United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the operator of each airport regularly serving an air carrier to use dogs in screening passengers and cargo for the purpose of detecting plastic explosives and other materials which may be used in aircraft piracy and which cannot be detected by metal detectors.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Health Care Savings Account Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit individuals (employees or self-employed individuals) and employers to contribute to health care savings accounts. Limits the amount which may be contributed to a health care savings account each year to no greater than the combined amount of employee and employer hospital insurance (Medicare) payroll tax paid during that year. Provides that the employee or self-employed individual and the employer will each receive a 60 percent tax credit for their respective portion of their hospital insurance payroll tax paid. Provides that a health care savings account shall be exempt from income taxes, except for the tax on certain unrelated business income, and except where such account: (1) engages in prohibited transactions; or (2) is used to pledge as security for a loan. Excludes from gross income of the distributee amounts distributed from a health care savings account provided that these funds are used for eligible medical expenses while the individual is eligible for Medicare. Permits the tax-free rollover of contributions from one health care savings account to another for the benefit of the distributee. Imposes a penalty of ten percent of the amount of any early distributions from a health care savings account. Provides that no amount distributed out of a health care savings account may be taken as a medical expense deduction. Imposes a tax on any excess contributions to such accounts. Imposes a penalty tax on prohibited transactions involving a health care savings account. Imposes a five percent tax on distributions from a health care savings account in the taxable year which reduces the level of all such accounts with respect to the distributee below the total value of health care savings account tax credits for the distributee. Provides exceptions for certain distributions. Imposes a 100 percent tax on such distributions if the distributions are not corrected within the taxable period. Imposes a 50 percent excise tax on the difference between the value of a decedent's health care savings account at the time of death and the amount contributed into the spouse's health care savings account at the time of, and on account of, such death. Establishes certain penalties for failure to file required reports with respect to health care savings accounts. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that in the case of an individual who has established a health care savings account, the total amount of any Medicare benefits which will be paid with respect to the individual will be reduced by a health care savings account-related deductible for the year. Provides that this deductible amount will be equal to 60 percent of the amount of medical-related expenditures that could be reasonably underwritten (by an insurance company) for the average Medicare beneficiary assuming that the annual premium will equal the health care savings account annuity. Provides special rules for individuals who cannot obtain insurance to cover their added deductible at the standard premium rates. Provides that these high cost insurance beneficiaries' added deductible is reduced by a proportion reflecting 80 percent of the excess premium required above the standard rate, except that the deductible may not drop below 120 percent of the individual's health care savings account annuity amount. Provides that the health care savings account-related deductible and the annuity amount shall be recalculated upon the qualification of a younger spouse for Medicare. Establishes catastrophic health care expense protection for certain individuals qualifying for Medicare protection. Requires such individuals to have contributed at least one-third of the maximum amount possible over the course of their careers into a health care savings account and at least $100 (indexed for inflation) or 50 percent of the maximum contribution per year, whichever is greater, in ten individual years. Treats surviving spouses without a separate health care savings account as eligible for the catastrophic coverage if the deceased spouse was formerly eligible for catastrophic coverage and the surviving spouse rolls 100 percent of the health care savings account of the deceased spouse into a health care savings account.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act of 1987 - Declares as nonmailable matter, matter which constitutes a solicitation by a non-governmental entity: (1) for the purchase of products or services which are provided free of charge or at a lower price by the Federal Government; (2) for the purchase of products or services and contains a seal, insignia, trade or brand name, or any other term or symbol implying Federal Government connection, approval, or endorsement; and (3) for the contribution of funds and contains a seal, insignia, trade or brand name, or any other term implying Federal Government connection, approval, or endorsement. Allows the mailing of such matter if it contains a conspicuous disclaimer that it is not a Government document. Establishes penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Requires that each State establish and maintain an approved workfare program as a condition of its eligibility for Federal payments or other assistance under the: (1) program under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act; (2) food stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) public housing and assisted housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such State workfare program shall require every State resident applying for or receiving aid under such Federal public assistance programs to perform work in return for, and as a condition for, such aid. Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to promulgate guidelines for approval, supervision, and oversight of such State workfare programs. Exempts from required participation in such programs those who are: (1) under age 18 or over age 65; (2) disabled; (3) regularly employed for at least 40 hours a week; or (4) primarily responsible for the care of a child less than three years old (or for the care of a child more than two but less than six years old if suitable child care is not available at reasonable cost). Requires that each State workfare program must provide that if any individual who is required to participate in such program refuses to accept a bona fide offer of qualified employment or to perform qualified employment, in any month, neither such individual nor any other person in the family or household of which such individual is a member shall be eligible to receive any aid under such Federal public assistance programs for that month. Requires that State workfare programs include provision for job counseling, assistance in obtaining employment outside the program, and job search activities. Provides for: (1) Federal matching funds to cover administrative costs of such State programs; (2) Federal cut-offs of funds to State agencies for failure to comply with this Act; and (3) Federal agency reports to the Congress on such State programs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Volunteer Protection Act of 1987 - Prescribes circumstances under which volunteers working for nonprofit organizations or government entities shall be immune from personal civil liability. Requires each State to certify to the Secretary of Health and Human Services before the beginning of each fiscal year (commencing with FY 1989) that it has enacted or has in effect a State law which provides such immunity. Requires the Secretary to reduce by one percent the fiscal year allotment which would otherwise be made to such State to carry out the Social Services Block Grant Program under title XX of the Social Security Act if such law is not in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Family Education Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the education expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) at an institution of higher education or a vocational school of a child of the taxpayer, of a child of a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister of the taxpayer, of an individual for whom the taxpayer has been appointed as guardian, or of a descendant of a child of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,500 (adjusted for inflation) for each account per calendar year. Provides that no account may have more than one beneficiary and that no individual may be a beneficiary of more than one account. Disallows any deduction for contributions to an education savings account for any beneficiary who has attained the age of 19. Requires any balance in an education savings account to be distributed after the individual for whose benefit the account is established attains age 30. Includes the distributions from an education savings account in the gross income of the payee or distributee except for those amounts distributed or used to pay educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established. Provides that an education savings account is exempt from taxation except for the tax on unrelated business income. Revokes the tax exemption of the account where the individual for whose benefit the account is established engages in certain prohibited transactions with the account. Imposes a ten percent penalty tax on distributions which are not used for educational expenses. Requires the trustee of an education savings account to file reports with the Secretary of the Treasury on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file any required report. Extends the deduction for contributions to an education savings account to taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions. Imposes: (1) a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to an education savings account; and (2) a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to such an account. Excludes from the gross income of an individual distributions from an education savings account used exclusively for that individual's educational expenses. Provides that distributions from an education savings account shall not be taken into account in determining support to the extent such distribution is excluded from gross income of the individual for whose benefit the account has been established.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Declares that the Congress: (1) protests continued Soviet violations of international human rights, especially its restrictive emigration regulations; (2) states that such human rights abuses seriously affect negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union; (3) calls upon the Soviet authorities to release all "Prisoners of Conscience" and permit all "refuseniks" and other specified people to emigrate; and (4) dedicates itself to support, as a priority during the 100th Congress, the restoration of internationally recognized human rights to all Soviet citizens, especially restoration of the right to emigrate to Soviet Jews and others who have requested exit visas.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to delay until December 31, 1988 (currently, December 31, 1986) the exception for certain technical personnel from certain rules for determining whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor for employment tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1987
National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Act of 1987 - Establishes the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome to: (1) advise the Congress, the President, and Federal agencies on policies and programs designed to reduce the incidence of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and address problems encountered by individuals having AIDS; (2) monitor the progression of AIDS; (3) evaluate AIDS research activities and health services; (4) study the effects that AIDS has had on the armed forces; and (5) identify financial resources available to prevent and treat AIDS. Directs the Commission to report to the President and the Congress. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submitting such report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Preborn Children's Civil Rights Act of 1987 - Prohibits the use of Federal funds to perform, promote, or do research on any procedure to take the life of a preborn child (except for medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant women or her preborn child). Prohibits the Federal Government from entering into any contract for insurance which provides for payment or reimbursement for abortion services. States that no institution receiving Federal financial assistance shall: (1) discriminate against any employee, applicant, or student on the basis of that person's opposition to abortion; or (2) require any employee or student to participate, directly or indirectly, in abortion procedures, counseling, or an insurance program which includes abortion coverage. States that attorney's fees shall not be allowed in any civil action involving a law prohibiting or restricting abortions. Provides for Supreme Court review of lower court decisions which declare State and local anti-abortion statutes unconstitutional.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Tax Exemption Equity Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny status as a tax-exempt organization to organizations which directly or indirectly perform or finance abortions. Denies the income, estate, and gift tax charitable contribution deductions for amounts contributed to such organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. States that nothing in this article shall prohibit a law allowing medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or the unborn offspring.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) no Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) physician payment methodology should be implemented which is based on hospital discharge classifications or requires mandatory assignment; and (2) no drastic change in the Medicare physician payment methodology should be undertaken without the receipt of reports required by legislation enacted in the 99th Congress and a detailed analysis of the long-range impact of such change on the provision of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Amends the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to review existing regulations governing alcohol and drug use in railroad operations for the purpose of determining whether they are adequate to ensure safety. Sets forth the criteria for such review. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to prescribe regulations establishing a program which requires air carriers, contract carriers, and foreign air carriers to conduct pre-employment testing (as well as periodic recurring and post-accident testing) of airmen and crewmembers upon a reasonable suspicion that they have used alcohol or a controlled substance without lawful authorization. Requires the Administrator to establish such a program applicable to FAA employees whose duties include direct responsibility for flight safety operations. Directs the Administrator to require random testing as part of the testing program for air carriers. Prohibits any air carrier from permitting any individual determined to have used alcohol or a controlled substance without lawful authorization from serving as an airman or crewmember unless such individual has completed a substance abuse rehabilitation program. Requires air carriers to establish and maintain such a rehabilitation program for the identification and opportunity for treatment of airmen and crewmembers who need assistance in resolving substance abuse problems. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain such a rehabilitation program for FAA employees whose duties include direct responsibility for flight safety operations, and who need assistance in resolving substance abuse problems.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Andrew Wyeth in recognition of his contributions to American art and culture. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to sell bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Sunset/Sunrise Review Act of 1987 - Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs - Sets forth a ten-year schedule for reauthorization of all Federal programs according to budget function and subfunction as set forth in the Budget of the United States Government for FY 1987. Sets forth the procedure in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the consideration of any bill, resolution, or amendment which authorizes new budget authority. States that it is not in order for either House to consider any legislation which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program for a period of more than ten years, for an indefinite period, or for any fiscal year beginning after the next reauthorization date applicable to such program. Provides that before the Congress can appropriate funds for any program, after its first reauthorization date, there must be a specific authorization in law to support the appropriation. Requires the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives to schedule and conduct a sunset review of programs to be reauthorized. Requires that the report accompanying such reauthorizations contain specified information and be completed during the Congress in which the program is scheduled for reauthorization. Exempts from the requirements of this Act specified programs such as interest on Federal debts, health care services, general retirement and disability payments, litigation activities which have as their objectives the protection and implementation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and specified retirement pay and benefits. Allows the reauthorization schedule set forth in this Act to be changed by concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress and sets forth the procedure for such change. Requires all legislation and other matters related to changes in the dates for programs under this Act to be referred to the committee with legislative jurisdiction over any program affected by the proposal and, sequentially, to the Committee on Rules in the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Rules and Administration in the Senate. Requires such committees to report any concurrent resolution or bill referred to it by a committee of legislative jurisdiction within 30 days, with a statement on each of its recommendations. Makes provisions for any proposed change which has been reported by a committee before July 1, 1988. Title II: Program Inventory - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs. Declares that the purpose of such program inventory is to advise and assist the Congress in carrying out reauthorization and reexamination requirements and to link such reauthorization and review process with the budget process. Requires the Comptroller General to submit a draft program inventory to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Rules not later than January 1, 1988. Sets forth the contents of the inventory program, including the type of authorization provided for such programs' new budget authority and the manner in which related program areas may be grouped for evaluation and review. Requires the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Rules to notify each legislative committee of programs classified within its jurisdiction. Authorizes such committees to propose revisions. Requires, by April 1, 1988, the transmission of such revisions to the Comptroller General for inclusion in a final program inventory. Requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service to review the draft program inventory and suggest revisions by March 1, 1988. Requires the Comptroller General to report a revised, final program inventory to the House and the Senate by May 1, 1988. Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of the Congress, and that such revisions be reported to each House. Requires that periodic reports tabulate the progress of congressional action on bills and resolutions authorizing budget authority for programs in the inventory. Requires the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit periodic reports to the Congress on the adequacy of the functional and subfunctional categories for grouping programs of like missions or objectives. Title III: Program Reexamination - Requires each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. Sets forth procedures for such review, and criteria for selection of program areas for evaluation. Directs each committee to consult with the appropriate committees of either the House of Representatives or the Senate in order to achieve coordination of program reevaluation. Directs each Committee to inform itself of the related activities of or assistance available from the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Office of Technology Assessment, and other appropriate instrumentalities in the executive and judicial branches. Requires each committee to deliver a report on the reexamination to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House at the date specified in the funding resolution first reported by such committee in 1989 and thereafter for the first session of each Congress. Allows two or more committees which have legislative jurisdiction over the same programs or portions of the same programs to examine such programs jointly and submit a joint report. Stipulates that such report: (1) contain the findings, recommendations, and justifications of the program; and (2) include specified information including, but not limited to, an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the program and an identification of any trends, developments, and emerging conditions which are likely to affect the nature and extent of the problems or needs which the program is intended to address. Requires each executive department or agency which is responsible for a program selected for reexamination to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget and to the appropriate committees of the Congress on its findings, recommendations, and justifications of specified aspects of the program. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Permits the committees of Congress to obtain from agencies estimates or requests for appropriations, or requests for increases in an item of any such estimate or request, and recommendations as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met. Sets forth administrative procedures and requirements. Directs the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, to submit to the Congress a Regulatory Duplication and Conflicts Report for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. Requires that each such report identify duplicative or conflicting rules and regulations promulgated by executive departments, independent agencies, and State and local governments and contain recommendations which address such conflicts or duplications. Directs the chairmen of the House and Senate committees having jurisdiction over a program scheduled for reauthorization during a Congress to introduce a sunset extension resolution constituting a reauthorization within 15 days of the beginning of the second session of that Congress. Makes it the duty of the Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committees on Government Operations and Rules of the House to review the operation of the procedures established by this Act and to submit a report every five years beginning December 31, 1994. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the use of distributions from individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities for the purchase, construction, or reconstruction of a principal residence by a first-time homebuyer. Reduces the basis of the dwelling by the amount of the distribution if the distribution is not includible in gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Emergency Energy Act of 1987 - Title I: Amendments of Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a credit against the income tax for crude oil producers equal to the excess of an oil well's operating costs allocable to a barrel of oil over the sales price of the barrel (but in no event for more than $5.00 per barrel). Provides for a carryback of unused excess credits for any year. Allows a credit for 15 percent of the costs of exploring for oil or natural gas in the United States. Provides for a carryback of unused excess exploration cost credits. Revises the minimum tax rules to allow a taxpayer to elect to carry over any portion of a percentage depletion deduction to the succeeding taxable year. Revises the definition of intangible drilling and development costs eligible for annual deduction as business expenses when paid or incurred to include geological, geophysical, and surface casing costs paid or incurred for the purpose of ascertaining the existence, location, extent, or quality of any domestic deposit of oil or gas. Repeals the tax preference cutback which currently requires integrated oil and gas producers to reduce (and thereby capitalize) the amount of intangible drilling and development costs eligible for a tax deduction by 30 percent. Repeals the rule that limits percentage depletion for oil or gas properties to 50 percent of a taxpayer's net income from the property. Revises the rule regarding an election to treat operating mineral interests as separate properties to allow such an election without regard to whether one or more of the operating mineral interests participated, under a voluntary or compulsory unitization or pooling agreement, in a single cooperative or unit plan of operation. Repeals specified rules which currently disqualify certain properties from: (1) the percentage depletion allowance deduction; and (2) the stripper well oil exemption from the windfall profit tax. Revises the special rules for the windfall profit tax to declare that a return shall not be treated as required if the amount of windfall profit tax withheld from the purchase payment to an oil producer equals or exceeds the amount required to be withheld as shown on the first purchaser's return. (The statute of limitations on assessments for windfall profit tax liability will thus begin to run concurrently with the statute of limitations on the taxpayer's income tax return.) Limits such rule revision to returns filed after February 29, 1980. Repeals the windfall profit tax. Title II: Removal of Wellhead Price Controls and Repeal of Natural Gas Act Jurisdiction Over Certain First Sales of Natural Gas - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to: (1) remove wellhead price controls over natural gas prices; (2) repeal the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over natural gas exempt from wellhead price controls; (3) repeal the President's standby price control authority; and (4) repeal congressional review of natural gas price controls. Title III: Repeal of Certain Restrictions on the Use of Natural Gas and Petroleum - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to: (1) repeal the prohibitions against the use by electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations of petroleum and natural gas as primary energy sources: (2) remove the restrictions placed upon Federal major fuel-burning installations against the use of natural gas and petroleum as primary energy sources; (3) repeal the guidelines for the emergency use of natural gas or petroleum as a primary energy source by any person operating a peakload powerplant or a major fuel-burning installation. Revokes the authority of the Secretary of Energy to require any major fuel-burning installation to furnish certain information regarding the use of primary energy sources of fuel. Title IV: Repeal of Incremental Pricing Requirements - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to repeal the natural gas incremental pricing provisions. States that incremental pricing rules promulgated by FERC shall continue in effect only with respect to the flow-through of costs incurred before enactment of this section, including any surcharges based on such costs. Title V: Strategic Petroleum Reserve - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve only with crude oil produced in the United States. Title VI: Separability - Sets forth separability provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Home Employment Enterprise Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit individuals to engage in industrial homework (including sewing, knitting, jewelry, or craftmaking) or perform any service in or about their place of residence as employees of any employer covered by such Act if the employer complies with minimum wage and maximum hours requirements under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that specified minimum tax and accounting rules applicable to installment obligations shall not apply to obligations arising from sales of property by nondealers.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Proclaims the English language to be the official language of the United States. Grants the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends House Resolution 12, 100th Congress, agreed to January 7, 1987, to prohibit Members of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran from voting by proxy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee to review, on a continuing basis and when considering public bills or resolutions, those portions of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission report) pertaining to such committee's jurisdiction. Amends rule XI to require each committee report on a public bill or resolution to contain: (1) an identification of each recommendation of the Survey to be implemented and the resulting estimated program cost savings or revenue enhancement; and (2) a statement setting forth the disposition of each recommendation pertaining to such bill or resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Prohibits the President from relinquishing or transferring to any country any land, U.S. territory, exclusive economic zone, fishery conservation zone, or any U.S. claim to such areas unless provided for in a treaty between the United States and such country. Declares that a boundary between the United States and any other country may be established only by treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Makes it a Federal offense, punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten years, for any person to intentionally donate blood, semen, or an organ if such person knows he: (1) has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); (2) has had sexual relations with a male since 1977; (3) is an intravenous drug user; (4) has received a blood transfusion within the past year; (5) is a hemophiliac who has used a clotting factor; or (6) has engaged in prostitution since 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Makes it an offense for any Federal officer or employee or member of the armed forces, knowing that he or she has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), an AIDS-related condition, or having been reliably informed that he or she has been found to have HTLV-III LAV antibodies, to knowingly transfer or attempt to transfer any of his or her bodily fluid to another individual: (1) while employed as such an officer, employee, or member; or (2) in any Federal facility. Requires anyone convicted of such offense to be quarantined for five years under supervision of the Public Health Service or until there is a cure, whichever occurs first. Defines "bodily fluid" and "transfer." Creates as an affirmative defense for anyone charged with such offense proof that: (1) the use of a condom prevented the transfer of bodily fluids, after consent following full disclosure of the risk; or (2) that such transfer occurred after advice from a physician that he or she was noninfectious. Limits consent or previous AIDS infection of the transferee as a defense.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Requires any State receiving Federal funds for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) counseling and education to: (1) have a system to trace the partners of individuals with AIDS; (2) test those individuals for AIDS; and (3) counsel those individuals about the infectious nature of the syndrome.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Requires any individual imprisoned in a Federal correctional institution, or in a correctional facility which receives Federal funds, and any individual seeking permanent residence in the United States to be tested for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the virus HTLV-III/LAV. Requires any individual identified as a result of such test as a carrier of AIDS to be notified and counseled about the risks of spreading it.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Provides a limited antitrust exemption from State and Federal laws for: (1) actions taken to develop independent natural gas producers' cooperative associations; or (2) actions taken by such associations to implement plans to market natural gas in interstate commerce. Conditions such exemption upon such actions': (1) being necessary to market natural gas; and (2) not being taken for the purpose of reducing competition.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Authorizes the President to provide military assistance to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Repeals specified provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which eliminate the income tax deduction for State and local sales taxes. Provides that the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied and administered as if such provisions had not been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987 - Provides that the United States asserts title to any abandoned shipwreck that is: (1) embedded in submerged lands of a State; (2) embedded in coralline formations protected by a State on its submerged lands; or (3) on submerged lands of a State when such shipwreck is included or eligible for inclusion in the National Register, and the public is given adequate notice of the location of the shipwreck. Declares that any title to abandoned shipwrecks asserted under such conditions is transferred to the State in or on whose submerged lands the shipwreck is located. States that any abandoned shipwreck in or on the public lands of the United States (except the Outer Continental Shelf) is the property of the United States. Directs the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to publish, within six months after enactment of this Act, advisory guidelines for the protection of shipwrecks and properties.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends Federal law relating to construction by States in advance of apportionment to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to pay the Federal share of a State's highway construction project costs when a State: (1) has obligated all highway substitute, urban, secondary, or bridge funds apportioned or allocated to it, or has used or demonstrates that it will use the obligation authority allocated to it; and (2) proceeds to construct a highway substitute, urban, secondary, or bridge project without the aid of Federal funds; or (3) proceeds to construct any project on the Federal-aid primary system, including the Interstate System, without the aid of Federal funds. Provides that the Federal share of a State's construction costs on the Interstate System shall include the interest earned and payable on bonds issued by the State to the extent that the bond proceeds have been expended in the construction of such projects on the System. Prohibits the Secretary from approving applications for the Federal share of construction costs if the amount of approved applications in the category of funds involved exceeds certain apportionments for the applicant State.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
National Observance Advisory Act - Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on National Observances to establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed national observance be approved or disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Narcotics Smuggling Reduction Act of 1986 - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to report annually to the Congress on the total of all illegal narcotics smuggled into the United States during the previous fiscal year. Prohibits U.S. aid to a country if the total amount of illegal narcotics smuggled into the United States from such country does not decrease by ten percent annually. Authorizes restoring aid to such country if the Secretary of State certifies that such nation is the source, in the year before certification, of no greater percentage of smuggled narcotics than any nation which has not been affected by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Truth in Government Accounting Act of 1987 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and make public annual consolidated financial statements for the United States based on accrual accounting procedures. Directs the Secretary to publish such statements each year on a date not later than the date the President submits the Federal budget to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to notify the public of the availability of such statements, including placing notice on all tax forms. Requires the Comptroller General to audit the consolidated financial statements each fiscal year. Requires the President to include in each budget a summary of how the use of accrual accounting procedures would affect the estimated Federal expenditures, appropriations, and receipts. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare all of the budgets submitted to the President according to both accrual accounting procedures and the cash basis accounting method.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the adopted child of an individual shall be treated the same as a natural child of such individual for purposes of determining the child's eligibility for benefits based on the individual's wage record, regardless of the time the adoption occurred.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers who have attained the age of 18 an income tax deduction for contributions (cash or readily tradeable securities) to a savings account established for the exclusive purpose of financing the taxpayer's first principal residence. Limits the aggregate amount allowable as a deduction under this Act to any individual for any taxable year to 15 percent of such individual's adjusted gross income. Provides that the amount allowable as a deduction to all taxpayers for amounts paid or transferred to a house savings account may not exceed $1,500 ($3,000 for accounts of married couples). Provides for a $15,000 maximum lifetime deduction ($30,000 for joint returns), with annual inflation adjustments. Limits to ten years the period during which deductible contributions may be made to housing savings accounts. Prohibits any individual from being a beneficiary of more than one account. Excludes distributions from a housing savings account from the gross income of its beneficiary if such distributions are used exclusively for the purchase of a principal residence. Exempts a housing savings account from taxation. Provides for the forfeiture of such exemption where the taxpayer uses the account for certain prohibited purposes. Imposes a penalty on distributions from an account which are used for a prohibited purpose. Requires the trustee of a housing savings account to file a report on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for the failure to file any required report. Imposes: (1) a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to a housing savings account; and (2) a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to such an account.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Crane Tithe Tax Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal: (1) the corporate income tax; (2) the corporate minimum tax; (3) the tax on unrelated business income of tax-exempt organizations; (4) the tax on accumulated earnings of a corporation; (5) the personal holding company tax; (6) the alternative tax for certain mutual savings banks; (7) the tax on life insurance companies; (8) the tax on certain mutual insurance companies; (9) the tax on certain types of insurance companies; (10) the tax on regulated investment companies; (11) the tax on real estate investment trusts; and (12) the tax on income of foreign corporations connected with U.S. businesses. Revises the individual income tax to impose a ten percent tax on the earned income of an individual in excess of a $10,000 exemption amount. Provides for annual cost-of-living adjustments to such exemption amount. Defines "earned income" as: (1) wages, salaries, and other employee compensation; (2) the amount of net earnings from self-employment; and (3) the amount of dividends from a personal service corporation or which are otherwise directly or indirectly compensation for services. Exempts from earned income: (1) any amount received as a pension or annuity; and (2) tips. Provides for a general amnesty for any tax (or for penalties and interest with respect to such tax) for any taxable year ending on or before January 6, 1987. Repeals all specific exclusions from gross income, all deductions, and all income tax credits to the extent related to the computation of individual income tax liability. Repeals the estate and gift taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Financial Services Competitive Enhancement Act of 1987 - Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to: (1) allow a member bank of the Federal Reserve System to be affiliated with a depository institution securities affiliate or with a bank service corporation engaged in activities permissible for a depository institution securities affiliate; and (2) permit an officer, director, or employee of a member bank to serve at the same time as an officer, director, or employee of such an affiliate or corporation. Amends the National Bank Act to authorize national banks to: (1) provide portfolio investment advisory, management, information, forecasting, and research services to individual and institutional customers in combination with or separate from the purchase or sale of securities for such customers; (2) engage in activities consisting of insurance agency or brokerage, real estate brokerage or related services, homeownership and financial counseling, tax return preparation and tax planning, armored car services, travel agency services, or check guarantee, collection agency, or credit bureau services; and (3) invest in tangible personal property for rental or sale, provided such investment does not exceed ten percent of the bank's assets. Authorizes the Comptroller of the Currency to permit national banks to exercise any powers granted to, or to conduct any activities permitted for: (1) Federal savings and loan associations; or (2) State banks in the State in which the national bank is headquartered. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act to define, for purposes of such Act; (1) "depository institution securities affiliate" as any corporation that engages in the United States in the activities of such an affiliate, a broker, or a dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; (2) "depository institution holding company" as a bank holding company; (3) "depository institution" as a bank; and (4) "insured institution" as defined under the National Housing Act. Provides that provisions prohibiting any action that causes a company to become a bank holding company shall not apply where: (1) the company provides 30 days' notice to the Federal Reserve Board; (2) the company acquires control of a bank through a reorganization in which persons exchange their shares of the bank for the same proportional share interest in a newly formed bank holding company; (3) such bank holding company meets capital and financial standards prescribed by the Board and does not conduct activities other than banking or managing and controlling banks or related financial activities. Permits a bank holding company to acquire and retain ownership or control of shares of any company or insured institution the activities of which consist of: (1) financial activities related to banking or managing or controlling banks; (2) insurance underwriting, agency, or brokerage activities; or (3) real estate investment, development, brokerage, or related services. Prohibits a bank holding company from engaging in authorized activity de novo or by acquisition unless it provides the Board 60 days' notice and the Board does not, within such 60 days, issue an order disapproving the proposal or suspending the 60-day period in order to obtain more information. Permits the Board to provide for no notice requirement, or for a shorter notice period, with respect to particular activities. Includes among the criteria the Board may consider in evaluating such a notice: (1) the managerial, technical, and financial resources of the companies involved; (2) any practice that may adversely affect the impartiality of an affiliated bank in the provision or terms of credit or other services; (3) any material adverse effect on the safety and soundness or financial condition of an affiliated bank; and (4) whether any acquisition would substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. Requires the Board to approve such a notice with appropriate limitations, restrictions, or conditions that could cure deficiencies which otherwise would result in disapproval of the notice. Prohibits the Board from limiting, restricting, or conditioning the authority under Federal or State law of an insured institution, or an affiliate or subsidiary thereof, acquired by a bank holding company. Directs the Board, in the case of notice disapproval, to explain why notice deficiencies could not be cured by limitations, restrictions, or conditions. Permits a bank holding company to obtain judicial review of a Board order approving a notice with limitations, restrictions, or conditions. Directs the Board, under specified guidelines, to promulgate regulations designating particular financial activities that are reasonably or functionally related to banking or managing or controlling banks. Applies restrictions on interstate acquisitions by bank holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act to acquisitions of insured institutions, except for emergency acquisitions. Allows any insured institution that becomes a bank holding company subsidiary to retain its existing branches, but limits its future branches to locations where a national bank may establish branches. Permits the Board to dispense with notice and hearing requirements for any application for an acquisition of a thrift institution in an emergency. Permits a bank holding company to acquire shares of any insurance company and engage in any insurance activity notwithstanding any State laws, but subjects such insurance company to State examination, supervision, and licensing requirements. Permits a bank holding company, subject to requirements concerning providing notice to the Board, to acquire and retain ownership or control of: (1) any depository institution securities affiliate which may conduct specified securities activities; (2) any company engaged in any activity in which a multiple savings and loan holding company was authorized to engage directly on the date of enactment of this Act; (3) any company providing homeownership and financial counseling; (4) any company in the business of preparing tax returns and tax planning; (5) any company providing armored car services; (6) any company providing check guaranty, collection agency, or credit bureau services; or (7) any company providing travel agency services. Subjects Board orders regarding bank holding company acquisitions to judicial review solely on questions relating to any Board finding: (1) that a proposed activity is permissible for a bank holding company; and (2) regarding a substantial lessening of competition or tendency to create a monopoly. Prohibits the reviewing court from staying the Board's order approving such acquisition pending judicial review or overturning the Board's findings, unless demonstrated to be plainly in error and at variance with the facts. Permits the court to assess litigation fees against any party that petitions for judicial review if the court finds such petition to be nonmeritorious. Sets forth reporting and examination requirements for nonbank subsidiaries of bank holding companies. Provides for the use of reports required by other statutes or agencies. Prohibits any State from prohibiting the affiliation of a national banking association with a depository institution securities affiliate or other company in which a bank holding company may acquire an interest under this Act. Amends the Bank Service Corporation Act to permit a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured bank to invest up to three percent of its total assets (currently, ten percent of paid-in and unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus) in one bank service corporation and up to 15 percent (currently, five percent) of its total assets in bank service corporations overall. Permits a bank service corporation to engage in nonbanking activities permitted for bank holding companies, except for those of an insured institution. Subjects investment by an insured bank in, and the performance of nonbanking activities by, a bank service corporation to the notice requirements, evaluation criteria, Board order provisions, judicial review procedures, reporting and examination requirements, and antitrust standards applicable to acquisitions and the performance of nonbanking activities by bank holding companies. Provides that provisions prohibiting a corporation from discriminating in the provision of services to nonstockholding institutions shall apply only to corporations which provide services to any nonstockholding institution. Designates the Board as the appropriate regulatory agency of a bank service corporation engaged in such nonbanking activities. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to exempt from provisions restricting transactions between member banks and their affiliates purchases of assets having a readily identifiable and available (currently, publicly available) market quotation when the purchases are made at the market quotation price. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Board to bring cease-and-desist proceedings against a bank holding company's nonbank subsidiary for activity which may: (1) affect the safety and soundness of any bank owned or controlled by the holding company; or (2) violate any banking law, rule, regulation, or order.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Military Drug Interdiction Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (upon request from the head of a Federal agency with jurisdiction to enforce the Controlled Substances Act or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act) to assign members of the armed forces under his jurisdiction to assist drug enforcement officials in drug searches, seizures, or arrests outside the land area of the United States. Allows such assistance only if: (1) the assistance will not adversely affect the military preparedness of the United States; (2) the Attorney General verifies that the drug enforcement operation may not succeed without assistance by members of the armed forces; and (3) Federal drug enforcement officials maintain ultimate control over the activities and direction of any drug enforcement operation.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Title I: Biennial Budget - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget process by: (1) establishing a two-year budgeting cycle beginning in the 101st Congress; and (2) providing for the separate consideration of authorizations, appropriations, the concurrent resolution on the budget, and the reconciliation bill or resolution. Requires each standing committee of the Congress to review the laws and programs under its jurisdiction in every odd-numbered year to determine whether such programs should be continued, curtailed, or eliminated and whether new legislation is necessary to comply with congressional intent. Title II: Amendment of Part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to remove the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from participation in the sequestration process. Requires the President's initial and final sequestration orders to be in accordance with initial and revised reports by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Requires the Director of OMB (currently, the Director of CBO) to notify the Congress of low economic growth triggering action to suspend sequestration procedures. Repeals provisions setting forth alternative sequestration reporting procedures that were to be followed in the event that the joint CBO-OMB-General Accounting Office reporting procedures were invalidated. Title III: Rescissions of Budget Authority - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide that budget authority proposed to be rescinded or reserved in a special message from the President to the Congress shall be made available for obligation if, within the prescribed 45-day period, the Congress completes action on a rescission bill which disapproves such proposal. (Current law requires such budget authority to be made available unless the Congress passes a bill rescinding it.)
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