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United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Designates the week beginning on October 24, 1982, as National Parkinson's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 1 through August 7, 1982, as National Purple Heart Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to remove obstructions which are hazardous to navigation in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, and to maintain the channel depth authorized for the project for navigation and other purposes on such rivers.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
No Net Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982 - Title I: Modification of Tobacco Price Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out tobacco price support through Commodity Credit Corporation loan agreements with producer-owned cooperative marketing associations which will in turn make loans to producers. Requires each association to establish a separate capital account, to be known as a No Net Cost Tobacco Fund (Fund), consisting of contributions from producers of quota tobacco and, for associations handling Flue-cured tobacco, from persons who lease allotments and quotas to others. Requires such contributions for price support eligibility. Authorizes an association to set contribution rates subject to the Secretary's approval. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a contribution rate not high enough to reimburse the Corporation for any net loan losses that the association may incur. Permits an association to invest Fund moneys and to issue capital stock or certifications to investors. Requires that any earnings on Fund investments become a part of the Fund. States that net gains from the sale of an association's loan collateral tobacco shall go to the Corporation to be used to offset future losses or to reduce outstanding loan debts. Authorizes the Secretary to release excess gains to the associations. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the support rates for different grades of tobacco to avoid market excesses. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for an alternate auction sale of "excessively priced" Flue-cured tobacco. Sets forth conditions for such designation and sale. Title II: Modification of Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Quota System - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the leasing of Flue-cured tobacco acreage allotments or quotas. Prohibits such agreements after June 15 of the crop year, except in cases of natural disaster damage, but limits them to adjoining counties within the same State. Requires all arrangements in connection with a lease to be exclusively between lessor and lessee or an agent who regularly represents either party in nontobacco-related business transactions. Prohibits subleasing. Requires each party to file a certificate of compliance with the county committee in order for the lease to take effect. Makes loss of price supports for the affected acreage the penalty for false statements made in such certificate. Provides that the Flue-cured tobacco acreage allotment for a farm to which an allotment is transferred by sale or lease may not exceed 50 percent of such farm's tillable cropland. Permits the sale of allotments or quotas, but only to active producers (as defined in this Act) in the same county. Requires a producer to sell or forfeit any Flue-cured tobacco allotment: (1) which exceeds 50 percent of the farm's tillable cropland; or (2) in which no risk-sharing is involved. Requires a nonagricultural entity (other than an individual) which owns a Flue- cured tobacco farm but is not significantly involved in its management to sell its Flue-cured tobacco allotments or quotas or forfeit them. Requires the national yield factor for Flue-cured tobacco to be adjusted in 1983, and at five-year intervals thereafter, to the past five years' moving average. Permits individual adjustments. Authorizes producer-owned cooperative associations to make direct sales of Flue-cured tobacco.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Designates July 27, 1982, as National Recognition Day for the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Designates the Federal building in Lima, Ohio, as the Tennyson Guyer Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of the disbursements from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and of the receipts from the old age, survivors and disability insurance taxes and the hospital insurance taxes on self-employment income, employees, and employers in the totals of the Federal budget. Exempts such disbursements and receipts from any general statutory limitation on Federal budget outlays.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funds should be appropriated during FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years for programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 in such amounts as may be necessary to maintain or expand such programs as reauthorized under the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Requests the President to designate October 3 through October 9, 1982, as National Schoolbus Safety Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Requests the President to designate 1983 as Year of the Bible.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Designates November 1982 as National REACT Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that housing and homeownership are matters of the highest national priority.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Grants a Federal charter to the National Association of State Directors of Veterans' Affairs, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates July 9, 1982, and April 9, 1983, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that reducing unemployment should be given a higher priority in determining U.S. fiscal and monetary policy.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Dairy Products Promotion Act of 1982 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, by dairy products promotion order, to establish a National Dairy Promotion Board made up of dairy farmers to promote dairy products. Finances such Board through dairy producer assessments. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Designates October 1982 as National Car Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1982
Farm Crisis Act of 1982 - Title I: Land Diversion Payments for 1982 Crops of Wheat, Feed Grains, Cotton, and Rice - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to set 1982 land diversion levels at: (1) $2.00 per bushel for wheat; (2) $1.25 per bushel for corn; (3) $.20 per pound for upland cotton; and (4) $2.20 per hundredweight for rice. Permits 1982 participants to divert an additional five percent of their acreage. Extends the application period through the end of the certification period. Title II: Acreage Limitation and Cropland Conservation Programs for 1983 through 1985 Crops - Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national cropland conservation program for 1983 through 1985 crop years. Provides that: (1) such program shall be approved or disapproved by a producer referendum; (2) participants will set aside 15 percent of their acreage for conservation purposes; (3) noncompliance shall result in a three-year denial of specified farm benefits; and (4) loan rates shall increase by ten percent when such program is in effect. Requires the Secretary to establish a voluntary set-aside program (based on specified carry-over levels) for 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, and upland cotton crops if cropland conservation programs are disapproved. Makes conforming amendments. Title III: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to guarantee up to $250,000,000 annually (not more than 90 percent of any one loan to be guaranteed) for grower-harvested grain storage facility loans. Title IV: Barter of Agricultural Commodities for Strategic and Critical Materials and Petroleum Products - Authorizes the CCC to exchange agricultural products for oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regarding CCC foreign products bartering. Title V: Emergency Agricultural Credit - Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to make the economic emergency loan program mandatory. Extends such program through FY 1983. Lowers the limit on individual loans: (1) under such Act; and (2) under such Act and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act combined. Title VI: Agricultural Exports - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) $1,000,000,000 should be made available to the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund; and (2) the Secretary should conclude a grain agreement with the Soviet Union. Title VII: White House Conference on Agriculture - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Requires a Conference report to the President and Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Title I: Public Works and Economic Development - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to revise eligibility requirements for direct and supplementary grants for public works and development facilities. Declares that the Federal share of the cost of any such project for which a direct grant is made shall be the percentage determined either: (1) from the unemployment rate for the political subdivision where the project is located; or (2) from the percentage by which the per capita income for such political subdivision is below the national average, whichever results in the higher Federal share. Sets forth a table by which the Federal share shall be determined. Eliminates the Secretary of Commerce's authority to reduce or waive the non-Federal share of a project in the case of a grant to an Indian tribe or a project in a redevelopment area. Permits supplementary grant funds to be used only for projects in political subdivisions that are eligible for assistance under such Act. Prohibits the total amount of direct and supplementary grants for any project from exceeding 100 percent of the costs of such project. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 to carry out such grants for public works and development facilities. Subjects public works and development facility loans to specified limitations on business loan assistance as set forth by this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 to carry out business loans and loan guarantees under such Act. Limits the annual appropriations for the purpose of purchasing evidences of indebtedness and guaranteeing loans. Terminates business loans and loan guarantees to redevelopment areas and authorizes such assistance to political subdivisions eligible for assistance under such Act. Provides for interest free loans to political subdivisions (previously redevelopment areas) eligible for assistance under such Act if a plan for redevelopment of the political subdivision is approved. Requires any such interest free loan to be repaid to the United States by the political subdivision receiving such loan in accordance with the terms of the loan agreement. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 to carry out the interest free loan program. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of a business loan under such Act. Prohibits any applicant from receiving a business loan unless such applicant first pays an amount equal to one percent of the amount of the loan. Declares that such limitations shall not apply to interest subsidy contracts or agreements entered into by the Secretary of Commerce before the effective date of this Act. Makes any funds appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982, which are authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, available to the Secretary of Commerce to make payments under interest subsidy contracts or agreements entered into by the Secretary under such Act before the effective date of this Act. Permits the Secretary to provide technical assistance which would be useful in alleviating or preventing conditions of excessive unemployment or underemployment to: (1) political subdivisions eligible for assistance under such Act; and (2) other political subdivisions which he finds have substantial need for such technical assistance. Excludes redevelopment areas from assistance for economic development planning. Directs such assistance to political subdivisions. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 for technical assistance and economic development planning. Redefines the eligibility of areas for assistance to make a political subdivision eligible for assistance in any period in which the Secretary of Labor finds that the current rate of unemployment for such political subdivision is five percent or more. Repeals the provisions of such Act which provided for an annual review of area eligibility and for Indian economic development. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator for Economic Development, to establish in the Economic Development Administration an Office of Program Evaluation to conduct assessments for each fiscal year of the effectiveness of the programs carried out under such Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out miscellaneous provisions of such Act through FY 1985. Repeals the provisions of such Act which provided for: (1) an extension of benefits made available under other Federal programs; (2) assistance to disaster areas; and (3) the job opportunities program. Authorization appropriations for special economic development and adjustment assistance through FY 1985. Title II : Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the purposes of the Appalachian Regional Commission through FY 1985. Title III : Declares that the amendments and repeals made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1982. Declares that the authority to enter into contracts under the amendments made by this Act shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to prohibit the Small Business Administration (SBA) from refusing to guarantee payment for financing of pollution control facilities or property when such property is acquired with proceeds from tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds. Makes the SBA's authority to make such guarantees subject only to the existence of qualified guarantee applications of eligible small businesses. (Currently, the SBA is authorized to guarantee payment for small businesses in such cases.)
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Surplus Agricultural Commodities Disposal Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to contract for the processing of surplus commodities into liquid fuels and agricultural commodity byproducts. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within 120 days and annually thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should notify the Common Market's Council of Ministers that: (1) renegotiation of the Common Market's tariff on corn gluten feed is not in the best interests of the United States; and (2) the imposition of any trade restriction on corn gluten feed would seriously impede U.S. relations with the Common Market. Urges the President to take all other appropriate steps to protect U.S. exports of corn gluten feed.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the month of May 1982, should be appropriately observed as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Prohibits the Government from imposing export restrictions on agricultural commodities which interfere with valid export contracts if: (1) the contracts were entered into before the imposition of such restrictions; and (2) the contracts provide for the delivery of such commodities for export within 180 days of the date the restrictions were imposed.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Designates the week beginning March 6, 1983, as Women's History Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1982
Designates the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., as a national historic site. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Council of Negro Women which may provide technical and financial assistance to restore and maintain the historic site and property related to such site. Requires the Council to submit to the Secretary and Congress an annual report on the activities and expenditures for which such assistance was used as a condition of the receipt of such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1982, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Establishes U.S. policy concerning commercial food exports. Declares that there should be no interruptions in exports unless there is a general embargo in circumstances that justify the united support of the free world.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates the week beginning July 18, 1982, as National Junior Bowling Championship Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) an effective Federal environmental program is necessary to protect U.S. citizens' health and well-being; (2) the Environmental Protection Agency should be appropriated increased funds to protect our environment and meet expanded responsibilities mandated by law; and (3) the President should submit a new budget for the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1983 reflecting these principles.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that changes to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 proposed in the FY 1983 budget should not be implemented.
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 · 18 March 1982
National Defense Port System Act of 1982 - Title I: Establishment of National System of User Taxes for Deep-Draft Channels and Harbors - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, not later than three months after recommendations have been made by the Deep-Draft Port Task Force established by this Act, to develop a nationally uniform system of user taxes to be imposed on the use of ports with deep-draft channels or harbors by any vessel which is in: (1) the business of transporting property or passengers for compensation or hire; or (2) transporting property or passengers in the business of the owner, lessee, or operator of the vessel. Requires such taxes to be imposed with respect to commodities, classes of commodities, and passengers. Prohibits any such tax from being levied on any item with respect to which such a tax has been previously paid. Allows the Secretary to increase or decrease such user tax under certain circumstances. Requires the master of any vessel with respect to which a tax is imposed to deliver to the Customs Service a manifest of the cargo and a declaration of the passengers upon arrival in a port having a deep-draft channel or harbor. Establishes the Deep-Draft Commercial Port Task Force to make specific recommendations to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the classifications and amounts of tax which should be established for commodities. Directs the Secretary to impose a tax on the use of any deep-draft channel or harbor by any vessel transporting property which is to be unloaded at a privately owned port which is not open to public navigation and is not operated and maintained by the United States. Grants the consent of Congress, subject to certain conditions, to the imposition of certain State user fees at deep-draft channels or harbors. Requires the net produce of such fees to be transferred to, and for the use of, the United States Treasury. Prohibits the use of funds from the Port System Trust Fund or the general fund of the Treasury for any approved navigation improvement project, the operation or maintenance of any deep-draft channel or harbor, or any other civil works project of the Secretary of the Army in any State unless such State has port user fees in effect not later than two years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to collect and enforce such State port user fees. Establishes the Port System Trust Fund within the Treasury. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on Trust Fund operations. Makes amounts in the Trust Fund available for: (1) navigation improvement projects; and (2) operation and maintenance of specified channels and harbors, including those in the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Great Lakes, or their connecting waters. Sets the Federal share of any approved navigation improvement project at 90 percent. Revises financing procedures of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. Terminates Corporation obligations outstanding on the effective date of this Act. Title II: Construction and Financing of Navigation Improvement Projects to Increase the Depth of Deep-Draft Channels and Harbors to More Than Forty-Five Feet - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to expedite construction of approved navigation improvement projects if the appropriate State port authority enters into a specified agreement with the Secretary. Requires such port authority to reimburse the United States for 100 percent of construction, operation, and maintenance costs. Allows State port authorities to construct approved navigation improvement projects at their own expense and to finance such construction through the adoption of duties of tonnage. Grants the consent of Congress, subject to certain conditions, to the levying by the States of such duties of tonnage. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the operations of such State port authorities and to report to Congress thereon. Sets forth enforcement procedures concerning such duties of tonnage. Title III: Expedited Procedure for Approval of Navigation Improvement Projects and Related Landside Facilities Projects - Directs the Secretary to establish a project schedule for all agency decisions relating to navigation improvements and landside facilities projects. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the project schedule at any time. Describes procedures concerning judicial review of final agency decisions covered by a project schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that sufficient funds should be provided for maintenance of U.S. rivers and harbors to maintain authorized depths, and that such funds should not be impounded or held unspent by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Family Housing Production Act of 1982 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, through the Government National Mortgage Association, to enter into five-year contracts to provide periodic assistance payments on behalf of homeowners to mortgagees and other lenders. Directs the Secretary to give priority to assisting persons who have not owned a home within the last three years. Permits payments to be made only to a mortgagor who satisfies requirements for creditworthiness and has a family income not exceeding 140 percent of the area median income and who: (1) is the original owner of a manufactured home the loan for which is incurred under the National Housing Act; or (2) has a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage which is secured by a home built after enactment of this Act, has no prepayment penalty, and requires increased payments beginning with the second year which shall be applied to the principal obligation until it is paid off. Limits the amount of assistance payments to the difference between the amount of the monthly payment for principal, interest, and loan insurance under the first year of the loan and the amount the monthly payment for principal and interest would be if the interest rate on the loan were: (1) ten percent (12 percent for a manufactured home); or (2) four percentage points less than the rate specified in the loan, whichever rate is higher. Requires that the mortgagor pay at least 25 percent of his or her income toward the monthly loan payment. Declares that manufactured homes shall comprise not more than 20 percent of the units assisted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to allocate the amount available to carry out this Act on the basis of the population, decline in housing starts, and unemployment rate in each State relative to all States. Directs the Secretary to recapture the lesser of the amount of assistance provided under this Act or an amount equal to 50 percent of the net appreciation of the property whenever the mortgagor sells the property or rents it for a period exceeding one year. Authorizes the Secretary to insure mortgages assisted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
National Diffusion Network Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to promote the spread of exemplary educational programs, products, and practices to interested elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Secretary to provide information, materials, training, technical assistance, and evaluations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, public and nonprofit private educational institutions and organizations to carry out such program. Declares that such program shall be deemed to be a continuation of the National Diffusion Network for which provision is made under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds available under such Act to such program. Authorizes additional appropriations, if necessary, to carry out such program in FY 1983 through FY 1986.
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 · 9 March 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
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
Organic Farming Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of volunteer-experts to provide advice and information on organic agriculture to family farmers and other producers. Directs the Secretary to establish six regional organic farming pilot projects. Sets forth the Secretary's duties with regard to organic farming. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1988.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Trade and Investment Equity Act of 1982- Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include restrictions on direct investments by U.S. citizens or nationals among the discriminatory foreign trade practices that trigger a U.S. response. Requires U.S. action if the President determines such action is appropriate to respond to a foreign trade practice that denies the United States commercial opportunities substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Authorizes the President, upon making such a determination, to: (1) change Government procurement policies to provide for procurement from nations that provide substantially equivalent commercial opportunities to comparable U.S. producers; or (2) propose legislation that would impose equivalent restrictions within the United States on countries that do not provide such opportunities. Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements to eliminate discriminatory barriers on foreign direct investment by U.S. citizens or nationals. Imposes specified conditions and limitations on Presidential action to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to respond to foreign trade practices. Authorizes the President to take action: (1) on a nondiscriminatory basis or solely against the products, services, or investment of the foreign entity involved; and (2) against products, services, or investments other than those involved in the investigation. Directs the President to take into account: (1) U.S. trade agreement obligations; and (2) the impact of the action taken on the U.S. economy. Directs the President to review at least biennially each such trade action. Directs the President to rescind an enforcement action within 30 days after: (1) the offending practice is eliminated; or (2) it is determined that continuing the action is not in the national interest. Authorizes the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate Finance Committee to file a resolution with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) requesting the President to take action to enforce U.S. trade rights or to respond to discriminatory trade practices. Directs the USTR to recommend possible Presidential actions concerning specified trade agreements within one year of the start of the dispute settlement procedure. (Current law requires such recommendations within 30 days of the end of the dispute settlement procedure.) Requires the USTR to consult with the U.S. International Trade Commission on the probable impact on the U.S. economy of taking action with respect to such product, service, or direct investment. Authorizes the President to negotiate international agreements on restrictions on foreign direct investment. Directs the President to take such action as may be necessary to extend the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to cover trade in services and direct investment. Directs the USTR to report biennially to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee on the principle trade barriers of any major trading country.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of May 2 through May 8, 1982, as National Physical Fitness and Sports for All Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
Technology Education Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase for one year the maximum allowable charitable contribution income tax deduction for corporations which donate computers during 1983 to primary and secondary schools. Increases the income tax deduction from 10 to 30 percent of a corporation's taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Amends the Small Business Act to require procuring agencies to wait a specified amount of time before issuing solicitations for procurement actions or foreclosing competition under procurement actions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures for identifying social security benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within 12 months and to credit the appropriate social security trust fund on a monthly basis for the amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks drawn on such trust fund. Requires the Secretary to pay a benefit check presented for payment after it has been credited to one of the trust funds if it is otherwise proper. Authorizes appropriations to reimburse the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the total amount of unnegotiated benefit checks.