United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
H.U.D. Income Verification Act of 1987 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program applicants or participants to: (1) disclose their social security or employer identification numbers; and (2) consent to wage information verification. Amends the Social Security Act to provide HUD with access to State employment records. Requires Federal, State, local, or public housing administering agencies to independently verify such information before terminating or reducing any housing benefits. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for misuse of such information.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Social Security Administrative and Investment Reform Act of 1987 - Title I: Establishment of the Social Security Administration - 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. Title II: 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. 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 of the trust funds supporting the OASDI 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. Title III: Management of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund - Amends the OASDI and Medicare (title XVIII of the Act) programs to direct the Managing Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (trust funds) to immediately invest that portion of the trust funds which is not required for current withdrawals. Requires the investment of amounts in the OASDI trust funds to be made in accordance with policies established by the Social Security Board. Prohibits the sale and redemption of trust fund assets or the expenditure of trust fund amounts for purposes other than those specified in titles II and XVIII of the Act. Requires members of such trust funds' Boards of Trustees to faithfully execute their duties, but does not impose a fiduciary duty. Requires that, in consideration of the public debt limit, required investment of funds or amounts over which the Secretary of the Treasury has investment authority occur prior to the issuance of other obligations. Directs that tax receipts earmarked for the OASDI program be immediately transferred (currently, monthly transfers are made) from the general fund of the Treasury to the OASDI trust funds. Requires the Boards of Trustees of the trust funds to meet at least twice each year. Sets forth provisions requiring reports by the Board of Trustees and the Managing Trustees to the Congress regarding the operation and status of the trust funds.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Designates August 12, 1988, as National Civil Rights Day and requests the President to issue a proclamation calling for the ringing of church bells during a moment of silence.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to increase from $50,000 to $100,000 the benefits paid to survivors of public safety officers (law enforcement officers and fire fighters) who died as a result of injury sustained in the line of duty. Directs the Bureau of Justice Assistance to adjust public safety officer death benefits to reflect the annual change in the Consumer Price Index. Makes the date of death the determining date with respect to the amount payable to beneficiaries.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Requirement Act of 1987 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing pork irradiation regulations and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing other food irradiation regulations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to arrange for and report within two years on a study of the risks to human health and the environment presented by food irradiation. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that food for domestic use or export which has been irradiated be labeled in a prescribed fashion. Requires restaurant menus to indicate when foods have been irradiated. Requires persons irradiating food to report semiannually to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Nonsmokers Health Protection Act of 1987 - Declares that nonsmokers working and visiting in U.S. Government buildings are entitled to a reasonably smoke-free environment for the protection of their health and comfort. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations designating the areas in which smoking shall be allowed within Government buildings. Requires the conspicuous display of signs at building entrances and in areas where smoking is permitted. Declares that regulations under this Act shall not supersede a regulation providing more stringent restrictions on smoking, or prevent a department or agency from initiating more stringent restrictions on smoking. Requires departments or agencies in which labor organizations have been accorded recognition to engage in collective bargaining to implement regulations which affect work areas predominantly occupied by employees represented by such labor organizations. Requires any bargaining agreement to comply with this Act. Encourages departments and agencies to offer smoking cessation programs. Encourages Federal health plan carriers to provide coverage for such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
United States House of Representatives Election Recount Act of 1987 - Declares that any recount of ballots for the office of Representative shall be completed: (1) in a general election by December 31 of the year of the election; and (2) in a special election by the end of six weeks after the election.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to repeal provisions which eliminated the three-year use of the basis recovery rule in computing the amount of an employee's retirement benefits includable in gross income. Provides that the Internal Revenue Code shall be applied and administered as if such provisions had not been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act of 1987 - Declares as nonmailable matter, matter which constitutes a solicitation by a non-governmental entity: (1) for the purchase of products or services which are provided free of charge or at a lower price by the Federal Government; (2) for the purchase of products or services and contains a seal, insignia, trade or brand name, or any other term or symbol implying Federal Government connection, approval, or endorsement; and (3) for the contribution of funds and contains a seal, insignia, trade or brand name, or any other term implying Federal Government connection, approval, or endorsement. Allows the mailing of such matter if it contains a conspicuous disclaimer that it is not a Government document. Establishes penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Self-Sufficiency for the Poor Act of 1987 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the President to use the foreign currencies paid by the government of a developing country (pursuant to the low interest loan program established by this Act) to make grants to intermediaries that provide credit and other assistance directly to the poorest people in that country for locally chosen self-help investment activities and small-scale private enterprise activities. Sets forth the types of assistance that may be provided by such intermediaries, including limited amounts of credit for individuals, training, and grants for small-scale projects. Describes the types of locally chosen self-help investment activities and small scale enterprises to be supported by such grants. Provides that organizations that have demonstrated effectiveness in providing assistance to the poorest people are eligible for such grants. Requires the local currencies to be disbursed as grants to the intermediaries as quickly as possible. Provides for the administration of the grants. Authorizes the President, in order to provide such grants, to use economic assistance funds to provide economic assistance to developing countries on a loan basis. Requires that a specified minimum amount of the economic assistance funds shall be used for such loans each year. Sets forth the terms of the loans. Provides for notification of the Congress of the reprogramming of economic assistance funds for such loans.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Volunteer Protection Act of 1987 - Prescribes circumstances under which volunteers working for nonprofit organizations or government entities shall be immune from personal civil liability. Requires each State to certify to the Secretary of Health and Human Services before the beginning of each fiscal year (commencing with FY 1989) that it has enacted or has in effect a State law which provides such immunity. Requires the Secretary to reduce by one percent the fiscal year allotment which would otherwise be made to such State to carry out the Social Services Block Grant Program under title XX of the Social Security Act if such law is not in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to permit, until September 30, 1987, duty-free entry of the personal effects and the game equipment of foreign participants, officials, and their immediate families who are involved in the Tenth Pan American Games.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to delay until December 31, 1988 (currently, December 31, 1986) the exception for certain technical personnel from certain rules for determining whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor for employment tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1987
Pet Protection Act of 1987 - States that any person using for any research purpose any animal acquired directly or indirectly from any animal shelter shall not be eligible to receive Federal funds under any grant or research protocol of the National Institutes of Health.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1987
Kangaroo Protection Act - Provides that any administrative exception made under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 permitting the importation of kangaroos, their parts, and products shall not apply to kangaroos removed from the wild in accordance with an Australian management plan.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Northern Ireland Fair Employment Practices Act - Prohibits an article from being imported into the United States from Northern Ireland unless documentation is presented at the time of entry indicating that the enterprise which manufactured or assembled such article was in compliance at the time of manufacture with certain fair employment principles (such as freedom from religious discrimination). Provides that such principles are based on the MacBride Principles, a nine point set of guidelines for fair employment in Northern Ireland. Requires that any U.S. person who has a branch or office in Northern Ireland or who controls an enterprise in Northern Ireland in which more than 20 people are employed shall take the necessary steps to insure implementation of such employment principles and compliance with this Act. Requires each such U.S. person to report to the Secretary of Commerce on compliance with this Act. Sets forth the fair employment principles. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this Act in the interest of national security. Requires such waiver to become effective 90 days after the President submits a justification of such waiver to the Congress unless the Congress adopts a joint resolution disapproving the waiver. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Foods Are Not Drugs Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude from the definitions of "drug" and of "food additive" foods for special dietary use, i.e. vitamins and minerals, where such foods are promoted or offered for sale in the diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease. Provides that food shall be considered misbranded if oral representations have been made with respect to the food which are false or misleading in any particular.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Authorizes the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a monument on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Excepts such monument from the prohibition on the construction of works commemorating individuals who have died within 25 years. Provides that U.S. funds may not be used to establish the monument.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Government's expenditures from exceeding its revenues in any fiscal year, except in cases of national emergency as determined by a three-fifths vote of the Congress. Prohibits total Government expenditures during a fiscal year from exceeding 20 percent of the gross national product for the preceding calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report - Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) within 60 days of enactment of this Act, begin an investigation concerning displaced nationals of El Salvador and Nicaragua; and (2) report to the Speaker of the House and to the President of the Senate within one year of initiating such investigation. Requires determinations to be made, with respect to displaced Salvadorans and Nicaraguans living in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, or Mexico of: (1) the number and location of such persons; (2) their place of origin in El Salvador or Nicaragua and the period of, and reason for, their displacement; (3) their current living conditions, with particular attention to questions of personal safety and the availability of food and medical assistance; (4) current efforts to provide such necessities; and (5) the impact of the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Requires assessments to be made, in the case of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans returned from the United States to their country, of: (1) their conditions upon return, with particular attention to any human rights violations; and (2) the extent to which these persons have become displaced persons in their country. Requires the investigation, with respect to Salvadorans and Nicaraguans unlawfully in the United States, to: (1) compare the situation in El Salvador and Nicaragua with previous cases of administrative grants of extended voluntary departure under the immigration laws; (2) describe U.S. policies respecting the treatment of other aliens in the United States in similar circumstances; and (3) describe the policies of all other countries in which Salvadorans or Nicaraguans have sought refuge as those policies concern the return of such persons to their country. Title II: Congressional Review - Provides for the referral of such report to the appropriate congressional committees for committee hearings (within 90 days of continuous session after the referral of such report) and committee reports (within 270 days of continuous session after the referral of such report). Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Prohibits the Attorney General from detaining or deporting aliens until the Congress completes its review of the Comptroller General's report of those aliens who: (1) are nationals of El Salvador or Nicaragua; (2) have been continuously present in the United States since before January 20, 1987; (3) are deportable on specified noncriminal grounds; and (4) have signed an agreement to voluntarily leave the United States at the end of such stay of deportation period. States that such period of stay of deportation shall not count as a period of physical presence in the United States for purposes of deportation suspension and status adjustment. States that during such stay of deportation period the alien: (1) shall not be considered to be permanently in the United States; (2) shall not be eligible for public assistance; and (3) may be deemed ineligible for public assistance by a State or any of its political subdivisions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Freedom From Vertical Price Fixing Act of 1987 - Provides that in a civil antitrust action relating to price fixing under the Sherman Act, evidence that a seller terminated the sale or supply of goods or services to a dealer after receiving a communication about price competition from a competitor of such dealer shall be sufficient to raise the inference that such manufacturer and competitor engaged in price fixing. Provides that evidence that the seller and a purchaser of goods or services agreed to establish the resale price of such good or service shall be sufficient to establish that such seller and purchaser engaged in price fixing.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Repeals specified provisions of Federal law concerning incentive awards for Federal employees, performance awards for the Senior Executive Service, and performance awards and the cash award program under the performance management and recognition system. Authorizes the President to pay a cash award of not to exceed $1,500 to an employee or former employee if such employee's suggestion, invention, or personal effort causes a demonstrable monetary savings to the Government. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Suspends all U.S. aid for the Nicaraguan democratic resistance until the Congress enacts a joint resolution declaring that: (1) specified Select Committees have completed their investigations into the arms sales to Iran and U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan resistance; and (2) the Comptroller General has been able to account for all of the "humanitarian assistance" provided to the Nicaraguan resistance by the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Requires that all proceeds from any sale of Federal assets be used solely to retire the public debt. Establishes the Debt Retirement Account for the transfer or credit of such proceeds. Requires annual reports to the Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury on the financial condition of the account.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest paid or incurred on a qualified educational loan. Defines "qualified educational loan" as any indebtedness incurred to pay the educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependent. (Present law requires that such a loan be secured by an interest in real property.)
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Permits a former President to receive the allowance provided specifically for a former President under Federal law only if he or she waives the right to any other Federal pension or annuity. Provides for the refund of the former President's contributions toward such waived pension or annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Extends the reduced postage rates currently in effect for classroom publications to the home delivery of children's educational publications which contain no paid advertising.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that specified minimum tax and accounting rules applicable to installment obligations shall not apply to obligations arising from sales of property by nondealers.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners to deduct the full amount of prepaid interest in connection with the refinancing of their principal residences for the taxable year in which paid.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Disapproves the recommendations of the President relating to pay rates of Members of Congress, Federal judges, and Federal officials under the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for public financing of advertising (television, radio, and newspaper) and related expenses in campaigns for the House of Representatives. Makes candidates who accept campaign contributions from a multicandidate political committee ineligible for such financing. Requires charges for such advertising to be submitted to the Federal Election Commission, and in turn by the Commission to the Secretary of the Treasury. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 to extend to all units of the legislative branch of Government the prohibition against discrimination in employment which now applies only to those units of the legislative branch having positions in the competitive civil service. Amends the National Labor Relations Act to include the United States as an employer subject to the prohibition against unfair labor practices. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to extend its coverage to the employees of any unit of the legislative branch whether or not the unit has positions in the competitive civil service. Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to include the United States as an employer subject to its provisions. Applies the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act to the legislative branch.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to condition assistance to States, local governments, and agencies on the adoption of a law enforcement officers' bill of rights which includes, as a minimum, the following: (1) allowing off-duty officers to engage in political activities; (2) granting officers specified procedural rights in connection with investigations of their conduct on duty which may lead to a personnel action; (3) requiring officer representation on any police complaint review board established in the jurisdiction; (4) prohibiting mandatory disclosure of officers' finances; and (5) establishing a law enforcement officers' grievance commission.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Federal Support Payment Act - Amends the judicial code to provide for the enforcement of State court-ordered child support payments in sister States. Authorizes State-ordered child support payments to be registered under specified conditions in any State court for enforcement purposes. Establishes guidelines for enforcement and contempt proceedings in such State courts. Confers original jurisdiction upon State courts over civil actions brought by citizens of sister States to order citizens of the forum State to make child support payments, subject to specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Directs the Department of Justice to offer a reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of a kidnapper if: (1) the victim of the offense is physically harmed; and (2) the offender demands a monetary ransom.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to allow air carriers to offer reduced rate air transportation for any individual under 16 years of age who is traveling to the United States from a foreign country to be adopted, or after being adopted, by a resident of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Limits the amount of official funds available to a Member of Congress for the purchase of postage stamps to $100 for each calendar year. Requires deposit of any amount of such funds not used in the calendar year in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Prohibits the total annual Government expenditures for the care of a former President, excepting Secret Service protection, from exceeding eight times the poverty level income for one family of four.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate as a basis of a stepchild's eligibility for child's insurance benefits the fact that such child is living with his or her stepfather or stepmother.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to establish procedures prohibiting the procurement of property or services from any person who has recommended such procurement in a report or study funded by the Government.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the exemption from tax for interest earned on certain portfolio debt investments and received by nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations. Repeals the exception to withholding requirements for interest income from certain portfolio debt investments earned by nonresident alien individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the income tax deduction for business expenses paid or incurred for regularly scheduled air transportation to the extent that such amount exceeds the normal tourist class fare for such transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on cigarettes from: (1) $8 to $16 per thousand for small cigarettes; and (2) $16.80 to $33.60 per thousand for large cigarettes. Imposes a floor stock excise tax on small and large cigarettes. Transfers revenues raised by such additional taxes to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Medicare).
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish a veteran who is determined to require evaluation and treatment for a mental condition the necessary hospital care and medical services for such evaluation and treatment.
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