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United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1984
Designates 1984 as Year of the St. Lawrence Seaway and June 27, 1984, as St. Lawrence Seaway Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984
Designates June 18, 1984, as National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should reaffirm and continue its policy of nonrecognition of South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia; (2) the Republic of South Africa should comply with the U.N. Charter and other specified international agreements, the sole bases upon which South Africa may detain individuals; (3) the Republic of South Africa should move to release all detainees at the Mariental camp, or revoke the order that terminated a specified court proceeding and permit a full hearing on the lawfulness of the detention of the Cassinga detainees; and (4) the President should convey to the Republic of South Africa the concerns of Congress regarding this matter, including at any negotiations between the United States and the Republic of South Africa on the independence of Namibia and on other specified issues.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984
Arms Race Moratorium Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately communicate to the Soviet Union the willingness of the United States to enter into a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on the flight testing and deployment of new ballistic missiles and anti-satellite weapons and the testing of nuclear warheads. Prohibits spending or obligating any U.S. funds for the flight testing or deployment of new ballistic missiles, the flight testing against objects in space or the deployment of anti-satellite weapons, or the testing of nuclear warheads if, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the President has not made such a communication with the Soviet Union and, within such period, the Soviet Union communicates to the President that at the end of the 90 days the Soviet Union will observe a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on such testing and deployment. Authorizes U.S. funding for such testing and deployment if, after the beginning of the moratorium, the President certifies to Congress that the Soviet Union has conducted a test or deployed a missile or anti-satellite weapon or tested a nuclear warhead inconsistent with the moratorium. Requires the President, as part of such certification, to submit to Congress an unclassified report summarizing the basis for the certification and a classified report describing in detail the basis for the certification. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress: (1) on the progress in negotiating nuclear arms control agreements with the Soviet Union; (2) on whether the President believes that continuation of the moratorium is in the best national security interests of the United States. Authorizes Congress, if the President states that continuation of the moratorium is not in the best national security interests of the United States, to enact a joint resolution which terminates the moratorium and permits funds, to be used for testing and deployment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 6, 1984, as National Nurse Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984
Designates the week of November 11 through November 17, 1984, as Women in Agriculture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984
Designates October 16, 1984, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984
Designates July 20, 1984, as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1984
Health Professions Minority Training Assistance Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to accredited public or nonprofit health professions schools to establish a fund from which low interest loans may be made to low income students. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for health professions schools for such a grant. Sets as eligibility requirements for a loan that a student be a member of a minority group and have a demonstrated financial need. Limits such loans to the lesser of $6,000 or one-half of the cost of attending the school in which he is enrolled or to which he has been accepted. States that such loans shall be repayable over a ten-year period which begins one year after the student ceases a full-time course of study, excluding periods of: (1) active duty performed as a member of a uniformed service; (2) service as a volunteer under the Peace Corps Act; or (3) periods of advanced professional training including internships and residencies. Cancels such debt upon the death of the borrower or upon permanent or total disability. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 1987. Directs the Secretary to make grants to accredited public or nonprofit health professsions schools to establish a fund from which loans may be made to minority students from families with gross incomes of less than $30,000. Sets forth the eligibility requirements a student must meet for such a loan. Requires payment of interest on such loans during a postgraduate training period. Permits a waiver of such interest payments for health professionals in training programs in areas designated as health manpower shortage areas. Provides for partial payment by the Secretary of principal and interest on any such loan for an individual who enters into an agreement to practice his profession for a period of at least two years in a health manpower shortage area and meets certain other requirements. Permits the Secretary to designate academic institutions as health manpower shortage areas with regard to forgiveness of loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of making such grants through FY 1988. Provides for federally guaranteed loans to assist minority graduates of health profession schools to set up private practices in underserved areas. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee funds to be available for such loan guarantees. Permits the Secretary to make annual grants to accredited public or nonprofit health professions schools with at least 20 percent minority enrollment for the support of the education programs of such schools. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to make annual endowment development grants to accredited public or nonprofit health professions schools with 50 percent or more minority students or students from families with gross incomes of $30,000 or less. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to accredited public or nonprofit health professions schools to identify, recruit and train minorities for careers as teachers and investigators on the faculties of such schools. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987 for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit health professions schools for scholarships to be awarded to full-time students in financial need. Grants priority to minority health profession students. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 1987. Requires the Secretary to make annual grants to no more than 20 individuals (to be known as Charles Drew Fellows) for fellowships of up to $15,000 per year to health professions students who intend to pursue academic careers. Requires priority to be given to students who have been accepted to postgraduate study at an accredited school of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 1987. Provides for apportionment of appropriations if approved grants exceed the total of the amounts appropriated. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987 for the purpose of entering into contracts for health research and teaching facilities and the training of professional health personnel. Authorizes the advanced financial distress and the disadvantaged assistance programs of the Public Health Service Act through FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Designates the week beginning on November 11, 1984, as National Blood Pressure Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Designates the week of May 13 through May 19, 1984, as Smokey Bear Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Designates August 21, 1984, as Hawaii Statehood Silver Jubilee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984
Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Amendments Regarding Objectives and Definitions - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to declare as an objective of such Act that our older people should have available a comprehensive array of community-based, long-term care services adequate to appropriately sustain them in their communities and in their homes. Title II: Amendments Regarding the Administration on Aging - Replaces provisions establishing the Administration on Aging in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with provisions establishing, under the general authority of the Secretary, an Office on Aging (the Office). Provides that the Office shall assume the duties and functions of the Administration on Aging. Provides that the Office shall, as was the Administration on Aging, be headed by the Commissioner on Aging. Requires the Office, in addition to the duties and functions of the Administration that it has assumed, to consult with national organizations representing minority individuals to develop and disseminate training packages and to provide technical assistance efforts designed to assist State and area agencies in providing services to older individuals with the greatest economic or social needs. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987 for the Federal Council on Aging. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations for the administration of the Older Americans Act of 1965. Prohibits the Secretary from making grants or contracts under such Act for training, research, and discretionary projects and programs until the Secretary develops and publishes general standards to be used in evaluating such projects and programs. Title III: Grants for Programs on Aging - Defines: (1) an "older individual" as any individual who is 60 or older; and (2) "multipurpose senior centers" as community facilities for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, including health, social, nutritional, and educational services and facilities for recreational activities for older individuals. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987 for social service grants and nutrition project grants under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Requires each area agency on aging to: (1) specify annually in its area plan the amount of funds spent for each category of services in the preceding year; (2) conduct efforts to coordinate community- based, long-term care services designed to keep individuals in their homes, thereby deferring unnecessary institutionalization; (3) provide assurances that it will give particular attention in providing services to low-income minority older individuals; and (4) include minority individuals on the advisory councils which the agencies are required to establish. Requires a State's plan under such Act, in planning and operating its long-term care ombudsman program, to consider the views of area agencies on aging, older individuals, and provider agencies. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987 for the surplus commodity program under such Act. Provides for grants for counseling regarding appropriate health and life insurance coverage. Title IV: Training, Research, and Discretionary Programs Related to Aging - Revises provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965 relating to training, research, and discretionary programs. Directs the Commissioner to make grants and enter into contracts for training, research, and discretionary programs related to aging in order to: (1) provide comprehensive and coordinated nondegree education, training programs, and curricula at institutions of higher education and at other educational organizations for practitioners in the fields of nutrition, health care, supportive services, housing, and long-term care; (2) provide inservice training opportunities to the personnel of State offices, area agencies, senior centers, and nutrition sites to strengthen their capacity to remain responsive to the needs of older individuals; and (3) provide courses on aging and dissemination of information about aging. Directs the Office on Aging to conduct both: (1) long-term educational activities to prepare personnel for careers in the field of aging; and (2) short-term inservice training and continuing education activities for State and area agency personnel, and other personnel, in the field of aging. Requires multidiscriplinary centers of gerontology to: (1) conduct research and policy analysis and function as a technical resource for the Commissioners, policy makers, service providers, and Congress; (2) recruit and train personnel; (3) conduct research toward the development of information related to aging; (4) stimulate the incorporation of information on aging into the teaching of biological, behavioral, and social sciences at colleges and universities; (5) develop training programs in the field of aging; (6) serve as a repository of information and knowledge on aging; (7) provide consultation to organizations servicing older individuals under provisions of this Act; and (8) provide data to the Commissioner on projects and activities for which training, research, and discretionary program funds are provided. Sets forth the purposes of research and development projects under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Directs the Commissioner to select for research assistance research activities which will, within three years of enactment of this Act: (1) contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a demographic data base which contains information on the population of older individuals; (2) identify the future needs of older individuals; (3) identify the kinds and comprehensiveness of programs required to satisfy such needs; and (4) identify the kinds and number of personnel required to carry out such programs. Authorizes making grants and contracts for projects designed to identify older individuals who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other neurological diseases and provide family respite services and other community-based care services to such individuals. Revises provisions relating to special demonstration projects on legal services for older individuals. Directs the Commissioner to make grants and enter into contracts to: (1) provide nationwide legal services support activities to State and area agencies on aging for providing, developing, or supporting legal services for older individuals; and (2) support demonstration projects to expand or improve the delivery of legal services to older individuals with social or economic needs. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987 for training, research, and discretionary programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Directs the Commissioner to: (1) be responsible for the administration, implementation, and making of grants and contracts for such programs; and (2) annually provide a report on the expenditure of funds for such programs. Title V: Community Service Employment - Amends the Older Americans Community Service Employment Act to authorize funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987. Increases the number of part-time employment positions provided under such Act. Title VI: Grants for Indian Tribes - Decreases to 60 the number of individuals in a tribe who must have attained age 60 in order for a tribe to be eligible for a grant under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for FY 1985 through 1987 under the Older Americans Act of 1965 for grants to Indian tribes. Title VII: Amendments to Other Laws; Effective DAtes - Sets forth conforming amendments and effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984
Designates the week beginning September 2, 1984, as National School-Age Child Care Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984
Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement with Israel providing for the continuance of existing duty-free treatment of and the elimination of existing duties and other import restrictions on products of Israel; and (2) proclaim such continuances and modifications of tariff treatment of and import restrictions on such articles as necessary to carry out the trade agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1984
Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control Program - Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to establish an acid deposition control program. Defines an "acid deposition impact region" as the 31 States east of or bordering on the Mississippi River and the District of Columbia. Requires that by January 1, 1996, the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions in the acid deposition impact region not exceed a level 11,000,000 tons less than the actual level of such emissions in 1980. Requires that one-half of such reduction be completed within six years after the enactment of this Act, or January 1, 1991, whichever is earlier. Provides that sulfur dioxide emissions from major stationary sources which did not begin operation before January 1, 1981, or which have increased emissions since such date (to the extent such emissions do not exceed one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on a 30-day basis), calculated on an annual basis, shall not be added to the amount of sulfur dioxide which the State in which such sources are located is required to reduce by January 1, 1996, under provisions for regional reduction allocation and State reduction requirements. Provides that no emissions from such sources shall be added in any State which during 1980 had no major stationary source which was a utility boiler which had an actual annual average emission rate greater than one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input. Provides that increases in sulfur dioxide emissions from utility boilers which are coal capable as defined under the Fuel Use Act and which convert to the use of coal as a primary fuel shall be so added only to the extent such emissions from a particular source exceed one and one-half pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on an annual average. Prohibits any major stationary source of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides from commencing operation after January 1, 1996, in such region unless there has been identified for such source a simultaneous net reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides, or both, at one or more points in such region: (1) in excess of the emissions which potentially would result from the proposed new source; and (2) not otherwise required by a State implementation plan. Exempts from such prohibition any major stationary source which: (1) adopts the best available control technology, as defined under specified provisions of the Act as appropriate for the location of the proposed new source; and (2) attains at least the most stringent emission limitation shown by an adequate operating history to have been achieved in practice by a major stationary source of the same size, type, and class within the region. Directs the Governors of all 31 States within the region to enter into negotiations to establish sulfur dioxide emission reduction requirements for each such State sufficient to achieve the total reduction required for the region. Makes such an agreement binding and enforceable on each such State, but only upon notification to the Administrator by the Governors of 75 percent of the States in the region, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, that such agreement has been reached. Requires each such State, if the Governors fail to reach agreement within such 18 months, to achieve its share of the reduction in annual sulfur dioxide emissions required for the region. Bases such share on the actual utility emissions which are in excess of one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input averaged over 1980. Authorizes the Governors of any two or more States in the region to reallot among agreeing States such required reductions, provided that the total reductions equal the required total. Requires each such State, within 30 months after the enactment of this Act, to adopt enforceable measures to achieve the required reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions, including emissions limitations and schedules for compliance for sources within such State and other means of emissions reduction in accordance with specified provisions. Directs the Governor of such State to submit such measures to the Administrator for review and to the Governors of all other States in the region for comment. Provides for such review and approval according to specified procedures. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures if, taking into consideration the comments of the other State Governors, the Administrator finds that such measures: (1) contain enforceable requirements for continuous emission reduction; (2) contain requirements for monitoring by the source and enforcement agencies to assure that the emission limitations are being met; and (3) are adequate to meet the required reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions for such State by the deadline under this Act. Makes each emission limitation, compliance schedule, or other measure approved under this Act a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Provides that, in the case of any major stationary source which is in any State in the region and which is not by December 31, 1986, in full compliance with the applicable implementation plan in effect on January 1, 1981, the owner or operator shall be subject to: (1) the emission limitation established under specified provisions of this Act for all facilities in such State owned or operated by such owner or operator; and (2) a noncompliance penalty for each such source or facility, including each electric generating facility, for the period from the original date for compliance under the applicable implementation plan until actual compliance with such emission limitation. Requires that such enforceable measures adopted by States in the region include compliance schedules which specify actions to be performed leading toward final compliance and increments of progress to be achieved by dates in advance of dates by which the State requires each particular source to comply with the emission limitation necessary to attain the reduction for such State. Requires the State in adopting (and the Administrator in reviewing) such measures to stage or phase such compliance dates so that to the maximum extent practicable one-half of the total emission reduction under this Act is achieved within six years of enactment, or prior to January 1, 1991, whichever is earlier. Requires each major stationary source which proposes to comply with an emission limitation established under this Act by any means other than an innovative system of continuous emission reduction technology or the replacement of existing facilities with new facilities of substantially lower emissions to comply with such emission limitation by January 1, 1994. Sets forth major stationary source sulfur dioxide reduction requirements to apply in any State in the region which has not: (1) adopted, within 30 months after enactment of this Act, measures to achieve the required reduction; or (2) had such measures approved by the Administrator within six months after their submission. Requires, in such States, the owner or operator of each fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility which is a major stationary source which is not subject to specified performance standards for new stationary sources to comply with an emission limitation or limitations for all such facilities owned or operated by the same entity in such region equivalent to an average among such facilities of one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on a 30-day average. Requires the owner or operator of each such facility to submit to the Administrator a plan or schedule of compliance for achieving such emission limitation or equivalent emission reduction in accordance with provisions for enforceable mission reduction programs, within three years after the enactment of this Act or six months after the date on which such owner or operator becomes subject to such emission limitation, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan and compliance schedule if it: (1) contains enforceable requirements for continuous emission reduction; (2) contains requirements for monitoring by the source and enforcement agencies to assure that the emission limitations are being met; and (3) will achieve the required emission reduction in a manner consistent with a specified schedule established under provisions for State enforceable measures, or otherwise at the earliest practicable date, but no later than January 1, 1994. Makes specified violations of such requirements violations of emissions limitations for purposes of certain provisions of the Act. Sets forth provisions for enforceable emission reduction programs. Permits alternative methods or programs for net emission reduction to be used to maintain emission limitations or attain emission reductions required under specified provisions of this Act. Permits a State or the owner or operator of a source to use such alternative methods or programs, in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures, if emissions limitations under such methods or programs are enforceable by the Federal Government, States other than those in which the emissions occur, and citizens under specified provisions of the Act. Includes among such alternative methods or programs: (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand and existing generating capacity; (2) retirement of major stationary sources at an earlier date than provided in schedules on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, or State utility regulatory agencies; (3) investments in energy conservation where reductions in emissions can be identified with such investments; (4) trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions on a State or regional basis, for which States and the Administrator are authorized to establish emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions to facilitate such trading; (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels; and (6) fuel substitution. Permits a State or the owner or operator of a source required to achieve emission reductions under specified provisions of this Act to substitute reductions in nitrogen oxides emissions, at a rate of two units by weight of nitrogen oxides for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator to: (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results of such study to the Congress within two years after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force established under the Energy Security Act to submit to specified congressional committees two comprehensive reports, one by December 31, 1986, and one by December 31, 1988. Requires that such reports present specified research findings and recommendations, based on existing scientific knowledge, for reducing acid deposition and its effects. Directs the Task Force to provide for appropriate scientific peer review of such research and of its reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 in addition to any other funds authorized to be appropriated to the Task Force to carry out specified research activities under such Act. Directs the Administrator, promptly after the date established under provisions for major stationary source sulfur dioxide reduction requirements, to report to specified congressional committees on emission limitation and other enforceable measures adopted by the States and approved by the Administrator or in effect under such provisions, for all States in the region. Directs the Administrator to develop an inventory of sources of nitrogen oxides in the region and in each State in the region. Directs the Administrator, within four years after enactment of this Act, to report to specified congressional committees on: (1) such inventory; (2) control technology and methods for new and existing sources of nitrogen oxides; and (3) any recommendations for requirements to reduce existing emissions or control new emissions of nitrogen oxides to reduce acid deposition, including but not limited to the question of whether levels of such emissions should be strictly limited or reduced. Establishes a National Commission on Air Quality Employment Impacts to study and report to Congress on the direct and indirect impacts on employment in domestic coal mining that would result from the reduction of emissions required by this Act. Authorizes the Commission, if it deems it appropriate, to study and report on other direct employment impacts of this Act on industries related to coal mining. Requires that the Commission's report be filed with specified congressional committees by December 31, 1987. Permits such report to include: (1) legislative recommendations to correct any substantially adverse impact on employment dislocations in coal mining regions caused by this Act; and (2) recommendations to States, counties, cities, or private industrial entities to aid in the correction of said employment dislocation. Provides for Commission membership, including representatives of specified congressional committees, a representative of the United Mine Workers, and representatives of the coal industry. Provides for cooperation, information, and technical assistance from Federal agencies for the Commission. Terminates the Commission upon completion of its report. Authorizes the Commission, in the conduct of the study, to contract with nongovernmental entities competent to perform research or investigations in areas within the Commission's mandate, and to hold public hearings, forums, and workshops to enable full public participation. Authorizes the Commission to contract with nonprofit technical and scientific organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, to develop necessary technical information for a specified authorized study. Authorizes the Commission to expend up to $3,000,000 to carry out its required functions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1984
Revises the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1984 and sets forth the first concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985 and the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1986 and 1987. Recommends levels of Federal revenues of $664,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $784,600,000,000 for FY 1985, $852,900,000,000 for FY 1986, and $936,500,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed at $0,000,000 for FY 1984, $51,600,000,000 for FY 1985, $58,000,000,000 for FY 1986, and $73,000,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the appropriate levels of total new budget authority at $898,660,000,000 for FY 1984, $996,210,000,000 for FY 1985, $1,058,950,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,130,150,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are $849,550,000,000 for FY 1984, $938,770,000,000 for FY 1985, $983,420,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,040,630,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount of deficits in the budget which are appropriate in light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors at $184,650,000,000 for FY 1984, $154,170,000,000 for FY 1985, $130,520,000,000 for FY 1986, and $104,130,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of public debt are $1,595,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,837,300,000,000 for FY 1985, $2,086,150,000,000 for FY 1986, and $2,347,250,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts by which the temporary statutory limits on such debt should be accordingly increased at $219,200,000,000 for FY 1984, $241,500,000,000 for FY 1985, $248,850,000,000 for FY 1986, and $261,100,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets forth the appropriate levels of total Federal credit activity as follows: (1) $37,600,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $105,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1984; (2) $37,500,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $111,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1985; (3) $39,950,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $117,400,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1986; and (4) $40,450,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $123,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1987. Sets forth the levels of new budget authority and budget outlays and the primary and secondary loan guarantee commitments for each major functional category for FY 1984 through 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1984
District of Columbia Independent Counsel Act - Directs the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia to conduct an investigation upon receipt of information that there has been a violation (excluding petty offenses) of District of Columbia or United States law arising from the conduct of the affairs of the District of Columbia government. Requires the Corporation Counsel to conduct a preliminary investigation for a period not to exceed 90 days. Requires the Corporation Counsel to notify the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Superior Court) if no further investigation or prosecution is warranted. Requires the appointment of an independent counsel by the Superior Court if the Corporation Counsel determines that an investigation or prosecution is warranted or if 90 days elapse without a determination by the Counsel. Directs the Superior Court to appoint an independent counsel and to define that independent counsel's prosecutorial jurisdiction. Grants the Superior Court, upon the request of the Corporation Counsel, the authority to expand the prosecutorial jurisdiction of an existing independent counsel. Prohibits the appointment of a person as an independent counsel who has held any office of profit or trust under the District of Columbia government. Gives the Superior Court the authority to appoint an independent counsel to fill a vacancy resulting from death or resignation. Permits the Superior Court to award attorney's fees incurred by an individual subject to an investigation by an independent counsel if no indictment is brought against such individual, and the attorney's fees would not have been incurred but for the appointment of an independent counsel. Sets forth the various authorities and duties of an independent counsel appointed by the Superior Court. Requires the independent counsel to make periodic reports to the District of Columbia Council and appropriate committees of the Congress concerning its activities. Requires a report to the Superior Court before the termination of the independent counsel's office. Grants the District of Columbia Council oversight jurisdiction with respect to the official conduct of any independent counsel. Permits the District of Columbia Council to request the Corporation Counsel to apply for the appointment of an independent counsel by action of two-thirds majority of the Council. Sets forth procedures for the removal of an independent counsel and for the termination of the office of independent counsel. Provides that where a matter is in the prosecutorial jurisdiction of an independent counsel or has been accepted by an independent counsel, the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and Office of the Corporation Counsel shall suspend all investigations and proceedings regarding the matter. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1984
Designates the week of May 20 through May 26, 1984, as National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Designates the week of September 23 through September 29, 1984, as National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
Higher Education Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) ("the Act") to revise and extend programs under the Act. Sets forth amendments to title I of the Act, renaming such title "Continuing and Community Postsecondary Education." Eliminates title I, part A provisions relating to the establishment of the Commission on National Development in Postsecondary Education. Switches title I, part B provisions for Education Outreach Programs to part A and revises such provisions. Decreases the portion of funds for Education Outreach Programs which is required to be used for State allotments from 90 to 50 percent. Increases the portion of such funds which is required to be available for Federal discretionary grants from ten to 40 percent. Requires that each State use no more than 15 percent (currently, no less than 15 and no more than 20 percent) of its allotment for Education Outreach Programs to conduct comprehensive statewide planning. Revises the formulas (based on a range of appropriation amounts for this part) for determining when a State must use at least ten percent, and when it may not use more than ten percent, of its allotment for such purpose. Deletes provisions relating to the National Advisory Council on Continuing Education, but refers to the National Advisory Council on Postsecondary Education which is established later in this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 to carry out Education Outreach Programs. Removes a limitation on the portion of a State allotment which may be used to carry out continuing education programs. Adds new title I, part B provisions for Literacy Training. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education and consortia of institutions that have entered into agreements to operate literacy training programs in their own communities and in rural areas in the vicinity. Sets forth requirements for literacy training program agreements, including: (1) establishment of academic credit courses combining undergraduate training in the humanities and social sciences with experience as tutors in a literacy training program; (2) requiring students in such courses to perform at least six hours of voluntary uncompensated service each week of the academic term with a community-based or other nonprofit organization as a tutor in such organization's literacy training program; and (3) providing that such service may be compensated under the work-study program and that preference in the award of work-study assistance will be given to eligible students performing such service. Limits use of such grants for literacy training programs to covering specified program costs. Directs the Secretary, to the extent that specified funds are available, to enter into technical assistance and coordination contracts with qualified nonprofit private organizations to assist, manage, and coordinate such literacy training programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 to carry out Literacy Training program provisions. Adds new title I, part C provisions for Federal Correctional Education Assistance. (Provides that such part shall be known as the "Federal Correctional Education Assistance Act.") Declares the purposes of such part to be to provide financial assistance to the States to carry out educational programs for criminal offenders in juvenile and adult correctional institutions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 to enable the Secretary of Education to make grants to States under such part. Allows such appropriations to remain available until expended. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies and grants for programs of national significance. Sets forth formulas for the allocation of funds under such part. Prohibits the use of funds for purposes inconsistent with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Sets forth permissible uses of grants made to States under such part, including: (1) academic programs for basic education, special education, bilingual or bicultural study, secondary school credit, postsecondary study, fine arts, recreation and health, and curriculum development; (2) vocational training; (3) library development and services; (4) teacher training; (5) educational release programs; (6) guidance; (7) supportive services; and (8) job training. Sets forth requirements for State applications for assistance under such part. Authorizes the Secretary to make, from specified reserved funds, grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, State correctional agencies, and other public and nonprofit organizations and institutions to meet the costs of programs of national significance which the Secretary determines give promise of improving the education of criminal offenders. Sets forth provisions for payment and withholding of funds under such part. Switches provisions for a Veteran's Cost-of-Instruction Program from title IV to title I, part D. Extends such program payments to institutions of higher education through FY 1990. Retains the formula for determining institutional eligibility for such payments, but raises the minimum number of veterans who must be enrolled in undergraduate attendance at an institution before such eligibility formula applies from 25 to 100. Makes technical and conforming amendments relating to such program. Sets forth amendments to title II (College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research) of the Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for title II programs under part A (College Library Resources), part B (Library Training, Research, and Development), and part C (Strengthening Research Library Resources). Establishes a Library Unit within the Office of Postsecondary Education which shall be responsible for administering and coordinating all library programs within the Department of Education. Revises title II, part A (College Library Resources) provisions for resource development grants. Directs the Secretary, in selecting applicants for receipt of such grants, to rate each applicant who meets specified requirements in accordance with a numerical index established by regulation and based on the following factors (to be weighed according to the order in which they are listed): (1) the extent to which the institution is in the lowest quartile of applicants with respect to its library resource holdings; (2) the extent to which the institution's own effort in support of its library exceeds a specified percentage of its operating budget; (3) the number and percentage of low- income students; (4) whether the institution is eligible under title III (Institutional Aid) of the Act; and (5) such other factors as the Secretary determines relevant and useful (not to exceed ten percent of the points awarded under such index). Requires the National Institute of Education to: (1) evaluate the use of such index in allocating such funds to eligible applicants most in need; and (2) report the results of such evaluation to Congress by May 30, 1989. Revises title II, part B (Library Training, Research, and Development) provisions for research and demonstration project grants and contracts. Directs the Secretary, in selecting recipients of such funds for FY 1986 and succeeding fiscal years, to give priority to expanding the study of the uses of information transfer and communications technology in libraries. Sets forth amendments to title III (Institutional Aid) of the Act. Adds to the definition of "eligible institution" for purposes of title III, part A (Strengthening Institutions) any institution of higher education which has an enrollment of which at least 40 percent are Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic students, or combination thereof, and which also satisfies specified requirements for such eligibility. Revises title III, part B, renaming such part "Strengthening Historically and Traditionally Black Colleges and Universities." Redefines "part B institution" to mean any historically or traditionally black college or university that maintains a student body that is at least 50 percent black students. Directs the Secretary to make part B grants to institutions for specified purposes, including academic instruction in disciplines in which black Americans are underrepresented. Directs the Secretary to make allotments of grants to part B institutions according to a formula based on the numbers of Pell Grant recipients, graduates, and graduates admitted to graduate or professional schools from such institutions. Sets forth reallotment provisions. Sets forth part B grant application requirements, including requirements for annual reports to the Secretary and for auditing. Sets forth provisions for grants to eligible part B independent professional or graduate institutions. Directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for such purpose, to award program grants to such postgraduate institutions as may be eligible as part B institutions except that: (1) the institution offers a medical, dental, veterinary degree, or other graduate or professional degree beyond the baccalaureate degree; and (2) such independent, postgraduate institution listed under this Act is determined by the Secretary to be making a substantial contribution to the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, or other graduate education opportunities for black Americans. Limits the duration of such grants. Sets forth authorized uses of such grants. Sets forth application requirement, including a demonstration of how grant funds will be used to improve graduate educational opportunities for black and low-income students, and lead to greater financial independence. Lists the following independent professional or graduate institutions as eligible for such grants: (1) Morehouse School of Medicine; (2) Meharry Medical School; (3) Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; and (4) Atlanta University. Sets forth reporting and audit requirements. Sets forth criminal penalties for misuse of funds. Revises title III, part C (Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B) provisions. Adds to institutions eligible for such challenge grants any institution which received a grant in FY 1981 or 1982 to assist health professions schools in financial distress from the Department of Health and Human Services under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Adds the following provisions for endowment grants (which are similar in part to those added to the Act by the Challenge Grant Amendments of 1983, Public Law 98-95). Establishes a program to provide matching endowment grants to institutions of higher education which are eligible for assistance under the challenge grant program. Authorizes the Secretary to award such matching endowment grants from sums available under the challenge grant program. Limits the endowment grant period to not more than 20 years, during which time the institution may not withdraw or expend the endowment fund corpus (the amount of the grant plus the matching amount deposited by the institution). Permits the institution, after grant period termination, to use the endowment fund corpus plus any endowment fund income for any educational purpose. Provides that institutions may receive more than one such grant, but may only receive such a grant for two fiscal years out of any period of five consecutive fiscal years. Limits the amount of an endowment grant to an institution to: (1) not less than $50,000 for any fiscal year; and (2) not more than $250,000 for FY 1984 or $500,000 for FY 1985 or any succeeding fiscal year. Permits an eligible institution to designate a foundation, which was established to raise money for the institution, as the recipient of the endowment grant. Sets forth requirements which the foundation and the institution must meet for such an award. Sets forth requirements for investment of the endowment fund corpus and income. Permits an institution to withdraw and expend the endowment fund income to defray any expenses necessary to the operation of the college. Prohibits an institution from spending more than 50 percent of the total aggregate endowment fund income earned prior to the time of expenditure. Authorizes the Secretary to permit an institution to spend more than the 50-percent limit under specified emergency circumstances. Provides for repayment by an institution of funds withdrawn prematurely from the endowment fund corpus or improperly expended from endowment fund income. Set forth auditing requirements. Directs the Secretary, in selecting eligible institutions for endowment grants, to: (1) give priority to an applicant which is a recipient of a title III grant under part A or part B, during the academic year in which the endowment grant is applied for; (2) give priority to an applicant with a greater need for such grant, based on the current market value of the applicant's existing endowment in relation to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at such institution; and (3) consider the effort made by the applicant to build or maintain its existing endowment fund and the degree to which an applicant proposes to match the grant with nongovernmental funds. Sets forth provisions for endowment grant applications and approval. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate and recover an endowment grant, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, if the grantee institution fails to properly expend, invest, or account for endowment funds. Adds new title III, part D (Reservation for Hispanic Institution) provisions. Directs the Secretary to reserve at least $10,000,000 or 15 percent of appropriations for title III, part A (Strengthening Institutions), whichever is more, for Hispanic institutions as defined under part A. Switches title III general provisions from part D to part E, and revises such general provisions. Directs the Secretary to publish all policies and procedures required to exercise the authority to approve applications for grants under title III. Provides that no other criteria, policies, or procedures shall apply. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving need-based assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act in making eligibility determinations under title III, part A provisions for Strengthening Institutions; and (2) advance the base-year forward following each annual grant cycle. Adds to title III general provisions relating to waiver authority. Directs the Secretary to waive specified title III requirements (including grant eligibility criteria involving an enrollment which includes a substantial percentage of students receiving title IV need-based assistance) in the case of an institution which: (1) is extensively subsidized by the State and charges low or no tuition; (2) serves a substantial number of low- and middle-income students as a percentage of its total student population; (3) is contributing substantially to increasing higher education opportunities for black Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and low-income individuals; or (4) is substantially increasing higher educational opportunities for individuals in rural or other isolated areas which are unserved by postsecondary institutions. Revises requirements for the Secretary's annual report to Congress to exclude discussion of part B institutions and to include discussion of part D Hispanic institutions which have been determined eligible although not satisfying specified eligibility criteria involving low institutional expenditures per student. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for institutional aid programs under parts A, B, and C of title III. Raises the percentage of part A funds which must be made available to junior or community colleges from 24 percent to 30 percent. Requires that at least $10,000,000 or 15 percent of part A funds, whichever is more, be used for Hispanic institutions. Sets forth amendments to title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act. Renames part A of title IV "Need-Based Student Assistance" and revises the statement of purpose of such part. Renames subpart 1 of part A "Pell Grants," thus conforming to the already renamed grants program. Extends the Pell Grants program through FY 1990. Revises the formulas for determining the amount of each Pell Grant. Declares that the purpose of the program is to provide a Pell Grant that: (1) as determined under specified provisions for the amount of such grants, will meet 75 percent of a student's tuition and fees not in excess of $3,000; and (2) in combination with reasonable parental or independent student contribution and supplemented by work-study and institutional block grant programs, will meet 80 percent of a student's cost of attendance, unless the institution determines that a greater amount of assistance would better serve the purposes of part A. Sets the amount of a Pell Grant for an eligible student at $3,000 for the award year from July 1, 1985, through June 30, 1986 (or for any subsequent award year, $3,000 plus the sum of specified inflation adjustments) minus the amount of the expected family contribution with respect to that student for that year. Retains provisions for proportional reductions or grants for part-time students. Revises the maximum limit on a Pell Grant amount. Provides that such Grant shall not exceed the sum of: (1) 75 percent of tuition, required books, and uniform compulsory fees, plus (2) a standard cost allowance for each award year, as determined by the institution. Limits such standard cost allowance to: (1) $1,200 for a student residing with a parent or guardian; (2) $1,600 for a student residing neither with a parent or guardian nor in specified institutional housing; or (3) $2,000 for a student residing in institutionally owned, operated, or subsidized housing. Prohibits any Pell Grant from exceeding the sum of such tuition, books, fees, and cost allowance minus the expected family contribution. Retains the $200 minimum limit for Pell Grant awards, but eliminates provisions for exceptions to such limit. Directs the Secretary, for each Pell Grant award year beginning after June 30, 1986, to publish: (1) the percentage change for the price index for the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which such award year begins; (2) an inflation adjustment, determined by a specified formula, for such award year, if the price index has increased by more than three percent; and (3) the Pell Grant amount in effect after taking into account each of the inflation adjustments determined. Sets forth provisions for family contributions scheduled for Pell Grants. Makes the period of student eligibility for Pell Grants five academic years, or the equivalent, but provides that no eligible student shall be precluded from receiving a Pell Grant for the first year of graduate or professional study because of such five-year limitation. Includes English instruction for individuals with limited English proficiency among those noncredit or remedial courses preparatory to pursuit of a baccalaureate degree for which Pell Grant support may be given to eligible students. Retains provisions relating to Pell Grant application procedures and the noncontractor status of institutions. Deletes certain provisions relating to insufficient available funds and to excess funds. Deletes title IV, part A provisions for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (subpart 2) and Grants to States for State Student Incentives (subpart 3), but continues the purposes of such programs under a new Institutional Block Grant program. Switches to a new part C (Special Services) the title IV part A subparts 4 and 5 provisions for Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds and Special Programs for Students Whose Families are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork. Deletes those subpart 6 provisions for Assistance to Institutions of Higher Education which involve certain payments to institutions of higher education, but switches to title I those provisions of subpart 6 which involve veterans' cost-of-instruction payments to institutions of higher education. Switches provisions for Work-Study Programs from title IV part C to title IV part A subpart 2, and revises such provisions. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for Work-Study Programs. Replaces provisions for allotment of work-study funds to States with provisions for allotment of such funds to institutions. Retains provisions for grants for work-study programs to institutions which enter into specified agreements. Deletes provisions relating to within-State distribution of assistance. Sets forth provisions relating to sources of matching funds. Provides that nothing in provisions for Work-Study Programs shall be construed as restricting the source (other than Work-Study Programs funds) from which the institution may pay its share of the compensation of a student employed under a work-study program covered by an agreement. Allows such share to be paid to such student in the form of services and equipment (including tuition, room, board, and books) furnished by such institution. Retains provisions for job location and development programs and agreements. Revises provisions for work study for community service-learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families to include literacy and other language-proficiency services. Establishes an Institutional Block Grant program, under title IV part A subpart 3, to permit institutions to make their own allocation decisions on the funding of certain student assistance programs. Declares that such Institutional Block Grant program is to permit such institutions to: (1) continue to provide supplemental grants, increase student employment, and operate institutional loan programs in a manner similar to that in which such activities were conducted prior to October 1, 1985, under the supplemental educational opportunity grant program, the State student incentive program, and the national direct student loan program; (2) capitalize a loan program to continue to use the Federal capital contribution to the national direct student loan (NDSL) program as part of the capital for the new loan program; and (3) supplement the funds available for work-study programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for such Institutional Block Grant program. Sets forth provisions for allotment of such block grant funds to institutions based on the amount of Pell Grants and guaranteed student loans made to students at an eligible institution. Requires that an eligible institution be allotted: (1) for FY 1986, at least the sum of the amounts such institution received for 1985, under provisions in effect prior to the start of FY 1986, for Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, Grants to States for State Student Incentives, and the national direct student loan program (NDSL); and (2) for any succeeding fiscal year, at least 90 percent of the amount such institution received for the proceeding year under Institutional Block Grant provisions. Provides for ratable reduction of such allotments when appropriations are not sufficient. Sets forth provisions relating to student eligibility for block grant assistance. Provides that such assistance may be made available only to a student who: (1) is an eligible student under title IV general provisions for student eligibility; and (2) has demonstrated need for financial assistance in accordance with the following formula. Provides that the amount of a student's need for financial assistance under the block grant program is equal to: (1) the cost of attendance (as determined under specified title IV general provisions), minus (2) the sum of the expected family contribution (computed in accordance with regulations prescribed under title IV general provisions) and any estimated financial assistance reasonably available to such student under Pell Grant and Work-Study programs. Prohibits an institution from reserving more than ten percent of its Institutional Block Grant allotment to provide assistance for less-than-half-time students who are otherwise eligible students. Sets forth a matching requirement for institutional block grant recipients. Requires each institution receiving such allotment to contribute to Institutional Block Grant programs an amount from non-Federal sources equal to at least 15 percent of such allotment. Permits the institution to allocate such institutional contribution to meet: (1) the matching requirement for grants for Work-Study Programs with respect to any block grant funds transferred for use for work-study assistance; and (2) the capital contribution requirement with respect to block grant funds deposited in the student loan fund. Sets forth authorized uses of Institutional Block Grant allotment funds. Permits such funds to be used to provide student financial assistance in the form of: (1) a grant (directly under Institution Block Grant provisions); or (2) additional work-study assistance (by a transfer of a portion of the block grant for use in accordance with provisions for Work-Study Programs). Permits such funds, together with funds available pursuant to specified provisions for student loans and for the transfer of the balance of national direct student loan (NDSL) funds, to also be used to provide student financial assistance in the form of a loan made in accordance with specified provisions for student loans. Limits the sum of the financial assistance through such direct grants, additional work-study assistance, and loans to the need of such student as determined for purposes of eligibility for Institutional Block Grant assistance. Provides that only one-half of the block grant allotment to an institution in any fiscal year may be used for making such student loans. Prohibits block grant allotment funds from being deposited in the student loan fund established by such institution if the Secretary has determined that the default rate of such institution's loan program exceeds ten percent, unless the Secretary: (1) has, for each subsequent year, determined that such institution has made substantial progress (as defined under this Act) in reducing such default rate; or (2) determines that such institution is maintaining a default rate of less than ten percent for each subsequent year. Sets forth provisions relating to student loans under the Institutional Block Grant program. Requires any institution that desires to make loans to students from funds under its block grant allotment or funds made available from the transfer of the balance of NDSL funds to enter into a specified agreement with the Secretary. Requires that such agreements provide: (1) for the establishment and maintenance of a student loan fund for the purposes of the Institutional Block Grant program; (2) for the deposit in such fund of block grant funds permitted to be used for such loans, funds from the transfer of the NDSL program balance, an institutional capital contribution equal to at least one-ninth of the block grant funds deposited, collections of principal and interest on student loans made from deposited funds or funds deposited in the student loan fund maintained under NDSL provisions in effect prior to the start of FY 1986, late charges or other fees, and any other earnings of the fund; (3) that such fund shall be used only for student loans, administrative expenses, required capital distributions, and reasonable litigation and collection costs; and (4) for protection of the U.S. financial interest and promotion of the purposes of the Institutional Block Grant program. Limits the maximum interest rate on such student loans under the Institutional Block Grant program to a percentage which is two percent less than the rate in effect under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) program as of the date of application for such loan. Provides for a capital distribution of the balance of any such student loan fund under the Institutional Block Grant program if at any time after the establishment of such fund: (1) the institution notifies the Secretary that it intends to terminate the making of loans in accordance with program requirements; or (2) the Secretary finds (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that the institution has terminated the making of loans in accordance with such requirements. Sets forth procedures for such capital distribution. Requires institutions, after such capital distribution, to make payments of a specified proportionate share of principal and interest payments received, after deduction of litigation or collection costs not already reimbursed. Provides that, if an institution has not entered into an Institutional Block Grant student loan fund agreement by the start of FY 1987, the institution's NDSL student loan fund shall be subject to a capital distribution in accordance with specified procedures to be applied in a special manner. Sets forth requirements for institutional block grant agreements. Sets forth provisions for the transfer of the balance of funds from an institution's student loan fund under the NDSL program to the institution's student loan fund under the Institutional Block Grant program. Renames title IV part B as the "Guaranteed Student Loan Program," and revises provisions relating to the guaranteed student loan (GSL) program. Declares that it is the purpose of part B to: (1) continue the GSL program established under such part as in effect prior to FY 1987; and (2) continue meeting the obligations incurred with respect to the federally- insured student loan (FISL) program (as so established), but only with respect to loans made under that program before FY 1987. Sets forth title IV part B subpart 1 provisions for Guaranteed Loan Eligibility, Amounts, and Term. Sets forth requirements for student eligibility for loans under the GSL program. Requires that a student, to be eligible for a GSL loan: (1) be eligible under title IV general provisions; (2) provide the lender with a statement from the eligible institution of the student's estimated cost of attendance and financial assistance; (3) have a family adjusted gross income of $65,000 or less; and (4) have the eligible institution provide the lender with a statement evidencing a determination of need and the amount of such need. Sets forth GSL nondiscrimination provisions. Sets forth provisions relating to the amounts of GSL loans. Raises the maximum limit on GSL loan amount in any academic year to: (1) $3,000 in the case of a student who has not successfully completed a program of undergraduate education; or (2) $7,000 in the case of a graduate or professional student. Retains limits on loan amounts to first-year students. Retains limits on aggregate unpaid principal amounts to undergraduate and to graduate or professional students, but adds provisions for computing such aggregate limits. Directs the Secretary to propose regulations to increase the aggregate limit for graduate and professional students if the Secretary: (1) finds that a substantial student dislocation will occur due to the inability of student borrowers to finance post-baccalaureate medical, dental, veterinary, legal, or other graduate degrees; (2) finds that low- and middle-income students find it impossible to pay for the cost of graduate and professional education; and (3) receives a unanimous recommendation to do so from the advisory committee on student financial assistance. Provides that expected family contribution for purposes of the GSL program shall be determined by means of the schedule established under title IV general provisions. Sets forth provisions for terms and conditions of GSL loans. Retains the five-to-ten-year repayment period, but provides that such period shall begin nine months after the month in which the student ceases to pursue a full-time course of study at an eligible institution (unless the GSL is made under a program which provides for the insurance of loans for part-time study at eligible institutions, in which case such repayment period shall begin nine months after the month in which the student ceases to carry at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload as determined by the institution). Retains provisions allowing agreements to shorter repayment periods and entitling borrowers to accelerate repayment without penalty. Allows forbearance in the enforcement of GSL repayment, with the approval of the applicable guarantee agency. Provides that the GSL interest rate shall be the rate applicable to the borrower's outstanding balance or interest on any GSL loan made before the start of FY 1987. Provides that the GSL interest rate for borrowers who have no such outstanding balance of principal or interest on any such loan made before the start of FY 1987 shall be the current rate, as determined by specified provisions, as of the date of entering into the loan. Sets such "current rate of interest" under the GSL program at eight percent for any calendar year which is not subject to a determination of the Secretary under the following provisions. Provides that, if the Secretary determines that the average bond equivalent rates of 91-day Treasury bills auctioned for any fiscal year exceeds 13 percent, then the "current rate of interest" under the GSL program during the next calendar year (beginning after the end of such fiscal year) shall be the average of such bond equivalent rates for such fiscal year, minus four percent, rounded to the next lower whole percent. Provides that interest on the unpaid balance of any GSL loan shall be at a yearly rate equal to the applicable interest rate applied to the unpaid principal balance of the loan (exclusive of any premium for insurance which may be passed on to the borrower). Retains provisions allowing a lender to charge a borrower interest at a rate less than the applicable GSL interest rate. Retains provisions which make inapplicable to GSL loans any other provisions of law which limit the rate or amount of interest payable on loans. Raises the minimum annual GSL repayment, for an individual or a married couple, to $900 or the balance of all GSL loans (including interest), whichever is less. Revises provisions relating to periods during which periodic installments of GSL principal need not be paid. Removes the grace period with respect to borrowers who are members of the armed forces, officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, volunteers under the Peace Corps Act, or full-time volunteers under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Retains borrower grace periods of specified lengths for uncompensated full-time volunteers in approved programs for tax-exempt organizations, full-time students, approved graduate fellowship program students, disabled individuals in approved rehabilitation programs, interns in the professions, termporarily totally disabled individuals or spouses unable to work because they must care for such individuals, and borrowers seeking and unable to find full-time employment. Deletes provisions which exclude such grace periods from the determination of the maximum repayment period. Retains provisions which allow: (1) deferment of interest payments until the date on which repayment of principal falls due; and (2) addition of such accrued interest to the principal on such date. Sets forth provisions relating to disbursement of GSL loans. Provides that the note or other written evidence of the GSL loan: (1) shall require the borrower to promptly notify the loan holder of any change of address; and (2) may contain provisions authorized by regulations relating to repayment in the event of default by the borrower. Revises provisions for disclosure to students of loan information. Sets forth provisions relating to GSL guarantee agencies entering into agreements with credit bureaus to exchange information concerning student borrowers. Sets forth title IV, part B, subpart 2 provisions for Federal Support for the Guaranteed Student Loan System. Revises provisions for interest subsidies for GSL loans which meet subpart 1 requirements and which are made by an eligible lender under a program of a guarantee agency and insured under a specified insurance agreement. Establishes a new method for the determination of the quarterly rate of the special allowances on GSL loans. Revises provisions for insurance agreement and obligations relating to interest subsidies for student loans insured under State or nonprofit private student loan insurance programs. Raises the maximum yearly and aggregate limits on such loans to the maximum limits for GSL loans under subpart 1. Requires that such loans be made, and subject to repayment, in accordance with the same terms and conditions (including interest rate provisions) as GSL loans under subpart 1. Retains provisions relating to procedural requirements for applications for insurance and guarantee agreements by nonprofit private institutions in States without agreements. Revises provisions for guarantee agreements and obligations relating to Federal reimbursement to non-Federal guarantee agencies in case of student borrower default on any GSL loan. Revises provisions for supplemental guarantee agreements. Requires that advances for reserve funds of insurance programs made by the Secretary under the GSL program (as in effect prior to October 1, 1986) shall be repaid within such period as the Secretary may deem appropriate in each case in the light of the maturity and solvency of the reserve fund for which the advance was made, except that such period may not in any case exceed five years after the date of disbursement of the advance. Requires that advances so repaid be deposited in the guaranteed student loan fund. Retains provisions relating to administrative cost payments to guaranteeing agencies. Retains provisions relating to guarantee agency agreements with eligible lenders for the purpose of authorizing multiple disbursements of loan proceeds. Retains provisions for discharge payments in cases of student borrower death, permanent and total disability, or bankruptcy. Retains specified restrictions on institutional lenders under the GSL program. Sets forth title IV part B (GSL program) subpart 3 provisions for Related Loan Programs. Revises provisions for parent loans to undergraduate students. Deletes provisions for graduate or professional student eligibility to be treated as "parents" for purposes of taking out "parent loans" on their own behalf. Authorizes refinancing of parent loans under specified conditions. Removes limits on the interest rate for parent loans. Requires that any insurance provided by the Secretary for parent loans shall be provided in accordance with specified requirements relating to Federal loan insurance, as in effect at the end of FY 1986. Directs the Secretary, after notice and opportunity for a hearing on the record, to terminate the status of any lender as an eligible lender under the GSL program upon determination that such lender has made parent loans in a manner inconsistent with prudent and reasonable lending practices (as determined on the basis of the lending practices that are customary among lending institutions when making loans which are not insured or guaranteed by governmental programs). Sets forth provisions for consolidation of loans under the GSL program or under the national direct student loan program (the NDSL as in effect prior to the start of FY 1986). Authorizes the Secretary or a guaranteeing authority to enter into specified consolidation loan agreements with eligible lenders. Sets the interest rate for such consolidation loans at nine and one-half percent, with specified exceptions. Terminates the authority to make such consolidation loans at the close of FY 1991. Revises provisions for a GSL lender of last resort in each State. Sets forth administrative provisions for discontinued loan programs. Provides that the Secretary shall continue to have all the duties, obligations, powers, authorities, responsibilities, rights, and privileges with respect to loans made, insured, or guaranteed under part B which are outstanding at the start of FY 1987, as the Secretary had with respect to such loans under such part as in effect prior to such date. Sets forth title IV part B (GSL program) subpart 4 provisions for Program Administration and Definitions. Retains provisions relating to the Secretary's legal powers and responsibilities under part B. Sets forth provisions barring specified defenses to loan collection. Sets forth civil penalties for specified violations by lenders or guaranteeing agencies. Sets forth statute of limitations provisions. Establishes a guaranteed student loan fund. Revises provisions relating to the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Deletes references to a specified authorization of appropriations for purposes of establishing Sallie Mae. Extends through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to guarantee payment when due of principal and interest on obligations issued by Sallie Mae in an aggregate amount determined by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury. Extends indefinitely a provision that the priority (in bankruptcy proceedings) in favor of the United States shall not establish a priority over the indebtedness of Sallie Mae. Deletes provisions relating to: (1) loan consolidation by Sallie Mae; and (2) Sallie Mae as a direct lender. Sets forth definitions used under part B. Sets forth title IV part C provisions for Special Services. Sets forth title IV part C subpart 1 provisions for Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. (Switches such provisions from title IV part A subpart 4.) Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for such special programs, including: (1) Talent Search programs; (2) Upward Bound programs; (3) special services for disadvantaged students; (4) educational opportunity centers; and (5) staff development activities. Sets forth title IV part C subpart 2 provisions for Special Programs for Students Whose Families Are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork. (Switches such provisions from title IV part A subpart 5.) Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for such special programs, including services under the high school equivalency program and college assistance migrant program projects. Deletes title IV part D provisions for Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education (the national direct student loan-NDSL-program). (Cf. provisions relating to the NDSL program under Institutional Block Grant provisions of title IV part A subpart 3 of this Act.) Sets forth title IV part D General Provisions Relating to Student Assistance Programs. (Switches such provisions from title IV part E.) Revises need analysis provisions to modify one of the basic criteria to be followed in promulgating regulations with respect to expected family contributions. Changes such criterion from "any educational expenses of other dependent children in the family" to "any tuition paid for other dependent children in the family." Deletes a provision which includes under "effective family income" any amount paid under the Social Security Act to, or on account of, the student which would not be paid if he or she were not a student. Directs the Secretary to use a specified series of assessment rates in determining the expected family contribution for any academic year. Directs the Secretary to approve a schedule for determining the effective family contribution and effective family income of an independent student. Revises the definition of "independent student" for title IV purposes. Raises the minimum allowance for room and board for a student without dependents residing at home with parents from $1,100 to $1,200 per academic year. Revises provisions for forms and regulations to require the Secretary to adhere to specified schedules for: (1) development and distribution of Federal multiple data entry forms; (2) guaranteed student loan need analysis; and (3) allocation of institutional block grant and college work-study funds. Provides that any additional regulatory changes initiated by the Secretary which affect the general administration of title IV programs and which have not been published in final form by April 1 prior to the start of the award year shall not be effective until the beginning of the second award year after the April 1 date. Retains provisions relating to student eligibility and institutional and financial assistance information for students. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for training in financial aid and student support services. Retains provisions relating to program participation agreements, transfer of allotments, administrative expenses, and criminal penalties. Provides for the establishment of a national center for postsecondary educational opportunity. Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent that funds are appropriated, to enter into a contract with an appropriate institution of higher education or public or private agency or organization to pay all or part of the cost of the establishment of such center. Provides that such center will: (1) coordinate development and dissemination of preeligibility information for Federal, State, and institutional student assistance and information regarding postsecondary access; (2) develop materials as necessary to increase student awareness of those Federal student assistance programs and postsecondary opportunities; and (3) operate short-term training institutes to enable junior and senior high school counselors and teachers, personnel engaged in special programs for students with disadvantaged backgrounds, college admissions personnel, and community agency staffs to more effectively counsel students regarding postsecondary opportunity and financial aid eligibility and availability. Directs the Secretary, in determining whether to enter into such a contract, to consider the ability of the applicant to involve specified associations in the operation of the center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 for such center. Deletes provisions relating to the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance. Establishes an advisory committee on student financial assistance in the Department of Education to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education. Sets forth provisions for committee membership. Includes among committee duties: (1) annual reports to the Secretary and the Congress on all forms and sources of student assistance; and (2) collection and annual compilation of information from guarantee agencies on GSL borrowers. Requires guarantee agencies to submit information describing specified characteristics of: (1) GSL borrowers for whom default claims are submitted for Federal reinsurance; and (2) GSL borrowers starting with the second fiscal year following the establishment of the committee at the start of FY 1987. Revises and retitles title V of the Act "Teacher Training Programs" (thus deleting references to the already repealed part A Teacher Corps Program). Establishes, as a new part A of title V, the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program to make grants to States for postsecondary education scholarships to outstanding high school graduates who demonstrate an interest in teaching, to enable and encourage those individuals to pursue teaching careers in elementary or secondary education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and subsequent fiscal years for such Carl D. Perkins scholarships. Directs the Secretary to allocate such funds among the States according to population and to make specified allocations to certain U.S. territories and possessions. Sets forth requirements for State applications for such grants. Includes among such requirements assurances that efforts will be made to attract students who: (1) are from low-income backgrounds; or (2) express a willingness or desire to teach in schools having less than average results or serving large numbers of economically disadvantage students. Sets such individual scholarship awards at $5,000 for each academic year of postsecondary education for study in preparation to become an elementary or secondary education teacher. Limits such scholarship assistance to four years of postsecondary education. Provides that such scholarships shall not be considered in determining eligibility for student assistance under title IV of the Act. Prohibits the individual scholarship award, when added to the title IV assistance, from exceeding the cost of attendance. Requires that Carl D. Perkins scholars be selected by a statewide panel which: (1) is appointed by the administrative head of the State educational agency, acting in consultation with the State higher education executive officer, where appropriate, and approved by the Secretary of Education; and (2) includes representatives of State legislators, school administrators, teachers, and parents. Requires that such scholar selections be made from students who rank in the top five percent of their high school graduating class. Directs the statewide panel to develop procedures and crieteria for selection, including grades, extracurricular activities, financial need, and interest in teaching as expressed in a written essay by the applicant. Authorizes the panel to require letters of recommendation. Sets forth conditions for continuation of such scholarship assistance to recipients, including full-time enrollment and satisfactory progress in a course of study leading to teacher certification. Requires scholarship recipients to agree to teach, for at least two years for each year for which assistance was received, in an elementary or secondary school or a public education program in the State in which the scholarship was awarded, within the ten-year period after completing the postsecondary education for which the scholarship was awarded. Requires repayment of scholarships by recipients found to be in noncompliance with such agreement. Sets forth exceptions to such repayment requirements. Sets forth provisions for Federal administration of State programs for such scholarships under specified circumstances and judicial review of the Secretary's disapproval of a State program. Establishes, as a new part B of title V, the "Talented Teacher Fellowship Program," a national fellowship program for outstanding teachers. Authorizes appropriations for such fellowships to outstanding teachers for FY 1986 and subsequent fiscal years. Limits to two and one-half percent that portion of such funds which may be used for administration. Requires that such funds be used to award: (1) two national teacher fellowships to public school teachers teaching in each congressional district of each State, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and (2) one such fellowship in Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Limits individual fellowship awards to $25,000. Prohibits any individual from receiving such award more than once. Requires talented teacher fellows to return to a teaching position in their current school district for at least two years following the award, subject to specified repayment provisions. Permits such fellows to use such awards for such projects improving public education as the Secretary may approve, including: (1) sabbaticals for study, research, travel, or academic improvement; (2) curriculum development; (3) consultation with or assistance to other school districts; (4) development of special innovation programs; (5) community relations; or (6) model teacher programs and staff development. Establishes a National Selection Board for Talented Teaching Fellows. Sets forth provisions for membership and procedures. Requires fellowship applicants to submit proposals for projects, and indicate the extent to which they wish to continue current teaching duties, to the local education agency (LEA) for comment prior to submission to the Committee. Directs the Committee, in evaluating proposals, to: (1) consult with the LEA; (2) request recommendations from two teaching peers, the principal, and the superintendent; and (3) consider other appropriate criteria. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for such selections. Requires repayment of such fellowship awards in the case of fraud or noncompliance in completing the project undertaken, as determined by regulations of the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint, for up to three-year terms, up to five technical employees to administer title V Teacher Training Programs who may be appointed and paid without regard to specified provisions of Federal law governing appointments to the competitive service and relating to classification and pay rates. Deletes part C provisions for Training for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children in Areas With a Shortage. Replaces part B provisions for Teacher Training Programs and part D provisions for Coordination of Education Professional Development with new parts C, D, E, and F provisions for teacher training Institutes and Workshops, Professional Development Institutional Assistance for Teacher Training and School Improvement, and Data Collection and Research on Evaluation of Education Personnel. Sets forth title V part C provisions for Institutes and Workshops ("national institutes"). Directs the Secretary, from funds available for such part, to make grants to institutions of higher education to support summer institutes and workshops for elementary and secondary school educators to improve: (1) their knowledge and skills in all areas of teaching; (2) their instructional and administrative skills; and (3) the knowledge and application of evaluation of teacher performance. Authorizes the Secretary, upon request of the State educational agency (SEA), to make grants to other public educator training agencies as established by the SEA prior to January 1, 1983. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare a program implementation plan for part C national institutes programs; (2) submit such plan to specified congressional committees by the start of the fiscal year preceding the award of funds for such programs. Prohibits funds from being obligated for expenditure under or expended for any such program unless: (1) a specified period of time has passed after such submission; or (2) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted written notice that it has no objection to the plan. Sets forth title V part D provisions for Professional Development. Directs the Secretary, from amounts authorized for such part, to make grants to provide professional development opportunities for elementary and secondary school educators. Permits such grants to be used to: (1) establish and operate specialized seminars for elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators on instructional techniques, classroom management, use of technology and resources, motivation, and other similar areas; (2) develop training and support systems for beginning teachers, such as mentor programs; (3) assist projects to apply educational research and evaluation findings to classroom and school settings; and (4) establish and operate professional development resource centers that emphasize efforts among educators to improve teaching skills, share and adapt instructional resources, and apply innovative teaching techniques in the classroom. Requires applicants for such funding of a professional resource center to demonstrate that the grant proposal was developed in coordination with the SEA and has been approved by the local educational agency (LEA) concerned, with LEA consent to release educators to participate in center activities. Permits any institution of higher education or consortium of such institutions or nonprofit organization of teachers or administrators (or both) to apply for such grants. Provides that no such institution or consortium will be eligible for such a grant unless its application demonstrates that the grant proposal was developed, and will be carried out, with the active participation of elementary and secondary school teachers in setting goals, organizing the centers, and allocating resources. Sets forth title V part E provisions for Institutional Assistance for Teacher Training and School Improvement, including teacher education exemplary programs, and school-college partnerships. Directs the Secretary, from amounts available for such purpose, to make grants to institutions of higher education which have a school, college, or department of education to: (1) fund research and faculty improvement; (2) assess their programs and introduce curricular changes, technological improvements, and enhanced practice teaching experience; (3) improve coordination between teacher training and other departments; (4) provided incentives for programs to recruit students to prepare to be teachers in areas of particular need; and (5) promote other innovative activities within such institutions and departments. Directs the Secretary, from amounts available for such purpose, to make grants to institutions of higher education which have a school, college, or department of education to establish exemplary programs to encourage such institutions and departments to redesign and experiment with their educator training (including inservice), planning and development efforts, including teacher involvement in the assessment of the project. Gives priority to applications for such grants which include cooperative arrangements with other departments of the institution or with other institutions in the vicinity. Directs the Secretary, from specified amounts for such purpose, to make grants to promote the sharing of technological resources and faculty, and consultation on management and administration, between an elementary or secondary school or school district and an institution of higher education. Requires that applications for such grants be submitted jointly by a school or school district and an institution of higher education. Gives preference to proposals which will provide or improve services to the handicapped or economically or educationally disadvantaged children. Permits such grants to be used to promote cooperative programs between schools, colleges, and departments of education and local school districts by allowing more extensive mentor programs for students and beginning teachers which: (1) provide intensified cooperation in providing practical experience for student teachers; (2) permit faculty exchanges to give professors elementary or secondary school classroom experience and allow classroom teachers to work with student teachers in institutions of higher education; (3) assist cooperative research projects; or (4) establish experimental and innovative programs. Sets forth title V part F provisions for Data Collection and Research on Evaluation of Educational Personnel, including assessment of teaching personnel needs and a grants program for evaluation studies. Directs the Secretary to assess the current and future supply and demand for teachers, with particular attention to long-term and short-term shortages of personnel in various areas of specialization, shortages in particular States or regions, and the numbers of minorities and women entering teaching. Directs the Secretary to include the results of such assessment in the annual report to Congress under specified provisions of the Department of Education Organization Act. Directs the Secretary, through grants made by the National Institute of Education, to support studies of evaluation methods, teacher education, and professional development for teachers and other school personnel. Permits such studies to include assessments of ongoing evaluation programs, research and development on new evaluation programs, assessments of the costs and benefits of alternative evaluation methods, and studies of the degree to which evaluation programs affect teacher incentives to improve and remain in classrooms. Permits such grants to be issued to LEAs, institutions of higher education, or other organizations involved in research and evaluation on effective teaching and school performance. Provides that projects funded under such part F should include the collaboration of classroom teachers or their representatives in order to assure effective and equitable practice. Sets forth title V part G provisions for Authorization of Appropriations for Parts C, D, E, and F. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for parts C and D. Provides that a specified first portion of such appropriations shall be available for part C. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for parts E and F. Provides that a specified portion of such appropriations shall be available for certain provisions of part E and part F. Revises title VI (International Education Programs) of the Act. Renames title VI provisions for international studies centers as "language training centers." Revises such provisions to eliminate references to international studies at such centers and to emphasize intensive foreign language studies by students, faculty, and scholars in critical and less frequently taught languages. Adds to title VI new provisions for a foreign language periodical center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to provide assistance for the establishment and operations of such a center. Directs the Secretary, from such appropriations, to make a grant to an institution of higher education or a public or nonprofit private library institution (or consortium of such institutions) to establish and operate a foreign periodical center which will: (1) acquire foreign periodicals which are not commonly held, which are of scholarly or research importance, and which are published in foreign countries; (2) maintain current bibliographic information on such periodicals in machine readable form and enter this information into one or more of the widely available bibliographic data bases; (3) preserve such periodicals; and (4) make such periodicals available to other institutions upon request. Directs the Secretary, in the selection of a grant recipient, to approve as a recipient only an institution or consortium which has already an established library or consortium of libraries with an extensive foreign language periodical collection. Provides that nothing in provisions for such center shall be considered to amend, affect, or define specified provisions of Federal law relating to copyright. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for title VI part A (International and Foreign Language Studies). Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 to provide funds to established overseas language centers administered by the Department of Education. Provides that such appropriations shall be available for three-year grants. Provides that no center shall be ineligible for a subsequent grant by reason of receiving a previous grant. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for title VI part B (Business and International Education Programs). Redesignates title VI part C (General Provisions) as part D. Adds new title VI part C provisions for Faculty and Student Study Abroad. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to support faculty study abroad. Provides that such grants shall equal $15 for each "full-time equivalent student" enrolled at an eligible instiutition, except that institutions with 500 to 1,000 such students shall be eligible for $15,000 grants. Provides for ratable reduction of such grants in case of insufficient funds. Sets forth grant application requirements, including assurances by institutions and agreements by faculty members. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for such grants for faculty study abroad. Directs the Secretary, from amounts available for such purpose, to make grants to institutions of higher education, or consortia of such institutions, to provide assistance to enable advanced foreign language students to develop their language skills and their knowledge of foreign cultures and societies through study abroad. Allows such study to be combined with an internship in an international business enterprise. Makes any institution or consortium whose application is approved eligible for a grant for up to one-half the cost of providing such assistance. Sets forth grant application requirements, including: (1) institutional assurances that the program will provide the opportunity to combine language study with studies in specified fields for students majoring in such fields if they can qualify as proficient in the language; and (2) a description of the proposed program of study abroad in any country or geographic area or region designated by a specified title VI advisory board to be of concern to the national interest. Permits grant funds to be used to cover costs associated with the study abroad. Provides for ratable reduction of grants in case of insufficient funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for such grants for student study abroad. Directs the Advisory Board for title VI programs, in addition to its other duties, to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Office of International Education on: (1) trends in student enrollment that may lead to shortages in expertise on countries, geographic areas and regions, and languages; (2) the impact of international education programs on the needs of international business, foreign policy, and education; and (3) the countries, geographic areas and regions, and languages which should be considered of concern to the national security and other interests of the United States and accorded higher priority for study and for title VI assistance. Directs the Advisory Board to establish the countries, geographic areas and regions, and languages for which grants may be made available for student study abroad after taking such priorities into account. Adds to title VI new provisions for cross-national study funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 to the National Institute of Education to cover the cost of U.S. participation in the conduct of cross-national studies in education. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish in the Department of Education a Center for International Education, to be administered by a Director of International Education who shall be appointed by the Secretary. Requires the Director to: (1) report directly to the Secretary; (2) be responsible for administration of programs under title VI of the Act (HEA); (3) consult with the Advisory Board on the conduct of such programs; and (4) perform any additional functions prescribed by the Secretary. Requires that the Center establish a clearinghouse for information on assistance available to promote the study of foreign countries, geographic areas and regions, and languages under title VI of the Act (HEA), under other Federal law, and from other public and private sources. Revises title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) of the Act (HEA). Deletes title VII parts A and B provisions for grants for construction, reconstruction, and renovation of undergraduate (part A) and graduate (part B) academic facilities. Redesignates title VII part C provisions for Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities as part A. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for such loan program. Raises the minimum non-Federal portion of the development cost of any project for which such a loan is made, from 20 percent to 50 percent. Adds to authorized functions of the Secretary under such loan program specified powers of foreclosure and acquisition. Adds to title VII new part B provisions for Grants for the Purchase of Laboratory, Research, and Other Instructional Equipment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for such grants program. Directs the Secretary from the amount appropriated for such program for any fiscal year, to make grants to institutions of higher education to assist in acquisition and installation of such equipment. Directs the Secretary in selecting grant recipients to insure that funds are equitably distributed among the geographic areas of the United States and among the various types of institutions of higher education. Requires such institutions to provide matching funds covering at least one-half of the total cost of the acquisition and installation of the equipment for which such grant funds are sought. Revises title VII General Provisions to make conforming amendments which delete provisions for recovery of payments under the deleted grant programs for construction of undergraduate and graduate academic facilities. Revises title VIII (Cooperative Education) of the Act. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) grants for programs of cooperative education (revising and renaming such grants program to cover comprehensive programs of cooperative education); and (2) grants and contracts for research and training. Provides that appropriations under title VIII shall not be available for the payment of compensation of students for employment by employers under arrangements pursuant to such title. Provides that a grant (under the revised program of grants for comprehensive programs of cooperative education) shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, be not less than $1,000,000 nor more than $3,500,000 for each of the five years of eligibility. Requires an institution selected for receipt of such a grant to enter into an agreement with the Secretary which contains: (1) assurances of compliance with specified requirements; and (2) a five-year budget for the program that demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the institution will obtain and maintain compliance with such requirements. Revises title IX (Graduate Programs) of the Act. Adds to authorized activities which may be carried out with specified funds for research and studies under part A (Grants to Institutions of Higher Education) of title IX the identification and recruitment of minorities and women for graduate and professional education (but does not provide for extending the authorization of appropriations for part A beyond FY 1985). Revises part B (Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study) of title IX to provide that grants by the Secretary under such part shall, subject to the appropriation of funds, be available for a period of three years. Raises to $9,000 the maximum award of a fellowship under such part for financially needy graduate and professional students. Requires the institution, in selecting recipients of such awards, to give priority to those students whose demonstrated level of financial need is the greatest. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for part B fellowships for graduate and professional study. Renames the title IX part C National Graduate Fellows Program the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Programs. Extends through FY 1990 the Secretary's authority to award fellowships under such program. Provides that such fellowships shall be known as "Jacob K. Javits Fellowships." Provides that such fellowships shall be for graduate study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other areas of national interest. Renames the National Graduate Fellows Program Fellowship Board the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Board. Limits to $9,000 the amount of any stipend paid to an individual awarded such a fellowship. Revises title IX part D (Assistance for Training in the Legal Profession). Increases from six months to nine months the period of preliminary training for which costs may be paid from grant or contract funds under such part. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for part D assistance for training in the legal profession. Revises title IX part E (Law School Clinical Experience Programs) to extend through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for such part E programs. Revises title X (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) of the Act. Revises title X part A (Establishment and Operation of the Fund) to require that the Director of the Fund: (1) be appointed by the Secretary with the advice of the National Board of the Fund; and (2) report directly to the Secretary and not be under the supervision or direction of any other officer of the Department of Education. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for part A provisions for establishment and operation of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Replaces title X part B provisions for Establishment of Agencies (and which refer to the establishment of a Community College Unit within the Department of Education) with new part B provisions for a Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program. Establishes an Office of the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program within the Department of Education. Provides that the head of such office shall be a Director who shall: (1) be appointed by the Secretary with the advice of a specified advisory board established under this Act; and (2) report directly to the Secretary and not be under the supervision or direction of any other officer of the Department. Makes such Office responsible for the administration of the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program authorized under specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act (as added by the Education Amendments of 1980). Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory board for the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program to advise the Secretary and the Director with respect to such program. Sets forth provisions for Board membership and duties. Requires the Director to make available information and assistance to enable the Board to carry out its functions. Revises title XI (Urban Grant University Program). Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for such title XI program. Permits other entities within the community, including the applicant university, to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of projects under such program. Provides that the Federal share of such project cost shall not exceed 90 percent. Includes planning services under title XI programs. Makes technical amendments to title XI definitions. Redesignates title XII (General Provisions) as title XIII. Adds new title XII provisions for Institutional Endowment Development. Establishes a program to provide matching endowment grants to institutions of higher education which are eligible for assistance under the challenge grant program (part C of title III of HEA). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award such matching endowment grants from sums available under the challenge grant program. Limits the endowment grant period to not more than 20 years, during which time the institution may not withdraw or expend the endowment fund corpus (the amount of the grant plus the matching amount deposited by the institution). Permits the institution, after grant period termination, to use the endowment fund corpus plus any endowment fund income for any educational purpose. Provides that institutions may receive more than one such grant, but may only receive such a grant for two fiscal years out of any period of five consecutive fiscal years. Limits the amount of an endowment grant to an institution to: (1) not less than $50,000 for any fiscal year; and (2) not more than $250,000 for FY 1986 or $500,000 for FY 1987 or any succeeding fiscal year. Permits an eligible institution to designate a foundation, which was established to raise money for the institution, as the recipient of the endowment grant. Sets forth requirements which the foundation and the institution must meet for such an award. Sets forth requirements for investment of the endowment fund corpus and income. Permits an institution to withdraw and expend the endowment fund income to defray any expenses necessary to the operation of the college. Prohibits an institution from spending more than 50 percent of the total aggregate endowment fund income earned prior to the time of expenditure. Authorizes the Secretary to permit an institution to spend more than the 50-percent limit under specified emergency circumstances. Provides for repayment by an institution of funds withdrawn prematurely from the endowment fund corpus or improperly expended from endowment fund income. Set forth auditing requirements. Directs the Secretary, in selecting eligible institutions for endowment grants, to: (1) give priority to an applicant with a greater need for such grant based on the current market value of the applicant's existing endowment in relation to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at such institution and in relation to the number of such students at such institution who are recipients of assistance under title IV part A (Need-Based Student Assistance); and (2) consider the effort made by the applicant to build or maintain its existing endowment fund and the degree to which an applicant proposes to match the grant with nongovernmental funds. Sets forth provisions for endowment grant applications and approval. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate and recover an endowment grant, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, if the grantee institution fails to properly expend, invest, or account for endowment funds. Directs the Secretary to use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving title IV part A need-based student assistance, for purposes of making title XII institutional endowment development grant determinations. Sets limitations on the uses of title XIII grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and succeeding fiscal years to carry out the title XIII institutional endowment development grant program. Redesignates title XII (General Provisions) as title XIII and revises such general provisions. Sets forth a definition of "State higher education agency." Directs the Secretary, within six months after enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations in accordance with the recommendations in a May 1982 report on "Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Territories," in order to adapt programs under the Act to the needs of specified U.S. territories and possessions. Adds provisions authorizing appropriations for certain special postsecondary institutions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for: (1) Howard University; (2) Gallaudet College; and (3) programs under the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for the John W. McCormack Institute. Sets forth a requirement for congressional approval of regulations under the Act. Terminates the Secretary's authority to promulgate regulations under the Act unless such regulations are submitted for review and approval by Congress. Provides that such a regulation shall take effect only upon the enactment of a joint resolution of approval with respect to such regulation. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education in the Department of Education. Sets forth provisions for Commission membership. Directs the Commission to: (1) advise the Secretary on matters affecting higher education, student assistance, college libraries and facilities, teacher preparation, endowment, and construction needs; (2) submit an annual report to the Secretary and the Congress. Sets forth provisions for biomedical education projects for economically disadvantaged students. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education to offer projects to educate, motivate, and encourage students from an economically disadvantaged background to pursue training at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the biomedical sciences. Limits the amount of such grant or contract in any fiscal year to $2,400 for each talented student from an economically disadvantaged background who was a full participant in the project in the academic year ending in that fiscal year. Sets forth requirements relating to such projects. Sets forth application requirements for such assistance. Includes among authorized uses of such project assistance monthly stipends of up to $30 per month for target students who are full-time project participants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for such projects (to remain available for expenditure or obligation through FY 1991). Provides that up to five percent of such funds shall be used for project evaluations. Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to extend through FY 1990: (1) a formula for determination of the amount of the grant to each tribally controlled community college; (2) the authorization of appropriations for technical assistance contracts; and (3) the authorization of appropriations for the tribally controlled community college endowment program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
Increases the rate of compensation of citizen members of the National Capital Planning Commission from $100 per day to the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for positions at level V of the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
Requests the President to designate the week of June 24 through June 30, 1984, as National Safety in the Workplace Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1984
Designates the week beginning November 25, 1984, as National Home Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1984
Designates April 13, 1984, the birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, as Education Day, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Human Services Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Project Head Start - Amends the Head Start Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("the Secretary," for purposes of this title) to administer Project Head Start through the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services. Makes technical amendments to such Act. Authorizes appropriations for the Head Start program for FY 1985 through 1989. Requires the Secretary to reserve for training and technical assistance for each fiscal year funds which are not less than the amount spent for such activities under such Act in FY 1982. Prohibits funds reserved for discretionary payments by the Secretary under such Act from being combined with funds appropriated under any other Act if the purposes of combining funds is to make a single discretionary grant or a single discretionary payment. Requires the Secretary to designate as Head Start agencies any local public or private nonprofit agency in a community if such agency: (1) was receiving funds under any Head Start program on August 31, 1981; and (2) meets program and fiscal requirements established by the Secretary. (Under current law, the Secretary is required to give priority in the designation of Head Start agencies to such local agencies.) Authorizes the Secretary to designate a Head Start agency from among qualified applicants in a community if there is no Head Start agency or program serving such community. Requires that any such designation be governed by the program and fiscal requirements, criteria, and standards applicable on September 1, 1983, to then existing Head Start agencies. Requires that specified provisions relating to designation of Head Start agencies be carried out in FY 1985 through 1989 in accordance with the rules issued under such provisions by the Secretary as in effect on September 1, 1983. Permits each Head Start program operated in a community to provide services to any eligible child for any period from age three to the age of compulsory school attendance in the State where the program operates. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance and training in connection with Head Start programs. (Under current law, the Secretary is authorized to provide such assistance and training.) Requires that such training activities include: (1) a national child development associate training and assessment program providing the necessary credentials for such personnel; and (2) training, including resource access projects, which improves the ability of such personnel to provide Head Start services to handicapped children. Prohibits funds for Head Start research, demonstration, and pilot projects from being combined with funds available to carry out any other provision of law if the purpose of combining funds is to make a single discretionary grant or a single discretionary payment to a recipient of such funds. Prohibits any revision in Head Start performance standards which would result in either the elimination of, or the reduction in the scope of, types of health, education, parent involvement, social, or other services required by the performance standards issued by the Secretary as in effect on November 2, 1978. Title II: Follow Through Programs - Amends the Follow Through Act to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for the Follow Through program for FY 1984; and (2) authorize appropriations for such program for FY 1985 through 1989. Requires the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary," for purposes of this title) to provide financial assistance for research, demonstration, and pilot projects relating to the Follow Through program. (Under current law, the Secretary is authorized to provide such assistance.) Requires that such projects be designed to test or assist in the development of new approaches or methods that will aid in overcoming the special problems of primarily low-income children previously enrolled in Head Start or similar programs to develop to their full potential in kindergarten and the primary grades. Directs the Secretary to provide for a review and analysis of all previous evaluations and reports made in connection with all Follow Through programs and projects authorized by any Act of Congress in effect after August 20, 1964, and to provide a comprehensive evaluative report to the President and Congress by January 30, 1988. Makes a technical amendment which repeals the applicability of specified Head Start Act provisions to the Follow Through Act. Adds provisions for child care information and referral services to the Follow Through Act. (Entitles such provisions as the "Child Care Information and Referral Services Act.") Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, to make grants to assist public or private nonprofit organizations to establish and operate community-based child care information and referral centers. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires that grant recipients be selected through a competitive process, taking into consideration the demonstrated ability of applicants to provide such services, and giving priority to applicants for grants of less than $75,000. Requires an applicant to make specified assurances, including an assurance that it shall obtain certain percentages of its projected budget through non-Federal sources of funding during the grant period. Limits to five years the aggregate period for which such grants may be made to any single center. Sets reporting requirements for centers receiving such grants. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report annually to specified congressional committees on activities under such child care information and referral services provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for such child care information and referral services. Makes specified provisions for administration of the Head Start program applicable to the administration of such child information and referral services program. Title III: Community Services Programs - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for community services grants to States to ameliorate the causes of poverty in communities; and (2) authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for such grants. Revises grant application provisions to require States to assure that: (1) at least 85 percent of the State allotment will be used for grants to community action agencies (or to organizations serving seasonal or migrant farmworkers) for specified purposes; and (2) the remainder will be used to make grants to local governments (or to specified types of nonprofit private community organizations or to migrant and seasonal farm worker organizations) for such specified purposes. Includes services under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 among those activities to which a State may transfer funds from a portion of its community services grant allotment. Authorizes a State, whenever it determines that a local government, or a combination of local governments, is not served by a community action agency, to: (1) use funds earmarked for grants to local governments through an existing community action agency to provide such services; or (2) if that is not feasible, establish a new community action agency to provide such services. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("the Secretary," for purposes of this title) to waive for any State specified limitations relating to eligibility to receive grants, under specified conditions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct, in several States in each fiscal year, evaluations of the uses made of community services block grants; and (2) annually submit the results of such evaluations to specified congressional committees. Provides that the Office of Community Services within the Department of Health and Human Services shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Revises provisions relating to investigations conducted by the Secretary and the Comptroller General of the use of community service grant funds. Makes such investigations by the Comptroller General mandatory. Repeals a prohibition against the Secretary either requesting information not readily available to a State or requiring that any information be compiled, collected, or transmitted in any new form not already available. Requires the Secretary to provide for specified training and other ongoing activities of national or regional significance related to the purposes of the community services grants program, including certain special emphasis programs. (Under current law the Secretary has discretionary authority to provide for such training and other activities.) Adds to the list of such special emphasis programs specified types of programs for community food and nutrition and for senior opportunities and services which are described under specified provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as in effect on August 12, 1981. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for Native American programs under title VIII (the "Native American Programs Act of 1974") of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Title IV: Conforming Amendments; Effective Date - Makes conforming amendments to other Federal laws. Makes references to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Community Services in the Older American Community Services Employment Act. Makes the effective date of this Act the date of enactment or October 1, 1984, whichever occurs later.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Public Employee Pension Plan Reporting and Accountability Act of 1984 - Imposes disclosure and reporting requirements upon State and local government pension plans. Establishes fiduciary standards for trustees of public employee pension benefit plans. Provides remedies and access to Federal courts. Specifies employee benefit plans which are exempt from this Act. Title I: Reporting and Disclosure - Requires the administrator of each public employee pension benefit plan to submit a registration statement to the appropriate State Governor within one year of enactment of this Act. Exempts a plan from the reporting and disclosure requirements of this Act if a State Governor certifies to the Secretary of Labor that: (1) State requirements are substantially equivalent to those of this Act; (2) the State can adequately administer its requirements; and (3) the State can adequately collect the requisite reports. Requires the Secretary of Labor to terminate any certification if a State is not meeting Federal requirements. Requires the plan administrator to: (1) publish a summary plan description; and (2) furnish such description to plan participants, beneficiaries, and specified persons. Delineates the contents of such summary plan description. Requires such description to: (1) state the rights of participants and beneficiaries; and (2) include an update whenever material modifications are made to the plan. Requires the plan administrator to publish an annual report. Specifies the contents of such report. Directs such administrator to engage an independent qualified public accountant to ascertain whether the financial statements and schedules in the annual report present fairly and in all material respects the information contained in the annual report. Requires the accountant's opinion to be included in the annual report. Requires the annual report to include a financial statement containing specified information, including the most recent annual statement of assets and liabilities of a common or a collective trust held by a bank or similar institution. Requires each plan to maintain a schedule of: (1) all assets held for investment purposes during each plan year; and (2) each transaction involving a party in interest. Requires annual reports to include, with respect to a defined benefit plan, a complete actuarial statement applicable to the appropriate plan year. Directs the plan administrator to engage an enrolled actuary to prepare such statement. Delineates the contents of the actuarial statement. Requires the annual report to include a statement from an insurance organization if any plan benefits are purchased from or guaranteed by such organization. Details the contents of such statement. Requires the enrolled actuary of the plan to make an actuarial valuation at least once every three plan years. Directs the plan administrator to furnish, upon written request of certain persons, a copy of summary plan descriptions and the status of an individual's plan benefits and contributions. Provides guidelines under which the plan administrator is directed to file the annual report with either the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) or the appropriate State Governor. Authorizes the Secretary or Governor to reject the information filed by the plan administrator, and to take the following actions: (1) retain an independent public accountant to perform an audit; (2) retain an enrolled actuary to prepare an actuarial report; or (3) bring a civil action to enforce this Act. Presents guidelines for notice and review where claims for benefits are denied. Title II: Requirements Relating to Fiduciary Functions - Requires every plan to be established and maintained by written instructions which designate at least one named fiduciary. Details the functions of named fiduciaries and trustees. Establishes fiduciary and trustee liability. Prohibits certain transactions. Authorizes the Secretary to grant specified exemptions regarding such transactions. Imposes personal liability upon fiduciaries who fail to meet the fiduciary requirements, including removal for specified violations. Prohibits persons who have been convicted of, or imprisoned for, certain offenses from holding specified positions. Requires plan fiduciaries to be bonded. Specifies exceptions. Sets forth guidelines for the bonding procedure. Sets a limitation on actions which may be brought regarding failure to meet fiduciary requirements. Title III: Administration and Enforcement - Authorizes civil actions to redress violations of this Act. Imposes personal liability upon: (1) a plan administrator who fails to comply with a request for information; or (2) any person who fails to file required forms. Authorizes a plan to sue or be sued. Grants the United States district courts exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions brought under this Act. Grants concurrent jurisdiction to State courts and Federal district courts for specified actions. Authorizes the Federal district court to award reasonable attorney's fees under certain circumstances. Provides that suits brought against the Secretary may be brought in Federal district court. Authorizes the Secretary or appropriate State official to assess and collect a civil penalty against a party in interest who has engaged in a prohibited transaction. Grants such Secretary and State official investigative powers to determine violations of this Act. Details the extent of such powers. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations to administer this Act. Directs such Secretary to cooperate with State and local governments regarding the exchange of data and information. Prohibits interference with the exercise of rights by a plan participant or beneficiary. Establishes an Advisory Council on Governmental Plans, comprised of eleven members appointed by the President. Requires Council members to be qualified to appraise the plans falling under this Act. Requires the Council to: (1) report to the President and each House of Congress regarding implementation of this Act with possible recommendations for legislation; (2) advise the Secretary and make recommendations; and (3) monitor the costs incurred by plans under this Act and recommend cost reduction measures. Directs the Secretary to furnish staff services to the Council. States that this Act supersedes any State laws regarding public employee pension benefits plans. Specifies exceptions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1984
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to establish a rate of payment for hospice care which is less than specified amounts for routine home care, continuous home care, inpatient respite care, and general inpatient care. Directs the Secretary to: (1) annually review and, if appropriate, adjust such rates; and (2) periodically report to Congress on such review and adjustments.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Fair Trade in Steel Act of 1984 - Declares that it is the policy of Congress that access to the U.S. market for foreign-produced carbon, alloy, and specialty steel mill products should be on an equitable basis to safeguard national security, insure orderly trade in steel mill products, reduce unfair trade in steel mill products, and alleviate U.S. balance-of-payments problems. Expresses the intent of Congress to: (1) expand the economic viability of the U.S. steel industry and the jobs of its workers; (2) prevent the further decline of the domestic steel industry; and (3) temper the economic hardships resulting from unemployment in steel industry communities by encouraging reinvestment in existing steelmaking facilities. Limits annual imports of specified steel mill product categories to specified percentages of the apparent domestic supply which are based on adjusted average import penetration levels for each such product category for the years 1979, 1980, and 1981. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to allocate global product limitations among foreign countries, groups of countries, or areas. Sets forth guidelines for making such allocations. Requires the Secretary to make an annual determination of the expected apparent domestic supply in each steel mill product category. Requires the Secretary to revise such determination periodically during the year. Directs the Secretary to determine, within 90 days after the effective date of this Act, whether the steel industry companies have plans to use substantially all of the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment in and the modernization of the steel sector. Prohibits the import restrictions from taking effect until the Secretary determines that the steel companies have such plans. Directs the Secretary to monitor steel sector investments made and announced by the steel industry and to consult with steel industry representatives and employees in the course of such monitoring. Directs the Secretary to determine annually whether steel companies are using substantially all the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment in and modernization of the steel sector. Directs the Secretary to modify or suspend the relevant import restrictions if the Secretary determines that substantially less than all the cash flow from the steel sector is being used for such reinvestment and modernization and that the level of investment is not demonstrably justified by adverse financial conditions within the industry. Directs the Secretary to publish: (1) each annual determination and its rationale; and (2) the total amount of cash flow from the steel sector and the total amount used for reinvestment in and modernization of the steel sector. Requires the steel companies to provide the Secretary with the information necessary for making such determinations. Directs the Secretary to examine the supply and demand situation in the United States for a specified steel product category if requested by affected steel consumers. Sets forth criteria to be used in determining short supply. Directs the Secretary to monitor imports of fabricated steel mill products. Sets forth the method of investigating whether imports of fabricated steel products are rendering ineffective or materially interfering with the objectives of this Act. Limits the quantity of iron ore that may be entered from all sources during any calendar year after the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary to allocate global iron ore limitations among foreign countries, groups of countries or areas. Sets forth guidelines for making such allocation. Directs the Secretary, in making such allocations, to attempt first to accommodate the requirements of individual steel mills which have been traditionally dependent on ocean sourced foreign iron ore and the requirements of contractual obligations incurred before January 1, 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the import restrictions on iron ore if necessary to meet the needs of such individual steel mills. Provides for the enforcement and implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
National Dividend Act of 1984 - Establishes a program for the distribution of corporate income tax, capital gains tax, and insurance company income tax revenues to the registered voters of each State in the form of dividend payments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the chief financial officer of each State an amount equal to the National Dividend Payment, as computed under this Act, multiplied by the number of registered voters in such State. Establishes the National Dividend Payment Trust Fund. Directs the payment of specified amounts to the Trust Fund between FY 1985 and 1988. Establishes a National Dividend Review Board to review the manner in which payments are made from the Trust Fund and to make investments of trust funds which are not required to meet current expenses. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income all dividend income, including dividends received under this Act, received by a taxpayer from a domestic corporation. Increases the income tax deduction to corporations for dividends received on the preferred stock of a public utility. Prohibits an increase of corporate income tax rates above 46 percent. Limits increases in Federal expenditures during the five year period beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act to an amount which is attributable to inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Pennsylvania Wilderness Act of 1984 - Designates certain lands in Pennsylvania as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, including Allegheny Islands Wilderness-Proposed and Hickory Creek Wilderness-Proposed. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands in accordance with the Wilderness Act. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands or interests in lands within the Hickory Creek Wilderness, including oil, gas, mineral interests, and scenic easements. Requires the owner's consent for such acquisition. Limits the appropriation for such acquisitions to $2,000,000. Designates certain lands in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, as the Allegheny National Recreation Area. Identifies the lands composing such area as the Allegheny Front, Cornplanter, and Tracy Ridge, including the Allegheny Reservoir. Directs the Secretary to administer the national recreation area in accordance with the following objectives: (1) minimizing the environmental impacts of mineral exploration and development, including privately owned oil and gas; (2) maximizing recreational opportunities on the Allegheny Reservoir, including motorized and non-motorized boating; (3) protection of fish and wildlife habitat; and (4) protection of watershed and free flowing streams. Directs the Secretary to publish a management plan accompanied by an environmental impact statement for the national recreation area. Presents guidelines for the plan. Provides for public participation in preparing the comprehensive management plan. Permits hunting and fishing in accordance with Federal and State laws within the boundaries of the national recreation area. Requires the Secretary to consult with the appropriate State fish and game department before implementing any regulations. Withdraws the minerals in all Federally owned lands within the national recreation area from all forms of appropriation and disposition under either mining laws or mineral leasing laws. Requires special use permit applicants to submit a plan of operations consistent with the objectives of the national recreation area, including a reclamation plan. Directs the Secretary to file maps and legal descriptions of the wilderness and national recreation areas with specified congressional committees. States that the RARE II final environmental statement shall not be subject to judicial review concerning the national forest system lands in Pennsylvania. States that the wilderness designation under this Act is not a congressional intent to create buffer zones around such wilderness area.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Minority Investment Tax Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the nonrecognition of capital gain where such gain is reinvested in the stock of a mutual fund or other investment company which: (1) primarily invests in business enterprises controlled by minority persons; and (2) is owned, managed, affiliated, or otherwise controlled by a qualified minority company.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of May 1984 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Designates the week of May 7 through May 13, 1984, as National Photo Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Designates October 1984 as National Down's Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Designates the week beginning September 23, 1984, as National Adult Day Care Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Designates April 7, 1984, as World Health day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1984
Youth Incentive Employment Act - Establishes a program to provide part-time school year employment and full-time (or part-time with training) summer employment to economically disadvantaged youths who pursue further education and training. Provides that an individual may qualify to be an eligible youth for program participation purposes if such individual: (1) is 16 to 19 years of age, inclusive, at the time of assignment to a worksite; (2) is economically disadvantaged; (3) is not employed; (4) resides in the service delivery area (SDA) of the administering entity; and (5) has entered into a commitment to pursue further education and training. Requires such individuals to sign a written commitment to: (1) attend either a secondary school for a diploma, an alternative education program for a high school equivalency certificate, a remedial education program, or a skill training program; and (2) meet attendance and performance standards of such school or program and at the worksite to which the individual is referred for employment under this Act. Gives priority for selection under youth incentive plans to eligible youths with documented educational deficiencies. Terminates an individual's status as an eligible youth upon a finding by the administering entity, after an opportunity for a hearing, that the individual has failed to comply with the commitment. Requires that funds provided under this Act be used to establish and assist programs which assist eligible youth with qualifying employment in the form of: (1) part-time employment during the regular school year, not to exceed 20 hours per week; (2) part-time employment, during the months between regular school years, which is combined with remediation, classroom instruction, or on-the-job or apprenticeship training; and (3) full-time employment for a period of at least eight weeks during the months between regular school years, not to exceed 40 hours per week. Permits funds provided under this Act to be used to pay up to the following percentages of the wages and benefits and the costs of any employer-provided instruction and training of an eligible youth: (1) 100 percent during the first six months of qualifying employment; and (2) 75 percent during any succeeding months of such qualifying employment. Prohibits the use of funds provided under this Act to pay any portion of the wages and benefits of any individual: (1) for full-time employment during the months between the regular school year with a for-profit institution or organization unless such employment is a continuation of employment with that employer during the regular school year; or (2) if the employer has failed to develop or enforce attendance and performance standards consistent with youth incentive plan provisions. Sets forth general requirements for receipt and restrictions on the use of funds under this Act. Provides that the administering entity for any SDA under this Act is the same entity selected to administer the job training plan for that SDA pursuant to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Requires administering entities to: (1) develop and submit to the Secretary of Labor a youth incentive employment plan; and (2) provide from other Federal or State sources, or from local public or private sources, at least 20 percent of program costs for each program year, in cash or in kind. Requires that, of the funds provided to an administering entity for any program year under this Act: (1) at least 70 percent be expended for wages and benefits for qualifying employment, and child care, transportation, or other supportive service expenses for individuals engaged in such employment; (2) not more than 15 percent be used for the cost of administering programs under this Act; and (3) any remainder be used for worksite supervision, supplies, training aids and alternative or remedial education expenses. Sets forth requirements relating to youth incentive plans. Requires such plan to contain specified provisions, including: (1) provision for outreach services and programs to encourage participation in qualifying employment by eligible youths who are school dropouts, as well as by inschool youths; (2) assurances that special efforts will be made to recruit youth from families receiving public assistance, including parents of dependent children who meet the age requirement of this Act; and (3) a description of any arrangements made with labor organizations to enable youths to enter into apprenticeship training as part of employment provided under this Act. Requires that such plans, before they are submitted to the Secretary, be: (1) approved by the appropriate chief elected officials and the private industry council for the SDA; and (2) submitted for review and comment to the State job training coordinating council, and include any comments of such council and any reasons for nonconformance with such council's suggestions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) approve any plan submitted in compliance with the requirements of this Act; and (2) only disapprove a plan after notice and opportunity for a hearing to the administering entity. Sets forth special conditions relating to activities using funds under this Act. Requires that wage rates under this Act be the higher of the applicable minimum wage or the prevailing rate of pay for individuals employed in similar positions by the same employer, with specified exceptions in cases of labor organization representation. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe wage rates within specified limits for youth participants for projects financed under $5,000 to which Davis-Bacon Act provisions would otherwise apply. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and succeeding fiscal years for allocation to administering entities for programs under this Act. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount of such appropriations for allotment among Native American eligible entities, on an equitable basis, taking into account the extent to which regular employment opportunities have been lacking for long-term periods among individuals within the jurisdiction of such entities. Requires that the remainder be allocated among administering entities that have in effect an approved youth incentive plan on the basis of numbers in each SDA of: (1) economically disadvantaged youth; (2) unemployed residents; and (3) excess unemployed residents (i.e. those in excess of six and one-half percent of the civilian labor force in the SDA). Requires that such allocations to an administering entity for an SDA be paid to the JTPA grant recipient for that SDA. Provides for a program year basis for funding beginning with FY 1986. Makes FY 1985 appropriations available both to funds activities for the period between October 1, 1984, and July 1, 1985, and for the program year beginning July 1, 1985. Authorizes additional appropriations for the transition to program year funding. Makes specified administrative and enforcement provisions of JTPA applicable to programs under this Act. Requires the administering entity to make quarterly reports to the Secretary on the youth incentive projects authorized under this Act. Requires such reports to include specified topics. Directs the Secretary to compile such reports and submit a summary of the findings to the Congress in the annual report for employment and training programs required under JTPA.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1984
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Phillip Vetter, of Spring, Texas, to be presented to his family in his memory as the oldest survivor of congenital severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Authorizes the President, on behalf of Congress, to present to Elie Wiesel a gold medal in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding contributions to world literature and human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the public sale of bronze duplicates of such medal.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Designates March 25, 1984, and each March 25 thereafter, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Juvenile Justice, Runaway Youth, and Missing Children's Act Amendments of 1984 - Title I: General Provisions - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to make technical changes with regard to the Act's findings, purpose, and definitions. Title II: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Makes changes in the Act so that it is neutral as to sex. Decreases from seven and one-half to four percent the percentage of authorized appropriations for use by the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to implement policy. Decreases the authorized appropriations from $500,000 to $200,000 for the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Allows members of State advisory groups and State and local officials to be appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Requires that at least two of the individuals appointed to the Advisory Committee be residents of rural areas. Decreases the authorized appropriations from $500,000 to $200,000 for the Advisory Committee. Revises certain requirements imposed on State plans receiving formula grants under the Act, including the involvement of family members in programs addressing the delinquency-related problems of juveniles and the provision of treatment to juveniles with a dependence on alcohol or drugs. Requires that State plans provide that no juvenile shall be detained or confined in any jail or lockup for adults except in certain cases of juveniles accused of nonstatus offenses who are awaiting an initial court appearance within 24 hours of custody. Revises the amount of funds appropriated for making grants and entering contracts with public and private non-profit agencies, organizations, or institutions, or individuals for certain activities and projects. Requires programs selected for such grants to be selected through a competitive process. Requires the Administrator to announce publicly the availability of funds for such assistance. Requires that the notification of grants and contracts and the applications for such grants be transmitted to the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. Requires the Administrator, acting through the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to provide for a biennial national conference for the purpose of disseminating information, data, standard techniques, and program models. Establishes within the Institute a Law-Related Education Resource Center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Title III: Runaway and Homeless Youth - Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to provide grants and assistance to programs that assist families. Repeals the section dealing with the procedure for a reorganization plan. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1989. Title IV: Missing Children's Assistance - Missing Children's Assistance Act - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services a Bureau of Missing Children. Directs the Secretary, through the Bureau, to: (1) coordinate all federally-funded programs relating to missing children; (2) establish and allocate a national toll-free telephone line for missing children; (3) provide assistance to State and local governments, public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals in locating missing children; (4) coordinate Federal efforts to locate missing children; (5) disseminate information relating to missing children; (6) conduct a national incidence study; and (7) publish an annual summary evaluating Federal, State, and local projects relating to missing children. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for research, demonstration projects, and service programs for missing children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Designates the month of September 1984 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Immigration Reform Act of 1984 - Title I: Control of Illegal Immigration - Part A: Preventing Displacement of Domestic Workers by Unauthorized Aliens - Authorizes supplemental appropriations for specified enforcement activities regarding the unauthorized employment of aliens (with emphasis in high concentration areas) for: (1) FY 1984 for the Department of Labor; and (2) FY 1984 through 1986 for the National Labor Relations Board. Directs the Secretary of Labor to submit an alien labor enforcement plan to Congress within two months for FY 1984 supplemental personnel and resources, and to revise such plan for FY 1985 and FY 1986. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to establish a civil penalty for specified recordkeeping violations. Part B: Improvement of Enforcement and Services - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize supplementary FY 1984 appropriations for Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) enforcement activities. Authorizes FY 1985 through 1986 appropriations for INS. Directs the Attorney General to submit a plan to Congress within two months for FY 1984 supplemental personnel and resources, and to revise such plan for FY 1985 and FY 1986. States that increases in enforcement activities should be used predominantly for border area patrol. Establishes criminal penalties for unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens to the United States for commercial advantage or private profit. Directs the Attorney General, jointly with the Secretary of State, to initiate antismuggling program discussions with Canada and Mexico, and to report on such discussions to the Congress within one year. Directs the Attorney General to develop an INS immigration emergency plan, and to submit such plan to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Attorney General to request supplementary appropriations if the President has determined that such an emergency exists. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish an inservice training program to familiarize INS personnel with the rights of citizens and the various cultural backgrounds of persons they may come in contact with; and (2) enhance the INS community outreach program. Part C: Adjudication and Enforcement Powers and Procedures - Creates a seven-member United States Immigration Board as an independent agency within the Department of Justice to hear appeals from: (1) final decisions of administrative law judges (other than voluntary departures); (2) the exercise of certain discretionary authority; (3) imposition of penalties and fines; and (4) determinations respecting bond, parole, and detention. States that the Board's determination shall be binding on all immigration judges, immigration officers, and consular officers unless judicially modified. Requires the President to nominate Board members within 45 days. Replaces the existing special inquiry officer system with a system of immigration judges. Grants such judges responsibility for exclusion, deportation, asylum, and status rescission cases. Limits the Attorney General's authority to arrest and obtain an alien pending determination of deportability. Requires such determination proceedings to be open to the public unless requested otherwise by the alien. Requires related bail determination within 24 hours. Sets forth determination factors, including factors requiring release without bond. Provides for an administrative de novo determination. Permits the Attorney General to revoke an alien's bond or conditional release and detain such person for reasonable cause. Permits an immigration officer or employee to stop and temporarily detain a person if the officer has a reasonable belief based on specific, articulable facts, that such person is illegally in the United States. Requires a determination of deportability to be made within 24 hours of arrest. Requires an alien to be advised orally and in writing of the reasons for arrest and his or her rights in English or in such person's native language. Requires advisement of right of counsel and right to remain silent. Provides for both searches with warrants and warrantless searches. Prohibits State and local law enforcement personnel from stopping, questioning, or detaining a person solely on the ground that such person may be an excludable or deportable alien, except as provided for under such Act. Part D: Suspension of Deportation - Revises the seven- year "physical presence" requirement to a seven-year "residence" in the United States for suspension of deportation purposes. Title II: Reform of Legal Immigration and Naturalization- Part A: Immigrants - Increases annual visas: (1) from 20,000 to 40,000 each for Mexico and Canada (with the unused portion available to the other country); and (2) from 600 to 3000 for the colonies. Makes such increases effective in FY 1985. Requires a comprehensive immigration impact report every three years beginning on January 1, 1987. Requires the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to hold public hearings to review such reports. Includes the relationship between an illegimate child and its natural father within the definition of "child" for purposes of status, benefit, or privilege under such Act. Exempts certain self-supporting retirees from numerical admissions limitations. Treats university researchers as faculty for certification purposes. Part B: Nonimmigrant Tourists - Authorizes a three-year tourist visa waiver pilot program with up to eight reciprocating countries. Authorizes a visa waiver program for Guam. Part C: Naturalization - Confers naturalization jurisdiction upon the Attorney General. Authorizes an administrative naturalization procedure in addition to the current judicial procedure. Waives the English language requirement for persons older than 50 years. Eliminates the six-month State residency requirement. Reduces the required residency period from five to four years. Title III: Legalization - Directs the Attorney General to adjust to permanent resident status aliens who: (1) entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and have resided continuously in this country illegally since that date; (2) apply within the prescribed application period; (3) have registered with the draft if so required; and (4) are otherwise admissible. Prohibits the legalization of persons: (1) convicted of a felony (excluding certain re-entry violations) in the United States; or (2) who have taken part in religious, political, or racial persecution. Requires the Attorney General to designate and work with voluntary agencies to disseminate program information and process such aliens. Waives numerical limitations, labor certification, and other specified entry violations for such aliens. Permits the Attorney General to waive other grounds for exclusion (except criminal, most drug-related, and security grounds) to assure family unity or when otherwise in the national interest. Provides for a transitional legal status, during such adjustment determination period which prohibits deportation and permits employment. Requires that persons arrested during such legalization program period be notified of their opportunity to adjust, and prohibits deportation until they have been afforded such opportunity. Permits administrative appeal of a status adjustment denial. Directs the Attorney General to establish eligibility requirements and application approval guidelines in consultation with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and participating voluntary agencies. Directs the Attorney General to construe such adjustment requirements liberally, taking into account the special circumstances relating to individuals previously residing unlawfully in the United States. Allows the waiver of continuous residence when necessary to avoid undue family hardship. Provides criminal penalties for false application statements. Makes legalized aliens (other than Cuban/Haitian entrants, the aged, blind, and disabled, and persons requiring specified medical assistance) ineligible for Federal financial assistance and medicaid for five years. States that programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act, title V of the Social Security Act, unemployment assistance programs, the National School Lunch Act, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, the Headstart-Follow Through Act, the Job Training Partnership Act, and subparts 4 and 5 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall not be construed as prohibited assistance. Requires the President to report to Congress within 27 months on the legalization program's impact. Provides permanent resident status adjustment for certain Cuban and Haitian nationals who entered the United States before January 1, 1982. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987 for State legalization assistance. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, subject to available appropriations, to provide full reimbursement to States for costs incurred in providing specified services to aliens during the period they were ineligible for Federal assistance. Requires the Secretary of Education, subject to available appropriations, to assist States in meeting such aliens' added educational costs. Provides for cooperation with State and local governmental advisory groups in implementing this Act. Title IV: National Commission on Immigration - Establishes a 15-member National Commission on Immigration to study and recommend legislative and administrative solutions to specified social, economic employment, and international immigration problems facing the United States, including the development of economic programs with Latin America. Requires the Commission to assess: (1) the current U.S. temporary worker program; and (2) the courses of the existing preference visa backlog. Sets forth administrative and operating provisions. Requires a report to Congress within three years. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of such report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Amends the Bankruptcy Code to permit a trustee to reject or assume a collective bargaining agreement made under the authority of title II of the Railway Labor Act or the National Labor Relations Act only if and after the court approves such rejection or assumption. Requires notice to all parties and a hearing before the court may approve such a rejection. Prohibits the court from approving the rejection of a collective bargaining agreement if, absent the rejection: (1) the jobs covered by such agreement will be lost; and (2) any financial reorganization of the debtor will fail. Declares that a rejection of a collective bargaining agreement constitutes a breach at the time of such rejection. Declares that no provision of this Act shall be construed to permit the trustee unilaterally to terminate or alter any of the terms and conditions of such a collective bargaining agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Designates the week of October 21 through October 27, 1984, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Requires that the U.S. Embassy in Israel and the residence of the American Ambassador to Israel shall be located in Jerusalem.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Medicare Solvency and Health Care Financing Reform Act of 1984 - Adds a new title XXI to the Public Health Service Act entitled "Programs For Reforming the Health Care Financing System." Sets forth part A of such title entitled "State Health Care Programs." Provides that if a State transmits to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, within one year of the enactment of this Act, a statement that the State intends to submit a health care plan (described below), for purposes of making payments to the State under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act the Federal medical assistance percentage shall be 102 percent of such percentage as otherwise determined under Medicaid for such State for up to one year. Directs the Secretary to exempt hospitals in a State from the prospective payment limits established under this Act for certain time periods occurring during the first year of the transition period (defined in part C of title XXI as the 24-month period beginning January 1985) if: (1) the State requests such treatment; (2) the State indicates an intention to have implemented a State plan under title XXI which will provide for a recoupment of any revenues received in excess of the amounts permitted under part A; and (3) the State has agreed, with respect to such hospitals, that if a State plan under this Act is not implemented by the end of the first year of the transition period, then the Secretary shall provide for such adjustment in the prospective payment limits under part I of part B as will provide for recoupment in the subsequent year of any revenues received in excess of amounts permitted. Authorizes a State to apply to the Secretary for the approval of a health care plan for the State for an initial period of up to three years, subject to disapproval. Authorizes extensions of such initial period for up to two additional years. Provides that, for any one-year period, in the case of any State with an approved plan: (1) the transitional period provisions of subpart I of part B of title XXI shall not apply; (2) requirements for reimbursement (other than those relating to beneficiary cost sharing) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act shall be waived and; (3) for purposes of making payments to a State under Medicaid the Federal medical assistance percentage shall, for the year the plan is in effect, be 103 percent (or 104 percent in the case of an unrestricted Medicaid plan) of the amount of the Federal medical assistance percentage otherwise determined under Medicaid and 102 percent (or 103 percent in the case of an unrestricted Medicaid plan) for any subsequent year (except for any extension period) of the amount of the Federal medical assistance percentage otherwise determined. Defines "unrestricted Medicaid plan" as a State Medicaid plan which does not impose any limitation on the scope or duration of inpatient hospital services other than requiring that such services be medically necessary. Directs the Secretary to annually review each approved plan. Requires the continued approval, for a certain time, of a plan not in compliance, if the State certifies that it will comply within a stated time period. Permits a further extension of approval if there is a trend towards compliance. Provides for the establishment of a Federal program with respect to hospitals for a State which cannot comply. Requires a State plan, in order to be approved, to meet the general requirements set forth below and, if applicable, certain requirements relating to ratesetting plans. Permits a plan, in meeting the general requirements, to be designed in a manner that meets such requirements through a ratesetting system, a voluntary system, or through the use of competitive mechanisms. Requires a plan to be designed in a manner so as to provide, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that: (1) the amount of the total revenues per discharge for all hospitals in the State for each year beginning before 1987 in which the plan is in effect may not exceed the base general hospital revenues per discharge increased by the sum of the compounded sum of the percentage limits for a year and the previous years for which the State plan was in effect, and the population-discharge factor; and (2) the amount of the total revenues per discharge for all services furnished to hospitals inpatients for all hospitals in the State for each year beginning after 1986 in which the plan is in effect may not exceed the sum of the base general hospital revenues per discharge increased by the sum of the compounded sum of the percentage limits for a year and the previous years for which the State plan was in effect, and the population-discharge factor, plus the base physician-related hospital revenues per discharge increased by the sum of the compounded sum of the percentage limits for a year and the previous years for which the plan is in effect and provided for a limitation under this clause (2), and the population-discharge factor. Authorizes a State, at its option, to apply the test specified in clause (2) instead of the test specified in clause (1) with respect to years prior to 1986. Permits a plan, instead of meeting the above requirements, to meet such other alternative test of constraint of health care costs as the Secretary determines will not result in a greater expenditure of funds under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and by private payers than would have been made if the plan met the above requirements. Requires a plan to be designed so as to provide that the amount of revenues for inpatient hospital services and physicians' services to hospital inpatients and individuals entitled to benefits under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act may not exceed the amount which would otherwise be payable (including copayments and deductibles) for such services under title XVIII. Permits a plan (other than a plan providing for the establishment of rates of hospital reimbursement for hospital inpatient services) to provide that payment under title XVIII for inpatient hospital services and for other services furnished to hospital inpatients shall continue to be made in the amounts and in the manner otherwise provided under Medicare. Requires that the unreimbursed costs incurred by hospitals in providing services to low-income, uninsured or underinsured patients (other than Medicare or Medicaid patients) be paid pursuant to a plan in an amount which must, in the aggregate, be the same proportion of total revenues as such unreimbursed costs are of total costs of patients who are neither Medicare nor Medicaid patients. Provides that such unreimbursed costs shall be paid through distribution of funds pooled at the statewide level, through a higher payment rate, or through another method approved by the Secretary. Requires a plan to have a mechanism for providing fair hearings for hospitals and any other entities aggrieved by determinations made under the plan. Requires a State to provide for the appointment of a panel, consisting of members with expertise in health care economics and service delivery, to advise in the development and implementation of its plan, periodically review and propose modifications to the plan, and establish the methodology for establishing the percentage limit used to compute hospital revenues. Requires such methodology to include the use of appropriate external price indicators, the use of data from major collective-bargaining agreements for nonsupervisory hospital employees, and other appropriate indicators of wage costs. Requires the methodology to be approved by the Secretary. Requires a plan, to the extent that it provides for meeting plan requirements through a system which provides for the establishment of rates for hospital reimbursement for hospital inpatient services by an entity other than the hospital, to meet the following additional requirements: (1) except as provided in clause (2), the plan must provide equitable treatment of all entities that pay for health services covered under the plan, of hospital employees, and of patients; (2) if the plan is established under State law, the plan must take into account the proportion of costs associated with, and services covered by, the different payors, including Medicare and Medicaid, and may not permit undue shifting of proportions of costs among the different payors; (3) the plan may not make available any discount in price to any purchaser unless the discount accurately reflects economic benefits to a hospital resulting from a service arrangement with a purchaser and the discount is made available to all other purchasers who can satisfy such service; and (4) the plan must provide a procedure whereby, upon the request of a hospital, an adjustment can be considered to the rate limitation applicable under the plan to that hospital to reflect a significant change in the inpatient hospital services, increased costs for the compensation of employees, funds necessary to provide for the efficient operation of a hospital which the State has determined should remain in operation, and higher expenses associated with a regional tertiary care institution, teaching hospital, or children's hospital. Directs the Secretary, in reviewing a plan which provides for control of hospital inpatient costs through a competitive mechanism, to take into account the degree to which the plan provides for the following or other measures to improve price competition among providers: (1) the plan provides for open enrollment periods; (2) the plan provides for the dissemination of information concerning different health benefits plans; (3) the plan encourages innovation and public incentives to new forms of health care delivery and financing; (4) there are negotiated prices and risk-sharing between insurers and health care providers; and (5) the laws of the State do not impose legal barriers to competition in negotiated and other arrangements among insurers and health care providers. Sets forth part B of title XXI entitled "Residual Federal Program subpart I of part B entitled "Transition Period." Provides that, subject to the provisions of subpart I, for any accounting period of a hospital subject to subpart I the total revenues for inpatient hospital services may not exceed the total of such revenues that are permitted on the basis of prospective payment limits established under subpart I for the hospital's discharges as classified by diagnosis-related groups. Requires each hospital subject to a limitation on revenues under subpart I to provide for the publication of a price list which establishes the price per discharge which any payor may pay for inpatient hospital services. Requires a hospital to submit its price list to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to determine (for each accounting period) a prospective payment limit for inpatient hospital services for discharges classified by diagnosis-related groups. Sets forth the method for determining and adjusting the limit for each hospital for discharges. Authorizes the Secretary, at the request of a hospital, to increase the allowable revenues for an accounting period or provide for an increase in the base number of discharges otherwise permitted under subpart I to allow for higher revenues than would otherwise be permitted if: (1) a major renovation or replacement of physical plant or significant change in the capacity of the hospital has occurred; (2) the hospital is a sole community provider or provides a disproportionate percentage of its services to low-income or medicare patients, the hospital would otherwise be insolvent, and the State has determined that the hospital should remain open; (3) a larger revenue increase is needed because the hospital is a regional tertiary care institution, teaching hospital, or children's hospital; and (4) there has been a significant change in the characteristics of the hospital's mix of patients. Subjects a hospital which has total inpatient revenues for an accounting period in excess of its applicable limit to a civil penalty, unless the excess is deposited in an escrow account. Permits withdrawals from the account upon the Secretary's certification that the total inpatient revenues of a hospital for an accounting period fall below the applicable limit for that period. Establishes a civil penalty for a physician or other person or entity (other than a hospital) who has charged any person or entity for services which are required by law to be billed to a hospital. Sets forth provisions relating to notice, opportunity for a hearing, and appeal of such penalties. Prohibits a hospital from engaging in an admission practice that results in: (1) a refusal to admit a patient who is unable to pay for inpatient hospital services; (2) the refusal to admit a patient who would be expected to require unusually costly or prolonged treatment; or (3) the refusal to provide emergency services to any person in need of such services. Sets forth penalties, including exclusion from Medicare or Medicaid participation, for hospitals committing such admissions violations. Sets forth subpart II of Part B entitled "Post-Transition Period." Provides that in the case of a State not having a plan approved under part A and in effect for any period beginning after the transition period, the Secretary shall establish and implement a health care plan for such State for such period which meets the requirements of part A, with specified differences. Sets forth definitions under part C of title XXI. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Health Care Technologies and Procedures. Directs the Advisory Committee to examine the appropriateness of the various interventions and the conditions under which they are needed, the safety and efficacy of alternative therapeutic and preventive regimens, and the standards for availability and utilization of various technologies, and to publicly report on whether or not payments should be made for such services and, if so, under what conditions and frequency of service. Exempts individuals enrolled in health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans from the limits established under title XXI on revenues and discharge of a hospital if: (1) the organization elects such treatment; or (2) the organization annually pays for more than 20 percent of the number of bed-days of care with respect to that hospital. Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to employees' health benefits plans to provide that if an employer makes a contribution with respect to the costs of a health benefits plan of an employee and the employer offers the option of membership in a health maintenance organization or a competitive medical plan, which membership provides benefits at least actuarially equivalent to those provided under the other health benefits plan, the employer shall: (1) contribute at least as much towards the membership as the maximum amount of the employer's contribution to the other plan; (2) provide for a cash rebate if the contribution with respect to any other health benefits plan exceeds the cost of membership with the organization; and (3) provide information to employees that reasonably compares the benefits and costs of different plans. Exempts from the provisions of the previous sentence employees of an employer represented by a collective bargaining representative or other employee representative selected under any law. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans, to provide that the annual per capita rate of payment for each class of members shall be 100 percent in the care of individuals enrolled with an eligible organization in an area where at least 30 percent of the individuals eligible to enroll with an organization are enrolled. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to exempt a health maintenance organization which is a public entity from the requirement that at least 75 percent of its membership be Medicaid eligible or insured under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII or under both parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B of title XVIII. Directs the Secretary, under the prospective payment provisions of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, to provide that in the case of a State health care plan approved under Part A of title XXI of the Public Health Service Act payments with respect to services covered under title XXI: (1) may, at the State's option, be made in accordance with title XXI rather than Medicare; or (2) shall be made in accordance with title XXI rather than Medicare in the case of a plan which provides for the control of hospital costs through a title XXI ratesetting mechanism. Provides for increased Medicare payments to a hospital for its operating costs if the number of admissions for an accounting period exceeds the hospital's admissions during a specified base period. Directs the Secretary to determine a regionally adjusted capital-related prospective payment rate for each inpatient hospital discharge in accordance with a specified formula. Directs the Secretary, for each diagnosis-related group, to estimate the average per discharge amount of charges recognized under part B of title XVIII attributable to items and services furnished to inpatients within such group during 1983. Provides that, subject to the part B deductible and subject to other provisions of the Medicare prospective payment rate provisions, with respect to each individual entitled to benefits under part A and enrolled under part B of title XVIII who is a hospital inpatient and whose discharge is classified within a diagnosis-related group, the Secretary shall provide for payment to the hospital of an amount equal to 80 percent of a specified rate in lieu of payments otherwise made under part B for inpatient services. Requires that: (1) payments for health care services furnished to inpatients be made to or through a hospital as a condition of the hospital's participation in the Medicare payment; and (2) the Secretary provide for notice to the public and to individuals enrolled under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act of such requirement. Permits the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to borrow at any time from other social security trust funds if it can repay the loan within ten years. Provides for the periodic transfer to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund of amounts which the Secretary determines to be equal to a specified fraction of the total revenues of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to conduct and report to Congress on seven studies relating to: (1) health care costs, quality, delivery, and services; and (2) the effects of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as National Birds of Prey Conservation Week.