that, for FY 1989 or thereafter: (1) the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or of the congressional budget and shall be exempt from general statutory budget limitations imposed on Federal expenditures and net lending; and (2) the disbursements of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund shall be treated as a separate major functional category in the Federal budget and in the congressional budget and the receipts of such trust fund shall be set forth separately in such budgets. Part B: Elimination of Gender-Based Distinctions - Enables a divorced man to qualify for husband's insurance benefits under title II on the same basis as a divorced woman may qualify for wife's benefits. (Currently, a man's entitlement to husband's benefits ceases upon his divorce.) Enables a widower to qualify for survivor's benefits based upon a deceased first wife's earnings if he remarries before age 60 but is widowed or divorced from his second wife when he applies for benefits. (Currently, a widower cannot qualify for widower's benefits based on a first wife's earnings if he has remarried.) Permits methods used to establish paternity to be used to establish maternity in order to determine whether an applicant for benefits qualifies as a child of the insured. Enables husbands and widowers of women who have transitional insured status to receive benefits based on their wives' records. (Currently, only wives and widows of men who have such status may receive such benefits.) Equalizes benefit amounts for husbands and wives who both qualify for the special benefits for individuals who reached age 72 before 1968. Extends benefits to a widowed or surviving divorced father while caring for a child. Repeals the requirement that an individual's wife's, child's, widow's, mother's, or parent's insurance benefit entitlement be terminated if such individual marries a person entitled to child's insurance benefits and such person ceases to be so entitled. Permits widowers of veterans to waive payment of a civil service survivor's annuity based on credit for military service which may be used to enable such widowers to qualify for survivor's benefits. (Currently, only widows may waive such payment.) Requires deductions from old age and survivors insurance benefits in the case of husbands or widowers who do not have children in their care. (Currently, deductions from benefits are made only in the case of wives or widows who do not have children in their care.) Part C: Coverage - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II of the Social Security Act to permit any American employer to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend OASDI coverage to U.S. citizens or residents employed by foreign affiliates of such employers. (Currently, such coverage may be extended only to U.S. citizens employed by foreign subsidiaries of domestic corporations.) Includes as "employment" for purposes of title II any service which is designated as employment or recognized as the equivalent of employment under an international social security agreement pursuant to which an individual may be entitled to social security benefits based on periods of coverage under both the U.S. social security system and under the social security system of a foreign country. Provides social security coverage for non-resident aliens who are covered under such an agreement. Provides for OASDI coverage of U.S. residents who perform services outside the United States for American employers. Makes the foreign earned income exclusion from gross income inapplicable in the determination of the net earnings from self-employment with respect to a U.S. citizen or resident whose tax home is in a foreign country and who is present in a foreign country or countries for at least 330 full days of a 12-month period. (Currently, such exclusion does not apply in the case of an individual who has been a resident of the United States during the entire taxble year.) Includes as "wages" for purposes of OASDI coverage those payments made to an employee after he or she reaches age 62. Makes the employee contribution to a simplified employee pension taxable for OASDI purposes. Excludes from "wages" for purposes of OASDI coverage employer contributions to a simplified employee pension if, at the time of payment, it is reasonable to believe that the employee will be entitled to a deduction from adjusted gross income for such payment. Prohibits the OASDI coverage of State and local employees in Utah from being affected by any change in the name of an employee group. Revises the effective date for international social security agreements. Provides that with respect to withholding on sick pay of participants in multiemployer plans, such a plan shall be treated as the agent of the employers for whom services are normally rendered. Prohibits the exclusion of employer contributions from "wages" for purposes of OASDI coverage if such contributions are: (1) under a qualified cash or deferred compensation plan; (2) under a cafeteria plan; or (3) for the purchase of an annuity contract. Excludes from "wages" for purposes of OASDI coverage the value of meals or lodgings furnished by or on behalf of an employer if it is reasonable to believe that the employee will be able to exclude such items from gross income. Part D: Other Amendments - Amends title II of the Social Security Act to revise the method for computing maximum insurance benefits. Reduces from 72 to 70 the age beyond which no increases in old age insurance benefits on account of delayed retirement shall be made. Revises the insured status requirements for disability insurance benefit applications. Provides that an acknowledgment, court decree, or court order with respect to illegitimate children of disabled beneficiaries shall be treated as occurring on the first day of the month in which it actually occurs for purposes of determining eligibility for disability benefits. Permits entitlement to widow's and widower's benefits for the month immediately preceding the month of application if the insured individual died in that preceding month. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program under which States voluntarily contract with the Secretary to periodically furnish the Secretary with information on the death certificates filed with them so that necessary corrections may be made to the beneficiary records maintained under the social security program. Permits the Secretary, in the case of individuals whose benefits are provided by a Federal or State agency other than under the Social Security Act, to provide such agency with the corrected beneficiary records from the social security program. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to decrease the amount by which the OASDI benefits payable to a spouse, surviving spouse, or mother must be reduced on account of any monthly benefits which such an individual may receive from a Federal or State pension plan from the full amount of such pension to one-third of the amount of such pension. Establishes the Joint Study Panel on the Social Security Administration, which shall study and report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility and implementation of removing the Social Security Administration from the Department of Health and Human Services and establishing it as an independent agency. Appropriates the funds necessary for the Panel to carry out its functions from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Provides for the termination of the Panel and all authority with respect to such Panel 30 days after the Panel files its report. Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise the effective dates of changes in the monthly Medicare premiums. Title IV: Supplemental Security Income Benefits - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to provide for a $20 increase in the Federal SSI benefit standard for an individual and a $30 increase in the Federal SSI benefit standard for a married couple. Provides that in order to be eligible for Federal matching funds under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act after March 1983, a State cannot reduce the combined level of its supplementary payments and the SSI benefits payable for a particular month below the combined level of such payments and benefits for March 1983 increased by the amount of all cost of living adjustments which have occurred after March 1983 and before that particular month. Permits aged, blind, or disabled individuals living in public emergency shelters for the homeless to receive SSI benefits for up to three months during any 12-month period. Amends title XVI and Part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to exclude from "income" for purposes of the SSI and AFDC programs any support or maintenance assistance furnished to a family based on need, including home energy assistance. Title V: Unemployment Compensation Provisions - Part A: Federal Supplemental Compensation - Amends the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 to extend the Federal supplemental compensation program to September 30, 1983. (Currently, the program ends on March 31, 1983.) Sets forth the method for computing the amount which shall be established in Federal supplemental compensation accounts payable to individuals for weeks beginning after March 31, 1983. Provides that the maximum amount of Federal supplemental compensation payable to an individual who received any trade readjustment allowances under the Trade Act of 1974 during a benefit year shall be reduced so that the aggregate amount of such individual's regular compensation, extended compensation, trade readjustment allowances, and Federal supplemental compensation for such year does not exceed the amount which would have been payable to such individual had he or she not been entitled to any trade readjustment allowances. Provides that in the case of an individual who received Federal supplemental compensation and exhausted his or her rights to such compensation before April 1, 1983, such individual's eligibility for additional compensation under this title shall not be affected by any event or failure to meet the requirements relating to unemployment compensation eligibility occurring after the date of exhaustion of rights and before April 1, 1983. Provides for the modification of State agreements under the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 to conform with the changes made by this title. Requires the Secretary of Labor to terminate a State's agreement if the State fails or refuses to enter into a modification of such agreement. Part B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act to provide that no provision under current law shall be construed to prohibit States from deducting an amount from unemployment compensation payable to an individual to pay for health insurance upon the election of the individual. Allows a nonprofit organization which elects to switch from the contribution to the reimbursement method of financing unemployment benefits to apply any accumulated balance in its unemployment account to costs incurred after its election if: (1) the organization did not make such election before April 1, 1972, because as of such date it was treated as a nonprofit organization under the Internal Revenue Code; (2) the Internal Revenue Service subsequently determined that such organization was a charitable organization under the Code; and (3) such organization made the election before the earlier of 18 months after such election was available to it under State law or January 1, 1984. Title VI: Prospective Payments for Medicare Inpatient Hospital Services - Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the limits on operating costs of inpatient hospital services for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1985. Excludes from the term "operating costs of inpatient hospital services": (1) capital-related costs; and (2) costs of approved educational activities. Provides as an additional requirement for a hospital reimbursement control system that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine that the system will not preclude an eligible health care organization from negotiating directly with hospitals with respect to the organization's rate of payment for inpatient hospital services. Prohibits the Secretary from denying a State's application to use a hospital reimbursement control system on the ground that: (1) such system is based on a payment methodology other than on the basis of a diagnosis-related group; or (2) the amount of payments made under such system will be less than payments made not using such system. Sets forth requirements with respect to the methods for projecting the allowable costs of inpatient hospital services under a State hospital reimbursement control system. Requires the Secretary to approve a State's hospital reimbursement control system if: (1) the system is operated directly by the State or a State entity; (2) the system provides for the prospective determination of rates; (3) hospitals under the system will monitor the State's performance; (4) the system will not result in a significant reduction of or refusal to admit patients who cannot pay for hospital services; (5) significant changes in the system will take effect only upon 60 days' notice to the Secretary and hospitals affected; and (6) the State has consulted with local governmental officials on the impact of the system on public hospitals. Provides that these requirements shall be in addition to: (1) current law requirements that a hospital reimbursement system apply to substantially all non-Federal acute care hospitals and to at least 75 percent of hospital inpatient revenues or expenses, provide equitable treatment of all payors, hospital employees, and patients, and not allow expenses under the Medicare system to exceed amounts which would have been incurred without the system; and (2) the requirement under this Act that such a system not preclude a health care organization from negotiating with hospitals over costs. Establishes a method for the payment of hospitals for operating costs of inpatient hospital services on the basis of DRG (diagnosis-related group) prospective rates. Specifies the hospitals to which such method would not apply. Requires the Secretary to establish a classification of inpatient hospital discharges by diagnosis-related groups and a methodology for classifying specific hospital discharges within these groups in order to compute DRG-specific payment rates. Requires the Secretary to make additional payments to hospitals for cases which are significantly different in terms of length of stay or unusual costs from cases within the same diagnosis-related group and for indirect costs of medical education. Requires the Secretary to adjust payment amounts where appropriate in the case of hospitals which serve a disproportionate number of low-income patients, sole community hospitals, and hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii. Requires adjustments for certain inpatient hospital services which were, but are no longer, paid for under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary to publish yearly in the Federal Register the methods for computing the DRG prospective payment rates for the following fiscal year. Prohibits administrative and judicial review of: (1) certain adjustments in payments made to maintain budget neutrality; and (2) the Secretary's establishment of diagnosis-related groups. Requires that, for FY 1984 and 1985, expenditures under the Medicare system be equal to expenditures under the system before the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel of independent experts to review and report to the Secretary annually, beginning in FY 1986, on hospital costs and on the appropriate increase in payments for hospitals. Requires publication in the Federal Register of the Secretary's final determination of such increase for each fiscal year. Requires the Secretary to maintain through at least September 30, 1988, a system for the reporting of expenses of hospitals receiving payments under this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish a hospital admission and discharge monitoring system. Permits the Secretary to deny Medicare payments or to require a hospital to take corrective actions if such hospital has taken actions which result in inappropriate admissions or unnecessary multiple admissions or other inappropriate medical practices. Prohibits the payment under this title of capital expenditures for inpatient hospital services in a State after three years following the enactment of this Act, unless the State has a capital expenditure review agreement with the Secretary under this Act and has recommended approval of such expenditures pursuant to such agreement. Requires the Secretary to phase out the allowance for return on equity capital for hospitals receiving payments under the DRG prospective rate system. Prohibits Medicare payments for inpatient hospital services not provided by a physician or a hospital unless the services are furnished under arrangements with the entity providing such services made by the hospital pursuant to title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Requires hospitals receiving Medicare payments to maintain an agreement with a utilization and quality control peer review organization under which such organization will review admissions, discharges, and quality of care with respect to Medicare patients. Prohibits such hospitals from charging for inpatient hospital services for which payment is denied because of inappropriate admission or medical practices. Requires that all items and services furnished to a patient of a hospital receiving Medicare payments be furnished only by such hospital or under arrangements made by the hospital. Permits health maintenance organizations which have risk-sharing contracts with the Secretary to elect to have hospital payments made directly to hospitals and subtracted from Medicare payments to be made to the organizations. Requires the Provider Reimbursement Review Board to review complaints with respect to the Secretary's final determination of Medicare payments to hospitals. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress at the end of 1983 on: (1) the method by which capital-related costs associated with inpatient hospital services can be included in the prospective payment amounts computed under this Act; (2) payment with respect to a return on equity capital for hospitals receiving Medicare payments; and (3) the impact on skilled nursing facilities of hospital prospective payment systems and the payment of skilled nursing facilities. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on: (1) the impact of the Medicare payment methodology under this Act on individual hospitals, classes of hospitals, beneficiaries, and other payors for inpatient hospital services; and (2) the impact of computing averages by census division rather than on a national average basis. Specifies particular studies which the Secretary shall include in the annual report to Congress for 1984, 1985, and 1986. Requires the Secretary to modify certain Medicare demonstration projects entered into by States after August 1982, and in effect as of March 1, 1983, so that the projects are not required to maintain the rate of increase in Medicare hospital costs in those States below the national rate of increase in Medicare hospital costs. Expresses the intent of Congress that, in the implementation of a system for including capital-related costs under a prospectively determined payment rate for inpatient hospital services, costs related to capital projects initiated on or after March 1, 1983, may be distinguished from costs of projects initiated before such date.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an investment tax credit for energy property used in producing methane-containing gas for fuel or electricity by anaerobic digestion from nonfossil waste materials.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Designates May 21, 1983, as National Sakharov Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) call upon all nations to designate May 21, 1983, as National Sakharov Day; (2) urge the Soviet Union to permit the Sakharovs to freely choose their place of residence; and (3) direct the American delegation to the United Nations to introduce a resolution in the General Assembly calling upon that body to designate May 21, 1983, as International Sakharov Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Title I: Consumer Credit - Consumer Debtor Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1983 - Amends the Bankruptcy Code to permit a bankruptcy court to dismiss a case or suspend all proceedings if it determines that a debtor whose debts are primarily consumer debts does not need the provisions of the chapter under which relief has been sought and the granting of relief under such chapter would be a substantial abuse of its provisions. Requires the Clerk of each Federal judicial district to compile statistics regarding debtors where debts are primarily consumer debts. Requires the bankruptcy judge to convene, and permits such judge to preside at, any meeting of creditors and to perform such additional judicial duties as may be required. Declares that the value of the creditor's interest in the estate's interest in consumer goods property shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan effecting such creditor's interest. Declares that the value of consumer goods which the debtor seeks to redeem in liquidation shall be presumed to be the established resale market price, if such market exists. Permits the court to utilize other methods of valuation if no such market exists or if the court determines that resale value is inappropriate in light of the property's proposed use or disposition. Requires the debtor in bankruptcy cases to file a statement of estimated income and expenses for the year following filing of his petition. Requires the debtor, if the schedule of assets and liabilities include consumer debts secured by property of the estate, to file and serve upon each creditor holding such security and upon the trustee, a statement expressing the debtor's intention with respect to retention or surrender of the collateral. Requires the debtor, at or before the meeting of creditors provided for by such title, to perform his intention with regard to such secured creditors. Requires that the notice of meeting of the creditors be accompanied by a copy of the statement of estimated income and expenses and that the debtor supply the clerk of the court, upon the filing of the petition, with enough copies of such statement to accommodate the listed creditors. Requires individuals filing for bankruptcy in joint or consolidated cases to elect either the Federal or State exemptions. Places an aggregate limit of $3,000 on the value of the exemption with regard to household goods and personal effects. Prohibits the debtor from utilizing the unused dollar value of the homestead exemption to exempt additional property not explicitly provided for by such Act. Repeals the provisions of such Act which currently authorize the debtor to avoid nonpurchase money security interest in property. Presumes nondischargeable any debt incurred on or within 40 days before the date of the filing of a petition under such title. Allows for rebuttal of such presumption. Allows creditors to enforce liens which have not been avoided in bankruptcy. Permits reaffirmation of consumer debts subject to the debtor's right to rescind any such agreement within 60 days or until a discharge is received, whichever occurs later. Declares that at the meeting of creditors the court shall inform the debtor of the nature and effect of a discharge and of any reaffirmation of debt. Prohibits the custodian from being an assignee under a general assignment for the benefit of the debtor's creditors that was appointed or took possession more than 120 days before the date of the filing of the petition. Permits the trustee or the court, however, to require such an assignee to file an accounting. Limits the trustee's power to avoid liens or recover payments made within 90 days of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy (within one year in the case of an insider) unless the creditor had reasonable cause to believe the debtor was insolvent. Permits the court, upon notice and hearing, to require a creditor to accept payments in redemption of the value of a claim secured by a nonpossessory, nonpurchase money security interest in tangible personal property, over a reasonable period not to exceed five years, if such tangible personal property consists of specified household goods and tools of the debtor's trade. Permits the court, upon notice and hearing, to avoid any lien in whole or in part, if the court finds;: (1) that the debtor has no reasonable ability to pay the redemption value of such property out of anticipated future income; and (2) the enforcement of such lien would impose undue hardship on the debtor. Allows a creditor, upon 10 days notice to the debtor and codebtor, to collect any portion of a debt from the codebtor which is not being paid by the debtor through the adjustment of debts of such debtor with a regular income. Requires payments under an adjustment of debts payment plan to commence within thirty days after the filing of the plan. Provides for the return of such funds after deducting the costs of administration if no plan is confirmed. Provides for the separate classification of codebtor claims and non-dischargeable claims and authorizes payment of them under an adjustment of debts payment plan. Allows a debtor to choose such a repayment plan of up to five years. Bases such repayment upon the debtor's ability to repay out of future income after taking into account the basic living necessities for the debtor and dependents. Provides for an early discharge of debts where a reasonable portion of unsecured claims are paid. Permits a hardship discharge of otherwise non-dischargeable debts to the extent the debtor attempted to pay such debts under an adjustment of debts payment plan, but was prevented from so doing by unforeseen circumstances. Title II: Agricultural Produce - Agricultural Produce Bailment Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1983 - Requires bankruptcy courts to give priority to allowed unsecured claims of farmers arising from the sale or conversion of farm produce to or by a debtor who operates a farm produce storage facility. Specifies that such sale or conversion must have occurred within 180 days before the filing of the petition or before the cessation of the debtor's business, whichever occurs first. Limits the payment of any such claim to $2,000 per individual. Permits a bankruptcy court to expedite the procedures for determining interests in and the disposition of grain and proceeds held by debtors who own or operate grain storage facilities. Requires the court to expedite such procedures if requested by a trustee or a claimant. Sets forth factors for the court to consider before deciding whether to shorten the time periods for procedures. Lists the procedures which may be expedited. Specifies administration details. Title III: Miscellaneous - Declares that if any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid the provisions of every other part and their application shall not be affected thereby. Makes the provisions of this Act effective 90 days after enactment. Declares that the amendments made by this Act shall not apply to cases pending before the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1983
Medicare Prospective Payment Rates Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that payments for inpatient hospital services shall be made on a prospective basis, except for psychiatric, long term, or childrens hospitals. Bases payments to hospitals not paid on the prospective basis on target amounts. Sets forth a method for determining prospective Medicare payments which shall be based upon the national standard rate per discharge for the diagnosis related group to which that discharge belongs. Permits a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) or a Competitive Medical Plan (CMP) receiving payments on a risk basis to choose to be reimbursed either on a reasonable cost basis or on a prospective basis for inpatient hospital services furnished to HMO or CMP enrollees. Provides that any reimbursement will be deducted from Medicare payments to an HMO or CMP. States that this Act shall not affect the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop, carry out, or continue experiments and demonstration projects. Sets forth conforming amendments and effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Increases from 26 to 30 the number of members of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, by adding: (1) one elected officer of a local government of an area with a population of less than 10,000 and one elected school board member, to be appointed by the President; and (2) one judge of a U.S. court of appeals or district court and one chief justice or judge of a State court of last resort, to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, at the election of the taxpayer, an income tax deduction for foreign income, war profits, and excess profits taxes paid in connection with construction contract services rendered in the United States which are directly related to a construction project located in a foreign country. Requires that any amounts taken for such deduction shall not be taken into account for purposes of the foreign tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Reciprocal Trade and Investment Act of 1983 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to set forth provisions dealing with foreign trade barriers. Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees on foreign trade barriers of U.S. exports. Directs that such report contain a comprehensive inventory and an assessment of acts, policies, or practices which restrict market access for competitive U.S. exports of goods or services, or foreign direct investment by U.S. persons with implications for trade in goods or services. Requires such report to be developed and coordinated by the USTR through the interagency trade organization established pursuant to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Requires the head of each executive branch department or agency to furnish necessary information to the USTR. Authorizes such department or agency heads to detail personnel and to furnish services as the USTR may request. Requires the USTR to submit a report to Congress on factors not addressed in this Act which significantly affect the competitiveness of U.S. high technology industries. Sets forth conditions and limitations upon the President's authority to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to respond to certain foreign trade practices. Authorizes the President to restrict or deny access to a foreign supplier of services to the U.S. service market concerned. Directs that such access restrictions only apply to specified trade authorizations pending on or after a certain petition is filed or the USTR makes a determination to initiate market access restrictions. Requires the USTR to consult with the head of any Federal agency which regulates the services of any foreign country before the President imposes fees or other restrictions on such services. Sets forth provisions for the review of petitions by the USTR. Requires the USTR to publish any determination to initiate an investigation in the Federal Register. Requires the USTR to consult with certain committees before making any such determinations. Requires the USTR to recommend to the President what action to take on the basis of investigations and consultations. Requires the USTR to make such recommendations within specified time periods. Sets forth provisions concerning the availability of certain business information and the use of such information by the USTR. Requires the USTR to publish notice in the Federal Register of any extensions of investigations or recommendations agreed to by the petitioner. Makes conforming amendments. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should seek: (1) negotiations with foreign governments to reduce or eliminate restrictions on fair access to foreign markets for U.S. exports; and (2) the agreement of the contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on certain international trade matters including trade restrictions and barriers. Sets forth the principal U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to trade in services, foreign direct investment, and high technology products. Directs the USTR to develop and coordinate the implementation of U.S. policies concerning trade in services. Requires Federal agencies responsible for regulating any service sector industry to advise and work with the USTR concerning: (1) the treatment afforded U.S. services sector interest in foreign markets; (2) allegations of unfair practices by foreign governments or companies in a service sector; (3) negotiations on service-related issues; and (4) domestic implementation of service-related agreements. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a service industries development program. Sets forth the goals of the program. Expresses the policy of the Congress that the President shall: (1) consult with State governments on trade policy issues affecting the regulatory authority of non-Federal governments or their procurement of goods and services; (2) establish one or more intergovernmental policy advisory committee on trade; and (3) provide advice, assistance and information on U.S. policies on international trade in services to State and local governments. Authorizes the President to establish policy advisory committees representing non-Federal governmental interests to provide policy advice on trade negotiating objectives, bargaining positions, and the implementation of trade agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Title I: Armed Forces, Soldiers' Home, Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, and Merchant Marine - Amends Federal laws dealing with the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard to eliminate gender-based distinctions. Title II: Elimination of Gender-Based Distinctions Under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, Railroad Retirement and the Work Incentive Program - Eliminates gender-based distinctions in the social security and railroad retirement programs. Title III: Amendments to United States Code - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Walsh-Healey Act, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Federal criminal code and other Acts dealing with Indian affairs, transportation, public lands and provisions relating to Saint Elizabeth Hospital and contract law to eliminate gender-based distinctions. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for the provisions of this Act.
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