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United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Prohibits the use of presidential election campaign funds to pay obligations arising from a prior presidential election.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Designates the week beginning on the third Sunday in May 1988 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Designates July 2, 1987, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Designates the week beginning November 29, 1987, as National Home Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Designates the week of June 1 through June 7, 1987, as National Polio Awareness Week. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation saluting the work of the International Polio Network.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the uncompleted chancery building of the U.S. Embassy complex in Moscow is not secure and may be impossible to secure; and (2) that chancery building should never be accepted by the United States. States that if a new chancery is constructed, it should be built under American supervision and exclusively with American plans, materials, and labor.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
National Advanced Technician Training Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out an advanced technician training program, making matching grants to two-year community and technical colleges to provide training in technical competencies in strategic fields. Requires such program to emphasize on-the-job training and recruitment of the unemployed. Requires that an inventory of available programs be accessible. Requires the Director to appoint a National Advisory Council on Advanced Technician Training to review and report to the Director and to the Congress on the effectiveness of the program, with recommendations as needed. Requires the Director to designate ten centers of excellence among such colleges to serve as clearinghouses, half for advanced technician training and half for undergraduate education in mathematics and science. Requires the Director to make at least 20 grants annually. Requires that funds under this Act be used to strengthen programs in advanced-technology occupations, for faculty development in advanced-technology fields such as laser, robotic, and computer technology, and the development of cooperative training and information networks with other schools and the private sector. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Designates the week beginning August 2, 1987, as International Special Olympics Week and designates August 3, 1987, as International Special Olympics Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Steel Rehabilitation and Restructuring Act of 1987 - Limits to specified percentages of the expected apparent domestic supply annual imports of certain carbon and alloy steel articles and specialty steel products. Sets forth a formula for determining the aggregate quantity of such products that may enter the United States in any calendar year after 1986. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, when allocating such limitations among foreign countries, to consider: (1) relevant provisions of voluntary export restraint agreements; (2) findings of unfair trade practices with respect to steel mill products; and (3) such other considerations as appropriate. Requires the Secretary, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, and in each October 1 thereafter, to determine the expected apparent domestic supply for such steel products. Requires the Secretary, on each such date, to determine and publish in the Federal Register the allocation for the next succeeding calendar year of permissible imports of such products by country or area. Requires quarterly revisions of such determinations. Declares that it is a goal of this Act to ensure that the entry of such steel products be equalized, taking into account historical seasonal variations. Sets forth circumstances under which the Secretary may provide additional quantitative restrictions on such products. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to determine whether U.S. steel companies have plans to utilize all of the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment in, and the modernization of, the steel sector. Provides that if such determination is negative, the quantitative restrictions on steel imports shall not take effect until the Secretary determines that such companies have plans to reinvest in the steel sector. Requires the Secretary, if there is an affirmative determination with respect to steel company reinvestment, to monitor, for a 12-month period, steel sector investments made by the steel industry. Requires the Secretary, on each anniversary of an affirmative determination, to determine whether steel companies are continuing to utilize substantially all the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment. Requires major steel companies to commit for the applicable 12-month period not less than one percent of net cash flow to the retraining of workers, except that such requirement may be waived by the President if unusual economic circumstances exist for such company. Permits the entry of additional tonnage of steel products into the United States in cases where domestic producers are unable to supply domestic demand for such products. Requires the Secretary to monitor the importation of fabricated steel mill products whenever there is reason to believe that such products are being, or are likely to be, imported into the United States in such quantities as to render ineffective the objectives of this Act. Requires the Secretary to advise the President on such matters. Requires the President to request the International Trade Commission (ITC) to initiate an investigation to determine such facts. Authorizes the President, if the ITC makes an affirmative determination, to impose an import surcharge or quantitative limitation on such products in order that entry of such products will not render ineffective the objectives of this Act. Limits the quantity of imported iron ore during any calendar year after enactment of this Act to a specified percentage of the expected apparent domestic supply.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Ethanol Motor Fuel Act of 1987 - Mandates that in any calendar year beginning with calendar year 1988, the total quantity of motor fuel sold annually in U.S. commerce by wholesale distributors shall contain, on the average, not less than a specified percentage of ethanol by volume. Sets forth a computation formula for measuring the percentage of ethanol in motor fuel sold by a wholesale distributor. Requires wholesale distributors of motor fuel to report to the Secretary of Energy regarding ethanol sales and credits. Imposes a civil penalty on wholesale distributors for violation of the ethanol-blended fuel requirements. Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to promote ethanol use in motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
National Bureau of Standards and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 1987 - Renames the Bureau of Standards as the National Bureau of Standards and Industrial Competitiveness (the Bureau). Establishes an Industrial Competitiveness Division within the Bureau. Provides that the Division shall be headed (subject to specified requirements relating to an Industrial Competitiveness Board) by a Deputy Director for Industrial Competitiveness who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the President to afford the Industrial Competitiveness Board an opportunity to make recommendations with respect to such appointment. Sets forth the industrial competitiveness functions of the Bureau. Establishes an Industrial Competitiveness Board within the Bureau. Directs the Board to exercise general supervision and policy control of the Division. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to appoint as Board members three from the Federal Government and five from the private sector representing a cross-section of the industrial base, including large and small businesses. Authorizes the Board to establish special commissions. Directs the Secretary to formulate the programs and budgets of the Division in consultation with the Board. Requires the Deputy Director to submit an annual report to the Director of the Bureau, the Secretary, and the Congress, detailing activities of the Division. Establishes in the Treasury the Standards and Industrial Competitiveness Fund. Makes the Fund available to the Director, in accordance with appropriations Acts but without fiscal year limitation, for use as a revolving fund to carry out the industrial competitiveness functions of the Bureau. Outlines sources of deposits to the Fund. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund for the eight fiscal years beginning after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Elderly Americans' Economic Security Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to permit an income tax deduction to an individual taxpayer for the expenses of certain in-home custodial care (personal, as opposed to medical, care) of the taxpayer's elderly (age 65 or older) parent, grandparent, or dependent. Limits the deduction to the amount of expenses: (1) exceeding five percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income; and (2) not paid for by insurance or otherwise. Prohibits the application of other tax credit or tax deduction provisions to amounts subject to a deduction under this Act. Includes as charitable contributions (and thus tax deductible) certain medical services and goods provided by a physician or registered professional nurse to an individual age 65 or older. Describes criteria for the valuation of such contributions. Permits tax-free withdrawals from an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity if the entire amount is used within 30 days of its receipt to: (1) pay the individual's long-term care expenses; or (2) purchase insurance covering such expenses. Revises an IRC definition of "group health plan" to permit as an income tax deduction employer contributions to plans providing long-term care expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Designates the week of May 10 through May 16, 1987, as Handicapped Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Congratulates Ducks Unlimited, Incorporated, for its accomplishments in 50 years of protection and enhancement of wetlands waterfowl habitat.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Designates the burial site of Arlington National Cemetery where the remains of four unknown service members are interred as the Tomb of the Unknowns.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Congregate Housing Services program should be permanently reauthorized; and (2) FY 1988 and 1989 funding should be set at specified levels.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to deny the use of funds provided under such Act for projects using products or services of foreign countries which are listed by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as not offering reciprocal opportunities for American firms. Requires the USTR to: (1) determine whether each foreign country denies fair and equitable market opportunities for U.S. products and suppliers in procurement, or fair and equitable market opportunities for United States bidders, for construction projects that cost more than $500,000 and are funded by the government of such foreign country; and (2) maintain and publish annually a list of countries for which an affirmative determination is made. Allows an exception to such a denial of funds if the Secretary of Transportation determines: (1) the denial of funds would not be in the public interest; (2) products of the same class or kind are not produced or offered in the United States or in any foreign country not listed by the USTR in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or (3) exclusion of such product or service from the project would increase the cost of the overall project contract by more than 20 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Farm Employment and Enterprise Development Act of 1987 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Specifies that States and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits to 100 the total number of areas which may be designated as enterprise zones. Limits the period during which: (1) the Secretary has authority to designate such zones; and (2) the designations may remain in effect. Authorizes the Secretary to designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of a local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 1,000 or is entirely 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, and providing job training to residents of the area. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting nominated areas for designation as enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every four years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. 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 the 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. Provides that such enterprise zones shall be treated for all purposes under Federal law as labor surplus areas. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in rural enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Allows a three-year carryback and a 15-year carryover of such credit. Sets the amount of such credit at ten percent of the increase in payroll (taking into account $17,500 in wages per year per employee) plus a specified percentage of wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers through the first 20 years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages taken into account for such credit. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of wages earned (taking into account up to $10,500 per year). Phases out such credit in the last four 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 investments made in certain enterprise zone construction property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to ten percent for new enterprise zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be located in an enterprise zone, be predominantly used in the zone, be either constructed, reconstructed, renovated, etc. during the period of zone designation or acquired during such period, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon the early disposition of the property. Provides for a phase-out of the tax credit as the enterprise zone ends. Provides for an adjustment to the basis of the enterprise zone construction property to reflect the tax credit. Subtitle C: Nonrecognition of Qualified Enterprise Zone Capital Gain Where Acquisition of Enterprise Zone Business Property - Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of property if, within one year after such sale, the taxpayer acquires qualified replacement property (generally defined as property related to an enterprise zone or to a business within such a zone). Limits such nonrecognition of gain to the amount by which the gain does not exceed the cost of the replacement property. Sets forth special rules and provisions relating to this subtitle. Subtitle D: Deduction for Purchase of Enterprise Stock - Allows a taxpayer to deduct up to $100,000 of the aggregate amount paid during the taxable year for the purchase of enterprise stock on the original issue of such stock by a qualified issuer. Requires that the gain from the disposition of the stock be treated as ordinary income. Includes provisions to govern situations in which: (1) the stock is transferred within three years of its purchase; or (2) the issuer ceases to be a qualified issuer of enterprise stock within five years of its issue. Requires the basis of such stock to be reduced by the amount of the deduction. Exempts this deduction from calculations with respect to the limitation of an individual taxpayer's miscellaneous itemized deductions to two percent of adjusted gross income. Subtitle E: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property. Provides that the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to bonds whose proceeds are used to finance facilities in such enterprise zones. Modifies certain small issue volume limitations with respect to enterprise zone facilities. Requires that five percent of the private activity bond volume cap of a State that has at least one enterprise zone shall be set aside for use only in such zones. Subtitle F: Ordinary Loss Deduction for Securities of Enterprise Zone Business Which Become Worthless - Permits an ordinary loss deduction for securities of enterprise zone businesses which become worthless during the taxable year. Subtitle G: Increase in Research Credit for Research Conducted in Enterprise Zones - Increases from 20 to 30 percent the tax credit for increasing research conducted in enterprise zones. Subtitle H: 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. Subtitle I: Regulations - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act not later than six months after the date of enactment. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation 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 retaining 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 present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of a rule shall remain in effect only as long as the affected zone designation. 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 to 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 to 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 · 7 April 1987
Urges the President to: (1) void the current embassy agreements with the Soviet Union; and (2) enter into negotiations for a new agreement under which the Soviet Union will move its new embassy to a site in the District of Columbia that is not more than 150 feet above mean sea level.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Makes permanent the income tax credit for qualified research expenditures by repealing the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that would terminate such credit for expenses incurred or paid after 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Suspends nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) for products of Romania entered into the United States during the one-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. Allows the President to restore nondiscriminatory treatment to products of Romania prior to the end of such period if the President submits a report to the Congress, before the 181st day of the suspension year, containing: (1) the annual objectives of the United States toward achieving the gradual reduction of Romanian human rights violations during the remainder of the suspension year and the reduction and termination of such violations during the five succeeding years; and (2) recommendations regarding actions to be taken by the United States within such five-year period to achieve such objectives. Allows the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of Romania during each of the five succeeding years if the President submits a report to the Congress before the beginning of each year stating that the Romanian Government is achieving the applicable human rights violation reduction objectives. Provides for the termination of such nondiscriminatory treatment for any part of such years by enactment of a joint resolution disapproving of the extension of such nondiscriminatory treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Moscow Embassy Security Resolution - Declares that: (1) the Government of the U.S.S.R. has violated the diplomatic privileges and immunities of the Embassy of the United States by surreptitiously entering that Embassy to conduct espionage; (2) the penetration of the Embassy constitutes a gross violation of international law; (3) such penetration has inflicted grave damage upon the national security of the United States; (4) the security of the United States requires that American personnel in Moscow can communicate in confidence; (5) such personnel cannot communicate in confidence within the present Embassy in Moscow, nor within the proposed new Embassy in Moscow; (6) the agreements between the United States and the U.S.S.R. concerning new embassies in Moscow and Washington allow either party to withdraw from the agreements to the extent the national security interests of the party require; and (7) to protect national security, the United States must withdraw from the embassy agreements. Declares that the United States withdraws from the embassy agreements. Requires the Secretary of State to notify the Government of the U.S.S.R. that the Mount Alto site in Washington, D.C., will cease to be available to that Government for any purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free distributions from an individual retirement account or an individual retirement annuity for the purchase of long-term care insurance coverage when: (1) the entire amount received is used to buy such insurance for the individual within 90 days of its receipt; and (2) the individual has reached age 59 and one-half by the date of the distribution. Describes the method, based on the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year, for determining the applicable percentage of the distribution or payment amount to which tax-free treatment will be accorded. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the Congress, within one year after this Act's enactment, a proposal for the regulation of long-term care insurance policies, including minimum standards and an evaluation of the various catastrophic and long-term care policies currently available.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Repeals the limitations enacted by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on individual retirement account (IRA) deductions for active participants in certain pension plans. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a nonworking or the lesser-earning spouse filing a joint income tax return to include the spouse's compensation in calculations made to determine the maximum amount permitted as a deduction for qualified retirement contributions (thus permitting such a taxpayer to deduct up to $2,000).
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Designates October 1987 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1987
Equity in Interstate Competition Act of 1987 - Empowers any State and the District of Columbia to require a person to collect a State sales tax imposed with respect to the sale of tangible personal property if: (1) the destination of sale is in such State; and (2) such person engages in regular or systematic soliciting of sales in such State and has, within a specified one-year period, gross receipts from the sale of such property that exceed either $500,000 within the State or $12,500,000 nationally. Sets forth certain requirements that will qualify certain local sales taxes for treatment as State sales taxes. Prohibits a State from requiring any person who collects a State sales tax to make an accounting for the receipts of such tax on the basis of the geographical location at which the taxable transaction occurs. Limits the authority of the State to require a taxpayer to: (1) file more than four tax returns reporting the amount of such tax collected or required to be collected in any one-year period; or (2) file a return and remit the receipts of such tax more frequently than once in a calendar quarter, or before the expiration of the 20-day period beginning on the last day of the period for which such return is required to be filed. Provides that any person required by a State to collect a State sales tax shall be subject to the laws of that State relating to such tax.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1987
Extends for six months, from May 15, 1987, to November 15, 1987, the authority of a bankruptcy trustee to pay benefits to retired employees under a plan, fund, or program maintained or established by the debtor (through the purchase of insurance or otherwise) for the purpose of providing medical, surgical, or hospital care benefits or benefits in the event of sickness, accident, disability, or death.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1987
Designates the week of September 14 through September 20, 1987, as Benign Essential Blepharospasm Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Greater Opportunities Through Work Act of 1987 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of the Social Security Act to require AFDC recipients to participate in employment-related activities. Lists AFDC recipients who are exempt from such participation, including: (1) dependent children under age 16; (2) persons who are ill, incapacitated, or age 60 or older; (3) persons needed at home due to the illness or incapacity of another member of the household; (4) women in their last trimester of pregnancy; (5) mothers with newborns; and (6) drug addicts and alcoholics who are undergoing treatment. Authorizes States to require applicants for AFDC benefits to participate in an employment search program. Directs States to assist AFDC recipients locate a position in one or more employment-related activities, including job search activities, work experience programs, vocational education, and the education necessary for one to earn a high school degree or its equivalent. Requires dependent children and relatives under age 19 with whom such children reside who have no high school degree or its equivalent to receive education as full-time students until such degree or its equivalent is obtained. Authorizes States to require or permit a relative with whom the dependent child resides and who is age 19 or older to participate in such educational activities. Provides that if those required to participate in such educational activities fail to participate they must be referred to another employment-related activity. Requires States to furnish, or reimburse an individual for expenses incurred in arranging, child care, transportation, and other supportive services necessary for the individual's participation in employment-related activities. Imposes sanctions on AFDC recipients who, without good cause: (1) fail to participate actively in employment-related activities to which they had been referred; (2) refuse a bona fide offer of employment in which they are able to engage; or (3) terminate or cut back on their existing employment. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations specifying the conditions under which good cause will be found to exist as well as the periods for which sanctions will be applied. Reduces the Federal share of a States's AFDC expenses if such State fails to involve a specified percentage of nonexempt AFDC recipients in employment-related activities in each fiscal year. Repeals part C (Work Incentive Program) of title IV of the Act. Requires Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam to implement, to the maximum extent feasible, a coordinated program of activities designed to help AFDC recipients achieve self-sufficiency through employment. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1988, for payments to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam for the implementation of such programs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to research and evaluate the effectiveness of the programs established pursuant to this Act in reducing the welfare dependence of AFDC recipients. Authorizes appropriations from FY 1988 through 1991 for such research and evaluation. Requires the Secretary to issue outcome-based performance standards for State AFDC employment programs within six months of completing such research and evaluation.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Amends Federal armed forces provisions relating to defense contracts to require the head of a defense agency to reserve at least 25 percent of all sums obligated for military construction contracts for local contractors (contractors located within 175 miles of the construction project site).
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require executive agencies to obligate to local contractors 25 percent of obligations for construction or improvement of any public building.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1987
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to permit a State to exclude from coverage service performed by election officials or election workers if the remuneration paid for such service: (1) is less than $300 in a calendar year; or (2) is less than $100 in a calendar quarter.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Atomic Veterans Compensation Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to establish (for purposes of eligibility for such benefits) a presumption of service-connection for the following diseases suffered by any radiation-exposed veteran: (1) all forms of leukemia, except chronic lymphatic leukemia; (2) polycythemia vera; (3) thyroid cancer; (4) bronchogenic carcinoma; and (5) female breast cancer. Requires all of the above diseases, in order to be considered service-connected, to have become manifest to a degree of ten percent or more within 30 years after the last date on which the veteran participated in a radiation-risk activity. Defines "radiation-exposed veterans" and "radiation-risk activity" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Grants a Federal charter to the 82nd Airborne Division Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Acknowledges the magnanimity of the Marshall plan and the efforts of the Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, to continue the values for which George C. Marshall stood, and asks all Americans to rededicate themselves to the ideals which George C. Marshall represented. Welcomes the publication on June 5, 1987, of the fourth volume of the official biography of George C. Marshall. Designates the month of June 1987 as George C. Marshall Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Designates May 5, 1987, as National Teacher Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of April as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
President's Pro-Life Bill of 1987 - Prohibits the use of Federal funds for abortions, except when continuing the pregnancy would endanger the mother's life. Prohibits the granting of funds relating to certain population research and voluntary family programs under the Public Health Service Act to organizations providing abortions or abortion referrals, unless the life of the mother would be endangered by continuing the pregnancy.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
Social Security Notch Act of 1987 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to alter the formula for computing the primary insurance amount of individuals who attain age 65 in or after 1982 and are subject to the benefit computation rules of the Social Security Amendments of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
Designates the week of May 10 through May 16, 1987, as Senior Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts. Permits the Congress, in such statement, to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote. Requires the President and the Congress to ensure that actual outlays do not exceed the outlays set forth in such statement. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the increase in national income in the last calendar year, unless a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts is enacted. Permits the Congress to waive the provisions of this article 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 · 18 March 1987
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion for employee educational assistance programs. (Present law terminates such exclusion as of December 31, 1987.) Requires, for every taxable year beginning after 1988, an annual cost of living adjustment of the maximum excludable amount. Waives the maximum excludable amount for any educational assistance furnished by certain educational institutions to graduate students engaged in teaching or research activities for such organization.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to prohibit the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the purchase of administrative motor vehicles that are manufactured in a country other than the United States or Canada unless: (1) the contract or agreement is for an amount less than $50,000; or (2) the purchase of such motor vehicles is specifically authorized by law.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Designates the week of September 21 through September 27, 1987, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
WIC Food for Life Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) should receive increasing appropriations until all eligible persons are being served; and (2) an outreach program should be conducted to identify persons eligible for WIC assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express to the Soviet Union the U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union's slave labor policies by all possible means, including refusing to permit imports of products made by such labor. Requests the President to end the delay in enforcing the restriction against importing goods produced by forced labor.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to increase the per diem rates paid to States for the provision of domiciliary and nursing home care to veterans in State homes. Grants the Administrator of Veterans Affairs authority, after July 1, 1987, to award transition-year grants to States for construction of facilities furnishing domiciliary or nursing home care to veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to delay for one year revision of the taxable years of partnerships, S corporations, personal service corporations, and trusts. Reduces by one year the transition period for such revision.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Changes the date for which Memorial Day is designated as a legal public holiday from the last Monday in May to May 30. Changes Memorial Day as a particular day for displaying the flag from the last Monday in May to May 30. Makes Memorial Day an exception to the observance on Mondays.