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United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Designates the week of June 1 through June 7, 1986, as National Intelligence Community Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Designates the week of April 14 through April 20, 1986, as National Mathematics Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Designates February 28, 1986, as National TRIO Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Michael J. Smith, Francis R. Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Judith A. Resnik, all of whom died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Prohibits any benefits payable from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, including cost-of-living increases, during calendar year 1987 from being subject to reduction or suspension by statute or presidential order.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act of 1986 - Title I: Federal Employees Health Benefits - Changes from "employees" to "enrollees" those persons eligible for rebates from amounts held in contingency reserves under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Fund. Eliminates the requirement of three medical specialties for group-practice prepayment plans. Authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to waive certain health benefit plan election coverage requirements for individuals who fail to satisfy such requirements due to exceptional circumstances. Directs OPM to provide a three-week period during which enrollees in health benefits plans may change or cancel their enrollments before any contract term in which the rates or benefits of a plan will change, a new plan will be offered, or an existing plan will be terminated. Authorizes an enrollee to transfer such enrollment at other times and under conditions as prescribed by OPM. Amends current law relating to the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan to establish contracting authority for clinical social workers. Authorizes Federal health plans to require a referral by a psychiatrist as a condition for reimbursement of clinical social workers. Prohibits such plans from requiring that services be performed under the supervision of a psychiatrist or other health practitioner. Reinstates contracting authority under the plan for health services for medically underserved populations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Federal health plan participants should receive adequate insurance coverage for treatment of mental illness, alcoholism, and drug addiction; and (2) the OPM should encourage participating plans to provide adequate benefits relating to such illnesses. Directs OPM to study and report to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and the Senate Committee on Government Affairs before April 1, 1986, on extending contracting authority under the Federal Health Benefit Plan to health practitioners not currently covered (such as nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, and clinical social workers). Directs OPM to report, by June 1, 1986, to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on the adequacy of current sources in assisting individuals in making an informed choice for a health plan. Requires the Director of OPM, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to conduct at least one demonstration project to determine the most effective (including cost-effective) means of: (1) furnishing health protection, health promotion, disease prevention, and secondary prevention services to Federal employees; (2) encouraging employees to adopt good health habits; (3) reducing health risks and medical expenses; (4) enhancing employee productivity and reducing Federal health-related liability through an occupational health program; and (5) training employees to provide certain health services and utilizing such employees through interagency agreements. Requires such project to determine the cost effectiveness of organizational structures and of social and educational programs which may be useful to achieve the objectives of such project. Sets forth administrative requirements for such project and requires a report to the Congress 60 days after its termination. Authorizes OPM to approve mixed model prepayment plans, which are combinations of group-practice and individual-practice health plans. Requires that amounts refunded during FY 1986 and 1987 to the Employees Health Benefits Fund be used solely to pay the Government contribution for annuitants enrolled in health benefits plans. Title II: Civil Service Spouse and Former Spouse Equity Improvements - Amends the Civil Service Retirement Spouse Equity Act of 1984 to make technical and clarifying changes with respect to the applicability of survivor benefits. Directs the OPM to prescribe regulations under which an employee or Member may designate a portion of such employee's annuity to be used as the base for the survivor annuity for a former spouse. Makes technical and clarifying amendments regarding annuities for former spouses. Title III: Miscellaneous Civil Service Amendments - Authorizes OPM to incur reception and representation expenses subject to limitations prescribed by law. Exempts from notice requirements certain routine pay matters. Includes in pre-departure allowances for employees in a foreign area the costs incurred in U.S. territories or possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or areas available to the United States in the Republic of Panama. Authorizes routine dental care at Naval hospitals and dispensaries to Federal employees and their dependents, and Federal contractors and their dependents, outside the continental limits of the United States under specified circumstances. Repeals provisions relating to a minimum annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System. Declares that certain retirees who have received erroneous overpayments before enactment of this Act shall be deemed entitled to such overpayments. Provides for a lump-sum payment to certain retirees as an adjustment for certain reductions. Extends Government benefits regarding rates of pay on changes of position, annual leave, and reductions-in-force to former employees of county committees established under the soil conservation program. (Currently, such benefits are extended only to the former committee employees who are also employees of the Department of Agriculture.) Grants Federal retirees an 18-month period after their retirement date to elect a survivor annuity for their spouses or to increase such annuity. Declares such election ineffective unless the necessary amount to cover such election is deposited in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund prior to the expiration of the 18-month period. Declares that a survivor annuity election made under the provisions of this Act voids any such previous election. Directs OPM to annually inform each employee and Member of his or her right of election, including applicable procedures and deadlines.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt cost-of-living increases in Federal retirement and disability programs from reduction under the President's sequestration order for FY 1986. Provides for reducing the outlays of each agency to offset the increased costs.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Designates the week beginning on April 20, 1986, as National Reading is Fun Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Revises the boundary of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Redefines the term "improved property" for Lakeshore purposes. Increases the authorization of appropriations for such Lakeshore. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to the Congress within two years of enactment on the feasibility of establishing U.S. Highway 12 as the Indiana Dunes Parkway. Increases the authorization of appropriations for the development of the Lakeshore.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Whistleblower Protection Act of 1986 - Separates the Office of Special Counsel from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Empowers the Special Counsel to represent and act as legal counsel on behalf of employees alleging prohibited personnel practices, especially whistleblowers. Revises current law with respect to the Special Counsel to reflect its advocate status. Authorizes the Special Counsel to file a petition to the Board against an official for: (1) committing prohibited personnel practices; (2) violating a law within the jurisdiction of the Special Counsel; or (3) failing to comply with an order of the Board. Sets forth disciplinary actions for such officials. Requires the Special Counsel to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Authorizes employees who have been adversely affected by a prohibited personnel practice to bring an action before the Board (instead of or in addition to taking such action to the Special Counsel). Authorizes such employees to obtain judicial review of the Board's decision in the appropriate U.S. district court. Authorizes appropriations for the Merit Systems Protection Board for 1987 through 1991 and for the Office of Special Counsel for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt cost-of-living increases in civil service retirement and disability programs (including the Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disabilty system, the Comptroller General retirement system, the Foreign Service retirement and disability system, the judicial survivors' annuities system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retirement system, the Coast Guard retirement system, the Public Health Service commissioned officers retirement system, and the Tax Court judges survivors' retirement system), military retirement benefits, and certain railroad retirement benefits from reduction under the President's sequestration order.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Designates the week beginning on March 2, 1986, as Women's History Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1985
Permits the reappointment of a specified number of air traffic controllers who were separated from service for participation in a strike initiated on August 3, 1981. Requires such reappointments to be made in FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1985
Rural Satellite Dish Owners Protection Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit encryption of any satellite cable programming for private viewing beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act, unless: (1) the encryption complies with Federal Communications Commission standards; (2) decryption devices are available for lease or purchase by all interested persons within 60 days after request at a reasonable price relative to manufacturing and distribution costs; and (3) monthly subscription fees for such programming do not exceed fees assessed to cable subscribers within the same vicinity. Provides for the civil enforcement of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
Amends Federal provisions concerning death benefits payable to military dependents to increase such benefit to $3,000 plus an amount equal to two months' housing allowance in effect at the time of the member's death. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide survivors of a deceased member who are occupying Government quarters at the time of the member's death a reasonable period of time before being required to vacate such quarters.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1985
Expresses the sympathy and sentiment of the House of Representatives regarding the deaths of members of the 101st Air Assault Division in the airplane crash at Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1985
Calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development to work in a global effort to provide universal access to childhood immunization by 1990 by: (1) assisting in the delivery, distribution, and use of vaccines; and (2) performing and supporting research and development activities that will be targeted at developing new vaccines and at modifying existing vaccines to make them more appropriate for use in developing countries. Declares that the President should appeal to the public to provide the necessary resources to achieve universal access to childhood immunization by 1990. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 1987 for the Child Survival Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985
Designates the week of April 27 through May 3, 1986, as National Arts in the Schools Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1985
Social Security Hearing Equity Act of 1985 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to exclude any representative of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, any other agency of such department, or an involved State agency from appearing as a agency of such department, or an involved State agency from appearing as a part at a benefit hearing or participating in the development of the record of such hearing, unless, in the latter case, the presiding officer requests such participation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1985
Designates September 17, 1987, as Constitution Day. Requires such day to be treated as a legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1985
National Conference on Cities and Towns Act - Directs the President to conduct a National Conference on Cities and Towns not earlier than December 1, 1986, and not later than December 1, 1987. Sets forth the purposes of such Conference concerning: (1) relations between cities and towns and the Federal system; and (2) present and future problems facing cities and towns. Encourages each State Governor to conduct a State-level conference to prepare for the National Conference. Sets forth the method of selecting delegates to such Conference. Requires all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to provide assistance as necessary to facilitate the planning of the Conference. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance as necessary for the organization and conduct of State conferences. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Directors of the Congressional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office to provide background materials for the use of participants in the National Conference and State conferences. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to reimburse the expenses of participants to the National Conference. Authorizes the President to appoint an executive director and other directors and personnel as necessary for the Conference. Authorizes the detailing of Federal and military personnel in planning and administering such Conference. Requires a final report of findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within six months after the date the Conference is convened. Requires that such report be distributed to delegates, alternates, and State Governors and be available for sale to the public. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to limit the export of oil produced from Cook Inlet, Alaska.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to require States to conduct inventories of solid waste disposal sites containing hazardous substances.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985
Telecommunications Equipment and Information Services Act of 1985 - Authorizes the Bell operating companies to provide information services (excluding electronic publishing) and to manufacture telecommunications equipment, subject to such regulations as the Federal Communications Commission may prescribe. Conditions such authority on the Commission's determination that no Bell operating company could impede competition in the information services or telecommunications equipment manufacturing businesses. Requires the Commission to include in its annual report to the Congress an assessment, providing for public comment, of the impact of this Act on employment in such businesses.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985
Designates May 25, 1986, as Hands Across America Day. Authorizes and requests the President to commend: (1) United Support of Artists for Africa for their Hands Across America project; and (2) the American people for their commitment to helping people help themselves.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1985
Trade Law Modernization Act - Title I: National Trade Policy and Negotiating Objectives; Negotiation Authority - Sets forth national trade policy objectives that shall guide U.S. trade policy and domestic economic policy. Directs the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary), within one year of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on bilateral trade issues between the United States and Mexico. Directs the Secretary in such report to: (1) identify and analyze the barriers to trade between the United States and Mexico; (2) recommend actions to reduce or eliminate such barriers; (3) identify and analyze the potential effects on bilateral trade of a United States-Mexico development bank; and (4) identify and analyze the potential effects on bilateral trade of a United States-Mexico Bilateral Commission which would monitor and evaluate actions taken to strengthen ties between the two countries. Directs the Administering Authority (usually the U.S. Trade Representative) to submit by March 1 of each year to specified congressional committees a statement of the actions the Administering Authority proposes to take during such year to achieve such objectives. Requires the committees to hold hearings on such proposals and to advise the Administering Authority on such proposals. Declares that U.S. objectives in any trade negotiations shall be: (1) to obtain more open and equitable market access abroad for U.S. products and services, the reduction and elimination of the adverse effects of certain foreign trade practices, and improved effectiveness of the rules governing international trade; (2) to develop internationally accepted rules which meet certain needs; (3) to promote international cooperation in trade and monetary policies; (4) to obtain internationally agreed upon rules to evaluate and respond to government owned or controlled enterprises which engage in international trade; and (5) to establish procedures governing the sale of goods and services by such enterprises and the operation of such enterprises. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to transfer from the President to the Secretary the authority to take action in cases of market disruption. Transfers from the President to the Administering Authority the authority to extend tariff preferences under the Generalized System of Preferences. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to transfer from the President to the Administering Authority the authority to make the final review of actions to prevent unfair practices in the importation of articles into the United States. Authorizes the President to impose a temporary import surcharge of 25 percent in order to restore equilibrium in the balance of payments in certain circumstances. (Currently such surcharge may not exceed 15 percent). Limits the duration of such surcharge or limits imposed on imports to improve the balance of payments to two years. (Currently such measures may be imposed for only 150 days.) Deletes certain restrictions on imposing import limitations for such purposes. Authorizes one year extensions of such measures. Directs the President to begin negotiations with foreign countries to achieve an agreement to eliminate the harmful effects on U.S. trade of balance of payments disequilibrium. Prohibits the President from: (1) beginning negotiations under the GATT on the reduction or elimination of tariffs and nontariff trade barriers until negotiations are started to eliminate the effects of balance of payments disequilibrium; or (2) concluding any GATT negotiations before the first anniversary of the date on which negotiations are commenced to eliminate the effects of balance of payments disequilibrium. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to notify the Congress, within 30 days of enactment of this Act, of the necessary changes that must be made to restore equilibrium in the U.S. current account deficits by 1990. Title II: Foreign Commerce Competitiveness Enhancement - Amends the Department of Commerce Organic Act to direct the Secretary to establish within the Department of Commerce the Foreign Commerce Development Program which shall: (1) analyze Federal, State, and local regulations of both foreign and U.S. industries and their effect on interstate and foreign commerce; (2) evaluate and propose responses to certain trade barriers; (3) compile a comprehensive inventory of foreign acts, policies, and practices which may constitute trade barriers or which may limit the access of U.S. industries to such foreign countries; and (4) identify and analyze all foreign programs that direct resources to a particular foreign industry to create international competitive advantage and evaluate the effect of such programs on the international competitiveness of U.S. industries, including a description of the nature and extent of government intervention. Directs the Secretary, on the basis of the information gathered through such program, to formulate strategies and policies to increase the competitiveness of U.S. industries. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and the President on: (1) the analyses and studies and inventory prepared by the Foreign Commerce Development Program; (2) the strategies and policies formulated by the Secretary to increase U.S. competitiveness, respond to foreign trade practices, and ensure reciprocity for U.S. products, services, and investment in foreign markets; (3) assessments of foreign industrial and trade policies on U.S. industries, trade, and employment, and an evaluation of economic and technological development affecting the competitive position of U.S. industry; (4) developments which are significantly likely to present a competitive challenge to, or substantial dislocation in, an established U.S. industry, which present significant new opportunities for U.S. industries, or which create a significant risk to the future competitiveness of U.S. industries; and (5) the industry sectors affected by the developments that create a significant likelihood of competition to or substantial dislocation in an established U.S. industry. Requires the Secretary, in implementing the Foreign Commerce Development Program, to give priority to those countries and product sectors in which the United States has significant economic and commercial interests. Provides a method of changing discriminatory foreign procurement practices and regulatory requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to investigate whether: (1) a foreign government is engaging in a discriminatory procurement practice or imposing a discriminatory regulatory requirement; and (2) that practice or requirement is harming U.S. trade. Sets forth the deadlines for: (1) a determination of whether to investigate the allegations in the petition; (2) preliminary findings if the Secretary decides to undertake the investigation; and (3) the final determination of the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to initiate such an investigation if the Secretary: (1) determines to do so on the basis of a petition; (2) determines to do so on the Secretary's own initiative; or (3) has reason to believe, based on information collected under the Foreign Commerce Development Program, that discriminatory foreign procurement practices exist and are harming U.S. trade. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to evaluate the industrial and trade policies of other countries and the effects of such policies on U.S. industries, trade, and employment. Requires the Secretary to provide sufficient information to the Congress, Federal agencies and Federal courts to ensure their consideration of the competitive impact of pending decisions that could enlarge the access of foreign products and services to the U.S. markets. Requires the Secretary to consult with foreign governments to ensure that market access conditions subject to such pending decisions are equivalent to those existing in the United States. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on such consultations. Directs the Secretary to establish special industry sector advisory panels to assess the actual or potential dislocation, challenge, or opportunity for the industry sectors identified in any report submitted under the Foreign Commerce Development Program that is of national significance because of: (1) its employment or capital resources; (2) its impact on national defense; or (3) its importance as a supplier to, or customer of, other U.S. industries. Authorizes the Secretary to establish industry sector advisory panels for other industries. Requires the panels to formulate recommendations for responses to such dislocation, challenge, or opportunity. Directs the Secretary, after the International Trade Commission (ITC) begins an import relief investigation under the Trade Act of 1974 based on a petition, to establish, upon request, an industry advisory group. Requires such an advisory group to prepare for the industry concerned an assessment of current problems and a strategy to enhance competitiveness. Directs the Secretary to try to obtain, on a confidential basis, information from the individual members of such advisory group on: (1) how such members intend to act upon the recommendations in such assessment and strategy; and (2) any other actions such members intend to take which will foster the objectives of the strategy. Requires the ITC, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary to consider such assessment and strategy in making any import relief determination or taking any import relief actions. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Administering Authority, if it determines to provide import relief and if an industry assessment and competitiveness strategy was submitted to the Administering Authority, to publish notice of the availability of, and a summary of, such assessment and strategy. Requires a review committee, if such summary is published, to: (1) monitor actions taken by the petitioners to improve the competitive position of the industry; (2) make recommendations for administrative action; and (3) submit recommended legislation to the Congress. Requires the review committee to consult with the advisory group members if the review committee determines that the firms or workers are not implementing or are implementing unsatisfactorily: (1) the recommended objectives and actions in the industry assessment and competitiveness strategy; or (2) the actions declared in the confidential information obtained by the advisory group. Requires the Administering Authority to request the ITC to issue a report on the probable economic effect on the industry of import relief if, after consultations with the advisory group members, the review committee determines that the failure to implement or failure to implement satisfactorily such actions is not justified by changed circumstances and has adversely affected overall implementation of the objectives of the industry assessment and competitiveness strategy. Title III: Fair Competition in Foreign Commerce - Directs the Secretary to prohibit for three years any multiple customs law offender from: (1) introducing or trying to introduce foreign goods or services into U.S. commerce; and (2) engaging or trying to engage any other person to introduce, on such offender's behalf, foreign goods or services into U.S. commerce. Provides for identifying such multiple offenders. Sets the penalty for violations of such prohibition. Establishes in the Treasury a fund to be known as the Commerce Development and Adjustment Fund which shall consist of all countervailing and antidumping duties collected under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 and of all additional duties imposed by the Administering Authority under titles II and III of the Trade Act of 1974. Requires the Secretary (with respect to firms and communities) and the Secretary of Labor (with respect to workers) to use the fund to assist firms, communities, and workers in adjusting to adverse effects caused by import penetration. Title IV: Relief from Injurious Industrial Targeting and Unfair Trade Practices - Provides that foreign acts, policies, or practices that constitute injurious industrial targeting or that circumvent or facilitate the circumvention of a trade agreement may trigger import relief actions. Defines injurious industrial targeting to mean any combination of coordinated government actions: (1) which are bestowed on a specific enterprise, industry, or group thereof; (2) which assist such enterprise, industry, or group to become more competitive in the export of any class or kind of merchandise; and (3) which cause or threaten to cause material injury. Transfers from the President to the Administering Authority the authority to take certain actions to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to respond to certain foreign trade practices. Authorizes the Administering Authority to: (1) suspend, withdraw, or prevent application of the benefit of trade agreement concessions with the foreign country or instrumentality involved; (2) direct customs officers to assess duties or impose other import restrictions on the products of such country or instrumentality or to assess fees or impose restrictions on the services of such country or instrumentality for such time, in such amount, and to such degree as the Administering Authority deems appropriate; (3) negotiate agreements to offset the burden or restrictions on U.S. commerce; (4) submit proposed administrative actions and legislation to implement any other government action which would restore or improve the international competitive position of the injured or threatened industry; (5) recommend action by the President; or (6) any combination of such actions. Includes unfair and inequitable natural resource input pricing with the definition of unfair or inequitable trade practice. Declares that unfair and inequitable natural resource input pricing occurs if: (1) an input product is provided by a foreign government for input use within that country at a domestic price that is lower than fair market value and is not freely available to U.S. producers and the input product would, if sold at fair market value, constitute a significant portion of the total cost of the merchandise in or for which it is used; or (2) the right to remove an input product (removal right) is provided or sold by a foreign government within an exporting country and that product is for input use within the exporting country, the removal right is provided at a domestic price that is lower than its fair market value, and the product to which the removal right applies, if the right was sold at fair market value, constitute a significant portion of the total cost of the merchandise in or for which the product is used. Defines fair market value. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, if the Administering Authority takes any action to enforce U.S. trade rights with respect to capital goods to withdraw temporarily any Federal subsidy with certain exceptions that is designed to encourage the acquisition of capital goods for use expanding or modernizing industrial capacity. Directs the Administering Authority to consult with representatives of domestic firms and workers that may be affected by any import relief investigation which is initiated by petition filed with the Administering Authority regarding any determination which is required to be made by the Administering Authority. Directs the Administering Authority, upon written request, to make confidential business information obtained by it in connection with an import relief investigation available under a protective order. Prohibits release of information classified for national security reasons. Requires the Administering Authority to act upon requests for such information within ten days of the request. Requires the Administering Authority, in conducting an import relief investigation initiated by petition to the Administering Authority, to present detailed questionnaires to the foreign government or enterprise involved in order to obtain information concerning the allegations in the petition. Directs the Administering Authority to verify any such information which the Administering Authority relied upon in making any determinations. Provides for relying on the best information available, which may be the information contained in the petition, if the foreign government fails to provide information or provides insufficient or unsatisfactory information. Requires the Administering Authority to make a preliminary determination within five months of the start of such an import relief investigation on whether there is reason to believe that import relief is warranted. Authorizes the Administering Authority to take certain actions based on the preliminary finding. Requires the final determination to be made within 11 months of the start of the investigation. Requires the Administering Authority to determine what actions to take if the final determination is that import relief is warranted except that specific actions are required if injurious industrial targeting is found to exist. Requires the Administering Authority to consult with the petitioner and representatives of the affected domestic firms and workers if the final determination is affirmative. Requires the Administering Authority to report to the Congress if the final determination is affirmative and the Administering Authority declines to take any action. Terminates any preliminary import relief if the final determination is negative. Requires publication in the Federal Register of such preliminary and final determinations. Requires the Administering Authority, if it makes a preliminary finding that injurious industrial targeting exists, to: (1) establish an advisory committee; and (2) formulate, in consultation with such advisory committee, proposals which would restore or improve the competitive position of affected domestic industries. Requires the Administering Authority to notify the ITC when it initiates an investigation of injurious industrial targeting. Requires the ITC to make a preliminary determination within 60 days of receiving such notice of whether there is a reasonable indication that because of sales or likely sales of the merchandise which is the subject of the investigation: (1) an industry in the United States is materially injured or is threatened with material injury; or (2) the establishment or growth of an industry in the United States is materially retarded. Requires the ITC to make a final determination of whether such circumstances exist by: (1) 45 days after the affirmative final determination of the Administering Authority if the Administering Authority's preliminary determination is affirmative; or (2) 75 days after an affirmative final determination of the Administering Authority if the Administering Authority's preliminary determination is negative. Makes the ITC's determination subject to review by the U.S. Court of International Trade if such determinations were made under the countervailing or antidumping duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930. Defines material injury and threat of material injury. Requires the Administering Authority to submit to the President any proposed administrative action and any proposed legislation to restore or improve the competitive position of the injured industry if the preliminary and final determinations are that injurious industrial targeting has occurred. Provides for expedited consideration of such legislation. Requires the Administering Authority to report to the Congress on the actions the Administering Authority will take to offset the material injury or threat of material injury from the injurious industrial targeting. Authorizes the Administering Authority to enter into a settlement agreement with the foreign country or entity involved in lieu of taking other actions if: (1) such agreement completely eliminates the material injury or threat of material injury from the injurious industrial targeting; and (2) such agreement is approved by the petitioner if the investigation began because of a petition. Authorizes the Administering Authority to take actions to compensate a foreign country or entity if the contracting parties to the GATT disapprove of actions taken in response to injurious industrial targeting. Directs the Administering Authority to consult with the petitioner and the representatives of affected domestic firms and workers if, in the course of an investigation, the Administering Authority has reason to believe that a foreign government engaged in dumping or other actions for which relief is available under specified provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930. Amends the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to require the President to take action within 90 days of receiving information that an article is being imported under such circumstances or in such quantities as to threaten national security. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that certain unfair methods of competition that destroy or substantially injure a U.S. industry are unlawful. (Currently such methods of competition are only unlawful if they destroy or substantially injure an efficiently and economically operated industry.) Provides that the following acts are unlawful if the ITC first determines that an industry consisting of the U.S. operations of the owner of the intellectual property at issue and its licensees exists or is likely to be established: (1) unauthorized importation, sale or offer for sale of an article that infringes on a valid U.S. patent; (2) unauthorized importation, sale, or offer for sale of an article that was made by a process covered by a valid U.S. patent and if made in the United States would infringe a valid U.S. patent; (3) unauthorized importation, sale, or offer for sale of an article which infringes a valid U.S. copyright; (4) importation, sale, or offer for sale of an article which infringes a valid U.S. trademark; and (5) unauthorized importation, sale, or offer for sale of an article that infringes a valid U.S. maskwork. Decreases the length of time available to the ITC to investigate a case of unfair methods of competition from one year (18 months in complicated cases) to six months (nine months in complicated cases.) Title V: Relief from Injury Caused by Import Competition - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to transfer from the President to the Administering Authority the authority to take certain actions following import relief investigations by the ITC. Authorizes a petition for import relief to include within its statement of reasons for requesting import relief the desire to facilitate the orderly transfer of resources to enhance competitiveness. Changes the scope of the ITC's import relief investigation to include determining whether an article is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a cause (currently substantial cause) of serious injury or threat of serious injury to any domestic industry that produces an article like or directly competitive with the imported article or that produces materials, parts, components, or subassemblies which, due to inherent characteristics, are intended for incorporation in an article like or directly competitive with the imported article. Changes one of the factors that must be considered in making such determination with respect to serious injury in order to cover the inability of a significant number of firms to operate domestic production facilities at a reasonable profit. (Current law refers to the inability of firms to operate at a reasonable profit.) Changes the factors that must be considered in making such determination with respect to the threat of serious injury in order to cover: (1) a decline in sales or market share in the domestic industry; (2) a higher and growing inventory in the domestic industry; (3) a downward trend in production, profits, wages, or employment (or increasing underemployment) in the domestic industry; (4) any combination of coordinated government actions that are bestowed on a specific enterprise, industry, or group thereof the effect of which is to assist the beneficiary to become more competitive in the export of any class or kind of merchandise and that causes or threatens to cause serious injury to the domestic industry; (5) the extent to which the U.S. market is the focal point for diversion of exports of the article concerned because of restraints on exports of such article to, or imports of such articles into, third country markets; and (6) in the case of an industry that has developed an industry assessment and competitiveness strategy, the inability of producers in the domestic industry to generate adequate capital to finance the modernization of plant and equipment or to otherwise enhance competitiveness. Requires (currently authorizes) the ITC to make certain determinations with respect to determining the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with an imported article. Defines "cause" for purposes of determining whether imports are a cause of injury to mean a cause which is important. Declares that a cause may be important even though other causes are of equal or greater importance. Requires the ITC, if it finds that serious injury or the threat of serious injury exists for a domestic industry, to: (1) find the amount of the increase in, or imposition of, any duty or import restriction necessary to prevent or remedy such injury; and (2) if it determines that adjustment assistance can assist in remedying such injury, recommend the provision of such assistance. Directs the Administering Authority, if during an import relief investigation it finds that critical circumstances exist, to impose provisional measures (increase in tariff, tariff-rate quotas, quantitative restrictions, orderly marketing agreements or a combination of such actions). Requires such measures to remain in effect until the later of the date: (1) on which the President revokes such measures; (2) on which the ITC makes a negative determination of injury; or (3) which is 60 days after the date on which the ITC makes an affirmative determination of injury. Declares that critical circumstances exist if a significant increase in imports over a short time has led to circumstances in which delay in relief would cause damage that would be difficult to repair. Requires the ITC, if it finds that serious injury has resulted from imports, to determine: (1) whether trade in the article concerned has been affected by coordinated government actions that are bestowed on a specific enterprise, industry, or group and that assist the beneficiary in becoming more competitive in exporting a class or kind of merchandise; and (2) the extent to which the U.S. market is the focal point for diversion of exports of such article because of restraints on exports of such article to, or on imports of such article into, third country markets. Directs the Administering Authority, if it determines to provide import relief and the ITC has found that trade in the article has been affected by such coordinated government actions, to consult and negotiate with other countries that produce or consume such article to seek the establishment of a multilateral framework to maintain and develop fair, equitable, and nondisruptive patterns of trade in such article. Requires the Administering Authority, if it decides to provide import relief, to consult with petitioners and representatives of workers and firms in the affected industry on the advisability and desirability of taking appropriate action under countervailing or antidumping duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 or under title III of the Trade Act of 1974 if the Administering Authority has reason to believe that a foreign government or firm is engaged in any action or practice for which such relief is available. Provides that an import relief investigation may be initiated for good cause shown with respect to an article that has already received import relief. (Currently two years must elapse after import relief is granted before another investigation may begin.) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, if the Administering Authority takes any action under title II of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to capital goods, to withdraw temporarily any Federal subsidy with certain exceptions that is designed to encourage the acquisition of capital goods for use in expanding or modernizing industrial capacity. Title VI: Countervailing and Antidumping Duties - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to add requirements for a country to be considered a "country under the Agreement" for purposes of the countervailing duty provisions of such Act. Requires such a country to have made a commitment under the GATT to: (1) eliminate its export subsidies within one year (five for least developed countries); (2) not increase, extend, or add export subsidies; and (3) eliminate immediately export subsidies on those products in which such country is competitive. Requires the ITC, upon request, to investigate whether the merchandise is already competitive in the U.S. market and whether the merchandise would be competitive in the absence of export subsidies. Directs the Administering authority to review the status of, and compliance with, specified agreements at least once during each 12-month period. Directs the Administering Authority to publish such determinations. Imposes penalties for failure of a foreign country to honor any term of such agreements. Directs the Administering Authority, if a countervailing duty investigation is initiated based upon a petition or upon the Administering Authority's initiative, to: (1) notify the Customs Service to collect and forward information on the volume and value of entries of the class or kind of merchandise subject to the investigation; (2) order the suspension of liquidation of all entries of such merchandise; and (3) begin monitoring the volume of such imports to determine whether it has significantly increased. Prohibits making the determination of whether the volume of such imports has significantly increased until 60 days after the filing of the petition or the start of the investigation. Terminates the suspension of liquidation if the volume of such imports has not significantly increased. Requires the Administering Authority, if the preliminary determination in a countervailing duty investigation is that critical circumstances exist, to order the posting of a cash deposit, bond, or other security for, and to apply any suspension of liquidation ordered under the countervailing duty subtitle to, unliquidated entries of such merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse on or after the date that is 90 days before the notice of such preliminary determination is published. Provides for the termination of any suspension of liquidation and release of any required security if a countervailing duty investigation is terminated or suspended. Requires the Administering Authority to determine whether critical circumstances exist if its final determination is that a subsidy does exist and the Administering Authority has determined that there has been a surge of imports of the article subject to the investigation. Requires the Administering Authority, if the Administering Authority determines that critical circumstances do not exist or the ITC determines that there is no material injury but that there is a threat of material injury or that the establishment of an industry in the United States is materially retarded, the Administering Authority shall: (1) terminate any suspension of liquidation ordered under the countervailing duty provisions; and (2) release any security and refund any cash deposit which has been made. Directs the Administering Authority, if an antidumping investigation is initiated by petition or upon the Administering Authority's own initiative, to: (1) notify the Customs Service to collect and forward information on the volume and value of entries of the class or kind of merchandise subject to the investigation; (2) begin monitoring the volume of such imports to determine whether it has significantly increased. Prohibits making the determination of whether the volume of such imports has significantly increased until 60 days after the filing of the petition or the start of the investigation. Terminates the suspension of liquidation if the volume of such imports has not significantly increased. Requires a specified amount of security to be posted for articles subject to an antidumping investigation which are imported on or after the date of publication of the notice of the decision to start the investigation. Requires the Administering Authority to make specified determinations if the Administering Authority determines that the volume of imports of the articles subject to an antidumping investigation have recently increased significantly. (Current law requires the Administering Authority to make such determinations if the petitioner alleges critical circumstances.) Requires the suspension of liquidation or the bond requirement to apply to all such articles that were imported 90 days before the publication of the notice of investigation if the Administering Authority makes certain affirmative findings about a history of dumping such articles or the knowledge of the importer of the fair value of the imports. Provides for the termination of any suspension of liquidation and release of any required security if an antidumping duty investigation is terminated or suspended. Requires the Administering Authority's final determination on whether dumping exists to include a finding on whether critical circumstances exist if such final determination is affirmative and the Administering Authority found that imports of the article under investigation had significantly increased. Requires the Administering Authority, if the Administering Authority determines not to extend the time for making a final determination of the existence of dumping or the ITC determines that there is no material injury but that there is threat of material injury or that the establishment of an industry in the United States is materially retarded, to: (1) terminate any suspension of liquidation ordered under the antidumping provisions; and (2) release any security and refund any cash deposit which has been made. Waives the requirement that the ITC make a preliminary determination of injury in a countervailing duty investigation if the ITC has found injury in an antidumping or countervailing duty investigation with respect to the same merchandise during the year preceding the start of the new investigation. Authorizes the Administering Authority to suspend countervailing duty investigations if the government of the subsidizing country or the chief exporter of the merchandise agrees to eliminate the subsidy after the date on which the investigation is suspended. (Current law permits the government or exporter to offset the subsidy as an alternative to eliminating it.) Adds conditions which must be met before the Administering Authority is allowed to permit the posting of security in lieu of the deposit of estimated antidumping duties. Allows the Administering Authority to permit such action if: (1) the investigation is not extraordinarily complicated; (2) the final determination in the investigation has not been postponed; (3) the manufacturer, producer, or exporter of the merchandise provides credible evidence that the difference between the foreign market value and the U.S. price of the merchandise is significantly less than the amount specified in the antidumping duty order; and (4) the data concerning the foreign market value and the U.S. price apply to sales in the usual commercial quantities and in the ordinary course of trade. Requires the Administering Authority to make certain confidential information available to interested parties and to afford them as opportunity for comment before deciding whether to permit the posting of bond or other security. Prohibits treating countervailing and antidumping duties as any other customs duties for purposes of any law relating to the drawback of customs duties. Prohibits granting any exception to the labeling requirements applied to imports for imported silver jewelry. Requires the ITC, in determining whether a U.S. industry is threatened with material injury because of imports, to consider: (1) any combination of coordinated government actions that are bestowed on a specific enterprise, industry, or group thereof the effect of which is to assist the beneficiary to become more competitive in the export of any merchandise and to cause or threaten to cause material injury to the United States; and (2) the extent to which the United States is the focal point for exports of the merchandise by reason of restraints on exports of their merchandise to, or on imports of the merchandise into, third country markets. Includes within the definition of "interested party" for purposes of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations a manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler of major parts, materials, components, or assemblies or subassemblies which are intended to be incorporated into a like product. Authorizes the Administering Authority to waive the requirement that the merchandise subject to investigation be produced by the same person if a government agency follows or has followed a practice of allocating contracts for, or establishing quotas for the merchandise among users in that country. Requires such government actions to be considered in ascertaining the foreign market value of the merchandise. Defines diversionary dumping as dumping of any material or component which is incorporated into the merchandise under investigation and which has been the subject of a previous investigation. Requires the Administering Authority to determine whether an increase in imports of the merchandise under investigation has occurred if: (1) a countervailing duty order is in effect with respect to an input product or an input product is subject to an agreement between the United States and a foreign country or foreign customs union; and (2) a subsidy continues to be paid on such input product after a countervailing duty order was issued. Requires the Administering Authority to include in calculating the cost of producing the merchandise the value of any benefit the producer or manufacturer has received from government research and development programs. Sets forth special rules for determining cost of production and constructed value if imports of the merchandise into the home market have been unreasonably restrained. Sets forth general rules governing the disclosure of confidential information to interested parties.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1985
Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax credit for contributions to presidential, state, and local candidates, political action committees, and newsletter fund contributions. Allows an income tax credit for congressional candidate contributions. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 for a taxable year ($200 in the case of a joint return).
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1985
Authorizes educational assistance for apprenticeship or other on-the-job training under the All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program. Limits the amount of educational assistance payable in any one month where the individual pursuing the educational program fails to complete 120 hours of training.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1985
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury, in efforts to meet the public debt limit, from reducing the assets or earnings of, or delaying payments to, the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, Railroad Retirement Account, Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, and Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund below levels otherwise maintained by law or by established standard procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1985
Foreign Agents Compulsory Ethics in Trade Act of 1985 - Prohibits former high-level Federal civilian officers or employees or high-ranking officers of the uniformed services from representing or advising foreign principals during the ten-year period beginning on the last day of such a person's Federal employment or service. Authorizes the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to jointly determine a longer prohibitive period in the interest of national security. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Defines and lists employee positions to which this Act applies.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1985
Designates September 19, 1986, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1985
Designates the month of February 1986 as National Black (Afro-American) History Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1985
Designates 1986 as the Centennial Year of the Gasoline Powered Automobile.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985
Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985 - Title I: Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System - Establishes a Civil Service Supplemental Retirement Plan for Federal employees, postal employees, and Members of Congress who began service after December 31, 1983. Sets forth provisions for the benefit plan including: (1) eligibility for an annuity after five years of creditable service; (2) entitlements to retirement based on age and years of service; (3) the formulas for computing an annuity; (4) survivor election reductions; and (5) funding. Sets forth provisions for mandatory retirement for air traffic controllers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters. Establishes a Thrift Savings Plan under which participants may contribute up to 10 percent of their annual basic pay. Requires employing agencies to contribute the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of amounts contributed by the employee; or (2) three percent of such employee's basic pay. Provides for the payment of benefits, lump sum or annuity, at the employee's separation from service. Establishes in the Treasury the Thrift Savings Fund for the deposit and accounting of amounts under the Plan. Prescribes how money in such Fund shall be invested. Describes survivor annuities under the supplemental retirement plan. Describes disability benefits for employees who have completed five years of creditable service. Sets forth general and administrative provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to pay all benefits payable under the benefit plan and administer provisions not specifically assigned to another entity. Directs the Office to adjudicate all claims under provisions it administers. Provides for annual cost-of-living adjustments in basic pensions based upon an increase in the Consumer Price Index. Provides for withholding of State income taxes from retirement annuities. Declares that basic annuities, survivor annuities, and disability benefits are exempt from legal process (i.e. levy, attachment, garnishment) unless otherwise provided by Federal law. Establishes in the executive branch the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to be responsible for policies and regulations for, and review of, the investment and management of the Thrift Savings Fund. Directs the Board to establish an Employee Thrift Advisory Council to advise the Board on matters relating to investment policies for the Fund. Directs the Board to appoint an Executive Director to carry out its policies, invest and manage the fund, and administer provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan. Title II: Amendments to Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code - Provides for civil service retirement for certain employees excluded from the supplemental retirement plan. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Federal Employees' Retirement Contribution Temporary Adjustment Act of 1983 to extend its provisions until January 1, 1987. Allows employees covered under such Act to elect participation in the supplemental retirement plan. Title IV: Effective Dates - Declares this Act in effect on January 1, 1987, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985
Requires the Secretary of Defense to assign a senior medical officer of the armed forces as the chief medical officer of the U.S. European Command. Provides that, while serving such position, the chief medical officer may not be assigned to any other position.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985
Fair Furniture Trade Act of 1985 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to enter into a trade agreement with Canada which provides for changes in the Canadian tariff treatment for U.S. furniture products. Requires such agreement to provide for the elimination of: (1) differing tariff levels on furniture trade between the United States and Canada; and (2) any Canadian nontariff barrier to U.S. furniture products. Sets forth factors the President shall consider in negotiating such agreement. Provides for staged increases in the tariff on imports of Canadian furniture until such a trade agreement is implemented. Directs the President to consult with specified congressional and other committees in negotiating such agreement. Directs the President to proclaim the necessary changes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States in order to implement such a trade agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985
Designates 1986 as Save for the U.S.A. Year. Requests the President to initiate a nationwide campaign, to be known as the Buy Back America campaign, to encourage the people of the United States to buy U.S. savings bonds and certificates and thereby reduce borrowings from foreign sources. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to enhance the marketability of such bonds and certificates.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1985
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of December 1985 as Made in America Month.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1985
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit in Government trust funds amounts equal to interest lost to such trust funds through disinvestment of Federal or federally-insured obligations by the Secretary during FY 1986 for the purpose of avoiding any violation of the public debt limit.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of 1985 - Revises Federal provisions concerning the composition and function of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to define the Chairman of JCS as the principal military advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes a member of JCS other than the Chairman to offer, to the Secretary of Defense and then to the President, a separate opinion in disagreement with that of the Chairman concerning military advice given. Directs that the Chairman of JCS shall supervise the commanders of the combatant commands and act as their spokesman. Extends the term of the Chairman of JCS from two to four years. Establishes the position of Deputy Chairman of JCS. Prohibits the Deputy Chairman and the Chairman from being a member of the same military branch, unless the Secretary of Defense waives such prohibition for a limited period. Sets the term of the Deputy Chairman at four years. Requires the Deputy Chairman to perform such duties as delegated by the Chairman with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Deputy Chairman to act as Chairman if the latter position is vacated for any reason. Directs the Deputy Chairman to act as director of the Joint Staff, which performs such duties as the Chairman prescribes. Eliminates any maximum number of officers on the Joint Staff. Provides that the four-year term of a member of the Joint Staff may be extended with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the Joint Staff is independently organized and operated in order to provide for the unified strategic direction of the combatant forces and their operation and integration into an efficient team of land, naval, and air forces. Requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to submit an evaluation to the President of any person for appointment to a grade above major general or rear admiral. Requires such evaluation to consider the performance of that officer as a member of the Joint Staff and in other assignments involving joint military experiences. Requires such evaluation to be submitted to the President at the same time as the submission of the recommendation for the appointment. Directs the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman of JCS to attend all meetings of the National Security Council and participate fully in its deliberations. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than six months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on plans for further changes in the administration of the military high commands of each of the armed forces. Outlines proposals to be developed in such report.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Designates July 2, 1986, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1985
Designates the week beginning on May 11, 1986, as National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1985
Designates the week of April 6 through April 12, 1986, as World Health Week, and April 7, 1986, as World Health Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985
Declares that the Congress calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development (AID) to work in a global effort to provide support toward achieving the goal of universal access to childhood immunization by the year 1990. Sets forth specified actions to be taken by AID, in conjunction with the World Health Organization and UNICEF, in reaching such goal. Urges the President to seek both private and public assistance in the United States to achieve universal access to childhood immunization.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1985
Amends the copyright law to prohibit a copyright holder from conveying the right to publicly perform an audiovisual work on non-network commercial television without simultaneously conveying the right to perform in synchronization any copyrighted music which accompanies such work.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1985
Federal Government Easy Access Act - Requires Federal agency correspondence outside the executive branch to include the name, phone number, and mailing address of individuals to whom responses and inquiries may be made.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1985
Amends the copyright law to make permanent the prohibition against importing certain English language books not manufactured in the United States and Canada, denying copyright protection to books imported in violation of this restriction (the manufacturing clause).
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1985
Designates 1987 as the Year of Thanksgiving.