United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that anti-inflation guidelines prescribed under the Council on Wage and Price Stability Act, which are applicable to refiners and retailers of oil and natural gas, should also be made applicable to producers of oil and natural gas.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1980
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to distribute licenses for very high frequency commercial television broadcasting stations to ensure that each State will have at least one such station.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Mental Health Systems Act - Title I: Community Mental Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make preparation grants to public or nonprofit private entities recommended by the State mental health authority for projects to: (1) assess mental health service needs; (2) design programs; (3) obtain financial and professional assistance; and (4) encourage community involvement. Prohibits: (1) any grant from exceeding $75,000; (2) a mental health service area from receiving more than one such grant; and (3) any service area from receiving a grant if it has previously received a planning grant under the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Authorizes appropriations for each of fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private community mental health centers (CMHCs) for nonconstruction expenses. Limits eligibility to CMHCs that: (1) are State-operated; or (2) have been approved by the State mental health authority. Requires applications to be accompanied by assurances from such authority that the grant and all other funding sources the applicant CMHC may reasonably be expected to receive will cover the operating expenses for the year in which the grant is to be made. Limits grant eligibility to the first eight years of a CMHC's operation. Permits a rollover of unused funds to the next fiscal year. Provides that the amount of the grant shall be the lesser of: (1) the amount equal to the amount by which a CMHC's annual operating costs exceed its revenues; or (2) a decreasing annual percentage of operating costs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1991 for CMHC continuation grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State mental health authorities, CMHCs, and other public and nonprofit private entities for services to the chronically mentally ill, including: (1) case management; (2) access to mental, medical, rehabilitation, and dental services; and (3) access to employment, housing, and other support services. Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to projects which supplement existing community services. Sets forth the following order of applicant priority for such projects: (1) State mental health authorities; (2) CMHCs; and (3) public and nonprofit private entities in areas without CMHCs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State mental health authorities, CMHCs, and other public and nonprofit private entities for mental health and support services for severely mentally disturbed children and adolescents and members of their families. Sets forth the following order of applicant priority: (1) State mental health authorities; (2) CMHCs; and (3) public and nonprofit private entities in areas without CMHCs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982- 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or nonprofit private entities to provide mental health services to unserved or underserved priority populations. States that applications for such grants shall only be approved if: (1) the State mental health authority has recommended approval; (2) the application contains assurances of increased services to such populations and of their opportunities to comment on the proposed project and on its later performance; and (3) the applicant will provide outpatient mental services and two of six other specified related services during the first three years that it receives a grant, and has a plan for the provision of all such services upon the expiration of such first three years. Prohibits: (1) more than two grants in any single mental health service area during the same fiscal year; (2) more than ten grants to any such area; and (3) more than five grants for service for the same group. Directs the Secretary to determine grant amounts. Stipulates that the fourth and fifth grants may not exceed 60 percent and 30 percent, respectively, of the project's costs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to CMHCs for consultation and education services, followup services, and program administration. Limits eligibility to those CMHCs which have received community health center grants under this Act or under the Community Mental Health Centers Act, but are no longer eligible (because of limitations on number of grants or period of eligibility) for such assistance. States that as of fiscal year 1984, such eligibility shall be further limited to State-run or State-recommended CMHCs. Prohibits any single CMHC from receiving more than five grants. Directs the Secretary to determine grant amounts. Stipulates that any such grant may not exceed $1.00 per capita for the population of the mental health service area. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the provision of mental health services to: (1) public or nonprofit private ambulatory health care centers; and (2) public or nonprofit private entities which provide emergency and outpatient mental services and consultation and education services. Requires an application to include an affiliation agreement between a provider of ambulatory care services and a provider of mental health services. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Indian Health Service, upon the request of any tribe or urban Indian organization, to apply to the Secretary for any grant under this title. Provides that such a grant: (1) shall be made on the same terms and conditions that apply to non-Federal entities; and (2) shall be made even though the project to be funded serves residents of two or more mental health service areas of a State. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for: (1) employment services and training for employees adversely affected by changes in mental health service delivery systems; and (2) innovative mental health projects. Authorizes up to five percent of the funds appropriated under this title for such projects. Stipulates that at least 50 percent of such funds shall be used for training and employment projects. Title II: State Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State mental health authorities for: (1) data collection and analysis; (2) planning and administration; (3) performance standards and evaluation; and (4) other appropriate mental health services improvement projects. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with State mental health authorities under which such authorities will: (1) disburse Federal funds under this Act; (2) review projects funded under this Act; and (3) perform other functions as agreed upon by the Secretary and State mental health authority. States that the Secretary, as determined by such agreements, shall make grants to such authorities to meet their costs in carrying out the agreements. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Title III: Prevention - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of intervention techniques and mental health promotion activities in the prevention of mental illness. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Title IV: General Provisions - States that before any entity in a State may be eligible to receive funds under this Act such State must have in effect a mental health services plan which: (1) has been approved by the Secretary; (2) is consistent with the State health plan prepared in accordance with the Public Health Service Act; and (3) has been prepared by the requisite State agency and submitted to the Secretary through the Governor. Authorizes the Secretary, after giving notice and opportunity for a hearing to the State agency, to discontinue funds to any entity for noncompliance. States that a State mental health services plan shall consist of an administrative part and a services part. Requires the administrative part to provide for: (1) a State agency to administer the plan; (2) an advisory council to consult with such agency; (3) periodic reports to the Secretary and recordkeeping; (4) statistics collection; (5) periodic plan review and modification; and (6) personnel standards on a merit basis. Requires the services part to: (1) identify the State's mental health service areas; (2) identify the needs and the adequacy of resources to meet such needs; (3) describe the proposed allocation of resources; (4) describe proposals to coordinate State and local services; (5) describe the legal rights of mentally ill persons; and (6) provide for emphasis of outpatient mental health services, including protections for employees adversely affected by such programs. Prohibits a grant to be made under this Act unless such application is approved by the Secretary. Sets forth the contents of such an application, including: (1) a budget, which shows funding sources and allocation, activities to be conducted, and target populations; (2) a statement of objectives; (3) in the case of any project under which health services are to be provided, assurances that the applicant: (a) has prepared a schedule of fees and discounts and has made reasonable effort to secure payment and reimbursement for services; (b) will provide that all fees will be paid to the center and all services provided by health professionals will be performed only at the center; and (c) will require that all patients be under professional staff supervision and that a member of such staff will be available to provide emergency mental health care; (4) arrangements, when necessary, for serving populations with limited English-speaking ability; (5) assurances of reporting and recordkeeping accessibility; (6) assurances that funds under this Act will not supplant non-Federal funds; and (7) assurances that the project is consistent with the State mental health services plan. Authorizes the Secretary to obligate up to two percent of the total appropriations under this Act for any fiscal year for technical assistance to any grant recipient. Prohibits any single mental health service area from receiving more than ten grants under specified sections of this Act and the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Requires the Secretary to: (1) prescribe grantee performance standards; and (2) consider any prior performance under this Act by an applicant in determining whether or not to approve a new application. Provides that: (1) with the Secretary's approval, a grantee may use a portion of the grant for project evaluation; and (2) the Secretary may obligate in a fiscal year up to one percent of appropriations under this Act to monitor grantees. Defines "community mental health center" as a legal entity providing mental health service principally to individuals residing or employed in a mental health service area, regardless of such individuals' finances, past health condition, or any other factor. Sets forth services required to be provided by such CMHCs, including: (1) inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services; (2) assistance to courts and other public agencies in screening persons for inpatient mental health care; (3) where appropriate, treatment as an alternative to inpatient care; (4) education and counseling; (5) follow-up care for discharged patients; (6) specialized services for children and for the elderly; (7) transitional half-way house services; and (8) alcohol and drug abuse programs. Requires each CMHC to have: (1) a quality assurance program; (2) a medical records system; (3) a professional advisory board; and (4) an administrative unit responsible for providing education and consultation services (unless waived by the Secretary). Authorizes the indirect provision of services by a CMHC through satellite facilities or through arrangements with other entities or health professionals. Limits the Secretary's contract authority in any fiscal year to the extent or in such amounts as provided in advance by appropriation Acts. Title V: Minority Concerns - Establishes the position of Associate Director for Minority Concerns within the National Institute of Mental Health. Authorizes grant and contract programs in the areas of: (1) mental health services delivery to minorities; (2) mental health problems of minorities; and (3) increased minority representation in the mental health fields. Title VI: Rape Services Support Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contract with public and nonprofit private entities for services to rape victims, including: (1) counseling and follow-up counseling; (2) assistance in securing mental health, legal, medical, and social services; and (3) rape prevention and victim assistance projects. Directs the Secretary to: (1) determine grant amounts, but prohibits any such grant from exceeding 90 percent of the project's cost; (2) establish a grant review panel; and (3) coordinate such activities with other similar Federal programs. Prohibits disclosure of personally identifiable information by a grant or contract recipient except for the purpose for which such information was obtained or with the consent of the person supplying the information. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1984. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating in any fiscal year more than ten percent of appropriated funds for technical assistance to assist in application development. Title VII: Extension of Community Mental Health Centers Act - Amends the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend through fiscal year 1981 grant authority for: (1) program planning; (2) initial operation costs; (3) consultation and education services; (4) financial distress; and (5) rape prevention. Increases the maximum number of financial distress grants to a CMHC from five to six. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an individual who has received a clinical traineeship in psychology, psychiatry, nursing, or social work that was not of a limited duration or experimental nature to serve in a State mental institution, a health manpower shortage area, or other area designated by the Secretary. States that: (1) such service shall be at the rate of one year for each year of traineeship; (2) failure to fulfill such service shall obligate the individual to repay three times the cost of the traineeship plus interest; and (3) such service may not be used to concurrently repay obligations owed under this Act and under the National Research Service Award and the National Health Service Corps Scholarships programs. Requires that commissioned medical and dental officers of the Public Health Service Corps receive special pay at the same rate as similar officers in the Armed Forces. States that there are shortages in the mental health care specialties.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Corrupt Horseracing Practices Act of 1980 - Prohibits the following conduct with respect to horseracing: (1) the entering of a horse in a race by its owner or trainer who knows or should know that the horse is drugged or numbed; (2) the drugging or numbing of a horse with reason to believe that it will compete in a race; and (3) the willful failure by the operator of a horseracing facility to disqualify or prohibit a horse from racing if such individual has been notified in accordance with this Act that such horse is drugged or numbed, was not available for testing, or has been suspended from racing. Sets forth the penalties for such acts, and provides increased penalties for second offenses, use of a dangerous weapon in committing such offenses, and the interference with duties or the falsification of records required by this Act. Provides for the disqualification of offenders from horseracing activities and the suspension of a drugged or numbed horse from racing, in accordance with specified procedures. Grants the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration certain investigatory and other powers with respect to such offenses. Requires operators of horseracing facilities to comply with recordkeeping requirements established by the Administrator and to furnish testing space and facilities. Directs the Administrator to: (1) exempt from this Act any State which has enacted a comparable program; and (2) submit biennial reports to Congress on matters covered by this Act. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1980 to carry out this Act. Permits the Administrator thereafter to assess fees upon operators of horseracing facilities to meet the costs of this Act. Amends the Federal criminal code to include the offenses of this Act in the existing prohibition against interstate and foreign commerce in aid of racketeering enterprises.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980 - Title I: National Health Service Corps Programs - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include as members of the National Health Service Corps individuals who are not employees of the United States. Provides that such individuals shall be subject to the personnel system of the entity to which they are assigned. Stipulates that such individuals shall receive an income equal to that which would have been received as civilian employees of the United States appointed to the Corps. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prescribe conversion provisions for such members of the Corps who, within one year after completing their service, become Public Health Service officers. Entitles such individuals to credit such service towards retirement benefits. Requires the Secretary, at least 90 days before approving assignment of National Health Service Corps personnel to an area, to give appropriate health professions societies in such area opportunity to submit written comments concerning such assignment. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify appropriate individuals and entities in health manpower shortage areas who may be interested in the availability of Corps members that such members' service obligations may be met through private practice; (2) not discriminate against entities which receive no assistance under the Public Health Service Act, but which apply for assignment of Corps members; (3) not approve the assignment of a Corps member to an entity who is not an employee of the United States without assurances that such entity: (a) has sufficient financial resources to provide the Corps member with an income not less than such member would receive as a civilian employee appointed to the Corps; or (b) would have sufficient financial resources with supplemental grant support (Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants when necessary); (4) provide applicants with technical assistance to: (a) analyze the potential use of health professions personnel; and (b) determine the need for such personnel, the types of services they should provide, and the available financial resources to support them; (5) conduct programs to demonstrate improvements that can be made in personnel assignment and delivery of services; (6) not discriminate against public entities in application of the waiver provisions of the cost-sharing requirements associated with Corps personnel assignment. Establishes the National Health Service Corps Fund in the Treasury of the United States. Exempts such Fund and the funds credited to it from apportionment for any purpose other than the National Health Service Corps program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contract with public and nonprofit private entities for programs to prepare persons in the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program to provide their period of obligated health service. Makes persons having completed two years of their obligated Corps service eligible for private practice entry grants (presently must have completed entire period of obligated service). Authorizes appropriations for the Corps program for fiscal years 1981 ($94,000,000), 1982 ($145,000,000), and 1983 ($205,000,000). Directs the Secretary to report to Congress, within 18 months of enactment of this Act, the results of a study designed to: (1) evaluate the criteria used to determine whether an area is a health manpower shortage area; and (2) determine if any such areas have been incorrectly designated. Revises Corps Scholarship Program provisions to: (1) require the Secretary to determine within 90 days whether an individual shall provide his/her obligated service as a Corps officer or civilian employee of the United States or as a member of the Corps who is not such an officer or employee; (2) include those persons fulfilling their service obligation as non-Federal employees as designated members of the Corps; (3) provide that only officer or employee Corps members may be transferred to other parts of the Department to fulfill their service obligation; (4) count service under the National Research Service Award program for purposes of fulfilling the service obligation under the Scholarship Program (presently only applies to medical research); (5) require a Corps member fulfilling his/her service obligation in private practice in a health manpower shortage area to accept a Medicare assignment; (6) authorize the Secretary to permit a person who breaches his/her Corps scholarship contract by failing to begin or to finish a private service obligation to perform such obligated service as a member of the Corps; (7) direct the Secretary to provide technical assistance, upon request, to an individual establishing a private practice in fulfillment of his/her service obligation; (8) direct the Secretary to provide information to potential Corps Scholarship Program recipients concerning such private practice service option; (9) state that scholarship recipients under an earlier Public Health Service Act program are eligible for such private practice option; (10) eliminate specified requirements for a health manpower shortage area to qualify for such private practice option; (11) make clinical psychologists eligible to participate in such Scholarship Program; (12) require the Secretary to give special consideration to Scholarship applicants who intend to be primary care physicians in health manpower shortage areas in which they have resided or been employed; (13) authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($92,000,000), 1982 ($101,000,000), and 1983 ($109,000,000); and (14) make authorizations available for fiscal years 1984 through 1986 for students entering into contracts before October 1, 1983. Title II: Health Professions Programs under Title VII - Eliminates the enrollment increase requirement for grants to expand existing health professions training facilities respecting such grants received before enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make teaching facilities construction grants to assist two-year medical schools to become four-year schools. Authorizes $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1981 for such grants. Requires an applicant to be an accredited two-year medical school. Directs the Secretary to determine the amount of such grants, but stipulates that no such grant shall exceed 80 percent of the project's total cost. Limits loan and interest guarantees to remodeling, renovation, or alteration projects (presently to any construction projects) through fiscal year 1983. Includes architect fees within the covered costs under such guarantees. Permits the Secretary to make all authorized interest subsidy payments on any loan made before October 1, 1980. Continues the insured loan program to graduate health professions students through fiscal year 1983. Prohibits the insuring of any loan made or installment paid after September 30, 1985 (presently 1982). Increases from $15,000 to $20,000, and from $60,000 to $80,000, the maximum annual and aggregate limits of federally insured loans to graduate students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry. Repeals the existing prohibition on the receipt of such insured loans and the receipt of any loan assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 during the same school year. Permits payment deferrals on loan interest, as well as on principal. Extends the period of such deferral for internships and residencies from three to four years. Requires a lender to offer a repayment schedule which permits a portion of the principal and interest payable at the beginning of a repayment period to be deferred until a later time in such period. Replaces the existing 12 percent maximum interest rate with a rate that may not exceed the average of the bond equivalent rates of the 91-day Treasury bills auctioned for the previous quarter plus two percent. Eliminates the existing provision prohibiting more than 50 percent of the students in each class in schools of medicine, osteopathy or dentistry from having such insured loans. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($20,00,000), 1982 ($22,500,000), 1983 ($25,000,000), and such sums as necessary for fiscal year 1984 through 1986 for students who received loans prior to October 1, 1983. Redefines "eligible institution" (for purposes of such loans) to be a school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or public health within the United States which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies approve for such purpose by the Secretary of Education. Makes financial need scholarships available to second year students (presently only to first year students). Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($30,000,000), 1982 ($40,000,000), and 1983 ($50,000,000). Replaces existing capitation grant programs with a program of institutional support to assist the educational programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry (eliminates public health eligibility). Sets forth an annual grant computation schedule (for each type of school for each of fiscal years 1981 through 1983) based on student enrollment and a specified dollar amount. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for each of such schools. Permits a school of pharmacy which did not receive a capitation grant in 1980 because accreditation requirements prevented it from meeting applicable enrollment requirements to be eligible in fiscal years 1981-83 for such grants. Excludes medical school enrollment increases made to qualify for certain Veteran's Administration assistance from capitation grant eligibility considerations for fiscal year 1980. Eliminates the separate enrollment requirement of 50 percent of first-year students from States with no accredited optometry schools for nonprofit private optometry schools to qualify for institutional support grants. Authorizes appropriations for project grants for family medicine departments for fiscal years 1981 ($15,000,000), 1982 ($20,000,000), and 1983 ($25,000,000). Provides, with regard to grant eligibility, that a school may have a affiliation with a family medicine residency program, rather than control over such program as presently required. Authorizes appropriations for area health education center grants for fiscal years 1981 ($21,000,000), 1982 ($28,000,000), and 1983 ($30,000,000). Authorizes appropriations for grants to train physician assistants and dental auxiliaries for fiscal years 1981 ($14,000,000), 1982 ($15,000,000), and 1983 ($16,000,000). Authorizes appropriations for internal medicine and pediatrics training for fiscal years 1981 ($23,000,000), 1982 ($30,000,000), and 1983 ($32,000,000). Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for such grants. Makes the training of physicians as teachers of internal medicine and pediatrics eligible for such grant support. Authorizes appropriations for family medicine and dentistry grants for fiscal years 1981 ($50,000,000), 1982 ($75,000,000),and 1983 ($80,000,000). Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to determine the most effective means of providing financial assistance to graduate medical programs in internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine; and (2) report the results of such study to the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and to the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee within one year of enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for grants to provide educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for fiscal years 1981 ($30,000,000), 1982 ($33,000,000), and 1983 ($36,000,000). Authorizes grants for: (1) secondary education programs to encourage disadvantaged students to pursue health careers; (2) improving university curriculum; (3) joint programs between universities and health professions institutions; (4) counseling, work-study, and other programs to assist such students in completing their education; and (5) increasing the number of faculty from disadvantaged backgrounds in the health professions schools. Requires that no less than 80 percent of annual appropriations be obligated for grants or contracts with institutions of higher education, and that no more than five percent be obligated for publicizing sources of financial aid. Eliminates start-up, conversion, and curriculum grants for new schools or medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Permits schools receiving such grants in fiscal year 1980 to continue to receive assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to assist two-year medical schools in accelerating the date they will become four-year medical schools. States that the amount of such grants shall be the product of $25,000 and the number of full-time, third-year students which the Secretary estimates will be enrolled during the fiscal year for which the grant is made. Makes programs and projects for the training of diabetes health professionals and dental school curriculum development eligible for such grants. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($10,000,000), 1982 ($12,500,000), and 1983 ($15,000,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry which are in financial distress. Permits such grants to used for: (1) operating costs; (2) special accreditation requirements; (3) operational, managerial, and financial reforms; (4) maintaining the quality of educational programs; and (5) strengthening academic resources and capabilities. Provides that the Secretary shall determine terms and conditions of such grants, including requiring a participating school to: (1) disclose appropriate financial information; (2) conduct a cost analysis study; and (3) carry out operational, managerial, or financial reforms. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to enable a recipient school to conduct a cost analysis of its operations. Requires a grant recipient to provide assurances that it will not reduce its share of non-Federal expenditures from an amount equal to the average amount of such expenditures in the two previous years. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($20,000,000), 1982 ($20,000,000), and 1983 ($20,000,00). Repeals existing grant authority for: (1) the training of certain medical students who are not in such school's principal teaching facilities; and (2) assisting new health care institutions in meeting faculty and equipment costs. Authorizes the Secretary to make support grants to public and other nonprofit schools of public health. Sets forth: (1) the grant computation formula based on student enrollment; and (2) grant and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($7,000,000), 1982 ($8,000,000), and 1983 ($9,000,000). Makes persons with a baccalaureate degree eligible for public health traineeships (presently must have a postbaccalaureate degree). Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($8,000,000), 1982 ($9,000,000), and 1983 ($10,000,000). Authorizes appropriations for grants for special projects for accredited public health schools for fiscal year 1981 ($5,000,000), 1982 ($5,500,000), and 1983 ($6,000,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contract with public and nonprofit private entities for the establishment and operation of centers to provide short-term advanced training in: (1) health systems management; (2) health policy, planning, and regulation; (3) environmental policy and management; (4) financial management; (5) management of small centers in inner city and rural settings; and (6) other areas to increase such individuals' capabilities in carrying out their responsibilities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($1,500,000), 1982 ($2,500,000), and 1983 ($3,000,000). Increases from $100,000 to $150,000 the amount of non-Federal funds an applicant must provide for a graduate health administration grant. Requires assurances of concentration in specified health areas. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 ($4,000,000), 1982 ($4,500,000), and 1983 ($5,000,000). Makes persons with a baccalaureate degree eligible for traineeships in graduate health-related programs (presently must have a postbaccalaureate degree). Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($2,500,000), 1982 ($3,000,000), and 1983 ($3,500,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy to: (1) improve academic units in preventive or community medicine or dentistry; (2) improve instruction in such areas; (3) support joint programs between other clinical specialties and preventive or community medicine or dentistry; and (4) train teachers and researchers in preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($2,000,000), 1982 ($3,000,000), and 1983 ($4,000,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine and public health to: (1) develop new residency training programs and expand existing programs in preventive medicine; and (2) provide financial aid to residency trainees. Requires an applicant-institution to have full-time faculty with experience in such fields and support from other faculty members trained in public health and related specialties. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($6,000,000), 1982 ($7,000,000), and 1983 ($8,000,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to educational institutions with accredited programs in health administration to meet the costs of curriculum development, including: (1) finance; (2) marketing; (3) economics; (4) epidemiology and health planning; (5) health policy, law, and regulation; (6) quality assurance and assessment; (7) information systems; (8) health services organization and management for students in health disciplines other than health administration; and (9) management of ambulatory care services. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($3,000,000), 1982 ($4,000,000), and 1983 ($5,000,000). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to accredited schools of public health and other institutions with accredited health administration programs to establish and operate faculty development programs. Requires a fellowship recipient to: (1) have a doctoral degree (or its equivalent); and (2) serve at least two years as a faculty member in an accredited public health or health administration institution. Authorizes $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1981 through 1983. Requires the Secretary to: (1) assess and identify, on an ongoing basis, current and projected personnel needs for environmental and occupational health workers and such needs for the implementation of Federal, State, and local environmental protection and occupational health laws; (2) study and assess a variety of educational and service needs and governmental agency operations; and (3) report to the Congress concerning such activities. Authorizes $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for such studies. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for the following allied health personnel areas: (1) project grants; (2) traineeships; and (3) assistance to disadvantaged individuals. Title III: Nurse Training - Authorizes $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for nursing school construction in health manpower shortage areas. Authorizes similar amounts for related loan guarantees and interest subsidies. Replaces the existing capitation grant program with an institutional support grant program. States that grant amounts shall be the product of enrollment and: (1) for fiscal year 1981, $200; (2) for fiscal year 1982, $210; and (3) for fiscal year 1983, $220. Requires a collegiate school of nursing to meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements: (1) that it will increase its first year enrollment by 15 percent or ten students, whichever is greater; (2) that it will carry out a program of nurse practitioner training; (3) that it will recruit and graduate individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (at least 20 percent or ten students, whichever is greater, of each year's entering class); and (4) that at least 20 percent or ten students, whichever is greater, of each year's entering class will have associate nursing degrees or a diploma from a diploma nursing school. Requires an associate degree nursing school or a diploma nursing school to meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements: (1) that at least 20 percent or ten students, whichever is greater, of each year's entering class are licensed practical or vocational nurses; and (2) that the number of part-time students is at least 20 percent of the total enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for nursing school institutional support grants for fiscal years 1981 ($25,000,000), 1982 ($27,500,000), and 1983 ($30,000,000). Eliminates eligibility for special project grants for the following: (1) mergers or other cooperative agreements between hospitals and academic institutions; (2) nurse education curriculum improvement; and (3) short-term training programs for nurses aides and paraprofessionals in nursing homes. Provides that an entity which received a grant for such a project in fiscal year 1980 may receive one additional grant or contract for such project. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($15,000,000), 1982 ($17,500,000) and 1983 ($20,000,000). Stipulates that at least 20 percent of such funds must be used for persons from disadvantaged backgrounds. Requires that a similar set-aside be made to increase the geographic and specialty distribution of nursing personnel. Authorizes appropriations for advanced nurse training for fiscal years 1981 ($12,000,000), 1982 ($13,500,000), and 1983 ($15,000,000). Authorizes appropriations for nurse practitioner programs for fiscal years 1981 ($17,000,000), 1982 ($18,500,000), and 1983 ($20,000,000). Eliminates the requirement that a recipient be a resident of a health manpower shortage area, but requires the Secretary to give special consideration to programs that will train residents of such areas. Requires a recipient: (1) to provide one month of obligated service for each month of traineeship received; (2) who fails to complete such service obligation to pay the cost of tuition, related expenses, and interest; and (3) who is academically dismissed or leaves voluntarily to repay the cost of tuition and other expenses made on his or her behalf. Permits the Secretary to waive such obligations. Authorizes appropriations for advanced traineeships for fiscal years 1981 ($15,000,000), 1982 ($17,500,000), and 1983 ($20,000,000). Makes nurse midwives eligible for such grants. Stipulates that at least 50 percent of such annual appropriations shall be obligated for traineeships in the various nurse training fields. Authorizes appropriations for nurse anesthetist traineeships for fiscal years 1981 ($2,000,000), 1982 ($3,000,000), and 1983 ($4,000,000). Provides with regard to student nursing loans that: (1) no recipient student in attendance before October 1, 1984 (presently 1980) may also receive a specified National Defense Education Act loan; (2) recipients must be from low-income or disadvantaged families; and (3) the interest rate shall be six (presently three) percent. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 ($15,000,000), 1982 ($17,500,000), and 1983 ($20,000,000). Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years 1984 through 1986 for students who have received loans prior to October 1, 1983 (presently 1980). Removes the Commissioner of Education from membership on the National Council on Nurse Training. Title IV: Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee - Establishes the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee. Sets forth such Committee's functions and duties.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Amends the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate a medical specialty certificate from the American Board of Medical Specialties as one of the requirements for an alien graduate of a foreign medical school to be admitted as an immigrant or nonimmigrant exchange visitor. Provides that such an alien's stay shall be the lesser of seven years or the time normally required to complete a designated course of medical study (presently two years with a one year extension). Permits such an alien to change his/her designated course of medical study upon approval of the Director of the International Communication Agency once within two years after entry or acquisition of exchange visitor status (presently must continue course of education under which admitted to the United States). Makes such duration of stay and course change provisions applicable to those aliens entering the United States on or after January 10, 1978. Extends the waiver authority regarding such aliens from December 31, 1980, to December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1980
Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability caused by exposure to a phenoxy herbicide (Agent Orange) for veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era. Waives the one-year limitation on claims for compensation for such disabilities.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1980
Handgun Crime Control Act of 1979 - Title I: Amendments to Chapter 44, Title 18, United States Code, Gun Control - Amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 to revise and add definitions used in the Act. Defines "handgun" to include handgun parts. Defines "Department" to mean the Department of Justice (current law is under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury). Prohibits non-licensees from engaging in the business of repairing firearms or ammunition. Stipulates that certain otherwise lawful activities, such as the returning of a firearm by a licensee to the person from whom it was received and the mailing of a firearm to a licensee for the purpose or repair, shall be unlawful with respect to "easily concealable handguns" (that is, those handguns not approved by the Attorney General under this Act). Prohibits the loan or rental of an easily concealable handgun to another person for temporary use for lawful sporting purposes. Prohibits a licensee from selling a handgun to a person who does not appear in person at the licensee's business premises. Prohibits a licensee from selling or delivering a firearm or ammunition to any person if such sale or delivery violates a public ordinance at the place of residence of the purchaser. Revises the statement which must be submitted to a licensee by a purchaser not appearing at such licensee's business premises to provide that such purchaser be 18 years of age with respect to all firearms (current law requires a purchaser of any firearm other than a shotgun or rifle to be 21 years of age). Prohibits a licensee from manufacturing, assembling, selling, or transferring any handgun, other than a curio or relic, which has not been approved by the Attorney General. Prohibits any person from transferring such a handgun unless such person has reasonable cause to believe that the handgun has been approved. Excepts the mailing of handguns to comply with approved standards under certain circumstances. Prohibits the modification of an approved handgun resulting in the failure of such handgun to meet the approved standards. Revises the current prohibition against certain classes of individuals transporting a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce to: (1) extend such prohibition to possession or receipt of any firearm or ammunition; and (2) include as additional categories illegal aliens, persons dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces, and persons who have renounced their United States citizenship. Includes such categories in the current prohibition against selling a firearm or ammunition to certain classes of individuals. Prohibits any person from transporting a firearm or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce in violation of a State law in a place to or through which the firearm was transported. Prohibits a licensee from transferring three or more handguns to the same non-licensee within a period of one year, without prior approval of the Attorney General. Prohibits a non-licensee from receiving three or more handguns within one year without such approval. Prohibits any person who has knowledge of the loss, theft, or disappearance of a handgun in his or her control or possession to fail to report such incident to a law enforcement officer and the Attorney General. Specifies the circumstances under which a person in lawful possession of a license or permit to: (1) carry handguns issued under a State licensing or permit granting program approved by the Attorney General may purchase or receive a handgun in any State from a licensed dealer or non-licensee; and (2) purchase handguns issued under an approved program, may purchase or receive a handgun in the State issuing the license or permit. Directs the Attorney General to review State laws providing for licenses or permits to carry or purchase handguns and to certify as approved those satisfying specified requirements. Specifies the circumstances under which (except as provided by other sections of the Act) a licensed dealer or non-licensee may transfer a handgun to another non-licensee. Sets new annual licensing fees of $5,000 for a manufacturer or importer of handguns, $500 for a dealer in handguns, $100 for a dealer in ammunition for handguns that is not also used in rifles, and $100 for a dealer who is a gunsmith. Prohibits a pawnbroker from being licensed as a dealer in handguns or handgun ammunition and such dealers from conducting business from the premises of a pawnbroker. Imposes additional requirements for the approval of a license application by the Attorney General. Increases from 45 to 90 days the period in which an application must be approved or denied. Authorizes the Attorney General, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to suspend or revoke a license, or subject a licensee who violates any provision of the Act to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. Sets forth new recordkeeping requirements for licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers in handguns. Provides for the transfer of records where a licensee loses his or her license, transfers the business to another person, or in any way ceases doing business. Directs the Attorney General to appoint a 15-member Handgun Criteria Commission to develop criteria for the evaluation of handgun models according to frame size and other appropriate factors for determining whether such models are easily concealable, have potential for criminal use, or are particularly suitable for sporting purposes. Requires the Commission to submit a report containing such criteria within one year of enactment and to evaluate biannually the effectiveness of existing criteria. Directs the Attorney General to revise the criteria upon a determination by the Commission that handguns satisfying existing criteria are significantly involved in handgun crime. Requires final criteria to be transmitted to Congress, which may disapprove by resolution the criteria within 60 days of continuous session. Directs the Attorney General to approve for manufacture, importation, or transfer any handgun model which satisfies the established criteria after representative samples of such model are evaluated and tested. Authorizes exceptions with respect to handguns which are particularly appropriate for law enforcement purposes. Directs the Attorney General, prior to the time that criteria have been established, to evaluate samples of all handgun models and approve for manufacture, importation, or transfer handgun models which meet specified requirements. Sets forth procedures for the administrative review of a finding that a sample submitted has failed to meet the approved standards. Requires the Attorney General to publish at least semiannually in the general register a list of handgun models which have been tested and the test results. Deems approved any handgun model not in manufacture on or after October 21, 1968, and which has not been tested. Revises the penalties under such Act. Disallows, with respect to a person who uses or carries a firearm during the commission of any felony and receives an additional sentence, the suspension of such sentence, the giving of probation, or the concurrent running of a term of imprisonment (under current law such prohibitions apply only to a second or subsequent offense). Sets forth a mandatory period of parole ineligibility for such offense, unless the court finds specified mitigating circumstances. Makes any person (including a licensee) who negligently sells or transfers a handgun in violation of this Act civilly liable for the death or injury suffered by an individual as a result of the use of the handgun by the transferee in the commission of an offense that causes death or personal injury to that individual. Stipulates that certain exceptions to the provisions of the Act shall only apply with respect to handguns which have been approved by the Attorney General in accordance with the Act. Allows a mental incompetent to be relieved from the disabilities of the Act with respect to the possession, acquisition, or transfer of firearms upon specific findings by a court. Authorizes the Attorney General to permit the importation of approved handguns. Directs the Attorney General to make annual grants for each fiscal year and supplemental grants at his or her discretion for compensation of victims of handgun crime to qualifying State programs for the compensation of victims of handgun crime. Specifies eligibility criteria for such programs and the amount of authorized payments. Requires the Attorney General to submit annual reports to the congressional judiciary committees concerning such programs. Establishes a nine-member Advisory Committee on Victims of Handgun Crime to advise the Attorney General on the administration of the programs and policies relating to the compensation of victims of handgun crimes. Title II: Gun Control Functions Transferred to Attorney General - Transfers to the Attorney General all functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under the Gun Control Act of 1968. Authorizes the President to transfer additional functions of other agencies to the Department which relate to the functions transferred by this Act. Establishes within the Department of Justice the Firearms Safety and Abuse Control Administration to administer the functions of the Attorney General under the Gun Control Act of 1968. Directs the Attorney General to transmit to Congress as part of the annual report of the Department of Justice a report on the activities of the Administration. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Federal criminal code to increase from 45 to 90 days the period in which an application for a user permit or a license to import, manufacture, or deal in explosive materials must be approved or denied. Authorizes the Attorney General, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to suspend or revoke a license, or subject a licensee who violates any statutory requirement to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. Directs the Postal Service to promulgate regulations for the conveyance of handguns in the mails. Directs the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations established by the Act of September 24, 1959, in consultation with the United States Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, and representatives of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, to report within six months of enactment on: (1) intergovernmental problems in controlling illicit handgun traffic; and (2) the effectiveness of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Gun Control Act of 1968. Repeals title VII of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (relating to the receipt, possession, or transportation of firearms by felons, veterans dishonorably discharged, mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and persons renouncing their United States citizenship). Makes this Act effective 120 days after enactment, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners a nonrefundable income tax credit for 50 percent of the expenses paid or incurred to make alterations to their residences for the purpose of making such residences more accessible to, and usable by, a handicapped individual who is either the taxpayer, his spouse, or a dependent of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of such credit, for each such handicapped individual, to the lesser of $1,000 or an amount which, when added to previous year's credits, does not exceed $5,000. Reduces the amount of such credit by one-half of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $20,000 ($35,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly). Defines "handicapped individual" as any individual who has a medically identifiable mental or physical impairment which can be expected to result in death or which can be expected to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months, and which substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual. Requires the handicapped individual to live in the principal residence for which the alterations are made for not less than a nine month period during the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1980
Establishes within the National Institutes of Health the Office of Drugs of Limited Commercial Value under the direction of the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Establishes within the Office an advisory council to advise the Director and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education, and Welfare) respecting the time required for drug approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Authorizes the Director to provide financial assistance to entities for the development of drugs of limited commercial value, defined as a drug for a condition or disease of low incidence, to undertake the development of such drugs, undertake studies to determine the potential and need for specific drugs, and coordinate the efforts of public and private entities engaged in the development of such drugs. Requires the submission and approval of an application containing the scientific basis for the development of the drug and the proposed therapeutic use of the drug and other specified information before financial assistance is provided. Requires each entity receiving funds to keep specified records. Requires the Director to report to Congress within two years on the effectiveness of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1980
Small Business Capital Formation, Capital Retention, and Expansion Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small businesses an income tax credit equal to 50 percent of the cash contributions to a business expansion reserve. Limits the amount of such credit to $300,000 for a taxable year. Requires that expenditures made from such reserve be used to acquire, construct, reconstruct, or erect depreciable business assets, for research or experimentation in connection with the taxpayer's trade or business, or for employee wage increases. Permits the accumulation of amounts of capital in the business expansion reserve for up to five years without tax penalty. Disallows any business expense deduction or credit for amounts paid out of a business expansion reserve other than the credit authorized by this Act. Limits the allowable deduction for depreciation of property acquired by funds paid out from a business expansion reserve to an amount determined under the straight line method.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1980
Social Security Payroll Credit Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers, employees, and self-employed individuals an income tax credit equal to ten percent of the amount of social security taxes paid by such individuals in 1981 or 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Health Research Act of 1980 - 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 (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Enumerates the duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the authority to obtain the services of not more than 200 scientific or professional experts or consultants. Requires the Director to delegate certain functions to the Assistant Director of NIH. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Director of NIH; and (2) prepare an annual report on its activities. Requires the Director of NIH to submit to the President, Congress, and the Secretary an annual report, including a five-year plan for the activities and program policies of the Director and the unrevised annual reports of the Advisory Council and other advisory boards of NIH. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Provides that the Director of each institute (except the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) shall appoint an assistant director to coordinate and promote the prevention, education, and health information programs of the institute. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each national research institute. Sets forth general provisions applicable to the councils, including that each council shall: (1) consist of 18 voting members appointed by the Secretary for four-year terms; and (2) review research projects and programs submitted under its jurisdiction, collect information in its field, advise the Director with respect to grant expenditures, and convene workshops and conferences. Applies special provisions to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Requires each Director to prepare an annual report including a five-year plan for the institute's activities and policies. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the 11 institutes through fiscal year 1983. Sets forth specific provisions relating to each of the national research institutes. States the general purpose of each institute. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Cancer to coordinate aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to cancer to assure their technical soundness and to provide for necessary exchanges of information. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the following bodies and programs through fiscal year 1983: (1) the National Arthritis Advisory Board, the National Diabetes Advisory Board, and the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; (2) arthritis demonstration projects and data system; (3) multipurpose arthritis centers; and (4) diabetes research and training centers. Revises certain provisions relating to national research service awards. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such awards through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 1983, on the effect of such program on the number of physicians who enter the various medical specialties. Carries forward certain general provisions relating to the Institutes. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants for preventive health service programs for tuberculosis.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Small Business Capital Formation, Capital Retention and Expansion Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small businesses an income tax credit equal to 50 percent of the cash contributions to a business expansion reserve. Limits the amount of such credit to $300,000 for a taxable year. Requires that expenditures made from such reserve be used to acquire, construct, reconstruct, or erect depreciable business assets or to provide for employee wage increases. Permits the accumulation of amounts of capital in the business expansion reserve for up to five years without tax penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on small cigarettes from $4 per thousand to $9 per thousand, and on large cigarettes from $8.40 per thousand to $18.90 per thousand.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980
National Ridesharing Act of 1980 - Transfers specified provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 relating to carpool and vanpool projects to Federal highway law, as codified. Includes specified recipients of financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 among those to whom the Secretary of Transportation may make grants and loans for carpool and vanpool projects. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction of highway lanes as preferential carpool or vanpool highway lanes, or for the construction of parking facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Transportation a National Office of Ridesharing to coordinate all carpooling and vanpooling activities within the Department. Requires the Office, in connection with carpooling and vanpooling, to: (1) set national goals for reduction of pollution and traffic and conservation of motor fuel; (2) compile statistics; (3) perform economic analyses; (4) provide promotion, technical assistance, and public information; (5) evaluate national impacts of, and identify obstacles to, such programs; and (6) report and recommend legislation to Congress. Directs the Secretary to report annually on such programs to the President and the Congress. Prohibits the Secretary from approving, after January 1, 1982, the granting of such carpooling or vanpooling financial assistance to be used in any urban area of more than 50,000 population unless the Secretary finds that such assistance is based on a continuing comprehensive transportation planning process carried on cooperatively by States and local communities. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to increase the amount of the authorization of appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for specified assistance for carpool and vanpool projects for fiscal year 1981 and to extend the authorization of such appropriations through fiscal year 1982. Increases the amounts authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund for specified grants and loans for such projects for fiscal year 1979, 1980, and 1981, and extends such authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1982. Provides that, to the extent authorized by Acts governing the use of funds available in the windfall profit tax account, such funds shall be available, as provided in appropriation Acts, for such financial assistance for such projects. Limits the amounts of such funds available for specified purposes in fiscal year 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Infant Formula Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to set forth requirements for infant formulas. States that formulas which do not conform to such requirements shall be deemed to be adulterated. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to revise such requirements and establish quality control procedures. Requires each manufacturer of an infant formula to notify the Secretary whether the formula as processed meets such requirements and of any changes in such formula or its processing. Requires a processor who has information that any infant formula leaving his or her control may be adulterated or misbranded to promptly notify the Secretary. Sets forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements respecting the distribution of such formula as may be necessary to effect and monitor recalls. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the scope and extent of such recalls. Exempts infant formulas represented and labelled for use by infants having unusual medical or dietary problems from the specified nutrient requirements of such Act. Permits the Secretary to establish terms and conditions for the exemption of other infant formulas from such requirements. Grants an inspector enforcing the provisions of this Act access to specified records of the manufacturer at all times. Makes the failure to submit required reports or to provide required notice prohibited acts under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Extends from January 1, 1977, to January 1, 1978, the income tax exclusion for subsistence allowances paid to State police officers. Extends from April 15, 1979 until one year after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) the period for electing such tax exclusion; and (2) the period for applying for any refund or credit for overpayment of taxes which was prevented by law or rule of law prior to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1980
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the expenses of the Department of Justice in carrying out its functions under such Act. Directs the Attorney General to make available to the appropriate State agencies descriptive and analytic reports on the actual distribution patterns in such States of the controlled substance determined to have the highest rate of abuse. Amends the Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978 to establish criminal penalties for violations involving in excess of 1,000 pounds of marihuana. Increases the penalties for recidivists of such violations. Prohibits the suspension of sentence or the granting of probation upon conviction for such violations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1980
Rescinds $229,000,000 in appropriations provided for the purchase of furniture by Federal agencies and departments in fiscal year 1980. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to allocate such rescission among the agencies and departments and to report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate concerning the allocation. Rescinds $15,000,000 in appropriations made to the Federal Buildings Fund for the rental of space in fiscal year 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1980
Health Research Act of 1980 - 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 (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Enumerates the duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the authority to obtain the services of not more than 200 scientific or professional experts or consultants. Requires the Director to delegate certain functions to the Assistant Director of NIH. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Director of NIH; and (2) prepare an annual report on its activities. Requires the Director of NIH to submit to the President, Congress, and the Secretary an annual report, including a five-year plan for the activities and program policies of the Director and the unrevised annual reports of the Advisory Council and other advisory boards of NIH. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Provides that the Director of each institute (except the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) shall appoint an assistant director to coordinate and promote the prevention, education, and health information programs of the institute. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each national research institute. Sets forth general provisions applicable to the councils, including that each council shall: (1) consist of 18 voting members appointed by the Secretary for four-year terms; and (2) review research projects and programs submitted under its jurisdiction, collect information in its field, advise the Director with respect to grant expenditures, and convene workshops and conferences. Applies special provisions to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Requires each Director to prepare an annual report including a five-year plan for the institute's activities and policies. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the 11 institutes through fiscal year 1983. Sets forth specific provisions relating to each of the national research institutes. States the general purpose of each institute. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Cancer to coordinate aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to cancer to assure their technical soundness and to provide for necessary exchange of information. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the following bodies and programs through fiscal year 1983: (1) the National Arthritis Advisory Board, the National Diabetes Advisory Board, and the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; (2) arthritis demonstration projects and data system; (3) multipurpose arthritis centers; and (4) diabetes research and training centers. Revises certain provisions relating to national research service awards. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such awards through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 1983, on the effect of such program on the number of physicians who enter the various medical specialties. Carries forward certain general provisions relating to the Institutes. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants for preventive health service programs for tuberculosis.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Amends the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to prohibit the President from taking action, pursuant to the President's authority to adjust the imports of articles which threaten national security, to impose import fees on petroleum and petroleum products imported into the United States without specific authorization from Congress, effective March 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the residential energy credit for energy conservation expenditures with respect to residences substantially completed after April 19, 1977, if such expenditures are for energy conservation items which are not required by Federal, State, or local housing standards.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980 - Title I: National Health Service Corps Programs - Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to include in the National Health Service Corps as an individual subject to the personnel system of the Corps and entitled to receive the same income as a civilian employee of the Corps, an individual who is not an employee of the United States and who as a recipient of a National Health Service Corps Scholarship, has been designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve in a health manpower shortage area to satisfy such individual's service obligation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application to assign such an individual to an entity in a health manpower shortage area if the entity does not have sufficient financial resources to provide the individual with such an income. Permits the Secretary to make a grant to the entity to assure that the individual will receive such an income if, in approving the application, the Secretary determines that the entity does not have the resources to provide such an income. Directs the Secretary to conduct programs to demonstrate the improvements that can be made in the assignment of members of the Corps to health manpower shortage areas and in the delivery of health care by Corps members in such areas through coordination with State and local governments and other public and nonprofit private entities with expertise in the planning, development, and operation of centers for the delivery of primary health care. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury called the National Health Service Corps Fund to carry out the National Health Service Corps Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to conduct programs designed to prepare an individual with a service obligation under the Scholarship Program to effectively provide health services in the health manpower shortage area to which the individual is assigned. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the National Health Service Corps Program. Directs the Secretary, under title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Act, in the case of an individual with a service obligation, to determine if the individual shall provide such service as a member of the Corps: (1) who is a commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Service or who is a civilian employee of the United States; or (2) who is not such an officer or employee, and to notify the individual of such determination. Requires an individual released from the service obligation pursuant to a written agreement under which the individual agrees to engage in full-time private clinical practice to agree to accept assignments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and to provide services to an individual entitled to medical assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act. Permits the Secretary to require an individual with such an agreement in effect who fails, for any reason, to begin or complete such service, to perform the service obligation as a member of the Corps. Requires an individual with such an agreement in effect who does not meet the service obligation to repay, with interest at the maximum legal rate, the scholarship. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the Scholarship Program. Title II: Health Professions Program under Title VII - Repeals the requirement that a school for training physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, professional public health personnel, or osteopaths, must increase its enrollment by a specified amount if it is awarded a grant, under title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Act, for the construction of additional teaching facilities. Permits the Secretary to make a loan guarantee for remodeling, renovating, or altering the teaching facility of a nonprofit private entity for educating health personnel until September 30, 1983. Extends for three fiscal years, the Federal program of insuring loans to graduate students in health professions schools. Repeals the provision which permits the Secretary to insure a student loan only if made to a student who does not receive funds from a loan insured under a Federal, State, or nonprofit program provided under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Prohibits a loan from being insured by the Secretary unless the written agreement offers, in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary, a schedule for repayment of principal and interest under which payment of a portion of the principal and interest otherwise repayable at the beginning of the repayment period is deferred until a later time in the period. Repeals the prohibition against having more than 50 percent of the students in an eligible health professions institution from having their loans insured under the Federal loan insurance program. Authorizes appropriations for the student loan program through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for scholarships for health professional students of exceptional financial need who are in their first year of study. Revises the method of determining institutional grants (formerly capitation grants) to a health professional school for the support of educational programs. States that the annual grant shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount appropriated for the fiscal year as the total number of full-time students enrolled in the school bears to the total number of full-time students enrolled in all schools of the same category. Sets forth provisions relating to the determination of enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983 for schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Prohibits making such a grant unless the applicant school provides assurances that it will at least match the amount of the grant with funds from non-Federal sources. Reduces the percentage of students required to be enrolled in medical residency training programs in primary care in order for a medical school to be eligible for such a grant. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) project grants for the establishment of departments of family medicine; (2) area health education center programs; (3) programs for physician assistants, dental auxiliaries, and dental team practice; (4) training, traineeships, and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics; (5) family medicine and general dental practice programs; (6) educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds so that such individuals may undertake education to enter a health profession; and (7) startup, financial distress, interdisciplinary training, and curriculum development (but only for schools of public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, or podiatry). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy, nonprofit hospitals, or other nonprofit entities to: (1) plan, develop, and operate a program for training physicians who plan to teach in general internal medicine and general pediatrics training programs; and (2) provide assistance to physicians who participate in any such program. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the most effective and efficient means of providing financial assistance to graduate medical education programs in primary medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to nonprofit schools of public health. Sets forth a formula for determining the size of the grants. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983. Requires a school to receive a grant: (1) to obtain from non-Federal sources an amount at least equal to the amount expended by the applicant for such purpose in the previous year; and (2) to maintain a certain level of enrollment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if compliance by such school will prevent it from maintaining its accreditation. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) public health traineeships; and (2) special projects for accredited schools of public health and graduate programs in health administration. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with nonprofit entities for the establishment, operation, and administration of centers to provide intensive, short-term, advanced training, to individuals with demonstrated expertise in health policy and management, in: (1) health systems management; (2) health policy, planning, and regulation; (3) environmental policy and management; (4) financial management and strategy in health care; (5) the management of collaboration between health care entities; (6) the management of small health care entities in inner cities and rural areas; and (7) other matters which will increase the capabilities of such individuals and broaden their perspectives in carrying out their functions. States that the amount of any grant or contract shall be determined by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants and contracts, Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) grants for graduate programs in health administration; and (2) traineeships for students in accredited graduate schools of social work, but excluding accredited schools of public health, which offer a program in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy for the costs of projects to: (1) establish and improve academic administrative units in preventive or community medicine or dentistry; (2) improve predoctoral and postdoctoral instruction in preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry; (3) plan, develop, and operate joint programs between academic administrative units in preventive or community medicine or dentistry and such units in other clinical specialties which integrate the teaching of clinical preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry within clinical programs for other medical or dental disciplines; and (4) plan, develop and operate special programs to train teachers and researchers in preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry. States that the Secretary shall determine the amount of any such grant. Requires a school to be eligible for such a grant to establish an academic administrative unit in preventive or community medicine or dentistry or an academic or administrative unit which has the primary responsibility, within the school, for teaching the principles of preventive or community medicine or dentistry. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine and schools of public health to meet the costs of projects to: (1) plan and develop new residency training programs and to develop and expand accredited residency training programs in preventive medicine; and (2) provide financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in such programs. States that the Secretary shall determine the amount of any such grant. Requires a school to be eligible for such a grant to demonstrate that it has or will have available full-time faculty members with training and experience in the fields of preventive medicine and support from other faculty members trained in public health and other relevant specialties and disciplines. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations, relating to allied health personnel, through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) project grants and contracts; (2) traineeships for advanced training of allied health personnel; and (3) educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training. Title III: Nurse Training - Amends title VIII (Nurse Training) of the Act to limit grants to nursing schools for the construction of new facilities and for the replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities in health manpower shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Revises the formula for the computation of institutional support grants (formerly, capitation grants) for collegiate schools of nursing, associate schools of nursing and diploma schools of nursing so as to reduce the amount of such grants per student. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983. Revises the requirements a nursing school must meet in order to receive such a grant so that a school must meet one of the following: (1) for a school of nursing, the first year enrollment of full-time students must exceed the number of first year students enrolled in the school year beginning during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, by the greater of five percent or five students; (2) in the case of a collegiate school of nursing, the school will carry out a program to train nurse practitioners; (3) the school will carry out a program to identify, recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds such that at least 20 percent of each year's entering class (or ten students, whichever is higher) is comprised of such individuals; (4) in the case of a collegiate school of nursing, that at least 20 percent of each year's entering class of full-time students (or ten students, whichever is greater) is made up of individuals who have a degree from an associate degree school of nursing or a diploma or equivalent indicia from a diploma school of nursing; (5) in the case of an associate school of nursing or a diploma school of nursing, at least 20 percent of each year's entering full-time students (or ten students, whichever is greater) shall be made up of individuals who are licensed practical or vocational nurses; or (6) the number of part-time students enrolled in the school, in its program leading to the degree or diploma or equivalent indicia, will be at least 20 percent of all students enrolled in the school in such program. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make special project grants and contracts to nonprofit nursing schools and other nonprofit entities for the following purposes: (1) to assist in mergers or other cooperative arrangements among hospitals and academic institutions leading to the establishment of nurse training programs; (2) to plan, develop, or establish new nurse training programs, or to improve curricula of nursing schools; (3) to assist in meeting the costs of developing short-term in- service training programs for nurses aides and orderlies for nursing homes; and (4) to provide training and education to upgrade the skills of nursing assistants, and other paraprofessional nursing personnel (retains the authority for programs to provide training and education to upgrade the skills of licensed vocational or practical nurses). Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the remaining special projects. Stipulates that at least 20 percent of the funds appropriated shall be used to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and at least 20 percent shall be used to help to increase the supply or improve the distribution, by geographic area or by specialty group, of adequately trained nursing personnel to meet the Nation's health needs. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for advanced nurse training programs. Specifies that an individual awarded a nurse practitioner's traineeship under the Act must make a commitment to practice in a health manpower shortage area for a period equal to one month for each month the recipient receives the traineeship. Sets forth conditions of repayment in those instances where an individual awarded a traineeship either fails to complete the service obligation, or is academically dismissed or voluntarily terminates academic training. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the obligation if compliance is impossible or would involve extreme hardship and would be inequitable. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for nurse practitioner traineeships. Repeals, under the traineeship grant program for advanced training of professional nurses, the authority of the Secretary to make grants for training professional nurses to serve as nurse practitioners. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to train professional nurses to serve as nurse midwives. Authorizes appropriations for the advanced traineeship program through fiscal year 1983. Stipulates that, except under certain conditions, at least 50 percent of such appropriated funds shall be utilized to train professional nurses to teach in the various fields of nurse training. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants to cover the cost of traineeships for training nurse anesthetists. Requires that student nursing loans may only be made to a student who is in exceptionally needy circumstances or is from a low-income or disadvantaged family. Increases the interest on such loans from three to six percent. Authorizes appropriations for nursing school student loan funds through fiscal year 1983. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make scholarship grants to nonprofit nursing schools. Title IV: Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee - Establishes, under title VII of the Act, the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to: (1) the need for and supply of physicians in the various medical specialties and with respect to the geographic distribution of physicians; and (2) various matters related to graduate medical education. Directs the Advisory Committee to recommend to the Secretary goals for: (1) the distribution of physicians by medical specialties and subspecialties; and (2) the number of graduate medical education positions that should be available in each of the medical specialties and subspecialties. Directs the Advisory Committee to annually report to the Secretary. Title V: Medicare and Medicaid Amendments Relating to Primary Care Residency Programs - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide, at the election of a hospital, that physicians' services furnished to a hospital outpatient by a licensed physician who is a resident in an accredited residency program in the hospital in family medicine, primary internal medicine, or primary pediatrics shall be treated for the purposes of the Medicare program as medical and other health services and not as physician services (which are excluded from coverage except where furnished by a hospital resident). States that the reasonable costs of such a hospital shall not include, for the purposes of determining reasonable costs, costs which are allocable to furnishing such services. Provides coverage under part B, at the election of the facility, for primary care residency training facility services. Provides that such services shall be reimbursed at 80 percent of reasonable cost. Defines the term "primary care residency training facility services" to mean such physicians' services and such services and supplies as are covered as "medical and other health services" under Medicare if furnished to an individual as an outpatient of a primary care residency training facility as an incident to a physician's professional service. Defines the term "primary care residency training facility" as a facility which, among other things, is primarily engaged: (1) in furnishing physicians' services to outpatients; and (2) in operating an approved residency training program in family medicine. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act to provide Medicaid coverage for 100 percent of the reasonable cost of primary care residency training facility services. Title VI: Alien Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools - Amends provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act concerning the admissibility of alien medical school graduates: (1) to state that such an alien shall be considered to have passed parts I and II of the National Board of Medical Examiners Examination if the alien was fully and permanently licensed to practice medicine in a State on January 9, 1977, and was practicing medicine in a State on that date; and (2) to provide that the limit of an alien's participation in graduate medical education in the United States is limited to the lesser of seven years or the time typically required to complete such education, except that the alien may, under certain circumstances, change his or her program of education.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Expresses the concern of the House of Representatives for the civil rights of political prisoners in Taiwan and of native Formosans. Urges closer attention to the human rights situation in Taiwan before further military sales or assistance is provided.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Pollution Control Capital Recovery Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from five to three years the amortization period for pollution control equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Food Security Act of 1980 - Declares it to be U.S. policy to develop a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries. Directs the President, in order to carry out such policy, to establish a reserve stock of wheat of up to 4,000,000 metric tons for specified purposes. Permits stocks of wheat for such reserve to be acquired: (1) through purchases from producers or in the market, if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such purchases will not unduly disrupt the market; and (2) by designation by the Secretary of stocks of wheat acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes the President to release such designated or acquired wheat reserve stocks to provide, on a donation or sale basis, emergency food assistance to developing countries at any time that the U.S. domestic wheat supply is so limited that quantities cannot be made available for disposition, except for humanitarian purposes, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Provides that up to 300,000 tons of wheat may be released from the reserve in any fiscal year for use under such Act in providing urgent humanitarian relief in developing countries which suffer major disasters (as determined by the President), in circumstances of unanticipated and exceptional need when the normal means of obtaining food assistance make timely programming impossible. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on wheat so released and its timely replenishment. Allows such wheat to be processed in the U.S. and shipped to the recipient country as wheat flour, when necessary. Requires that such wheat be made available under such Act, with specified provisions as to determinations of availability inapplicable thereto. Directs the Secretary to provide for reserve management as to location and class of wheat needed to meet emergencies, rotation to avoid spoilage and deterioration, and prompt equivalent replacement of removed quantities. Specifies that stocks of wheat shall not: (1) be considered a part of the total domestic supply (including carryover) for certain purposes; or (2) be subject to any quantitative export limitations under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Directs the Secretary to utilize the funds and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act, except that any restrictions applicable to the acquisition, storage, or disposition of Corporation owned or controlled commodities shall not apply to wheat for or in the reserve. Requires that the Corporation be reimbursed for actual costs under such program. Declares final any determination by the President or the Secretary under this Act. Provides that: (1) this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1980; (2) the authorities of this Act shall expire on September 30, 1983; and (3) any wheat in the reserve when such authorities expire shall be distributed under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act in fiscal year 1984 and subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Municipal Waste-to-Energy Act of 1980 - Title I: Research, Development and Demonstration - Requires the Director of the Office of Urban Waste Energy Management (established under this Act) to establish, conduct, and promote an accelerated research, development, and demonstration program for the recovery of energy from municipal wastes. Directs the Director to provide financial assistance in the form of grants, contracts, price supports, purchase guarantees, loan guarantees and cooperative agreements, or any combination thereof, to public or private entities to support the cost of planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining experimental and demonstration facilities and modifications of existing facilities for demonstration purposes, for the conversion of municipal wastes into energy, or for the recovery of materials. Requires that such program be designed to achieve its goals within ten years after enactment of this Act. Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to extend the financial support program to include public and private entity waste reprocessing demonstration facilities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out this title. Title II: Commercialization - Requires the Director to establish a program of financial assistance for commercial-scale projects designed for the conversion of municipal wastes into energy or the recovery of materials, including, in decreasing order of priority, price and loan guarantees, loans, and grants. Stipulates that such assistance shall be made to supplement but not to compete with nor supplant any private capital investment under authority of any other Federal law. Directs the Director to establish internal procedures, standards, and criteria for the timely review of compliance with such requirement of each new award of assistance for a specific proposed municipal waste processing project. Limits such financial assistance to a maximum of 75 percent of the total capital cost of that project. Prohibits any project receiving such assistance from thereafter being eligible for such assistance. Requires that any specific tax credit directly associated with such projects be considered in determining the need for financial assistance awarded under this title. Limits the amount of loans entered into for such projects to a maximum of 49 percent of the total capital costs of the project, unless the Director determines that such limit would prevent the financial viability of the proposed project. Sets forth requirements concerning the Director's authority to enter into, or make, such loans, loan guarantees, price guarantees, and grants. Directs the Director to conduct economic analyses of municipal waste-to-energy conversion technologies in other countries for publication and dissemination. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out this title. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish an Office of Urban Waste Energy Management within the Department of Energy to perform the research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities authorized under this Act. Directs the Director of such Office to prepare a program and management plan for such activities and to transmit such plan to specified congressional committees. Requires the Director to annually submit to the Congress a detailed description of such plan as in effect, with proposed modifications as necessary. Requires the Director to support science and engineering education programs to provide trained personnel to perform the activities required under this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Commerce, and other appropriate agency heads to cooperate with the Director in carrying out duties under this Act and to provide the Director with information in their possession which is necessary for such purposes. Requires the Director to assure the full and complete dissemination of information concerning any project or other activity conducted under this Act to Federal, State, and local authorities, relevant segments of the economy, the scientific community, and the public in order to promote the early, widespread, and practical use of municipal waste-to-energy technologies. Directs the Director, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Commerce, to prepare and transmit to the Congress a report analyzing and assessing legal impediments and other barriers to the development and application of such technologies. Sets forth the components of such report. States that amounts received by the Director as repayment of loans made under this Act and other specified amounts shall be deposited in the Federal Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Research Revitalization Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer engaged in a trade or business an income tax credit equal to 25 percent of the cash contributions made by such taxpayer to a reserve fund established to finance research or experimentation related to the taxpayer's business. Limits the total amount of such credit to five percent of the taxable business income of the taxpayer for the taxable year. Exempts such reserve fund from income taxation. Allows an income tax deduction for research expenses paid out of the reserve fund during the taxable year. Specifies that research financed pursuant to this Act shall be performed by an institution of higher education. Prescribes tax penalties for the use of funds from the research reserve for purposes other than research and experimentation.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to correct the birthdates on naturalization certificates of individuals admitted as immigrants between December 22, 1945, and November 1, 1954, if such original misrepresentation was predicated upon a fear of persecution if repatriated rather than to evade the existing immigration quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1980
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the export of goods, the sales of which are prohibited or restricted in the United States pursuant to specified public health and safety laws, unless specified conditions are met. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to issue export licenses permitting the export of such goods if: (1) all statutory requirements are met; (2) the Secretary and the head of the agency regulating the sale of such good in the United States concur that (a) the country has requested such export, (b) the country has been fully informed of any U.S. restrictions and possible hazards, and (c) the potential benefits outweigh the possible hazards; and (3) the sale in the importing country would be subject to restrictions comparable to those imposed in the United States. Requires such exported goods to include all information required by U.S. law. Prohibits the export of such goods if such information is likely to be ineffective. Prohibits the export of any good to be used in manufacturing prohibited goods.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1980
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a State Medicaid plan to provide for payment for physicians' services at a rate of not less than the greater of: (1) 60 percent of the reasonable charges for such services as determined under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII of the Act; or (2) the rate of payment for such services under the State plan as in effect during the calendar quarter ending December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980
Health Research Act of 1980 - 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 (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Enumerates the duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the authority to obtain the services of not more than 200 scientific or professional experts or consultants. Requires the Director to delegate certain functions to the Assistant Director of NIH. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Director of NIH; and (2) prepare an annual report on its activities. Requires the Director of NIH to submit to the President, Congress, and the Secretary an annual report, including a five-year plan for the activities and program policies of the Director and the unrevised annual reports of the Advisory Council and other advisory boards of NIH. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Provides that the Director of each institute (except the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) shall appoint an assistant director to coordinate and promote the prevention, education, and health information programs of the institute. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each national research institute. Sets forth general provisions applicable to the councils, including that each council shall: (1) consist of 18 voting members appointed by the Secretary for four-year terms; and (2) review research projects and programs submitted under its jurisdiction, collect information in its field, advise the Director with respect to grant expenditures, and convene workshops and conferences. Applies special provisions to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Requires each Director to prepare an annual report including a five-year plan for the institute's activities and policies. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the 11 institutes through fiscal year 1983. Sets forth specific provisions relating to each of the national research institutes. States the general purpose of each institute. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Cancer to coordinate aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to cancer to assure their technical soundness and to provide for necessary exchange of information. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the following bodies and programs through fiscal year 1983: (1) the National Arthritis Advisory Board, the National Diabetes Advisory Board, and the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; (2) arthritis demonstration projects and data system; (3) multipurpose arthritis centers; and (4) diabetes research and training centers. Revises certain provisions relating to national research service awards. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such awards through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 1982, on the effect of such program on the number of physicians who enter the various medical specialties. Carries forward certain general provisions relating to the Institutes. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants for preventive health service programs for tuberculosis.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should release Andrei Sakharov from internal exile immediately. Urges the President to: (1) protest Sakharov's exile and the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union; (2) call upon other nations to join in such protests and impose sanctions against the Soviet Union; and (3) inform Helsinki signatory governments that the U.S. delegation intends to raise these violations at the 1980 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe review meeting.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to Ambassador Kenneth Taylor in recognition of his efforts to secure the return of six American Embassy officials in Tehran. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be struck such gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Vietnam Era Veterans Agent Orange Act - Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability for certain diseases arising in Vietnam-era veterans (and for birth defects in their children) exposed to agent orange.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Expresses appreciation to Canada for: (1) its historic close relations and cooperation with the United States in conducting foreign policy; (2) its support for U.S. efforts to obtain the safe release of the hostages in Iran; and (3) its efforts to protect and arrange the safe departure of certain U.S. citizens from Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should release Andrei Sakharov from internal exile immediately. Urges the President, through the Secretary of State to: (1) express U.S. opposition to Sakharov's exile; (2) inform the Soviet Union that the United States will take into account, in evaluating its reactions with other countries, the extent to which those countries honor their commitments under international law.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation honoring the memory of Walt Disney on the 25th anniversary of his contribution to the American dream.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1979
Medicaid Community Care Act of 1980 - Authorizes a State with a plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to have Federal payments for home health care services, nursing services, home health aid services, medical equipment for use in the home, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology services, endiology services, adult day health services, respite care, short-term full-term nursing care, homemaker services, and nutrition counseling made at a higher rate the the rate for other care and services provided under the State plan. Specifies that the Federal medical assistance percentage for such services and the comprehensive assessments provided for in this Act shall be the lesser of: (1) the Federal medical assistance percentage determined under title XIX plus 25 percent; or (2) 90 percent of the cost of such services and assessments. Requires an application to be accompanied by a community care plan which: (1) provides for a comprehensive assessment of each individual eligible or applying for Medicaid who is likely to need long-term skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility services; (2) makes available, under title XIX, the care and services for which the higher Federal payment may be made to individuals determined pursuant to a comprehensive assessment to be in need of long-term facility services and for whom such assistance is a feasible alternative to long-term facility services; and (3) coordinates the services provided under this Act with similar services provided under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress with respect to the program established under this Act. Permits a State, for the purposes of title XIX, to treat a noninstitutionalized individual the same as an individual who is in a long-term care facility if the noninstitutionalized individual meets the income and resources standards for long-term facility residents and has been determined, pursuant to an assessment under this Act, to need long-term facility services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Used Machinery Investment Credit Adjustment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100,000 to $200,000 the cost of used property which is eligible for the investment tax credit.
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