United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1986
Voluntarism Protection Act of 1986 - Applies this Act to State liability laws which are applicable to any civil action brought during FY 1988 and thereafter. Prescribes circumstances under which volunteers working for nonprofit organizations and governmental entities shall be immune from personal civil liability in State court actions. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reduce by one percent a State's fiscal year award to implement the Social Services Block Grant Program under title XX of the Social Security Act if such State fails to enact such immunity for volunteers as of FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1986
Job Training Partnership Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to revise the definition of "economically disadvantaged" to base determinations under such definition on total family income over a 12-month, rather than six-month, period prior to application. Revises the designation of service delivery areas on the basis of their serving a substantial part of one or more labor market areas. Adds to purposes for which State education grants may be used, the provision of: (1) literacy training to youth and adults; (2) dropout prevention and reenrollment services to youth; and (3) a State-wide school-to-work transition program. Requires that specified portions of such funds be used for such purposes. Establishes an intrastate hold harmless allocation requirement. Allows service delivery areas to use specified funds for summer youth remedial education programs. Allows Governors or service delivery areas to use incentive grant funds to develop and implement a data collection system to track the post-program experience of participants. Permits summer youth programs to be offered in school vacation periods during nonsummer months under specified conditions. Prohibits requiring State matching grants under criteria for receipt of grants from the Secretary of Labor's discretionary funds. Includes under the definition of dislocated workers individuals who were self-employed (including farmers) and who are unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside or because of natural disaster. Directs the Secretary to establishes categories of self-employed individuals and of economic conditions and natural disasters. Prohibits State and local taxation of Job Corps operations. Directs the Secretary to take into account both urban and rural areas in developing an annual statistical measure of labor market related economic hardship. Directs the Secretary to develop a means by which statistical data relating to permanent dislocation of farmers and ranchers due to farm and ranch failures can be collected and to collect such data. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report based on such data. Requires the report to include a comparison with data used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and an analysis of whether farmers and ranchers are being adequately counted in such employment statistics.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1986
Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the forfeiture of media royalties (profits from depiction of a crime in a movie, book, newspaper, magazine, radio or television production, or live entertainment) by those convicted of any offense involving national security.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1986
Federal Hospital System Sharing Act of 1986 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to allow, under a health care sharing agreement, an individual who is eligible to receive direct health care in a facility of one agency (either the Veterans Administration or the Department of Defense) to be furnished such care at the facility of the other agency. Revises the definition of the term "beneficiary" for purposes of eligibility for such benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Mail Management Improvement Act of 1986 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, to issue a directive which requires each agency to: (1) evaluate mail operations to eliminate practices resulting in excessive mailing costs; (2) designate an official with the responsibility for the development and implementation of mail management programs; (3) establish mail management objectives and responsibilities; and (4) develop and submit to the Director a mail management plan in accordance with provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Bovine Growth Hormone Study Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from approving the use of bovine growth hormone in dairy cattle until an environmental impact statement and impact analyses on milk production and price supports are provided to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Border Management Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1986 - Title I: Border Management Consolidation - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Policy Development, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other concerned agencies, to develop and submit to the Congress within 180 days a plan which: (1) provides for the consolidation of border and entry inspection functions of the U.S. Customs and Immigration and Naturalization Services; and (2) sets forth a comprehensive border management policy. Makes such plan effective 60 days after submission to the Congress, unless disapproved during such period by a joint resolution. Requires completed implementation of such plan within one year of submission. Title II: Employee Overtime Compensation and Reimbursement - Amends specified Federal laws relating to overtime compensation for the U.S. Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Title III: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Defense Transportation Bill Audit Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends Federal law relating to claims against the Government to require the Administrator of General Services to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to audit bills for the transportation of individuals and property of the Department of Defense. Directs the Secretary of Defense, whenever practicable and economically desirable, to enter into contracts with private firms for the auditing of such transportation bills.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Federal Credit Management and Debt Collection Improvements Act of 1986 - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury an Under Secretary of the Treasury for Debt Collection and Credit Management, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate. Sets forth the functions of the Under Secretary with respect to establishing and implementing a comprehensive Federal debt collection and credit management plan. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress an analysis of such plan, together with comments. Requires executive agency proposals for new credit programs to contain an explicit statement of any subsidies involved. Requires interest rates in new direct loan programs to be related to market rates for comparable private sector loan programs. Requires the assessment of loan origination and application fees to defray administrative costs and costs of defaulted loans. Prohibits loans to persons who are delinquent in debt payments to the United States. Sets forth the circumstances under which a person who has defaulted on a prior loan may be allowed another loan. Requires loan contracts to contain default and acceleration clauses. Requires each loan applicant to be provided with a written notice specifying Federal debt collection policies and practices. Directs the President to provide for a study of private sector alternatives to Federal loan programs. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish Federal credit management policies and promulgate regulations to implement this Act. Requires each executive agency to report to the Congress, within one year of enactment of this Act, on its delinquency and default standards. Directs the Comptroller General, within two years of enactment of this Act, to audit agency credit programs. Requires agencies to conform to regulations under this Act and the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 (as amended by the Debt Collection Act of 1982) within one year of enactment of this Act. Establishes a collection target amount of $15 billion during the period beginning October 1, 1986, and ending September 30, 1989. Increases an agency's funding when it exceeds its debt collection target, and decreases such funding for not meeting its target. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations to assist agencies in developing proposals for debt collection targets. Requires the use of credit bureaus and private collection agencies to recover indebtedness owed the Federal Government. Provides for routine adjustments of Federal pay for non-controversial overpayments. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize agencies to use Internal Revenue Service information in debt collection. Requires the inclusion of debt collection data in the budget process. Directs each agency head to investigate the feasibility and cost effectiveness of selling debts to the private sector. Makes State laws inapplicable with respect to time limitations for bringing legal actions on debts owed to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Defense Technology Data Exchange Improvement Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to promote, monitor, and evaluate programs for the communication and exchange of technological data among all Department of Defense research facilities and other Departmental components. Directs the Secretary to take other specified actions to ensure the efficient operation of various defense research facilities within the Department of Defense and to promote increased consideration of technological issues early in the defense systems development process. Directs the Secretary, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to submit a written report to the Congress concerning actions taken to implement this Act and to improve the management and utilization of defense research facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Defense Industrial Reserve Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Defense Industrial Reserve Act of 1948 to direct the Secretary of Defense to transfer excess industrial property from the Defense Industrial Reserve to other Government agencies, with reimbursement from such agencies for the use of such property. Directs the Secretary to prescribe general policies and fee schedules for reimbursement of the Department of Defense by Government agencies for the use of such defense industrial reserve equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Paralegal Coordination and Activities Act of 1986 - Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Paralegal Coordination and Activities to: (1) coordinate efforts to increase utilization of paralegals; (2) coordinate paralegal training programs within the Department; and (3) study the possibility of increasing the use of paralegals within the Department. Requires the Office to report to the Congress and the President on: (1) the current utilization of paralegals; (2) the nonlitigative functions and responsibilities which could be performed by trained paralegals; (3) an evaluation of the optimal ratio of paralegals to attorneys; and (4) an evaluation of the benefits and problems associated with the current methods used to fill paralegal positions within the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Tax Collection and Enforcement Improvement Act of 1986 - Title I: Collections and Enforcement Staff Enhancement - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, within five fiscal years of the enactment of this Act, to reduce the level of delinquent debt by at least $5,000,000, through the strengthening of the collection activities of the Internal Revenue Service. Requires the Secretary to increase the collection staff by 1,500 employees in FY 1987. Requires the Secretary, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, to submit a plan to the Congress to reduce the growth of backlogged collections and increase collection of taxes. Provides that the plan is to detail the allocation of staff in all aspects of the collection process, based on projected workload and to include an estimate of future staffing needs. Authorizes appropriations to the Internal Revenue Service as necessary to carry out these requirements. Directs the Secretary to increase by 1,000 in FY 1987 the Internal Revenue Service staff allocated to the information returns (document matching) program. Requires the Secretary to submit, within 180 days, a plan to strengthen the Information Returns Program, which shall include an estimate of staffing needs. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the program to strengthen the Information Returns Program. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to increase by 2,500 the Internal Revenue Service staff positions in the tax return examination and enforcement function area in each of FY 1987, 1988, and 1989. Requires the Secretary, within 180 days of enactment, to submit a plan to increase the number of returns audited to at least two percent and to raise taxpayer compliance to 90 percent within the next five years. Provides that the plan shall recommend any additional staffing needs. Requires the Secretary, within 60 days after the end of FY 1987, and each year following, to submit a report to the Congress on the status of tax collections and the level of delinquent debt. Title II: Improvement of Collection Practices - Requires the Secretary to classify all delinquent accounts based on stage of collection, value, type of taxpayer, type of tax, source of delinquency, taxpayer collection history, and other such criteria as the Secretary deems necessary to better provide the Internal Revenue Service with information with which to manage the collection process. Requires levy source information to be included with closing agreements or any such document that concludes an examination where the entire tax is not paid. Authorizes the Secretary to use electronic funds transfers or payroll deductions to collect taxes when payments under installment agreements are delinquent. Title III: Collection of Alcoholic Occupational Tax - Prohibits wholesale dealers in beer, wine, and distilled spirits from selling beer, wine, and distilled spirits to any retail dealer unless that retailer has paid the alcoholic occupational tax. Requires each wholesaler to keep records of the retailer's compliance with the alcoholic occupational tax. Requires the Secretary to match information on income tax returns to identify noncompliant retailers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Housing Eligibility Verification Improvement Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in order to strengthen eligibility verification and the proper determination of benefits for housing programs, to: (1) require an applicant or participant to disclose his or her social security or employee identification number; and (2) obtain access to wage and other information from State employment records maintained under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Dislocated Farmer Training Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to include under the definition of "community-based organizations" locally and regionally based farm, business, and industrial organizations, local rural service organizations, and rural planning and development organizations. Revises the definition of "economically disadvantaged" to base determinations of income eligibility on a 12-month (rather than a six-month) period prior to application. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary), within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations to permit the exclusion of any proceeds of a sale of farm or business assets of a family resulting from a foreclosure, forfeiture, or bankruptcy in determination of income eligibility for programs under the Act. Includes mental health care and counseling among supportive services under the Act. Includes State and local agricultural agencies and social service agencies under the Governor's coordination and special services plan. Requires such plan to provide, where appropriate, for: (1) collecting and disseminating to service delivery areas information on the number of permanent dislocations of farmers and ranchers due to farm and ranch failures; and (2) identifying farm and ranch family members in need of retraining and job search assistance, on a State and local basis. Includes rural areas under designated areas for which certain labor market projections are to be made. Requires inclusion of individuals who are geographically isolated due to rural residence under eligibility provisions for part A (Adult and Youth Programs) of title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) of the Act. Prohibits requiring States to match grants from the Secretary's discretionary funds under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of the Act. Includes as eligible for dislocated worker assistance individuals who were self-employed (including farmers) and who are or will be unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside or because of natural disasters. Directs the Secretary to establish categories of self-employed individuals and of economic conditions and natural disasters. Provides that farmers may qualify for eligibility by certifying or showing that the farm's operations will terminate because of specified kinds of circumstances. Revises provisions for national and multistate programs to include: (1) information networks and cooperation among Federal, State, and local programs; (2) coordination at the national level among Federal agencies responsible for administering interrelated employment, training, and support services; (3) regional or nationwide efforts to foster economic development or employment generating activities in rural areas; and (4) national and regional programs addressing the special problems of dislocated farmers. Revises research and demonstration provisions to include references to dislocated farmers, farm spouses, changes in the agricultural sector, and easing the transition from farming to other work places. Provides for seeking improved methods of collecting data and accounting for employment and unemployment in rural areas. Includes dislocated farmers under pilot project provisions. Revises cooperative labor market information program provisions to take into account both urban and rural areas. Directs the Secretary to collect specified types of statistical data relating to permanent dislocation of farmers and ranchers due to farm and ranch failures. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report based upon such data, including: (1) a comparison with data currently used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in determining the Nation's annual employment and unemployment rates; and (2) an analysis of whether farmers and ranchers are being adequately counted in such employment statistics. Includes the Secretary of Agriculture under interdepartmental cooperation provisions. Includes the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics on the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. Adds to the functions of the National Commission for Employment Policy the evaluation of: (1) the effectiveness of federally assisted employment and training programs in rural America; (2) employment difficulties inherent to rural areas; (3) rural needs for employment generating activities; (4) the employment, training, and vocational education needs of dislocated farmers; (5) the current system used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for collecting rural employment and unemployment data; and (6) current Federal coordination efforts in administering federally assisted employment and training programs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Designates July 3, 1986, as Let Freedom Ring Day. Requests the President to encourage people to ring bells immediately following the relighting of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should exercise certain authority to accept bids from agricultural producers for diverting acreage in return for surplus payments-in-kind.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Amends the National Housing Act to extend authority through FY 1987 for: (1) title I financial institution insurance for housing renovation and modernization; (2) general mortgage insurance; (3) low and moderate income and displaced families mortgage insurance; (4) homeownership for lower income families including mortgage insurance authority and housing stimulus authority; (5) mortgage co-insurance, including rental rehabilitation and development projects; (6) graduated payment and indexed mortgage insurance; (7) the demonstration mortgage reinsurance program; (8) mortgage insurance for armed forces' civilian employees and defense housing for impacted areas; (9) mortgage insurance for land development; and (10) mortgage insurance for medical and dental group practice facilities. Sets forth specified limits on FY 1986 and 1987 insured housing loans and on FY 1987 guaranteed mortgage-backed securities. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to extend urban rehabilitation loan authority through FY 1987. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend Farmers Home Administration authority through FY 1987 for: (1) insured loans for rental and cooperative housing and related facilities for elderly persons and families in rural areas; (2) rural communities with 10,000 to 20,000 population to participate in rural housing programs; and (3) mutual and self-help housing grant and loan authority. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend authority for national flood insurance, including emergency implementation and flood-risk zones through FY 1987. Amends the National Housing Act to extend authorities for the national crime insurance program and existing contracts through FY 1987. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend community development block grant entitlement authority for certain metropolitan city and urban county areas through FY 1987. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to extend for 30 days the maximum interest rate limitation on loans for housing and related facilities for elderly or handicapped families through FY 1987. Extends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act through FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Child Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Statute to extend its coverage to the sexual exploitation of children. Allows any person injured personally or in his business or property by such violations to bring a civil suit for treble damages. Amends the Federal criminal code to require a mandatory life sentence in kidnapping offenses involving the murder of a minor. Establishes mandatory minimum sentences for the sexual exploitation of minors. Provides that the period of any applicable limitation for the commencement of prosecution for certain offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children shall not begin until the child has reached the age of 18 years. Directs the Attorney General to submit a report to the Congress detailing possible changes in the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and other procedures which would facilitate the participation of child witnesses in cases involving child abuse and sexual exploitation. Directs the Attorney General to modify the classification system used by the National Crime Information System and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with respect to offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children by: (1) including the age of the victim and the relationship of the victim to the offender; and (2) using a uniform definition of a child. Grants the Postal Service certain authority with respect to the seizure and forfeiture of materials used in, or depicting, the sexual exploitation of children. States that amounts received from such forfeitures shall be deposited in the Postal Service Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Director of the National Institutes of Health should transfer the Silver Spring Monkeys to the Primarily Primates, Inc., animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Amends the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to establish a cost-sharing formula for certain Federal disaster assistance programs. Declares the Federal share of assistance to be 75 percent for the repair of damaged public facilities and debris removal on the condition that remaining costs are paid by a State or local government. Declares the Federal share of assistance to be 100 percent for: (1) unemployment assistance; (2) temporary housing assistance; and (3) crisis counseling assistance and training.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Nuclear Waste Transportation Act - Prohibits any person from offering high-level radioactive waste for transportation in interstate commerce unless a license to do so has been obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission). Prohibits any person from transporting such waste in interstate commerce unless: (1) an order designating the transportation route for such waste has been received from the Commission; and (2) such radioactive waste has been received from a person licensed by the Commission under this Act. Prescribes the guidelines under which the Commission is authorized to issue licenses to offer high-level radioactive wastes for transportation. Requires the Commission to: (1) provide written notification of such license applications to political subdivisions and Indian tribes through whose territories such waste may be transported; (2) solicit comments from the chief official of such affected areas with regard to the routing of such wastes; (3) issue an order to the transporter designating the transportation route for such waste after considering the information provided by the appropriate chief official; and (4) forward a copy of such order to such official. Requires a licensee under this Act to inform any chief official of the: (1) date of such radioactive waste transportation; and (2) emergency response procedures to be implemented in case of an accident. Requires such information to be furnished at least ten days prior to the transportation date. Authorizes the Commission to determine whether a license under this Act shall be effective for a single shipment or for a series of similar shipments from the same location. Prohibits any license from being effective for more than one year. Subjects violators of this Act to certain civil penalties under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make 1986 wheat and feed grain deficiency payments not later than the end of the fifth month of the marketing year for such crops.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Sub-Saharan Africa Natural Resource and Environmental Management Training and Education Act of 1986 - Requires the President, in order to promote a long-term development program for sub-Saharan Africa, to establish and provide assistance for a training and education program to encourage the development and utilization of appropriate natural resources and environmental management techniques. Requires particular emphasis to be placed on local-level training in techniques using smaller, cost-saving, community-based technologies. Sets forth elements to be included in such program. Requires the training under this program to incorporate women's needs in appropriate proportions to their traditional participation in the targeted activity. Requires each Agency for International Development (AID) development strategy statement for each sub-Saharan African country to include a plan to assist that country in the development of an effective natural resource and environmental management training and education program. Requires program activities to include close consultation with, and involvement of, community and local organizations. Requires the objectives of this Act to be accomplished whenever practicable through private and voluntary organizations or national nongovernmental organizations. Requires AID to make available funds for training and education activities in sub-Saharan African countries in accordance with this Act for FY 1987. Urges AID to request technical assistance from other Federal agencies where appropriate. Requires AID to review and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of existing indigenous capabilities for natural resource and environmental management training.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President, prior to each fiscal year, to transmit to the Congress a proposed Federal budget in which total outlays do not exceed total estimated revenues. Permits the President to recommend an alternative budget in which outlays exceed revenues with a detailed explanation of the need for such excess. Prohibits the Congress from making any law which would cause outlays to exceed revenues in a fiscal year. Permits the Congress to suspend such prohibition in time of war or national emergency by passing a concurrent resolution by a three-fifths vote of both Houses. Prohibits enactment of a bill to increase revenue unless it passes each House of Congress by a majority rollcall vote.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 with respect to air carrier mergers or acquisitions to require the Secretary of Transportation to impose, as a condition of approval of such transactions, labor protective conditions that are calculated to mitigate possible adverse effects upon air carrier employees' employment, wages, or working conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1986
Requires the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (the Administrator) to: (1) repeal a certain final rule which permits airlines to buy and sell landing rights at specified high density traffic airports; and (2) refrain from issuing a rule, regulation, or order restricting instrument flight rule takeoffs or landings at any airport that is inconsistent with this Act (thus prohibiting future rules permitting the transfer of operating rights). Requires the Administrator to establish a method for the equitable allocation of operating rights ("slots") at high density traffic airports which is consistent with aviation safety. Requires that such slot allocations be made by separate air and commuter carrier scheduling committees established for each high density traffic airport. Directs the Administrator to establish the composition of such committees. Requires such committees to allocate and reallocate slots according to a time schedule established by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to provide slots for foreign air transportation and for essential air transportation. Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish a special mechanism for slot allocation if the scheduling committee is unable to agree on allocation within the established time schedule; and (2) formulate an allocation mechanism for all new, voluntarily returned, and unused slots. Terminates such special slot mechanism after December 31, 1988. Requires that any slot allocation mechanism established by the Administrator: (1) adequately ensure the opportunity for new entry; (2) maintain essential air transportation; and (3) protect the access rights of commuter operators. Prohibits the sale, lease, or transfer of allocated slots by an air carrier or a commuter air carrier, with specified exceptions. Declares that slots are public property and that their use represents a nonpermanent operating privilege within the exclusive control and jurisdiction of the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to recall or reallocate such slots for specified reasons (including withdrawal if a slot is substantially unused). Requires the Administrator to employ a slot withdrawal method that ensures that no carrier incurs the loss of an undue proportion of its slots. Prohibits the Administrator from restricting aircraft operation at certain airports by means of slot control (except on an emergency basis) unless a written report has been transmitted to the Congress justifying the need for such a restriction within a 90-day notice period. Requires the Secretary to conclude a rulemaking to reauthorize or eliminate all high density traffic airport slot controls no later than January 1, 1987, and every two years thereafter. Terminates any slot control regulation two years from the date it becomes effective (unless such regulation has been reauthorized). Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to report to the Congress regarding legislative recommendations and the extent to which slot allocation mechanisms and slot control regulations have minimized barriers to entry at high density traffic airports.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Rural Health Care Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require that whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services proposes a regulation or promulgates a final version of a regulation under titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), or part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act which will have a substantial impact on small rural hospitals, the Secretary make a regulatory impact analysis available to the public. Amends the Medicare program to continue, beyond FY 1986, current law regarding Medicare payment to sole community hospitals for capital-related costs, treating such costs as distinct from operating costs of inpatient hospital services. Provides certain small sole community and rural hospitals with payment for extremely high cost cases (outlier payments) which represent five or six percent of the total payments made to such hospitals. Sets aside ten percent of amounts expended by the Secretary on certain experiments and demonstration projects for projects relating exclusively to rural health issues. Requires fiscal intermediaries to pay certain small rural hospitals for Medicare claims, at the latest, 30 days after receiving the request for such payment. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Act to establish an Office of Rural Health Policy in the Office of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) advise the Administrator regarding the effects of changes in the Medicare and Medicaid programs on rural health; and (2) oversee compliance with provisions of this Act requiring regulatory impact analysis and rural health demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Title I: Short Title; Findings - Child Care Act of 1986 - Sets forth congressional findings regarding the child care policies of the country. Title II: Dependent Care Tax Credit and Voucher System - Part 1: Changes in Dependent Care Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow dependent care tax credits when a taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000. Provides for a yearly cost-of-living adjustment to both base and ceiling amounts. Disallows such credit where any of the employment-related expenses are paid with any vouchers. Part 2: Voucher System for Child Care - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to each State having an approved plan for child care vouchers for certain low income individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria, standards, and a timetable for the State plan. Requires the Secretary to reimburse a State for 75 percent of its costs under such plan. Provides for proportional allotments based upon the amount received under title XX (Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act. Permits a State to use block grant funds for the voucher plan. States that the redemption of a voucher for child care services by a child care provider constitutes receipt of Federal funds for purposes of provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 relating to racial discrimination. Prohibits sex discrimination by any child care program. Exempts child care providers serving seven or fewer children. Permits the Secretary to withhold payment from a noncomplying State. Excludes the amount of any voucher from determinations of income or resources for purposes of any Federal or State law. Requires each State to report biennially to the Secretary on the implementation of the plan including the amounts used on vouchers from block grant funds. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress an analysis of the State reports.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the application of deficit reduction legislation, adjustments to Federal retirement programs which provide periodic cost-of-living increases should be treated uniformly. Declares that the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) should be modified to reflect such treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
Grain Quality Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Grain Standards Act of 1916 to authorize the rounding off of numbers relating to grain condition or quality. Requires that any rounding off shall be in a direction to understate the condition or quality of the grain. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service to refuse to certify an export crop of grain if he believes that such cargo will deteriorate significantly in quality enroute to a foreign destination. Requires a quality variation statement on all official grade certificates issued for export grain lots. Prohibits the recombination of dockage and foreign material with any grain intended for export when the result will be to reduce quality or spoilage resistance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1956 to provide in-kind bonuses to producers and exporters of specified high-quality export corn. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make in-kind reimbursements for: (1) inventory loss of value; and (2) cleaning and blending equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
Provides that, for taxable years beginning after 1984, rural letter carriers are permitted to compute the amount of their deduction for use of their automobiles in performance of such services: (1) by using a standard mileage rate for all such miles of such use equal to 150 percent of the basic standard rate; or (2) without applying the limitation on deductions rules where the business use of the automobile used in performing such services is not greater than 50 percent of the time. Prohibits the use of 150 percent of the basic standard mileage rate in determining the allowable deduction where the taxpayer claimed an investment tax credit or depreciation deduction for such automobile.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Provides that employee benefit plans required to be amended to meet the requirements of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the Tax Reform Act of 1984, and the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 shall be granted additional time to comply with requirements imposed by such legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Requests the Governor of each State (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands) to designate two residents for naturalization as citizens in an appropriate ceremony on Ellis Island on July 3 or 4, 1986. Waives specified naturalization sites provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act for such ceremony. States that this Act authorizes no additional funds for expenses associated with such naturalization ceremony.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Processed Products Inspection Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to redescribe the manner and frequency of inspection of meat food products to include the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture take into account for each establishment: (1) the nature and frequency of processing operations; (2) the adequacy and reliability of processing controls and sanitary procedures; and (3) the history of inspection compliance. Changes the requirement that condemned meat food products be destroyed for "food purposes," to a requirement that they be destroyed for "human food purposes." Provides that amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to authorize the Secretary to refuse to provide inspection solely because an establishment does not participate in a total plant quality-control program.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to direct the Secretary of the military department concerned to conduct an independent operational test and evaluation with respect to a major defense acquisition program under which a major system is to be acquired. Requires such test and evaluation to be conducted before the program may proceed into the production stage. Requires side-by-side testing as part of such test and evaluation. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to independently analyze the results of each such operational test and evaluation, and to report such analyses to the Secretary of Defense. Prohibits the operational testing to be conducted until the Director approves in writing the adequacy of the plans for such operational test and evaluation. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned to contract for low-rate initial production of a program only for the purpose of acquiring items for use in operational tests and evaluations. Prohibits a final decision from being made to proceed with full production of a program until 30 days after the congressional defense committees have received the report of the Director. Authorizes the President to suspend any provision of this Act in time of a declared war.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1986
Social Security Reorganization Act of 1986 - Title I: Establishment of the Social Security Administration - Subtitle A: Establishment - Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to establish as an independent executive agency a Social Security Administration, headed by a Social Security Board. Provides that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act. Requires the Board to study and make recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Establishes in the Administration: (1) a Commissioner of Social Security; (2) a Deputy Commissioner of Social Security; (3) a General Counsel; (4) an Inspector General; and (5) an Office of the Beneficiary Ombudsman, to be headed by a Beneficiary Ombudsman who shall represent the interests of beneficiaries under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income Program within the Administration. Requires the annual report of the Board to include a description of the activities of the Beneficiary Ombudsman. Requires the Board to make annual budgetary recommendations relating to the Administration. Requires that appropriations requests by the Administration for staffing and personnel be based upon a comprehensive workforce plan as established by the Board. Provides for the apportionment of administrative costs. Requires the annual report of the Board to include a section reflecting the use of budget authority provided to the Administration. Requires that authority for automated data processing procurement and facilities construction be provided in the form of contract authority covering the total cost of such acquisitions. Makes amounts needed for the liquidation of contract authority so provided available from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund to the extent that such amounts are not needed to meet current obligations for benefit payments. Requires the Board and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement demonstration projects relating to personnel matters. Directs the Board and the Administrator of General Services to implement such projects relating to delegations from the Administrator. Specifies the authorities which are to be delegated to the Board from the Administrator and the Director. Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees concerning such projects, including an evaluation of the Board's readiness to assume full and permanent authority. Requires the Board to cause a seal of office to be made and judicial notice taken thereof. Provides for the transfer to the Administration of all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to the programs and activities to be carried out by the Administration under this Act. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security in the Department of Health and Human Services. Sets forth effective date and transitional rule provisions. Subtitle B: Conforming Amendments and Rules of Construction - Requires the Secretary and the Board to report to the Congress within 120 days after the beginning of each regular session on their administration under this Act. Requires the Secretary to study and make recommendations on the most effective methods of providing economic security and on the administrative policy for the programs which he or she administers. Directs the Board to appoint, quadrennially, an Advisory Council on the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Program and an Advisory Council on Health and Supplementary Medical Insurance to review the relation between the trust funds supporting the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program and the Medicare program and the long-term commitments of those programs. Requires each council to submit a report to the Board for transmittal to the Congress and the Board of Trustees of each Trust Fund. Sets forth the effective dates of this title. Title II: Social Security Court - Establishes, under article I of the Constitution, a Social Security Court (Court) having exclusive jurisdiction over cases arising under titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance), XVI (Supplemental Security Income), XVIII (Medicare), and XI of the Social Security Act. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Act to provide for the President's appointment of 20 judges to the Court. Authorizes review by the Court by means of hearings conducted before filed panels of one or more judges and held in a manner and at locations which the Court's chief judge prescribes as providing claimants with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the Court without great inconvenience. Allows the Court, within certain guidelines, to prescribe its procedural rules and punish, by fine or imprisonment, contempt of its authority. Requires the claimant and Secretary to be given notice and the opportunity to be heard upon a proceeding in the Court. Provides that within 60 days of a field panel's decision such decision shall be the decision of the Court, unless, within that period, a party petitions the Court's chief judge, or the chief judge makes his own motion, for the Court's review of the decision. Requires the publication for public use of precedential decisions. Authorizes any individual who has exhausted administrative remedies and was a party to a final decision rendered after a hearing under title II, XI, XVI, or XVIII of the Act to bring a timely action for review of such decision in the Court. Authorizes the Court to affirm, modify, or reverse the Secretary's decision, but restricts the Court's authority to reconsider factual findings. Subjects the Court's review to regulations of the Secretary or Social Security Board. Gives the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exclusive jurisdiction to review Social Security Court decisions upon a party's appeal, but prohibits such appeal until the Social Security Court has reviewed or denied a petition for review of its decision. Grants the district courts of the United States exclusive jurisdiction to review any final decision rendered after a hearing under titles II, XI, XVI, or XVIII of the Act if the claim arises under the Constitution or challenges the validity of any regulation of the Secretary or Social Security Board, but requires that the parties stipulate that there is no dispute as to material facts. Authorizes any party to the hearing (other than the Secretary or Social Security Board) to bring such claims to the district courts. Gives the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exclusive jurisdiction to review the final decisions of the district courts. Requires, when a district court decision necessitates regulatory change, that the Secretary and Social Security Board either make regulations conform to such decision or appeal such decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Abolishes the Department of Health and Human Services' Appeals Council one year after enactment of this Act. Title III: Disability Benefit Entitlement Review Procedures - Amends the OASDI and SSI programs of the Social Security Act to set forth a separate procedure for review of the Secretary's determination that the disability on which a benefit claim is based does not exist. Requires the Secretary, where such a determination is made, to issue a statement of the reasons for such decision and give interested parties notice of their right to an evidentiary hearing before a hearing officer who is not the individual who made the initial determination. Subjects the hearing officer's decision to court review only after an interested party (which may include the Secretary) makes a timely application for review by an administrative law judge. Permits the administrative law judge to modify or reverse the decision only if it is contrary to law or the case presents a novel question of law, though the judge may order additional evidence to be taken before the hearing officer. Authorizes the Secretary to review disability denials when the individual fails to meet time limits on filing for review, but considers a decision by an administrative law judge to be the Secretary's final decision. Alters the method for determining when a period of disability begins. Requires the payment of interim benefits under the OASDI and SSI programs where the Secretary appeals a decision rendered by a hearing officer or administrative law judge which is favorable to the applicant for or recipient of benefits and 60 days pass without resolution of the appeal.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) issue a proposed nationwide milk marketing order; and (2) conduct a producer referendum to determine whether such order is approved or disapproved.
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