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United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal provisions which require the withholding of tax on interest and dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Designates October 1982 as Head Start Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to impose mandatory minimum sentences for committing violent felonies against individuals aged 65 or older. Prohibits suspended, probationary, and concurrent sentences. Prohibits parole and any plea bargaining agreements that would result in the defendant's serving less than the minimum sentence.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Disapproves the President's recommendation to extend the President's authority to waive the freedom of emigration requirements under the Trade Act of 1974 in order to extend the most-favored nation status of the People's Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Designates October 10 through October 16, 1982, as Freedom Week, USA.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1982
Missing Children Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to collect and exchange information which would assist in the identification of unidentified deceased individuals and the location of missing persons, including missing children.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that regulations recently proposed by the Secretary of Education under the Education of the Handicapped Act should not be permitted to take effect.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 29 through Septmber 4, 1982, as National Railroad Week and September 4, 1982, as National Railroad Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1982
Designates the week beginning September 20, 1982, as National Firefighters' Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1982
Reaffirms the commitment of the House of Representatives to the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Supports the continued recognition of such governments by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Expresses the support of the Congress for beginning strategic arms reductions talks. Urges the Soviet Union to join with the United States in concluding an equitable and verifiable agreement which freezes strategic nuclear forces at equal and substantially reduced levels. Reaffirms congressional support for the position that the United States should not enter into an arms agreement which provides for force levels inferior to those of the Soviet Union. Declares that the United States should propose practical measures to: (1) reduce the danger of accidental nuclear war; (2) prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties, including terrorists; and (3) halt the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Insists that any arms control agreement must be fully verifiable.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Permits employee benefit plans, as defined under this Act, to engage in any qualified mortgage transaction involving any qualified residential mortgage loan, provided transactions between all parties are at arm's length. Permits such plans to participate in any mortgage pool, provided such pool conforms to specified requirements with regard to permitted investments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any and all contrary provisions of State law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits the imposition of Federal excise tax on a plan or pool that engages in a transaction described under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the termination of disability benefits in the case of an individual who has been found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits and who has requested reconsideration of such determination. Provides for the continued payment of such benefits until the reconsideration has been completed and such determination has been upheld or until the end of the sixth month after the month in which the initial eligibility determination was made, whichever is earlier. Requires that an initial disability determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is unfavorable to the disability benefit applicant, contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence and the basis for the Secretary's decision. Entitles the applicant or the applicant's spouse, surviving spouse, former spouse, surviving divorced mother, child, or parent to reconsideration of such an initial determination upon request and upon a showing that his or her rights may be prejudiced by the determination. Entitles an individual who requests a reconsideration to a new disability determination. Authorizes the State agency which made the initial disability determination to make the new disability determination during the reconsideration process: (1) after notification to the Secretary; (2) in accordance with the rules governing disability determinations; and (3) after opportunity for an evidentiary hearing at which the individual requesting the reconsideration and the individual (if different) whose disability is in question shall have a right to appear. Requires that a reconsideration by the Secretary which is unfavorable to the individual requesting the reconsideration contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence and the basis for the Secretary's decision. Continues Medicare entitlement for a disabled qualified railroad retirement beneficiary who is appealing the termination of his or her benefits until such individual has exhausted all possible administrative remedies. Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress quarterly reports on: (1) the number of eligibility reviews carried out under title II; (2) the number of initial benefit termination decisions resulting from such reviews; (3) the number of benefit termination decisions with respect to which reconsideration or a hearing is requested; and (4) the number of benefit termination decisions which are overturned at the reconsideration or hearing level.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Designates the week beginning on October 24, 1982, as National Parkinson's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia, or its environs, in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean war. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commisson of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 1 through August 7, 1982, as National Purple Heart Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of April 17 through April 23, 1983, as National Coin Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Prohibits economic assistance to Warsaw Pact countries until the Soviet Union has signed a nuclear arms limitation agreement. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) private commercial interests in the United States should refrain from making loans to Warsaw Pact countries until the Soviet Union has signed a nuclear arms limitation agreement; (2) the United States should not help if such loans are made and result in defaults; and (3) the President should seek agreements with our allies to halt the flow of economic assistance to Warsaw Pact countries until the Soviet Union has signed a nuclear arms limitation agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Limits the outside earned income of Senators to $18,000 per calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Designates the Federal building in Lima, Ohio, as the Tennyson Guyer Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act -- Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of such a veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify each member of the armed forces that their dependents will be ineligible for such benefits should the member die after the applicable date, in no case later than August 13, 1983. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the Secretary concerned with information necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Social Security Benefits Restoration Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make monthly payments to persons who: (1) would have been entitled to child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act as in effect before the amendments made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; and (2) are children of individuals who were members or former members of the Armed Forces before August 13, 1981, and who die while in active military service within a specified time period or who die from a service-connected disability incurred within a specified time period. Provides that such monthly payments shall be equal to the monthly child's insurance benefit to which such persons would have been entitled under title II of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary to make monthly payments to persons who: (1) are surviving spouses of individuals who were members or former members of the Armed Forces before August 13, 1981, and who die while in active military service during a specified time period or who die from a service-connected disability within a specified time period; and (2) are not entitled to mother's insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act because they are caring for such veterans' children who are between the ages of 16 and 18 and are entitled to child's insurance benefits. Provides that such monthly payments shall be equal to the monthly mother's insurance benefit which such persons would receive under title II of the Social Security Act if the children in their care were under 16 years old. Provides that payments under this Act shall be paid from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Grants a Federal charter to the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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