United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Department of Defense Cost Savings Act of 1985 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of any military department from operating or allowing a commissary to operate on any military installation unless: (1) such installation is located outside a metropolitan area; and (2) not more than one retail store offering the same food supplies as those of the commissary is located within ten miles of the installation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and implement a competitive rate program applicable to the transportation of household goods to and from Alaska and Hawaii. Repeals Federal law which prohibits utilizing such a rate system. Requires, before the closure or realignment of any military bases occur, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned to file with the Armed Services Committees of the House and Senate a concise statement of findings together with a succinct justification for such base closure. Reduces from 60 days to 30 days the waiting period required after such reports are submitted before any specific closure action may be taken. Maintains the 60-day waiting period in areas with a higher-than-average unemployment rate or if such closure or realignment would increase unemployment in such area by one percent or more. Requires the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to establish and implement an aircraft fuel conservation program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the same date concerning such program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Tax Collection Cost Cutting Act of 1985 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that appropriations should be increased for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide an additional 2,500 examination personnel in each of FY 1986, 1987, and 1988. Expresses the sense of the Congress that for FY 1986 an additional $17,000,000 should be appropriated for use in the Information Returns Program for contacting persons who underreport income. Revises standards for inputting paper documents for computerized matching for purposes of the Information Returns Program. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit an annual report to each House of the Congress on the direct and indirect effects of the enforcement presence of the IRS. Specifies requirements for such report. Repeals the ten-day grace period for filing of returns and payment of excise taxes on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Wood Products Trade Act of 1985 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to enter into trade agreements which provide for voluntary restraints on exports of wood products. Declares that such agreements should also provide for the termination of subsidies and the harmonization reduction or elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers to international trade in wood products. Directs the President, in pursuing such trade agreements, to take into account trade distortions resulting from product standards and from restrictions on the trade of unprocessed logs. Requires such agreements, for specified purposes, to be treated in the same manner as trade agreements designed to reduce nontariff trade barriers and other trade distortions. Directs the President, after not more than 90 days of consultation with a foreign country or instrumentality, to: (1) terminate, withdraw, or suspend all or part of any trade agreement with such foreign entity with respect to any U.S. duty or other import restriction on wood products; and (2) terminate, withdraw, or suspend the U.S. obligations with respect to such duty or other import restriction. Requires that: (1) any duty or other import restriction with respect to which such an action has been taken shall remain in effect from February 26, 1985, through February 26, 1986; and (2) after February 26, 1986, any such duty shall be increased to ten percent ad valorem plus its column 1 duty rate, unless either a countervailing duty is imposed on that wood product because of a subsidy or the duty on the wood product is modified under a bill enacting a trade agreement on wood products. Requires that any such suspension of tariff or import restrictions on wood products shall be treated as an increase or imposition of duty for purposes of the President's authority to grant new concessions as compensation to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions. Directs the President to consult with the Congress in carrying out this Act. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to add as a definition of "subsidy" the furnishing of stumpage rights (the rights to cut or remove standing timber) on government lands by a country under a program or system in which those rights are furnished in exchange for a price less than the current price for comparable stumpage rights on government lands in the United States. Sets forth a formula for determining such stumpage rights subsidy in Canada. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) to change the definition of certain types of plywood for purposes of the TSUS.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Amends rule XXII of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of any bill or resolution which provides for the designation of any commemorative day or period.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Commemorates May 18, 1985, as the 20th anniversary of the Head Start Program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Head Start Program has been cost-effective and successful; and (2) congressional commitment to such program is reaffirmed.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
International Human Dignity and Opportunity Act of 1985 - Title I: Human Dignity Generally - Reaffirms the U.S. policy of prohibiting importation into the United States of goods produced by forced, convict, or indentured labor. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure that such policy is enforced. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit imports of all goods which are determined by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board (established by this Act) to be the product of forced, convict, or indentured labor. Deletes the exception to such prohibition which allows imports of such goods if they are in short supply in the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to oppose any financial or technical assistance by the IMF or any of its facilities to any country which: (1) practices policies of official racial segregation; or (2) is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which supports international terrorism or as a country which has not taken adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking. Authorizes the President to waive U.S. opposition to IMF aid to such a country if national security or humanitarian reasons justify the waiver. Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to repeal certain provisions of such Act relating to apartheid and international terrorism. Declares that if a country is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which does not respect freedom of the press: (1) products from that country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment; (2) that country shall not be eligible to participate in any U.S. program which extends credits, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees; and (3) the President shall not conclude any commercial agreement with that country. Authorizes the President to waive such sanctions against such countries if national security or humanitarian reasons justify the waiver. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President, subject to congressional approval, to waive certain sanctions against communist countries which deny freedom of emigration if the President makes specified determinations. Makes such waiver effective only if it is reported to the Congress and the Congress by a two-thirds vote in each House enacts a joint resolution approving that waiver. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to international organizations and forums in which the Soviet Union participates to demand compliance by the Soviet Union with the Helsinki Accords. Directs the President to report to the Congress any failure of the Soviet Union to comply with the Helsinki Accords and to identify appropriate U.S. responses to Soviet noncompliance. Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to international organizations and forums to demand a full accounting of prisoners of conscience. Title II: Foreign Assistance Programs - Prohibits the United States from providing foreign assistance to any country whose votes in the most recent session of the United Nations General Assembly differed from the U.S. position by more than 85 percent. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Prohibits the United States from providing bilateral or multilateral assistance to any country which is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which supports international terrorism. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to delete the prohibition in that Act against providing aid to countries that support international terrorism. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to direct the President to terminate all foreign military sales (currently all such sales, credits, and guarantees) to countries that aid international terrorists. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to suspend all U.S. bilateral and multilateral aid to or for a country if the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board lists such country as a country which has not taken adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Prohibits the United States from providing any foreign assistance to any country which is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which does not respect freedom of the press. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Directs the President to give preference in allocating funds for food assistance programs to those countries which promote an agricultural sector consisting of small, individually-owned farms. Directs the President to reallocate U.S. economic assistance funds to expand programs designed to increase world food production, especially: (1) programs to increase research and development efforts by the private sector and the academic community; and (2) programs to promote the development of free-market agriculture. Directs the President to coordinate and target food aid and emergency relief programs to areas of countries in which a government engages in a deliberate policy of withholding from or preventing the free passage of food and nutrition to any segment of that same country's population. Title III: International Code for Trade and Democracy - Urges each company which has financial or other business relations with a communist country to implement the following principles: (1) encouraging compliance by such country with specified labor and human rights standards; (2) not providing any goods or technical aid to any business that supports international terrorism or illegal drug trafficking or that is engaged in the illegal acquisition of strategic technology; (3) fostering free market practices; (4) encouraging nondiscriminatory hiring policies; (5) discouraging dumping in western markets of goods that cause significant injury to western producers; and (6) not importing goods which are produced by forced, convict, or indentured labor. Title IV: United States Policy Toward Southern Africa - Prohibits the Government from entering into a contract with and from providing economic assistance to any person who establishes a business in South Africa or operates or controls a business in South Africa and invests in that business after the effective date of this subtitle, unless that person implements the following employment principles: (1) desegregation in any employment facility; (2) equal employment for all employees; (3) equal pay for equal work; (4) establishment of a minimum wage and salary structure; (5) increase in the representation of nonwhites in managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs; (6) improvement of the quality of employees' lives outside the work environment; and (7) implementation of fair labor practices. Authorizes the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board to issue guidelines on the implementation of the principles and to determine whether the affected persons are complying with the employment principles. Requires each affected person to submit to the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board: (1) an annual report on compliance with such employment principles; and (2) such other information as necessary. Requires the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board to establish in South Africa a Compliance Council to: (1) advise the Board concerning the implementation of the employment principles; and (2) monitor compliance with such principles. Sets forth administrative provisions governing the Council. Imposes such contract and economic assistance restriction on persons: (1) who, according to a determination of the Board, are not in compliance with the employment principles; or (2) whose compliance cannot be established because of a failure to provide information to the Board or because of the provision of false information. Requires that Board to issue a list to all Federal agencies of all persons with respect to whom determinations or redeterminations are made. Requires the Board, at least once every two years, to review and redetermine a person's compliance with the employment principles. Provides for judicial review of such determinations or redeterminations. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress on the compliance of affected persons with the employment principles. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this subtitle for national security or humanitarian reasons. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State shall call an international conference of countries that do business with South Africa to develop a collective strategy for a constructive multilateral policy to promote the elimination of the practice of systematic racial discrimination in South Africa. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the limitation on U.S. aid to military or paramilitary operations in Angola. Requires the President to direct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to oppose any settlement negotiated in the United Nations on the independence of Namibia which does not include a guarantee of the full withdrawal of foreign troops from Angola. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should recognize the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) as the legitimate governing authority in Angola. Expresses the sense of the Congress that free elections should be held in Namibia and no specific political organization should be required to participate in those decisions. Title V: International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board - Establishes within the Department of State the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board consisting of five members appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Board to submit to the President and the Congress annual reports on all foreign countries which shall include lists of those countries that support international terrorism, those that are not taking adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking, and those that are not respecting freedom of the press. Grants the Board the responsibility for determining whether imported goods are goods produced in a foreign country by convict, forced, or indentured labor. Requires the Board to carry out its functions under title IV of this Act. Sets forth administrative provisions governing the Board. Directs the Board to report annually to the President and to each House of Congress on its activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Department of Defense Competitive Procurement Act of 1985 - Prohibits the amount of competitive defense procurements made during a fiscal year from being less than: (1) the applicable percentage for that year; and (2) the amount of all applicable procurements made by the Department of Defense during that year. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the purchase of goods or services in an other-than-competitive procedure if in any fiscal year the amount of competitive defense procurements is less than that required. Defines "competitive defense procurements," "applicable percentage," and "applicable procurements" for purposes of such requirement.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should recommend to the Attorney General that extended voluntary departure status be granted to alien nationals of Guatemala until the situation there becomes safe for their return.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
States that the Congress: (1) reaffirms the Organization of American States declaration that the solution to Nicaragua's political problems is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Nicaraguan people; (2) urges the President to grant political recognition to the democratic Nicaraguan Resistance; and (3) urges the President and the Organization of American States to support the Resistance.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1985
Handgun Crime Control Act of 1985 - Title I: Amendments to Chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code - Amends the Federal criminal code to direct the Attorney General to approve for manufacture, assembly, importation, sale, or transfer any approved handgun model which is used for lawful sporting purposes. Makes it unlawful for any licensed manufacturer, importer, dealer, or collector to manufacture, assemble, sell, deliver, or transfer any handgun (other than a curio or relic) which is not an approved model. Makes it unlawful for any non-licensee to sell or transfer any handgun (other than curio or relic) unless such person knows or has reasonable cause to believe such handgun is an approved model. Prohibits a pawnbroker from being licensed as a dealer in handguns or handgun ammunition. Directs the Attorney General to review State laws providing for permits to carry and purchase handguns and certify those meeting specified standards. Allows an individual possessing a permit under a certified State law to purchase a handgun if certain requirements are met. Makes it unlawful for a licensed dealer to transfer a handgun to a person not holding a permit under a certified State law unless certain procedures are followed. Requires in any such case that the transferee appear in person at the dealer's business premises. Requires the dealer, before delivery of the handgun, to forward a copy of a sworn statement by the transferee to the chief local law enforcement officer of the transferee's place of residence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for an identity and record check. Prohibits delivery until 21 days after submission of the sworn statement. Makes it unlawful for any licensed importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector to sell to the same person, or for any non-licensee to purchase, three or more handguns during a period of one year without the prior approval of the Attorney General. Makes it unlawful for any person to fail to report the loss, theft, or disappearance of a handgun in his possession to the authorities within 24 hours after discovering such loss. Requires all licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers to maintain accurate records of all handgun transfers. Makes any person who negligently transfers a handgun in violation of this Act civilly liable for the death or injury of an individual as a result of the use of such handgun by the transferee during commission of an offense. Makes it unlawful for any person to transport any firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce if such transportation violates a State law in a place through which the firearm is shipped or an ordinance at the place of sale, delivery, or other disposition. Increases the license fee for handgun dealers from $10 to $500 and for manufacturers and importers from $50 to $5,000. Makes it unlawful for any illegal alien, dishonorably discharged member of the armed forces, or U.S. citizen who has renounced such citizenship to possess, transport, or receive any firearm or ammunition. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act to allow the court to abate the penalties for using or carrying a firearm during the commission of a felony if certain mitigating factors are present. Title II: Gun Control Functions Transferred to the Attorney General - Transfers to the Attorney General all functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under the Gun Control Act of 1968. Establishes the Firearms Safety and Abuse Control Administration within the Department of Justice. Requires the Attorney General to report annually to Congress on the activities of the Administration. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, in consultation with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, to report on the intergovernmental problems involved in controlling illicit handgun traffic and the effectiveness of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that no deductions shall be allowed for advertising or other promotion expenses with respect to arms sales.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1985
Congressional Pay Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to specify that pay adjustments for Members of Congress shall become effective on March 1 following the beginning of the next Congress after the Congress during which such adjustment is approved. Amends the Federal Salary Act to require the President to transmit to the Congress within a specified time period, recommendations for rates of pay of Members of Congress legislative and judicial employees. (Currently such recommendations are included in the Federal budget.) Prohibits the House of Representatives and the Senate from considering any bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation for compensation of Members of Congress for any fiscal year if such bill or joint resolution carries an appropriation, or a limitation of appropriations, for any other purpose. Requires a recorded vote on such bill or resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Requires the Archivist of the United States to include in any report to the Congress on a proposed presidential archival depository a certification that any building or equipment offered as a gift or made available without transfer of title for such depository complies with the minimum standards relating to suitability for archival purposes. Authorizes the Archivist to solicit gifts or bequests of money or other property for a depository. Requires the proceeds of such gifts or bequests to be deposited into an account in the National Archives Trust Fund and expended for the same purposes and objects for which appropriations for operating, maintaining, protecting, or improving such depository might be expended. Directs the Archivist to provide for the establishment in such Trust Fund of separate endowments for the maintenance of depository land, buildings, and equipment to which shall be credited any gift or bequest offered for that purpose. Restricts the use of the income of such endowments to the payment of the cost of building operations. Prohibits the Administrator from taking title to, or making an agreement to use, any land, building, or equipment for a depository unless there is available, by gift or bequest, for deposit into an endowment for such depository an amount equal to at least 20 percent of the sum of: (1) the cost of acquiring or constructing such building and of acquiring and installing such equipment; and (2) the cost of acquiring such land to which the United States will hold title; or (3) the cost to the donor of making improvements to such land to which the United States will not hold title. Directs the Archivist to study the demand for, and the costs of, establishing a museum of the Presidents. Requires the study to examine the feasibility of establishing and operating such museum exclusively with non-Federal funds. Requires the results of such study to be included in the Archivist's report for FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal tobacco price support provisions. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal tobacco acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 to repeal tobacco allotment transfer provisions. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) to exclude tobacco from specified concessional export provisions. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from assisting tobacco production. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit the issuance of tobacco marketing orders. Repeals the Tobacco Control Act. Withdraws congressional consent from any interstate compact regulating tobacco production and commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1985
Provides that each item of any general or special appropriation bill and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations that is agreed to in the same form by both Houses of the Congress shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation to the President (line-item veto).
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to the family of Harry Chapin in recognition of Harry Chapin's efforts to address issues of world hunger. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Children's Justice Act - Amends the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 to authorize a Children's Justice Grant program. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make additional grants to States under specified provisions of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act for identification, treatment, and prevention of sexual abuse. Makes a State eligible for such assistance if the Secretary determines that the State, within one year after the enactment of this Act, has enacted specified legal and administrative changes with respect to the investigation and prosecution of child sexual abuse cases. Requires a State, to be eligible for such assistance, to have in effect a child sexual abuse program which includes at least one statute or administrative procedure to carry out the following categories of reforms: (1) handling such cases so as to reduce the trauma to the child victim; (2) improving the chances of successful prosecution or legal action against child molesters; and (3) improving procedures to protect children from sexual abuse. Directs the Secretary to issue necessary regulations for such assistance program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to extend permanently the increase in the excise tax on cigarettes. (Present law terminates such increase as of October 1, 1985.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the President should express to the Soviet Union U.S. opposition with respect to the harassment and arrests of Hebrew teachers and Jewish activists in the Soviet Union; and (2) the Soviet Union should comply with its commitments under specified international human rights agreements and cease its persecution of individuals on the basis of their Jewish faith.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Liberty Double-Eagle Bullion Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold double-eagle coins. Sets forth specifications for and the design of such coins. Makes such coins legal tender. Permits the sale of such coins at a price equal to the cost of minting and issuing such coins plus a surcharge equal to the amount by which the fair market value of gold bullion held by the United States and used in the minting of the coins exceeds the statutory maximum value of any gold certificates outstanding against the bullion. Requires the revenue from such surcharges to be used to reduce the national debt. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 50 percent excise tax on any "greenmail profits" paid to certain corporate stockholders. Defines "greenmail profits" as any gain realized by a four-percent shareholder of any stock in a corporation if: (1) the shareholder held such stock for a period of less than two years; and (2) during the two-year period ending on the date of the sale or exchange of such stock there was a public tender offer for such stock or a four-percent shareholder submitted a written proposal for a public tender offer. Disallows an income tax deduction for certain interest paid or accrued with respect to hostile acquisition indebtedness. Defines "hostile acquisition indebtedness" as certain subordinate obligations issued after February 18, 1985, in connection with a hostile acquisition.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee to review, on a continuing basis and when considering public bills or resolutions, those portions of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission report) pertaining to such committee's jurisdiction. Amends rule XI to require each committee report on a public bill or resolution to contain: (1) an identification of each recommendation of the Survey to be implemented and the resulting estimated program cost savings or revenue enhancement; and (2) a statement setting forth the disposition of each recommendation pertaining to such bill or resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Pacific Salmon Treaty Act of 1985 - Provides for the appointment of four U.S. Commissioners to the Pacific Salmon Commission established by the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the United States and Canada (the Treaty). Provides for the appointment of U.S. Panel members to the Southern, Northern, and Fraser River Panels established by the Treaty. Sets forth the voting requirements for U.S. Commissioners and members of the various Panels. Authorizes the Secretary of State (the Secretary) to: (1) receive and transmit communications of and to the Commission and Panels; (2) in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, approve, disapprove, object to, or withdraw objections to fishery regimes and Fraser River Panel regulations proposed in accordance with the Treaty; and (3) act upon or refer to other appropriate authority any other communications of and to the Commission and Panels. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) arrange for cooperation in carrying out the Treaty with U.S. agencies, the States, treaty Indian tribes, private institutions, and organizations; and (2) execute memoranda to reflect such agreements. Authorizes U.S. agencies to cooperate in scientific and other programs to assist the Commission and Panels in carrying out their responsibilities under the Treaty. Provides for the preemption of State or treaty Indian tribe actions if such actions place the United States in jeopardy of not fulfilling its international obligations under the Treaty. Sets forth the procedures for promulgating regulations to carry out U.S. international obligations under the Treaty. Makes it unlawful for any person or vessels subject to U.S. jurisdiction to: (1) violate this Act, or any regulation adopted under this Act, or any Fraser River Panel regulation approved by the United States under the Treaty; (2) refuse to permit an authorized search or inspection of a fishing vessel under such person's control; (3) interfere with an authorized officer in the conduct of such a search or inspection; (4) resist a lawful arrest for any act prohibited by this Act; (5) ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody of any fish taken and retained in violation of this Act; or (6) interfere with the apprehension or arrest of another person knowing such person has violated this Act. Sets forth penalties for such violations. Sets forth as the general standard for U.S. actions with respect to the Treaty that the U.S. actions shall: (1) consider the best scientific information available; (2) result in measures necessary and appropriate for the conservation and use of the Pacific salmon; and (3) be consistent with U.S. obligations under the Treaty, domestic Indian treaties, and other applicable law. Requires the U.S. Commissioners and Panel members to appoint an advisory committee. Sets forth general administrative provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals the Sockeye Salmon or Pink Salmon Fishing Act of July 29, 1947, as amended. Directs the Secretary to dispose of any U.S. property held by the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should take all diplomatic and legal means possible to achieve worldwide compliance with the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1985
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to remove the authority for certain Members of Congress to use excess campaign funds for personal purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1985
Requires that funds be made available from appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 to enable the National Institutes of Health to award 6,500 new and competing research grants in FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1985
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 regarding urban development action grant criteria to require at least one-half of aggregate grant amounts to be made solely on the basis of specified criteria, of which job creation, especially for low-income persons and minorities, shall be given priority. Requires a report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to continue the excise tax on cigarettes at its present 16 cents per pack level (rather than reducing the excise tax to eight cents per pack October 1, 1985, as currently provided). Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer amounts received from this excise tax on cigarettes to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to compute the amount of the deduction for retirement savings on the basis of the compensation of the spouse. Phases this deduction in over a period of six years.
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