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United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
States that the Federal Government should restore balance to the Department of Energy's FY 1983 budget by maintaining funding for energy conservation, renewable energy, and weatherization programs and by distributing information on conservation and renewable energy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission should establish a special citizen's rate of not more than 15 cents per ounce for domestic, nonbusiness first-class mail.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; and (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to exclude burial plots and burial insurance policies from the determination of an SSI applicant's resources.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the rights of residents in nursing and intermediate care facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Independent Contractor Tax Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify standards for determining whether certain individuals qualify as independent contractors for purposes of the tax on employment income. Treats an individual as an independent contractor if such individual: (1) controls the total number of his work hours; (2) has a principal place of business which is not his principal residence or which is not provided by the service recipient; (3) provides service, more than one-third of which is attributable to tangible property furnished by the individual providing the service; (4) is an insurance, real estate, or consumer salesperson; (5) risks income fluctuation because more than 90 percent of the remuneration for the performance of the service is directly related to sales or other output rather than to the number of hours worked; and (6) performs services pursuant to a written contract and is provided written notice of his responsibility with respect to income and self-employment taxes. Requires the recipient of services performed by an individual claiming independent contractor status to file returns disclosing payments made to such individual. Provides that the criteria established by this Act shall not be applicable to agent-drivers, commission-drivers, full-time life insurance salesmen, home workers, and traveling or city salesmen who are statutorily designated as employees for purposes of social security taxation. Provides that the failure of an individual claiming independent contractor status to meet the criteria established by this Act shall not create an inference that such an individual is an employee or that the recipient of his services is an employer. Limits the applicability of the criteria established by this Act to questions of employment status arising under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, self-employment tax provisions, and withholding requirements under the Internal Revenue Code. Requires recipients of services performed by an independent contractor to file an information return with respect to payments made for such services in excess of $600 for the taxable year. Requires businessmen who make direct sales of consumer goods to individuals for resale on a buy-sell basis or a deposit-commission basis to file information returns for sales in excess of $3,000. Requires individuals who file such information returns to furnish written statements to persons with respect to whom such information is reported which indicate the amount of payment reported. Provides penalties for failure to furnish information returns or statements. Requires recipients of services performed by an independent contractor to withhold ten percent of the payment made for such services. Sets forth exceptions to such withholding requirement. Provides a penalty for failure to comply with withholding requirements. Treats as employees, for purposes of the withholding of income tax, certain traveling or city salesmen.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Prohibits extending foreign military sales, credits, and guarantees to any country in the Middle East which has not declared its willingness to adhere to the Camp David Accords.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Directs the President to designate April 12, 1982, as American Salute to Cabanataun Prisoner of War Memorial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Designates the week of April 18, 1982, as National Architecture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
Designates the week beginning June 7, 1982, as National Theater Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to revise the tariff treatment of dolls and certain toy figures. Grants duty-free treatment to: (1) stuffed dolls; (2) doll clothing imported separately; (3) certain toy figures of inanimate objects; and (4) skins of dolls and toy figures of animate and inanimate objects. Imposes specified tariffs on dolls that are not stuffed and on certain toy figures of inanimate objects.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Requests the President to designate October 16, 1982, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Lech Walesa and others detained by Poland's government for political reasons should be released. Declares that Walesa and other Solidarity members should be permitted to: (1) participate in negotiations concerning the future of Solidarity; (2) comment on the situation in Poland; and (3) travel freely.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Energy from contracting out firefighting or security functions at military installations or installations where functions relating to military applications of nuclear energy are performed.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Entitles former members of the armed forces who are totally disabled because of a service- connected disability to the same travel privileges on military aircraft as retired members of the armed forces enjoy.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1982, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 for FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Designates the week beginning on June 6, 1982, as National Child Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Increases the monthly rate of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to the surviving spouse of a veteran who died from a service-connected or compensable disability by the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Administrator to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to children of such deceased veterans between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate May 20, 1982, as Amelia Earhart Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
High Technology Trade Act of 1982 - Directs the President to negotiate with foreign governments and instrumentalities to obtain substantially equivalent competitive opportunities through maximum openness of trade and investment. Requires such negotiations to include, to the maximum extent possible, the major developed countries and the newly industrialized countries. Authorizes the President to enter into bilateral and multilateral agreements to achieve the objectives of this Act, including commitments to monitor compliance. Sets forth commitments included in providing substantially equivalent competitive opportunities through maximum openness of trade and investment. Authorizes the President, in order to carry out an agreement under this Act, to proclaim tariff changes and to use procedures contained in the Trade Act of 1974 if changes in U.S. law are required. Authorizes the President to enter into an agreement under this Act even if the President determines that U.S. firms would not promptly receive substantially competitive trade and/or investment opportunities. Makes such an agreement subject to specified conditions. Requires the President to report to Congress on whether the major developed countries and the newly industrialized countries have taken sufficient actions to provide substantially equivalent competitive opportunities for U.S. high technology exports and investments. Provides for consultations if such actions have not been taken. Authorizes the President to establish substantially equivalent competitive opportunities if consultations do not establish such opportunities. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report annually to Congress on: (1) the extent to which any major developed country or advanced developing country utilizes industrial policies or measures that distort international trade and that have significant adverse effects on the U.S. high technology industry; and (2) the measures the United States is taking to remedy such adverse effects. Sets forth material to be analyzed in such report. Directs the President to take whatever steps are necessary to eliminate foreign industrial policies which: (1) significantly distort international trade or investment to the detriment of any U.S. high technology industry; and (2) may result in sales of articles at less than fair value in the U.S. market or subsidization of imports and cause material injury to any U.S. high technology industry. Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements providing for the expansion of product categories or to take unilateral action to prevent the distorting effects of restrictions at one level of trade on the trade patterns at another level. Directs the Secretary to analyze high technology trade and investment patterns, to evaluate the equivalency of competitive opportunities, and to further the objectives of this Act. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the President on such analysis. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on the measures contained in the Secretary's report that the President considers to be a violation of international agreements or which are otherwise unjustifiable and a burden on U.S. commerce. Directs the Secretary and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to establish a High Technology Industry Advisory Committee. Requires the USTR and the Secretary to consult with the Committee on negotiating positions, concluding agreements, imposing restrictions under this Act, and monitoring the results of any such agreement or restriction. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to add to the actions the President may take to enforce U.S. trade rights and respond to foreign trade practices. Authorizes the President to impose restrictions on direct investment by foreigners in the United States and on access by foreigners to joint research and development activities in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
Home Mortgage Capital Stability Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to purchase capital participation notes from, and make earnings stabilization payments to, any insured bank determined eligible under this Act. Limits eligibility for such assistance to any insured bank: (1) whose net worth is less than two percent of its assets; (2) which has sustained earnings losses for any two consecutive quarters during a specified time period, althoug its prospects for long term viability remain reasonably good; and (3) at least 20 percent of whose loan portfolio consists of mortgages secured by property occupied by a one-to-four-family residence or by individual condominium or cooperative units. Prescribes the requirements of any assistance agreement between the Corporation and such a bank, including a requirement that at least 50 percent of annual net new deposits be used to issue mortgages to first-time home buyers for condominium or cooperative units or for property occupied by a one-to-four-family residence. Requires the capital participation notes purchased by the Corporation from an insured bank to be in an amount equal to the difference between such bank's net worth and two percent of its assets. Requires that all amounts received from the sale of capital participation notes be used to increase such bank's net worth. Permits the Corporation, during the two-year period following its purchase of such notes, to make quarterly earnings stabilization payments to such a bank in an amount equal to the earnings losses incurred by the bank during the previous quarter. Allows continued earnings stabilization payments after such two-year period only if the Corporation certifies that the continued earnings losses involved are caused by general market conditions and not by the banks's own actions. Requires an insured bank to begin repaying the Corporation the amounts received plus interest after its net worth reaches three percent of its assets or five years have passed since it first received assistance. Sets the total annual repayment amount at not less than half the bank's net income after taxes. Prohibits such a bank with a stock form of ownership from paying dividends to its shareholders while it owes any amount to the Corporation. Amends the National Housing Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to authorize the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration Board to provide similar assistance to insured savings and loan associations and Federal credit unions in similar circumstances. Establishes in the Treasury a Home Mortgage Capital Stability Fund for use as a revolving fund by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the National Credit Union Administration for the purposes of this Act. Requires quarterly reports to each House of Congress by each of such users. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Ocean and Coastal Resources Management and Development Block Grant Act - Establishes within the Treasury an Ocean and Coastal Resources Management and Development Fund. Limits the total amount payable into the Fund during any fiscal year. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to use specified portions of such funds to: (1) carry out the National Sea Grant College Program; and (2) provide national ocean and coastal resources management and development block grants to each coastal State. Requires such States to report specified information to the Secretary before receiving such grants. Sets forth the formula by which the Secretary shall determine the amount of such grants. Restricts the use of such grants to specified activities. Requires States receiving such grants to submit to the Secretary an assessment of the expenditure of such funds.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit, for a two year period, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) from being divested of any of the interest it holds in a local telephone exchange company or in a telecommunications manufacturing or research firm. Requires AT&T to submit a divestiture plan to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) if AT&T seeks divestiture after the two year period. Requires the FCC to issue an order approving or disapproving the plan within 60 days after it is submitted. Requires any order approving such a plan to be submitted to Congress. Permits such an order to become effective only if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution approving the order within 30 days of its submission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Designates March 18, 1982, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1982
Periodic Payment Settlement Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an income tax exclusion of periodic payments of damages received on account of personal injury or sickness, whether paid by the individual originally liable for such damages or his assignee. Allows such assignee a business expense deduction for the payment of such damages.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1982
Declares that any action by the United Nations to prevent a democratic state from exercising its rights to participate in the United Nations will seriously and harmfully affect congressional support for the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 1982 - Establishes criminal penalties applicable to licensees under the Gun Control Act of 1968 who import, manufacture, or sell a "restricted handgun bullet," except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. Establishes additional criminal penalties, including a mandatory minimum sentence of one year imprisonment, for: (1) using a restricted handgun bullet to commit a Federal felony; or (2) carrying a restricted handgun bullet unlawfully during commission of a Federal felony.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to delay until November 1, 1982, the elimination of child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act for children over age 18 in college. (Currently the elimination of such benefits applies with respect to benefits for months after July 1982.) Extends until September 30, 1982, (currently April 30, 1982) the period within which an individual must have become a full-time student at a postsecondary educational institution in order to receive child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under the exception permitted under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. Extends by one year (through August 1986) the period during which such benefits may be paid in the case of an individual falling within the exception.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for any citizen who: (1) provides arms or other lethal substances to any country, organization, or individual with the likelihood that such substance will be used to commit an act of "international terrorism"; (2) assists in or solicits another person to assist in an act of international terrorism; or (3) funds the commmission of an act of international terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Requires the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to include in certain public works project contracts a provision requiring that not less than 40 percent of those employed under such a contract (or subcontract) shall be residents of that high unemployment labor market area. Permits the Secretary to waive such requirement to the extent that sufficient labor is not available in such labor market area.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Requires the Office of Personnel Management to provide a 30-day period each year during which Federal employees may transfer enrollments between health benefit plans.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Requests the President to designate March 21, 1982, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Extends congratulations from the Congress to the Italian Government and its antiterrorist police forces for the successful rescue of Brigadier General James L. Dozier. Extends to General Dozier and his family best wishes for a quick recovery and return to normal life.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell to the general public medals in honor of the 300th anniversary of William Penn's founding of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sets forth certain requirements for the striking of such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Emergency Youth Employment Tax Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased income tax credit under the targeted jobs tax credit program for qualified youth employed between May 17, 1982, and September 17, 1982. Increases the rate of such credit from 50 to 85 percent. Defines "qualified youth" as an individual: (1) who is between 16 and 21 years old; (2) who has not displaced any other individual from employment; (3) who performs services on substantially a full-time basis; and (4) who is certified as being a member of an economically disadvantaged family. Provides that 15 percent of the youth hired by any one employer need not be economically disadvantaged. Exempts wages paid to a qualified youth from income tax, social security tax, and unemployment tax.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Proclaims William Penn and Hannah Callowhill Penn as honorary citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Reaffirms Congress' commitment to providing full medical services to veterans aged 65 and older.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to exclude burial plots and burial insurance policies from the determination of an SSI applicant's resources.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Extends burial benefits to specified veterans with service-connected disabilities (formerly provided until October 1, 1981). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Designates June 14 as Baltic Freedom Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Designates July 9, 1982, as National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Makes a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Labor for FY 1982 for grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1982
Permits the President to appoint successors to cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who have been discharged, graduated, or whose class has graduated without them.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the investment tax credit for energy property.