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United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to include on the list of ships eligible to establish a capital construction fund certain ships involved in international trade. Adjusts the amounts to be deposited by specified individuals in such fund. Redefines "eligible vessel," "qualified vessel," and "foreign fishing corporation" for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer to elect to compute the depreciation on eligible American vessels and vessel construction facilities by using a useful life of five years with no salvage value.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requests the President to designate July 17, 1981, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requests the President to designate the week beginning November 22, 1981, as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requests the President to designate the third week of September of each year as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Waives certain time limitations with respect to awarding a medal of honor to a named individual.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Designates the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, as the "Everett E. Crosier Center."
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax credit for expenditures for multifuel heating systems. Defines "multifuel heating systems" as energy efficiency devices designed as wood, coal or other solid fuel add-ons connected to a heating furnace or boiler.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse or relative of a decedent an income tax deduction for the decedent's funeral expenses, if such expenses are not claimed as an estate tax deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that agricultural resources are of strategic importance to the United States' future. Calls for Federal cooperation with State and local governments and assistance to persons engaged in agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1981
Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the activities of the Legal Services Corporation in the amount of $321,300,000 for fiscal year 1982 and necessary sums for fiscal years 1983 and 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1981
Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Act - Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability for veterans exposed to herbicides during service who suffer from a disease which may be caused by exposure to such herbicides, developed to a ten percent degree of disability. Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to determine what diseases and birth defects may be due to exposure to herbicides. Qualifies such birth defects disabling to a degree of ten percent as an aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered in the line of duty in the active military service during a period of war. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations within one year of enactment incorporating such determinations and setting forth the conditions of service during the Vietnam era required to establish exposure.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1981
Requests the President to designate April 9, 1981, as "African Refugee Relief Day."
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1981
Federal Lending Oversight and Control Act - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to provide a statutory basis for controlling loans and loan guarantees under Federal credit programs through the congressional budget process. Title I: Reports Regarding Federal Credit Activity - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, not later than February 1 and August 1 of each year, in consultation with the Council of Economic Advisors, to transmit a report to both Houses of Congress regarding Federal credit activity during the previous six month period. Requires each such report to examine the relationship between Federal credit activity during the previous six-month period and: (1) the condition of the economy; (2) the availability and cost of credit in the private sector; and (3) the exercise of monetary and fiscal policy by the Federal Government. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in their biannual reports to Congress concerning recent developments affecting economic trends in the Nation, to examine the effects of Federal credit activity on the availability and cost of credit in the private sector and on the exercise of monetary policy by the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to require the President, in his annual budget statement to the Congress, to include all essential facts regarding direct lending by the Government and guarantees by the Government of the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government. Title II: Changes in Congressional Budget Procedures - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the first concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to set forth the appropriate level of total gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the appropriate level of total commitments to guarantee loans and to allocate such totals among the major functional categories of the budget. Directs each standing committee of the House and Senate to submit its estimates of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments provided for in legislation under its jurisdiction by March 15 of each year for consideration of the Budget Committee in formulating the budget resolution. Directs the House and Senate Banking Committees to submit recommendations to the Budget Committees for the aggregate levels of direct loans and loan guarantees in each fiscal year. Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on the concurrent resolution on the budget to include an estimate allocation of the total levels of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments among the committees of the House and Senate. Directs the Committees on Appropriations to provide such an allocation among their subcommittees as soon as practicable after a budget resolution has been agreed to. Requires the House Committee on Appropriations, before reporting any regular appropriations bills, to submit a summary report to the House comparing the credit authority contained in such bills to the levels agreed to in the budget resolution. Requires any report accompanying legislation conferring new budget authority or increasing tax expenditures to include information on direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments. Establishes a deadline for the completion of action on legislation providing credit authority. Requires the second concurrent resolution on the budget in any fiscal year and the reconciliation process to take into account Federal obligations and commitments on loans and loan guarantees. Declares out of order any measure brought up for consideration in either House which would increase the level of loan obligations and guarantee commitments agreed to in the budget process. Requires any authority to guarantee the payment of any indebtedness to be contingent on provisions in appropriation Acts. Title III: Amendments to House Rules - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) to review and make appropriate recommendations with respect to the consistency and uniformity of the different definitions, default provisions, policies, interest rates, and other terms and conditions relating to direct loan, loan insurance, and loan guarantee activities included in any laws of which the subject matter is within the jurisdiction of that committee. Title IV: Construction and Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates of the titles of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1981
Requests the President to designate the week of February 7 through 13, 1982, as "National Scleroderma Week."
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Humane Methods of Research Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit entities to: (1) support research and development of alternative methods of research, experimentation, and testing which minimize the use of, and the pain inflicted upon, live animals; and (2) establish the validity and reliability of such alternative methods. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Amends the Copyright Act of 1976 to permit without infringement of copyright: (1) the performance or display of a copyrighted work by instructors or pupils in the course of face- to-face teaching activities of any educational institution (previously only nonprofit educational institutions); and (2) the performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work by a nonprofit veterans' or fraternal organization if the profits are used exclusively for education, religious, or charitable purposes and not for private financial gain.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Conditions the receipt of financial assistance by a private business enterprise from the Small Business Administration or the Economic Development Administration on a requirement that such enterprise purchase only articles manufactured in the United States or unmanufactured articles produced in the United States. Provides for an exception to such requirement if the articles are not manufactured or produced in sufficient and reasonably commercial quantities and of satisfactory quality or if such purchase would result in unreasonable cost increases. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe regulations to administer this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to provide that failure to file a claim within a prescribed period shall not be a bar if it is found that: (1) a mistake or other reasonable cause occasioned such failure; or (2) the insurer was not prejudiced by delay. Prohibits discontinuance of compensation without written assent of the employee. Requires an insurer, where there is no such employee assent, to apply for approval of such discontinuance. Requires that the employee be given an opportunity to appear at a conference before such approval may be given. Directs the Deputy Commissioner with jurisdiction over a case to assign a case to a conference upon notice from either party to a claim that: (1) an insurer has failed to pay compensation upon filing of such claim; or (2) the parties disagree as to continuance of any weekly payments. Sets forth the Deputy Commissioner's powers to investigate and to order compensation paid, modified, or discontinued. Sets forth procedures relating to requests by aggrieved parties for hearings on such orders.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to permit the publishing and broadcasting of information about a lottery, if such lottery is not illegal in the State in which the newspaper is published or radio or television station is licensed. (Current law permits the publishing and broadcasting of information about State-conducted lotteries.)
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to extend from five to ten years the period during which a spouse or mother becoming eligible for a Government pension may qualify for an exemption from title II provisions requiring a reduction in such spouse's or mother's OASDI benefits based on receipt of a Government pension.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives in support of "Solidarity Sunday" (relating to the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union).
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Army should construct and place in Arlington National Cemetery a plaque honoring members of the United States Armed Forces who died attempting to rescue the American hostages in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that the schedule for domestic natural gas price deregulation should not be accelerated.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for taking or attempting to take by force and violence or intimidation a controlled substance from a pharmacy. Increases the penalties if any person's life is endangered by use of a dangerous weapon or if any person is assaulted or killed during commission of such offense. Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation to include pharmacy robbery data in its annual Uniform Crime Reports. Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress on the enforcement of this Act within 120 days of enactment and biannually for the subsequent three-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1981
Requests the President to designate April 26, 1981, as "National Recognition Day for Veterans of the Vietnam Era."
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1981
Expresses the sense of the Congress that legislation providing for withholding of Federal income tax from dividends and interest should not be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide homebuilders with an income tax credit for the construction of residences which incorporate a passive solar energy system. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and Housing and Urban Development, to prescribe regulations setting forth a solar construction credit table for purposes of determining the amount of the credit for which the incorporator of the solar energy system is eligible. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $2,000 for calendar years prior to 1987 and phases out the amount of the credit by $500 decrements until 1990 when such credit terminates. Defines a "passive solar energy system" as a system which contains a solar collection area, an absorber, a storage mass, a heat distribution method, and heat regulation devices. Requires such system to be installed in a new residence after September 30, 1981, and before January 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Public Buildings Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to authorize the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to carry out preliminary engineering and design work for the alteration of a public building before a project for such alteration is authorized. Requires approval by the appropriate Congressional committees before the Administrator may: (1) alter public buildings or acquire land for which costs exceed $1,000,000; (2) acquire a public building by exchange of property worth more than $1,000,000; (3) lease space in a building at a rate in excess of $1,000,000 (all formerly $500,000); (4) reduce the amount of space in an approved project by more than ten percent; (5) issue obligations, for purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, to finance the acquisition or construction of a public building; and (6) alter leased premises if the cost of alteration exceeds $500,000. Authorizes the Administrator to purchase options to buy land necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Prohibits the Administrator from leasing any space to accommodate the following, except as may be necessary to meet requirements that cannot be met in public building: (1) major computer operations; (2) secure or sensitive activities related to the national defense or security; (3) offices which would require major alterations; or (4) a permanent court room, judicial chamber, or administrative office for any United States court. Directs the Administrator to submit the reasons for leasing such space to specified Congressional committees. Requires the Administrator to publicly solicit competitive bids to procure space by lease for the Government. Directs the Administrator to provide a copy of the lease agreement to the highest ranking official of each Federal agency in leased buildings. Directs the Administrator to consult with local elected officials and the head of the Federal agency involved before locating or relocating an office of such agency. Requires the Administrator to give preference to distressed areas when locating or relocating a Federal agency office within a metropolitan area. Specifies factors to be considered by the Administrator in making such decision. Directs the Administrator, under specified circumstances, to submit a relocation report to certain Congressional committees. Prohibits the Administration from carrying out such relocation for 30 days following the submission of such report. Requires the Administrator to provide Congress annually with a program of projects and actions that are deemed necessary by the Administrator. Specifies lists to be included in such programs and in the Administrator's annual reports to Congress after January 31, 1982. Prohibits the acquisition of land or an interest therein and preliminary engineering or design work for any project unless such acquisition or work: (1) is listed in the annual program submitted to Congress; and (2) is not disapproved by the appropriate Congressional committees by a specified date. Permits such committees to deauthorize such acquisitions or work within certain parameters. Requires the Administrator to maintain specified information in order to keep Congress fully informed of the policies and activities of the GSA. Makes the Administrator (formerly in conjunction with the Postmaster General) solely responsible for building project surveys. Allows the Administrator to waive the application of the 15 percent rental payment limitation for Government leases and rentals. Amends the Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 to limit to ten percent the allocation of space within public buildings to commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational facilities and activities. Permits the Administrator to waive such limitation subject to certain conditions. Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1949 to prohibit the Administrator from using the name of any individual, living or dead, in the name or other designation of any building under the custody and control of the GSA. Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to authorize the Administrator to make emergency repairs to any public building. Directs the Administrator to construct, acquire, alter, lease, and assign and reassign space in public buildings. Establishes within GSA a Public Buildings Service to be headed by a Commissioner of Public Buildings. Creates the position of supervising architect to supervise all design activities of the Public Buildings Service. Prohibits the Administrator from contracting for construction of any building other than one Government owned except under specified circumstances. Sets forth requirements for the design and management of public buildings, including conformity with existing buildings, energy conservation, efficient interiors, and parking facilities for motor vehicles. Directs the Administrator, assisted by the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, to acquire by loan or lease works of art by living American artists. Directs the Administrator, in conjunction with the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and on a reimbursable basis thereto, to utilize existing and develop new exhibitions that reflect the artistic, cultural, social, scientific, and industrial heritage of the United States. States that the Administrator shall circulate such works of art and exhibitions in Federal buildings throughout the United States. Limits the authorization for works of art for public building projects. Establishes an arts review panel that shall make recommendations to the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to use one-half of one percent of the sums available for the construction, repair, and acquisition of public buildings for such purposes and one-twentieth of one percent of the sums available for the lease of buildings for such purposes. Requires appropriations for the cost of completion of a public building or the total cost of a lease before construction may commence or a lease be entered. Prohibits the Administrator and other officers and employees of the United States from constructing, purchasing, leasing, or acquiring any space for any departments or instrumentality of the United States in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area unless consideration has been given to the possibility of locating them outside such area. Requires the headquarters officers of each department and major executive establishment to be located in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require rates and charges for public buildings and buildings leased on behalf of the United States to be established annually at a level approximating commercial rates, but not less than the costs of providing space and services. Amends the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 to direct the Administrator, the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Defense, and the Postmaster General to inventory buildings within such officers' purview, within 60 days after the date of enactment and annually thereafter, in order to determine which of such buildings shall be subject to design, construction, and alteration in fiscal year 1983 and the estimated costs, whether or not the minimum guidelines and requirements established by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board are met. Declares that nothing in this Act shall affect the general authorities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Marine Artificial Reef Development Act of 1981 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Marine Fisheries Service, to make grants to certain States enumerated in the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to develop marine artificial reefs in the territorial waters and the fishery conservation zones of such States to enhance commercial and sport fishing. Requires each fishery management council established under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to establish a fishery management plan for each habitat established under this Act in the council's region. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Designates a post office building in Quincy, Massachusetts, as the James A. Burke Post Office.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
World War I Veterans Service Pension Act of 1981 - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any pension already paid) a monthly pension of $150: (1) to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements; (2) to the surviving spouse of each such veteran; or (3) when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to direct the Administrator of General Services to consult with local elected officials and the head of the Federal agency involved before locating or relocating an office of such agency. Requires the Administrator to give preference to distressed areas when locating or relocating a Federal agency office within a metropolitan area. Specifies factors to be considered by the Administrator in making such decision. Directs the Administrator, under specified circumstances, to submit a relocation report to certain Congressional committees. Prohibits the Administrator from carrying out such relocation for 30 days following the submission of such report.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Amends title VII (Equal Employment Opportunity) of the Civil Rights Act to 1964 to make it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against any individual who is physically or mentally handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the $2,000 credit for the purchase of a new residence will not be recaptured where the taxpayer replaces such residence with another principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a refundable income tax credit equal to one-third of the total cost during the taxable year of heating oil purchased by such individuals for use in a residence. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $400 for the taxable year. Reduces the amount of such credit by one percent of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $20,000. Provides for the termination of the credit for taxable years ending after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Requests the President to designate March, 1982, as "Youth Art Month."
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Requests the President to designate September 6, 1981, as "Working Mothers' Day."
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Administrative Rulemaking Reform Act - Directs a Federal agency preparing to hold a rulemaking session to make a reasonable effort to inform those likely to be affected by the proposed rulemaking. Requires the notice of rulemaking to include: (1) the projected effective date of the rules; (2) the purpose of the rulemaking; (3) the text of the proposed rules; and (4) the studies on which the agency intends to rely in the rulemaking proceedings. Requires public notice and public opportunity for comment on all rulemaking proceedings unless the agency finds that proposed rules are emergency rules or are of routine or insignificant impact. Requires Federal agencies to give interested persons at least 45 days to participate in the rulemaking. Provides for agency hearings to receive oral comments, and procedures to resolve significant controversies over factual issues. Requires each agency to maintain a public file of all relevant material and required statements for each rulemaking. Prohibits adoption of a proposed rule that has been revised substantially unless interested persons are provided an opportunity to comment on such revisions. Sets forth an expedited rulemaking procedure for rules to replace emergency rules. Directs each agency to submit a copy of each promulgated rule to each House of Congress. Declares that no rule, excluding an emergency rule, shall become effective if: (1) both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent resolution disapproving it within 90 days of continuous session of Congress; or (2) one House adopts such a resolution within 60 such days and the other House does not disapprove such resolution within 30 days thereafter. Authorizes either House to adopt a resolution directing an agency to reconsider and repromulgate a newly promulgated rule or an existing rule within a specified period. Provides that if such agency fails to act such rule shall lapse. Directs the Administrative Conference of the United States to study and report on the effects on rulemaking of the Congressional review provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Directs a court reviewing an agency rule to set aside any rule found to be unwarranted by material in the rulemaking file.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make construction-differential subsidies available to United States built or documented vessels for replacement or upgrading of such vessels' existing propulsion machinery in order to improve energy efficiency. Establishes guidelines for the approval of such subsidies. Sets forth procedures for the negotiation, acceptance, and payment of such subsidies by the Secretary. Requires replacement propulsion equipment to be of United States origin except under specified circumstances. Classifies such upgraded vessel as "new" or "reconstructed" for specified purposes of such Act. Reduces the age of such vessel by ten years for purposes of the obligation to replace it under any operating- differential subsidy and capital construction fund contract or program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that disability insurance benefits for an individual having a terminal illness shall begin with the first month during which such individual has such illness.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit married individuals filing separate income tax returns an election to be taxed at rates applicable to unmarried individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a nonrefundable income tax credit for 50 percent of the expenses paid or incurred to make alterations to their residences for the purpose of making such residences more accessible to, and usable by, a handicapped individual who is either the taxpayer, his spouse, or a dependent of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such credit, for each such handicapped individual, to the lesser of $1,000 or an amount which, when added to previous year's credits, does not exceed $5,000. Reduces the amount of such credit by one-half of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $20,000 ($35,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly). Defines "handicapped individual" as any individual who has a medically identifiable mental or physical impairment which can be expected to result in death or which can be expected to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months, and which severely limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual. Requires the handicapped individual to live in the principal residence for which the alterations are made for not less than a nine month period during the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Requests the President to designate the month of September, 1981, as "National Rehabilitation Month."
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Urges the President to extend for three years the orderly marketing agreements between the United States and Taiwan and between the United States and South Korea which limit the exportation from Taiwan and South Korea of nonrubber footwear to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Establishes within the National Institutes of Health the Office of Drugs of Limited Commercial Value under the direction of the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Establishes within the Office an advisory council to advise the Director and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services respecting the time required for drug approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Authorizes the Director to provide financial assistance to entities for the development of drugs of limited commercial value, defined as a drug for a condition or disease of low incidence, to undertake the development of such drugs, undertake studies to determine the potential and need for specific drugs, and coordinate the efforts of public and private entities engaged in the development of such drugs. Requires the submission and approval of an application containing the scientific basis for the development and the proposed therapeutic use of the drug and other specified information before financial assistance is provided. Requires each entity receiving funds to keep specified records. Requires the Director to report to Congress within two years on the effectiveness of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Educational Testing Act of 1981 - Requires each postsecondary education admissions testing agency to provide to a test subject information concerning: (1) the purposes of the test; (2) the subject matters and the areas of skill or knowledge being tested; (3) interpretation of test results; (4) various effects upon, and uses of, test scores; (5) the form in which the scores will be reported; (6) any promises made by a testing agency with regard to accuracy, forwarding, and privacy of information of such scores; (7) the property interest of a test subject in such scores, and their storage, disposal, or future use; (8) the time period for mailing such scores to a test subject and designated recipients; (9) special services to accommodate handicapped test subjects; and (10) notice of the information rights and review procedure available to a test subject. Requires a testing agency to notify a test subject and designated recipients if the scores will be delayed ten days or more. Requires a testing agency to provide the Secretary of Education with information concerning any study or statistical report pertaining to a test which it prepares or for which it provides data. Declares that such information shall be considered records for public information purposes. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding such information within one year of enactment of this Act. Requires a testing agency (with regard to any tests administered to 5,000 or more subjects nationally over a testing year) to file with the Secretary: (1) a copy of all test questions used in determining such test's raw score; (2) the corresponding correct answers; and (3) all rules for transferring raw scores into the scores as reported to a test subject and designated recipients. Declares that such information shall be considered records for public information purposes. Requires a testing agency, upon request, to send to a test subject: (1) a copy of the test questions used to determine the raw score; (2) such test subject's answer sheet, along with the corresponding correct answers; and (3) a statement of the raw score, if such request is made within 90 days of the release of the test score to the subject. Authorizes a fee to be charged to cover the costs of providing a test subject with such information. Prohibits test scores from being disclosed by a testing agency to any person, institution, or governmental agency unless specifically designated as a recipient by a test subject. Authorizes previous scores to be released to any currently designated recipient. Requires a testing agency to report specified cost-related information to the Secretary to ensure that such tests are being offered at a reasonable cost. Requires additional cost-related information to be submitted if a separate fee is charged for admissions data assembly or score reporting services (as defined by this Act). Provides a civil penalty of up to $2,000 for each violation of this Act by a test agency. Defines "standardized test" to mean a test affecting, or distributed through, interstate commerce (exclusive of one used by an individual institution for its own purposes or one used for non-admission or credit-examination purposes) and used for: (1) postsecondary admissions; or (2) preliminary separation for such postsecondary admissions tests.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Requests the President to designate the week beginning March 8, 1981, as "Women's History Week."
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Requests the President to designate the week of May 3 through May 10, 1981, as "Jewish Heritage Week."
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1981
Designates the "square dance" as the National folk dance of the United States.