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United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage for anesthesia services and related care provided by a registered nurse anesthetist.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Designates October 1985 as Learning Disabilities Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) recognition and commendation be extended to the Holstein-Friesian Association of America for its most noteworthy contribution to the American agricultural revolution; (2) special commendation be extended to such Association for its contribution to the genetic advancement and the efficiency of the national dairy herd; (3) such Association be specifically complimented on the advancement of the Holstein breed of dairy cattle in the United States and the contribution being made through its genetic pool of purebred, registered animals to the advancement of the Holstein breed worldwide; and (4) all such recognition and commendation be extended on the occasion of such Association's centennial anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into agreements with the State of Illinois or appropriate units of local government to permit the joint use of Scott Air Force Base for military and civilian aviation purposes. Renames Scott Air Force Base as the Mel Price Air Force Base and Airport Illinois.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Designates the week of May 11 through May 17, 1985, as Handicapped Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Health Services Amendments Act of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prescribe criteria for determining the specific shortages of personal health services of an area or population group. Prohibits the Secretary from designating a medically underserved population or removing such designation unless the following are given notice and provided an opportunity for comment: (1) the chief executive officer of the State; (2) the local officials in the State; and (3) the State organization which represents a majority of community health centers in the State. Permits the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of agreement with a State. Provides that such memorandum may include provisions permitting the State to: (1) analyze the need for primary health services for medically underserved populations; (2) assist in the planning and development of new community health centers; (3) review and comment upon annual program plans and budgets of community health centers; (4) assist community health centers in the development of clinical practices and fiscal and administrative systems; and (5) share information and data. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for such purposes. Limits the expenditure of such appropriations. Repeals the primary care block grant program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for migrant health centers.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1985 - Amends title XIII (Health Maintenance Organizations) of the Public Health Service Act to repeal provisions authorizing assistance for feasibility surveys, planning, and initial development of health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Limits initial operating loan assistance to entities with existing loan eligibility as of October 1, 1985. Eliminates loans and loan guarantees for the acquisition and construction of ambulatory care facilities. Limits the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to borrow through the loan guarantee fund to obligations made before October 1, 1985. Repeals the requirements for: (1) health system agency review; (2) periodic demonstration of compliance; and (3) certain financial reports. Requires updates of the digest of State HMO laws to be made annually (presently required quarterly). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 to meet the obligations of the loan fund. Includes organ transplants as part of the basic coverage if such transplants were required to be included in the basic health services on April 15, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the administration should comply with the automatic appropriation and earmarking provisions of the Wallop/Breaux Sport Fish Restoration Trust Fund. States that funds owed to the States from such Fund should not be withheld or delayed.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
McIntyre House Reform Amendments - Title I - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee, not later than March 1 in the first session of a Congress, to adopt its oversight plans in a meeting open to the public. Requires the committees to submit such plans to the Committee on Government Operations, which shall, not later than March 15 in the first session of a Congress, report such plans to the House with recommendations. Authorizes the Speaker of the House to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more committees. Amends rule XI to require each committee to include in its biennial report to the House a separate section summarizing its legislative and oversight activities during that Congress. Directs the Speaker of the House to initially refer each bill, resolution, or other matter to one committee of principal jurisdiction. Eliminates the Speaker's authority to refer any such matter initially to two or more committees for concurrent consideration. Requires standing committees to be elected by the House not later than five legislative days after the convening of each Congress. Requires each committee to hold its organizational meeting not later than eight legislative days after the commencement of a Congress. Requires the membership of each committee, select committee, and conference committee (and each subcommittee, task force, or subunit thereof) to reflect the ratio of majority to minority Members. Provides that such ratio be reflected for standing committees at the beginning of each Congress, and for select and conference committees at the time of appointment. Prohibits any standing committee from establishing more than six subcommittees, and any Member serving at any one time on more than four subcommittees. Defines subcommittee as any subunit of a standing committee established for a period of more than six months. Requires that motions to recess or adjourn be approved by the majority of committee members present. Prohibits the vote by any member of any committee or subcommittee from being cast by proxy. Provides that a majority of members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. Requires committee documents (other than reports on bills and resolutions) prepared for public distribution to: (1) be approved by such committee and an opportunity afforded for the inclusion of supplemental, minority, or additional views; or (2) contain a disclaimer in bold face type on its cover and not include the names of committee members. Exempts from such requirement committee documents that do not contain opinions, views, findings, or recommendations. Requires a committee chairman to consult with the ranking minority committee member and the appropriate subcommittee chairman before filing committee reports. Prohibits the issuance of subpoenas if the House is in recess or has adjourned. Requires the Committee on Rules, when reporting measures waiving a House rule, to include: (1) an explanation of and justification for such waiver; and (2) a summary of comments received from the Committee on the Budget regarding any proposed waiver of any provision of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Prohibits the House from considering any primary expense resolution until the Committee on House Administration has reported and the House has adopted a resolution establishing committee staff personnel ceilings for the year. Requires such committee to specify in any primary or supplemental expense resolution the number of staff positions authorized therein, of which not less than one-third shall be selected by minority party members. Authorizes the House to consider any supplemental expense resolution in excess of such ceiling by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present. Prohibits, in the second session of the 99th Congress, the overall ceiling for majority or minority committee staff from exceeding 90 percent of such staff employed at the end of the 98th Congress. Prohibits a standing committee from engaging a consultant or appointing a temporary staff except by majority vote, a quorum being present. Amends rule XXI to remove provisions relating to the retrenchment of expenditures in appropriation bill amendments. Amends rule XXVII to prohibit the suspension of rules to consider any matter except by the direction of the committee of jurisdiction, or at the written request of the appropriate chairman or ranking minority member. Prohibits the suspension of rules to consider: (1) any matter which would authorize budget or spending authority in excess of $50,000,000; or (2) any joint resolution proposing to amend the Constitution. Requires notice in the Congressional Record of any matter under a suspension of rules at least one day before its scheduled consideration. Requires the Clerk of the House to maintain for public inspection a copy of a discharge motion, after 100 Members have signed such motion. Amends rule XXXIV to require official reporters of the House, including committee stenographers, to take down verbatim accounts of words spoken in the House and committees. Requires that such accounts be printed in the Congressional Record or the committee transcript with only typographical, technical, or grammatical corrections authorized by the Member delivering such remarks. Prohibits substantive alteration of such accounts and provides for the extension of remarks and extraneous material in the Record. Establishes rule LI to provide for television and radio coverage of House proceedings. Establishes the House Broadcast System to provide complete and unedited audio and visual broadcast coverage of chamber proceedings while the House is in session. Prohibits the restriction of broadcast coverage except as directed in an adopted resolution or when rule XXIX (secret session) is invoked. Vests in the Speaker of the House the responsibility for implementing rule LI. Establishes a Broadcast Advisory Board, consisting of majority and minority party Members, to assist the Speaker. Vests the daily operation and supervision of the broadcast system in the Executive Committee of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries. Authorizes appropriations to carry out rule LI. Declares such rule inapplicable to joint congressional sessions. Provides access to the live coverage of House proceedings to: (1) accredited television and broadcast stations, networks, services, systems (including cable systems), and radio and television correspondents; (2) Member and committee offices; and (3) such other places as the Speaker deems appropriate. Prohibits commercial sponsorship as part of the broadcast coverage, the use of such coverage in commercial advertisements, and the use of such coverage as partisan campaign material. Requires the Archivist of the United States to arrange for the recording, permanent maintenance, and viewing of such coverage for reference and research purposes. Establishes rule LII to require any task force of the Committee on House Administration that is responsible for the investigation of a disputed election to be bipartisan. Establishes rule LIII to require that one-third of committee office space be assigned to minority party committee members. Title II: Additional Reform Proposals - Directs the Committee on Rules to investigate rules X and XI with respect to revising committee operations, oversight, rules and procedures, reducing staff, subcommittees, and Member subcommittee assignments. Requires a report, by resolution, not later than the end of the first session of the 99th Congress. Directs the Speaker of the House to study and implement a scheduling system of full workweeks with regular periods for committee meetings, hearings, and House sessions for the consideration of legislation. Directs the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards to study the current operation of the franking privilege with a view to identifying abuses and achieving a cost savings.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Health Research Extension Act of 1985 - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966) consisting of the following 13 categorical institutes: (1) the National Cancer Institute; (2) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; (3) the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; (4) the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; (5) the National Institute on Aging; (6) the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (7) the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (8) the National Institute of Dental Research; (9) the National Eye Institute; (10) the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (11) the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; (12) the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and (13) the National Institute of Nursing. Establishes as agencies within NIH: (1) the National Library of Medicine; (2) the Division of Research Resources; and (3) the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional research institutes. Permits the Secretary to reorganize the functions of any national research institute and abolish any such institute if it is no longer required. Provides that the NIH shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires the Secretary to transmit a biennial report, prepared by the Director, to the President and the Congress. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the President, and the Directors of the other national research institutes shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute). Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts and make grants for research, training, and demonstrations. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each institute. Sets forth the duties of such advisory councils. Requires the Director of each institute to prepare a biennial report. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Cancer Institute. Requires the Director to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on cancer. Authorizes the Director to: (1) establish and support the production and distribution of specialized biological materials and therapeutic substances for cancer research, and set safety standards for the use of such materials; (2) support cancer research by foreign nationals outside the United States, encourage collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, and train American scientists abroad and foreign nationals in the United States; (3) support education and training programs; (4) coordinate cancer research by industrial concerns; (5) hire experts and consultants; (6) acquire, repair, and construct facilities; (7) appoint advisory committees; (8) enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions; (9) maintain and operate the International Cancer Research Data Bank; and (10) submit an annual budget estimate to the President. Allows the Director to enter into cooperative agreements and make grants to establish cancer research and demonstration centers. Extends the period of support for such centers to five years (with additional extensions of not more than five years). Establishes membership requirements for the President's Cancer Panel. Establishes an Assistant Director for Prevention in the National Cancer Institute. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Lists the goals of the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources Program. Allows the Director of the Institute to: (1) hire experts and consultants; (2) acquire, repair, and construct facilities; and (3) make grants to the public and nonprofit private entities to assist in meeting the cost of patient care. Provides for the development of centers for research, training, and demonstrations of specified diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods, including: (1) ten for heart and blood vessel diseases; (2) ten for lung diseases; (3) ten for blood diseases; and (4) ten for sickle cell anemia. Directs the Secretary to establish an Interagency Technical Committee on Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources. Establishes an Assistant Director for Prevention in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Requires the Director to establish: (1) the National Diabetes Data System; (2) the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse; (3) the National Digestive Diseases Data System; (4) the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse; (5) the National Kidney and Urologic Data System; and (6) the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Establishes positions of Division Director for: (1) Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases; (2) Digestive Diseases and Nutrition; and (3) Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee; (2) a Digestive Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee; and (3) a Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases Coordinating Committee. Requires such committees to prepare annual reports for the Director of NIH, the Secretary, and the Advisory Board established under this Act for the related disease. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) the National Diabetes Advisory Board; (2) the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; and (3) the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. Provides for the composition, purposes, and duties of such advisory boards. Requires each advisory board to prepare an annual report for the Secretary. Provides for the expiration of each advisory board on September 30, 1986. Terminates the existing National Diabetes Advisory Board and National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board upon the appointment of a successor board. Provides for the development or substantial expansion of centers for research and training in: (1) diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic diseases; (2) digestive diseases and related functional, congenital, metabolic disorders, and normal development of the digestive tract; and (3) kidney and urologic diseases. States that support for such centers shall be for a period of up to five years (with additional extensions of up to five years). States the general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Requires the Director of the Institute to prepare a plan for a national arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases program. Establishes the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Data System, and the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Establishes the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee, and the Skin Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee. Requires each such committee to prepare annual reports. Authorizes the Director to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities to establish arthritis and musculoskeletal demonstration projects. Provides for the development, modernization, and operation of new and existing centers for arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases. States that support for such centers shall be for a period of up to five years (with additional extensions of up to five years). Establishes the National Arthritis Advisory Board. Provides for the composition, purposes and duties of such Board. Requires such Board to prepare an annual report for the Secretary. Terminates the existing National Arthritis Advisory Board upon the appointment of the successor board. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute on Aging. Requires the Director of the Institute to make grants to public and nonprofit private institutions to conduct research relating to Alzheimer's disease. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Requires the Director to conduct and support research relating to sudden infant death syndrome. Requires the Director to make grants for research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of mental retardation. Establishes the position of Assistant Director for Prevention in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Dental Research and the National Eye Institute. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. Requires the Director to: (1) conduct and support research into spinal cord regeneration; and (2) make grants or enter into contracts for research on the means to overcome paralysis of the extremities through electrical stimulation and the use of computers. States the general purpose of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute of Nursing. Authorizes the Director to provide research traineeships and fellowships in the study and investigation of the prevention of disease, health promotion, and nursing care. Sets forth the general purpose and functions of the National Library of Medicine. Authorizes appropriations for library facilities. Establishes the National Medical Libraries Assistance Advisory Board. Directs the Secretary to make grants for: (1) training in medical library sciences; (2) special scientific projects and research in medical library sciences; (3) establishing and expanding the resources of medical libraries; (4) the establishment of regional medical libraries; and (5) financial support of biomedical scientific publications. Sets forth the purposes of: (1) the Division of Research Resources; and (2) the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. Authorizes appropriations for National Research Service Awards through FY 1986. Directs the Secretary to make Visiting Scientist Awards. Directs the Secretary to study the need for and training of biomedical and behavioral research personnel. Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences to conduct such study. Requires that a report on the results of such study be transmitted to specified congressional committees biennially. Requires grant or contract recipients to establish a board to review research involving human subjects. Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for periodic, technical, and scientific peer review of NIH research. Requires grant or contract recipients to establish an administrative process to review reports of scientific fraud. Provides for expedited grant procedures in cases of public health emergencies. Requires an annual report to appropriate congressional committees regarding such actions. Directs the Secretary to establish animal research standards, including the formation of animal care committees. Requires grant and contract recipients to meet such standards. Prohibits the conduct or support of research or experimentation on a living human fetus ex utero unless such research or experimentation: (1) may enhance the well-being of the fetus; or (2) will pose no additional risk of suffering, injury, or death and such knowledge cannot be obtained by other means. Requires the Biomedical Ethics Board to report to appropriate congressional committees on the implications of any waiver of the risk standard for protection of human research subjects as applied to fetal research. Requires the Director of NIH to establish a plan for research into methods of biomedical research and experimentation which: (1) does not require the use of animals; (2) reduces the number of animals used; or (3) produces less pain and distress to such animals. Establishes the Lupus Erythematosus Coordinating Committee to plan, develop, coordinate, and implement research on lupus erythematosus. Requires the Committee to report to the Congress within 18 months after the effective date of this Act. Provides for the termination of such Committee. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the National Research Service Award and report the results of such study to appropriate congressional committees. Establishes the Interagency Committee on Spinal Cord Injury. Requires the Committee to report to the Congress within 18 months after the effective date of this Act. Provides for the termination of such Committee. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study on the adequacy and availability of personnel to meet the needs of the elderly. Requires the Secretary to report the findings of such study to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1, 1986. Establishes the Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities. Requires the Committee to report to the Congress within 18 months after the effective date of this Act. Provides for the termination of such Committee. Establishes the National Commission on Orphan Diseases to assess public and private rare disease activities. Requires the Commission to report to the Congress by September 30, 1988. Terminates such Committee 90 days after submitting such report. Directs the Secretary to review the disease research programs of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to determine whether such research could be more effectively done by other institutes. Establishes the Biomedical Ethics Board to report to the Congress on the ethical issues arising from the delivery of health care and biomedical research. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Health Professions Educational Assistance Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1988 for the following: (1) the Federal health education loan insurance program; (2) health professions student loans; (3) scholarships for students of exceptional financial need; (4) medical school departments of family medicine; (5) area health education centers; (6) training of physician assistants; (7) training programs in general internal medicine and general pediatrics; (8) training programs in family medicine and the general practice of dentistry; (9) educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; (10) conversion and curriculum grants; (11) graduate programs in health administration; (12) traineeships for students in specified graduate programs; (13) public health traineeships; and (14) grants for training in preventive medicine. Extends the authorization of appropriations through FY 1987 for assistance to schools of medicine and other health related professions in serious financial distress. Includes schools of chiropractic as health profession schools eligible to participate in educational assistance programs for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Amends the definition of physician assistants to require an individual trained as such to be qualified to provide primary health care under the supervision of a physician and to have training in disease prevention, health promotion, geriatric medicine, and home health care. Includes colleges and institutions providing additional training in a science related to health care within the definition of a school of allied health. Defines the term "graduate program in clinical psychology" for the purpose of such Act. Makes such programs eligible for the educational assistance program for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Changes the composition of the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use funds appropriated under such Act to provide technical assistance for any authority under such Act. Provides for the recovery of Federal construction assistance under specified circumstances. Requires the transferor of a facility which received such assistance to notify the Secretary of the sale, transfer, or change of use. Prescribes a formula for determining the recoverable amount. Allows the Secretary to waive such recovery for good cause. Requires eligible borrowers under the health education assistance loan program (HEAL) and the health professions student loan program to submit to registration under the Military Selective Service Act. Provides that the repayment of HEAL loans shall begin nine to 12 months after the borrower: (1) ceases to be a participant in an accredited internship or residency program of not more than four years in duration; (2) completes the fourth year of an accredited internship or residency program of more than four years in duration; (3) ceases to carry a full-time academic workload; or (4) ceases to be a participant in a fellowship training program. Allows a two-year (formerly three-year) deferral for service as a full-time volunteer under title I of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Prescribes the method for determining interest on such loans. Makes students in public or nonprofit schools of public health, chiropractic, or in an accredited graduate program in clinical psychology eligible for health professions student loans. Requires matching funds for the Federal contribution to loans for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Provides for the repayment of such loans to begin one year after the student ceases to pursue a full-time course of study. Allows deferrals for: (1) up to three years for uniformed service or service under the Peace Corps Act; (2) internships and residencies; or (3) up to two years for full-time educational activity directly related to the health profession for which that individual is preparing. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to carry out such Act. Allows a school to assess a charge to cover the costs of insuring against the cancellation of such loan. Allows the school to impose a penalty of up to six percent of the installment payment for the failure to make such payment when due. Authorizes the Secretary to collect any loan under such Act which is in default. Directs the school to make specified loan information available to student borrowers. Requires the Secretary to provide the school with notice of the intention to terminate an agreement under such Act. Provides procedures for appealing such terminations. Provides a stipend of $400 per month for students receiving scholarships for first-year students of exceptional financial need. Limits such scholarship award to the costs of attending a particular educational institution. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of public health for the support of education programs. Describes the method for determining the amount of such a grant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for such grants. Imposes certain eligibility requirements for receiving such grants. Gives priority for family medicine instruction grants to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to family medicine. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy for specified programs through area health education centers. Gives priority for grants for training, traineeships, and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to general internal medicine and general pediatrics in their medical education training programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the planning, development, and operation of approved advanced educational programs in the general practice of dentistry. Gives priority for such grants to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to family medicine in their medical education training program. Includes public and nonprofit schools of chiropractic and schools with graduate programs in clinical psychology as eligible to participate in the program of education assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools which provide the first or last two years of education leading to the doctor of medicine or osteopathy. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts for the following projects: (1) health promotion and disease prevention; and (2) curriculum development and training in health policy and policy analysis. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of veterinary medicine for: (1) the development of curriculum for training in the care of animals used in research; (2) the provision of such training; and (3) large animal care and research. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts with schools seeking advanced financial distress assistance that submit a plan to achieve financial solvency within six (previously five) years. Eliminates the following current programs; (1) advanced funding; (2) grants for family medicine, training, traineeships, and fellowships, and computer health care demonstrations; (3) education of returning U.S. students from foreign medical schools; (4) occupational health training and education centers; and (5) financial distress grants. Directs the Secretary to include in the report scheduled for October 1, 1987, an analysis of the financial disincentives to graduates of health professions schools which affect the specialty of practice chosen or the decision to practice in an area which lacks an adequate number of health care professionals, and recommendations to correct any such disincentives. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine if health professions schools comply with the Military Selective Service Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the delivery of inpatient and outpatient health care services to homeless individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Allowable Cost Reform Act - Requires that a contract with the Department of Defense for an amount more than $25,000 that is flexibly priced or for which certain cost or pricing data is required must: (1) disallow certain costs; and (2) impose a penalty on a contractor who submits a claim for reimbursement of such a cost. Provides that the following costs are disallowed under such a contract: (1) costs of amusement and social activities; (2) costs incurred to influence action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before the Congress; (3) costs of the defense of any fraud proceeding; (4) fines and penalties imposed for noncompliance with Federal, State, or local laws and regulatons; (5) costs of memberships in any social or dining club or organization; (6) alcoholic beverages; (7) contributions or donations; (8) advertising; and (9) models, gifts, souvenirs, or other memorabilia. Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue regulations concerning the allowability of contractor costs. Requires the Secretary to submit to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees a report identifying: (1) the nature of the proposed changes to be made to current cost principles; and (2) the potential effect of such changes on future requests for reimbursement of contractor costs. Requires the Secretary to allow resolution of challenged expenses by negotiation and settlement. Requires the Secretaries of the military departments and the Directors of the Defense Agencies to prescribe regulations to limit to five years the duty assignment for certain contracting officials to any particular contractor.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons to participate in voluntary prayer in public schools or institutions. States that no person shall be required by the United States or by any State to participate in prayer. Prohibits the United States or any State from composing words of prayer to be said in the public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1985
Amends title X (Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for family planning services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for personnel training. States that such training shall include clinical training for obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners and training for educators and counsellors. Repeals existing formula grant provisions. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and make grants and contracts for contraceptive development and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. States that research grants and contracts may be made to improve the clinical management and direct delivery of family planning services. Declares that informational and educational grants and contracts may be made for projects regarding pregnancy, human sexuality, and parenthood. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to collect data annually on: (1) the numbers and age, sex, race, and family income of persons who receive family planning services; (2) the types of services chosen; (3) the number of low-income individuals and teenagers at risk of unintended pregnancies; and (4) the sources of funding for subsidized family planning services in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or contracts for such data collection. Requires such information to be made available to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Medicare Vision Reform Act of 1985 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for all services provided by a doctor of optometry. (Current law permits coverage for optometric services only if related to the condition of aphakia). Requires payment for optometric services to be made on the basis of an assignment.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Orphan Drug Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to repeal the requirement that exclusive marketing rights may only be granted to an orphan drug (a drug used in the treatment of a rare disease or condition) if the drug is not patentable. Establishes a National Commission on Orphan Diseases to assess the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, other public agencies, and private entities in connection with: (1) basic research relating to rare diseases; (2) the use in research on rare diseases of knowledge developed in other research; (3) applied and clinical research relating to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of rare diseases; and (4) the dissemination of knowledge developed in research relating to rare diseases. Requires the Commission to submit a report by September 30, 1987, to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to each House of the Congress containing the Commission's findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Makes funds available to the Commission. Terminates the Commission 90 days after the date of such report. Amends the Orphan Drug Act to allow Federal grants and contracts for animal and human clinical testing of orphan drugs. Authorizes appropriations for such grants and contracts for FY 1986 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Health Services Amendments Act of 1985 - Title I: Health Maintenance Organizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to eliminate the authorization for the following grants and contracts for health maintenance organizations (HMOs): (1) feasibility surveys; (2) planning; and (3) initial development costs. Permits loans and loan guarantees for the initial operating costs of HMOs only to those organizations which received a grant or loan or entered into a contract with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in FY 1981 through 1985. Eliminates authority for loans and loan guarantees for the acquisition and construction of ambulatory health care facilities. Eliminates from financial assistance application requirements the requirement for health systems agency review. Limits borrowing by the loan guarantee fund to cover only guarantees made by the Secretary prior to October 1, 1985. Eliminates the requirement that HMOs periodically demonstrate their compliance with certain quality standards. Directs the Secretary to update the digest of State laws relating to HMOs annually (formerly quarterly). Eliminates specified reporting provisions. Extends the authorization of appropriations through FY 1989 for grants for training and technical assistance. Title II: Primary Care -Directs the Secretary to prescribe criteria for determining the specific shortages of personal health services of an area or population group. Prohibits the Secretary from designating a medically underserved population or removing such a determination unless the following are given notice and provided an opportunity for comment: (1) the chief executive officer of the State; (2) local officers in the State; and (3) the State organization which represents a majority of community health centers in such State. Permits the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of agreement with a State. Provides that such memorandum may include provisions permitting such State to: (1) analyze the need for primary health services for medically underserved populations; (2) assist in the planning and development of new community health centers; (3) review and comment upon annual program plans and budgets of community health centers; (4) assist communities in the development of clinical practices and fiscal and administrative systems; and (5) share information and data. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for such purposes. Limits the expenditure of such appropriations. Repeals the primary care block grant program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for migrant health centers. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an exemption from the minimum tax for capital gains on sales of farm property by insolvent farmers.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
Amends title X (Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for family planning services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for personnel training. States that such personnel training shall include clinical training for obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners and training for educators and counsellors. Repeals existing formula grant provisions. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and make grants and contracts for contraceptive development and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. States that research grants and contracts may be made for improving the clinical management and direct delivery of family planning services. Authorizes the Secretary to make informational and educational grants and contracts available for projects respecting pregnancy, human sexuality, and parenthood. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to collect data annually on: (1) the numbers and age, sex, and family income of persons who receive family planning services; (2) the types of services chosen; (3) the number of low-income persons and teenagers at risk of unintended pregnancies; and (4) the sources of funding for subsidized family planning services in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or contracts for such data collection. Requires that such information be made available to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
National Health Service Corps Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize FY 1986 through 1988 appropriations for the National Health Service Corps Program. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1991 for new and continuing National Health Service Corps scholarships. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from removing an area from those determined to be health manpower shortage areas under such Act until interested groups and persons are afforded the opportunity to provide data and information. Provides, with regard to scholarship-obligated service deferrals for advanced clinical training, that the Secretary: (1) shall grant deferrals upon requests for contracts entered into before October 1, 1985; (2) may grant such deferrals for contracts entered into after such date; and (3) shall not count such periods of advanced training toward satisfying the service obligation. Revises special private practice assistance provisions to: (1) limit such assistance to loans (presently grants and loans); (2) extend the minimum obligated service period from one to two years; and (3) apply such provisions to obligated- and unobligated-service National Health Service Corps members. Requires the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees by October 1, 1986, a plan for the recruitment, employment, and retention of personnel for the National Health Service Corps. Authorizes the Secretary to assist States in collecting data related to the designation of health manpower shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
FDA Approval Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved new drugs to include on their label the statement "FDA Approved." Requires that such a drug include such statement on its label if it is manufactured after the 18-month period following the enactment of this Act. Permits the use of such statement in the drugs' advertising and any labeling.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
Health Services Amendments Act of 1985 - Title I: Health Maintenance Organizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to eliminate the authorization for the following grants and contracts for health maintenance organizations (HMOs): (1) feasibility surveys; (2) planning; and (3) initial development costs. Permits loans and loan guarantees for the initial operating costs of HMOs only to those organizations which received a grant, or loan, or entered into a contract with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in FY 1981 through 1985. Eliminates authority for loans and loan guarantees for the acquisition and construction of ambulatory health care facilities. Eliminates from financial assistance application requirements the requirement for health systems agency review. Limits borrowing by the loan guarantee fund to cover only guarantees made by the Secretary prior to October 1, 1985. Eliminates the requirement that HMOs periodically demonstrate their compliance with certain quality standards. Directs the Secretary to update the digest of State laws relating to HMOs annually (formerly quarterly). Eliminates specified reporting provisions. Extends the authorization of appropriations through FY 1989 for: (1) grants for training and technical assistance; and (2) meeting the obligations of the loan fund. Title II: Primary Care - Directs the Secretary to prescribe criteria for determining the specific shortages of personal health services of an area or population group. Prohibits the Secretary from designating a medically underserved population or removing such a determination unless the following are given notice and provided an opportunity for comment: (1) the chief executive officer of the State; (2) local officers in the State; and (3) the State organization which represents a majority of community health centers in such State. Permits the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of agreement with a State. Provides that such memorandum may include provisions permitting such State to: (1) analyze the need for primary health services for medically underserved populations; (2) assist in the planning and development of new community health centers; (3) review and comment upon annual program plans and budgets of community health centers; (4) assist communities in the development of clinical practices and fiscal and administrative systems; and (5) share information and data. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for such purposes. Limits the expenditure of such appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make payments under allotments to States for: (1) improving access to primary health services for medically underserved populations; (2) improve the delivery of primary health services; and (3) improve the health status of medically underserved populations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 for such purposes. Sets forth a formula for determining the amounts to be allotted to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for each fiscal year. Provides that such grants may be used for: (1) providing primary health services to medically underserved populations; (2) research and demonstrations; and (3) developing methods to evaluate medical health services. Prohibits the use of such allotments for: (1) certain administrative purposes; (2) providing inpatient care; (3) cash payments to intended recipients of health services; (4) the purchase or improvement of land, buildings, or other facilities; (5) the purchase of major medical equipment; (6) satisfying any requirement for the expenditure of non-Federal funds; and (7) providing financial assistance to any entity which is not a public or nonprofit entity. Requires each State wishing to receive such an allotment to submit an application to the Secretary. Describes the application procedure. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for migrant health centers. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Rural Electrification Program must continue to provide financing and technical assistance at reasonable cost; and (2) the people of the United States and Federal and State governmental agencies should commemorate the Rural Electrification Administration on its 50th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Korean War Memorial Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to erect and maintain a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Korean War. Subjects the selected site, design, and plans for the construction of such memorial to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Designates November 30, 1985, as National Mark Twain Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Perot Commission on Americans Missing in Southeast Asia to conduct an investigation and report to the Congress its findings with respect to the existence and the release of prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Sets forth specified administrative procedures and powers of the Commission. Requires the Commission to terminate 30 days after the filing of its report to the Congress or on January 3, 1987, whichever occurs first.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Food, Drug, and Device Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to combine into a single class I those medical devices currently in class I (for which general controls are sufficient) and class II (for which performance standards are required). Redesignates current class III devices (devices for which premarket approval is required) as class II. Revises procedures for establishing medical device performance standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish performance standards for any medical device regardless of its classification. (Under present law, the Secretary may establish performance standards only for class II devices.) Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards by informal notice-and-comment rulemaking in consultation with an appropriate advisory committee. Allows the Secretary to obtain injunctions against the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit drugs and the making, selling, or concealing of the equipment used to make counterfeit drugs. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary, upon request of a manufacturer, certify batches of antibiotics for conformity to applicable standards of identity strength, quality, and purity. Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal requirements that the Secretary: (1) study and report to the Congress on State and Federal control of health hazards from electronic product radiation; and (2) submit an annual report on the administration of the electronic product radiation control program. Repeals the Filled Milk Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal honoring George Gershwin to his sister, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, and a gold medal honoring Ira Gershwin to his widow, Lenore Gershwin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1985
Prohibits imports of beef, bananas, or sugar from Nicaragua until the President finds that the policies of the Nicaraguan Government regarding opposition to the resistance forces and a democratic government are consistent with its obligations under the terms of the Nicaraguan revolution and the promises made to the Organization of American States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1985
Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to include in the Agency's study of the cumulative effect of substances on the stratosphere, particularly, the ozone, the effects of other trace gases. Grants priority in such study to increasing and improving measurements of ozone and other chemical species in the atmosphere that would indicate potential trends in actual ozone. Grants priority in other studies and research to a quantitative analysis of any effects of statospheric changes on human health, crops, and the ecosystem. Directs the Administrator to contract triennially with the National Academy of Sciences to study and evaluate changes in the ozone and their effects. Requires the Academy to report triennially to the Administrator and to the Congress on the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and its causes and implications. Requires that other Federal agency studies concerned with the stratosphere be continued, with an emphasis on studying and monitoring any changes in the ozone and their effects. Directs the President to enter into international agreements to reach consensus on the causes of and responses to the ozone problem. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the status of such efforts. Directs the Administrator to regulate chlorofluorocarbons only if they are determined to be causing a dangerous depletion in the ozone and such regulation is feasible and cost-effective.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1985
Soil Conservation Act of 1985 - Makes any person who cultivates crops on highly erodible land ineligible as to those crops for: (1) price supports or payments; (2) farm storage facility loans; (3) crop insurance; (4) disaster payments; or (5) specified other agricultural loans. Exempts crops planted: (1) on land cultivated from 1976 through 1985; (2) before enactment of this Act; (3) under specified conservation systems; or (4) in reliance on a Soil Conservation Service determination that such land was not highly erodible. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to complete certain soil capability surveys as soon as practicable. Directs the Secretary to establish a conservation reserve program to assist producers in conserving soil and water resources on highly erodible land. Directs the Secretary through FY 1990 to enter into long-term (ten years or more) contracts under which the Secretary shall pay an annual fee, share conservation costs, and provide technical assistance in return for converting such cropland into less intensive use such as pasture, permanent grass, or trees. Limits annual payments to any one person to $50,000. Directs the Secretary to provide safeguards to protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1985
Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to prohibit using title XX grants for any child care services unless: (1) the State has established and is enforcing appropriate out-of-home child care standards; and (2) such services meet the standards so established. Sets forth specific areas of concern that a State's standards must address.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1985
Food Assistance and Africa Agriculture Act of 1985 - Title I: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for: (1) the International Fund for Agricultural Development; and (2) the International Fund for Agricultural Development for its Special Program for Sub-Saharan Countries Affected by Drought and Desertification for each of FY 1986 through 1989. Title II: Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1986 - Makes appropriations for FY 1986 for: (1) expenses for agricultural commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad pursuant to the famine relief provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; and (2) the U.S. contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development and for the Fund's Special Program for Sub-Saharan Countries Affected by Drought and Desertification.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1985
Interstate Compact - Grants congressional approval to the Central Midwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, which provides for cooperation between the States of Kentucky and Illinois in the management of low-level radioactive waste.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1985
Public Securities Act of 1985 - Title I: Establishment of a Self-Regulatory Organization with Respect to Municipal and Government Securities - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to expand provisions concerning the registration, regulation, and disciplining of municipal securities dealers to govern all public securities dealers. Defines "public securities" as municipal and Government securities. Reestablishes the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) as the Public Securities Rulemaking Board (PSRB) and increases its membership by two. Empowers the Board to formulate rules regulating: (1) the amount of initial and maintenance margin in connection with the purchase, sale, or carrying of Government securities; (2) the type of deposit or collateral which shall be furnished; (3) the carrying of undermargined accounts for limited periods and under specified conditions; (4) the withdrawal of funds or securities; (5) the substitution or additional purchase of securities; (6) the transfer of accounts from one Government securities broker or dealer to another; (7) special or different margin requirements for delayed deliveries, short sales, repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements, and arbitrage transactions; and (8) the bases and methods to be used in calculating collateral deposits, margins, and market prices. Part B: Conforming Amendments - Sets forth conforming amendments. Empowers the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe requirements for the initial or subsequent maintenance of a deposit in connection with the purchase, sale, or carrying of a Government security. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to consult with the Federal Reserve Board and the Department of the Treasury when prescribing capital requirements for Government securities dealers to assure that such requirements do not adversely affect the efficiency, liquidity, or integrity of Government securities markets. Title II: Transitional and Savings Provisions - Provides for the: (1) transfer and allocation of funds and personnel from the MSRB to the PSRB; (2) termination of the MSRB; and (3) continuation of MSRB authorities, administrative proceedings, and judicial proceedings. Title III: Effective Dates - Makes this Act effective 180 days after enactment. Provides effective dates for appointment and rulemaking authority under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1985
States that the House of Representatives supports Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry on May 5, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1985
Agriculture Act of 1985 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set milk price support levels at 90 percent of the previous three year average. Provides for: (1) automatic price support revisions on April 1 and October 1 of 1986 through 1989; and (2) additional adjustments based on Government purchase levels. Extends authority through 1989 for: (1) the dairy indemnity program; and (2) the program of dairy product transfers to the military and veterans' hospitals. Amends specified milk marketing order provisions. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool program through 1989. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1989 wheat crops at 75 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than ten percent. Sets 1986 target prices at not less than 1985 levels. Sets target prices beginning in 1987 at 110 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than five percent. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to require compliance with an acreage reduction or paid land diversion program as a condition of eligibility for program benefits. Requires the Secretary to implement an acreage reduction program if carryover stocks exceed four percent of annual world utilization. Suspends specified marketing quota and producer certificate provisions. Title IV: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1989 corn crops at 75 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than ten percent. Sets loans and purchase levels for grain sorghum, barley, oats, and rye in relation to corn levels. Sets 1986 target prices at not less than 1985 levels. Sets target prices beginning in 1987 at 110 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to require compliance with an acreage reduction or paid land diversion program as a condition of eligibility for program benefits. Requires the Secretary to implement an acreage reduction program if carryover stocks exceed four percent of annual world utilization. Title V: Cotton - Suspends specified base acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions for the 1986 through 1989 upland cotton crops. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set upland cotton loan rates at the lower of: (1) 85 percent of the average U.S. spot market price (weighted by market and month) for the preceding five years, excluding the high and low years; or (2) 90 percent of the average of comparable cotton prices, quoted C.I.F. northern Europe. Limits annual adjustments to not more than ten percent. Sets 1986 target prices at not less than 1985 levels. Sets target prices beginning in 1987 at 110 percent of the same average market price used to determine loan rates. Limits annual adjustments to not more than five percent. Directs the President to establish a special limited global import quota for upland cotton if average spot prices exceed specified levels. Authorizes the Secretary to require compliance with an acreage reduction or paid land diversion program as a condition of eligibility for program benefits. Requires the Secretary to implement an acreage reduction program if upland cotton carryover stocks exceed normal supply by more than 15 percent. Title VI: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1989 rice crops at 75 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than ten percent. Sets 1986 target prices at not less than 1985 levels. Sets target prices beginning in 1987 at 110 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Limits annual adjustments to not more than five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to require compliance with an acreage reduction or paid land diversion program as a condition of eligibility for program benefits. Requires the Secretary to implement an acreage reduction program if rice carryover stocks exceed normal supply by more than 15 percent. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the national poundage quota for the 1986 through 1989 peanut crops at the level of the previous three-year average of domestic edible and seed use. Authorizes modifications of up to five percent. Extends price support provisions for the 1986 through 1989 peanut crops. Permits changes in support levels based upon changes in the price paid index. Title VIII: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1989 soybean crops at 75 percent of the preceding five year average, excluding high and low years. Stipulates that such level may not be less than $5.02 per bushel. Limits annual support reductions to not more than ten percent or below $4.50 per bushel. Title IX: Sugar - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan levels for the 1986 through 1989 sugarcane crops at 18 cents per pound. Bases sugar beet support levels on sugarcane prices. Title X: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: Advance Diversion Payments - States that if the secretary makes land diversion payments to assist in adjusting acreage for the 1986 through 1989 crops of wheat, feed grains, cotton, or rice, at least 50 percent of such payment shall be made available as soon as possible after program signup. Subtitle B: Grain Reserves - Terminates the producer-owned reserve storage program. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Limits annual deficiency payments to $50,000 per person for the 1986 through 1989 crop years. Subtitle D: General Provisions - Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1989. Title XI: Agricultural Export and Public Law 480 - Subtitle A: Export Provisions - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to extend authority through 1989 for the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund. Exempts export sales financed or guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) from cargo preference laws. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to exempt the special standby export subsidy program from cargo preference laws. Directs the Secretary to use bonus commodities from CCC to offset the adverse effects of competing countries' subsidies and currency exchanges. Exempts such exports from cargo preference laws. Subtitle B: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to increase minimum export tonnage levels. Exempts such exports from cargo preference laws. Extends such programs through 1989. Title XII: Resource Conservation - Subtitle A: Conservation Reserve - Directs the Secretary to establish a conservation reserve program to convert cropland and highly erodible land to less intensive use. Subtitle B: Program Eligibility on Highly Erodible Land - Makes any person who cultivates crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price support and other agricultural loans and benefits. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations. Title XIII: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment, unless otherwise so provided.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1985
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of the prospective payment transition period. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to study and report to the Congress, by December 31, 1986, on their recommendations for changes in the payment methodology for inpatient hospital services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1985
Broadcast Licensing, Renewal, and Deregulation Act of 1985 - 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 evidence 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. Repeals certain provisions relating to the application of the antitrust laws to broadcast licensees. Prohibits the FCC from imposing requirements on radio or television licensees relating to: (1) types of programs; (2) programming formats; (3) ascertainment of the needs or interests of their service areas; (4) commercials; and (5) maintenance of program logs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1985 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exclude from participation in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act any individual or entity: (1) convicted of a criminal offense related to the delivery of an item or service under title XVIII or under titles XIX (Medicaid), V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant), or XX (Block Grants to states for Social Services) of such Act; or (2) convicted of a criminal offense related to neglect or abuse of patients in connection with the delivery of a health care item or service. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude from Medicare participation any individual or entity: (1) convicted of fraud with respect to any Federal, State, or locally financed health care program; (2) convicted of interferring with the investigation of health care fraud; (3) convicted of manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance; (4) whose health care license has been suspended or revoked; (5) suspended or excluded from participation in a Federal health care program; (6) claiming excessive charges or providing unnecessary services; (7) committing certain acts prohibited under title XI; (8) owned or controlled by an individual convicted of health care related crimes, fined for health care abuses, or excluded from Medicare or a State health care program; and (9) failing to supply certain information. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude any hospital failing to comply with corrective action required under title XVIII. Sets forth provisions relating to notice requirements, judicial review, and period of exclusion. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify each appropriate State agency administering or supervising the administration of a State health care program of each exclusion and the period of exclusion. Permits an excluded individual or entity to apply, following a period exclusion, to the Secretary for reinstatement. Sets forth provisions providing for civil and criminal penalties for acts involving Medicare or State health care programs abuse, including penalties for physician misrepresentations. Requires a State, as a condition of Medicaid plan approval, to provide for the following: (1) a system of reporting any type of adverse action concluded against any health care practitioner or entity by the State or a local licensing authority; and (2) such access to documents as may be necessary by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to provide suitable safeguards for the confidentiality of such information. Requires any health care provider providing health care services for which payment may be made under the Act to assure that services or items furnished: (1) will be provided economically and only when, and to the extent, medically necessary; (2) will be quality services which meet professionally recognized standards of health care; and (3) will be supported by evidence of medical necessity and quality in such form and fashion and at such time as may reasonably be required by a reviewing peer review organization in the exercise of its duties and responsibilities. Permits a State to exclude from Medicaid participation any individual or entity excluded under Medicare pursuant to the patient and program protection provisions. Requires a State in order to receive Federal payments with respect to a health maintenance organization (HMO) to exclude any HMO that: (1) could be excluded because of the conviction of the owners or managers of certain crimes; or (2) contracts with any individual or entity convicted of such crimes. Prohibits Federal payments with respect to any amount expended for items or services furnished with respect to any individual or entity excluded from Medicaid participation because of the patient and program protection provisions. Prohibits a State under title V from making payments to any individual or entity excluded from participation pursuant to the patient and program protection provisions. Prohibits Federal payments with respect to any amount expended for items or services furnished with respect to any individual or entity excluded from Medicare because of the patient and program protection provisions of part A of title XI. Prohibits using a grant under title XX for payment for any item or service furnished by a person excluded from title XX participation because of the patient and program protection provisions of title XI. Revises disclosure requirements under part A of title XI. Revises Medicare provisions concerning agreements with providers. Modifies the Medicaid moratorium provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to consider a State's Medicaid plan to include any plan change submitted to the Secretary either before or after the enactment of that Act and whether or not approved or disapproved by the Secretary. Sets forth effective date provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the benefit disparity between those born before 1916 and those born after 1916 which was effected by the enactment of the Social Security Amendments of 1977. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to recompute the primary insurance amount so as to take into account the amendments made by this Act and to pay to any individual so entitled any additional lump sum amount to which such individual is entitled by reason of this Act. Prohibits the recomputation from reducing any individual's benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Provides that, for taxable years prior to 1985, rural letter carriers are permitted to compute the amount of the deduction for the use of their automobile in performing services involving the collection and delivery of mail on a rural route by: (1) using the amount received as equipment maintenance allowances from the United States Postal Service; or (2) using the form entitled "Worksheet for Use of Rural Carrier in Reporting Equipment Allowance and Claiming Transportation Expense Deduction." Provides that, for taxable years beginning after 1984, rural letter carriers are permitted to compute the amount of their deduction for use of their automobile in performing such services: (1) by using a standard mileage rate for all such miles of such use equal to 150 percent of the basic standard rate; or (2) by calculating the equipment allowance deduction equal to the operating expenses. Removes the 50 percent of business use limitation contained in the Internal Revenue Code for rural letter carriers who claim the investment tax credit and the depreciation deduction for their automobiles.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements. Requires such veteran, if receiving another pension administered by the Veterans Administration (VA), to elect which pension he will receive. Provides for the payment of a monthly pension of $100 to surviving spouses of World War I veterans who meet certain marriage requirements. Requires such surviving spouses to choose between pensions if they are currently receiving another pension through the VA.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take appropriate action to: (1) enforce U.S. rights under international agreements to which Japan is a party; and (2) obtain the elimination of Japanese acts and policies which deny benefits to the United States under such international agreements and which burden or restrict U.S. commerce. Directs the President, within a specified time, to: (1) report to the Congress and give notice of the actions the President has decided to take to accomplish such objectives; and (2) implement all such actions. Declares that such actions should at least negate the cumulative impact that the elimination or relaxation of the voluntary restraints on Japanese automobile imports will have on the merchandise balance of trade between Japan and the United States. Declares that action taken to accomplish this objective should be directed against competitive Japanese exports, including automobiles, telecommunication products, optical fibers, textiles, and electronic products. Declares action taken to accomplish the major objectives of the resolution should be modified or revoked only if the President determines that such minimum objective has been achieved.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 to producers unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere. Makes up to one-third of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Requires a participating producer to: (1) obtain crop insurance if available; and (2) use his crop as loan collateral. Limits loans to any single person to $30,000. Directs the Secretary to take immediate steps to make personnel and other Department of Agriculture resources available to improve the administration of such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1985
National Childhood Vaccine-Injury Compensation Act of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Childhood Vaccine-Injury Compensation Program (Program). Prohibits the filing of a civil action for damages for vaccine-related injuries unless the procedures of this Act have been followed. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prescribe rules governing the content of claims for vaccine-related injuries and procedures for filing such claims. Sets forth deadlines by which: (1) the Secretary must send the claimant and respondent lists of persons eligible to serve on hearing panels; (2) the respondent may join additional respondents; and (3) the claimant and respondent are to select persons for the hearing panel. Provides for the selection and replacement of additional hearing panel members. Permits each respondent to file a consent waiving his or her rights to a judge or jury trial. Allows the hearing panel to hear a claim if each respondent has filed consent. Allows the claimant to file an action for damages in a State or Federal court where none of the respondents have filed such consents. Permits the hearing panel to hear the claim against participating respondents where some, but not all, of the respondents filed consents. Allows the claimant to file an action in a State or Federal court against the nonparticipating respondents. Declares that such court action shall be stayed on any party's motion until the proceedings against the participating respondents are completed. Empowers the hearing panel to determine whether any alleged injuries are vaccine-related and, if appropriate, to award compensation. Sets an aggregate limit of $1,000,000 per person for such awards, including $100,000 for damages arising from pain, suffering, and emotional distress. Allows the claimant to reject the decision of the hearing panel by filing an objection within 60 days. Permits the respondent to appeal the decision of the hearing panel to a Federal district court within 30 days thereafter if no such objection is filed by the claimant. Directs the district court to affirm the hearing panel decision, unless: (1) the decision was procured by corruption or fraud; (2) the hearing panel exceeded its authority; or (3) the hearing panel denied a fair hearing to any party. Permits a claimant who has filed a timely objection to the hearing panel decision to maintain an action for damages in an appropriate State or Federal court. Permits the decision of the hearing panel to be admitted into evidence, unless: (1) the decision was procured by corruption or fraud; (2) the hearing panel exceeded its authority; or (3) the hearing panel denied a fair hearing to any party. Allows a plaintiff to recover a judgment for monetary damages to the full extent provided by State or Federal law where: (1) the respondent did not file a consent pursuant to this Act; or (2) the parties waived compliance with the procedures prescribed by this Act. Limits recovery to the extent provided by this Act where the respondent has filed a consent. Permits a respondent who has paid an award, judgment, or settlement to file a civil action in a U.S. district court seeking to recover all or part of it. Permits third-party impleaders and cross-claims. Allows a party to file an action for contribution or indemnification if that party: (1) did not file a consent pursuant to this Act or waived compliance; and (2) discharged a vaccine-injury claim. Declares that claims filed more than two years after the first manifestation of a vaccine-related injury shall be barred. Defines "covered vaccine" to include vaccines against diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella. Establishes an Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines to: (1) advise the Secretary on the implementation of the Program; (2) study and recommend ways to encourage the availability of safe and effective vaccines; (3) survey information gathering programs and advise the Secretary on how to obtain useful information; and (4) recommend research. Directs the Secretary to develop parent information materials within one year of enactment of this Act. Describes the information to be included in such materials. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage the development of vaccines that result in fewer major adverse reactions than those currently on the market; and (2) assure improvements in the vaccine industry to reduce the risks of major adverse reactions. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees biennially.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1985
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to exempt from the cargo preference requirements activities of the Commodity Credit Corporation or the Department of Agriculture that promote the export of agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1985
Health Insurance Availability Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a ten percent excise tax on the amount of employee health expenses paid or incurred by a large employer who is not a member of a qualified State pooling association. Defines a "qualified pooling association" as an organization which: (1) is a nonprofit corporation established pursuant to and regulated by State law; (2) has specified types of insurers and other health financing entities as participating members; (3) makes available specified levels of health insurance to all residents of the State not eligible for Medicare; (4) charges a specified pool premium rate; and (5) assesses losses of the pool equitably among all participating members.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987 for the Child Survival Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of January 1986 as National Eye Health Care Month.