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United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1981
Requests the President to designate October 23, 1981, as "Hungarian Freedom Fighters Day."
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1981
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to extend the scope of the current offense of using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony to include using or carrying a firearm during commission of any felony, where such use of carrying is unlawful under State law. Establishes as a new offense the acquisition of any firearm in violation of Federal, State, or local law, subject to a mandatory one year term of imprisonment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1981
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) should cease efforts to regulate news content and to formulate rules and regulations for the operation of the world press. Expresses the opposition of the House to efforts by some countries to control access to and dissemination of news.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1981
Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act of 1981 - Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the date for compliance with emission limitation requirements by owners or operators of a stationary source in an iron- and steel-producing operation if: (1) the compliance date extension is necessary to allow the applicant to make capital investments in its operations to improve efficiency and productivity; (2) the funds freed by such extension will be used within two years for additional capital investments in the applicant's operations; (3) the Administrator and the applicant agree to a phased compliance program for each of the applicant's stationary sources; (4) the applicant has sufficient funds to comply with such program; (5) the applicant is in compliance with any existing Federal decrees applicable to its operations; and (6) the compliance date extension will not result in the degradation of air quality during the extension term. Prohibits the imposition of a noncompliance penalty under the Clean Air Act upon an owner or operator with a compliance date extension provided their stationary source remains in compliance with all the requirements of such extensions. Makes available to the public all information obtained by the Administrator under this Act, subject to a specified exception. Directs the Administrator to publish notice of receipt of an application for extension of time in the Federal Register and to notify the appropriate State and local officials. Directs the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register notice of any finding made or other action taken, or failure or refusal to take action, by the Administrator in connection with consent decrees. Provides that such findings, actions, refusals, or failures shall be reviewable only by a court in which a specified civil action under such Act is brought against the stationary source owner or operator. States that revision of a State implementation plan is not required because a compliance date extension has been granted if such plan would have met Clean Air Act requirements prior to the granting of such extension.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1981
Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare brief but comprehensive pamphlets which set forth in nontechnical terms: (1) the rights and obligations of taxpayers during an audit; (2) the procedures which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may use in enforcing revenue laws; and (3) the procedures by which a taxpayer may appeal adverse decisions, prosecute refund claims, and file taxpayer complaints. Requires a copy of such pamphlet to accompany the first communication from the IRS to any taxpayer regarding tax liability. Establishes within the IRS an Office of Taxpayer Services, directed by an Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, whose primary responsibilities shall include: (1) assisting taxpayers with information about tax returns, audit corrections, appeals procedures, and payment or document location; and (2) receiving and evaluating complaints of improper, abusive, or inefficient service by IRS personnel. Authorizes the Assistant Commissioner for Taxpayer Services to issue a Taxpayer Assistance Order prohibiting the Secretary, for up to 60 days after such issuance, from taking any assessment, collection, or other action adverse to a taxpayer if the Assistant Commissioner determines that such taxpayer is suffering from an unusual, unnecessary, or irreparable loss as a result of such action. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe criminal penalties for: (1) any investigation by employees of the United States in connection with Federal tax laws which inquires into the beliefs, associations, or activities of any individual which are not directly related to such tax laws; or (2) the maintenance of any records containing information derived from such an investigation. Creates a civil cause of action for any taxpayer aggrieved by a prohibited investigation, or by the deprivation of any civil rights. Permits the award of a judgment of costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, to a prevailing taxpayer in any proceeding before the Tax Court. Requires the IRS, upon a taxpayer's request, to conduct any interview regarding a deficiency assessment in the taxpayer's residence or place of business, at a reasonable time convenient to the taxpayer. Requires the officer or employee conducting such interview to warn the taxpayer that: (1) he has a right to remain silent; (2) any statement he makes may be used against him; and (3) he has the right to the presence of an attorney. Exempts certain income producing property from levy for nonpayment of taxes. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to establish, and to report annually to Congress on, a program to provide for a continuing audit and investigation of the efficiency, uniformity, and equity of the administration of the internal revenue laws of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1981
Directs the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp to honor Roberto Clemente. Provides that such stamp shall be issued in the denomination used for first-class mail up to one ounce in weight and shall be placed on sale during the month of August.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1981
Requires the Secretary of the Army to continue in effect any cottage site lease of property located along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the mouth of the Missouri River. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating such a lease unless: (1) the property covered by the lease is needed for immediate use for public park purposes or other higher public use or for a navigation or flood control project; or (2) the lessee violates a provision of such lease.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1981
Declares the sense of the Congress that the President shall take steps to: (1) call upon the Soviet Union to permit the resurrection of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Churches; (2) contact the officials of the Soviet Union to secure freedom of worship in the Ukraine and (3) bring to the attention of national and international religious councils Soviet violations of basic human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Malt Beverage Interbrand Competition Act - Declares that no antitrust law shall prohibit the importer, brewer, or trademark licensee of a trademarked malt beverage from entering into an agreement granting a wholesale distributor the exclusive right to sell such beverage within any defined geographic area within a State, or limiting such distributor to the sale of such beverage for ultimate resale to consumers in that area, when such beverage has substantial competition from other malt beverages in that area. Declares that this Act shall not affect any provision of State law.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Requests the President to designate October 16, 1981, as "World Food Day."
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1981
Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey, without monetary compensation, specified land to Illinois for National Guard purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Agricultural Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy and Soybean Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to lower the minimum price support for milk from 75 percent to 70 percent of parity, with allowance to drop even below the minimum if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the Commodity Credit Corporation has accumulated excessive quantities of milk or milk products. Sets the support price effective on October 1, 1981, at a minimum $13.10 per hundredweight of milk containing 3.67 percent milkfat. Repeals the prohibition against requiring a soybean acreage set-aside as a condition of eligibility for price support for any other commodity. Extends through 1985 the Corporation's authority to transfer dairy products to the military and veterans hospitals. Title II: Wheat - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to producers of such crops at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration the cost of production, supply and demand conditions, and world prices. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program, and require participation as a condition of eligibility for loans and purchases. Permits devotion of diverted acreage to wildlife food plots or habitats. Title III: Feed Grains - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside, and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of feed grains. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to feed grains producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors. Authorizes the conducting of a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat under title II of this Act. Title IV: Upland Cotton - Suspends application of existing price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); (3) repeal existing prevented planting and disaster payment authority, along with the national acreage and set-aside programs; and (4) retain the current land diversion (and land diversion payment) program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat and feed grains under titles II and III of this Act. Extends through July 31, 1986, the Commodity Credit Corporation's present authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through 1985 the present rules governing skiprow practices. Title V: Rice - Suspends application of existing acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to rice producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors (but lets stand, without extending, current authorities relating to established prices). Authorizes the conduct of a land-diversion program (while not suspending or repealing current authority to conduct a set-aside program) along the lines prescribed for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton under titles II, III, and IV of this Act. Title VI: Peanuts - Suspends application of specified acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of peanuts. Establishes national poundage quotas for the 1982 through 1985 marketing years. Makes the farm base production poundage for each of such years the same as the poundage for 1981. Changes the formula for the determination of farm poundage quotas. Permits the sale, lease, or other transfer of farm base production poundage, from farm to farm, subject to specified conditions, including transfer to a farm in another county. Revises formulae for the determination of violations subject to marketing penalties. Permits handlers to contract with producers for purchase of additional peanuts (in excess of quota peanuts) for domestic edible use. Revises the formulae for the computation of the purchase price of additional peanuts. Suspends the exemption from marketing penalties of farms whose peanut acreage is one acre or less. Changes the interest rate on marketing penalties from six percent per annum (of the penalty amount) to 120 percent per annum of the interest rate charged the Commodity Credit Corporation by the Treasury of the United States on the date such penalty became due. Declares the facts constituting the basis for determining liability for or amount of any such penalty to be final and conclusive and not reviewable. Extends the existing price support program for peanuts through the 1985 crop. Title VII: Grain Reserves - Removes specified percentage limitations to give the Secretary complete discretion, with respect to terms and conditions of producer-held grain reserve storage loans, to determine at what market price levels such producers are to be encouraged or required to redeem and market stored wheat and feed grains or repay loans before the maturity dates. Removes specified limitations on the number of bushels the Secretary may determine as appropriate for the storage program to promote the orderly marketing of such commodities. Removes the exemption for corn sold for alcohol-as-fuel production from the price restrictions on Commodity Credit Corporation sales of feed grain stocks. Repeals: (1) provisions of such Act encouraging the President to enter negotiations to set up an International Emergency Food Reserve; (2) disaster reserve requirements. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to change from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to make farm storage facility loans. Title VIII: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act to set the support price of shorn wool at a percentage of (currently 85 percent) an amount calculated according to a specified formula that will be not more than 90 percent nor less than 60 percent. Allows the Secretary to set the support price at less than 60 percent of such amount if such lower level is determined to be appropriate because of exceptional circumstances involving the cost or availability of shorn wool. Removes existing limits on total price support payments at any one time. Repeals the current provision for reimbursement of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the making of price support payments. Title IX: General and Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the requirement that the Secretary make Soil Conservation Act payments even if the entitled recipient dies, becomes incompetent, disappears, or is succeeded by another who completes the prescribed performance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend through 1985 the current Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions for wheat and feed grains. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the domestic disaster emergency feed program. Title X: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480 - Food for Peace program) to extend from December 31, 1981, through December 31, 1985, the authority for assistance programs and agreements to finance sales under such Act. Repeals the exclusion from "friendly country" status of any country or area dominated by a Communist government where commodity sales are for foreign currencies only. Limits to sales under agreements entered into before January 1, 1972, any sales for foreign currencies whose foreign currency proceeds the President is authorized to use for bond payments and other specified purposes. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the maximum amount available in any fiscal year for emergency or extraordinary relief other than food relief. Repeals: (1) Commodity Credit Corporation authority to finance ocean freight charges where such charges are higher than usual by reason of a requirement that the commodities involved be transported by United States-flag vessels; (2) the current requirement that the President take into consideration specified self-help measures a developing country is undertaking before entering into agreements with it for the sale of U.S. agricultural commodities; and (3) the ceiling on the annual aggregate dollar amount of all agreements to sell U.S. agricultural commodities for foreign currencies or long-term dollar-credit. Restricts to purchases of food commodities from private stocks the requirement of public bids for financial assistance under such Act. Removes the ceiling from the authorization of appropriations to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the costs of assistance programs. Allows representatives of the distilled spirits industry to use foreign currencies in market development activities intended to expand export sales of U.S. agricultural commodities. Changes from April 1 to July 1 the due date of the President's annual report to Congress on activities carried out under such Act. Title XI: Rural Development and Conservation - Reaffirms that agricultural land is an important natural resource. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States and localities developing programs which emphasize the importance of such land. Authorizes the use of grants, contracts, and other such means for such purposes. Reaffirms Congressional policy to promote soil and water conservation. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress by December 31, 1981 on a comprehensive soil and water conservation policy. Title XII: Research, Extension, and Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the Congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Sets the membership of the Joint Council at not less than 25 representatives of organizations or agencies conducting research, extension, or teaching programs. Establishes three-year, staggered terms for such members. Changes from December 31 to June 30 the due date for the Joint Council's annual report to the Secretary. Exempts the Joint Council from coverage by the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Extends from five to ten years the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases membership from 21 to 25, serving staggered terms. Changes the due dates of: (1) the Board's annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) the Board's appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Specifies as part of the staff of five full-time professionals assisting the Joint Council and the Users Advisory Board: (1) an executive secretary for each entity; and (2) an executive director to serve both. Authorizes the granting of special five-year facilities grants to research foundations established by land-grant colleges and universities. Repeals authority for grants for research on the production of alcohols for fuel and industrial hydrocarbons. Revises the formula for the allocation of funds for programs of direct nutrition education of low-income families. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary develop and distribute nutrition education materials. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board. Eliminates the ceiling on annual appropriations for animal health and disease research. Directs the Secretary to establish annual priority lists of animal health and disease problems of national or regional significance, to serve as guidelines for grant awards. Repeals the solar energy research and development program, including: (1) competitive grants for research and development of farm and forest uses of solar energy, as well as uses of solar derived biomass as a substitute for non-renewable fuels and petrochemicals; (2) the solar energy research information system, including advisory committee; (3) authority for model farms and demonstration projects; and (4) the establishment of regional solar energy research and development centers. Authorizes the Secretary to provide specialized or technical services on a reimbursable basis to U.S. colleges and universities carrying out international food, agricultural and related research and development projects and activities. Repeals the authority and mandate for studies on: (1) the economic and social consequences of the Extension Service and cooperative extension services; (2) the effects of changing climate and weather on crop and livestock productivity; (3) organic farming; and (4) the status and future needs of agricultural research facilities. Allocates a minimum of 25 percent of appropriations for specified research programs for research at State agricultural experiment stations. Authorizes appropriations for specified programs and activities under such Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct regular evaluations of such programs, with annual reports to Congress. Confers on the Secretary general authority to award contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements to further the research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to exempt from the prohibition against excess federal property and property the Secretary furnishes to State or county extension services, State experiment stations, and institutions engaged in cooperative research and extension work under the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977. Title XIII: Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to repeal, with respect to marketing orders providing for uniform prices for all producers or producer associations delivering milk to the same handler, the current allowance for adjustments to such prices to reflect utilization of producer milk by all handlers in any use classification during a representative period of one to three years. Title XIV: Department of Agriculture Advisory Committees Repeal - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the general requirements for the establishment of Department of Agriculture advisory committees.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States should increase the power of the transmitters and improve the quality and quantity of foreign language programs of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty; and (2) research should be undertaken to speed progress in the area of international mass communication media.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Amendments Act of 1981 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to support developmental projects having trade benefits for the United States. Increases the maximum per capita income which qualifies a less developed country for preferential consideration for investment projects. Removes the restriction on OPIC with respect to investment projects in less developed countries that have per capita incomes below a specified amount. Increases the number of members of OPIC's Board of Directors. Authorizes OPIC to insure approved projects against the risks of civil strife. Limits OPIC's share of insurance liability for multilateral investments to the proportionate participation of eligible investors in the projects. Limits the amount of investment insurance and guaranties issued to a single investor to a certain percentage of the maximum contingent liability of such insurance and guaranties which OPIC is permitted to have outstanding. Deletes the prohibition against OPIC entering certain direct insurance underwriting agreements with other insurance companies. Deletes the limitation on the amount of OPIC's annual reinsurance liabilities. Extends the authority of OPIC to issue investment insurance and guaranties until September 1985. Authorizes loans from the Direct Investment Fund to the extent amounts are appropriated. Authorizes computation of a claim of loss under equity investment insurance on the basis of net book value attributable to such equity investment on the date of loss. Abolishes the provision which permits a State to prohibit OPIC from requiring an investor to be insured for ten percent of an investment otherwise insured by OPIC. Authorizes OPIC to collect or compromise any obligations assigned to or held by it. Authorizes the Inspector General of the Agency for International Development to review, investigate, and inspect OPIC's activities. Abolishes: (1) OPIC's Advisory Council; (2) certain limitations on OPIC's financial support for new or expanded copper exploration or extraction projects; and (3) the prohibitions on OPIC financial support for projects involving production or processing of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops for export. Removes the requirement that OPIC report to Congress by a specified date on certain investment insurance programs and reinsurance arrangements.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a price support program for soybeans beginning in the 1982 marketing year. States that: (1) participation in any production adjustment control program is not required for such price support eligibility; and (2) soybeans are not an eligible commodity for a producer storage program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable income tax credit for 75 percent of the amount paid by deaf or speech-impaired individuals for use of toll telephone service by means of teletypewriters. Allows such individuals an income tax deduction for 50 percent of the purchase and installation of such teletypewriters. Provides that such a deduction shall not exceed $200.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Directs the Clerk of the House to provide centrally located telecommunication equipment for the use of Members to communicate with deaf, hearing-impaired, and speech-impaired individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits, during the fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this article, total outlays of the Government from exceeding total estimated receipts by more than 50 percent of any excess of outlays over receipts in the preceding fiscal year. Prohibits, for each succeeding year, total outlays of the Government from exceeding total receipts. Permits total outlays to exceed total receipts in the case of a national emergency as determined by a three-fourths rollcall vote of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1981
Directs the President to award a special gold medal to Fred Waring. Stipulates that funds may not be appropriated under this Act for any period before October 1, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1981
Proclaims Raoul Wallenberg an honorary citizen of the United States. Requests the President to ascertain his whereabouts from the Soviet Union and to secure his freedom.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1981
Establishes a Special Joint Committee on the Centennial of the Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Directs that such committee shall be composed of sixteen Members of the Congress. Directs that such committee shall prepare an overall program for nationwide observances and make comprehensive plans for commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, including a joint session of Congress to be held on January 29, 1982. Provides that the expenses of such committee shall not exceed a specified amount to be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. Directs that upon termination of the committee one-half of its expenses shall be paid by transfer from the contingent fund of the Senate to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. Provides that such committee shall terminate not later than April 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
Reformulates the reimbursement by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to a State for the cost incurred in providing medical facility care in State homes to veterans eligible for such care in Veterans' Administration facilities. Establishes the per diem rate of payment at 30 percent of the average cost of such care at a Veterans' Administration facility, not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of such care in the State home.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
State and Local Government Financing Reform Act of 1981 - Excludes from the Federal law limiting and restricting the corporate powers of national banking associations to deal in and underwrite investment securities, specified dealings in and underwriting of all other nongeneral obligations issued or guaranteed by or on behalf of a State or any political subdivision thereof (except special assessment obligations and industrial revenue bonds) which are at the time eligible for purchase by a national bank for its own account, subject to specified limitations. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit an annual report to the Congress showing the extent to which the business of underwriting and dealing in State and local obligations is being carried on by commercial banks as compared with other banking institutions with a view to determining the effect of the provisions of this Act on the institutional distribution of such business.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1981
Hunger and Global Security Act - Title I: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the President to consider the extent to which a developing country is using self-help measures to reduce illiteracy among young farmers and to improve the health of farmers and their families before the President can enter an agreement for the sale of agricultural commodities for foreign currencies and long-term-dollar credit with such country. Requires that the economic development and self-help measures the recipient country agrees to undertake be sufficiently described so that the primary beneficiaries will be needy people with incomes below the level required to prevent malnutrition. Requires such economic development and self-help measures to be in addition to the measures the recipient country had otherwise been planning to take. Directs the President to verify that such measures are being carried out and to report to the appropriate Congressional committees on such verification and on the additional nature of such measures. Title II: Multilateral Development Banks - Amends the Federal provisions for aiding international financial institutions to require the United States to work within certain multilateral development banks to establish a requirement that not less than 50 percent of such bank's lending benefit needy people. Requires the Secretaries of State and of the Treasury to report to Congress annually on establishing such requirement. Title III: World Food Security - Directs the President to encourage other grain exporting countries to establish food security reserves or take other measures that complement the U.S. food security reserve. Directs the President to report to Congress on actions taken with respect to such food security reserves. Directs the President to negotiate the establishment of a global food financing facility and ensure that the benefits of such facility meet basic human needs. Directs the President to report to Congress on the actions taken to implement such facility. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the Secretary of Commerce from imposing export controls on food if it is determined that such controls would cause measurable malnutrition in the countries against whom the controls are proposed unless the President determines such controls are necessary to protect U.S. national security. Title IV: Generalized System of Preferences - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to prohibit the President from designating as a beneficiary developing country any country that fails to give priority to alleviating malnutrition and poor health and enabling the poor to participate actively in increasing economic productivity, unless the President determines that such designation is required by U.S. national security interests and so reports to Congress. Directs the President to review the possibility of increasing the benefits available to the poorest beneficiary developing countries under such Act's Generalized System of Preferences. Title V: American International Public Health Fund - Establishes within the Agency for International Development (AID) an American International Public Health Fund to provide financial assistance to private and voluntary organizations to support specified public health activities in developing countries. Limits the Fund's financial assistance with respect to the administrative activities of such organizations. Specifies factors to be considered in allocating the Fund's resources. Authorizes the Fund to carry out all AID programs assisting private and voluntary organizations. Directs the Administrator of AID to establish a Board for International Public Health which shall: (1) participate in project proposal review; (2) review documents that detail the terms under which the Fund provides financial assistance to private and voluntary organizations; (3) review the impact of activities supported by the Fund; (4) recommend the allocation of funds; and (5) participate in preparing the annual report. Requires the Director of the Fund to report annually to Congress and the President on the Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requires the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to determine the validity and amount of claims against Czechoslovakia: (1) by U.S. nationals for losses resulting from the taking by Czechoslovakia of certain property between specified dates; and (2) by any person who properly filed such a claim which was denied solely because such person was not a U.S. national on the date of the taking. Directs the Secretary of State to negotiate a lump sum agreement with Czechoslovakia providing for payment of all certified awards against Czechoslovakia. Prohibits such agreement from taking effect if Congress vetoes it or if it is not submitted within a specified time. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to take possession of and sell all Czechoslovakia gold located in the United States if such a settlement agreement acceptable to the Congress has not been made within a specified time. Directs the Secretary of State, if such an agreement is not reached, to negotiate with Great Britain and France to obtain permission to sell Czechoslovakia gold located in Great Britain. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to sell all such gold and invest the proceeds in safe U.S. and foreign securities for payment of the awards of U.S. nationals. Reserves for Czechoslovakia the first right, for a ten-day period, before any other purchaser to purchase any such gold offered for sale. Requires all interest and other income from such investments to be deposited into the Czechoslovakian Claims Fund for distribution to those U.S. nationals holding certified awards against Czechoslovakia. Provides for the payment to Czechoslovakia of any balance remaining from such gold sale and in such Fund after: all such awards are paid; Treasury Department expenses are recovered; and certain Czechoslovakia debts to the United States are paid. Denies jurisdiction to any court over any claim against the United States for actions taken under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and beyond.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requests the President to designate July 17, 1981, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1981
Requests the President to designate the week beginning November 22, 1981, as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Amends Federal law to require bankruptcy courts to give priority to determinations made with respect to requests of agricultural producers for relief from stays of acts against agricultural commodities stored in grain elevators involved in bankruptcy proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1981
Designates February 12 as a legal public holiday for Lincoln's Birthday.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1981
Comprehensive Savings Incentive Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $1,000 ($2,000 in the case of a joint return) the amount of interest and dividend income which may be excluded from gross income. Amends the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 to repeal the termination date for such exclusion. Increases to $2,500 ($3,000 for married couples) the amount of retirement savings contribution allowable as a deduction. Increases from 60 to 70 percent the amount of the capital gain deduction. Reduces the rate of the alternative minimum tax on individuals. Reduces the rate of the alternative tax on the capital gains of corporations from 28 to 21 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that agricultural resources are of strategic importance to the United States' future. Calls for Federal cooperation with State and local governments and assistance to persons engaged in agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1981
Amends the highway safety programs uniform standards to include: (1) comprehensive alcohol-traffic safety programs; and (2) penalties to deter motorists from driving while under the influence of alcohol.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers who maintain a household which includes a dependent who has attained age 65 an income tax credit for the expenses of maintaining such household. Requires that such household constitute the principal residence of the aged dependent for more than three quarters of the taxable year. Limits the amount of the credit to $1,000 for each aged dependent. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress on the administrative problems and revenue cost of the credit enacted by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a limited exemption of independent producer oil from the windfall profit tax.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1981
Prohibits the United States Postal Service from using its funds to implement a nine digit ZIP code system.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1981
Requests the President to designate April 9, 1981, as "African Refugee Relief Day."
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1981
Federal Lending Oversight and Control Act - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to provide a statutory basis for controlling loans and loan guarantees under Federal credit programs through the congressional budget process. Title I: Reports Regarding Federal Credit Activity - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, not later than February 1 and August 1 of each year, in consultation with the Council of Economic Advisors, to transmit a report to both Houses of Congress regarding Federal credit activity during the previous six month period. Requires each such report to examine the relationship between Federal credit activity during the previous six-month period and: (1) the condition of the economy; (2) the availability and cost of credit in the private sector; and (3) the exercise of monetary and fiscal policy by the Federal Government. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in their biannual reports to Congress concerning recent developments affecting economic trends in the Nation, to examine the effects of Federal credit activity on the availability and cost of credit in the private sector and on the exercise of monetary policy by the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to require the President, in his annual budget statement to the Congress, to include all essential facts regarding direct lending by the Government and guarantees by the Government of the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government. Title II: Changes in Congressional Budget Procedures - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the first concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to set forth the appropriate level of total gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the appropriate level of total commitments to guarantee loans and to allocate such totals among the major functional categories of the budget. Directs each standing committee of the House and Senate to submit its estimates of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments provided for in legislation under its jurisdiction by March 15 of each year for consideration of the Budget Committee in formulating the budget resolution. Directs the House and Senate Banking Committees to submit recommendations to the Budget Committees for the aggregate levels of direct loans and loan guarantees in each fiscal year. Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on the concurrent resolution on the budget to include an estimate allocation of the total levels of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments among the committees of the House and Senate. Directs the Committees on Appropriations to provide such an allocation among their subcommittees as soon as practicable after a budget resolution has been agreed to. Requires the House Committee on Appropriations, before reporting any regular appropriations bills, to submit a summary report to the House comparing the credit authority contained in such bills to the levels agreed to in the budget resolution. Requires any report accompanying legislation conferring new budget authority or increasing tax expenditures to include information on direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments. Establishes a deadline for the completion of action on legislation providing credit authority. Requires the second concurrent resolution on the budget in any fiscal year and the reconciliation process to take into account Federal obligations and commitments on loans and loan guarantees. Declares out of order any measure brought up for consideration in either House which would increase the level of loan obligations and guarantee commitments agreed to in the budget process. Requires any authority to guarantee the payment of any indebtedness to be contingent on provisions in appropriation Acts. Title III: Amendments to House Rules - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) to review and make appropriate recommendations with respect to the consistency and uniformity of the different definitions, default provisions, policies, interest rates, and other terms and conditions relating to direct loan, loan insurance, and loan guarantee activities included in any laws of which the subject matter is within the jurisdiction of that committee. Title IV: Construction and Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates of the titles of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1981
Committee Improvement Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee, not later than 60 days after the Congress convenes, to submit an oversight agenda to the Committee on Government Operations. Directs such committee to hold hearings at which the chairman and ranking minority member of each standing committee shall testify on the oversight accomplishments of the preceding Congress and the proposed oversight agenda for the new Congress. Requires the Committee on Government Operations, not later than 90 days after the Congress convenes, to report to the House an oversight agenda resolution which incorporates such agendas of all standing committees, and additional recommendations of the committee. Directs the House to complete action on such resolution not later than 90 days after the Congress convenes, to report to the House an oversight agenda resolution which incorporates such agendas of all standing committees, and additional recommendations of the committee. Directs the House to complete action on such resolution not later than 180 days after the Congress convenes. Directs the Speaker of the House to initially refer each bill, resolution, or other matter to one committee of principal jurisdiction. Eliminates the authority of the Speaker to refer any such matter to two or more committees for concurrent consideration. Requires the membership of each committee, select committee, and conference committee (and each subcommittee, task force, or subunit thereof) to reflect the ratio of majority to minority Members. Provides that such ratio be reflected for standing committees at the beginning of each Congress, and for select and conference committees at the time of appointment. Prohibits any standing committee to establish more than six subcommittees, and any Member to serve at any one time on more than four subcommittees. Defines subcommittee as any subunit of a standing committee established for a period of more than six months. Prohibits the vote by any member of any committee or subcommittee to be cast by proxy. Provides that a majority of members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. Prohibits the House to consider any primary expense resolution until the Committee on House Administration has reported and the House has adopted a resolution establishing committee staff personnel ceilings for that year. Requires such committee to specify in any primary or supplemental expense resolution the number of staff positions authorized therein. Authorizes the House to consider any supplemental expense resolution in excess of such ceiling by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1981
Limits the aggregate amount of all expense resolution authorization levels for the committees of the House of Representatives for the first session of the 97th Congress to no more than 90 percent of the aggregate expenditure levels of such committees for the second session of the 96th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1981
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the restoration of the business of the Spanish parliament after its military seizure symbolizes the strength of Spanish democracy and inspires freedom-loving people; and (2) the continued democratic political development in Spain contributes to U.S. and Western European foreign policy interests. Congratulates Spain on its commitment to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1981
Authorizes appropriations in the amount of $1,500,000 to the city of Atlanta, Georgia, for law enforcement expenses with respect to the recent murders of children.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Family Enterprise Estate and Gift Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the unified credit against the estate and gift taxes from $47,000 to $155,800 by specified annual increments through 1985. Increases from $175,000 to $300,000, by specified annual increments through 1985, the minimum gross estate requirement for filing of a return. Repeals the existing limitations on the marital deduction for gift and estate taxes. Increases from $3,000 to $6,000 the annual gift tax exclusion. Qualifies estates of decedents who were disabled or retired for the special valuation of certain farms based on use if such decedents materially participated in the operation of the farm for five out of eight years preceding the year in which they became disabled or eligible for disability benefits, under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Permits the spouse of a decedent to use such valuation if the spouse has managed the farm or business for ten years preceding the decedent's death or takes over active management upon the decedent's death. Qualifies the owner of a woodland for the special use valuation if the owner or a member of the owner's family actively managed the property for ten years prior to the owner's death. Reduces from 15 to ten years the length of time a qualified property must be held and put to a qualified use following the decedent's death before it can be disposed of without incurring a recapture of estate tax benefits. Permits active management rather than material participation as a test for qualification of the estate of spouses, children under 21, students, and disabled individuals who receive property from a decedent who qualified for special use valuation. Repeals the $500,000 limitation on the reduction of the value of qualified real property permitted by the special use valuation. Allows the like kind exchange of property without loss of special use valuation eligibility. Allows valuation based on net crop share rentals as an alternative method of valuing farms. Authorizes the step-up in basis of such assets. Repeals the requirement that an heir elect special treatment for involuntary conversions of qualified real property, thus making such treatment automatic upon such conversion. States that gifts made within three years of a decedent's death shall be valued as of the time of transfer rather than as of the date of death. Authorizes an individual to elect to pay a gift tax rather than use the unified tax credit. Eliminates the alternative extension of time for payment of the estate tax where the estate consists largely of an interest in a closely held business. Allows an installment payment election if the value of the interest in the closely held business is either 35 percent of the value of the gross estate or 50 percent of the taxable estate. Allows payment of an installment within six months after the due date without penalty. Allows a disclaimer of an interest in property for estate tax purposes in specified circumstances where such disclaimer does not result in the passing of the interest concerned under the applicable State law.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Designates February 12 as a legal public holiday for Lincoln's Birthday.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1981
Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to remove the requirement that unemployment benefits be paid on the basis of services performed in public service jobs under CETA programs.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for taking or attempting to take by force and violence or intimidation a controlled substance from a pharmacy. Increases the penalties if any person's life is endangered by use of a dangerous weapon or if any person is assaulted or killed during commission of such offense. Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation to include pharmacy robbery data in its annual Uniform Crime Reports. Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress on the enforcement of this Act within 120 days of enactment and biannually for the subsequent three-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate the semiannual price support adjustment for milk.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1981
Requests the President to designate April 26, 1981, as "National Recognition Day for Veterans of the Vietnam Era."
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
World War I Veterans Service Pension Act of 1981 - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any pension already paid) a monthly pension of $150: (1) to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements; (2) to the surviving spouse of each such veteran; or (3) when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a refundable income tax credit equal to one-third of the total cost during the taxable year of heating oil purchased by such individuals for use in a residence. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $400 for the taxable year. Reduces the amount of such credit by one percent of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $20,000. Provides for the termination of the credit for taxable years ending after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Requests the President to designate March, 1982, as "Youth Art Month."