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Rep. Madigan, Edward R. [R-IL-15]

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Resolution· HRESH.Res. 287 (98th)referred

A resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide that proceedings of the House and its committees shall be recorded verbatim by official reporters of the House and stenographers of committees, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1983

Amends rule XXXIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require official reporters and stenographers of committees to take down a verbatim account of House and committee proceedings. Requires the verbatim account in the House to be designated in the Congressional Record as Proceedings of the House. Provides for corrections to such account in a separate section of the Record. Authorizes each committee to adopt a procedure for the correction of errors in its transcripts.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 278 (98th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should establish a Productivity and Quality Award to be made to those businesses, workers, other individuals, and public sector organizations which make major contributions toward sustained improvement in productivity and quality performance.

United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) proclaim his or her intention to establish a Productivity and Quality Award to be made to businesses, workers, other individuals, and public sector organizations that make major contributions toward sustained improvement in productivity and quality performance; and (2) establish a President's interagency Productivity and Quality Award Committee to recommend criteria for such awards and to design certificates and medals of commendation for presentation to award recipients.

Bill· HRH.R. 3605 (98th)open

Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1983

Drug Price Competition Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clinical application requirements new drugs that are the same as previously approved new drugs (extends FDA abbreviated drug application procedures to post-1962 new generic drugs).

Bill· HRH.R. 3502 (98th)open

Patent Term Restoration Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983

Patent Term Restoration Act of 1983 - Amends the patent laws to extend the terms of patents which encompass specified products or a method for using a product, any of which are subject to certain nonpatent regulatory review periods. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such extension, including a seven year limitation. Directs the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the owner of record of a patent a certificate of extension stating the fact and length of the extension and identifying the product and the use and the claim to which such extension is applicable. Makes such certificate a part of the original patent. Limits the application of such patent term extension to patents for products subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products).

Bill· HRH.R. 3478 (98th)open

A bill to authorize the presentation on behalf of the Congress of a specially struck bronze medal to the families of American personnel missing or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia.

United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983

Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate jointly to present, on behalf of the Congress, a bronze medal to families of American personnel missing or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Authorizes appropriations.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 240 (98th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should convene a national bipartisan commission to address the serious long-term problems of security and economic development in Central America.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983

Expresses the sense of the House that the President should convene a national, bipartisan commission to address the problems in Central America. Suggests certain requirements for the Commission.

Bill· HRH.R. 3245 (98th)referred

National Summit Conference on Education Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1983

National Summit Conference on Education Act of 1983 - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education for conducting a National Summit Conference on Education. Sets forth provisions for appointment of participants to the Conference. Directs the Conference to develop recommendations in response to the findings of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and relating to specified areas of educational policy. Directs the Conference to transmit its recommendations to the President, the Congress, and State Governors by January 15, 1984.

Bill· HRH.R. 3154 (98th)referred

A bill relating to the treatment of certain rentals of farm and business real property for purposes of section 2032A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983

Allows the special use valuation of farms and business real property for estate tax purposes for real property which is put to any use by a qualified heir pursuant to a rental by such heir. Revises rules for the revocation of an election to use such valuation. Extends the period for making a credit or refund as a result of this provision to one year after the date of enactment of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3089 (98th)referred

Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983

Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1983 - Title I: References to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 - Declares that amendments or repeals made by this Act, unless otherwise noted, shall be considered amendments or repeals to the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Title II: Food Stamp Budgetary Revisions - Amends such Act to revise the definition of household to remove references to parents, children, and siblings and insert references to groups of individuals living together. States that sanctions against any member of a household shall not disqualify the entire household from the food stamp program. Changes the thrifty food plan adjustments schedules for October 1, 1983, and October 1, 1984, to April 1, 1984, and April 1, 1985, respectively. Changes subsequent October 1 adjustments to the next April 1. Replaces the current standard deduction, excess shelter expense deduction, and the combined dependent care/excess shelter expense deduction with a standard/shelter deduction. Removes provisions for adjustments to the dependent care deduction and sets forth a maximum allowable amount. Conforms the standard earnings deduction with such deduction under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program (AFDC) under the Social Security Act. Requires that AFDC families be considered categorically eligible for food stamp benefits. Requires that allotment values for such families be determined under approved plans based upon household size and specified categories. Extends the work requirement for persons between the ages of 18 and 60 to persons between the ages of 16 and 60. Exempts persons between the ages of 16 and 18 under paternal control of another household member. Repeals the exemption for certain students from the work requirement. Makes mandatory (currently, at State option) that job search requirements commence at the time of application for food stamps. Grants State agencies the option of extending work requirements to caretakers of children between the ages of three and six, if adequate care is available for such children. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate guidelines to enable State agencies to design and operate community work experience programs. Makes participation in such programs a mandatory requirement for household members subject to food stamp work requirements. Repeals provisions for the workfare program. Revises State agency liability provisions to institute an error rate liability program under which State agencies shall be responsible for error rates in excess of three percent. Title III: Improving Administrative Procedures for the Food Stamp Program - Removes the income exclusion for student reimbursements. Makes certain aliens ineligible for the food stamp program. Allows the consideration of food stamp allotments in the determinations for Federal housing assistance. Allows the redemption of food stamp coupons at any bank or savings and loan association (currently, redemption is allowed only at certain federally insured institutions.) Changes the expedited coupon issuance procedure from providing such coupons not later than five days after application to providing such coupons not later than five working days after application. Allows State agencies to use sources other than the Social Security Administration and State unemployment agencies when making wage matching determinations. Requires State agencies to establish work registration and job search services to effectuate eligibility provisions of the food stamp program. Provides that, in the case of retailer/wholesaler disqualifications, stays of administrative action shall be considered under the applicable law governing such relief. Repeals the noncash benefit requirement for the Puerto Rico nutrition assistance program. Title IV: Administrative Funds for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to include the value of bonus commodities in determining the administrative cost ceiling for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Title V: Effective Date - Provides that the amendments made by this Act shall be effective on dates prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture unless specified otherwise.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 203 (98th)passed

A resolution expressing the support of the House of Representatives on the decision of the Governments of Lebanon and Israel on agreeing to arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983

Expresses the support of the House of Representatives for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.

Bill· HRH.R. 3050 (98th)open

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to eliminate the requirement for a State certificate of convenience and necessity before the Administrator may make loans to provide rural telephone service. Revises the liabilities and uses of the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund established under the REA to provide that notes of the Administrator to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain funds for loans shall be equity capital of the Fund. States that assets of the Fund shall be available only for: (1) payment of interest and principal on loans to the Administrator from the Secretary of the Treasury; and (2) for certificates of beneficial ownership issued to such Secretary or in the private market. Requires the Administrator to maintain two separate accounts within the fund: (1) the Electrification Account; and (2) the Telephone Account. Lists the items that shall be accounted for in each Account respectively, and restricts the purposes for which the assets of each Account shall be available. Authorizes the Administrator to repurchase specified certificates of beneficial ownership under certain conditions affecting their interest rates. Establishes guidelines for interest-bearing insured loans made by the Administrator to electric and telephone borrowers. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to request in each annual supplemental budget estimate the amount needed to replenish the Fund for anticipated and actual costs resulting from loans made at less than a specified rate during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Administrator to guarantee loans to specified borrowers or to accommodate or subordinate liens or mortgages held in the Fund, according to prescribed rules and regulations. Directs the Administration to promulgate such rules and regulations within 90 days after the effective date of this Act. Prescribes guidelines under which certain lenders are authorized to adjust interest rates on loans guaranteed by the Administrator. Requires rural electrification borrowers to obtain concurrent supplemental financing according to prescribed guidelines in any fiscal year in which the minimum loan level for insured rural electrification loans is less than $1,000,000,000. Repeals the loan-making authority of the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank which require approval by the Secretary of Agriculture of facilities or lines to be acquired with such loans. Eliminates loan restrictions placed upon potential borrowers whose net worth exceed their assets by twenty percent.

Bill· HRH.R. 3021 (98th)open

Health Care for the Unemployed Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983

Health Care for the Unemployed Act - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title, Title XXI - Health Care for the Unemployed: Part A - Grants to States - Authorizes to be appropriated for FY 1984 - 1986 a sum sufficient to enable each State to furnish medical assistance to unemployed individuals and their immediate family. Requires a State, in order to receive funding, to have an approved State plan for medical assistance for the unemployed. Requires a State plan to: (1) meet specified administrative requirements of the State's Medicaid plan; (2) make medical assistance available to eligible individuals voluntarily enrolled during the individual's coverage period; (3) require the State unemployment compensation agency to inform unemployment compensation recipients of the plan and of group health plans, and to notify the State Medicaid agency of eligible unemployment compensation recipients; (4) provide the following services: (a) inpatient hospital services for up to nine days annually; (b) outpatient hospital, emergency, rural health clinic, and physician services for up to ten visits annually; (c) laboratory and x-ray services, subject to such limits as the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish; and (d) family planning and nurse mid-wife services; (5) provide for the imposition of premiums, enrollment fees, and similar charges; (6) provide that the plan will be secondary in payment to any other insurance or benefit plan providing medical assistance; and (7) provide that a State make reasonable efforts to determine the Medicaid eligibility of individuals enrolled in the plan who are not receiving unemployment compensation. Requires the Secretary to approve any plan meeting the above requirements, but precludes approval of any plan which: (1) excludes any U.S. citizen or any individual residing in the State; or (2) if approved, would result in a reduction of Medicaid services. Requires the Secretary to disapprove a plan if it reduces or eliminates Medicaid eligibility under its AFDC plan (Aid to Families with Dependent Children, part A of title IV of the Act) with respect to the unemployed parent program or the coverage of certain children. Provides that an individual is eligible for such medical assistance for a week if the individual: (1) is receiving unemployment compensation and three weeks have elapsed since the first week the individual received unemployment compensation; or (2) is not receiving unemployment compensation for the week, was receiving unemployment compensation for a week during the 104 week period ending with the week before the first week in which the plan is in effect and has not received unemployment compensation for any week in which the plan is in effect, and meets certain requirements relating to work availability. Makes an individual's family eligible if the individual is eligible. Requires a State plan to establish standards concerning whether or not an individual is employed. Requires an individual to be considered employed for a week if the individual's earnings equal or exceed an amount equal to 30 times the minimum hourly wage. Makes an individual ineligible for a week if: (1) the individual is covered under a group health plan for which a contribution is being made by someone other than the individual; (2) the individual is covered under his or her spouse's group health plan; (3) the individual is eligible for Medicaid; (4) the individual is employed for four consecutive weeks; or (5) the individual was disqualified because of fraud for unemployment compensation or convicted of a Medicaid offense in the previous year. Requires a State to impose: (1) a premium of between two and five percent of an individual's unemployment compensation; and (2) the same deduction, cost-sharing, and similar charges as imposed under Medicaid. Authorizes a State plan to provide an enrollee the option of receiving medical assistance with another health benefit plan. Authorizes a State to provide an eligible individual with the option of having the State make a cash payment for the premium of another plan. Sets forth the methods for determining payments to States. Makes provisions of title XIX relating to the operation of State plans applicable to title XXI. Sets forth definitions used in this part. Directs the Secretary, provided certain conditions are met, to grant a waiver to a State plan with respect to some or all of the Medicaid administrative requirements in the case of a State plan that enters into an arrangement with one or more private health benefits plans which provide health insurance or health benefits to all eligible individuals and which provide required benefits at a cost no greater than the premiums and other charges of the State plan. Makes specified provisions of title XIX and part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act relating to rural health clinics, fraud and abuse, Indian health service facilities, cost sharing, judicial and administrative review, capital expenditures, and administration applicable to this part. Part B: Open Enrollment, Continuation, and Conversion Rights of Individuals - Requires the group health plans of employers required to pay minimum wage and States and political subdivisions with 25 or more employees to meet the requirements of this part. Requires a group health plan to have an open enrollment period for each married employee eligible to enroll whose spouse loses coverage under a group health plan due to involuntary termination of the spouse's health plan. Requires a group health plan to provide continuation of coverage under the plan for at least 90 days following an individual's involuntary separation or layoff. Requires a State to provide an employee covered under an insured group health plan subject to State insurance law the option of securing health benefits coverage without evidence of insurability where the individual's loss of coverage under the group health plan results from the individual's involuntary layoff or separation from employment. Authorizes an individual or State adversely affected by the failure of an employer to comply with the requirements of this part to seek injunctive relief in a Federal district court. Part C: Assistance to Hospitals Serving the Unemployed - Directs the Secretary to make grants to hospitals to assist the hospitals in providing services to individuals unable to pay. Requires a hospital, in order to receive a grant, to: (1) be located in an area of high unemployment or serve primarily medically underserved populations; (2) serve a significantly disproportionate number of patients having low income; (3) provide services to individuals without regard to their inability to pay; and (4) offer assurances that it will use the grants in addition to, rather than in lieu of, existing Federal, State, and local funds. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress concerning the grants. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1983-1986. Establishes the effective date for part A of title XXI as July 1, 1983, with repeal as of October 1, 1986. Provides for the participation of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa in the plan established by this title.

Bill· HRH.R. 3010 (98th)open

Medicare Vision Reform Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Medicare Vision Act of 1983 - Provides coverage under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for: (1) eye examinations for the purpose of prescribing, fitting, or changing eyeglasses; (2) procedures performed to determine the refractive state of the eyes; and (3) services performed by a doctor of optometry. Permits payment for services under part B for services performed by an optometrist, or services performed by another doctor which could be performed by an optometrist, only if payment is made on the basis of an assignment.

Bill· HRH.R. 2996 (98th)open

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation to annual national meetings sponsored by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia for the next of kin of certain unaccounted for persons.

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Permits the Secretary of Defense to provide air transportation to annual national meetings within the continental United States sponsored by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia to the next of kin of persons missing in action in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, or reported dead without repatriation of the remains.

Bill· HRH.R. 3006 (98th)referred

Omnibus Marketing User Fee Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Omnibus Marketing User Fee Act of 1983 - Title I: Federal Marketing Agreements and Orders - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to assess handlers for the costs of marketing agreements and orders under such Act. Authorizes, if necessary, a specified transfer of funds to cover related administrative expenses. Title II: User Fees for Certain Printed Reports and Market Information and Statistics - Amends the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, and the Tobacco Inspection Act to authorize user fees to recover the costs of printing and handling cotton and tobacco marketing information. Title III: Plant Variety Protection - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to permit plant variety protection fees to be used without fiscal year limitation to cover related administrative costs. Title IV: Wool and Mohair Promotion Programs - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary to recover administrative costs incurred in promoting wool and mohair.

Bill· HRH.R. 3007 (98th)referred

A bill to amend the Act of July 2, 1962, to authorize intrastate quarantines of animals and poultry under extraordinary emergency conditions.

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit intrastate movement of livestock and poultry, meat products, and animal carcasses in order to prevent or eradicate communicable animal diseases. States that the Secretary may take such action only after: (1) determining that measures taken by a State are inadequate; and (2) notifying the Governor and publishing a statement in the Federal Register.

Bill· HRH.R. 3008 (98th)referred

Agricultural Amendments of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Agricultural Amendments of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish 1984 and 1985 target prices for wheat, corn, rice, and upland cotton as he deems appropriate. Stipulates that such prices shall not be less than 1983 levels. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the overseas donation of Commodity Credit Corporation agricultural stocks (currently limited to dairy stock donations). States that such donations shall be administered through title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480), and shall be in addition to existing assistance under such Act.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 267 (98th)open

A joint resolution calling for a worldwide ban on chemical weapons.

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983

Calls upon the nations of the world, particularly the Soviet Union, to conclude in the multilateral Committee on Disarmament or other bilateral negotiations a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons. States that the United States will continue its moratorium on chemical weapons production if progress is evident on a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons.