United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982
Social Security Disability Benefits Act of 1982 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to permit a disability insurance beneficiary who has been found not to be under a disability to appeal such determination immediately upon the earliest notice from the applicable State agency or the Secretary of Health and Human Services (without having to wait for any formal notice of benefit termination). Entitles such an individual to a hearing without the necessity of first obtaining reconsideration of the disability determination by the State agency or the Secretary. Extends the period before the termination of disability benefits for beneficiaries whose disabilities have ceased. Requires in the case of a disability insurance beneficiary who has been found not to be under a disability and who has requested a hearing with respect to such determination that the payment of disability benefits shall be resumed for an additional period if at the end of the nine months following such request no decision has been made to hold such hearing. Provides that such benefit payments shall be considered overpayments if the decision upon the hearing affirms the determination that such individual is not entitled to benefits. Prohibits the termination of an individual's disability benefits unless the Secretary finds that: (1) there has been such medical improvement in the individual's condition that the individual is no longer disabled under the disability standards in effect at the time of the original determination and the individual does not have any other condition which might constitute a disability; or (2) the original disability determination was clearly erroneous under the disability standards in effect at the time it was made. Makes such prohibition inapplicable in the case of an individual who has demonstrated an ability to engage in substantial gainful activity. Provides that subsequent reviews of a disability determination, following an initial review for purposes of determining the continuing eligibility of beneficiaries who become entitled in October 1982 and thereafter, shall be at the discretion of the State agency or the Secretary, as appropriate. Requires that such individuals be notified when subsequent reviews of disability determinations are scheduled. Limits the number of disability determination reviews, for purposes of continuing eligibility, which the Secretary may conduct for individuals who become entitled to disability benefits before October 1982. Requires the Secretary to assure that uniform standards are applied at all levels of adjudication in making disability determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982
Expresses the disapproval of Congress of the five-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing plan approved by the Department of the Interior on July 21, 1982. Prohibits the implementation of such program until the Secretary of the Interior has modified the plan to conform to applicable Federal law and national energy policy.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982
Expresses the concern of the House of Representatives in the preservation and restoration of Rhodes Tavern in Washington, D.C. Encourages preservation and restoration efforts by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Capitol Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, the mayor and city council, and other interested organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Small Business Administration Personnel Reform Act of 1982 - Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit employees of the Small Business Administration (SBA) who have authority to take, recommend, or approve personnel actions from exercising or threatening to use such authority on the basis of the political activity or affiliation of the individuals involved in personnel actions. Requires such employees to report to the Inspector General of the SBA any such personnel action for which the individual's participation has been solicited or directed. Makes employees who willfully and knowingly violate such prohibition subject to disciplinary action imposed by the SBA. Requires that a person who holds the position of Director of Personnel or the position of Administrator of the SBA and who willfully and knowingly violates such prohibition be separated from service, debarred from Federal employment for up to five years, and assessed a civil penalty of $1,000 for each such violation. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to personnel actions taken by the Administrator with respect to the Deputy Administrator or taken by the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, or Chief Counsel for Advocacy with respect to the confidential assistant of such person. Permits the payment of civil penalties collected under this Act to the employees who were the subject of the personnel actions involving violations of this Act. Provides that the prohibitions and liabilities under this Act shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, other prohibitions and liabilities. Specifies the SBA employees who may be: (1) excepted from the competitive service on the basis that the employee's position involves policy decisions or determinations; or (2) in a Senior Executive Service position and not be a career appointee. Prohibits the reassignment of permanent SBA employees to a duty station outside their local commuting area unless such reassignment is essential to the efficient and effective management of the SBA and such efficient and effective management cannot be achieved by other means at the same or less cost. Prohibits the reassignment of employees in the Senior Executive Service or in positions of GS-14 or above of the General Schedule to duty stations outside their local commuting area unless such reassignment occurs pursuant to the employee's request or unless the SBA provides 60 days' advance notice of the reassignment, a right to an attorney, and a right to all documents under the SBA's control pertaining to the reassignment. Entitles the affected employee to appeal any reassignment within 30 days after receiving the advance notice of the reassignment. Requires the administrator to review de novo the matters raised in such appeal. Entitles a permanent employee in the Senior Executive Schedule or in a position at GS-14 or above of the General Schedule who elects not to accept a reassignment outside his or her local commuting area to severance pay. Prohibits the SBA from implementing a policy for the systematic reassignment of employees to positions outside their local commuting areas unless the policy conforms to this Act, affected employees and the Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board are given 90 days' notice of the proposed policy, and their comments are considered. Requires the Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board to review periodically the SBA's personnel management system and to file a complaint with the Board if there is a practice of personnel actions in violation of this Act or other law. Authorizes the Board to issue an order in response to such a complaint divesting the SBA of personnel authority pending the adoption of remedial measures. Specifies the minimum number of SBA positions at the district office level required by September 30, 1985, and by September 30, 1987. Provides for the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the SBA's Office of Advocacy to be appointed for a term of six years. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to require that the Small Business Investment Division be headed by an Associate Administrator for Investment. (Currently the division is headed by an Associate Administrator appointed by the administrator of the SBA). Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator to appoint a Deputy Administrator. Requires the SBA to establish Associate Administrators for: (1) finance assistance programs; (2) investment programs authorized under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; (3) minority small business and capital ownership development; (4) procurement assistance; (5) management assistance programs; and (6) disaster assistance. Requires the establishment of ten Regional Administrator positions to carry out SBA programs in certain geographic areas. Sets forth the order of succession in the event of the absence of the Administrator or a vacancy in the office of the Administrator. Permits, at the Administrator's discretion, the separation from service of the Associate Administrators and the Regional Administrators for willful and knowing failure to execute legally permissible orders of the Administrator. Requires the Director of Personnel of the SBA to report to the House and Senate Committees on Small Business, on a quarterly basis, on personnel actions based on political considerations, on reassignments directed or requested for permanent employees at the GS-14 grade level or above or in the Senior Executive Service, and on personnel actions involving Associate or Regional Administrators. Requires the Inspector General of the SBA to report to such committees at least once every six months on investigations of prohibited political personnel practices. Directs the Inspector General to review the procedures for selection of employees initially appointed under the Samll Business Act to assure that they are consistent with the requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Amends the Small Business Act to require that the business plans developed by small businesses participating in the Small Business Administration's (SBA) small business and capital ownership development program contain predetermined competitiveness criteria for financial, marketing, and management functions in order to measure the progress toward competitiveness and the estimated time needed to reach a competitive condition. Provides for annual review and necessary revision of the estimated time and the competitiveness criteria. Eliminates the requirement that a small business agree, prior to acceptance in the program, to reach a competitive condition within a fixed period of time. Permits assistance to be denied to a small business participating in such program only if such participant: (1) voluntarily elects not to participate; (2) is denied assistance pursuant to an action by the SBA for termination based on good cause or on the participant's failure to make adequate progress toward achieving its competitiveness criteria; or (3) successfully achieves a substantial portion of its competitiveness criteria. Sets forth requirements with which such criteria must comply. Establishes a schedule for the publication of rules and regulations implementing this Act. Requires that all determinations regarding participation under the small business and capital ownership development program and eligibility for Government procurement contract awards be made pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Amends the Small Business Act to provide that a business concern requesting procurement assistance under such Act shall be considered a small business if: (1) it has received such assistance within the last 18-month period; (2) it is dependent upon such assistance for at least 40 percent of work force; and (3) without such assistance it is likely to suffer serious financial loss and dismiss at least 40 percent of its work force. Prohibits procurement assistance solely under this Act for a period longer than two years.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that at the time of the offense the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, did not understand the wrongfulness of the conduct or was incapable of conforming his conduct to the requirements of the law. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity." Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to prohibit expert witnesses from offering opinions on the issue of the insanity of the defendant. Provides for an initial screening examination to determine whether there is reasonable cause to believe that the defendant lacks competence. Allows for a more thorough examination of the defendant if the initial results suggest incompetency. Requires a hearing on the issue of competence and further examination on the issue of the likelihood of the defendant's recovery. Allows for appropriate treatment if necessary. Requires in-patient treatment only when the defendant is dangerous, likely to flee, or in custody. Requires transfer to State officials for State civil commitment of certain defendants who have received the maximum treatment under this section or are found incompetent with no substantial probability of improvement. Allows a person serving a sentence of imprisonment to be transferred to a mental institution upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that the prisoner is in need of treatment. Establishes Federal commitment procedures for persons found "not guilty only by reason of insanity." Provides for a special examination of violent offenders in order to determine their dangerousness.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Precollege Mathematics and Science Teacher Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a program of direct loans to students in institutions of higher education who are preparing to be precollege mathematics and science teachers. Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program of establishing and maintaining funds at institutions of higher education for making low-interest loans to students who: (1) pursue baccalaureate degree courses of study in mathematics and/or science,and (2) intend to enter the precollege mathematics and science teaching profession. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through FY 1988 to carry out such program. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1988 through FY 1993 to enable students who have received loans for academic years ending prior to October 1, 1988, to continue or complete courses of study. Directs the Secretary to make payments to institutions of higher education on the basis of the estimated needs of such institutions for making such student loans. Sets forth conditions for sych payments and for the agreements with the Secretary which such institutions must make in order to receive such payments. Sets forth the terms of such student loans. Sets forth eligibility requirements for students. Sets forth requirements for agreements between an institution and a student receiving such a loan from the student loan fund (including agreement which require commitments to teach or repay such loans). Provides for cancellaton of such student loans at the rate of 25 percent for each complete year of service after the date of enactment of this Act as a full-time science or mathematics teacher in an elementary or secondary school academic year. Provides for cancellation of the entire amount of interest which accrues for any year in which a portion of the loan is cancelled.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Permits employee benefit plans, as defined under this Act, to engage in any qualified mortgage transaction involving any qualified residential mortgage loan, provided transactions between all parties are at arm's length. Permits such plans to participate in any mortgage pool, provided such pool conforms to specified requirements with regard to permitted investments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any and all contrary provisions of State law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits the imposition of Federal excise tax on a plan or pool that engages in a transaction described under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the credit against employment tax liability available to an employer shall not be reduced due to any unpaid balance of loans made to the unemployment account of a State in which: (1) the unemployment rate for a specified period is seven percent or more; and (2) the balance of loans made to the unemployment account is at least $1,000,000,000. Amends title XII (Advances to State Unemployment Funds) of the Social Security Act to provide that States with such unemployment rates and loan balances shall not be required to pay interest on such loans.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Math and Science Education Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers an income tax credit for compensation paid to: (1) precollege mathematics and science teachers hired for the summer months for employment which provides experience in the applied use of high technology; and (2) permanent employees who teach precollege mathematics or science at a public school without compensation from such school. Sets the amount of such credit at the sum of: (1) 50 percent of the aggregate compensation paid to teachers employed for the summer months; plus (2) 100 percent of the aggregate compensation paid to permanent employees who teach at public schools. Limits the amount of compensation paid to a permanent employee which may be taken into account to $1,000 multiplied by the number of months such employee teaches in a public school. Requires that teachers hired for the summer months must be paid at a weekly rate equal to or greater than the weekly rate of the teaching salary of such teacher. Requires that permanent employees who teach at public schools must teach at an elementary or secondary school for at least ten hours per week (at least five of which must be actual instruction in the classroom) at the request of the school district administrators.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the termination of disability benefits in the case of an individual who has been found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits and who has requested reconsideration of such determination. Provides for the continued payment of such benefits until the reconsideration has been completed and such determination has been upheld or until the end of the sixth month after the month in which the initial eligibility determination was made, whichever is earlier. Requires that an initial disability determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is unfavorable to the disability benefit applicant, contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence and the basis for the Secretary's decision. Entitles the applicant or the applicant's spouse, surviving spouse, former spouse, surviving divorced mother, child, or parent to reconsideration of such an initial determination upon request and upon a showing that his or her rights may be prejudiced by the determination. Entitles an individual who requests a reconsideration to a new disability determination. Authorizes the State agency which made the initial disability determination to make the new disability determination during the reconsideration process: (1) after notification to the Secretary; (2) in accordance with the rules governing disability determinations; and (3) after opportunity for an evidentiary hearing at which the individual requesting the reconsideration and the individual (if different) whose disability is in question shall have a right to appear. Requires that a reconsideration by the Secretary which is unfavorable to the individual requesting the reconsideration contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence and the basis for the Secretary's decision. Continues Medicare entitlement for a disabled qualified railroad retirement beneficiary who is appealing the termination of his or her benefits until such individual has exhausted all possible administrative remedies. Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress quarterly reports on: (1) the number of eligibility reviews carried out under title II; (2) the number of initial benefit termination decisions resulting from such reviews; (3) the number of benefit termination decisions with respect to which reconsideration or a hearing is requested; and (4) the number of benefit termination decisions which are overturned at the reconsideration or hearing level.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1982
Establishes the United States Capitol Page Board for the supervision and education of congressional pages. Repeals the eligibility of Supreme Court pages for attendance and residence at the John W. McCormack Residential Page School. Requires the Board to provide for personnel to perform duties with respect to such school.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Fair Reduction-in-Force Practices Act of 1982 - Prohibits any executive agency, the Government Printing Office, or the Library of Congress from conducting a reduction-in-force unless, and only to the extent that, the agency has not been able to respond to the reason for the proposed reduction-in-force by: (1) instituting general cost-reduction measures or voluntary personnel cost-reduction measures; (2) establishing programs for eliminating inefficient or wasteful agency practices; (3) transferring available funds between programs and activities; (4) limiting hiring or promotions; (5) transferring personnel to positions that become available through attrition; (6) eliminating unessential overtime, holiday, and premium pay; (7) limiting the hours of intermittent employees and reducing the use of temporary employees; (8) reassigning employees to positions funded by trust or revolving accounts; (9) detailing employees; (10) assigning employees to State or local governments; or (11) any combination of such methods. Requires an agency head to notify the exclusive representative representing any employee who would be affected by a proposed reduction-in-force of any determination of a need for a reduction-in-force. Sets forth procedures governing collective bargaining over a reduction-in-force. Directs each agency to: (1) establish a program of consultation with organizations of managerial personnel who are not subject to collective bargaining; (2) inform any such organization of any proposed reduction-in-force that would affect any of its personnel; (3) provide such organization with a reasonable opportunity to present its views and recommendations; (4) consider such views and recommendations; and (5) provide such organization with a written statement explaining any persisting need for a reduction in force after considering and implementing appropriate recommendations. Permits an agency to conduct a reduction-in-force after satisfying the previous requirements of this Act if: (1) it submits reports concerning the proposed reduction-in-force to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Accounting Office; and (2) such offices certify on the basis of such reports that the requirements of this Act have been met. Requires the report to the OPM to: (1) describe the actions to be taken, the reasons the reduction-in-force is necessary, all alternatives and proposals considered and implemented, and the anticipated impact of the proposed reduction-in-force on the operations and management of the agency; and (2) provide any views and recommendations submitted by employee or management representatives. Requires that the report to the GAO: (1) indicate the estimated total cost to the Government of the proposed reduction-in-force; and (2) compare the estimated savings, over three years, anticipated through the proposed reduction-in-force with the estimated savings anticipated through the alternatives and proposals considered and implemented. Requires such reports to be submitted to specified congressional committees and made available to certain subcommittees. Permits an agency to issue notice of a proposed reduction-in-force to employees no earlier than ten days after the date both the OPM and the GAO have certified that the requirements of this Act have been met. Entitles an affected employee to at least 30 days advance notice. Requires such notice to specify: (1) the personnel action to be taken and its effective date; (2) the information used in determining the employee's standing in the competition for retention; (3) the place where and time when the employee may inspect records pertaining to his or her case; (4) any exceptions to the general order of release; and (5) the employee's right to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Directs the OPM to establish a Government-wide retention register for each occupational category. Requires the name of each employee specifically notified of a reduction-in-force to be placed on the register for each occupation for which the employee is qualified. Directs the OPM to prescribe regulations prohibiting an agency from filling a vacant position by a new appointment, transfer, reemployment, reassignment, or promotion unless the OPM determines that there is no qualified individual on the appropriate retention register. Directs the OPM to match each individual on the register with the available position for which the individual is best suited and, if the individual is qualified for more than one position, with the position which would be the least disruptive for the individual (considering the duties, pay, work schedule, and location of the position). Requires the OPM to certify to the appointing authority of an agency the name of each individual matched to a position of such agency. Requires an agency to offer an appointment to such a certified individual unless it objects and shows that: (1) appointment of another person is necessary to prevent substantial disruption to an essential agency function or to increase the percentage of women and minorities in the work force to the percentage as of April 1, 1981; or (2) the agency intends to withdraw the vacancy or to leave the position vacant for reasons acceptable to the OPM. Entitles an individual to remain on appropriate retention registers and to be considered for employment for two years. Requires the individual's name to be removed from such registers if: (1) the individual requests that he or she no longer be considered for employment; (2) the personnel action under the proposed reduction-in-force does not take effect; (3) the individual accepts an offer of an appointment under this Act; or (4) the individual is offered a position within the same commuting area and with the same pay, grade, and work schedule as the position from which the individual was released. Entitles individuals who have been affected by or notified of a reduction-in-force since April 1, 1981, to be placed on retention registers upon application. Requires the OPM to prescribe regulations prohibiting an agency from filling a vacant position by new appointment, transfer, reemployment, reassignment, or promotion, even if there is no qualified individual on the retention registers, if there is available a person who, notwithstanding any minimum qualification requirements for the position: (1) receives specific notice of a proposed reduction-in-force and applies for consideration for vacant positions; (2) meets the educational requirements for the position; and (3) the agency determines can reasonably be expected to satisfactorily perform the duties of such position within 180 days of appointment (with training, if necessary). Prohibits an agency from evaluating the performance of such an employee before 180 days after the employee is appointed; but, afterwards, allows the agency to remove such employee for unacceptable performance. Disqualifies from such assignment program any individual who fails to achieve an acceptable performance rating in two consecutive positions. Permits individuals who have been notified of or affected by a reduction-in-force since April 1, 1981, to be assigned under such program upon application. Directs the OPM to require agencies to transmit, at least monthly, a list of the employees notified of a reduction-in-force and a list of positions the agency plans to fill during the next six months. Requires the OPM to make a list of all such positions available to such employees for inspection. Requires the OPM to submit a biannual report to the President and to specified congressional committees on the implementation of the provisions of this Act. Specifies contents of such report. Extends (from one to two years) the period in which a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), removed because of a reduction-in-force, must apply in order to be reinstated to a vacant SES position. Declares that such a member shall be qualified for such a vacant position if the agency head determines that such member can reasonably be expected to receive a performance rating at any of the fully successful levels for an appraisal period of between 180 and 365 days. Permits early retirement eligibility for employees who are separated from service voluntarily only if such separations are necessary to prevent involuntary separations, grade reductions, furloughs, or reassignments that would otherwise result because of a reorganization, reduction-in-force, or transfer of functions. Entitles an individual who has completed five years of civilian service and who, because of a reduction-in-force, is separated from service or transferred to a position which is not under the civil service retirement system to: (1) restoration of full civil service annuity rights upon depositing the full amount of any lump sum credit the individual received after being separated or transferred; or (2) partial restoration of annuity rights for partial or no deposit of such lump sum credit. Permits the survivor of such an individual to make such deposit for purposes of obtaining a survivor annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for the military functions of the Department of Defense for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, other weapons, ammunition, and other procurement. Earmarks a portion of the Air Force funds for the United States FY 1983 share of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations's (NATO) cost of acquiring the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Permits the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Ministeries of Defense concerning the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Program, to waive reimbursement for the cost of specified functions performed by other than AWACS personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges during FY 1983. Prohibits the use of appropriations for: (1) the MX missile program; (2) the B-1B bomber program; (3) the CVN nuclear aircraft carrier program; (4) the Pershing II missile program; (5) the Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missile program; or (6) the ground-launched cruise missile program. Prohibits the use of appropriations to purchase binary chemical weapons. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the construction or conversion of naval vessels in foreign shipyards. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the 9-millimeter handgun. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for the military functions of the Department for research, development, test, and evaluation. Authorizes additional appropriations as necessary for increases in salary and benefits for civilian employees. Prohibits the use of appropriations for: (1) the MX missile program; (2) the B-1B bomber program; (3) the Trident II missile program; (4) the Pershing II missile program; or (5) the ballistic missile defense program. Prohibits the use of appropriations for research, development, test, or evaluation of binary chemical weapons. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for the military functions of the Department for operation and maintenance. Authorizes additional appropriations as necessary for increases in salary and benefits for civilian employees. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. Title IV: Active Forces - Establishes end strength levels for FY 1983 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air Force. Title V: Reserve Forces - Establishes average strengths for FY 1983 for: (1) the Army National Guard; (2) the Army Reserve; (3) the Naval Reserve; (4) the Marine Corps Reserve; (5) the Air National Guard; (6) the Air Force Reserve; and (7) the Coast Guard Reserve. Sets forth the number of Reserves serving on full-time active duty to administer, recruit, or train the Reserve components. Provides for the adjustment of average strength levels as specified. Increases the number of enlisted personnel who may be on active duty in support of the Reserve components. Title VI: Civilian Personnel - Establishes an end strength level for civilian personnel for the Department of Defense for FY 1983. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on such allocation within 60 days. Specifies the types of civilian employees to be included in such end levels. Permits the Secretary to increase the number civilian personnel beyond the authorized end strength. Title VII: Military Training Student Loads - Establishes average military training student loads for FY 1983. Title VIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits the use of appropriations for planning for population relocation in time of crisis. Title IX: General Provisions - Directs the President to report to Congress within 90 days on the effect of the current and projected levels of defense spending on the economy.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers who have attained age 65 from social security taxation (employees' and self-employment tax).
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should begin the strategic arms reduction talks (START), which should have the following objectives: (1) pursuing a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) deciding when and how to achieve and pursue a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) giving special attention to destabilizing weapons; (4) preserving present limitations and controls on current nuclear weapons and delivery systems; and (5) incorporating ongoing negotiations in Geneva on land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles into the START negotiations. Declares that the United States shall try to reach a common position with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies on any agreement that would be inconsistent with existing U.S. commitments to those allies. Declares that the United States shall promptly approve the SALT II agreement if adequate verification capabilities are maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations exempting retirees or individuals over age 65 from interest penalties with respect to any underpayment of estimated tax. Requires that such underpayment be due to reasonable cause (defined to include mistake or ignorance of the law) and not to willful neglect.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Adjustment Council to be cochaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor. Establishes in the Executive Office an Office of Economic Adjustment, headed by a Director, to provide staff support to the Council. Directs the Council to disseminate information from the Secretary of Defense to Federal, State, and local agencies concerning proposed or pending changes in defense spending which would effect employment in the defense industry. Requires the Council to perform other duties, including: (1) encouraging the preparation of plans for non-defense-related public projects; (2) coordinating and developing information on priority, federally funded projects and programs pertaining to defense economic adjustment; (3) monitoring job services information banks; and (4) determining criteria for eligibility for assistance under this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide the pertinent information to the Council a year in advance of any change and to furnish the Council with projected future defense spending levels. Directs the Council to prepare and distribute a Conversion Guidelines Handbook to outline requirements of programs for professional retraining of personnel. Title II: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Makes eligible for Federal assistance for planning for economic adjustment any community which is substantially affected by reduction or elimination of Government defense facilities or curtailment or conclusion of defense contracts. Directs the Council to make available to alternative use committees information on economic development programs of any Federal instrumentality which provides funds which may be used for planning. Requires the Council to report to Congress at least annually on any such economic development program. Directs the Council to utilize data from other departments to develop criteria which insure that assistance is directed to those communities which are most vulnerable economically to reductions in defense expenditures. Requires the Council to publish a semiannual list of eligible communities. Requires excess property resulting from a closing or reduction in a Government-owned facility to be appraised for purposes of resale to the community. Title III: Alternative Use Committees - Requires the establishment of alternative use committees at defense facilities to plan for economic conversion in the event of closure or reduction. Directs such committees to: (1) evaluate the assets of the facilities and the resources and requirements of the local community; (2) develop at least biennially a detailed plan for conversion of the facility to non-defense-related productive activity; and (3) provide retraining and reemployment counseling services. Requires conversion plans to maximize the pool of skills of available personnel and specify in detail the composition of the work force and plant, material, and financing requirements. Penalizes any contractor who fails to submit an alternative use plan or carry out one approved by the Council by making such contractor ineligible for future defense contracts for three years. Title IV: Economic Adjustment Assistance for Workers - Makes displaced workers certified by the local alternative use committees to the Council eligible for benefits for two years under this Act. Includes among such benefits weekly compensation, vested pension credit, maintenance of health insurance, retraining for civilian work, job search allowance, and reimbursement for relocation expenses. Requires completion of a program of professional retraining before certain employees are eligible for assistance. Directs the Council to enter agreements with a State or agency in the State administering the unemployment compensation law to disburse benefits under this Act. Requires displaced workers to accept any employment determined by the State agency or Secretary of Labor to be comparable to the former job, or benefits will terminate. Excludes these benefits from other determinations of eligibility for unemployment compensation under any Federal or State law. Title V: Economic Adjustment Fund - Establishes in the Treasury a Workers Economic Adjustment Reserve Trust Fund. Requires defense contractors to pay a specified percentage into the fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit a percentage of the projected savings resulting from a cancellation or cutback in defense spending. Title VI: Use of Research Funds - Requires inclusion of definitions by the Council of urgent national requirements for nondefense sectors of the economy in any determination of the Secretary of Defense as to how certain research and development funds are to be spent. Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Social Security Administration, in coercing supplemental security income recipients to waive their right to privacy, including confidentiality of tax records, as a condition for eligibility, has exceeded its authority.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
Condemns all acts of violence in Northern Ireland. Calls upon the United Kingdom to outlaw the Ulster Defense Association and any like terrorist organization.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1982
Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) maintain an information program to provide small businesses an opportunity to participate in Federal small business innovation research (SBIR) programs; (2) coordinate a schedule for release of agency SBIR solicitations and prepare a master release schedule; (3) monitor SBIR programs within Federal agencies; and (4) report at least annually to the congressional Committees on Small Business on the SBIR programs. Requires each Federal agency with an extramural research and development budget (total obligations minus amounts obligated for agency activities in or through Government-owned and Government-operated facilities) in excess of $100,000,000, and in excess of $10,000,000,000, for FY 1982 or any subsequent fiscal year to spend a specified percentage of its budget each fiscal year, beginning in FY 1983, in connection with an SBIR program. Requires each Federal agency with a research and development budget in excess of $20,000,000 for FY 1983 or any subsequent fiscal year to establish goals specifically for funding research and development agreements with small businesses. Directs each Federal agency with an SBIR program to report annually to the SBA the number of awards over $10,000 made under the SBIR program and to concerns other than small business concerns. Directs the SBA to issue policy directives for the conduct of the SBIR programs. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to independently monitor, and report at least annually to the congressional Committees on Small Business on, SBIR programs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Prohibition of Mandatory Retirement and Employment Rights Act of 1982 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to eliminate the upper age limitation of the class of persons to whom such Act applies.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify multiple lot issues of industrial development bonds for the small issue exemption for purposes of the tax exclusion of interest on such bonds. Requires that such multiple lots be sold at the same time, at the same interest rate, and under a common marketing plan. Requires that a common or polled security be used to pay debt service on such obligations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Prohibits the President from furnishing Guatemala during FY 1982 and 1983 with: (1) military assistance and international military education and training under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) military sales credits or guarantees under the Arms Export Control Act; (3) defense articles or services under the Arms Export Control Act; and (4) arms export licenses under the Arms Export Control Act. Suspends all deliveries of such military assistance, arms, or defense articles which would have been made pursuant to a transaction entered into before enactment of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to require any impact test velocity in the motor vehicle bumper standard to be five miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Medicare beneficiaries should not have to pay more out-of-pocket costs for health care under the Medicare program; and (2) any Medicare savings from budget cuts should not cause an increase in out-of-pocket Medicare expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) nursing facility Medicare compliance surveys should be conducted at least annually; (2) Federal funds for such surveys should continue; (3) the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals should not have the authority to certify Medicare compliance; and (4) the proposed Department of Health and Human Services health care facilities certification regulations should not be adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of the disbursements from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and of the receipts from the old age, survivors and disability insurance taxes and the hospital insurance taxes on self-employment income, employees, and employers in the totals of the Federal budget. Exempts such disbursements and receipts from any general statutory limitation on Federal budget outlays.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Natural Gas Consumer Relief Act - Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to eliminate the automatic inflation adjustment factor and to provide a new formula for determining the maximum lawful price for: (1) new natural gas and certain natural gas produced from the Outer Continental Shelf; (2) natural gas from new, onshore production wells; (3) natural gas dedicated to interstate commerce; (4) natural gas sales under existing intrastate contracts; (5) natural gas sales under both interstate and intrastate rollover contracts; (6) high-cost natural gas; (7) stripper well natural gas; and (8) other categories of natural gas. Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to prescribe increases in the maximum price for any category of natural gas, but only if such increases are based upon increased production costs and are just and reasonable. Prohibits the Commission, when determining a new maximum price, from considering the costs of fuels or commodities other than and commodities actually used in producing the gas. Provides for the application of this Act to high-cost natural gas produced from a well the surface drilling of which commenced after enactment. Requires a seller to petition the Commission for any adjustment in the maximum price.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Jobs and Business Opportunities for the Handicapped Act of 1982 - Transfers all functions of the Committee on Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped to the Secretary of Commerce. Establishes in the Department of Commerce the Handicapped Employment and Business Opportunities Administration. Directs the Secretary to delegate his or her functions under this Act to the head of such Administration. Directs the Secretary to establish and publish a list of the commodities produced and services provided by any qualified industry employing the blind or other severely handicapped (currently restricted to qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or severely handicapped). Permits any qualified industry determined by the Secretary to be eligible to receive Government contracts to apply to have a commodity or service placed on such list. Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the capacity of such applicant to produce the commodity or service in accordance with Government specifications and time requirements; and (2) publish his or her determination concerning the application. Authorizes the Secretary to reject the placement of any item on the list and to limit the quantity of any item approved for the list. Directs the Secretary to determine and revise as appropriate the fair market price of items which are on the list and which are offered for sale to the Government. Specifies procedures for determining an item's fair market price. Directs the Secretary to establish and administer criteria for determining the eligibility of qualified industries that apply to receive Government contracts for items on the list. Authorizes any qualified industry which meets such criteria to receive Government contracts if it is determined before the contract is awarded that the qualified industry is not in violation of any: (1) applicable standard of the Occupational Safety and Health Act; (2) order of the National Labor Relations Board; or (3) applicable provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Directs the Secretary to reevaluate each qualified industry periodically. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for allocating Government contracts among qualified industries. Authorizes the Secretary to regulate: (1) specifications for commodities and services on the procurement list; (2) time of their delivery; and (3) such other matters necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, including standards designed to promote upward mobility and to expand opportunities for blind and other severely handicapped persons. Directs the Secretary to insure that priority be given to purchasing items from qualified industries employing the blind. Authorizes the Secretary to hire either a nonprofit or a for profit organization for the purpose of: (1) furnishing technical assistance for qualified industries providing commodities or services to the Government; and (2) projects designed to help blind or other severely handicapped persons to achieve upward mobility within qualified industries or to move from employment in qualified industries to the private sector. Limits the amount of money the Secretary may spend for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to make a continuing study and evaluation of the Secretary's activities under this Act. Establishes a Coordination and Advisory Council to: (1) advise the Secretary on all functions and activities of the Handicapped Employment and Business Opportunities Administration; (2) monitor the implementation of this Act and recommend methods of expanding opportunities for the blind and other severely handicapped; and (3) help the Secretary coordinate the contracting activities of the Federal Government under this Act. Requires Federal agencies to procure any commodity or service on the procurement list from a qualified industry at the price established by the Secretary. Exempts from such requirement certain products made by prison inmates. Grants the Comptroller General of the United States access, for auditing purposes, to any records of the Administration and to certain records of Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 through 1985. Abolishes the Committee for the Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act -- Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of such a veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify each member of the armed forces that their dependents will be ineligible for such benefits should the member die after the applicable date, in no case later than August 13, 1983. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the Secretary concerned with information necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Social Security Benefits Restoration Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make monthly payments to persons who: (1) would have been entitled to child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act as in effect before the amendments made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; and (2) are children of individuals who were members or former members of the Armed Forces before August 13, 1981, and who die while in active military service within a specified time period or who die from a service-connected disability incurred within a specified time period. Provides that such monthly payments shall be equal to the monthly child's insurance benefit to which such persons would have been entitled under title II of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary to make monthly payments to persons who: (1) are surviving spouses of individuals who were members or former members of the Armed Forces before August 13, 1981, and who die while in active military service during a specified time period or who die from a service-connected disability within a specified time period; and (2) are not entitled to mother's insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act because they are caring for such veterans' children who are between the ages of 16 and 18 and are entitled to child's insurance benefits. Provides that such monthly payments shall be equal to the monthly mother's insurance benefit which such persons would receive under title II of the Social Security Act if the children in their care were under 16 years old. Provides that payments under this Act shall be paid from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should not adopt as final certain proposed rules issued on May 24, 1982, relating to survey and certification procedures for nursing homes and other health care facilities and suppliers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Omnibus Victim-Witness Protection and Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require that presentence reports contain: (1) a statement of the harm done or loss suffered by the victim; (2) information on any available nonprison programs and resources; and (3) a statement of the financial needs of the defendant and his dependents, the restitution needs of the victims, and the amount of any gain derived from or loss caused by the criminal conduct of the defendant. Amends the Federal criminal code to establish as offenses "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant" and "retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant." Prescribes an additional penalty for an individual convicted of one of the above offenses while on bail. Grants general authority to the Attorney General to relocate or protect government witnesses. Authorizes the attorney for the government to initiate civil proceedings to restrain tampering with a witness or victim. Allows for a defendant found guilty of an offense to be sentenced to make restitution. Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress laws necessary to compensate victims of crimes where restitution is not possible. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Federal courts over civil claims against the United States for damages caused by dangerous offenders who are released or escape from the lawful custody of a U.S. employee as a result of such employee's gross negligence. Directs the Attorney General to develop Federal guidelines for the fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses. Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress any laws that are necessary to ensure that no Federal felon derives any profit from the sale of his or her story until any victim of the offense receives restitution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Fair Trade in Steel Act of 1982 - Declares that it is congressional policy to allow access to the U.S. market for foreign-produced steel on an equitable basis in order to safeguard the national security, insure orderly trade, and alleviate U.S. balance-of-payments problems. Title I: Steel Tripartite Advisory Council - Directs the President to establish within the Executive Office of the President a Steel Tripartite Advisory Council. Requires the Council to advise the President and Congress on problems within the basic steel industry and to provide advice and recommendations on related domestic and international issues. Requires other Federal agencies to provide the Council with economic information upon request. Directs the Council to report to the President on the condition of the steel industry. Title II: Quantitative Restrictions on Imports of Certain Steel Products - Limits to 5,000,000 tons the amount of articles in all steel product categories that may be imported between July 1, 1982, and January 1, 1983. Imposes a further limitation on such imports if unemployment in the domestic steel industry reaches between ten percent and 15 percent for three consecutive months. Prohibits any steel imports if unemployment in the domestic industry for three consecutive months is over 15 percent. Limits the amount of steel imports in each calendar year after 1982 to 10,000,000 tons. Imposes further limitations on imports depending upon the level of unemployment in the domestic industry. Imposes additional limitations on imports during any year after 1982 of articles in any one steel product category. Imposes a per country limitation on imports during such years of articles: (1) in all steel product categories; and (2) within any one steel product category. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to apportion shares of the U.S. market to foreign countries on the basis of information provided by the Secretary of the Treasury. Declares that it is the goal of this title to ensure that the imports of articles in all steel product categories be equalized on a monthly basis throughout each calendar year. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to impose additional limitations on the imports from a country whose exports to the United States exceed a specified limit. Authorizes the President to reduce such restrictions imposed under this title if the President makes a specified determination and the Congress, after notification by the President, does not adopt a concurrent resolution disapproving such reduction. Title III: Quantitative Restrictions on Iron Ore Imports - Limits the amount of iron ore that may be imported: (1) between July 1, 1982, and December 31, 1982, to 7,000,000 tons; (2) during 1983 to 14,000,000 tons; and (3) during 1984 to 14,000,000 tons, unless the Secretary finds that there has been an increase in employment in the domestic iron ore industry. Provides for a ten percent increase in imports in 1984 for each ten percent increase in employment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the restrictions on imports of iron ore in order to insure continued operation of domestic steelmaking plants. Requires that such waiver be made on a plant-by-plant basis and only if the Secretary makes a specified determination.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Handicapped Infants Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect to conduct a study of child abuse or neglect in federally assisted or operated health care facilities. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) report the results of this study to the Congress within three months; and (2) give priority to information about adoption and foster care of handicapped infants. Prohibits doctors or other health care facility personnel from withholding nutrition or medical treatment from a handicapped infant. Provides a private right of action for violations of this Act. States that any punitive damage awards shall be used for the benefit of the infant involved in the suit, or if deceased, for research and treatment of handicapped infants. Directs the Center to establish and disseminate violations reporting procedures. Provides civil and criminal immunity and job protection for persons reporting such violations. Requires health care facilities to provide parents or guardians of handicapped infants with information about agency assistance for these infants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982
Professional Sports Stabilization Act of 1982 - Declares that it shall not be unlawful under any antitrust law for a professional sports league and its member clubs to enforce rules: (1) requiring approval by the league membership for the relocation of a member club; or (2) providing for the division of league or member club revenues that promote comparable economic opportunities for member clubs. Prohibits State and local governments from imposing limitations on the collective conduct of sports leagues or member teams authorized by this Act. Specifies the applicability of this Act to actions commenced under the antitrust laws before its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Small Business Regulatory Relief Tax Act of 1982 - Delays until July 1, 1984, the effective date of Treasury regulations determining whether an interest in a corporation is to be treated as stock or indebtedness. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impact of such regulations on small business.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Declares that the United States and the Soviet Union should begin negotiating to create an exchange for peace program to provide an ongoing country-to-country exchange of individuals aged 15 through 19.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that no further reductions should be made in the funding currently available for FY 1983 for programs administered under the Older Americans Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funds should be appropriated during FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years for programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 in such amounts as may be necessary to maintain or expand such programs as reauthorized under the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1982
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make loans for the removal of urea-formaldehyde foam insulation from residences. Limits each such loan to a maximum of $10,000. Authorizes the SBA to make $10,000,000 in direct and immediate participation loans to manufacturers and installers of urea-formaldehyde foam insulation in each of FY 1983 and 1984. Provides that the dollar limitation with respect to the residential energy credit shall not be reduced by energy conservation expenditures by a taxpayer for urea-formaldehyde foam insulation. Allows a medical expense deduction for the costs associated with removal of urea-formaldehyde foam insulation from a taxpayer's residence.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that an infant has the inalienable right to full medical treatment and food and nutrients necessary to sustain its life regardless of handicapping condition.
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