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United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Designates the week of October 2 through October 8, 1983, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) restoration of a stable monetary system is necessary to assure economic growth and to maintain a liberal international economic system; (2) the Secretary of the Treasury should review his call for an international conference on the monetary system; (3) the International Monetary Fund should make use of its current assets and revise the conditions placed on its loans; (4) additional financial resources should be made available through bilateral arrangements; and (5) U.S. banks should be required to adjust the value of loans on which interest payments are not received and be allowed to increase deductible loss reserves in order to make such write-downs without endangering the banking system.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Small Business Computer Crime Prevention Act - Amends the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish the Small Business Computer Crime and Security Task Force which shall: (1) define the nature and scope of computer crimes against small business; (2) provide cost estimates per year of computer crimes against small business; (3) ascertain the effectiveness of State legislation and security equipment in preventing computer crimes against small business; and (4 ) develop guidelines to assist small businesses in evaluating the security of computer systems. Directs the Task Force, within three years after the enactment of this Act, to submit a report of its findings on computer crimes against small business to the President and Congress. Terminates the Task Force not later than 30 days after the submission of such report. Directs the Administrator to establish a resource center which will provide computer security information and periodic information exchange forums for small businesses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Expresses the support of the House of Representatives for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Designates the month of August 1983, as National Child Support Enforcement Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Designates the week of September 18 through 24, 1983, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to reimburse eligible veterans for reasonable charges for chiropractic services. Directs the Administrator to establish a schedule of reasonable charges. Requires the Administrator to make annual reports to the Veterans Affairs Committees for four years concerning the use and reimbursement of chiropractic services.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Calls upon the nations of the world, particularly the Soviet Union, to conclude in the multilateral Committee on Disarmament or other bilateral negotiations a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons. States that the United States will continue its moratorium on chemical weapons production if progress is evident on a comprehensive and verifiable treaty banning chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Designates the week beginning November 27, 1983, as National Home Health Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Designates the week beginning September 4, 1983, as Youth of America Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Director of the National Institutes of Health should increase funding allocations for Lupus Erythematosus research.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make it a Federal offense for any person to knowingly or intentionally obtain possession of a controlled substance from a distributor, manufacturer or practitioner by robbery, theft or extortion. Provides for a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $10,000, if a dangerous weapon is used, or if death results, a prison term of up to 40 years and a fine of up to $20,000.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Designates the week of October 16 through October 22, 1983, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to cause two named vessels to be documented as vessels of the United States entitled to engage in the coastwise trade.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Designates August 3, 1983, as National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Act of 1983 - Establishes a National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission to evaluate existing and potential public outdoor recreation policies, programs, and opportunities and to recommend outdoor recreation policies and activities which should be instituted at the Federal, State, and local levels and by the private sector in order to protect existing recreation resources and to meet future recreation needs. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and Congress within 18 months after its establishment. Terminates the Commission six months after submission of its report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Amends the Federal criminal code to include former Presidents within the jurisdiction of the provisions regarding presidential assassinations. Excludes presidential staff from the coverage of this Act. Grants exclusive Federal jurisdiction for actions arising under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Designates May 6 through May 13, 1984, as National Tuberous Sclerosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Delays until 1985 the effective date of provisions of Revenue Ruling 83-3 which deny tax deductions for expenses paid on a minister's personal residence which are attributable to tax-exempt income.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Prohibits imports from Iran until the President certifies to Congress that the Government of Iran has stopped persecuting Baha'is in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Former Prisoners of War Compensation Act-Entitles veterans who are former prisoners of war to veterans' disability compensation. Varies the percent of disability directly with the length of detention. Entitles surviving spouses and children of veterans rated more than 50 percent disabled to dependency and indemnity.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Urges the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Attorney General to: (1) ensure that their respective agencies place as much emphasis on duties relating to the facilitation of international air commerce as is given to law enforcement duties at U.S. gateway and preclearance airports; and (2) develop jointly and implement, before the beginning of the 1984 Summer Olympics, a national plan to consolidate such functions of the agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Equal Access Act - Prohibits public schools that allow students to participate in extracurricular activities from receiving Federal funds if they deny equal access or opportunity for students and faculty to engage in voluntary prayer or religious discussion on school premises during noninstructional periods.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 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 any deadly or dangerous weapon (current law is limited to firearms). Redefines such offense as using such a weapon to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a weapon during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "illegally". Revises the additional penalty imposed for such offense to one to five years' imprisonment for a first offense (currently, one to ten years), five to ten years for a second offense (currently, two to 25 years for a second or subsequent offense), and life imprisonment for a third offense. Extends to first offenders the requirement, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence, grant probation, or impose concurrent sentences. Prohibits the granting of parole to any offender. Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Bankruptcy Code to provide that educational loans which are not dischargeable in bankruptcy liquidation shall not be dischargeable in an adjustment of debts in a bankruptcy of an individual with regular income.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Designates April 24, 1984, as National Day of Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity to Man.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Declares that U.S. policy embraces the historical events of the Armenian genocide.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Designates May 24, 1983, as Brooklyn Bridge Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should proceed with the sale and delivery of F-16 aircraft to Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to designate the Long Island Expressway in New York as part of the Interstate Highway System. Makes such expressway eligible for funds under the 1981 interstate cost estimate and requires its inclusion in future interstate cost estimates. Makes such expressway ineligible for withdrawal from the Interstate System. States that mileage of the expressway shall not be charged against the limitation on the length of the Interstate System.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions which terminate the income tax exclusion for amounts received by an employee under an educational assistance program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Mortgage Retirement Account Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers an election to treat home mortgage prepayments as a tax-deductible contribution to an individual retirement account. Allows amounts to be withdrawn from an individual retirement account for the purchase of a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take steps to: (1) issue a proclamation commemorating the Ukrainian famine of 1933; (2) issue a warning that the continued enslavement of the Ukrainian nation is a threat to world peace; and (3) convey to the Soviet people U.S. sentiments for the recovery of Ukrainian freedom and independence.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a taxpayer whose spouse earns less than $250 of compensation shall not be disqualified from having a spousal individual retirement account.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Designates the week beginning May 1, 1983, as National Children's Liver Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convey U.S. concern for the welfare of Ethiopian Jews and seek ways to assist Ethiopian Jews to emigrate freely.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 24 through April 30, 1983, as National Organ Donation Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the month of May 1983 should be appropriately observed as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Directs the President to designate June 12 through 18, 1983, as National Scleroderma Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Designates the week of September 25 through October 2, 1983, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Designates the week beginning May 6, 1983, as National Recognition Week for Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President designate September 1983 as National Sickle-Cell Anemia Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Declares that the House of Representatives supports Solidarity Sunday.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union's policies of forced labor. Declares that the Soviet Union should cease such practices and honor their international commitments.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the present ratio of U.S. military assistance to Greece and Turkey should be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Transfers marihuana from schedule I (abuse potential, no accepted medical use) to schedule II (accepted medical use) under the Controlled Substances Act. Amends such Act to establish in the Department of Health and Human Services an Office for the Supply of Internationally Controlled Drugs, to be responsible for regulating the domestic production and distribution of marihuana. Establishes procedures for the production and use of medicinal marihuana. Permits the distribution of medicinal marihuana only to hospitals and pharmacies registered to dispense schedule II controlled substances for the purposes of treating glaucoma, cancer, or research approved under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Provides for a marihuana abuse prevention and information program through the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the educational expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) of the taxpayer's dependent child at an institution of higher education or a vocational school. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,000 (adjusted for inflation) for each account per calendar year. Disallows any deduction for contributions to an account for individuals who have attained age 19. Specifies that no account may have more than one beneficiary and that no individual may be a beneficiary of more than one account. Permits the deferral of income tax on income accumulated in such education savings accounts as long as such amounts are used exclusively for educational expenses. Specifies penalties for the use of account funds for other than educational purposes. Requires that the trustee of an education savings account file reports with the Secretary of the Treasury on the maintenance of the account. Imposes penalties for not filing required reports. Extends the deduction for contributions to an education savings account to taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions. Excludes from the gross income of account beneficiaries any distributions from the account made on their behalf which are used for educational expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Designates the week of April 3 through April 9, 1983, as National Drug Abuse Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Designates the week beginning June 12, 1983, as National Free Enterprise Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the holding period for capital gains tax treatment from one year to six months.