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United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Designates the week of October 2 through October 8, 1983, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the authorities in Taiwan should end martial law in order to establish a more democratic society.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Expresses the support of the House of Representatives for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to eliminate the requirement for a State certificate of convenience and necessity before the Administrator may make loans to provide rural telephone service. Revises the liabilities and uses of the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund established under the REA to provide that notes of the Administrator to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain funds for loans shall be equity capital of the Fund. States that assets of the Fund shall be available only for: (1) payment of interest and principal on loans to the Administrator from the Secretary of the Treasury; and (2) for certificates of beneficial ownership issued to such Secretary or in the private market. Requires the Administrator to maintain two separate accounts within the fund: (1) the Electrification Account; and (2) the Telephone Account. Lists the items that shall be accounted for in each Account respectively, and restricts the purposes for which the assets of each Account shall be available. Authorizes the Administrator to repurchase specified certificates of beneficial ownership under certain conditions affecting their interest rates. Establishes guidelines for interest-bearing insured loans made by the Administrator to electric and telephone borrowers. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to request in each annual supplemental budget estimate the amount needed to replenish the Fund for anticipated and actual costs resulting from loans made at less than a specified rate during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Administrator to guarantee loans to specified borrowers or to accommodate or subordinate liens or mortgages held in the Fund, according to prescribed rules and regulations. Directs the Administration to promulgate such rules and regulations within 90 days after the effective date of this Act. Prescribes guidelines under which certain lenders are authorized to adjust interest rates on loans guaranteed by the Administrator. Requires rural electrification borrowers to obtain concurrent supplemental financing according to prescribed guidelines in any fiscal year in which the minimum loan level for insured rural electrification loans is less than $1,000,000,000. Repeals the loan-making authority of the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank which require approval by the Secretary of Agriculture of facilities or lines to be acquired with such loans. Eliminates loan restrictions placed upon potential borrowers whose net worth exceed their assets by twenty percent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Designates the week of September 18 through 24, 1983, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1983 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for foreign military sales credits and guarantees with specified amounts earmarked for: (1) military sales credits to Israel; (2) loan guarantees for Turkey; (3) loan guarantees for Greece; (4) military sales credits to Egypt which Egypt need not repay; and (5) loan guarantees for Egypt. Includes South Korea among the list of countries which have a ten-year grace period before beginning repayment on guaranteed loans. Limits the amount of loan guarantees for each of FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) Morocco; (2) Tunisia; and (3) Zaire. Increases the amount of foreign military sales credits and guarantees which Israel is released from repaying. Reaffirms U.S. policy on the settlement of the Cyprus dispute. Permits military assistance for Turkey or for Greece in FY 1984 and 1985 to exceed the amount provided in FY 1983 only if the President certifies to Congress with respect to each country for that fiscal year that: (1) additional military assistance is necessary to enable that country to fulfill its NATO obligations and will not upset the current balance of military strength among the eastern Mediterranean countries; (2) each country is taking steps to settle the Cyprus dispute and is committed to withdrawing all foreign troops as part of a settlement; (3) regarding Turkey, a program for a return to democratic rule is being implemented and human rights are being observed; and (4) regarding Greece, the United States and Greece have agreed upon arrangements for access to and use of military facilities in Greece by U.S. armed forces. Prohibits the amount of military assistance for Greece or Turkey for FY 1984 through 1986 from exceeding the amount of military assistance requested for each country for FY 1984 so long as the military forces of each country which are on Cyprus exceed the number permitted by the 1959 Treaty of Alliance. Prohibits any assistance under the Arms Export Control Act or any military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act to Turkey or Greece after 1986, other than assistance to enable Turkey or Greece to carry out their obligations as members of NATO, if the military forces of each country which are on Cyprus exceed the number permitted by the 1959 Treaty or any subsequent superseding treaty. Prohibits Turkey or Greece from using on Cyprus defense articles sold under the Arms Export Control Act so long as the Turkish or Greek forces on Cyprus exceed those permitted by such treaty or agreement. Authorizes using foreign military sales guarantees to finance procurement of advanced weapons systems by Jordan only if the President has certified to Congress that Jordan is publicly committed to the recognition of Israel and to prompt entry into direct peace negotiations with Israel. Declares that foreign military sales loan guarantees should be issued only to countries which can reasonably be expected to meet the obligations covered by the guarantees without default or rescheduling. Declares that concessional assistance could be provided exclusively or in connection with guarantees to countries that do not meet this standard. Directs the President to review a country's economic and financial condition, particularly its debt servicing capability, when determining whether a country should be considered eligible for loan guarantees. Sets forth factors to be considered in such determination. Requires the President's findings to be included in the President's annual report to Congress on security assistance programs. Limits the amount made available to carry out the Arms Control Act for FY 1985 to seven percent of the principal amount of contractual liability authorized for the foreign military sales credit and guarantee program for FY 1985. Requires such a percentage limit to be placed on such funds each fiscal year. Requires such funds to constitute part of the single reserve for payment of claims under such guarantees. Excludes a pro rata share of fixed base operation costs from the administrative surcharge attached to letters of offer for the sale of defense articles or services. Includes certain official reception and representation expenses within the administrative expenses that will be recovered by the administrative surcharge. Limits such expenses for each fiscal year. Increases the criminal and civil penalties for certain violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Authorizes the President, in carrying out quality assurance, inspection, and contract audit defense services, to provide free cataloging data and services to NATO and to NATO members if NATO or the NATO members provide reciprocal data and services to the United States. Requires that the section of the President's annual report on arms sales which deals with estimates of international volume of arms traffic shall be transmitted to Congress by April 1 of each year. Requires the President, upon request, to submit copies of the defense requirement surveys to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for military assistance. Limits the amount of such assistance for each of FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) Tunisia; (2) Morocco; and (3) Zaire. Authorizes a waiver of the requirement that a foreign country which sells an item provided under the military assistance program must pay to the United States the net proceeds from the sale. Sets forth the FY 1984 and 1985 limits on the additions to stockpiles of defense articles in foreign countries. Authorizes the presence of more than six U.S. military personnel in FY 1984 and 1985 in specified countries including Pakistan, Yemen, Tunisia, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for international military education and training. Permits such education and training for FY 1985 for Uruguay and for FY 1984 and 1985 for Paraguay only if the President submits specified certifications to the Congress. Authorizes the President to provide free training for foreign military personnel at professional military schools in the United States if it is pursuant to an agreement providing reciprocal training for U.S. students in foreign military schools. Authorizes providing military education and training at the Coast Guard Academy. Encourages the President to allocate a portion of the funds available for such education and training to provide maritime training through the Coast Guard. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President, in the event of an unforeseen emergency that requires the immediate provision of peacekeeping operations, to direct the drawdown of a specified amount of commodities and services from the inventory and resources of any U.S. agency. Provides for the reimbursement of such agencies. Requires the President to notify the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before exercising such authority. Declares that it is U.S. policy to support a negotiated political solution to the conflict in the Western Sahara. Prohibits members of the U.S. armed forces from performing defense services under the Foreign Assistance Act or the Arms Export Control Act or conducting military education and training activities under the Foreign Assistance Act in the Western Sahara so long as the military conflict continues. Limits the amount of military assistance for El Salvador for FY 1984 and 1985. Provides an additional amount that may be used only for: (1) medical supplies; and (2) training outside of El Salvador for members of El Salvador's armed forces. Limits the total number of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador to 55. Declares that the United States shall: (1) encourage a peaceful and political resolution of the conflict in El Salvador; (2) help begin regional efforts to accomplish a conference of interested governments to reduce regional tensions and instability; and (3) help provide substantial emergency assistance to displaced persons. Directs the President to report to Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act concerning the plans of the Government of El Salvador for meeting specified objectives in ending the conflict, including the President's assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of such plans. Directs the President to suspend military assistance for El Salvador if the Government of El Salvador, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, is not engaged in a good faith, unconditional dialog with all major parties to the conflict unless the Government has been unable to enter such dialog because of the refusal of the major opposition groups to participate. Requires the President to submit to Congress a detailed progress report on May 30, 1984, and August 31, 1984, on the steps taken by the Government of El Salvador to carry out the plans for ending the conflict. Suspends military assistance to El Salvador if the Congress adopts a concurrent resolution declaring that: (1) the plans reported by the President do not adequately address the specified objectives for ending the conflict; or (2) the Government of El Salvador is not making adequate progress toward meeting those objectives. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolutions. Authorizes the submission of a revised report if the Congress adopts such a resolution. Subjects such revised report to disapproval by Congress. Sets forth the timing for the obligating of FY 1984 and 1985 military assistance funds for El Salvador. Suspends all military assistance to El Salvador if the President does not submit the reports required by this Act at the time specified. Prohibits the use of the President's emergency drawdown authority under the Foreign Assistance Act with respect to El Salvador during FY 1984 and 1985. Directs the Comptroller General to report periodically to Congress on the progress of the Government of El Salvador in carrying out the plans for ending the conflict. Sets forth the procedure to be followed if the President uses special authority under the Foreign Assistance Act to waive the suspension of military assistance to El Salvador. Prohibits providing Guatemala during FY 1984 and 1985 with: (1) funds for military assistance or international military education and training; (2) foreign military sales credits or guarantees; (3) arms export licenses; and (4) members of U.S. armed forces. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) sales of construction equipment and mobile medical facilities to assist in development programs that will directly assist the poor in Guatemala; (2) sales of training, to be provided outside Guatemala, which is related to sales of such equipment or facilities; (3) a specified amount of loan guarantees for FY 1984 and 1985 for sales of such equipment, facilities, and training. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to permit specified types of military and economic assistance, including foreign military sales credits and guarantees and arms export licenses to Argentina and Chile only if the President certifies to Congress that: (1) their governments have made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized principles of human rights; (2) the provision of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest; and (3) an elected civilian government is in power. Prohibits such assistance to Chile or Argentina for FY 1984 if the President submits a certification with respect to that country before this Act is enacted. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the limits on the funds which the President may authorize under the President's special waiver authority of such Act. Title II: Antiterrorism Assistance Program - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to eligible countries to aid in the deterrence of international terrorism. Sets forth provisions for reimbursement for the value of services and commodities furnished under this Act. Provides for consultation with the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the development and implementation of this Act. Sets forth procedures and requirements for training services under this Act. Requires the President to transmit specified written notification to Congress not less than 30 days before providing antiterrorism assistance under this Act. Sets forth certain reporting requirements. Authorizes: (1) appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985; and (2) transfers of funds previously made available for FY 1983 to carry out this program. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Authorizes appropriations for the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 and 1985. Allocates a specified amount for FY 1984 and 1985 for emergency assistance. Deletes the provisions prohibiting the use of Economic Support Fund funds for nuclear facilities and dealing with Economic Support Fund programs for: (1) the Middle East; (2) the Eastern Mediterranean; (3) the special requirements fund; (4) Costa Rica; (5) Nicaragua; and (6) Poland. Allocates funds out of the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 and 1985 for Israel and Egypt. Limits the percentage of the FY 1984 and 1985 funds obligated for assistance for Latin American and the Caribbean that may be obligated for assistance for any one country. Allocates funds for Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Panama. Requires that, to the maximum extent possible, funds appropriated to the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 and 1985 which are allocated for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean shall be used to generate local currencies to support specified objectives. Requires the President to seek a reasonable balance between support for the public sector and support for the private sector and between balance-of-payments support and support for development projects. Authorizes the use of Economic Support Fund allocations to El Salvador to implement the country's land reform program. Requires such funds to be used to generate local currencies to capitalize a segregated account which: (1) would be used to pay for land acquired under the land reform program and to provide credit at concessional interest rates to beneficiaries of all phases of the land reform program; (2) would be replenished as necessary by payments required from beneficiaries of the program; and (3) shall be subject to standard U.S. Government auditing requirements. Authorizes the obligation at any time after October 1, 1983, of 50 percent of the appropriated FY 1984 allocation for El Salvador. Directs the President to report to Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the plans of the Government of El Salvador for carrying out the land reform objectives. Requires the President to submit a report to Congress not earlier than March 30, 1984, on the progress made in carrying out such plans. Lists information to be included in such report. Requires similar reports to be filed not earlier than August 30, 1984, and not earlier than March 30, 1985. Prohibits the obligation of any additional part of the allocation until 15 days after the report is filed. Authorizes the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to express any objections they may have to the obligation of additional funds for El Salvador in light of the progress being made in implementing the land reform program. Sets forth the timetable for obligating FY 1985 allocations for El Salvador. Authorizes Congress to prevent the obligation of such funds by adopting a concurrent resolution stating that Congress does not find that sufficient progress has been made in implementing the land reform program. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Prohibits providing assistance from the Economic Support Fund to Zaire for FY 1984 or 1985. Requires that agreements with countries in Africa, including Northern Africa, which provide for the use of funds out of the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 and 1985 to finance imports from those countries shall require that those imports be used to meet long-term development needs in those countries in accordance with specified criteria. Requires annual evaluations of the extent to which such agreements meet those criteria. Earmarks a specified amount for each of FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) regional programs in Southern Africa; and (2) Southern Africa. Prohibits Economic Support Fund monies for education or training programs in South Africa from being used for programs conducted by or through organizations in South Africa which are financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa. Title IV: Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance; (2) population planning and health programs, with a specified amount earmarked for the International Conference on Population; (3) education and human resources development; and (4) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities. Allocates 60 percent of the population planning assistance funds or $165,000,000, whichever is less, for: (1) population and family planning activities of multilateral and nongovernmental organizations and institutions; and (2) centrally-funded purchases of family planning supplies and services. Allocates 16 percent of such funds or $38,000,000, whichever is less for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. Directs the President, in carrying out the aid to health programs, to promote activities designed to deal directly with the special health needs of children and mothers. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for development assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. Earmarks specified amounts for: (1) educational scholarships for persons from Latin America and the Caribbean; (2) the Inter-American Foundation; (3) aid to persons displaced by civil strife in Central America; (4) the American Institute for Free Labor Development; and (5) support for indigenous regional development and financial institutions that carry out projects to support basic human needs. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for development assistance for: (1) Sub-Saharan Africa; and (2) Morocco. Authorizes the President to establish in the Treasury a revolving fund which shall be used to furnish assistance to further the development of the private sector in developing countries. Sets forth the criteria for the private sector activities that may be supported by such fund. Limits the amount that may be made available to support any one project. Sets forth provisions for administering the fund. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on the projects supported by the fund. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to countries to protect and maintain wildlife habitats and to develop sound wildlife management and plant conservation programs. Provides for the development of a U.S. strategy to protect and conserve biological diversity in developing countries, including continued U.S. participation in and support for international groups which carry out research on the preservation of animal and plant species. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for the Sahel development program. Directs the President to use specified poverty measurement standards in determining target populations for development assistance and to strengthen U.S. efforts to assure that a substantial percentage of such assistance directly improves the lives of the poor majority. Requires that attempts to increase the capabilities of institutions shall, to the maximum extent possible, be designed and monitored to insure that the ultimate beneficiaries of these activities are the poor majority. Requires the annual report on development assistance to include an evaluation of the extent to which development assistance programs directly benefit the poor majority. Increases the limit on the total amount of outstanding housing guarantees. Extends the authority to issue worldwide housing guarantees until September 30, 1986. Requires that the interest rates on loan investments guaranteed under such Act shall be reasonable in comparison to the rates on comparable securities in the U.S. market. Deletes the requirement that Latin American countries must be the setting for pilot programs for encouraging private sector participation in agricultural credit and self-help community development programs. Extends the authority for such programs until September 30, 1985. Requires that assistance provided to promote the role of private enterprise in development shall be used primarily for activities in agricultural development in rural areas, population planning and health programs, education and human resources development, and development of indigenous energy resources. Requires such assistance to be directed toward small business. Sets forth factors the President shall consider in providing assistance to promote the role of private enterprise in development. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for the African Development Foundation. Title V: Other Authorizations - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for human rights activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international organizations and programs; (3) international narcotics control; (4) international disaster assistance; (5) trade and development programs; and (6) operating expenses for development assistance. Earmarks specified amounts for: (1) the United Nations Development Program; (2) the United Nations Children's Fund; (3) the International Atomic Energy Agency; (4) the Organization of American States development assistance programs; (5) the United Nations Environment Program; (6) the World Meteorological Organization; (7) the United Nations Capital Development Fund; (8) the United Nations Education and Training Program for Southern Africa; (9) the United Nations Voluntary Fund for the Decade for Women; (10) the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species; (11) the World Food Program; (12) the United Nations Institute for Namibia; (13) the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa; (14) the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; (15) the United Nations Fellows Program; and (16) the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. Prohibits making funds available for programs or projects for the Palestinian Liberation Organization or for the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). Permits funding for SWAPO if the President certifies that such funds would not be used to support military or paramilitary activities. Requires the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on the amounts spent by international organizations receiving U.S. funds. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the need for signatory countries to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, to work together to prevent drug cultivation. Authorizes the President to conclude agreements with other countries and to furnish them with assistance in order to facilitate control of production and distribution of controlled substances. Directs the President to suspend U.S. assistance to or for any country if the President determines that such country has failed to take adequate steps to prevent controlled substances produced in such country from being sold illegally within the jurisdiction of such country to U.S. Government personnel or their dependents or from being smuggled into the United States. Sets forth the method of determining whether adequate steps are being taken. Requires that if aid is suspended the suspension shall continue until the President reports to Congress that the foreign country's government has taken adequate steps to prevent the distribution of drugs to U.S. personnel and to prevent smuggling into the United States. Requires the President to report to Congress annually on the status of the U.S. policy to establish and encourage an international strategy to prevent the illicit cultivation and manufacture of and traffic in controlled substances. Sets forth information that must be included in each such report. Directs the Department of State to encourage the International Narcotics Control Board and the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to take the necessary and appropriate action to secure from signatory countries to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, the information necessary for the President's annual reports to Congress. Earmarks a specified amount for FY 1985 to provide resettlement services and facilities for refugees and displaced persons in Africa. Title VI: Food for Peace - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish certain agricultural commodities to carry out the provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Provides for payment for such commodities. Declares that the level of food assistance financing made available for Egypt under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 shall be reduced each fiscal year both in dollar amount and as a percentage of the total financing made available worldwide. Limits such financing for FY 1984. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to authorize furnishing commodities for famine relief through any appropriate method of distribution. Requires that consideration shall be given, in the case of commodities distributed by nonprofit voluntary agencies, to the nutritional and development objectives as established by those agencies in light of their assessment of the needs of the people assisted. Requires the President to submit: (1) annual reports to Congress on planned programing of food assistance for famine relief for the coming fiscal year; and (2) semiannual reports to Congress on the current status of planned programing of food assistance for famine relief for the current fiscal year. Limits the amount of funds that may be used in FY 1984 and 1985 to carry out the farmer-to-farmer assistance program under such Act. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the Secretary, to report to Congress on the manner in which the Agency intends to implement such program. Title VII: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act for FY 1984 and 1985. Declares that it is U.S. policy to provide opportunities for service in the Peace Corps to at least 10,000 individuals by the end of FY 1986 and thereafter. Directs the President to include in the annual report to Congress on the Peace Corps a description of the plans to carry out such policy. Title VIII: Fiscal Year 1983 Supplemental Authorizations - Authorizes supplemental authorizations for FY 1983 for: (1) foreign military sales loan guarantees under the Arms Export Control Act; (2) military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act, with a specified amount earmarked for El Salvador; (3) the Economic Support Fund; (4) international organizations and programs; and (5) development assistance programs, with a specified amount earmarked for development assistance projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Limits for FY 1983 the principal amount of foreign military sales loan guarantees and military assistance to: (1) Morocco; (2) Tunisia; and (3) Zaire. Earmarks a specified amount of funds from the Economic Support Fund for aid to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean which have democratically elected governments and for which the executive branch has not otherwise allocated funds for FY 1983. Requires that such funds shall be used to the maximum extent feasible to generate local currencies which shall be used to support activities consistent with specified development objectives of the Foreign Assistance Act. Prohibits providing any assistance for FY 1983 for Zaire from the Economic Support Fund. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - Increases the amount which the U.S. Government can grant without restriction for development assistance, for American schools and hospitals abroad, or for the Economic Support Fund. Authorizes the President to remove a country from the list of communist countries which may not receive U.S. assistance if the President reports to Congress that such action is important to U.S. security. Directs the President, in determining the level of U.S. assistance to a country, to consider the extent to which the government of such country permits a government-owned entity or nationals of that country to engage in the unauthorized broadcast of copyrighted material belonging to U.S. copyright owners. Requires that a country whose government-owned entity engages in such broadcasts shall receive only one-half of the proposed U.S. assistance for such country. Authorizes the President to waive such limit if the President determines such action is in the national interest. Deletes the requirement that the annual report on foreign assistance contain a report on the foreign assistance provided by each member country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Excludes proposed program changes under the Arms Export Control Act from the requirement that Congress be given 15 days notice of such changes. Excludes from the Congressional notification requirement: (1) proposed reprograming under the Arms Export Control Act; and (2) reprograming of less than $25,000 for use under international narcotics control programs and international military education and training programs. Provides that aid under the Arms Export Control Act need not be reported to Congress within 30 days of enactment of a law appropriating such funds. Deletes the requirement that the President report to Congress before granting assistance which exceeds by ten percent or more the assistance which the President reported to Congress. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to delete the requirement that the President report to Congress on the amounts of and recipients of foreign military credit sales and guarantees. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act to delete the limit on the amount of foreign assistance funds that may be used to construct facilities for U.S. Government personnel carrying out such Act. Increases the amount of funds that may be used to educate the dependents of such personnel. Repeals specified provisions of such Act including obsolete reporting requirements and provisions dealing with aid to: (1) Cyprus; (2) Romania; (3) Turkey; (4) Caribbean countries; and (5) Portugal and former Portuguese colonies in Africa. Directs the President to report to Congress on economic conditions in Egypt, Israel, Turkey, and Lebanon which may affect their respective ability to meet their international debt obligations and to stabilize their economies. Directs the President to obtain statutory authorization with respect to the introduction of U.S. armed forces into Lebanon in conjunction with agreements providing for foreign troop withdrawals from Lebanon and for the creation of a new, more permanent multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Dominican Republic should be commended for its efforts to achieve a stable democracy. Expresses the sense of the Congress that for each of FY 1984 and 1985 up to $24,000,000 of the development assistance funds and up to $10,000,000 of the Economic Support Fund moneys should be made available for development assistance for Haiti. Declares that such aid, to the maximum extent possible, should be provided through private and voluntary organizations. Permits development, economic, and military aid for Haiti for FY 1984 and 1985 only if the President determines that the Government of Haiti: (1) is continuing to cooperate with the United States in halting illegal emigration to the United States from Haiti; (2) is cooperating in implementing U.S. development, food, and other economic assistance programs in Haiti; (3) is continuing to comply with the fiscal performance targets set by the International Monetary Fund; and (4) is making a concerted and significant effort to improve the human rights situation in Haiti. Requires the President to report to Congress biennially until the end of FY 1985 on the actions of the Government of Haiti which are consistent with such conditions. Permits funds made available to Haiti under the Foreign Assistance Act for FY 1984 and 1985 to be used to halt significant illegal emigration from Haiti to the United States. Congratulates the Government of Honduras for its successful presidential election. Supports the further enhancement of democracy in Honduras. Directs the President to develop plans for a reconstruction and redevelopment effort for El Salvador and other Central American countries. Directs the President to initiate discussions with such countries concerning the feasibility of enlisting multilateral support for such effort.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Calls upon the nations of the world, particularly the Soviet Union, to conclude in the multilateral Committee on Disarmament or other bilateral negotiations a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons. States that the United States will continue its moratorium on chemical weapons production if progress is evident on a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should seek a consensus at the Williamsburg Summit, aimed at: (1) reducing disparities in certain financial rates and economic policies among summit countries; and (2) arranging a meeting of summit country finance ministers with the Secretary of the Treasury, to achieve an alignment between the interest rates and major currencies. Urges the President to arrange, in conjunction with the Williamsburg Summit, bilateral discussions with the Prime Minister of Japan to bring about further realignment of the yen and dollar exchange rates.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act - Title I: Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1983 - Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank of the United States until September 30, 1985. Declares that it is the policy of the United States to insist that participants in the Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits honor their pledge not to offer "tied aid credit" containing a grant element less than the minimum specified in the guidelines. Defines "tied aid credit" to mean credit which is: (1) provided for development aid purposes; (2) financed by public funds or, as a mixed credit, partly from public and partly from private funds; and (3) tied to the purchase of exports from the country granting the credit. Declares that the United States shall try to negotiate an increase in the minimum grant element of tied aid credits. Establishes the Competitive Tied Aid Fund. Requires the money in the Fund to be used to cover a portion of the subsidy contained in any credit granted by the Bank. Permits the Bank to extend such credit only if the Board of Directors and the Secretary of the Treasury determine that: (1) the credit will help U.S. exports competing with exports assisted by foreign official financing in the form of a tied aid credit; (2) the foreign official financing is an abuse of the tied aid credit; and (3) the Secretary of the Treasury determines that the Bank has properly calculated the portion of the subsidy to be covered by money in the fund. Sets forth the criteria for an abuse of tied aid credit. Prohibits the Board from approving tied aid credit unless a portion of its subsidy is covered by funds drawn from the Fund. Requires the Board to report to both Houses of Congress on any approved tied aid credit within 30 days of approving it. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Board to report to Congress if, at the end of any quarter of any fiscal year after FY 1983, the value of the total capital stock and retained earnings of the Bank falls below 50 percent of the capital stock and retained earnings of the Bank at the end of FY 1983. Emphasizes that the Bank's primary policy is to support U.S. exports in all the Bank's programs. Requires the Bank to reserve not less than: (1) six percent of the Bank's new FY 1984 loans and loan guarantees for financing exports by small businesses; and (2) ten percent of the Bank's new FY 1985 loans and loan guarantees for financing exports by small businesses. Requires the Bank to submit its annual report to Congress on January 1 of each year. Requires the report to contain a comprehensive and detailed description of plans for implementing the provisions relating to loans and loan guarantees to small businesses. Requires that the Bank's annual report to the appropriate congressional committees shall be submitted within three months of the end of the reporting period. Requires the President to appoint at least one member of the Bank's Board to represent the interests of small business. Requires the Bank to work to ensure that U.S. companies are afforded an equal opportunity to bid for insurance in connection with transactions assisted by the Bank. Directs the Chairman of the Bank to review the Bank's policy with respect to insurance and to undertake actions to promote equal and nondiscriminatory opportunities to bid for insurance in connection with international trade. Requires the Bank to report by May 15, 1984, to the appropriate congressional committees concerning insurance problems. Increases the number of members of the Bank's Advisory Committee from nine to 12. Requires at least three of those members to be representatives of the small business community. Requires the Committee to meet once each quarter and to submit with the Bank's annual report its comments and suggestions to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations to prepare the U.S. International Trade Commission report on the adverse effect of the Bank's loans and guarantees on domestic industries. Imposes a 60-day deadline for completion of inquiries into purported foreign noncompetitive financing. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the Bank to issue financing to U.S. sellers who are competing with foreign exporters who have received noncompetitive financing only if: (1) the availability of foreign official noncompetitive financing is likely to be a "significant" (currently "determining") factor in the sale; and (2) such foreign noncompetitive financing has not been withdrawn. Title II: International Economic Recovery - Directs the President to encourage industrialized nations to: (1) take multilateral actions to adopt fiscal policies which will result in sustainable, noninflationary economic growth and increased worldwide employment; (2) develop plans for reducing the financial pressures on certain debt-ridden nations by extending the maturity of such debt; and (3) begin to promote the effectiveness and consistency of the regulation and supervision of international banking. Requires the President to report to Congress on such activities and to include in such report recommendations for legislation. Title III: International Monetary Fund - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to increase the authorized loans to the International Monetary Fund. Prohibits any representative of the United States from instructing the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to consent to any amendment to the February 24, 1983, decision of the Fund's Executive Directors if the amendment would significantly alter the terms of U.S. participation in the General Arrangements to Borrow. Authorizes the U.S. Governor of the Fund to consent to an increase in the U.S. quota in the Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the lack of sufficient information currently available to international lenders threatens the stability of the international monetary system; and (2) the Fund should adopt measures to ensure the availability of more complete and timely financial information. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to: (1) initiate relevant discussions with other directors of the Fund and with the Fund management; and (2) propose and vote for certain information collection and publication procedures. Authorizes the President to require persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction to provide information to the Fund. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on progress made toward establishing information collection procedures within the Fund. Amends the Special Drawing Rights Act to prohibit any representative of the United States from approving a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights unless Congress authorizes such action. Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to oppose any credit drawings on the Fund or any of its facilities by countries which practice apartheid. Requires the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to present proposals to the Fund's Executive Board that ensure that each member country using Fund resources takes steps to eliminate import restrictions and unfair export subsidies which are inconsistent with international agreements and which have serious adverse impact on any member's exports or employment. Requires the Secretary, if the Fund does not adopt such proposals, to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before instructing the U.S. Executive Director to provide Fund resources for a country which has such import restrictions or unfair export subsidies. Requires the Secretary to be informed of all such restrictions and subsidies implemented by member countries. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, a report on the policies of the Fund. Sets forth the information to be contained in the report. Requires the U.S. representatives to the Fund to recommend and work for certain changes in Fund policies and decisions to ensure the effectiveness of economic adjustment programs supported by the Fund. Requires the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies to include in its annual report an analysis of the extent to which Fund policies and practices reflect such recommendations. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to propose that the Fund adopt these policies with respect to international lending: (1) intensification of the Fund's examination of the trend and volume of external indebtedness of private and public borrowers in a member country when consulting with such country's government on its economic policies; (2) consideration of limiting public sector external short- and long-term borrowing as part of any Fund-approved stabilization program; and (3) publication of the Fund's evaluation of the trend and volume of international lending. Title IV: International Lending Supervision - International Lending Supervision Act of 1983 - Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to evaluate banking institution foreign country exposure and transfer risk. Requires each such agency to establish examination and supervisory procedures to assure that factors such as foreign country exposure and transfer risk are considered in evaluating the adequacy of the capital of banking institutions. Requires each such agency to require a banking institution to establish and maintain a special reserve whenever the agency determines that: (1) the institution's assets have been impaired by a protracted inability of a foreign country's public or private borrowers to make payments on their external indebtedness; or (2) there is a substantial likelihood that such debt cannot reasonably be expected to be repaid according to its original terms without additional borrowing or a major restructuring. Requires the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to promulgate regulations to account for fees charged by a banking institution in connection with an international loan. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to require each banking institution with foreign country exposure to submit, at least four times each year, information regarding that exposure. Requires each such agency to require banking institutions to publish information regarding material foreign country exposure in relation to assets and to capital. Requires the Examination Council and the Federal banking agencies to consult with foreign banking supervisory authorities to reach understandings aimed at achieving the adoption of effective and consistent supervisory policies and practices with respect to international lending. Requires the Examination Council to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the international banking examination and supervisory procedures of certain foreign countries. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to establish adequate levels of capital for each category of banking institution. Declares that failure of a banking institution to maintain its established level of capital shall constitute an unsafe and unsound practice within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Requires each such agency to require any banking institution which does not maintain its prescribed capital level to submit and adhere to a plan to achieve its prescribed level. Directs the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury to encourage governments, central banks, and regulatory authorities of other major banking countries to work toward maintaining and strengthening the capital bases of banking institutions involved in international lending. Requires the Chairman and the Secretary to report to Congress on the progress in achieving such goal. Prohibits banking institutions from extending more than $1,000,000 in credit to finance a project involving the construction or operation of any mining, processing, or manufacturing facility located outside the United States unless a written economic feasibility evaluation of such foreign project is prepared and approved by a senior official of such institution. Sets forth the factors to be included in the evaluation. Requires such evaluations to be reviewed by the appropriate Federal banking agencies. Sets forth the general authorities of the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act. Requires the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies to report to specified congressional committees on actions taken to implement this title. Provides for legislative review and congressional veto of rules and regulations promulgated by the Examination Council or by an appropriate Federal banking agency pursuant to this title. Permits the waiver of such legislative review. Declares that congressional inaction on a rule or regulation shall not be deemed approval of such rule or regulation. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies but permits the Comptroller General to carry out an onsite examination of an open insured bank or bank holding company only if the appropriate Federal banking agency has consented in writing. Prohibits audits of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks from including specified transactions. Prohibits employees of the General Accounting Office from disclosing information identifying an open bank, an open bank holding company, or a customer of a bank or bank holding company. Exempts certain information from such prohibition. Sets forth the method which the Comptroller General shall use in carrying out an audit. Title V: Multilateral Development Banks - Amends the Inter-American Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Bank to vote for certain pending resolutions which were proposed at a special meeting in February 1983 and which provide for increases in the Bank's authorized capital stock and subscriptions and in the resources for the Fund for Special Operations. Authorizes the U.S. Governor of the Bank, upon adoption of the resolutions, to subscribe to a specified number of shares of the Bank's capital stock and to contribute a specified amount to the Fund for Special Operations. Authorizes appropriations. Declares that it is the policy of the United States that no personnel recommendations for actions regarding the personnel of the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, or the Asian Development Bank shall be based on the political philosophy or activity of the individual under consideration. Amends the Asian Development Bank to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Bank to: (1) subscribe to a specified number of shares of the Bank's capital stock; and (2) contribute a specified amount to the Asian Development Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Fund to contribute a specified amount to the Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the U.S. Government to try to channel multilateral assistance to countries other than those whose governments: (1) engage in a pattern (current law refers to a "consistent" pattern) of gross violations of human rights; or (2) provide refuge to international terrorists. Requires that, within 30 days of the end of each calendar quarter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue the quarterly report to Congress on the instances of U.S. opposition to multilateral assistance to a country based on the country's human rights record. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to be submitted to Congress on how the multilateral development institutions could more actively encourage foreign direct investment and commercial capital flows and channel such investment and capital flows to developing countries for sound and productive development projects through a new investment banking facility at one or more of these institutions. Requires the study to evaluate whether the multilateral institutions could help increase foreign direct investment and commercial capital flows by insuring that the interests of investors and host governments are adequately protected. Directs the Secretary to solicit comments on the study from multilateral development institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Designates October 16, 1983, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that regulations relating to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (concerning sex discrimination in education) should not be amended or altered in any manner which will lessen the comprehensive coverage of such statute in eliminating gender discrimination throughout the American educational system.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Encourages the President's efforts to achieve deep cuts in the amounts of nuclear weapons held by each nation and to establish an enduring peace. Declares that Congress would welcome an international agreement based on specified principles providing for: (1) the staged, proportional disarmament of all nations until nonthreatening force levels are reached under effective international inspection and control; and (2) concurrent agreements (in accordance with specified principles) providing methods for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, for effective compliance during the staged disarmament process, and for effective enforcement as nonthreatening force levels are approached. Urges the President to initiate: (1) renewed consideration of the "Joint Statement of agreed Principles for Disarmament Negotiations" ("Joint Statement") by appropriate U.S. agencies; and (2) joint United States and Soviet reconsideration of such "Joint Statement." Requests the President to: (1) transmit copies of this resolution to the heads of government of all nations and to invite them to participate in negotiations on such an international agreement; and (2) report to Congress on the steps taken respecting this resolution and the responses received and on the U.S. reassessment of the "Joint Statement."
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Ocean Freight Competition Act of 1983 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to exclude federally financed agricultural commodities from the requirement that cargoes procured, furnished, or financed by the United States be transported on privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels and vessels of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Requires the Secretary of the Army to continue in effect any cottage site lease of property located along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the mouth of the Missouri River. Prohibits the Secretary from terminating such a lease unless: (1) the property covered by the lease is needed for immediate use for public park purposes or other higher public use or for a navigation or flood control project; or (2) the lessee violates a provision of such lease.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
International Recovery and Financial Stability Act - Title I: International Economic Recovery - Directs the President to encourage industrialized nations to: (1) take multilateral actions to adopt fiscal policies which will result in sustainable, noninflationary economic growth and increased worldwide employment; (2) develop plans for reducing the financial pressures on certain debt-ridden nations by extending the maturity of such debt; and (3) begin to promote the effectiveness and consistency of the regulation and supervision of international banking. Requires the President to report to Congress on such activities and to include in such report recommendations for legislation. Title II: International Monetary Fund - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to increase the authorized loans to the International Monetary Fund. Prohibits any representative of the United States from instructing the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to consent to any amendment to the February 24, 1983, decision of the Fund's Executive Directors if the amendment would significantly alter the terms of U.S. participation in the General Arrangements to Borrow. Authorizes the U.S. Governor of the Fund to consent to an increase in the U.S. quota in the Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the lack of sufficient information currently available to international lenders threatens the stability of the international monetary system; and (2) the Fund should adopt measures to ensure the availability of more complete and timely financial information. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to: (1) initiate relevant discussions with other directors of the Fund and with the Fund management; and (2) propose and vote for certain information collection and publication procedures. Authorizes the President to require persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction to provide information to the Fund. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on progress made toward establishing information collection procedures within the Fund. Amends the Special Drawing Rights Act to prohibit any representative of the United States from approving a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights unless Congress authorizes such action. Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to oppose any credit drawings on the Fund or any of its facilities by countries which practice apartheid. Requires the U.S. Executive Director to the Fund to present proposals to the Fund's Executive Board that ensure that each member country using Fund resources takes steps to eliminate import restrictions and unfair export subsidies which are inconsistent with international agreements and which have serious adverse impact on any member's exports or employment. Requires the Secretary, if the Fund does not adopt such proposals, to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before instructing the U.S. Executive Director to vote for a country which has such import restrictions or unfair export subsidies. Requires the Secretary to be informed of all such restrictions and subsidies implemented by member countries. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, a report on the policies of the Fund. Sets forth the information to be contained in the report. Directs the President to instruct the Secretary, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and other appropriate Federal officials to encourage countries to formulate economic adjustment programs to deal with their balance of payments difficulties and external debt. Sets forth specified changes in the Fund's guidelines, policies, and decisions that the U.S. representatives to the Fund shall recommend. Directs the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to vote against providing assistance from the Fund for an economic adjustment program unless: (1) the program provides for converting high-interest short-term debt into lower-interest long-term debt; (2) the total amount of principal and interest payments required are both a manageable and prudent percentage of the country's projected export earnings; and (3) the program will not adversely affect the international economy and the long-term solvency of banks. Permits the U.S. Executive Director to vote for an economic adjustment program that does not meet such standards if the Director provides the Secretary with written proof of exigent or unusual circumstances which warrant waiving the standards. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to propose that the Fund adopt these policies with respect to international lending: (1) intensification of the Fund's examination of the trend and volume of external indebtedness of private and public borrowers in a member country when consulting with such country's government on its economic policies; (2) consideration of limiting public sector external short- and long-term borrowing as part of any Fund-approved stabilization program; and (3) publication of the Fund's evaluation of the trend and volume of international lending. Title III: International Lending Supervision - International Lending Supervision Act of 1983 - Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to evaluate banking institution foreign country exposure and transfer risk. Requires each such agency to establish examination and supervisory procedures to assure that factors such as foreign country exposure and transfer risk are considered in evaluating the adequacy of the capital of banking institutions. Requires each such agency to require a banking institution to establish and maintain a special reserve whenever the agency determines that: (1) the institution's assets have been impaired by a protracted inability of a foreign country's public or private borrowers to make payments on their external indebtedness; or (2) there is a substantial likelihood that such debt cannot reasonably be expected to be repaid according to its original terms without additional borrowing or a major restructuring. Requires the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to promulgate regulations to account for fees charged by a banking institution in connection with an international loan. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to require each banking institution with foreign country exposure to submit, at least four times each year, information regarding that exposure. Requires each such agency to require banking institutions to publish information regarding material foreign country exposure in relation to assets and to capital. Requires the Examination Council and the Federal banking agencies to consult with foreign banking supervisory authorities to reach understandings aimed at achieving the adoption of effective and consistent supervisory policies and practices with respect to international lending. Requires the Examination Council to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the international banking examination and supervisory procedures of certain foreign countries. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to require banking institutions to maintain adequate levels of capital. Provides for regulations to implement this Act. Sets forth the general authorities of the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act. Requires the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies to report to specified congressional committees on actions taken to implement this Act. Provides for legislative review and congressional veto of rules and regulations promulgated by the Examination Council or by an appropriate Federal banking agency pursuant to this Act. Permits the waiver of such legislative review. Declares that congressional inaction on a rule or regulation shall not be deemed approval of such rule or regulation. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Examination Council and the appropriate Federal banking agencies but permits the Comptroller General to carry out an onsite examination of an open insured bank or bank holding company only if the appropriate Federal banking agency has consented in writing. Prohibits audits of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks from including specified transactions. Prohibits employees of the General Accounting Office from disclosing information identifying an open bank, an open bank holding company, or a customer of a bank or bank holding company. Exempts certain information from such prohibition. Sets forth the method which the Comptroller General shall use in carrying out an audit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, with a specified amount earmarked for protective services; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) migration and refugee assistance, with a specified amount earmarked to fight piracy in the Gulf of Thailand; and (5) U.S. Bilateral Science and Technology Agreements. Requires that the U.S. share of expenses of the International Bureau for the Protection of Industrial Property for any year after 1981 shall be paid out of the State Department funds for international organizations and conferences. Requires that the U.S. expenses for the thirty-first annual meeting of the North Atlantic Assembly shall be paid with State Department funds for FY 1984 for international organizations and conferences. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to allocate or transfer State Department funds to any U.S. agency for direct expenditure by such agency for the purposes for which the funds were appropriated in accordance with authority granted in such Act or under authority governing the activities of such agency. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the United Nations budget or to the budget of any specialized U.N. agency to an amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less 25 percent of the amount budgeted for projects whose primary purpose is to provide political benefits to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on any such project. Provides that the Counselor of the Department of State shall be compensated at the rate of Level III rather than Level IV of the Executive Schedule. Deletes the provision limiting the amount that the National Commission on Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Cooperation may accept in gifts in a single year. Makes a specified amount of the funds authorized for the administration of foreign affairs for each of FY 1984 and 1985 available for the expenses of the National Commission on Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Cooperation. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to authorize training and instruction at the Foreign Service Institute for a maximum of 60 citizens of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require that the President, rather than the Secretary, appoint the Director of the Office of Foreign Missions. Grants the Director the rank of ambassador. Sets forth the qualifications of the Director. Prohibits specified types of reprograming of State Department funds unless the House Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committees are notified 15 days before the proposed reprograming. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide for a benefit fund for foreign national employees of the State Department. Deletes the provision dealing with the payment of illness and burial expenses for Federal employees who are citizens of foreign countries. Sets forth the method of determining retirement benefits of certain foreign service officers. Directs the Secretary to assign responsibility for international communications and information policy matters within the Department to an appropriate Under Secretary of State. Lists the responsibilities for such matters. Directs the Secretary to establish within the State Department an Office of the Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Requires the Coordinator to be responsible to the Under Secretary. Sets forth the duties of the Coordinator. Declares that the presence of nonessential personnel or dependents shall not preclude payment of danger pay to Federal employees serving under dangerous conditions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should recommend that extended voluntary departure status be granted to El Salvadorans and that such status should be granted until the situation in El Salvador has changed sufficiently to permit their safely residing in that country. Title II: United States Information Agency - United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) for FY 1984 and 1985. Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) acquisition and construction of radio facilities; and (2) a grant to the National Endowment for Democracy. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for the USIA for FY 1983. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit specified types of reprograming of USIA funds unless the House Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committees are notified 15 days before the proposed reprograming. Authorizes the USIA to award program grants for FY 1984 and 1985 only if those committees are notified 15 days in advance of the proposed grant. Authorizes disseminating USIA prepared information to foreign diplomats in the United States. Prohibits those diplomats from further disseminating such information within the United States except to other foreign diplomats. Directs the Administrator of General Services to provide for the distribution within the United States of the USIA film "Thanksgiving in Peshawar." Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize supplemental appropriations for FY 1983 and to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985. Limits the salary of the President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Incorporated, to the rate payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule. Title IV: Inter-American Foundation - Inter-American Foundation Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for FY 1984 and 1985. Title V: The Asia Foundation - The Asia Foundation Act - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of State to make grants to The Asia Foundation in each of FY 1983 through 1985. Title VI: National Endowment for Democracy - National Endowment for Democracy Act - Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy. Sets forth the purposes of the Endowment. Authorizes the Endowment to provide funding only for programs of private sector groups which are consistent with the purposes of the Endowment. Provides for the incorporation of the Endowment. Requires the Endowment to report annually to the President on its activities. Authorizes the Director of the USIA to make grants to the Endowment. Allocates funds from the Endowment for each of FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; (2) the National Republican Institute for International Affairs; (3) the Free Trade Union Institute; and (4) the private enterprise development programs of the National Chamber Foundation. Title VII: South Africa - United States Policy Toward South Africa Act of 1983 - Subtitle I: Labor Standards - Requires any United States person who has or controls an enterprise in South Africa which employs more than 30 people to insure that in operating such enterprise the following employment principles are implemented: (1) desegregation in any employment facility; (2) equal employment for all employees; (3) equal pay for equal work; (4) establishment of a minimum wage and salary structure; (5) increase in the representation of nonwhites in managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs; (6) improvement of the quality of employees' lives outside the work environment; and (7) recognition of labor unions and fair labor practices. Declares that the Secretary may issue guidelines and give advisory opinions on compliance with such principles. Directs the Secretary of State to establish an Advisory Council in South Africa to advise the Secretary with respect to the implementation of such employment principles and to review the annual reports which each U.S. person covered by this Act must submit to the Secretary on the progress made in implementing such principles. Directs the Secretary to establish in the United States an American Advisory Council to make policy recommendations regarding labor practices of U.S. persons in South Africa and to review such persons' progress in implementing such employment practices. Directs the Secretary: (1) to take specified actions to insure compliance with the implementation of such employment principles; and (2) to review the compliance of such persons at least biennially. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance. Authorizes the President to waive compliance with the implementation of such principles if such compliance would harm U.S. national security. Subtitle II: Prohibition on Loans and Importation of Gold Coins - Prohibits any U.S. financial or lending institution from making any loan directly or through a foreign subsidiary to South Africa unless such loan is for educational, housing, or health facilities available to all persons on a nondiscriminatory basis. Prohibits the importation of any gold coin minted in South Africa or sold by South Africa. Directs the Secretary to take specified actions to enforce the prohibitions on loans and the importation of gold coins. Sets forth penalties for violations of such prohibitions. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibitions for one year if South Africa meets specified conditions. Subtitle III: General Provisions - Directs Federal agencies to cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Home Ownership Incentive Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for contributions of cash, stocks, bond, or other securities tradeable on an established exchange to a tax-exempt trust account established for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the taxpayer's first principal residence. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,000 with a maximum lifetime deduction of $10,000. Excludes distributions from such account from gross income if they are used exclusively for the purchase of a first principal residence. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions from an individual housing account which are not used for the purchase of a principal residence. Requires the trustee of an individual housing account to report on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file required reports.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Designates the week of October 16 through October 22, 1983, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to extend, upon expiration, a certain numbered patent for a period of 17 years.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
National Ocean Policy Commission Act of 1983 - Establishes a 15-member National Ocean Policy Commission to make recommendations on a comprehensive national oceans policy. Specifies issues such recommendations must address. Sets forth factors the Commission must take into account in developing its recommendations. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the President and to each House of the Congress not later than two years after the Commission first meets. Terminates the Commission on the thirtieth day after the final report is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank of the United States until September 30, 1985. Declares that it is the policy of the United States to insist that participants in the Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits honor their pledge not to offer "tied aid credit" containing a grant element less than the minimum specified in the Guidelines. Defines "tied aid credit" to mean credit which is: (1) provided for development aid purposes; (2) financed by public funds or, as a mixed credit, partly from public and partly from private funds; and (3) tied to the purchase of exports from the country granting the credit. Declares that the United States shall try to negotiate an increase in the minimum grant element of tied aid credits. Establishes the Competitive Tied Aid Fund. Requires the money in the Fund to be used to cover a portion of the subsidy contained in any credit granted by the Bank. Permits the Bank to extend such credit only if the Board of Directors and the Secretary of the Treasury determine that: (1) the credit will help U.S. exports competing with exports assisted by foreign official financing in the form of a tied aid credit; (2) the foreign official financing is an abuse of the tied aid credit; and (3) the Secretary of the Treasury determines that the Bank has properly calculated the portion of the subsidy to be covered by money in the fund. Sets forth the criteria for an abuse of tied aid credit. Prohibits the Board from approving tied aid credit unless a portion of its subsidy is covered by funds drawn from the Fund. Requires the Board to report to both Houses of Congress on any approved tied aid credit within 30 days of approving it. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Board to report to Congress if, at the end of any quarter of any fiscal year after FY 1983, the value of the total capital stock and retained earnings of the Bank falls below 50 percent of the capital stock and retained earnings of the Bank at the end of FY 1983. Emphasizes that the Bank's primary policy is to support U.S. exports in all the Bank's programs. Requires the Bank to reserve not less than: (1) six percent of the Bank's new FY 1984 loans and loan guarantees for financing exports by small businesses; and (2) ten percent of the Bank's new FY 1985 loans and loan guarantees for financing exports by small businesses. Requires the Bank to submit its annual report to Congress on January 1 of each year. Requires the report to contain a comprehensive and detailed description of plans for implementing the provisions relating to loans and loan guarantees to small businesses. Requires that the Bank's annual report to the appropriate congressional committees shall be submitted within three months of the end of the reporting period. Requires the President to appoint at least one member of the Bank's Board to represent the interests of small business. Authorizes appropriations to prepare the U.S. International Trade Commission report on the adverse effect of the Bank's loans and guarantees on domestic industries. Imposes a 60 day deadline for completion of inquiries into purported foreign noncompetitive financing. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the Bank to issue financing to U.S. sellers who are competing with foreign exporters who have received noncompetitive financing only if: (1) the availability of foreign official noncompetitive financing is likely to be a "significant" (currently "determining") factor in the sale; and (2) such foreign noncompetitive financing has not been withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Urges the United States and the Soviet Union to begin talks aimed at creating a jointly administered United States-Soviet student exchange program. Sets forth certain aspects of such exchange program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Amends the Peace Corps Act to declare that it is U.S. policy and a purpose of the Peace Corps to provide opportunity for service in the Peace Corps to at least 10,000 persons by the end of FY 1986 and thereafter. Directs the President to report to Congress on plans to carry out such policy.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Appropriates FY 1984 funds for Centers for Disease Control epidemiological and medical research on acquired immune disorders and related opportunistic infections.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Appropriates FY 1984 funds for National Institutes of Health scientific and medical research on acquired immune disorders and related opportunistic infections.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1983 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation. Provides that this Act shall not be construed to permit a finding of discrimination based on statistical differences or the fashioning of any remedy requiring a quota.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to revise the Federal rail transportation policy to allow competition among carriers to provide transportation services to establish rates. (Currently competition and the demand for services establish such rates.) Removes provisions which require the maintenance of reasonable rates where rail rates provide excessive revenues. Sets forth factors for the Interstate Commerce Commission to consider when determining the reasonableness of rail rates. Revises standards and procedures for establishing revenue levels for rail carriers. Requires the Commission to assist carriers in attaining such revenue levels, while recognizing the need to maintain reasonable rates where there is market dominance. Revises factors which determine whether or not a rail carrier establishing a challenged rate has market dominance over transportation. Directs the Commission, in determining the existence or absence of effective competition, to consider only transportation competition for the same commodity. Requires the Comptroller General to make appointments to the Railroad Accounting Principles Board within 120 days of enactment of this Act. Terminates the Board three years after its members have been appointed.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to request the Secretary-General to act as intermediary in the Nicaraguan-Honduran border dispute; and (2) inform the Congress of action taken by the Secretary-General with respect to said dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should not encourage or support efforts to destabilize or overthrow the government of any Central American nation; (2) other nations in the region should not engage in such activities; (3) all interested parties should encourage the peaceful resolution of conflicts in the region; and (4) the United States should engage in multilateral negotiations with Nicaragua and Honduras to reduce the tensions in the region.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Clean Campaign Act of 1983 - Adds a new title to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971: "Title V: Financing of General Election Campaigns for the House of Representatives". Establishes eligibility criteria entitling candidates to receive campaign payments on a matching basis. Establishes formulae to determine such sums. Limits expenditure of personal funds to $20,000 per election. Waives spending limits for eligible candidates whose opponents have spent sums exceeding the limit imposed upon such candidates. Requires specified independent expenditures to be reported to the Commission and to each candidate within specified time-frames. Permits additional payments to certain candidates who have waived specified broadcasting rights. Requires the Federal Election Commission to certify the eligibility of candidates to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall disburse funds to such candidates. Directs the Secretary to establish a separate United States House of Representatives Election Campaign Account in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and to deposit certain sums in such account in accordance with specified guidelines. Directs the Commission to audit campaign accounts. Requires repayment of excess payments and unexpended payments. Penalizes the use of funds for other than campaign purposes. Authorizes the Commission to institute repayment actions in U.S. district courts. Delineates the administrative authority of the Commission in carrying out this Act. Requires the Commission to make certain reports to the House of Representatives. Authorizes appropriations. Limits to $90,000 in any calendar year the amount of contributions which congressional candidates or their authorized political committees may accept from non-party multicandidate political committees. Specifies exceptions for candidates in general and special elections. States that any extension of credit for advertising on broadcasting stations, in newspapers or magazines, or by direct mail, or for other types of public political advertising shall be considered a contribution, if such credit is: (1) in excess of $1,000; and (2) for a period exceeding 30 days.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Designates the week beginning May 1, 1983, as National Children's Liver Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convey U.S. concern for the welfare of Ethiopian Jews and seek ways to assist Ethiopian Jews to emigrate freely.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to authorize the Corporation to purchase foreign-produced strategic and critical materials and petroleum and petroleum products from persons who have gotten such products by bartering U.S. agricultural exports through normal commercial channels. Transfers such products to the strategic materials and petroleum stock piles, respectively. Directs the Corporation to promote and coordinate such barter arrangements. Limits new spending authority under this Act to amounts appropriated. Sets forth financing and antitrust provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code dealing with the sexual exploitation of children. Increases the penalties for the sexual exploitation of children from $10,000 to $75,000 and, on a subsequent conviction, from $15,000 to $150,000. Establishes as an affirmative defense to prosecution that the medium (upon which such prosecution is based), when taken as a whole, possesses serious literary, artistic, scientific, social or educational value.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of July 24 through July 31, 1983, as National Animal Agriculture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Broadcast Licensing, Renewal, and Deregulation Act of 1983 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish new procedures for reviewing petitions to deny broadcast license applications. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station licensee unless the actions of the licensee evidences such serious disregard for the Communications Act and for the rules and policies of the FCC that denial of the application is justified. Prohibits the FCC from considering the applications of other persons for a broadcast station's facilities when the FCC is acting upon a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station. Permits persons holding construction permits or station licenses to transfer the permit or license without first obtaining an FCC finding that the transfer serves the public interest. Requires the FCC to be notified of such transfer. Provides for public notice of the transfer. Provides for disposition by the FCC of objections to such transfer. Prohibits the FCC from considering whether the public interest would be served by the transfer of the permit or license involved to a different person. Repeals certain provisions relating to the application of the antitrust laws. Prohibits the FCC from imposing requirements on radio or television licensees relating to: (1) programs; (2) programming formats; (3) ascertainment; (4) commercialization; and (5) maintenance of program logs.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Designates the week of September 25 through October 2, 1983, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Declares that the House of Representatives supports Solidarity Sunday.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union's policies of forced labor. Declares that the Soviet Union should cease such practices and honor their international commitments.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Commerce to approve or deny export license applications for crime control instruments and equipment in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary of State.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Designates the week of April 3 through April 9, 1983, as National Drug Abuse Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the family planning program under title X of the Public Health Service Act should be administered in the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the holding period for capital gains tax treatment from one year to six months.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Declares that the House of Representatives deplores the denial of the rights of Hungarians and people of other nationalities in Transylvania by the Romanian Government. Requests the President and the Secretary of State to discuss the human rights of the Hungarians in Transylvania with the Government of Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony. Redefines such offense as using a firearm to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a firearm during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "unlawfully". Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense to not less than five years' imprisonment for a first offense (currently, one to ten years) and ten years for a second or subsequent offense (currently, two to 25 years). Extends to first offenders the stipulations, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence, grant probation, or impose concurrent sentences. Makes a first offender ineligible for parole for five years and a second or subsequent offender ineligible for ten years. Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate July 16, 1983, as National Atomic Veterans' Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate Monday, April 4, 1983, as Swedish-American Friendship Day, in order to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Amity between Sweden and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Recognizes the pause for the Pledge of Allegiance as part of the celebration of National Flag Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Natural Gas Consumer Relief Act - Title I: Contracting and Marketing Practices - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to declare a take-or-pay clause of a pipeline contract to be against public policy and unenforceable for a three-year period: (1) to the extent that it requires a pipeline to make any payment with respect to natural gas in excess of 50 percent of the maximum annual volume the pipeline has contracted to take; or (2) if such clause does not entitle a pipeline which makes a payment under such clause to take delivery of the gas during the one year period beginning on the date of payments. Defines "take-or-pay clause" to mean any contract provision which requires payment for the minimum quantity of natural gas contracted for under the contract in the event the pipeline fails to take delivery. Permits a pipeline, in the case of a contract for the first sale of natural gas, to: (1) request the seller to renegotiate the contract; and (2) indicate that, if there is no renegotiation within 30 days of the request, the pipeline will exercise its market-out-option. Permits a pipeline exercising its market out option to refuse delivery without incurring an obligation to pay for any amount of natural gas contracted for if the pipeline in its sole discretion determines that it could not market the gas. Declares any indefinite price escalator clause applicable to the first sale of natural gas to be against public policy and unenforceable. Defines "indefinite price escalator clause" as any provision of any contract which provides for the establishment or adjustment of the price for natural gas delivered by reference to prices for natural gas, crude oil, or any other commodity. Prohibits a pipeline from passing through its costs if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) determines that the pipeline has failed to adopt practices minimizing amounts paid to purchase natural gas. Declares any minimum commodity beill requirement applicable to any sale of natural gas by any interstate or intrastate pipeline to be against public policy and unenforceable: (1) to the extent it requires the purchaser to make any payment with respect to natural gas in excess of 50 percent of the maximum annual volume the purchaser has contracted to take; or (2) if such requirement does not entitle a purchaser who makes a payment under such requirement to take delivery of the natural gas involved subsequent to the date of payment provided under the requirement. Directs FERC to order an interstate pipeline, upon application by a producer of natural gas or by a purchaser of natural gas from a producer, to carry natural gas, for a just and reasonable consideration, between the producer and purchaser if FERC finds that: (1) the pipeline has available capacity; (2) no undue burden would be placed upon such pipeline by reason of the order; (3) construction of new facilities would not be required; and (4) the order would not impair the ability of the pipeline to render adequate service to its other customers. Directs FERC to complete a rulemaking proceeding to issue standards for interstate pipeline tariffs. Directs FERC to require, by rule, a first-sale purchaser of natural gas to file a copy of the contract with FERC. Title II: Wellhead Price Provisions - Revises ceiling price provisions for natural gas. Provides that the ceiling price for categories other than high-cost gas shall be the January 1982 ceiling price multiplied by the monthly equivalent of the modified price adjustment factor. Defines the "modified price adjustment factor" for any month as the lower of: (1) 75 percent of the quarterly percent change in the GNP implicit price deflator (as defined in the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978); or (2) the percent change in the energy index, computed and published as an annual rate by the Department of Labor, for the most recent month for which such percent change has been so published at least eight days before the beginning of the month for which the modified price adjustment factor is being calculated. Provides that for high-cost gas the maximum lawful price for any first sale shall be 150 percent of the maximum lawful price for categories of gas other than high-cost gas. Provides for an adjusted ceiling price for wells drilled on or after January 1, 1982, and before enactment. Repeals provisions permitting increases in the ceiling price of certain categories of natural gas if just and reasonable. Provides, as a general rule, that the maximum lawful price applies with respect to the recovery of all costs and profits associated with production and first-sale delivery of marketable natural gas. Prohibits the importation of natural gas if the first sale price in the United States of the gas exceeds 150 percent of the maximum lawful price for domestically produced gas. Directs the President to submit to Congress a report on the status of negotiations with Canada regarding modification of the border price for natural gas imported from Canada. Extends price controls and standby authority for two years beyond their present expiration dates.