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United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Designates the fish hatchery in Millen, Georgia, as the "Bo Ginn National Fish Hatchery."
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to increase the acreage of the following preserves in Alaska (thereby easing restrictions on hunting on certain lands): (1) the Katmai National Preserve; (2) the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve; (3) the Noatak National Preserve; (4) the Lake Clark National Preserve; (5) the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Preserve; (6) the Denali National Preserve; (7) the Kenai Fjords National Preserve; (8) the Glacier Bay National Preserve; and (9) the Aniakchak National Preserve.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983
Eliminates the social security offset against annuities provided under the Survivor Benefit Plan of the armed service when the benefits received are based on the annuitant's own employment.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Housing Finance Opportunity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit the continued issuance of tax-exempt (interest excluded from gross income) mortgage revenue bonds after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Amends rule XLIX of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a two-thirds vote on legislation that increases the statutory limit on the public debt.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure statues or busts of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver for placement in the Capitol.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Transfers methaqualone from Schedule II (abuse potential, but has accepted medical use) to Schedule I (abuse potential, with no accepted U.S. medical use) of the Controlled Substances Act. Makes this Act effective within six months of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to delay the effective date of provisions requiring the withholding of tax on interest and dividends until 1984. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to delay the application of such provisions for certain payors.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Internal Security.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Space Commerce Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue licenses for launching private sector space objects. Sets forth the conditions for issuing a license, including the ability to meet liability insurance requirements. Establishes criminal penalties for launching private space objects without such a license. Directs the Secretary to establish requirements for liability insurance to be carried by any licensee. Permits the Administrator to suspend or revoke a license for failure to comply with applicable regulations. Excludes from this Act space objects launched by or on behalf of the United States Government. Establishes the Commercial Space Commission to study the direction of future Government involvement and regulation of private sector commercial activity in outer space. Directs the Commission to report to Congress within a specified time. Terminates the Commission 60 days after its final report.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U. S. citizen or national if such individual: (1) is not a permanent resident of the United States; or (2) is outside the United States. Prohibits the payment of title II benefits to any dependent or survivor of such an individual on the basis of such individual's wages and self-employment income. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the benefit involved is payable to such an individual as the dependent or survivor of: (1) a U. S. citizen or national; (2) a permanent resident of the United States; or (3) a U. S. citizen or national residing outside the United States if the relationship required for such individual's entitlement already existed at the time such national or citizen reached age 50. Authorizes the payment of title II benefits to an individual who is not entitled to benefits pursuant to this Act until the total amount of such benefits equals the total amount of any taxes paid on the wages and self-employment income on which the benefits are based.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit prayer in public schools or institutions. States that no person shall be required by the United States or any State to participate in prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 27, 1983 as National Recovery Room Nurses Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
United Nations Termination Act - Directs the President to terminate all U.S. participation in the United Nations and in any U.N. affiliate. Prohibits appropriating funds for the United Nations or a U.N. affiliate. Makes the privileges, exemptions, and immunities of specified Acts relating to international organizations inapplicable to the United Nations or any U.N. affiliate. Repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945. Amends the Federal provisions relating to loans to the United Nations to prohibit this Act from being construed to affect the U.N. obligation to repay its loan from the United States. Repeals specified laws relating to U.S. participation in and aid to U.N. organizations and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal provisions which require the withholding of tax on interest and dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Limits eligibility for admissions to any U.S. service academy to men.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Provides that regulations issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on June 23, 1978, relating to occupational exposure to cotton dust shall cease to be effective and that any future regulations with respect to such exposure shall be subject to congressional disapproval.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Repeals the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Directs the Comptroller General to audit, each fiscal year, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Advisory Council, the Federal Open Market Committee, and all Federal Reserve banks and their branches. Requires the Comptroller General, within six months after the end of each fiscal year, to report to Congress on the results of such audit.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Repeals requirements for a national maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Repeals the Gun Control Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that new drugs for human or animal use will be regulated under such Act solely to assure their safety, but not their effectiveness.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit the introduction, or delivery for introduction, of laetrile (amygdalin) into interstate commerce without the approval of a new drug application.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Requires that Government publications which are distributed to the public upon request and free of charge include a statement that the printing and distribution of the publication are financed by U.S. taxpayers. Requires that advertisements for such publications also include such statement.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Deems a named deceased individual to have elected, on a specified date, to waive entitlement to his military retired pay and to receive in lieu thereof a civil service retirement annuity based on his combined military and civil service. Directs that payment of a survivor annuity based on such individual's civil service retirement annuity commence with the first month beginning after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Reduces congressional salaries by ten percent, beginning with FY 1983, if the budget for the preceding year was not balanced.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Abolishes the Federal Election Commission. Prohibits the transfer of any functions of the Commission to any Government establishment. Repeals all rules, contracts, licenses, and privileges allowed to take effect by the Commission. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conclude the outstanding affairs of the Commission. Makes the unexpended funds of the Commission available to the Director for such purpose for a limited period.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony. Extends the scope of such offense to include using or carrying a firearm during commission of any felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense to five to ten years' imprisonment for a first offender (currently, one to ten years) and to ten years to life imprisonment for a second or subsequent offender (currently, two to 25 years). Extends to first offenders the directions, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence or grant probation and that the additional sentence not run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the offense itself.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Directs the Comptroller General to audit the gold held by the United States on the first day of each fiscal year and to report the results of such audit to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Repeals requirements for a national maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Abolishes the Department of Education and terminates all Federal involvement in education. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conclude the outstanding affairs of the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Repeals title XV (National Health Planning and Development) and title XVI (Health Resources Development) of the Public Health Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Voluntary Food Supplement Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude from the definition of food additive the food itself, a combination of foods, or foods for special dietary use or the ingredients thereof, unless being used as preservatives or flavors for a food. Excludes from the definition of "drug" foods for special dietary use or for preservation or treatment of dietary deficiency conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Excludes blood fractions used in immunoaugmentative therapy by the Immunology Researching Center, Limited, of Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, from the definition of drug under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for a period of five years. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Government and the medical profession should cooperate with Dr. Lawrence P. Burton in his cancer research and therapy.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which a beneficiary may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Eliminates the force and effect of any treaty provision which denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated right. Prohibits a treaty from permitting any foreign power or international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate: (1) the rights of United States citizens within the United States; or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Subjects executive and other international agreements to the limitations on treaties imposed by this Amendment. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as U.S. law upon the passage of appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Designates February 12, 1983, as Georgia Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Establishes in the House of Representatives a Select Committee to Investigate Illegal or Unethical Practices of the Internal Revenue Service. Requires all records, files, and materials of such committee to be transferred to the Librarian of Congress, who shall make them available for public inspection.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on the Role of the United States in the United Nations. Requires the Committee to conduct an investigation of the benefits and burdens accruing to the United States as the result of its membership and participation in the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) terminate diplomatic relations with the present regime in Afghanistan; (2) recognize and establish diplomatic relations with a provisional Afghan Government consisting of groups of freedom fighters; (3) exercise presidential authority to furnish assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to Afghan freedom fighters; and (4) provide other assistance to Afghan refugees and freedom fighters as needed.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Prohibits Federal involvement in the performance of abortions, except when the life of the mother would be endangered if the child were carried to term. Includes the following activities within the scope of this prohibition: (1) performance of an abortion by a Federal agency; (2) use of appropriated funds to perform or reimburse or refer for abortions; (3) promotion or assistance in the performance of abortions abroad; (4) contracting for insurance which pays or reimburses for abortions; (5) discrimination against an individual on the basis of that person's opposition to abortions; and (6) the withholding from a handicapped infant of nutritional sustenance, medical or surgical treatment by an institution receiving Federal assistance. Provides for expedited Supreme Court review of State laws restricting abortions or infanticide whenever such laws have been invalidated by a lower court.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Requires that each State establish and maintain an approved workfare program as a condition of its eligibility for Federal payments or other assistance under the: (1) program of aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act; (2) food stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) public housing and assisted housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such State workfare program shall require every State resident applying for or receiving aid under such Federal public assistance program to perform work in return for, and as a condition for, such aid. Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to promulgate guidelines for approval, supervision, and oversight of such State workfare programs. Exempts from required participation in such programs those who are: (1) under age 18 or over age 65; (2) disabled; (3) regularly employed for at least 40 hours a week; or (4) primarily responsible for the care of a child less than three years old (or for the care of a child more than two but less than six years old if suitable child care is not available at reasonable cost). Requires that each State workfare program must provide that if any individual who is required to participate in such program refuses to accept a bona fide offer of qualified employment or to perform qualified employment, in any month, neither such individual nor any other person in the family or household of which such individual is a member shall be eligible to receive any aid under such Federal public assistance programs for that month. Requires that State workfare programs include provision for job counseling, assistance in obtaining employment outside the program, and job search activities. Provides for: (1) Federal matching funds to cover administrative costs of such State programs; (2) Federal cut-offs of funds to State agencies for failure to comply with this Act; and (3) Federal agency reports to Congress on such State programs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Metric Conversion Repeal Act of 1983 - Repeals the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. Abolishes the United States Metric Board.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (an Act which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works).
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Permits a reserve commissioned officer on active duty who is promoted to a higher reserve grade to continue to serve on active duty in such higher grade.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal the provisions which require the withholding of tax on interest and dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Strategic Trade Act of 1983 - Declares the policy of the United States with respect to export controls on strategic goods and technology. Establishes a National Security Control Agency within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to assist in carrying out the national security export control policy responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense. Requires the Secretary to appoint the Director of the Agency who shall act as the Defense Department representative to the Interagency Advisory Committee for Export Policy. Sets forth as the principal divisions of the Agency the: (1) Operations Division; (2) Compliance Division; (3) COCOM Division, which shall carry out functions relating to the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM); (4) Licensing Division; and (5) Legal Affairs and Congressional Relations Division. Authorizes the President to delegate the authority conferred on the President by this Act. Authorizes the President, in order to carry out the national security export control policy, to impose export controls on any goods or technology subject to U.S. jurisdiction or exported by any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Grants the Director the right to review any export application for national security reasons. Requires the Director to notify the licensing authority whenever the Director requires any revision with respect to any goods or technology, or with respect to the countries or destinations affected by national security export controls. Requires the Director to notify the licensing authority whenever the Directory denies an export license for national security reasons. Requires the Director, in requesting regulations to carry out national security controls, to emphasize: (1) safeguards to prevent a country that poses a threat to U.S. security from diverting covered goods and technologies to military use; and (2) the need to prevent the reexport of such goods and technologies to countries that pose a threat to U.S. security. Declares that U.S. policy toward individual countries shall not be determined solely on the basis of a country's communist or noncommunist status. Sets forth other factors to be considered. Directs the President to review controls maintained cooperatively with other nations, at least once every three years. Directs the President to review other controls annually. Requires the Director to establish and maintain a national security control list as a part of the commodity control list. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Director, to review and revise the national security control list to insure that export controls cover and control such goods and technologies and the mechanisms through which they may be effectively transferred. Makes the Secretary primarily responsible for including in the national security control list certain militarily critical technologies. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on actions taken with respect to such list. Declares that a qualified general license may be required instead of a validated license for the export of goods or technology subject to national security controls except where: (1) the export of such goods or technology is restricted pursuant to a multilateral agreement which requires the approval of the parties to the agreement; or (2) the United States is seeking the agreement of other suppliers to apply comparable controls and a validated license is necessary in the Director's judgement until such agreement is reached. Requires the Director to review the foreign availability of any goods or technology the export of which requires a validated license. Requires a finding of foreign availability to be based on reliable evidence (uncorroborated representations by license applicants are not sufficient). Declares that a technology or goods subject to national security export controls which is not possessed by a nation or combination of nations threatening to national security may not be deemed to be available from foreign sources until the Secretary of State verifies that negotiations with the foreign sources have been undertaken and have failed. Directs the President to negotiate with governments of countries possessing such technologies or goods to prevent them from becoming available to hostile countries. Requires the Director to establish within the Agency a capability to monitor the foreign availability of goods or technology subject to export controls under this Act. Requires other Federal agencies responsible for export controls and the National Security Control Agency to furnish information concerning foreign availability of such goods and technology to each other, if specified conditions are met. Authorizes the Director to appoint technical advisory committees to advise and assist the Director in carrying out the national security export control policy. Directs the President to enter into negotiations with the government participating in the group known as the Coordinating Committee to reach agreements: (1) to publish a list of items controlled for export by agreement of the Committee; (2) to hold periodic meetings to discuss export control policy issues; and (3) on more effective enforcement procedures. Requires U.S. nongovernmental entities which enter into a commercial agreement with the government of a foreign country to which exports are restricted for national security purposes to report the agreement to the Director. Directs the Secretary of State to negotiate with other countries regarding their cooperation in restricting the export of goods and technology. Requires the Director to work with enforcement agencies to ensure: (1) the denial of all further exports to any party or parties responsible for the diversion of U.S. exports to unauthorized uses, regardless of whether such goods or technology are available from sources outside the United States; and (2) that other appropriate steps are taken to deter further use of the previously exported goods or technology. Requires the Director to take such action when there is reliable evidence that goods or technology which were exported subject to national security controls have been diverted to an unauthorized use and/or consignee in violation of an export license. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to refer export applications to the Director when the Director finds that it is necessary to review an application. Requires the Secretary to review only those applications where the Director has recommended that the request for export be denied or approved subject to specified conditions. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the head of any department or agency exercising any function under this Act to suspend the authority of any person to export or import any or all goods or technology and to order the seizure of any goods or technology intended for export in violation of the suspension if, during an enforcement investigation, the agency finds that there is reason to believe there is a violation of this Act. Requires that the Secretary of the Treasury be notified of such suspension. Requires property which is the subject of a violation of this Act to be subject to forfeiture to the U.S. Government whether or not it is within the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States. Sets forth the powers of agencies to investigate possible violations of this Act. Sets forth the jurisdiction of the courts, the duties of the U.S. Attorneys, and other judicial procedures. Provides for protecting the confidentiality of information submitted in compliance with this Act. Requires the Director to try to simplify regulations issued under this Act and the commodity control list. Exempts the functions exercised under this Act from certain provisions relating to administrative procedure and judicial review. Expresses the intent of the Congress that there be public participation in the formation of regulations issued under this Act. Requires the President to coordinate the authority granted to the President under this Act with the authority provided for the control of arms exports under the Arms Export Control Act. Makes certain civil aircraft equipment which is to be exported to a country other than a controlled country subject to export controls exclusively under this Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979. Requires authorizing legislation before any appropriation can be made to the Commerce Department for expenses to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Defense Department to carry out this Act for each of FY 1984 and 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Repeals specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 which for FY 1983 through 1985: (1) reduce and delay cost of living increases in annuities and retired or retainer pay based on Government service; and (2) reduce, in relation to the amount of such increases, the pay of members and former members of the uniformed services holding Federal civilian positions.