United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1984
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1984 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Incorporates by reference the conference report on H.R. 4072, the Wheat Improvement Act of 1983 (H. Report 98-646) dealing with: (1) price supports for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice; (2) export assistance; and (3) agricultural credit. Title II: Civil Service and Military Retirement Programs - Limits the cost of living increase in the annuity or retired or retainer pay of a Government retiree for FY 1986 and 1987 to one-half of the increase that would otherwise be effective if: (1) the retiree is under 62 years of age as of the effective date of the increase; and (2) the annuity or retired or retainer pay is based on the retiree's Government service (but is not computed on the basis of a disability). Requires any survivor annuity which is based on the service of any such retiree to be computed as if this title had not been enacted. Title III: Health Programs - Medicare and Medicaid Budget Reconciliation Amendments of 1984 - Part A: Medicare Reconciliation Amendments - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national fee schedule for diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary to set the fee schedule at 60 percent of the prevailing charges paid under part B for similar diagnostic laboratory tests during the 12-month period beginning July 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary, in addition to the amounts provided under the fee schedule, to provide for and establish a nominal fee payable to cover the costs of collecting the sample in a diagnostic laboratory test. Provides for Medicare payment of the lesser of 80 percent (or 100 percent in the case of tests for which payment is made on the basis of an assignment or in the situation of the death of a beneficiary) of the amount determined by the Secretary or the amount of billed charges. Eliminates the part B deductible for laboratory tests paid on the basis of an assignment and in the case of payment on behalf of a deceased beneficiary. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for Medicaid coverage of laboratory tests to the extent such coverage is provided under Medicare. Provides for Medicare coverage of hepatitis B vaccine and its administration in a hospital or renal dialysis facility. Revises provisions under part B of title XVIII relating to payment for the services of a teaching physician to limit, for the purposes of determining the customary charge, the consideration of charges made by a physician outside of teaching to charges made by nonteaching physicians. Provides that if all the teaching physicians in the hospital agree to have payment made for all physicians' services under part B furnished patients in the hospital on the basis of an assignment, the carrier shall take into account the amounts otherwise payable under part B with respect to similar services in the same locality. Directs the Secretary to compile annually a list of physicians serving individuals enrolled under part B indicating the share of claims which each physician has accepted on an assignment basis in the preceding year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish annually a list of all physicians who have agreed to accept payment on the basis of an assignment; and (2) annually provide enrollees with a list of physicians in their area who accept assignments. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on methods by which payment amounts and other program policies under part B may be modified to: (1) eliminate inequities in the relative amounts paid to physicians by type of service, locality, and specialty; (2) increase incentives for physicians and other suppliers to accept assignments; and (3) provide incentives for physicians and other providers not to provide increased or otherwise excessive amounts of hospital, physician, and other health care services. Directs the Secretary, in order to carry out the study and facilitate congressional review, to compile a centralized Medicare part B charge data base utilizing information gathered by Medicare carriers and used by the carriers in making the 1984 reasonable charge updates. Directs the Secretary to issue revisions to the current guidelines for payment under part B for physicians' services for the transtelephonic monitoring of cardiac pacemakers. Requires such guidelines to include provisions regarding the specifications for and frequency of transtelephonic monitoring procedures which will be found reasonable and necessary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, regarding the appropriateness of the current rate of part B reimbursement for physicians' services associated with the implantation or replacement of pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads; and (2) consider reducing the recognized rates for such services by 20 percent. Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads for which payment was made under title XVIII. Directs the Secretary, in any case where the Secretary has reason to believe that replacement of a cardiac pacemaker device or lead for which Medicare payment is or may be requested is related to the malfunction of a device or lead, to require the testing of the device. Directs the Secretary to provide that payment will not be made under part B for a physician's debridement of mycotic toenails to the extent such debridement is performed more than once every 60 days, unless the medical necessity for more frequent treatment is documented by the physician. Allows payments to hospitals under part A (Hospital Insurance) of Medicare for the operation of mobile intensive care units if certain conditions are met. Provides for the appointment by the President (rather than by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. Sets forth the pay level for the Administrator. Permits limited provider representation on peer review organizations (PRO's). Permits a physician who has a financial interest in an agency which is a sole community home health agency to carry out the certification and plan-of-care functions for patients who will receive services from the agency. Repeals certain special tuberculosis treatment requirements. Allows part B payments to be made to a health benefits plan, if the beneficiary agrees, and if the physician or supplier accepts the plan's payment as payment in full. Includes podiatrists in the definition of "physician" for outpatient physical therapy services. Includes podiatrists and dentists in the definition of "physician" for outpatient ambulatory surgery. Allows physical therapists to establish medicare qualified plans for physical therapy. Increases from $10,000 to $50,000 the minimum amount of any agreement between a medicare provider and a subcontractor before the Secretary or Comptroller General must have access to the subcontractor's records. Establishes the statutory right of Medicare to recover directly from a liable third party, if the beneficiary himself does not do so, and to pay a beneficiary, or on the beneficiary's behalf, pending recovery where such third party is not expected to pay promptly. Extends the Secretary's authority to rely on accrediting organizations in determining whether rural health clinics, laboratories, clinics, rehabilitation agencies, including outpatient rehabilitation facilities, and public health agencies meet Medicare requirements. Sets forth rules for the confidentiality of accreditation surveys. Limits coverage to 30 days for services furnished by a home health agency whose agreement has been terminated. Extends the Secretary's authority to exclude from Medicare participation (and to direct State agencies to exclude from Medicaid participation) any entity in which ownership or controlling interest is held by a person convicted of program-related criminal offenses, or in which an officer, director, agent, or managing employee was convicted of such criminal offense. Eliminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Requires the Secretary to designate one 30-day period in which all health maintenance organizations (HMO's) and competitive medical plans (CMP's) in an area participating in Medicare must have an open enrollment period. Specifies a deadline of July 1, 1985, for a report to Congress on including payment for physicians' services to hospital inpatients in DRG payment amounts. Authorizes the Secretary, if patient health and safety is not jeopardized, to apply less severe sanctions than are presently available for dealing with an end-stage renal disease facility which is not in compliance with applicable regulations. Makes the national end-stage renal disease medical information system discretionary with the Secretary. Removes the costs of nurse anesthetists from DRG-based payments. Sets forth rules for the determination of hospital area wage indexes. Revises the definition of bona fide emergency services for purposes of the limitations on payment for hospital outpatient services. Delays from October 1, 1983, to April 1, 1984, the effective date for single-rate for skilled nursing facilities. Part B: Medicaid Reconciliation Amendments - Provides that the Federal medical assistance percentage, under title XIX of the Social Security Act, shall be 100 percent with respect to amounts expended as medical assistance for services furnished to a "qualified pregnant woman or child." Defines a qualified pregnant woman or child as an individual who was not eligible for categorically needy coverage under Medicaid as of June 30, 1983, and who is: (1) under five years of age and who meets Aid to Families with Dependent Children (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act) requirements but does not receive cash payments and is a categorically needy individual; or (2) a pregnant woman who, at the State's option, may be deemed an AFDC recipient for Medicaid purposes or who is a member of a family which would be eligible for AFDC if the State's AFDC plan required payment of aid with respect to dependent children deprived of parental support by reason of the unemployment of a parent who is the principal earner. Authorizes a State's Medicaid plan to not take into account the financial responsibility of any individual for an applicant or recipient who is a pregnant woman under 21 who does not have legal custody over other children, unless the applicant or recipient is the individual's spouse, except that a State may limit the applicability of this provision to applicants and recipients living in such an individual's household or in a custodial institution for pregnant women. Provides that a child born to a woman eligible for and receiving Medicaid as of the child's birth shall be deemed to have applied for medical assistance and been found eligible for assistance on the child's birth date and shall remain eligible for assistance for one year so long as the child is a member of the women's household and the woman remains eligible for assistance. Revises Medicaid provisions relating to medically needy income levels. Provides that in the case of a family consisting of only two individuals both of whom are adults and at least one of whom is aged, blind, or disabled, the term "highest amount which would ordinarily be paid to a family of the same size" under the State's plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act shall, at the State's option, be the amount determined by the State to be the amount of aid which would ordinarily be payable under such plan to a family which consists of one adult and two children and which is without any income or resources. Revises Medicaid provisions relating to the recertification of need for stays in skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities. Requires recertifications for intermediate care facility patients to occur on or before 60 days of admission, six, 12, 18, and 24 months afterwards, and annually thereafter. Requires recertifications for skilled nursing facility patients to occur on or before 30, 60, and 90 days of admission, and every 60 days thereafter. Revises the penalty formula for noncompliance with the recertification requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to modify or waive the requirement which limits the total combined Medicare and Medicaid membership to 75 percent for a health maintenance organization if the organization: (1) is a nonprofit organization with at least 25,000 members; (2) is and has been a qualified health maintenance organization for at least four years; (3) provides basic health services through members of the staff of the organization; (4) is located in a medically underserved area; and (5) previously received a membership requirement waiver. Prohibits Medicaid copayments for prescribed drugs. Increases the maximum amount of Medicaid payments available to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Provides that Medicaid provisions requiring a reduction of the amount of payment otherwise to be made to a public psychiatric hospital due to the level of care received in such hospital shall not apply to payments to hospitals before July 1, 1985. Provides that such a reduction made for payments during the 12-month period ending June 30, 1986, and during the 12-month period ending June 30, 1987, shall be one-third and two-thirds, respectively, of the amount of the reduction which would otherwise be required. Makes technical amendments to titles V (Maternal and Child Health Services) and XIX of the Social Security Act. Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions relating to the recovery of Federal expenditures from a hospital or other medical facility under certain conditions. Provides that the United States shall be entitled to recover a certain amount, from either the transferor or transferee, if any such facility which received Federal funds for construction or modernization, under the Public Health Service Act, at any time within 20 years after the completion of construction or modernization: (1) is sold or transferred to any entity which is not qualified to file an application under such Act for a construction or modernization project or which is not approved as a transferee by a State; or (2) ceases to be a public health center or a public or other nonprofit hospital, outpatient facility, facility for long-term care, or rehabilitation facility. Provides that the amount the United States is entitled to recover, subject to certain exceptions, shall bear the same ratio to the then value of so much of the facility as constituted an approved project as the amount of the Federal financial participation bore to the cost of the construction or modernization of such project. Title IV: Small Business Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to extend through October 1, 1987, the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before applying for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Title V: Veterans' Programs - Makes the effective date for the award of a military pension to the survivor of a veteran with a non-service connected disability the first day of the month in which the death occurred if the application is received within 60 days of the date of death. Increases from one-half to one percent the loan fee payable by a veteran receiving a Veterans Administration (VA) home loan. Extends from FY 1985 through FY 1987 the fee collection program. Directs that such fees be deposited in the VA Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund. Requires that the Administrator be notified by the holder of a guaranteed loan which is in default of any proposed public sale of the property securing the loan. Limits the liability of the United States under the guaranty to the difference between the amount of total indebtedness under the loan and the net value of the property where the Administrator determines that the net value of the property exceeds the amount of unguaranteed debt. Sets forth conditions under which the Administrator may or may not receive conveyance of the property depending upon whether the holder of the defaulted loan is the successful bidder and whether or not the bidding price meets, exceeds or is less than the net value of the property or the total indebtedness under the loan. Establishes the liability of the United States under the guaranty in each case. Directs the Administrator to reduce the number of vendee loans (loans made to purchasers of real property acquired by the VA because of the default of a guaranteed loan) to 75 percent of the number of sales of such property. Title VI: Savings in AFDC, SSI, and Other Programs - Subtitle A: Accelerated Collection and Deposit of Payments to Executive Agencies - Requires the head of each executive agency, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, to provide for the collection and timely deposit of money owed to such agency by the use of such procedures as withdrawals and deposits by electronic transfer of funds, automatic withdrawals from accounts of financial institutions, and a system under which financial institutions receive and deposit, on behalf of the agency, payments transmitted to post office lockboxes. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Cash Management Improvements Fund to be used for developing and implementing such collections and deposits. Provides that noncomplying agencies shall be assessed a charge which will be deposited in such Fund. Requires an agency to deposit in the Treasury money collected within three days of receipt. Subtitle B: Improvements in Administration of Social Security Earnings Test - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures to avoid paying more than the correct amount of title II benefits to any individual as a result of such individual's failure to file a correct report or estimate of earnings or wages. Subtitle C: Improvements in SSI, AFDC, and Related Programs - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, upon written request, to disclose return information with respect to unearned income to any officer or employee of any Federal, State, or local agency administering any of the following programs: (1) the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act); (2) Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act); (3) Supplemental Security Income program (title XVI of the Social Security Act); (4) as applicable to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands any benefits provided under titles I (Old Age Assistance and Medical Assistance for the Aged), X (Aid to the Blind), XIV (Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled), and XVI of the Social Security Act; and (5) the Food Stamp program. Amends Part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require any Federal, State, or local agency receiving such information to independently verify such information before making any benefit adjustments. Directs each State agency charged with the administration of a State plan approved under part A of title IV, title X, title XIV, or title XVI of the Act, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to the SSI program, to request and use any such information obtained from the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of income and eligibility verification. Requires such information to be used to identify and prevent ineligibility and incorrect payments. Amends title XVI of the Act to increase, by $100.00 per year over the next five years for single individuals and by $150.00 per year for the next five years for married individuals, the resources limit for single individuals from $1,500 to $2,000, and for married couples from $2,250 to $3000. Provides, under title XVI, that in situations where there has not been fraud in connection with an SSI overpayment, such overpayment shall be recovered through adjustments in future benefits in amounts not exceeding the lesser of: (1) the monthly benefit; or (2) an amount equal to ten percent of a beneficiary's monthly income. Provides that to the extent that an overpayment results because a recipient's resources exceed the applicable limit, such overpayment shall be determined to be the lesser of: (1) the benefits received; or (2) the greatest amount by which the total value of the recipient's resources exceeded the applicable limit. Excludes from resources, for 12-months from the date of receipt, any underpayment amount received in the form of a retroactive check. Amends part A of title IV of the Act to revise the gross income limitation. Provides that no family shall be eligible if its income exceeds 130 percent of the poverty line as defined in the Community Services Block Grant Act. (Current law prohibits eligibility if family income exceeds 150 percent the State's standard of need.) Provides that the $75 monthly work expense deduction shall be applicable to both full and part-time workers. Repeals the four-month limit on the $30 disregard from earned income. Requires a State plan to provide that, in any case where a family has ceased to receive aid because of certain increases in income, a monthly transition allowance of $10.00 shall be paid for at least nine months. Permits former AFDC recipients to reapply for such allowance in certain cases. States that, for purposes of earned income disregards, an individual's earned income shall be the gross amount of earnings. Permits the exclusion from resources of burial plots, funeral agreements, and real property which a family is making a good faith effort to sell. Provides that where a State is unable to provide day care and transportation for community work experience program participants, the State shall directly reimburse participants for such costs. Permits, rather than requires, States to use a monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting system. Provides Federal matching for State supplementary payments made under a retrospective budgeting system. Provides for the exclusion from income, for AFDC purposes, of amounts received as an earned income tax credit. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act to permit any State with an approved AFDC plan to establish and conduct one or more pilot projects to demonstrate the use of integrated service delivery systems for human services programs in that State or in one or more political subdivisions of such State. Requires a pilot project to involve or include: (1) the development of a common set of terms; (2) the development for each applicant of a single comprehensive family profile; (3) the establishment and maintenance of a single resources directory; (4) the development of a unified budget and budgeting process, and a unified accounting system; (5) the implementation of unified planning, needs assessment, and evaluation; (6) the consolidation of agency locations and related transportation services; (7) the standardization of procedures for purchasing services from nongovernmental sources; (8) the creation of communications linkages among agencies; (9) the development of uniform application and eligibility determination procedures; and (10) any other methods, arrangements, and procedures consistent with the establishment of an integrated service delivery system. Requires any State desiring to establish and conduct a pilot project to apply to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to approve a project only if the project will not lower or restrict the levels of aid, assistance, benefits, or services, or the income or resource standards, deductions, or exclusions of any of the human services programs involved. Permits a State with an approved application to request the Secretary to waive any requirement which would otherwise apply with respect to the proposed project under any of the laws governing the human services programs to be included in the project. Sets forth guidelines for approving or disapproving such waiver request. Sets forth guidelines relating to information disclosure. Provides that Federal funding for an approved pilot project shall be: (1) 90 percent for the first 18 months; (2) 80 percent for the following 12-months; and (3) 70 percent for the next 12-month period. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress concerning approved projects. Directs the Comptroller General, through the personnel and facilities of the General Accounting Office, to conduct a study concerning such projects. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for such projects for FY 1985 through 1988. Authorizes, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, any State which is currently participating in the AFDC program, the Medicaid program, and the food stamp program to apply to the Secretary to establish and conduct a demonstration program which shall try to develop ways of improving the delivery of services to needy individuals and families under the three programs by eliminating at least some differences in program requirements and specifications. Prohibits the approval of more than five applications. Directs the Secretary to approve an application only if the project will not lower or restrict the level of aid, assistance, benefits, services, or the applicable income or resource standards, deductions, or exclusions under the programs. Prohibits a project from lasting more than three years, except that an additional two years may be allowed upon the Secretary's approval. Authorizes each State conducting a demonstration project to adopt, for purposes of the AFDC program, any of the existing rules, procedures, and specifications currently in effect under either or both of the other two programs, with the objective of developing for the three programs: (1) a common set of terms and definitions; (2) uniform application and eligibility determination procedures; (3) a unified budgeting process; (4) a single-family case file; and (5) a common administrative structure that allows for unified planning and evaluation. Requires: (1) each participating State to report to the Secretary; and (2) the Secretary to report to Congress. Exempts pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy from registering for the work incentive program. Provides that when computing the maximum number of required hours of work under a community work experience program, child support payments received shall be subtracted from the AFDC payment. Permits a State to recalculate the period of AFDC ineligibility which occurs when a family receives a nonrecurring lump sum, if the recalculation would promote the purposes and objectives of the AFDC program. Provides that recovery of an AFDC overpayment need not be attempted if the cost of recovery would equal or exceed the amount of the overpayment. Provides that when an overpayment occurs due to the ownership or possession of excess resources, the amount of overpayment to be recovered shall be the lesser of: (1) the total amount of benefits that the family received during the period in which resources exceeded the limit; or (2) the greatest amount by which the total value of the resources exceeded the limit at any time during the overpayment period. Authorizes a State to make protective payments if the parent does not register for work as required, accept suitable employment, or cooperate with child support enforcement efforts. Suspends sanctions on States based on AFDC error rates for the period beginning October 1, 1983, and ending September 30, 1985. Provides that any individual who is an alien and whose sponsor was a public or private agency shall be ineligible for AFDC for the three year period following such alien's entry into the United States, unless the State agency administering the plan determines that the sponsor either no longer exists or has become unable to meet the individual's needs. Permits the disclosure of certain information concerning an AFDC recipient who is a fugitive felon to a State or local law enforcement officer. Establishes a payment schedule for the Federal reimbursement of States' back claims for public assistance programs under the Social Security Act. Provides for an AFDC grant diversion program under which a State may make employment (including on-the-job training) available as an alternative to AFDC otherwise provided. Directs a State, in operating a grant diversion program, to: (1) enter into contracts with public or private employers under which such employers will provide employment for eligible individuals over a period of up to nine months; and (2) pay to each such employer with respect to each individual so employed an amount equal to the lesser of the maximum amount that could have been paid directly to such individual as AFDC at the time of the initial job placement or 50 percent of the individual's wages. States that: (1) wages paid shall be considered to be wages under any provision of law; and (2) any participant shall be considered to be receiving AFDC for purposes of Medicaid eligibility. Makes permanent AFDC and SSI provisions which exempt in-kind home energy assistance provided by a private nonprofit organization. Sets forth the effective date. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to begin the period for the 26-week additional trade readjustment allowances with the first week the worker is in training if that training has not been approved until after the last week of entitlement to basic benefits. Increases the maximum job search allowance from $600 to $800. Increases the maximum relocation allowance from $600 to $800. Extends eligibility for industry-wide technical assistance to industries in which a substantial number of workers have been certified for trade adjustment assistance. Increases from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 the amount of assistance that can be provided annually to a single industry.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1984
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1984 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Incorporates by reference the conference report on H.R. 4072, the Wheat Improvement Act of 1983 (H. Report 98-646) dealing with: (1) price supports for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice; (2) export assistance; and (3) agricultural credit. Title II: Civil Service and Military Retirement Programs - Limits the cost of living increase in the annuity or retired or retainer pay of a Government retiree for FY 1986 and 1987 to one-half of the increase that would otherwise be effective if: (1) the retiree is under 62 years of age as of the effective date of the increase; and (2) the annuity or retired or retainer pay is based on the retiree's Government service (but is not computed on the basis of a disability). Requires any survivor annuity which is based on the service of any such retiree to be computed as if this title had not been enacted. Title III: Health Programs - Medicare and Medicaid Budget Reconciliation Amendments of 1984 - Part A: Medicare Reconciliation Amendments - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national fee schedule for diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary to set the fee schedule at 60 percent of the prevailing charges paid under part B for similar diagnostic laboratory tests during the 12-month period beginning July 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary, in addition to the amounts provided under the fee schedule, to provide for and establish a nominal fee payable to cover the costs of collecting the sample in a diagnostic laboratory test. Provides for Medicare payment of the lesser of 80 percent (or 100 percent in the case of tests for which payment is made on the basis of an assignment or in the situation of the death of a beneficiary) of the amount determined by the Secretary or the amount of billed charges. Eliminates the part B deductible for laboratory tests paid on the basis of an assignment and in the case of payment on behalf of a deceased beneficiary. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for Medicaid coverage of laboratory tests to the extent such coverage is provided under Medicare. Provides for Medicare coverage of hepatitis B vaccine and its administration in a hospital or renal dialysis facility. Revises provisions under part B of title XVIII relating to payment for the services of a teaching physician to limit, for the purposes of determining the customary charge, the consideration of charges made by a physician outside of teaching to charges made by nonteaching physicians. Provides that if all the teaching physicians in the hospital agree to have payment made for all physicians' services under part B furnished patients in the hospital on the basis of an assignment, the carrier shall take into account the amounts otherwise payable under part B with respect to similar services in the same locality. Directs the Secretary to compile annually a list of physicians serving individuals enrolled under part B indicating the share of claims which each physician has accepted on an assignment basis in the preceding year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish annually a list of all physicians who have agreed to accept payment on the basis of an assignment; and (2) annually provide enrollees with a list of physicians in their area who accept assignments. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on methods by which payment amounts and other program policies under part B may be modified to: (1) eliminate inequities in the relative amounts paid to physicians by type of service, locality, and specialty; (2) increase incentives for physicians and other suppliers to accept assignments; and (3) provide incentives for physicians and other providers not to provide increased or otherwise excessive amounts of hospital, physician, and other health care services. Directs the Secretary, in order to carry out the study and facilitate congressional review, to compile a centralized Medicare part B charge data base utilizing information gathered by Medicare carriers and used by the carriers in making the 1984 reasonable charge updates. Directs the Secretary to issue revisions to the current guidelines for payment under part B for physicians' services for the transtelephonic monitoring of cardiac pacemakers. Requires such guidelines to include provisions regarding the specifications for and frequency of transtelephonic monitoring procedures which will be found reasonable and necessary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, regarding the appropriateness of the current rate of part B reimbursement for physicians' services associated with the implantation or replacement of pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads; and (2) consider reducing the recognized rates for such services by 20 percent. Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads for which payment was made under title XVIII. Directs the Secretary, in any case where the Secretary has reason to believe that replacement of a cardiac pacemaker device or lead for which Medicare payment is or may be requested is related to the malfunction of a device or lead, to require the testing of the device. Directs the Secretary to provide that payment will not be made under part B for a physician's debridement of mycotic toenails to the extent such debridement is performed more than once every 60 days, unless the medical necessity for more frequent treatment is documented by the physician. Allows payments to hospitals under part A (Hospital Insurance) of Medicare for the operation of mobile intensive care units if certain conditions are met. Provides for a freeze on the economic index used to limit prevailing charges for physician services provided to hospital inpatients. Requires physicians to accept Medicare assignment for all services provided to Medicare hospital inpatients for a specified period of time. Requires the Secretary, during such time, to report to the Congress on the advisability and feasibility of including payments for inpatient physician services in the DRG prospective payment legislation. Revises rules relating to Medicare provider agreements to require hospitals to obtain signed agreements from each doctor on its medical staff where the physician agrees to accept assignment for any Medicare beneficiary that he or she treats as an inpatient of that hospital. Provides for the appointment by the President (rather than by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. Sets forth the pay level for the Administrator. Permits limited provider representation on peer review organizations (PRO's). Permits a physician who has a financial interest in an agency which is a sole community home health agency to carry out the certification and plan-of-care functions for patients who will receive services from the agency. Repeals certain special tuberculosis treatment requirements. Allows part B payments to be made to a health benefits plan, if the beneficiary agrees, and if the physician or supplier accepts the plan's payment as payment in full. Includes podiatrists in the definition of "physician" for outpatient physical therapy services. Includes podiatrists and dentists in the definition of "physician" for outpatient ambulatory surgery. Allows physical therapists to establish medicare qualified plans for physical therapy. Increases from $10,000 to $50,000 the minimum amount of any agreement between a medicare provider and a subcontractor before the Secretary or Comptroller General must have access to the subcontractor's records. Establishes the statutory right of Medicare to recover directly from a liable third party, if the beneficiary himself does not do so, and to pay a beneficiary, or on the beneficiary's behalf, pending recovery where such third party is not expected to pay promptly. Extends the Secretary's authority to rely on accrediting organizations in determining whether rural health clinics, laboratories, clinics, rehabilitation agencies, including outpatient rehabilitation facilities, and public health agencies meet Medicare requirements. Sets forth rules for the confidentiality of accreditation surveys. Limits coverage to 30 days for services furnished by a home health agency whose agreement has been terminated. Extends the Secretary's authority to exclude from Medicare participation (and to direct State agencies to exclude from Medicaid participation) any entity in which ownership or controlling interest is held by a person convicted of program-related criminal offenses, or in which an officer, director, agent, or managing employee was convicted of such criminal offense. Eliminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Requires the Secretary to designate one 30-day period in which all health maintenance organizations (HMO's) and competitive medical plans (CMP's) in an area participating in Medicare must have an open enrollment period. Specifies a deadline of July 1, 1985, for a report to Congress on including payment for physicians' services to hospital inpatients in DRG payment amounts. Authorizes the Secretary, if patient health and safety is not jeopardized, to apply less severe sanctions than are presently available for dealing with an end-stage renal disease facility which is not in compliance with applicable regulations. Makes the national end-stage renal disease medical information system discretionary with the Secretary. Removes the costs of nurse anesthetists from DRG-based payments. Sets forth rules for the determination of hospital area wage indexes. Revises the definition of bona fide emergency services for purposes of the limitations on payment for hospital outpatient services. Delays from October 1, 1983, to April 1, 1984, the effective date for single-rate for skilled nursing facilities. Part B: Medicaid Reconciliation Amendments - Provides that the Federal medical assistance percentage, under title XIX of the Social Security Act, shall be 100 percent with respect to amounts expended as medical assistance for services furnished to a "qualified pregnant woman or child." Defines a qualified pregnant woman or child as an individual who was not eligible for categorically needy coverage under Medicaid as of June 30, 1983, and who is: (1) under five years of age and who meets Aid to Families with Dependent Children (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act) requirements but does not receive cash payments and is a categorically needy individual; or (2) a pregnant woman who, at the State's option, may be deemed an AFDC recipient for Medicaid purposes or who is a member of a family which would be eligible for AFDC if the State's AFDC plan required payment of aid with respect to dependent children deprived of parental support by reason of the unemployment of a parent who is the principal earner. Authorizes a State's Medicaid plan to not take into account the financial responsibility of any individual for an applicant or recipient who is a pregnant woman under 21 who does not have legal custody over other children, unless the applicant or recipient is the individual's spouse, except that a State may limit the applicability of this provision to applicants and recipients living in such an individual's household or in a custodial institution for pregnant women. Provides that a child born to a woman eligible for and receiving Medicaid as of the child's birth shall be deemed to have applied for medical assistance and been found eligible for assistance on the child's birth date and shall remain eligible for assistance for one year so long as the child is a member of the women's household and the woman remains eligible for assistance. Revises Medicaid provisions relating to medically needy income levels. Provides that in the case of a family consisting of only two individuals both of whom are adults and at least one of whom is aged, blind, or disabled, the term "highest amount which would ordinarily be paid to a family of the same size" under the State's plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act shall, at the State's option, be the amount determined by the State to be the amount of aid which would ordinarily be payable under such plan to a family which consists of one adult and two children and which is without any income or resources. Revises Medicaid provisions relating to the recertification of need for stays in skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities. Requires recertifications for intermediate care facility patients to occur on or before 60 days of admission, six, 12, 18, and 24 months afterwards, and annually thereafter. Requires recertifications for skilled nursing facility patients to occur on or before 30, 60, and 90 days of admission, and every 60 days thereafter. Revises the penalty formula for noncompliance with the recertification requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to modify or waive the requirement which limits the total combined Medicare and Medicaid membership to 75 percent for a health maintenance organization if the organization: (1) is a nonprofit organization with at least 25,000 members; (2) is and has been a qualified health maintenance organization for at least four years; (3) provides basic health services through members of the staff of the organization; (4) is located in a medically underserved area; and (5) previously received a membership requirement waiver. Prohibits Medicaid copayments for prescribed drugs. Increases the maximum amount of Medicaid payments available to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Provides that Medicaid provisions requiring a reduction of the amount of payment otherwise to be made to a public psychiatric hospital due to the level of care received in such hospital shall not apply to payments to hospitals before July 1, 1985. Provides that such a reduction made for payments during the 12-month period ending June 30, 1986, and during the 12-month period ending June 30, 1987, shall be one-third and two-thirds, respectively, of the amount of the reduction which would otherwise be required. Makes technical amendments to titles V (Maternal and Child Health Services) and XIX of the Social Security Act. Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions relating to the recovery of Federal expenditures from a hospital or other medical facility under certain conditions. Provides that the United States shall be entitled to recover a certain amount, from either the transferor or transferee, if any such facility which received Federal funds for construction or modernization, under the Public Health Service Act, at any time within 20 years after the completion of construction or modernization: (1) is sold or transferred to any entity which is not qualified to file an application under such Act for a construction or modernization project or which is not approved as a transferee by a State; or (2) ceases to be a public health center or a public or other nonprofit hospital, outpatient facility, facility for long-term care, or rehabilitation facility. Provides that the amount the United States is entitled to recover, subject to certain exceptions, shall bear the same ratio to the then value of so much of the facility as constituted an approved project as the amount of the Federal financial participation bore to the cost of the construction or modernization of such project. Title IV: Small Business Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to extend through October 1, 1987, the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before applying for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Title V: Veterans' Programs - Makes the effective date for the award of a military pension to the survivor of a veteran with a non-service connected disability the first day of the month in which the death occurred if the application is received within 60 days of the date of death. Increases from one-half to one percent the loan fee payable by a veteran receiving a Veterans Administration (VA) home loan. Extends from FY 1985 through FY 1987 the fee collection program. Directs that such fees be deposited in the VA Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund. Requires that the Administrator be notified by the holder of a guaranteed loan which is in default of any proposed public sale of the property securing the loan. Limits the liability of the United States under the guaranty to the difference between the amount of total indebtedness under the loan and the net value of the property where the Administrator determines that the net value of the property exceeds the amount of unguaranteed debt. Sets forth conditions under which the Administrator may or may not receive conveyance of the property depending upon whether the holder of the defaulted loan is the successful bidder and whether or not the bidding price meets, exceeds or is less than the net value of the property or the total indebtedness under the loan. Establishes the liability of the United States under the guaranty in each case. Directs the Administrator to reduce the number of vendee loans (loans made to purchasers of real property acquired by the VA because of the default of a guaranteed loan) to 75 percent of the number of sales of such property. Title VI: Savings in AFDC, SSI, and Other Programs - Subtitle A: Accelerated Collection and Deposit of Payments to Executive Agencies - Requires the head of each executive agency, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, to provide for the collection and timely deposit of money owed to such agency by the use of such procedures as withdrawals and deposits by electronic transfer of funds, automatic withdrawals from accounts of financial institutions, and a system under which financial institutions receive and deposit, on behalf of the agency, payments transmitted to post office lockboxes. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Cash Management Improvements Fund to be used for developing and implementing such collections and deposits. Provides that noncomplying agencies shall be assessed a charge which will be deposited in such Fund. Requires an agency to deposit in the Treasury money collected within three days of receipt. Subtitle B: Improvements in Administration of Social Security Earnings Test - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures to avoid paying more than the correct amount of title II benefits to any individual as a result of such individual's failure to file a correct report or estimate of earnings or wages. Subtitle C: Improvements in SSI, AFDC, and Related Programs - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, upon written request, to disclose return information with respect to unearned income to any officer or employee of any Federal, State, or local agency administering any of the following programs: (1) the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act); (2) Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act); (3) Supplemental Security Income program (title XVI of the Social Security Act); (4) as applicable to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands any benefits provided under titles I (Old Age Assistance and Medical Assistance for the Aged), X (Aid to the Blind), XIV (Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled), and XVI of the Social Security Act; and (5) the Food Stamp program. Amends Part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require any Federal, State, or local agency receiving such information to independently verify such information before making any benefit adjustments. Directs each State agency charged with the administration of a State plan approved under part A of title IV, title X, title XIV, or title XVI of the Act, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to the SSI program, to request and use any such information obtained from the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of income and eligibility verification. Requires such information to be used to identify and prevent ineligibility and incorrect payments. Amends title XVI of the Act to increase, by $100.00 per year over the next five years for single individuals and by $150.00 per year for the next five years for married individuals, the resources limit for single individuals from $1,500 to $2,000, and for married couples from $2,250 to $3000. Provides, under title XVI, that in situations where there has not been fraud in connection with an SSI overpayment, such overpayment shall be recovered through adjustments in future benefits in amounts not exceeding the lesser of: (1) the monthly benefit; or (2) an amount equal to ten percent of a beneficiary's monthly income. Provides that to the extent that an overpayment results because a recipient's resources exceed the applicable limit, such overpayment shall be determined to be the lesser of: (1) the benefits received; or (2) the greatest amount by which the total value of the recipient's resources exceeded the applicable limit. Excludes from resources, for 12-months from the date of receipt, any underpayment amount received in the form of a retroactive check. Amends part A of title IV of the Act to revise the gross income limitation. Provides that no family shall be eligible if its income exceeds 130 percent of the poverty line as defined in the Community Services Block Grant Act. (Current law prohibits eligibility if family income exceeds 150 percent the State's standard of need.) Provides that the $75 monthly work expense deduction shall be applicable to both full and part-time workers. Repeals the four-month limit on the $30 disregard from earned income. Requires a State plan to provide that, in any case where a family has ceased to receive aid because of certain increases in income, a monthly transition allowance of $10.00 shall be paid for at least nine months. Permits former AFDC recipients to reapply for such allowance in certain cases. States that, for purposes of earned income disregards, an individual's earned income shall be the gross amount of earnings. Permits the exclusion from resources of burial plots, funeral agreements, and real property which a family is making a good faith effort to sell. Provides that where a State is unable to provide day care and transportation for community work experience program participants, the State shall directly reimburse participants for such costs. Permits, rather than requires, States to use a monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting system. Provides Federal matching for State supplementary payments made under a retrospective budgeting system. Provides for the exclusion from income, for AFDC purposes, of amounts received as an earned income tax credit. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act to permit any State with an approved AFDC plan to establish and conduct one or more pilot projects to demonstrate the use of integrated service delivery systems for human services programs in that State or in one or more political subdivisions of such State. Requires a pilot project to involve or include: (1) the development of a common set of terms; (2) the development for each applicant of a single comprehensive family profile; (3) the establishment and maintenance of a single resources directory; (4) the development of a unified budget and budgeting process, and a unified accounting system; (5) the implementation of unified planning, needs assessment, and evaluation; (6) the consolidation of agency locations and related transportation services; (7) the standardization of procedures for purchasing services from nongovernmental sources; (8) the creation of communications linkages among agencies; (9) the development of uniform application and eligibility determination procedures; and (10) any other methods, arrangements, and procedures consistent with the establishment of an integrated service delivery system. Requires any State desiring to establish and conduct a pilot project to apply to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to approve a project only if the project will not lower or restrict the levels of aid, assistance, benefits, or services, or the income or resource standards, deductions, or exclusions of any of the human services programs involved. Permits a State with an approved application to request the Secretary to waive any requirement which would otherwise apply with respect to the proposed project under any of the laws governing the human services programs to be included in the project. Sets forth guidelines for approving or disapproving such waiver request. Sets forth guidelines relating to information disclosure. Provides that Federal funding for an approved pilot project shall be: (1) 90 percent for the first 18 months; (2) 80 percent for the following 12-months; and (3) 70 percent for the next 12-month period. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress concerning approved projects. Directs the Comptroller General, through the personnel and facilities of the General Accounting Office, to conduct a study concerning such projects. Authorizes funds to be appropriated for such projects for FY 1985 through 1988. Authorizes, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, any State which is currently participating in the AFDC program, the Medicaid program, and the food stamp program to apply to the Secretary to establish and conduct a demonstration program which shall try to develop ways of improving the delivery of services to needy individuals and families under the three programs by eliminating at least some differences in program requirements and specifications. Prohibits the approval of more than five applications. Directs the Secretary to approve an application only if the project will not lower or restrict the level of aid, assistance, benefits, services, or the applicable income or resource standards, deductions, or exclusions under the programs. Prohibits a project from lasting more than three years, except that an additional two years may be allowed upon the Secretary's approval. Authorizes each State conducting a demonstration project to adopt, for purposes of the AFDC program, any of the existing rules, procedures, and specifications currently in effect under either or both of the other two programs, with the objective of developing for the three programs: (1) a common set of terms and definitions; (2) uniform application and eligibility determination procedures; (3) a unified budgeting process; (4) a single- family case file; and (5) a common administrative structure that allows for unified planning and evaluation. Requires: (1) each participating State to report to the Secretary; and (2) the Secretary to report to Congress. Exempts pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy from registering for the work incentive program. Provides that when computing the maximum number of required hours of work under a community work experience program, child support payments received shall be subtracted from the AFDC payment. Permits a State to recalculate the period of AFDC ineligibility which occurs when a family receives a nonrecurring lump sum, if the recalculation would promote the purposes and objectives of the AFDC program. Provides that recovery of an AFDC overpayment need not be attempted if the cost of recovery would equal or exceed the amount of the overpayment. Provides that when an overpayment occurs due to the ownership or possession of excess resources, the amount of overpayment to be recovered shall be the lesser of: (1) the total amount of benefits that the family received during the period in which resources exceeded the limit; or (2) the greatest amount by which the total value of the resources exceeded the limit at any time during the overpayment period. Authorizes a State to make protective payments if the parent does not register for work as required, accept suitable employment, or cooperate with child support enforcement efforts. Suspends sanctions on States based on AFDC error rates for the period beginning October 1, 1983, and ending September 30, 1985. Provides that any individual who is an alien and whose sponsor was a public or private agency shall be ineligible for AFDC for the three year period following such alien's entry into the United States, unless the State agency administering the plan determines that the sponsor either no longer exists or has become unable to meet the individual's needs. Permits the disclosure of certain information concerning an AFDC recipient who is a fugitive felon to a State or local law enforcement officer. Establishes a payment schedule for the Federal reimbursement of States' back claims for public assistance programs under the Social Security Act. Provides for an AFDC grant diversion program under which a State may make employment (including on-the-job training) available as an alternative to AFDC otherwise provided. Directs a State, in operating a grant diversion program, to: (1) enter into contracts with public or private employers under which such employers will provide employment for eligible individuals over a period of up to nine months; and (2) pay to each such employer with respect to each individual so employed an amount equal to the lesser of the maximum amount that could have been paid directly to such individual as AFDC at the time of the initial job placement or 50 percent of the individual's wages. States that: (1) wages paid shall be considered to be wages under any provision of law; and (2) any participant shall be considered to be receiving AFDC for purposes of Medicaid eligibility. Makes permanent AFDC and SSI provisions which exempt in-kind home energy assistance provided by a private nonprofit organization. Sets forth the effective date. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to begin the period for the 26-week additional trade readjustment allowances with the first week the worker is in training if that training has not been approved until after the last week of entitlement to basic benefits. Increases the maximum job search allowance from $600 to $800. Increases the maximum relocation allowance from $600 to $800. Extends eligibility for industry-wide technical assistance to industries in which a substantial number of workers have been certified for trade adjustment assistance. Increases from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 the amount of assistance that can be provided annually to a single industry.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984
Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement with Israel providing for the continuance of existing duty-free treatment of and the elimination of existing duties and other import restrictions on products of Israel; and (2) proclaim such continuances and modifications of tariff treatment of and import restrictions on such articles as necessary to carry out the trade agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1984
Revises the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1984 and sets forth the first concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985 and the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1986 and 1987. Recommends levels of Federal revenues of $664,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $733,000,000,000 for FY 1985, $794,900,000,000 for FY 1986, and $863,500,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed at $1,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $0 for FY 1985, $0 for FY 1986, and $0 for FY 1987. Sets the appropriate levels of total new budget authority at $915,500,000,000 for FY 1984, $991,050,000,000 for FY 1985, $1,064,950,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,142,800,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are $853,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $911,550,000,000 for FY 1985, $969,000,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,040,600,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount of deficits in the budget which are appropriate in light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors at $189,000,000,000 for FY 1984, $178,550,000,000 for FY 1985, $174,100,000,000 for FY 1986, and $177,100,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of public debt are $1,595,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,837,300,000,000 for FY 1985, $2,086,150,000,000 for FY 1986, and $2,347,250,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts by which the temporary statutory limits on such debt should be accordingly increased at $105,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $241,500,000,000 for FY 1985, $248,850,000,000 for FY 1986, and $261,100,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets forth the appropriate levels of total Federal credit activity as follows: (1) $37,600,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $105,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1984; (2) $37,500,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $111,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1985; (3) $39,950,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $117,400,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1986; and (4) $40,450,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $123,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1987. Sets forth the levels of new budget authority and budget outlays and the primary and secondary loan guarantee commitments for each major functional category for FY 1984 through 1987. Requires specified House committees to report changes in laws within their respective jurisdictions sufficient to decrease budget authority and outlays in FY 1985 through 1987 in amounts consistent with reductions in entitlement programs assumed in this resolution and to increase revenues in FY 1985 through 1987 in amounts consistent with the assumptions in this resolution. Sets forth the date by which such committees must submit their recommendations to the House Committee on the Budget. Requires the Budget Committee to then report to the House a reconciliation bill incorporating all such recommendations without any substantive revision. Declares that for FY 1985 through 1987 any revenues raised by legislation enacted on or after March 15, 1984, shall only be used to reduce the Federal budget deficits for such fiscal years except to the extent that such legislation earmarks all or any part of such revenues for specific spending programs. Makes funding for specific low-income programs appropriate if the authorizations for such programs are enacted and if sufficient revenues or outlay reductions are also enacted to ensure that the legislation is deficit neutral. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress: (1) that the Executive Branch achieve at least $2,000,000,000 in savings over FY 1985 through 1987 by implementing those recommendations of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control requiring administrative action within that branch of Government; and (2) that the President report to Congress each year on the progress made in achieving such savings. Declares that if Congress has not completed action by the start of FY 1985 on the second concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985, then this concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be the concurrent resolution required under the Budget Act. States that such result shall not apply to bills, resolutions, amendments, or conference reports in the jurisdiction of a committee if the enactment of such a measure would not cause the appropriate allocation of new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority for FY 1985 to be exceeded. Provides that specified new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority contained in a bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report shall be disregarded if the budget authority for outlays which will result is derived from certain trust funds. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment providing new budget authority or spending authority, for 1985 direct loan authority, primary loan guarantee authority, or secondary loan guarantee authority for FY 1985 unless and until the committee with jurisdiction makes the allocation or subdivisions required by the Congressional Budget Act in connection with the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. Declares that such prohibition shall not apply until 21 days of continuous session after Congress completes action on this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1984
Revises the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1984 and sets forth the first concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985 and the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1986 and 1987. Recommends levels of Federal revenues of $664,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $742,700,000,000 for FY 1985, $812,550,000,000 for FY 1986, and $885,950,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed at $1,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $9,700,000,000 for FY 1985, $17,650,000,000 for FY 1986, and $22,450,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the appropriate levels of total new budget authority at $915,500,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,002,100,000,000 for FY 1985, $1,087,950,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,179,250,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are $853,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $918,150,000,000 for FY 1985, $984,850,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,067,950,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount of deficits in the budget which are appropriate in light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors at $189,000,000,000 for FY 1984, $175,450,000,000 for FY 1985, $172,300,000,000 for FY 1986, and $182,000,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of public debt are $1,595,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,834,200,000,000 for FY 1985, $2,081,250,000,000 for FY 1986, and $2,347,250,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts by which the temporary statutory limits on such debt should be accordingly increased at $105,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $238,400,000,000 for FY 1985, $247,050,000,000 for FY 1986, and $266,000,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets forth the appropriate levels of total Federal credit activity as follows: (1) $37,600,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $105,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1984; (2) $37,500,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $111,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1985; (3) $39,950,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $117,400,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1986; and (4) $40,450,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $123,150,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,250,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1987. Sets forth the levels of new budget authority and budget outlays and the primary and secondary loan guarantee commitments for each major functional category for FY 1984 through 1987. Requires specified House committees to report changes in laws within their respective jurisdictions sufficient to decrease budget authority and outlays in FY 1985 through 1987 in amounts consistent with reductions in entitlement programs assumed in this resolution and to increase revenues in FY 1985 through 1987 in amounts consistent with the assumptions in this resolution. Sets forth the date by which such committees must submit their recommendations to the House Committee on the Budget. Requires the Budget Committee to then report to the House a reconciliation bill incorporating all such recommendations without any substantive revision. Declares that for FY 1985 through 1987 any revenues raised by legislation enacted on or after March 15, 1984, shall only be used to reduce the Federal budget deficits for such fiscal years except to the extent that such legislation earmarks all or any part of such revenues for specific spending programs. Makes funding for specific low-income programs appropriate if the authorizations for such programs are enacted and if sufficient revenues or outlay reductions are also enacted to ensure that the legislation is deficit neutral. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress: (1) that the Executive Branch achieve at least $2,000,000,000 in savings over FY 1985 through 1987 by implementing those recommendations of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control requiring administrative action within that branch of Government; and (2) that the President report to Congress each year on the progress made in achieving such savings. Declares that if Congress has not completed action by the start of FY 1985 on the second concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985, then this concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be the concurrent resolution required under the Budget Act. States that such a result shall not apply to bills, resolutions, amendments, or conference reports in the jurisdiction of a committee if the enactment of such a measure would not cause the appropriate allocation of new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority for FY 1985 to be exceeded. Provides that specified new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority contained in a bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report shall be disregarded if the budget authority for outlays which will result is derived from certain trust funds. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment providing new budget authority, spending authority, direct loan authority, primary loan guarantee authority, or secondary loan guarantee authority for FY 1985 unless and until the committee with jurisdiction makes the allocation or subdivisions required by the Congressional Budget Act in connection with the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. Declares that such prohibition shall not apply until 21 days of continuous session after Congress completes action on this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1984
Provides for the allocation among eligible States of interest earned on tax revenues paid into the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1985 and 1986. Sets forth terms and conditions for a State to receive such funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1984
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Federal bank regulatory agencies, when examining bank loans to independent oil and gas producers experiencing financial difficulties, should require their examiners to consider other specified factors in addition to cash flow as long as high interest rates and high cost of production continue to impair the abilities of such borrowers to meet loan repayment schedules.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Authorizes the President, on behalf of Congress, to present to Elie Wiesel a gold medal in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding contributions to world literature and human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the public sale of bronze duplicates of such medal.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1984
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Federal bank regulatory agencies should require their examiners to exercise caution and restraint in adversely classifying loans made to agricultural borrowers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Recognizes the important contribution of the arts to a complete education. Urges all citizens to support efforts which strengthen artistic training and appreciation within schools.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Authorizes the President, notwithstanding any time limitations, to award a medal of honor to a named individual for acts of valor performed as a naval officer during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to continue the suspension of duty on certain forms of zinc through June 30, 1989. Makes the suspension of duty retroactive to June 30, 1984, if a request for such treatment is filed within a specified time.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1983
Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to establish and maintain a national toll-free telephone line for reporting information regarding the location of missing children. Directs the Administrator to establish a national resource center and clearinghouse to: (1) provide technical assistance to State and local governments and agencies in locating missing children; (2) coordinate public and private efforts to recover missing children; and (3) disseminate information on innovative missing childrens' programs, services, and legislation. Requires the Administrator to publish an annual summary of research on missing children and prepare a comprehensive plan for coordinating activities of all agencies and organizations responsible for missing children. Authorizes the Administrator, in consultation with the Advisory Board on Missing Children, to make grants for research or demonstration or service programs designed to: (1) educate parents and community agencies on ways to prevent the abduction of children; (2) assist in the recovery or tracking of missing children; (3) aid communities in collecting material to assist parents in the identification of their children; (4) demonstrate the psychological consequences of a child's abduction; and (5) collect data on investigative practices utilized by law enforcement agencies. Requires the Administrator to appoint an Advisory Board on Missing Children to assist the Administrator in coordinating programs and activities relating to missing children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the unrelated business taxable income of private corporations established under Federal law does not include income from exchanging or renting names and addresses of donors or members.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the holding period for capital gains tax treatment from one year to six months. Reduces the amount of capital loss which an individual may offset against ordinary income to $1,000.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from Federal income taxes members of the armed forces of the United States who die as a result of hostile action outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to Lady Bird Johnson in recognition of her humanitarian efforts and contributions to the beautification of America. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the striking of such medal and bronze duplicates for sale to the public. Declares such medals to be national medals. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Title I: Short Title and Declaration of Purpose - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983 - Provides for reconciliation pursuant to the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 1984. Title II: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Changes the effective date of civil service retirement cost-of-living adjustments to December 1. Bases such cost-of-living adjustments on the percent change in the price index for the base quarter of such year over the price index for the base quarter of the preceding year. Defines the term 'base quarter' as the calendar quarter ending on September 30. Declares that such change shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that no adjustment shall be made during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending November 30, 1984. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to change the effective date of the cost-of-living adjustments to December 1 of each year. Sets the overall percentage adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other statutory pay systems at four percent. Requires that each such increase in a pay rate or schedule be of the same percentage and take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after October 1 of such fiscal year. Establishes a four percent limitation on pay adjustments for prevailing rate employees during FY 1984. States that such limitation does not apply to wage adjustments for prevailing rate supervisors under the supervisory pay plan. Title III: Committee on Small Business - Amends the Small Business Act to revise the interest rate on Small Business Administration loans to repair or replace property damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster which occurs on or after October 1, 1982. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make a specified amount of direct loans in FY 1984 through 1986 under the non-physical disaster loan program and in physical disaster loans. Extends until October 1, 1986, the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before they are eligible to apply for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Provides for a disaster loan program to provide assistance to victims of drastic devaluation and exchange freezes involving the currency of a country contiguous to the United States. Specifies that such assistance shall be used to assist the victims of any qualified currency devaluation and exchange freeze commencing since January 1, 1982. Makes any small business that is injured as the result of the impact of any payment-in-kind program eligible for economic injury disaster loans. Declares that employees of concerns sharing a common business premises shall be aggregated in determining 'major source of employment' status for nonprofit applicants owning such premises. Makes agricultural cooperatives eligible for economic injury disaster loan assistance. Makes such a cooperative eligible only if each member of its board of directors or governing body qualifies as a small business and the entity itself qualifies as a small business. Makes October 1, 1983, the effective date of this title. Title IV: Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Part A: Veterans' Disability Compensation - Veterans' Disability Compensation Amendments of 1983 - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for such veterans' dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and for children as well as the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Makes an exception to the commencement of period of payment rule for an increased award of commpensation by reason of a temporary increase in compensation for hospitalization or treatment of a veteran (thus making such temporary increase payable before the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the increase becomes effective). Amends the Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 to revise the effective dates respecting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) coverage for deaths and disabilities incurred before and after FY 1982. Includes certain adopted children within the definition of child for veterans' benefits purposes. Decreases to ten percent disabling the degree of deafness a veterans suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation. Reduces from 40 percent to 30 percent 10/20/83 hfcac070 Reported to House from the Committee on the Budget, H. Rept. 98-425 disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service-connected blindness with 5/200 visual acuity or less must be rated to qualify for such additional compensation. Part B: Educational Assistance Amendments - Terminates the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make advance payments of educational and subsistence allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Title I: Short Title and Declaration of Purpose - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983 - Provides for reconciliation pursuant to the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 1984. Title II: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Changes the effective date of civil service retirement cost-of-living adjustments to December 1. Bases such cost-of-living adjustments on the percent change in the price index for the base quarter of such year over the price index for the base quarter of the preceding year. Defines the term 'base quarter' as the calendar quarter ending on September 30. Declares that such change shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that no adjustment shall be made during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending November 30, 1984. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to change the effective date of the cost-of-living adjustments to December 1 of each year. Sets the overall percentage adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other statutory pay systems at four percent. Requires that each such increase in a pay rate or schedule be of the same percentage and take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after October 1 of such fiscal year. Establishes a four percent limitation on pay adjustments for prevailing rate employees during FY 1984. States that such limitation does not apply to wage adjustments for prevailing rate supervisors under the supervisory pay plan. Title III: Committee on Small Business - Amends the Small Business Act to revise the interest rate on Small Business Administration loans to repair or replace property damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster which occurs on or after October 1, 1982. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make a specified amount of direct loans in FY 1984 through 1986 under the non-physical disaster loan program and in physical disaster loans. Extends until October 1, 1986 the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before they are eligible to apply for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Provides for a disaster loan program to provide assistance to victims of drastic devaluation and exchange freezes involving the currency of a country contiguous to the United States. Specifies that such assistance shall be used to assist the victims of any qualified currency devaluation and exchange freeze commencing since January 1, 1982. Makes any small business that is injured as the result of the impact of any payment-in-kind program eligible for economic injury disaster loans. Declares that employees of concerns sharing a common business premises shall be aggregated in determining 'major source of employment' status for nonprofit applicants owning such premises. Makes agricultural cooperatives eligible for economic injury disaster loan assistance. Makes such a cooperative eligible only if each member of its board of directors or governing body qualifies as a small business and the entity itself qualifies as a small business. Makes October 1, 1983, the effective date of this title. Title IV: Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Part A: Veterans' Disability Compensation - Veterans' Disability Compensation Amendments of 1983 - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for such veterans' dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Makes an exception to the commencement of period of payment rule for an increased award of compensation by reason of a temporary increase in compensation for hospitalization or treatment of a veteran (thus making such temporary increase payable before the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the increase become effective). Amends the Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 to revise the effective dates respecting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) coverage for deaths and disabilities incurred before and after FY 1982. Includes certain adopted children within the definition of child for veterans' benefits purposes. Decreases to ten percent disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation. Reduces from 40 percent to 30 percent disabling the degree of deafnes a veteran suffering from service-connected blindness with 5/200 visual acuity or less must be rated to qualify for such additional compensation. Part B: Educational Assistance Amendments - Terminates the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make advance payments of educational and subsistence allowances. Title V: Additional Proposal for Deficit Reduction - Directs the President to convene a domestic economic summit conference to address the dangerous economic situation created by projected large deficits. Requires such summit conference, within 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, to develop and report to Congress a comprehensive plan to reduce the projected deficits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the President should give priority attention, in discussions with the Japanese, to the realignment of the yen-dollar exchange rates and to achieving greater equilibrium in the flow of goods, services, and investments between the two countries; and (2) measures to achieve such equilibrium should include mechanisms for close consultations and policy coordination in order to maintain acceptable fluctuations in the value of the yen, reduce disparities in the interest-rate levels, and allow equivalent access of foreign investors to domestic capital markets.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that for purposes of printing in the Congressional Record, remarks of Members made on the floor or submitted for inclusion in the Record, including associated materials, shall be relevant to governmental matters. Exempts from such provision, remarks on the death of present or former Federal officials.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Department of Defense Procurement Procedures Act of 1983 - Sets forth a formula for determining the applicable percentage of Department of Defense procurement of property and services which must be made through formal advertising for fiscal years after FY 1983. Prohibits the Department of Defense from expending funds for negotiated contracts in any fiscal year following a fiscal year where the purchases and contracts made through formal advertising fall below the applicable percentage. Removes such prohibition if the Department meets or exceeds the applicable percentage during or after that fiscal year. Requires that specified information concerning a negotiated contract be part of the records of the contracting agency, including all cost and pricing data submitted by a contractor and the name of each Government official who participated in the negotiating or awarding of such contract. Requires that agency records on negotiated contracts containing classified information be maintained for at least ten years and be made available to Congress and the Comptroller General upon request. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish procedures which are similar to formal advertising procedures for the purchase of or contracting for personal or professional services. Sets forth investigatory procedures to determine the need for and price of services by a university or other educational institution.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Declares that the President shall convene a domestic economic summit conference to address the economic situation created by projected large deficits. Requires that such conference convene within 45 days to develop and report to Congress a comprehensive plan to reduce the projected deficits in the United States budget.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Exempts from Oklahoma inheritance or estate tax any Osage headright, restricted real estate, or funds which were part of the estate of any Osage Indian who died without a certificate of competency
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983
States that the United States: (1) condemns the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines flight 7; (2) calls for an explanation from the Soviets; (3) extends its sympathies to the families who lost loved ones and supports their rights to obtain reparations from the Soviets; (4) calls on the Soviets to assist in the recovery of the remains of the victims; (5) calls for an international investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization; (6) declares its intention to demand that the Soviets modify their air defense procedures to assure the safety of commercial airliners; (7) finds that this incident will make it difficult for the U.S. and other nations to accept the Soviets as responsible members of the international community; and (8) urges our allies and other nations to cooperate with specified demands on the Soviets.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Wine Equity Act of 1983 - Requires the President to direct the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to negotiate the harmonization of tariff and nontariff barriers on wine with each designated major trading country. Requires negotiations with designated major trading countries which do not export wine to the United States in order to eliminate all tariff and nontariff trade barriers of such countries to the importation of U.S. wine. Requires the President to impose tariff and nontariff trade barriers equal or substantially equivalent to the barriers applied by a designated major trading country if such country does not provide harmonization to U.S. produced-wine with 180 days of the country's designation as a designated major trading country. Provides for removing such U.S. tariff and nontariff barriers. Requires the USTR to report to specified congressional committees at the beginning and end of each negotiation. Requires the USTR to consult with such committees to identify further tariff and nontariff barriers to and potential markets for U.S. wine. Provides for assistance for the USTR from other Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for calendar years 1985 through 1990 the cost-of-living adjustment for the individual income tax rates and the personal tax exemption shall take into account only inflation in excess of two percent per year. Provides a similar limitation on cost-of-living adjustments to benefits for the following programs for FY 1985 through 1990: (1) old age, survivors and disability benefits; (2) armed service retirement and retainer pay; (3) retired pay and retainer pay of members and former members of the Coast Guard; (4) retired pay of commissioned officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service; (5) civil service retirement benefits; (6) foreign service retirement benefits; (7) Central Intelligence Agency retirement benefits; (8) Federal workers' compensation; and (9) benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Repeals the provisions of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 which allow a cost-of-living adjustment to the individual income tax rates and the personal tax exemption. Provides that no cost-of-living adjustment shall take effect after September 30, 1984, with respect to: (1) old age, survivors and disability benefits; (2) armed service retirement and retainer pay; (3) retired pay and retainer pay of members and former members of the Coast Guard; (4) retired pay of commissioned officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service; (5) civil service retirement benefits; (6) foreign service retirement benefits; (7) Central Intelligence Agency retirement benefits; (8) Federal workers' compensation; and (9) benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of Harry S. Truman, in recognition of the lifetime of outstanding public service he gave to the United States. Commemorates his one hundredth birthday which will be celebrated on May 8, 1984. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Patent Term Restoration Act of 1983 - Amends the patent laws to extend the terms of patents which encompass specified products or a method for using a product, any of which are subject to certain nonpatent regulatory review periods. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such extension, including a seven year limitation. Directs the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the owner of record of a patent a certificate of extension stating the fact and length of the extension and identifying the product and the use and the claim to which such extension is applicable. Makes such certificate a part of the original patent. Limits the application of such patent term extension to patents for products subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products).
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Work Opportunities and Renewed Competition Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to elect to treat an excess investment tax credit as a reinvestment tax credit. Requires a taxpayer to forfeit any investment tax credit carryover if the taxpayer elects to take a reinvestment tax credit. Sets the amount of such reinvestment tax credit at 85 percent of the taxpayer's qualified investment in reinvestment credit property. Terminates such credit after 1984. Makes such reinvestment tax credit refundable. Requires the recapture of the reinvestment tax credit under specified circumstances. Sets forth rules relating to such recapture.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that further expansion of cargo preference requirements, either for commercial or other trade, should not be imposed.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1983
Establishes the Commission on Capital Markets to evaluate the regulation of financial intermediaries by the Federal and State governments and the functioning of such intermediaries in the accumulation and allocation of capital within the United States economy. Sets forth the information to be included in such evaluation. Requires the Commission, within nine months after the initial meeting, to submit to Congress a report on the results of its evaluation. Terminates the Commission ninety days after the submission of its final report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1983
Water Quality Renewal Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) specified research, investigation, and training programs in water pollution control; (2) State and interstate pollution control programs; (3) undergraduate programs in water quality control; (4) grants for developing waste treatment management plans for areas with substantial water quality control problems; (5) water pollution control programs in agricultural areas; (6) agreements among Government agencies providing for maximum use of existing programs for water quality control; (7) grants to States for lake pollution control; and (8) carrying out such Act generally. Increases the authorization for grants for construction of waste treatment works for FY 1984 and 1985. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1986 through 1988. Revises the timetable for compliance of all pollutants with effluent limitations. Requires as new conditions for the modification of treatment requirements with respect to the discharge of pollutants from a publicly owned treatment works that an applicant for such modification demonstrate that: (1) in the case of a treatment works serving a population of 50,000 or more, there is in effect a specified pretreatment program for toxic pollutants introduced into such works for which there is no pretreatment requirement in effect; and (2) the effluent which is discharged from such works is receiving primary treatment and meets the criteria for water quality established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Revises the meaning of the phrase "discharge of any pollutant into marine water." Requires that a water quality standard which is revised after January 1, 1983, maintain the designated uses of the navigable waters involved in effect on such date, except that such a standard may contain a less restrictive use if the State demonstrates that: (1) the existing designated use is not attainable because of natural background or irretrievable man-induced conditions; or (2) the application of effluent limitations needed to attain the existing designated use would result in substantial and widespread adverse economic and social impact. Requires a State to revise water quality standards to preserve the quality of those waters within the State exceeding the level necessary to support the designated use contained in existing water quality standards. Requires a State to consider the need to adopt numercial criteria in addition to other water quality criteria' with respect to specified toxic pollutants whenever such State reviews a water quality standard. Requires the maintenance and protection of water the quality of which exceeds levels necessary to support the propagation of fish and wildlife and to allow recreation in and on the water, unless a State chooses, after compliance with intergovernmental coordination and public participation requirements, to allow lower water quality because of essential economic or social development for which there is no feasible alternative. Prohibits a degradation of water quality which will interfere with or injure instream water uses. Prohibits degradation in high quality waters which constitute an outstanding national resource. Requires a State to minimize the effects of development on water quality in any case where water quality degradation is permitted. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of all navigable waters in each State the water quality of which is being impaired by the discharge from specific sources of toxic pollutants. Directs the Administrator to establish an individual control strategy for each listed segment of navigable waters which shall reduce the discharge of toxic pollutants from such sources so as to allow the achievement of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water. Increases the civil penalties for violations of requirements with respect to water quality standards under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Requires the Administrator to convene a management conference whenever the attainment or maintenance of water quality in an estuary requires the control of sources of pollution in more than one State. Provides that such a management conference shall establish and provide for the implementation of a master plan which addresses the pollution problems of the estuary involved. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States participating in such a management conference which are equal to 55 percent of a State's cost of implementing a master plan for a fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) administrative expenses with respect to management conferences; (2) grants for the development of master plans for estuaries; and (3) monitoring the implementation of such master plans. Prohibits the specification of a disposal site in navigable waters for the discharge of dredged or fill material unless the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, determines that the discharge of such material at such site will not have an unacceptable adverse effect on the aquatic environmental and that there is no less adverse practicable alternative to the proposed discharge. Requires that an application for a permit to discharge dredge or fill material into navigable waters at a specified disposal site be filed with the district engineer of the Corps of Engineers for the district where the discharge is to be made. Requires the district engineers to notify the Administrator, the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce, and other appropriate Federal agency heads of any such application. Specifies the time periods within which such agencies may submit comments on such applications. Requires the district engineer to give full consideration to such comments in deciding whether to issue a permit. Requires the district engineer to notify the Administrator or the appropriate Secretary if a permit to which the Administrator or the Secretary is opposed is to be issued. Specifies the time periods within which the district engineer must publish a decision with respect to a permit application. Provides that a denial of a permit application shall be the final decision of the Secretary of the Army. Provides that a decision to issue a permit shall be the final decision of the Secretary of the Army unless the Administrator, the Secretary of the Interior, or the the Secretary of Commerce requests a review of such a decision in any case in which the Administrator or either Secretary opposed the issuance of a permit. Specifies the time periods within which the Secretary of the Army must issue a final decision following such a request. Requires the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the effects of the impoundment and discharge of waters by dams upon the quality of navigable waters.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any State, or political subdivision thereof, which imposes an income tax on a corporation from taking into account income of any foreign corporation which is also a member of an affiliated group to which the domestic corporation belongs, unless such amount is subject to Federal income tax. Prohibits any State, or political subdivision thereof, from taxing or otherwise taking into account: (1) the amount of the deduction for dividends paid by a corporation which has elected the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit for the taxable year; or (2) a certain percentage (determined according to specified formulae) of any dividend received from a domestic corporation which is not treated as income from sources within the United States (or a dividend received by a corporation from a foreign corporation). Provides that nothing in this Act shall subject any dividend, other income item, or portion thereof to taxation if such taxation is otherwise prohibited by any law, or rule of law, of the United States.
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