United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Declares the sense of Congress that the Constitution of the United States does not preclude the use of, and that public school authorities should recognize the value of, discretionary periods of silence for silent prayer, meditation, contemplation, or introspection in the public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify work and breeding horses for investment tax credit treatment to the extent that the cost of such horses does not exceed $100,000 for the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1980
Self-Employed Individuals Retirement Tax Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the maximum amount of the income tax deduction for contributions to simplified employee pension plans and to retirement plans for self-employed individuals from $7,500 to $12,500 or $12,500 plus an inflation adjustment factor.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who, on July 1, 1980, held one or more motor carrier operating authorities an income tax deduction ratably over a period of 36 months, beginning with either July, 1980, or the first month of the taxpayer's first taxable year after July 1, 1980. Sets the amount of such deduction at the greater of: (1) $50,000; or (2) the aggregate adjusted bases of all motor carrier operating authorities held by the taxpayer on July 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Permits a taxpayer who is required to change his method of accounting pursuant to Revenue Ruling 80-60 (inventory valuation) and Revenue Procedure 80-5 to effect such a change only for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the charitable contribution deduction of a film corporation which donates to a charitable organization historical motion picture film and library materials directly related to such film to 30 percent of such corporation's taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of foreign personal holding company income dividends received from controlled foreign corporations which derive at least 80 percent of their income from transactions in agricultural commodities not grown in the United States in commercially marketable quantities. Includes within the definition of foreign base company sales income all U.S. source income which is not effectively connected to the operation of a trade or business in the United States. Excludes from the definition of "United States property", for purposes of computing the gross income of foreign controlled corporations, amounts invested in U.S. plants and equipment by a controlled foreign corporation. Treats any foreign controlled corporation which is paired to a U.S. corporation as owned directly by such U.S. corporation for purposes of the rules relating to the taxation of foreign controlled company income.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Declares that the people of Poland should be allowed to settle their own affairs, including the formation of independent trade unions and the right to strike, without foreign interference.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1980
Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1980 - Title I: Amendments Relating to Income Tax Generally - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that in cases where married couples live apart at all times during the calendar year, do not file a joint return, report earned income which is community income under State or foreign community property laws, and do not transfer such income between themselves before the close of the calendar year, such community income shall be treated in the same manner as community income of a U.S. citizen who is married to a nonresident alien is treated for Federal income tax purposes (income is attributable to the individual spouse who earns it). Permits a taxpayer election to amortize, based on a period of not less than 60 months, start-up expenses incurred in the creation or acquisition of a new business. Expands the types of partial interests in real property which qualify for the income tax deduction for charitable contributions for conservation to include the entire interest of a donor in real property other than the rights to subsurface minerals. Makes permanent the income tax deduction for charitable contributions for conservation purposes. Qualifies rehabilitated buildings leased to a tax-exempt organization or government unit for investment tax credit treatment. Treats income from the lease of certain spacecraft as income from sources within the United States for purposes of the income tax. Imposes upon the non-exempt income of homeowners associations a 30 percent income tax. Provides that any income received or accrued by a tax-exempt mutual or cooperative electric or telephone company from qualified pole rentals, or by a cooperative telephone company from the sale of display listings in a directory furnished to company members, shall not be treated as unrelated business income subject to tax. Defines "qualified pole rental" as any rental of a pole (or other structure used to support wires) if: (1) such pole or structure is used by the telephone or electric company in providing telephone or electric services to its members; and (2) the use of such pole or structure pursuant to the rental is in connection with transmission by wire of electricity or of telephone or other communications. Provides for a tax refund of amounts included in the gross incomes of State police officers as cash meal allowances during calendar years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Exempts amounts paid as entertainment expenses which are includible in the gross income of the recipient, who is not an employee of the taxpayer, from the requirement that such expenses be shown to be directly related to the active conduct of the taxpayer's trade or business in order to qualify for tax deductibility. Title II: Amendments Relating to Pension Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to aggregate employees of adjunct professional organizations and the employees of the professional organizations which are related to such adjunct organizations for purposes of determining the eligibility of such organizations to participate in tax-qualified pension plans. Revises the existing tax treatment of employee stock ownership plans with respect to: (1) stock bonus plans which provide a cash distribution option to participants; (2) the limitation on annual additions to participant accounts under employee stock ownership plans; (3) valuation of employer securities in stock ownership plans; (4) participation of second tier subsidiary corporations in employee stock ownership plans; (5) participation rules for certain tax credit employee stock ownership plans; and (6) the application of cash or deferred arrangement rules to cafeteria plans. Title III: Amendments Relating to Estate Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit executors of an estate to elect the alternate valuation date for estate assets (six months after decedent's death) even though the estate tax return is filed after the due date. Extends, through December 31, 1980, the period during which agreements governing the transfer of estate assets for public, charitable, and religious uses may be amended to meet the requirements for a gift of a split interest to charity.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, or ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to mean (among individuals engaged in agricultural employment on a farm or ranch on a seasonal or temporary basis) only those who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $20,000 to $75,000 in 1980 (with inflation adjustments in 1981 and thereafter) the earned income exclusion for U.S. citizens working abroad who are bona fide residents of a foreign country. Repeals the requirement that, as a condition of their employment, such individuals reside in a hardship area. Reduces from 17 to 11 months the residency requirement for such exclusion. Waives such requirement if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that such individuals were required to leave a foreign country because of war, civil unrest, or other adverse conditions before the end of the 11 month period, and that they would have otherwise met such residency requirement. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the value of employer-provided lodging in a camp in cases where satisfactory housing is not generally available. Reduces from 17 to 11 months the foreign residency requirement with respect to the deduction for certain housing expenses of living abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the present level of the trade deficit with Japan is intolerable and threatens the future of trade between our nations. Urges Japan to cooperate in correcting such deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that proceeds from identical wagers will not be aggregated for purposes of determining whether the excise tax on wagering should be withheld.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Establishes the Public Debt Retirement Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States. Appropriates to such Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the crude oil windfall profit tax and the oil import fees imposed by the President under Proclamation 4744 on April 2, 1980. Requires the transfer of such amounts at least monthly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund. Limits the use of such Trust Fund amounts to the payment, purchase before maturity, or redemption of any obligations included in the public debt. Requires cancellation and retirement of all obligations so paid for, purchased, or redeemed. Repeals provisions of the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 which set up the Windfall Profit Tax Account in the Treasury and direct the allocation of amounts deposited therein.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide that recipients of Federal grants for tuition and related expenses will not be denied a tax exclusion for such grants or expenses merely because they are required to perform future service as a Federal employee as a condition of such grant; (2) grant tax-exempt status upon an annuity contract purchased by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for any employee who is a member of the civilian faculty or staff of such university; (3) permit common carriers by railroad (including a railroad switching company or a terminal company) to use the retirement-replacement-betterment method of accounting for determining depreciation allowances for income tax deduction purposes; (4) set forth rules for the valuation of certain stock in a transferor railroad subject to a determination of final value by a special court established by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, for purposes of consolidated return regulations; (5) restore the availability of certain net operating loss carryovers to railroads in Conrail proceedings; and (6) allow a credit against the excise tax on domestic or imported distilled spirits, wines, and beer for each proof gallon of the wine and flavors content of distilled spirits containing wine. Sets the amount of such credit for wine at the excess of $10.50 over the rate of the additional tax on such wine which would be imposed but for its removal to bonded premises. Specifies the points in time for determining the allowance of such credit for domestic and for imported distilled spirits containing wine.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1980
Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, extending from Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina, to Elizabethton, Tennessee, with branches into Virginia and North Carolina, as a unit of the National Trails System.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Soybean Emergency Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish price supports for the 1980 and 1981 crops of soybeans at not less than $5.02 per bushel.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
National Usury Act - Establishes the legal rate of interest at ten percent per year. Provides that, except with respect to loans of less than $2,500 made by petty loan companies or credit unions: (1) any agreement to charge interest in excess of ten percent per year on a loan of more than $300 is void as to the excess interest which may be recovered by the borrower; and (2) any partial payment on a debt must be first applied to the interest due. Prohibits the defense of usury in any action to recover on a debt. States that insurance premiums required to be paid under a secured loan agreement shall not be considered interest if the premiums do not exceed those charged under similar policies unrelated to loans. Sets forth provisions governing the application of the legal rate of interest to judgments. Requires any person engaged in the business of financing loans on personal property sold by dealers to purchasers on credit to pay interest at five percent per year on any reserve withheld from the dealer under the contract for financing. States that any amount so withheld shall be due immediately upon the close of the loan account. Requires that dealers receive biannual reports on the status of their reserve accounts. Establishes a fine for violation of such provisions on dealer financing. Requires the board of directors of any institution which deals in bills of exchange to fix the rates of exchange. Requires such rates to be publicly posted. Prohibits any officer of such an institution from deviating from the posted rate of exchange. Sets forth provisions governing secured and unsecured installment loans given by banks, trust companies, and combined banks and trust companies.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
National Usury Act - Establishes the legal rate of interest at ten percent per year. Provides that, except with respect to loans of less than $2,500 made by petty loan companies or credit unions: (1) any agreement to charge interest in excess of ten percent per year on a loan of more than $300 is void as to the excess interest which may be recovered by the borrower; and (2) any partial payment on a debt must be first applied to the interest due. Prohibits the defense of usury in any action to recover on a debt. States that insurance premiums required to be paid under a secured loan agreement shall not be considered interest if the premiums do not exceed those charged under similar policies unrelated to loans. Sets forth provisions governing the application of the legal rate of interest to judgments. Requires any person engaged in the business of financing loans on personal property sold by dealers to purchasers on credit to pay interest at five percent per year on any reserve withheld from the dealer under the contract for financing. States that any amount so withheld shall be due immediately upon the close of the loan account. Requires that dealers receive biannual reports on the status of their reserve accounts. Establishes a fine for violation of such provisions on dealer financing. Requires the board of directors of any institution which deals in bills of exchange to fix the rates of exchange. Requires such rates to be publicly posted. Prohibits any officer of such an institution from deviating from the posted rate of exchange.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1980
Resource Conservation and Development Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a resource conservation and development program to assist States, local units of government, and local nonprofit organizations to operate and maintain a planning process for land conservation and utilization, natural resources development, and rural economic and environmental improvement. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance in developing area plans for designated rural areas; (2) cooperate in conducting surveys and inventories, disseminating information, and developing area plans; (3) assist in the carrying out of approved area plans by local public agencies and nonprofit organizations designated by States; and (4) enter into specified agreements. Sets forth terms and conditions of agreements which must be met if the Secretary is to provide any technical or financial assistance, including loans, to a State agency, local government, or local nonprofit organization in carrying out works of improvement specified in an approved area plan. Permits the identification of groups or problems for special consideration in area plans. Declares that the authority of the Secretary under this Act shall be supplemental and not in lieu of any authority of the Secretary under any other provision of law. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Agriculture a Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board to advise the Secretary regarding the administration of this Act. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the program provided for in this Act and to report on such evaluation, with recommendations. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act, with specified annual limits on technical and financial assistance and on loans.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to a named individual in full satisfaction of a claim against the United States resulting from the refusal of the Department of Defense to accept shipment of specified agricultural produce.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1980
Urges the President to prohibit the exportation of fertilizer from the United States to the Soviet Union, until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan.
United States · United States Congress · 27 December 1979
Grants the Court of Claims jurisdiction over claims against the United States for certain losses sustained by producers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or other persons resulting from the ban on apparel, fabric, yarn, or fiber containing Tris phosphate. Directs such court to consider certain factors in determining the validity of such claims. Prohibits the inclusion of lost profits, proceeds from the distress sales, attorney's fees, or interest on any such loss in determining the amount of losses for which such claims are brought. Sets forth the measure of losses for specified types of claimants.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Provides for an exemption from the windfall profits tax for independent oil producers for an amount equal to 1,000 barrels of crude oil multiplied by the number of days in the taxable period.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Authorizes the President to impose higher or additional duties on the products of any country which is not cooperating with the United States in its diplomatic or economic initiatives to terminate the unlawful actions of other foreign governments regarding U.S. citizens assigned to a U.S. diplomatic mission.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Authorizes the President to implement the International Sugar Agreement, 1977, by: (1) regulating the entry of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization; and (2) requiring records and reports concerning the entry of sugar. Establishes criminal penalties for violating such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should terminate all military training of Iranian personnel pursuant to sales under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Sunset Review Act of 1979 - Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to jointly develop and maintain an inventory of all Federal programs and tax expenditures. Requires such inventory to classify all such programs and expenditures according to the jurisdiction of the various legislative committees of the two Houses. Requires the General Accounting Office, before the beginning of the 97th Congress, after consultation with the appropriate legislative committees, to submit a draft inventory to the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Requires such Committees to notify each legislative committee of the programs and tax expenditures which are classified within its jurisdiction. Allows any legislative committee to propose revisions of such inventory within 30 days after notification. Requires, after a determination that all programs and tax expenditures are accurately classified, that such inventory be published in a single document. Requires that an update be made of such inventory at the beginning of every Congress. Directs the General Accounting Office to maintain and publish a supplement to the inventory. Requires each legislative committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, on or before March 1 in the first session of each Congress beginning with the 98th Congress, to develop, adopt, and submit to the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committees on Rules and Administration an agenda for the sunset review of selected Federal programs within its jurisdiction or in the case of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, of selected tax expenditures. Requires the committees of each House to develop their sunset review agenda in consultation with any other committee which has concurrent jurisdiction over any programs or tax expenditures involved. Prohibits either the House or the Senate from considering a primary expense resolution for any legislative committee in any Congress until that committee has developed and submitted its sunset review agenda. Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to incorporate such agendas into a consolidated sunset review agenda and to report such consolidated agenda to its House in the form of a concurrent resolution, within seven legislative days after all committee sunset review agendas have been submitted. Requires the consolidated sunset review agenda to be adopted in the House and in the Senate no later than March 30 in the first session of each Congress. Sets forth the procedures for adoption. Requires each committee of the House or the Senate, not later than May 15 in the second session of each Congress, to report a bill or bills modifying, continuing, or terminating each program or tax expenditure which it has been directed to review under the consolidated sunset review agenda adopted during the first session. Requires such bill to be accompanied by a report setting forth the committee's findings, recommendations, and justifications. Requires each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch of the Government which is responsible for the administration of a Federal program or tax expenditure selected for sunset review to give assistance to the appropriate Congressional committees. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of any legislative committee to review programs or tax expenditures within its jurisdiction and to report legislation modifying, continuing, or terminating such programs or expenditures at such times and in such manner as it deems appropriate. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to include the consolidated sunset review agendas and the congressional inventory of Federal programs as part of the House Committee on Rules' functions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Authorizes States to enter into agreements or compacts with other States for the establishment of a system of regional disposal sites to be used for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within such region. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue rules concerning the ownership of low-level radioactive waste.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1979
Individual Savings and Investment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual amounts contributed to a rollover account meeting the requirements of this Act. Defines such rollover account as a trust created or organized in the United States for the exclusive benefit of an individual or his beneficiaries. Requires such a trust: (1) to accept only cash or stock or securities of a domestic corporation contributed by such individual only; (2) to be a bank or other person satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury; (3) to invest trust funds in stock or securities of a domestic corporation or hold them in interest-bearing bank deposits; (4) to make the interest of the individual nonforfeitable in the balance of such rollover account; (5) to permit the individual to elect, no more often than each taxable year, whether such rollover account shall be discretionary (with investment determined by the trustee) or self-directed (with investment directed by the individual). Requires the trustee of a rollover fund to establish on its books, without segregation of assets, an ordinary income fund, a capital gain fund, and a capital fund. Specifies the contents of each fund. Requires inclusion of any amount paid or distributed from the account in the individual's gross income for the taxable year in which such payment or distribution is made. Requires any such payment or distribution from the account to be treated as made: first, from the ordinary income fund; second, from the capital gain fund; and third, from the capital fund. Prohibits treatment of any payment or distribution as being made from a particular fund until the balance of any fund which precedes it in priority has been exhausted. Sets forth rules for the treatment of losses, security pledges, and transfers of account incident to divorce. Limits the number of rollover accounts which an individual may maintain to one at a time. Requires the trustee of such an account to keep appropriate records and to file annual returns with the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax exclusion from personal income earned abroad by an individual performing qualified missionary services for a tax-exempt employer created or organized in the United States. Limits such exclusion to an amount not to exceed a figure computed on a daily basis at an annual rate of $20,000. Sets a formula for the maximum amount of exclusion for an individual performing missionary services and other services while residing in a camp located in a hardship area.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1979
Hospital Cost Containment and Reporting Act of 1979 - Establishes a 15-member National Commission on Hospital Costs, to be appointed by the President, to report annually to Congress and the President on: (1) its activities and the implementation of this Act; (2) the rate of increases in hospital expenses; and (3) the success of the voluntary efforts of hospitals to meet the voluntary goals for hospital cost containment established by this Act. Directs the Commission to submit to Congress and the President, within one year of the appointment of a majority of its members, a report on measures that can be taken to control costs in the health care industry. Directs the Commission to study and make recommendations to Congress and the President within two years of the appointment of a majority of its members with respect to: (1) the effect of policies and procedures (including use of deductibles, coinsurance, cost- or risk-sharing, tax deductions and exclusions, and repaid health plans) on the strengthening of competitive forces in the health services industry; (2) the desirability of increasing the use of such methods in federally funded and other health insurance programs; (3) underutilized capacity in the health care system and means to reduce such capacity; (4) the costs and benefits of State certificate of need programs and programs of review of capital expenditures under the Social Security Act (section 1122); (5) the impact of increased hospital capital expenditures on operating expenses; (6) the impact of increases in the number of professional health personnel; (7) the impact of wage increases and increased utility expenses on hospital costs; (8) alternative systems of financing health care services; (9) the costs to hospitals of Federal and State regulations; (10) the costs to hospitals of serving the medically needed; and (11) other matters affecting hospital expenses or revenues. Directs the Commission to consult with appropriate professional organizations in the conduct of its activities. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide financial assistance for up to 50 percent of the expenses involved with the planning, establishment, or operation of State voluntary or mandatory hospital cost containment programs which meet specified conditions, including that any such program: (1) excludes any institution (A) having an average stay of 30 days or more during the preceding three years, (B) deriving 75 percent or more of its inpatient care revenues from one or more health maintenance organizations; (C) located in a rural area and having an average annual admissions of 4,000 or less during the preceding 12 months; (D) which does not accept payments for services; (E) is a psychiatric hospital; or (F) is a Federal institution; (2) sets as voluntary goals the reduction of the rate of increase in total hospital expenses for 1979 ( and each subsequent year) to four percent less than the rate of increase for 1977 (subject to an inflation adjustment); (3) conforms with specified administrative and review requirements; and (4) does not treat as hospital revenues amounts attributable to specified types of grants, gifts, endowments, and other funds. Directs the Secretary to monitor the performance of such State programs and make recommendations with respect to: (1) containing aggregate levels of hospital utilization; (2) shifting utilization from inpatient to outpatient services; (3) reducing excess hospital capacity through mergers, conversions, and terminations; and (4) promoting alternative methods of providing health care, such as through health maintenance organizations. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1982 for such State programs. Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (General Provisions) to provide that gifts, grants, and endowments shall not be deducted from any operating costs of nonprofit hospitals for purposes of determining under the Maternal and Child Health, Medicare, and Medicaid programs the reasonable costs of services furnished by such hospitals. Prohibits any Federal law providing for the containment or control of hospital costs from treating as hospital revenues amounts attributable to specified types of grants, gifts, endowments, and other funds. Adds as new requirements of the State plans under the Maternal and Child Health and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act that: (1) entities providing services reimbursable on a cost-related basis be audited as the Secretary determines is necessary to insure proper payments; and (2) for any such audit involving an entity which is also reimbursed on a cost-related basis under Medicare, the audit under the Maternal and Child Health or Medicaid program be coordinated and conducted jointly with an audit under Medicare. Directs the Secretary to condition payment to a State for the administrative costs of auditing any such entity on such coordinated audit procedures. Amends the Medicare program to permit any hospital (other than a hospital which has in effect a waiver of the 24-hour nursing service requirement) which: (1) has an agreement under such program; and (2) has been granted a certificate of need for the provision of long-term care services for the State health planning and development agency (designated under title XV of the Public Health Service Act), to enter into an agreement with the Secretary under which its inpatient hospital facilities may be used for the furnishing of the type of services which, if furnished by a skilled nursing facility, would constitute posthospital extended care services. Provides that payment to any hospital for such services shall be based upon the reasonable cost of the services, consisting of the reasonable cost of routine and ancillary services as defined by this Act. Stipulates that a hospital furnishing such services shall be required to meet all the requirements that a skilled nursing facility would be required to meet and that the provision of such services shall be subject to the same requirements as those furnished by a skilled nursing facility, except for those requirements which the Secretary determines are inappropriate with respect to a hospital. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within three years of enactment on such extended care service program. Amends the Medicaid program to permit payment to be made under approved State plans for nursing facility services and intermediate care facility services furnished by a hospital which has in effect an agreement under the Medicare program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the standard mileage rate used in computing the charitable deduction for expenses incurred in the operation of a motor vehicle shall be the same as the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for the business related deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress to review each rule and regulation issued to carry out any law before it may become effective. Permits Congress to approve, modify, or disapprove such rule or regulation.
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