United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983
Amends the Automobile Dealers Day in Court Act to prohibit a manufacturer from selling, leasing, or offering to sell or lease any passenger car, truck, or stationwagon to any person (or any other dealer) at a price lower than the price at which the same model is sold to its franchised dealers. Prohibits a manufacturer from imposing restrictions on some purchasers of automobiles, but not others. Requires that all rebates, discounts, refunds or other promotional inducement or benefit be provided to all ultimate purchasers of the same model of motor vehicle during the same period of time. Establishes an exception to the Act for the sale of automobiles to Federal, State or local governmental units. Applies this Act to importers of covered motor vehicles who import directly or through distributorships. Allows an automobile dealer to recover reasonable attorneys fees resulting from an action under this Act. Limits standing for a cause of action for termination of an agreement under this Act to dealers who comply with all reasonable provisions of the franchise agreement in question.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit farmers who participate in a Federal payment-in-kind program to elect to treat commodities they receive as income in the year of receipt or the year of sale. Permits farmers to elect a deferral of the income resulting from the cancellation of Commodity Credit Corporation loans. Provides that farmers participating in a payment-in-kind program do not forfeit eligibility for the special use valuation provisions for farm property.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for taking or attempting to take property by force, violence, or intimidation from either a pharmacy or a person registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration. 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 the commission of such offense. Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress on the enforcement of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Reverse Freedom of Information Procedure Act - Amends the Freedom of Information Act to require each Federal agency to promulgate regulations by which the agency notifies a person who has submitted information (submitter) of any request for its disclosure. Requires an agency to permit a submitter or requester to submit written arguments regarding a disclosure request. Prohibits an agency, upon deciding to honor a disclosure request, from disclosing the information for ten days after notifying any submitter who objected to such disclosure of such decision. Grants jurisdiction to the Federal district courts to enjoin an agency from disclosing information, upon complaint of any submitter. Directs the court, in an action in which the complainant seeks the withholding of records, to uphold the agency's determination unless it is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or not in accordance with law.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Social Security Alien and Foreign Resident Benefits Limitation Act of 1983 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or national and whose entitlement to title II benefits is based upon the wages and self-employment income of another individual residing in a foreign country shall not be entitled to such benefits until such other individual becomes a resident of the United States. Prohibits entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or national and whose entitlement is based on the wages and self-employment income of another individual unless: (1) such other individual is a U.S. citizen or national or is lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence or employment; or (2) such individual is a surviving spouse whose relationship existed at least one year before the wage earner's retirement. Makes the prohibitions under this Act inapplicable in any case where they would contravene a treaty obligation of the United States or an international social security agreement between the United States and another country.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Housing Finance Opportunity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit the continued issuance of tax-exempt (interest excluded from gross income) mortgage revenue bonds after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Amends Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require a defendant to give notice if he intends to introduce expert testimony which bears on the issue of whether he had the state of mind required for an offense charged. Amends the Federal criminal code to eliminate "insanity" as a defense to a prosecution under any Federal statute. Excludes from the definition of "mental disease or defect" an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or other anti-social conduct. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty solely by reason of inability, because of mental disease or defect, to have had the state of mind required as an element of the offense charged." Requires any person acquitted because of such mental disease or defect to be committed to the custody of the Attorney General if found by clear and convincing evidence to be presently suffering from mental disease or defect. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger to himself or the person or property of another. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish an Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to advise the Administrator or on the administration of benefits for and needs of women veterans. Directs Committee to report annually to the Administrator on the activities of the Veterans Administration pertaining to women, together with assessments of needs and recommendations for future action. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Federal Computer Systems Protection Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for using or attempting to use certain computers with intent to defraud, obtain property by false pretenses, embezzle, steal, or knowingly convert the property of another. Limits the kinds of computers covered by this Act to those operating in interstate commerce, or operating on behalf of the Federal Government or of a financial institution (where the prohibited conduct directly affects the computer operation). Specifies factors which Federal law enforcement officers must consider in determining whether to exercise jurisdiction over such offense, where concurrent jurisdiction exists with a State or local government. Directs the Attorney General to report annually to Congress on the extent of the exercise of such Federal jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to delay the effective date of provisions requiring the withholding of tax on interest and dividends until 1984. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to delay the application of such provisions for certain payors.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) provisions. Revises a State program design provision to include preschool migratory children as eligible participants in State programs for migratory, handicapped, and neglected and delinquent children. Directs the Secretary of Education to continue to use a specified definition of "currently migratory children." Revises provisions relating to local educational agency (LEA) application assurances. Exempts any LEA with a total enrollment of less than 1,000 children from specified "targeting" requirements for the use of funds to assist low-income educationally disadvantaged children. Grants LEAs discretion to make certain educational decisions which are consistent with achieving the purposes of Chapter 1. Allows LEAs to designate any school attendance area in which at least 25 percent of the children are from low-income families as an eligible school attendance area for any fiscal year if the amount of State and local funds for eligible areas does not decline. Allows LEAs to designate as eligible, and to serve, school attendance areas with substantially higher numbers or percentages of educationally deprived children before designating and serving areas with higher concentrations of children from low-income families, upon approval by State educational agencies (SEAs) and after a finding that the delivery of compensatory education service to low-income students will not be impaired. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for educationally deprived children in a school not located in an eligible school attendance area when the proportion of children from low-income families in average daily attendance in such school is substantially equal to the proportion of such children in an eligible school attendance area of the LEA. Permits continued designation, for an additional fiscal year, of any eligible school attendance area or eligible school which has been so designated in either of the two preceding years, even if the area or school does not otherwise qualify. Permits, with the approval of the SEA, the skipping of eligible areas or schools receiving similar services from non-Federal sources, with specified exceptions for purposes of determining services to private school children. Allows children who, in any previous year, were identified as being in greatest need of assistance, and who continue to be educationally deprived, but who are no longer identified as being in the greatest need of assistance, to participate in a program or project assisted under the Omnibus Education Reconciliation Act of 1981 for the current fiscal year. Permits continued participation in a Chapter 1 program by educationally deprived children who are transferred out of an eligible area or school during the same school year. Directs the Secretary of Education to issue regulations permitting LEAs to skip educationally deprived children in greatest need of assistance when providing services under ECIA if such children are receiving non-Federal services of the same nature and scope. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for projects designed to upgrade the entire educational program in that school, if at least 75 percent of the children attending are from low-income families. Permits assignment of school personnel who are paid entirely by Chapter 1 funds to limited, rotating, supervisory duties which are assigned to similarly situated personnel who are not paid with such funds. Requires that services for educationally deprived private school children comply with requirements that programs be conducted in LEA attendance areas with high concentrations of low-income children. Requires SEAs to use Chapter 1 funds only as a supplement to the non-Federal funds for the education of students participating in programs assisted under Chapter 1. Provides that exclusions of special State and local program funds from specified non-supplanting and comparability requirements include compensatory education for educationally deprived children which meets specified requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Provides that such exclusions from comparability requirements include: (1) bilingual education for children of limited English proficiency; (2) special education for handicapped children or children with specific learning disabilities; and (3) certain State phase-in programs described under ESEA. Provides that ECIA provisions relating to aid to LEAs which overlap county boundaries supersede specified ESEA provisions. Revises Chapter 2 (Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education) provisions of ECIA. Permits the use of specified carry-over funds to cover expenses for program phaseout and transition (from ESEA to Chapter 2 of ECIA). Sets, at one percent of sums appropriated for Chapter 2 in any one fiscal year, the amount which the Secretary of Education must reserve for payments to specified U.S. territories and possessions. Permits audits of LEAs receiving less than an average $5,000 each year under Chapter 2 to take place at five-year intervals. Permits an LEA to receive its allocation of Chapter 2 funds for any year for which its application to the SEA has been certified. Requires the SEA to certify any such application which meets the requirements of the Act. Provides that specified school level planning requirements apply only to programs under Subchapter A (Basic Skills Development) of Chapter 2. Revises Chapter 3 (General Provisions) of ECIA. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be deemed to authorize or prohibit an SEA from adopting requirements applicable to programs assisted under this Act which do not conflict with this Act or other applicable Federal law. Requires that State rules, policies, or data collection forms relating to programs funded under the Act be identified as State imposed requirements. Deletes a requirement that specified hearings relating to withholding of payments be "on the record," but requires that transcripts or recordings of such hearings be made and be available for inspection by any person. Provides, for purposes of judicial review, that an LEA shall be presumed to have complied with ECIA, unless the Secretary's findings of fact, supported by the weight of evidence, overcome such presumption. Provides that the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) shall apply to the programs authorized by ECIA, but that specified GEPA provisions shall be superseded by specified provisions of ECIA. Repeals GEPA provisions relating to the responsibility of States to furnish information. Amends title I (Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make technical and conforming amendments. Revises specified references in ESEA to conform with amendments made by ECIA. Makes such amendments applicable only to funds made available under ECIA. Makes a conforming amendment to ECIA relating to references to private schools. Amends the Omnibus Education Reconciliation Act of 1981 to make a technical correction. Amends Federal law relating to Federal impact aid payments to local educational agencies to extend such payments (at the FY 1983 level) through FY 1984 (phasing out such payments in FY 1985, instead of FY 1984). Allows recipients of funds under ECIA, during the period of July 1, 1982, through June 30, 1983, to expend such funds in accordance with ECIA as in effect either prior to or after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Coal Pipeline Act of 1983 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant or renew rights-of-way over, under, upon, or through any Federal lands for the construction, operation, maintenance, or extension of coal pipelines, if the person seeking the right-of-way has been issued a certification that it is in the national interest to construct, operate, and maintain the pipeline (or extend the pipeline). Prohibits granting a right-of-way over, under, upon, or through an historic site unless there is no feasible alternative and planning is made to minimize damage to the site. Requires a right-of-way granted or renewed under this Act to be granted or renewed in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. Prohibits the provisions of this act from affecting an existing or pending right-of-way except that if a certification has been made any renewal or extension may only be made pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations necessary to carry out this Act. Prohibits the United States or its agents from reserving, using, or claiming water in any State for a pipeline for which a certification has been issued unless such action takes place pursuant to State law. Authorizes acquisition of private lands by eminent domain if a certification has been issued, except with respect to historic sites or wildlife refuges. Requires the Secretary, if he or she determines that it is in the national interest, to approve an application for certification. Authorizes the Secretary to modify such application before its approval. Requires the Secretary in making such application determination to consider the extent to which a pipeline would: (1) help meet national needs; (2) enhance competition and provide new market outlets and opportunities; (3) contribute to national security; and (4) affect the environment. Directs the Secretary to notify the Attorney General of any pending application prior to making certification so as to permit the Attorney General to conduct an antitrust review. Requires every coal pipeline carrier issued a certification to provide service on reasonable request. Permits the use of eminent domain to acquire any portion of a right-of-way acquired under this Act if the use of such right-of-way is consistent with the operation and maintenance of the pipeline. Requires pipelines to be underground to the maximum extent possible. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing uniform Federal standards for the safe design, installation, inspection, and maintenance of coal pipeline facilities. Exempts facilities under construction. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of such regulations. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute a civil action for a restraining order or injunction to enforce any provision of this Act. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Agricultural Produce Bailment Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1983 - Amends the Bankruptcy Act to require bankruptcy courts to give priority to allowed unsecured claims of farmers arising from the sale or conversion of farm produce to or by a debtor who operates a farm produce storage facility. Specifies that such sale or conversion must have occurred within 180 days before the filing of the petition or before the cessation of the debtor's business, whichever occurs first. Limits the payment of any such claim to $2,000 per individual. Permits a bankruptcy court to expedite the procedures for determining interests in and the disposition of grain and proceeds held by debtors who own or operate grain storage facilities. Requires the court to expedite such procedures if requested by a trustee or a claimant. Sets forth factors for the court to consider before deciding whether to shorten the time periods for procedures. Lists the procedures which may be expedited. Specifies administrative details.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Urges the United States Postal Service to issue a postage stamp commemorating members of the uniformed services who have been prisoners of war or missing in action especially those missing as a result of the conflict in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U. S. citizen or national if such individual: (1) is not a permanent resident of the United States; or (2) is outside the United States. Prohibits the payment of title II benefits to any dependent or survivor of such an individual on the basis of such individual's wages and self-employment income. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the benefit involved is payable to such an individual as the dependent or survivor of: (1) a U. S. citizen or national; (2) a permanent resident of the United States; or (3) a U. S. citizen or national residing outside the United States if the relationship required for such individual's entitlement already existed at the time such national or citizen reached age 50. Authorizes the payment of title II benefits to an individual who is not entitled to benefits pursuant to this Act until the total amount of such benefits equals the total amount of any taxes paid on the wages and self-employment income on which the benefits are based.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Construction Work in Progress Policy Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve, upon application by a public utility, the inclusion of the costs of construction work in progress (defined as construction of a facility used to generate electric energy) in the rate base of such public utility with respect to: (1) any pollution control facility; and (2) the conversion of oil or natural gas-fired facilities to the use of other fuels. Requires the Commission to hold an evidentiary hearing upon application by a public utility for approval of such a rate increase. Sets forth the items required in any such application. Requires the Commission to approve the rate increase applied for or to order a lesser rate increase if, after the hearing, the Commission finds that: (1) the utility will be in severe financial difficulty unless construction work in progress costs are included in the rate base; (2) the facility being constructed is reasonably necessary to meet energy demands; (3) any mismanagement involved will not affect the utility's future financial situation; (4) the long-term benefits justify short-run rate increases in the case of customers purchasing electric energy for resale; (5) such wholesale customers have been offered an ownership interest in the facility under construction; (6) the rate increase will not unreasonably impair the ability of wholesale customers to sell electric energy to their retail customers at the least cost; and (7) the applicant utility will discontinue the capitalization of allowance for funds used during construction for those construction work in progress costs included in the rate base. Provides that no rate increase approved or ordered under this Act may: (1) be charged for electric energy sold before the date of such approval or order; (2) exceed the amount needed to alleviate the utility's financial difficulties; (3) have an anticompetitive effect; (4) be applied to any customer who holds an ownership interest in the facility being constructed (with limited exceptions); or (5) be unduly discriminatory or preferential or exceed a just and reasonable amount.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Designates the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, in Maryland, as the Gladys Noon Spellman Parkway. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to erect adjacent to such parkway an appropriate marker commemorating the contributions of Gladys Noon Spellman. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide scholarships of up to $6,000 per school year to medical students who agree to practice for a specified length of time at a Veterans Administration (VA) facility upon completion of their professional training. Provides the United States with a right to recover expenses against an individual who fails to meet such VA service condition. Provides that certain qualified veterans and dependents of veterans shall have priority with regard to such scholarships. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982
Amends the Small Business Act to define "small agricultural cooperative", for purposes of eligibility for disaster loans under such Act, as an association: (1) acting pursuant to the Agriculture Marketing Act; (2) whose receipts do not exceed the size standard established for other agricultural small business concerns; and (3) whose board members or governing members each qualify as a small business concern.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Amends the Diplomatic Relations Act to declare that no law shall be construed to provide the families of foreign diplomats immunity from prosecution for violent crimes.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1982
Missing Children Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to collect and exchange information which would assist in the identification of unidentified deceased individuals and the location of missing persons, including missing children.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982
National Archives and Records Administration Act of 1982 - Establishes the National Archives and Records Administration as an independent establishment in the executive branch. Requires the Administration to be directed by the Archivist of the United States who shall be appointed by the President for a ten-year term. Sets forth the administrative duties and authority of the Archivist. Directs the Archivist to appoint a Deputy Archivist. Requires the Archivist to submit to Congress an annual report concerning the administration of functions of the Archivist and the Administration. Transfers to the Administration and the Archivist the functions, duties, and authority of the General Services Administration (GSA) and its Administrator, respectively, concerning: (1) congressional printing and binding; (2) the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; (3) the distribution and sale of public documents; (4) archival administration; (5) presidential records; (6) the National Archives Trust Fund Board; (7) the National Historical Publications Commission; (8) records management; and (9) the disposal of records. Transfers to the Archivist all functions of the person holding the office of Archivist of the United States before enactment of this Act. Transfers the National Archives and Records Service (presently within GSA) to the Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Farm Crisis Act of 1982 - Title I: Paid Diversion and Conservation Program for 1983 Crop of Wheat and Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish 1983 wheat price support levels at not less than $3.80 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop. Requires wheat producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Bases 1983 through 1985 wheat and feed grain acreage bases upon the respective 1982 bases adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices and other factors as the Secretary of Agriculture determines. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to 1983 wheat and feed grain crop producers who participate in the acreage limitation or set-aside program. Sets 1983 corn support levels (upon which feed grain levels are based) at not less than $2.71 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 corn crop will exceed a specified number of bushels. Title II: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to guarantee grain storage facility loans to growers for up to 90 percent of each loan, and an aggregate annual amount of not more than $250,000,000 of principle and interest. Title III: Barter of Wheat, Feed Grains, Upland Cotton, and Rice for Strategic and Critical Materials and Petroleum Products - Requires (currently authorizes) the CCC to barter wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice for strategic and critical materials from abroad. Bases reimbursement upon the Administrator of General Services' estimate rather than the Secretary of the Treasury's. Requires the CCC to barter such commodities for petroleum products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when U.S. stocks fall below specified levels. Requires with regard to such petroleum products that the CCC: (1) transfer them to the Reserve without reimbursement; and (2) use normal trade channels to make the exchanges. Title IV: Emergency Agricultural Credit - Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to make the emergency agricultural credit program mandatory. Reduces personal outstanding debt limits on: (1) loans under such Act from $400,000 to $200,000; and (2) loans under such Act and under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act from $650,000 to $450,000. Extends new loan authority through FY 1983. Title V: Agricultural Exports - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) for FY 1983, at least $1,000,000,000 be appropriated for the agricultural export credit revolving fund under the Food For Peace Act of 1966; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture should initiate negotiations with the Soviet Union for a multiyear grain sale agreement. Title VI: White House Conference on Agriculture - Requests the President to convene a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Requires a report to the President and the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1983 wheat support levels at not less than $3.80 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop. Requires wheat producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Bases 1983 through 1985 wheat and feed grain acreage bases upon the 1982 base adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices and other factors as the Secretary of Agriculture determines. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to 1983 wheat and feed grain crop producers who participate in the acreage limitation or set-aside program. Sets 1983 corn support levels (upon which feed grain levels are based) at not less than $2.71 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 corn crop will exceed a specified number of bushels.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Permits employee benefit plans, as defined under this Act, to engage in any qualified mortgage transaction involving any qualified residential mortgage loan, provided transactions between all parties are at arm's length. Permits such plans to participate in any mortgage pool, provided such pool conforms to specified requirements with regard to permitted investments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any and all contrary provisions of State law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits the imposition of Federal excise tax on a plan or pool that engages in a transaction described under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exempt any hospital which is located outside of a standard metropolitan statistical area and which has less than 100 acute care beds from certain reasonable cost limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982
National Commission on Neurofibromatosis Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a National Commission on Neurofibromatosis within 60 days. Sets forth operating and related provisions. Authorizes the Commission to transmit interim reports. Requires: (1) a final report to the President and to each House of Congress within one year; and (2) the Secretary to file a final report and a budget analysis for neurofibromatosis research with the appropriate congressional committees within 15 days after the President submits his budget to Congress. Terminates the Commission three months after submission of the final report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration should establish guidelines which will assure that Federal agencies will consider the needs of rural areas in connection with establishing policies which affect the financial requirements of rural telephone service; and (2) the Federal agencies should comply with such guidelines and should consult with the Administrator and certain State agencies when granting loans, prescribing rules, and establishing policies which affect the financial requirements of rural telephone service.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia, or its environs, in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean war. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commisson of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the International Olympic Committee should officially recognize Jim Thorpe's achievements in the 1912 Olympics. Declares that the Committee should be asked to present Thorpe's medals and awards during the 1984 Olympics.