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United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates September 19 through September 25, 1982, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Secretary of the Interior should refrain from issuing mineral leases in wilderness areas and lands under formal consideration for wilderness designation; (2) any Federal official who proposes to issue a mineral lease in such an area should provide prior notice to Congress in order to allow congressional prohibition of such lease; (3) additions to the Wilderness System should proceed expeditiously but without arbitrary deadlines; (4) lands under formal consideration for wilderness designation should be managed to preserve their wilderness character; and (5) Federal land management agencies should consider wilderness values in making land management decisions and recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should acclaim and support the demonstration of the people of El Salvador in favor of democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) an effective Federal environmental program is necessary to protect U.S. citizens' health and well-being; (2) the Environmental Protection Agency should be appropriated increased funds to protect our environment and meet expanded responsibilities mandated by law; and (3) the President should submit a new budget for the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1983 reflecting these principles.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends the International Communication Authorization Act, fiscal years 1982 and 1983, to authorize additional appropriations for FY 1983 for the International Communication Agency (ICA). Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to allow the fees received by the ICA in connection with its English-teaching programs to be credited to the ICA's applicable appropriation. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to allow Inter-American Foundation grantees to keep the interest earned on investments of grant funds if the interest is used for the purposes for which the grant was made.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Enterprise Zone Tax Act of 1982 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this Act. Specifies that State and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits the designation of enterprise zones to 25 nominated areas per year. Limits the period during which such designation shall remain in effect. Specifies that the Secretary may designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000 if any portion thereof is located within a standard metropolitan statistical area (with a population of at least 50,000) or 2,500 otherwise, or is within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, or receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to designate enterprise zones on December 31, 1985. Describes areas to which preference shall be given in deciding to designate enterprise zones. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this Act be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that designation of an enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A - Credits for Employers and Employees - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a nonrefundable income tax credit for ten percent of the increase in payroll for all employees, taking into account a maximum of $15,000 in wages per employee. Allows such credit only for wages paid to employees who perform 90 percent of their services in work directly related to the conduct of the taxpayers' business located in the enterprise zone and who perform 50 percent of their services within such zone. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit for employers equal to 50 percent of the wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first three years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit by ten percent a year beginning in the fourth year after such designation. Requires a recapture of such credit for the early termination of such employees. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages or salaries subject to such credit. Requires employers to furnish to each employee a written statement showing the amount of wages paid to such employee. Provides an income tax credit for enterprise zone employees equal to five percent of the first $9,000 of wages received each year. Phases out such credit in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for certain tangible property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property and ten percent for new zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be predominantly used in the zone, be purchased after zone designation, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Reduction in Capital Gain Tax Rates - Eliminates the capital gains tax on property of corporations acquired after the enterprise zone designation and used in a zone business. Qualifies certain low-income rental housing located in an enterprise zone for such treatment. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Expresses the sense of Congress that if the minimum tax is modified, enterprise zone capital gain will be excluded in computing minimum taxable income. Subtitle D: Extension of Carryover Periods - Extends the net operating loss and investment tax credit carryover period to the longer of 15 years or the duration of the enterprise zone designation for businesses operating in such zones. Subtitle E: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that rules relating to small issue tax-exempt industrial development bonds now in effect shall apply to bonds used to finance land or other depreciable property located in an enterprise zone, even if such rules are subsequently changed. Subtitle F: Sense of the Congress With Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions, to include qualified businesses (as defined in Title II of this Act), designating governments, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by designating governments, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuation of the rule unchanged. Disallows the waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of a rule shall remain in effect as long as the zone designations. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to and expedite applications for the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that to the maximum extent practicable foreign-trade zones should be established within enterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families to conduct a comprehensive study on their problems and to develop policies to coordinate governmental and private programs to address such problems. Provides that the committee shall not have legislative jurisdiction and shall terminate at the close of the Ninety-ninth Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) graduate and professional students should remain eligible for guaranteed student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965; (2) Congress should provide Pell grant assistance for academic year 1982 through 1983 that fully funds the need analysis criteria of January 6, 1982, in order to provide assistance to 2,600,000 needy students; and (3) Congress should not further reduce the amount of funds available for campus-based student assistance programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 below the levels established by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Declares that the House of Representatives supports Solidarity Sunday.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Requests the President to designate April 25 through May 2, 1982, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
Authorizes the President to designate April 4, 1982, as the National Day of Reflection. Notes that such date coincides with the 80th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, head of the Lubavitch movement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
Declares that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union: (1) a long-term, mutual, and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced levels of forces; and (2) practical measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear war and to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should channel their resources away from nuclear armaments and towards fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. Declares that the United States should continue to work for balanced arms reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
States that the Federal Government should restore balance to the Department of Energy's FY 1983 budget by maintaining funding for energy conservation, renewable energy, and weatherization programs and by distributing information on conservation and renewable energy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) seek substantial reductions in strategic nuclear arms; (2) begin the strategic arms reduction talks as soon as possible; and (3) continue its efforts to obtain Soviet agreement to the mutual elimination of longer range, land-based, intermediate- range nuclear missiles.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Health Care Delivery Systems Administration (Administration). Delegates to the Administration functions currently performed by specified units of the Health Services Administration and the Health Resources Administration. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Administration a Bureau for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Health Education. Transfers to such Bureau functions of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Center for Health Promotion and Education, the Office of Smoking and Health, and the Center for Environmental Health. Directs the Secretary to establish within the National Institutes of Health a National Institute of Health Statistics and Systems Research. Transfers to such Institute functions of the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Health Services Research. Directs the Secretary to transfer the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health a Center for State Services to be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for State Services. Transfers to such Office functions of specified units of the Center for Disease Control. Directs the Secretary to transfer to the Food and Drug Administration the functions of the Center for Disease Control's laboratory improvement program. Directs the Secretary to delegate specified international health functions to the Assistant Secretary for International Health.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Duty-Free Treatment - Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for all eligible articles from Caribbean countries the President designates as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from terminating a country's beneficiary designation unless both Houses of Congress are notified 60 days before the termination. Requires the President to consider only specified countries and territories as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from designating as a beneficiary country any country that: (1) is a Communist country; (2) has nationalized or seized control, or effectively nationalized or seized control, of U.S. property, unless the President determines that a good faith effort is being made to compensate for such seizure; (3) fails to act in good faith in recognizing as binding or in enforcing arbitral awards in favor of U.S. citizens or corporations; or (4) grants preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States which may have a significant adverse effect on U.S. commerce, unless the President reports to Congress that certain assurances have been made. Permits the President to designate as a beneficiary country a Communist country, an expropriating country or a country that fails to act in good faith with respect to an arbitral award if the President determines and reports to Congress that such designation will be in the national interest. Lists factors the President should consider in determining whether to grant beneficiary designation. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to grant to imports from U.S. insular possessions, subject to specified provisions of this Act, duty treatment no less favorable than the treatment afforded such imports from a beneficiary country. Directs the President to withdraw or suspend a country's beneficiary designation, if the President determines that changed circumstances in such country would prohibit such designation under the guidelines in this title. Requires duty-free treatment to apply to any article imported from a beneficiary country, unless otherwise excluded from eligibility, if: (1) the article is imported directly from such country into U.S. customs territory; and (2) the sum of specified costs of the article is not less than 25 percent of its appraised value at the time of its entry. Prohibits this duty-free treatment from applying to textile and apparel articles covered by textile agreements. Sets forth the manner of governing the importation and duty-free treatment of certain sugars, sirups, and molasses. Authorizes the President to suspend the duty-free treatment provided by this title and to proclaim a duty for an eligible article if such action is taken pursuant to certain import relief or national security provisions. Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC) in any report on a petition for import relief under the Trade Act of 1974 to state how its findings and recommendations apply to any duty-free article imported from beneficiary countries. Authorizes the President to reduce or end the application of import relief measures with respect to articles imported from beneficiary countries earlier than otherwise scheduled. Provides that suspension of duty-free treatment provided by this title shall be treated as an increase in duty for purposes of the import relief section of the Trade Act of 1974. Prohibits such a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC finds that the harm caused by the imports results from its duty-free treatment by this title. Authorizes the filing of petitions for import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as with the ITC, for injury from imports of perishable products from beneficiary countries. Directs the Secretary to recommend the granting or denying of such petition within 14 days of its filing. Requires the President to take emergency action or to publish a notice of determination not to take emergency action within seven days of receiving the Secretary's recommendation. Sets forth the limits on the duration of the emergency action. Defines perishable products to include certain fresh or chilled vegetables, fresh mushrooms, fresh fruit, and fresh cut flowers. Exempts from proclamations under this title certain fees imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase to five liters (currently, four liters) the amount of duty-free liquor that may be brought into the United States. Requires that not more than four liters, of such five liter limit, may have been produced outside American Samoa, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorizes the President to withdraw duty-free treatment on rum if the amount of excise taxes on rum that is paid into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands falls below the amount that would have been paid if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to repeal the provision for protecting U.S. possessions against revenue losses caused by concessions granted by the United States in the Tokyo Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Prohibits any action under this title from affecting a tariff imposed by Puerto Rico on coffee imported into Puerto Rico. Limits the duration of duty-free treatment under this Act to 12 years. Title II: Emergency Economic Assistance - Authorizes FY 1982 appropriations for economic support funds for countries in the Caribbean Basin. Title III: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require excise taxes on rum imported into the United States to be paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Limits the amount paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the amount those possessions would have received if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands and transported to the United States. Provides an investment tax credit for investments in Caribbean Basin property placed in service within five years after enactment. Defines Caribbean Basin property as new investment credit property used predominantly in a country that is: (1) a beneficiary country, as defined under this Act; and (2) a party to a bilateral agreement providing for exchange of information between the United States and the beneficiary country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to conclude an agreement with a beneficiary country to provide information to carry out the tax laws of the United States and the beneficiary country. Prohibits allowing an investment tax credit to foreign corporations for Caribbean Basin property. Allows an investment tax credit to a U.S. shareholder of a foreign corporation that invests in Caribbean Basin property if the shareholder holds five percent of the foreign corporation's stock. Requires recapture of the investment credit if, during any taxable year, the Caribbean Basin property is used predominantly outside a qualifying country or the United States. Extends an investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction to property owned or used by U.S. corporations or citizens engaged in trade or business in Puerto Rico or other U.S. possessions. (Current law excludes such corporations and citizens from obtaining such credit and deduction.) Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction available to corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession. Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and the accelerated cost recovery deduction available to the corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands. Excludes from the definition of qualified leased property for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery deduction Caribbean Basin property and property in Puerto Rico or U.S. possessions owned by certain U.S. corporations or citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Congressional Salary Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to make any recommendations of the President relating to the salaries of Members of Congress, Delegates to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico purely advisory. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require that the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress, Delegates to the House of Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and the Senate and House leadership be the rate payable for such positions on the date of enactment of this Act unless otherwise established by law. Prohibits any law increasing such rates of pay from taking effect before the first day of the Congress following the Congress during which such law is enacted. Provides that any legislation increasing such rates of pay may be adopted only by a record vote in each House.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Requests the President to designate August 14, 1982, as National Navajo Code Talkers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Amends rule VIII of the House of Representatives to require a recorded vote on final passage of legislation that adjusts the pay of Members, affects limitations on outside earned income, or provides tax credits or deductions for Members as a separate or distinct class. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill, resolution, or conference report subject to such amended rule unless it takes effect at the beginning of the subsequent Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should begin the strategic arms reduction talks (START) with the following objectives: (1) preserving present controls on current nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems while pursuing substantial, equitable, and verifiable reductions; (2) seeking methods of avoiding the testing and deployment of destabilizing nuclear weapons; and (3) incorporating the ongoing negotiations on land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles into the START negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Expresses the concern of the House of Representatives over the well-being of Yuri Fiodorov and Alexsei Murzhenko. Calls upon the Soviet Union to release them and to permit them to emigrate.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Designates April 28, 1982, as National Nursing Home Residents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Declares that the House of Representatives deplores the denial of the rights of Hungarians and people of other nationalities in Transylvania by the Romanian Government. Requests the President and the Secretary of State to discuss the human rights of the Hungarians in Transylvania with the Government of Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Acknowledges Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America for its achievements and recognizes its volunteers for their service to children.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Declares that if Israel or any other democratic state is denied its rights and privileges in the United Nations General Assembly the United States will suspend its participation in the General Assembly and will withhold its contribution to the United Nations until the action is reversed.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Directs the President to designate April 12, 1982, as American Salute to Cabanataun Prisoner of War Memorial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Designates the week of April 18, 1982, as National Architecture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Senior Citizens Environmental Employment Act of 1982 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop opportunities for senior citizens to participate in programs designed to assist Federal, State, and local environmental agencies in carrying out pollution control programs. Requires that such programs: (1) be designed in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator of the Administration on Aging; and (2) ensure that program participants meet participant eligibility requirements under the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981 and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Allows such program to include (but does not limit it to) projects such as: (1) air monitoring and emission testing; (2) pesticides inventory and control; (3) water quality or supply sampling and monitoring; (4) technical libraries and public information; (5) carcinogenic survey and followup; (6) hazardous materials routing survey; (7) rural health screening and migrant workers; and (8) noise abatement and control. Directs the Administrator of the EPA to report to the Congress within 180 days of enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator of EPA to: (1) commence negotiations within 30 days of enactment with the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator of the Administration on Aging to develop rules and regulations for establishment of the Corps; and (2) consult with affected and interested representatives of national aging organizations and State and local environmental agencies. Authorizes the Administrator of the EPA to: (1) enter into agreements with public and private institutions and individuals for an effective system of using senior citizens eligible for participation in environmentally related programs under the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981 and CETA; (2) make grants or cooperative agreements to carry out this Act; (3) maintain Corps enrollees within the EPA and with State and local environmental agencies; and (4) train Corps enrolles. Prohibits funding under this Act for any State or local environmental agency for employment of an enrollee which would: (1) displace current agency employees, partially or totally; (2) occur while any other person is in a layoff status from a substantially equivalent job with the agency; or (3) impair existing contracts for services. Authorizes appropriations in FY 1982 through FY 1985 to the Administrator of the EPA to carry out the administrative provisions of this Act. Declares that environmentally related programs described under this Act are fully eligible for funding made available through the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981 and CETA.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Lech Walesa and others detained by Poland's government for political reasons should be released. Declares that Walesa and other Solidarity members should be permitted to: (1) participate in negotiations concerning the future of Solidarity; (2) comment on the situation in Poland; and (3) travel freely.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Occupational Health Hazards Compensation Act of 1982 - Establishes a workers' compensation system for occupational diseases related to exposure to asbestos or uranium ore. Provides for compulsory coverage of all employers and employees under this Act. Provides for compensation for death or for permanent total or permanent partial disability. Sets monetary benefits payable for death or total disability at two-thirds of the employee's average weekly wage over a specified period. Limits the amount of such weekly payments to: (1) no more than twice the national average weekly wage; and (2) no less than half the national average or the employee's actual average weekly wage, whichever is less. Sets forth provisions for survivors' benefits. Sets monetary benefits for payable partial disability at two-thirds the difference between pre- and post- disability earnings. Provides for redeterminations of benefits based on changes in degree of disability. Provides for medical benefits covering all reasonable and necessary expenses for treatment of such diseases. Provides for annual adjustments of maximum benefit limits to reflect increases in the national average weekly wage, but limits such adjustments to no more than a six percent increase in any one year. Provides that employee or survivors' monetary benefits under this Act shall be considered income for purposes of disability and retirement benefits computation under the Social Security Act. Provides that, in cases of medicare beneficiaries, medical benefits under this Act shall be the primary means of payment of medical expenses resulting from the occupational disability. Provides that there shall be no maximum limitation on the total amount of monetary or medical benefits payable under this Act. Makes ineffective any compromise or release of monetary or medical benefits unless approved by the Secretary of Labor ("the Secretary") as in the best interest of the claimant and sufficient for future medical care. Makes ineffective any waiver or release relating to future coverage or compensation under State workers' compensation laws or under this Act which is executed prior to death or onset of disability resulting from exposure to asbestos or uranium ore. Provides that a claimant is eligible for compensation if: (1) the employee was exposed to asbestos or uranium ore in the course of employment; (2) the employee is or was permanently disabled, or died, because of a disease associated with such exposure and arising out of and in the course of employment; and (3) an award of compensation for such disability or death has not been made under a State law or the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act ("Longshore Act"). Provides that, for claims based on exposure to asbestos in the course of employment: (1) mesothelioma of the pleura or peritoneum, asbestiosis, and lung cancer evidencing asbestiotic changes shall be irrebutably presumed to have resulted from such exposure; (2) lung cancer without radiological or histological evidence of asbestotic changes shall be presumed to have resulted from such exposure; and (3) any other causes of disability or death must be determined to have been significantly and substantially contributed to by such exposure. Provides that, for claims based on exposure to urainum ore in the course of employment: (1) lung cancer shall be rebuttably presumed to have resulted from such exposure, if the employee was engaged in mining or processing uranium ore for at least two years; and (2) any other causes of disability or death must be determined to have been significantly and substantially contributed to by such exposure. Sets forth procedures for making claims. Requires that a notice be given to the employer and the Office of Workmens' Compensation Programs in the Department of Labor within one year after the date of onset of disability or the death, with specified exceptions. Requires that claims be filed with the Office within two years after such date, with specified exceptions. Declares that there is no limitation on filing of claims based on length of time since the employee was last employed or last exposed to asbestos or uranium ore. Sets forth procedures for adjudication of claims. Directs the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs to ascertain whether the employer named in the claim notice is a responsible employer. Directs the Office, upon determination that no employer is a responsible employer, to: (1) notify the State insurance commissioner of the State where the employer named in the claim notice resides or has a principal place of business; and (2) upon determination of the claimant's eligibility, assign responsibility to the appropriate compensation excess liability fund in such State. Requires that the State insurance commissioner be given opportunity for a hearing to present evidence on any determination that there is no responsible employer. Directs the Office to order hearings by an administrative law judge on any claim investigation upon application of the claimant, the responsible employer, or the responsible employer's insurance carrier, before issuing an order awarding or denying compensation. Provides for appeals of Office awards or denials of compensation to the Benefits Review Board established under the Longshore Act (which provides for review of Board orders by U.S. courts of appeals). Makes compensation under this Act the exclusive remedy for asbestos or uranium ore claimants against the employer, the employer's insurance carrier, and any collective-bargaining agent of the employer's employees (and any employee, officer, director, or agent of such parties). Provides that, for asbestos liability actions brought against any third party, other than the above parties, prior to the effective date of this Act, any recovery in such actions after the effective date of this Act shall be reduced by the amount of the compensation awarded and the present value of all future compensation payable under this Act. Prohibits: (1) employer or employer insurance carrier liens upon judgments in such actions; and (2) monetary damage suits brought by liable third parties against immune parties. Provides that, after the effective date of this Act, compensation under this Act will be the exclusive remedy of asbestos claimants not only against the parties previously described but also against any manufacturer or importer of asbestos or products containing asbestos (if such manufacturers or importers participate in the Asbestos Compensation Excess Fund). Makes every employer responsible for payment of compensation which may be payable under this Act. Requires each employer to secure such payment by: (1) insuring such payment with an insurer who is authorized by State and Federal law and by the Secretary of Labor; or (2) furnishing proof of its ability to pay such compensation directly and being authorized to do so by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) set specified conditions for employer self-insurers; and (2) suspend or revoke qualified carrier authorizations for good cause shown after a hearing. Requires employers to post notices relating to such secured compensation. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations requiring employers' carriers to discharge employer duties and obligations. Sets forth requirements for insurance contracts or policies issued under authority of this Act. Sets civil penalties for employers who have not secured compensation payment. Sets forth provisions for assignment of liability for payment. Assigns asbestos compensation payment liability to: (1) the employer who last employed the employee, unless such employer can prove that it did not expose the employee for two years or more or that the exposure was only casual and sporadic; or (2) (if the last employer sustains such burden of proof) the Asbestos Compensation Excess Liability Fund. Assigns uranium ore compensation payment liability to: (1) the last employer, unless it can prove that it did not employ the employee in uranium ore mining or processing, that it did not expose the employee for two years or more, or that the exposure was casual and sporadic; or (2) (if the last employer sustains such burden of proof) the Uranium Ore Compensation Excess Liability Fund. Establishes the Asbestos Compensation Excess Liability Fund ("Asbestos Fund") and the Uranium Ore Compensation Excess Liability Fund ("Uranium Ore Fund") to pay all compensation benefits awarded where no employer responsible for such benefits has been identified or determined under this Act. Directs the Secretary to determine yearly amounts of contributions to be made to both Funds and to make State allocations in consultation with the State insurance commissioners. Directs the Secretary to provide for the collection of contributions to the Asbestos Fund as follows: (1) 50 percent from manufacturers and importers of asbestos and of products of which asbestos is a significant constituent element; (2) 30 percent from manufacturers and importers of products containing asbestos but not as a significant constituent element; and (3) 20 percent from employers who expose employees to asbestos in the course of employment. Provides that no manufacturer or importer of asbestos or products containing asbestos shall enjoy the limitations of third party liability under this Act: (1) for any period during which it has not paid a due contribution to the Fund; or (2) if it does not participate in the Fund. Bases manufacturers' and importers' contributions on their sales of asbestos and asbestos-containing products during the previous 15 years or, if the Secretary determines that this does not reflect overall market share, during any 15-year period since January 1, 1940. Directs the Secretary to hold the sums collected for the Asbestos Fund and disburse to the State insurance commissioners, for deposit in the Asbestos Fund established in each State, such sums as may be necessary to meet the anticipated obligations of each State Asbestos fund. Requires that such deposits be in accordance with the yearly allocation formula, but authorizes the Secretary to change the ratio of deposits among the states to meet the actual needs of each State Asbestos Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to bring civil actions and to assess civil penalties against manufacturers or importers who fail or refuse to pay assessed contributions to the Asbestos Fund. Makes successor operators of entities acquired on or after January 1, 1940, liable for Asbestos Fund contributions which would have been payable by prior operators. Treats successor or parent corporations as responsible for Asbestos Fund contributions when manufacturers or importers cease to exist for specified reasons. Directs the State insurance commissioners to collect employers' contributions to the Asbestos Fund as: (1) a surcharge on such employers' workers' compensation insurance, in amounts appropriate for the size and category of the employer's enterprise; and (2) an equivalent fraction of the applicable payroll of self-insured employers. Requires, if Asbestos Fund or Uranium Ore Fund assessments or collections in any year are in excess of liabilities, that contributions for the following year be adjusted to reflect the claims experience during the previous year and that assessment reductions be allocated among contributors. Directs State insurance commissioners to collect contributions to the Uranium Ore Fund from employers who expose employees to uranium ore in the course of employment as: (1) a surcharge on the employers' workers' compensation insurance, in amounts appropriate to the size and category of the employer's enterprise; and (2) as an equivalent fraction of the applicable payroll of self-insured employers. Requires that such contributions be separately aggregated in each State to meet Uranium Ore Fund obligations in each State. Requires that surcharges be added to each contribution to the Asbestos Fund and the Uranium Ore Fund in amounts equal to: (1) ten percent of each contribution, for Federal administrative costs under this Act (with reduction of this surcharge if collections exceed such costs); and (2) one percent of each contribution, for surveillance and medical treatment research of occupationally related diseases. Requires that compensation under this Act be paid: (1) in accordance with State workers' compensation benefit schedules; (2) promptly and directly to the entitled person, without an award, except where liability is controverted by the employer; and (3) in cases of employer controversion, upon issuance of a final compensation order. Requires the employer or employer's insurance carrier to: (1) give specified types of notice upon first payment or upon suspension of payment; and (2) file annual reports detailing monetary and medical benefits paid. Sets civil penalties for failure to file such notices. Directs the Office to: (1) investigate any suspension of payments; and (2) in cases of improper suspension, order the employer to recommence payment and pay all suspended payments plus 20 percent annual interest. Provides for appeals of orders with respect to suspended payments. Provides for 20 percent additional compensation in cases of late payments. Sets forth provisions for representation and witness fees in compensation payment disputes, to be paid by the employer or the employer's insurance carrier to the claimant's representative. Sets criminal penalties for: (1) receiving any unapproved consideration or gratuity for representative services; or (2) soliciting employment as a representative in such disputes. Sets forth prohibitions and civil penalties against discrimination by any employer, insurance carrier, or other person against any employee because such employee: (1) filed a disability notice or compensation claim under this Act; (2) caused any proceeding under or related to this Act to be instituted or brought a damage suit for occcupational exposure to asbestos or uranium ore; (3) is disabled by such exposure; or (4) was previously employed in the asbestos industry or the uranium mining or milling industry or in any course of employment where there was or may have been exposure to asbestos or uranium ore. Directs the Secretary to investigate allegations by employees of employer discrimination. Provides, at the request of any party, for public hearings before an administrative law judge to present information relating to alleged violations. Directs the Secretary to make findings of fact and to issue appropriate orders. Requires that any employee so discriminated against be restored to employment and be compensated for lost wages and fringe benefits. Makes the employer alone and not the carrier responsible for such penalties and payments. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination with the Secretary, to conduct research into improved means of: (1) surveillance of workers exposed to occupational health hazards; and (2) medical treatment of workers exposed to occupational hazards. Requires that such research and surveillance programs be conducted with funds available under the surcharge established in this Act. Establishes the Occupational Disease Surveillance and Medical Treatment Research Advisory Committees. Requires the Committee to report annually to the Congress, to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) review current medical and scientific studies and reports concerning the incidences of disease associated with employment; (2) report annually to the Secretary on such current research; and (3) upon finding disease incidence 30 percent more than that of the population at large among workers exposed to given toxic substances or physical agents or among a group of workers, recommend that the Secretary prepare legislation for submission to Congress to appropriately amend this Act to cover such diseases and groups of workers. Directs the Secretary, upon receipt of such report, to prepare: (1) an annual report to the Congress describing medical and scientific data on incidences of diseases associated with employment in the United States and the compensation of workers disabled by such diseases; and (2) legislative recommendations to the Congress in accordance and consistent with the recommendations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, including eligibility criteria recommendations. Requires the appropriate committees of the Congress, to which such report is referred, to explain to their respective Houses if they have not reported legislation amending this Act within 90 days after such referral or report. Sets forth separability and effective date provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982
Requests the President to designate the month of February 1983 as "American History Month."
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Title I: Equal Opportunity Provisions - Establishes uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights laws, including title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and numerous other discrimination laws and provisions. Continues to authorize individual Federal agencies to investigate, attempt to resolve, and monitor compliance with regard to discrimination complaints, but otherwise centralizes enforcement authority in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Attorney General. Permits an individual to bring a civil action directly in Federal court for an alleged act of discrimination. Requires an investigative agency to seek to develop a voluntary compliance agreement by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions in court for patterns or practices of unlawful discrimination. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing any regulation with regard to employment discrimination without the prior approval of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prohibits any Federal agency and the Commission from issuing any regulation without the approval of the Attorney General. Establishes a one-House congressional veto procedure for regulations under this Act issued by any Federal agency, the Commission, and the Attorney General. Makes any such regulation effective 45 days after its transmittal to Congress if it is not disapproved. Continues generally an "effects" standard for proving discrimination, but requires the effect to be "reasonably foreseeable" with regard to certain discriminatory acts, including denial of Federal benefits. Title II: Administrative Provisions - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine which personnel employed in connection with functions affected by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1982, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 for FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Designates the week beginning on June 6, 1982, as National Child Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Trade and Investment Equity Act of 1982- Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include restrictions on direct investments by U.S. citizens or nationals among the discriminatory foreign trade practices that trigger a U.S. response. Requires U.S. action if the President determines such action is appropriate to respond to a foreign trade practice that denies the United States commercial opportunities substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Authorizes the President, upon making such a determination, to: (1) change Government procurement policies to provide for procurement from nations that provide substantially equivalent commercial opportunities to comparable U.S. producers; or (2) propose legislation that would impose equivalent restrictions within the United States on countries that do not provide such opportunities. Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements to eliminate discriminatory barriers on foreign direct investment by U.S. citizens or nationals. Imposes specified conditions and limitations on Presidential action to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to respond to foreign trade practices. Authorizes the President to take action: (1) on a nondiscriminatory basis or solely against the products, services, or investment of the foreign entity involved; and (2) against products, services, or investments other than those involved in the investigation. Directs the President to take into account: (1) U.S. trade agreement obligations; and (2) the impact of the action taken on the U.S. economy. Directs the President to review at least biennially each such trade action. Directs the President to rescind an enforcement action within 30 days after: (1) the offending practice is eliminated; or (2) it is determined that continuing the action is not in the national interest. Authorizes the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate Finance Committee to file a resolution with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) requesting the President to take action to enforce U.S. trade rights or to respond to discriminatory trade practices. Directs the USTR to recommend possible Presidential actions concerning specified trade agreements within one year of the start of the dispute settlement procedure. (Current law requires such recommendations within 30 days of the end of the dispute settlement procedure.) Requires the USTR to consult with the U.S. International Trade Commission on the probable impact on the U.S. economy of taking action with respect to such product, service, or direct investment. Authorizes the President to negotiate international agreements on restrictions on foreign direct investment. Directs the President to take such action as may be necessary to extend the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to cover trade in services and direct investment. Directs the USTR to report biennially to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee on the principle trade barriers of any major trading country.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Prohibits the production of lethal binary chemical munitions after the enactment of this Act. Defines lethal binary chemical munitions to mean: (1) toxic chemicals intended to injure or kill humans; and (2) devices intended to disseminate such chemicals. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should begin negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutual, verifiable limitation on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate May 20, 1982, as Amelia Earhart Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Designates April 19, 1982, as Dutch-American Friendship Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Congratulates Hadassah on the celebration of its 70th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
Department of the Coast Guard Organization Act - Transfers the Coast Guard from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Defense as a separate military department headed by a Secretary of the Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Requests the President to designate January 1983 as National Cerebral Palsy Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that a Law of the Sea Treaty is of strategic importance to the United States. Urges the U.S. delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea to: (1) seek changes in the draft treaty that would protect U.S. interests while recognizing the other interests represented at the conference; and (2) conclude a treaty as soon as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Legislative Residence Expenses Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the provision allowing an income tax deduction without substantiation for living expenses of Members of Congress. Qualifies the income tax deduction for living expenses of State and Federal legislators to require legal residence in a location other than the city in which the legislative capitol is situated and the occupation of a second residence in the vicinity of the capitol for more than 183 days of the taxable year. Limits the income tax deduction for living expenses to amounts paid for: (1) utilities; (2) repairs; (3) home maintenance; (4) rent; and (5) depreciation. Provides a method of computing the depreciation on the home and its furnishings.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1982
Declares that any action by the United Nations to prevent a democratic state from exercising its rights to participate in the United Nations will seriously and harmfully affect congressional support for the United Nations.