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United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1987
Directs the Attorney General to provide for the naturalization of certain resident Filipino World War II veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1987
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 - Amends title IX (Prohibition of Sex Discrimination) of the Education Amendments of 1972 to define the phrase "program or activity" and the term "program" to mean all of the operations of the following entities, any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance: (1) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or local government; (2) a State or local government agency which distributes such assistance and the agency or department to which such assistance is extended; (3) a college, university, or other postsecondary institution, or public system of higher education; (4) a local educational agency, system of vocational education, or other school system; and (5) a corporation, partnership, or other private organization. States that such terms do not include any operation of an entity which is controlled by a religious organization. Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to define the phrase "program or activity" to mean all of the activities of the aforementioned entities.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1987
Agriculture in Transition Act - Amends title III (Employment and Training Programs for Dislocated Workers) of the Job Training Partnership Act to provide for grants to States and service delivery areas for dislocated farmers and ranchers. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in determining whether to award such a grant to a State or to one or more service delivery areas within a State, to consider: (1) the need to make services available throughout the State; (2) the desirability of providing a comprehensive set of services to eligible individuals at a single site; and (3) the extent to which administrative overhead can be reduced and duplication avoided. Allows grant recipients to subcontract for the delivery of services. Requires programs assisted through such grants to provide services to individuals: (1) who can certify or demonstrate that the farm or ranch operations which provide their primary occupation have terminated or will terminate because of specified circumstances; (2) who may reasonably be expected to leave farming or ranching as their primary occupation because of unfavorable debt-to-asset ratio; or (3) displaced from agriculture-related businesses and industries whose companies have been adversely affected by the declining agricultural economy. Requires programs assisted through such grants to provide to individuals and their immediate families who are attempting to continue farming or ranching: (1) assistance in evaluating their financial condition and preparing financial plans; and (2) assistance in managing temporary crises. Requires programs assisted by such grants to provide to individuals and their immediate families who are not attempting to continue farming or ranching or employment in an agriculture-related business or industry: (1) vocational evaluation; (2) basic skills, remedial, and literary education; (3) job search assistance; (4) entrepreneurial training; (5) classroom, occupational skills, and on-the-job training; and (6) supportive services. Allows grant funds to also be used to: (1) develop jobs with local employers; (2) provide funds for education training expenses; and (3) reimburse employers for up to one-half the wages paid during on-the-job training. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Governor of each State receiving such grant funds to establish and provide administrative support to a rural employment opportunities task force to advise the Governor on dislocated worker programs and to report annually to the Secretary on the effectiveness of such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for grants to States for dislocated farmers and ranchers.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1987
Syndicated Television Music Copyright Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the copyright law to require that any conveyance of performance rights in an audiovisual work to nonnetwork commercial television include the right to perform in synchronization any accompanying copyrighted music. Entitles the music copyright holder to an interest in any compensation received for the audiovisual work performance rights.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Broadcast License Renewal Act of 1987 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to declare it to be the policy of the United States that, with respect to the grant or renewal of a broadcast license, the licensee has the responsibility to: (1) broadcast material responsive to matters of concern to residents of its service area; and (2) operate in compliance with provisions of such Act and Federal Communications Commission regulations. Directs the Commission to: (1) grant an application for license renewal if the applicant has met such responsibilities in the preceding license term; or (2) deny renewal or grant limited renewal if the applicant failed to meet such responsibilities. Prohibits the Commission, in evaluating a licensee's performance in broadcasting material responsive to matters of public concern, from establishing or applying any requirement with respect to the broadcast of any specific subject or material. Directs the Commission to accept the licensee's judgment if found to be reasonable and made in good faith. Prohibits the Commission, in determining whether to renew a license, from considering whether the public interest, convenience, and necessity might be served by granting a license to a competing applicant. Directs the Commission to conduct an inquiry and prescribe any necessary regulations concerning any additional information that licensees should be required to maintain and make available to the public regarding the licensee's responsibility to broadcast material responsive to matters of public concern. Makes it unlawful for a license applicant and any other person, while a license application is pending, to effectuate an agreement whereby the other person withdraws or withholds an informal objection or a petition to deny in exchange for the payment of any thing of value by, or on behalf of, the applicant.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the administration should; (1) oppose the establishment of a tax on vegetable and marine fats and oils in the European Community; (2) continue its efforts to ensure that such a tax is not established; and (3) notify the European Community that the United States will view establishment of such a tax as inconsistent with the European Community's obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and as an action that will result in the result in the adoption of strong and immediate countermeasures.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1987
Designates the first Sunday of August as National Day of Peace.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1987
Drug Kingpin Act of 1987 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty where, as a result of a continuing criminal enterprise, an individual (other than a participant in such conduct) dies. Requires the Government, for such offense, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea, disclosing that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to such offense. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading of the jury. Directs the court, or the jury by unanimous vote, to impose the death penalty upon finding that such sentence is justified based on consideration of both aggravating and mitigating factors. Sets forth some mitigating factors to be considered by the jury or the court when imposing its sentence. Includes as aggravating factors to be considered by the jury or the court: (1) the intentional nature of the act which resulted in the victim's death; (2) previous convictions for offenses for which life imprisonment or death is authorized; (3) the especially heinous, cruel, or depraved nature of the offense; (4) the defendant committed such offense in consideration for pay; and (5) the offense was committed against a judge, a law enforcement officer, or an employee of a penal of correctional institution. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant in its consideration of the sentence. Allows the court to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for such offenses when the death penalty is not imposed. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the Court of Appeals, upon consideration of the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors or the absence of mitigating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Digestive Diseases Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the first Sunday in June of each year as National Shut-In Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987
Designates the week beginning on October 4, 1987, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Comprehensive Micro-Enterprise Credit Promotion Act of 1987 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to mandate that the President establish a bilateral micro-enterprise credit program, to be administered by the Agency for International Development (AID). Describes the program as one under which foreign currencies generated from certain sales of U.S. agricultural commodities will be used by financial intermediaries in developing countries to provide loans and related technical training and assistance to micro-enterprises, defined in this Act as small enterprises owned by the country 's poorest people, operating within the informal sector economy of a developing country, and lacking access to credit at reasonable costs. Directs the Administrator of AID to issue guidelines to ensure that women are major recipients of such loans and that financial intermediaries making such loans: (1) consult with potential recipients in the interest of designing projects responsive to the credit needs of the recipients; (2) minimize obstacles to credit; and (3) encourage, when appropriate, cooperation among micro-enterprises as a mass means of fostering improved loan repayment rates. Requires that AID seek to use indigenous nongovernmental organizations as financial intermediaries and to develop the long-term capacity of such organizations to provide credit for micro-enterprises. Sets a minimum funding level for micro-enterprise loans under the program for FY 1988 through 1990. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the International Development Association (IDA) to support the establishment, within their respective institutions, of a Micro-Enterprise Credit Fund to provide to financial intermediaries capital resources to enable them to provide credit assistance to micro-enterprises. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank to: (1) express congressional support for the goals exemplified in that Bank's Program for the Financing of Small Projects; and (2) encourage continued efforts to make credit available to small enterprises through expansion of that program or the establishment of a Micro-Enterprise Credit Fund. Specifies a recommended funding level for the IDA Fund. Directs each institution, through its Fund, to: (1) attempt to ensure that women receive credit assistance; (2) emphasize the use of indigenous nongovernmental organizations as financial intermediaries and consult with such organizations when preparing and implementing plans for Fund allocations; (3) monitor the Fund's activities; (4) engage in research concerning specified features of micro-enterprises; and (5) prepare to facilitate the transfer of financial control of the loan program to specified institutions in developing countries. Provides for negotiations among all participating Banks to provide capitalization for the Fund. Mandates that the Secretary report to the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on activities related to the establishment of the Fund. Sets forth specific procedures to govern the establishment of a Fund and the encouragement of micro-enterprise lending in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). Requires that each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies describe specified micro-enterprise credit activities of each participating Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Grants a Federal charter to the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to repeal provisions which eliminated the three-year use of the basis recovery rule in computing the amount of an employee's retirement benefits includable in gross income. Provides that the Internal Revenue Code shall be applied and administered as if such provisions had not been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Designates the month of May 1989, as National Asparagus Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Designates the week of September 20 through September 26, 1987, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Rejects the proposed rescission of a specified sum of FY 1987 appropriations for community development block grants.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Volunteer Protection Act of 1987 - Prescribes circumstances under which volunteers working for nonprofit organizations or government entities shall be immune from personal civil liability. Requires each State to certify to the Secretary of Health and Human Services before the beginning of each fiscal year (commencing with FY 1989) that it has enacted or has in effect a State law which provides such immunity. Requires the Secretary to reduce by one percent the fiscal year allotment which would otherwise be made to such State to carry out the Social Services Block Grant Program under title XX of the Social Security Act if such law is not in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Designates the week of May 10 through May 16, 1987, as National Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Designates the week of April 5 through April 11, 1987, as World Health Week and April 7, 1987, as World Health Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Designates the week beginning July 13, 1987, as Snow White Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate June 1 through June 7, 1987, as National Fishing Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Designates the week beginning August 2, 1987, as National Podiatric Medicine Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) no Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) physician payment methodology should be implemented which is based on hospital discharge classifications or requires mandatory assignment; and (2) no drastic change in the Medicare physician payment methodology should be undertaken without the receipt of reports required by legislation enacted in the 99th Congress and a detailed analysis of the long-range impact of such change on the provision of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Designates the week beginning April 19, 1987, as National Community Development Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Andrew Wyeth in recognition of his contributions to American art and culture. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to sell bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Farm Credit Enhancement Act of 1987 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee pools of qualified agricultural mortgage loans and to provide for the issuance of securities representing interests in such pools by approved agricultural loan facilities. Sets a specified ceiling on outstanding guarantee authority. Terminates guarantee authority five years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to fund such guarantees through obligations issued to the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act - Title I: Funding - Authorizes additional FY 1987 appropriations for: (1) community and migrant health centers; (2) the emergency food and shelter program; (3) the emergency shelter grant program; (4) the transitional housing demonstration program; and (5) section 8 housing assistance. Authorizes FY 1987 appropriations for: (1) health care and mental health services for the homeless; and (2) the Interagency Office on Homelessness. Title II: Health Care for the Homeless - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to certain public or private nonprofit entities for health care and mental health services for the homeless. Gives priority to applicants with related prior experience. Requires grantees to: (1) make health services accessible to the homeless; (2) provide 24-hour service; (3) provide in-patient referrals and funding assistance; (4) refer homeless persons with communicable diseases to public health authorities; (5) provide outreach services; and (6) aid homeless persons to obtain entitlements and services. Limits grantee service charges. Sets forth prohibited and permitted fund uses. Limits the Federal contribution for such grants to 75 percent of service costs. Requires grantees to report annually to the Secretary. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include within Medicaid coverage: (1) clinic services provided to the homeless by clinic personnel outside the facility; and (2) specified services to homeless persons who are chronically mentally ill. Title III: Interagency Office on Homelessness - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Interagency Office on Homelessness to carry out the Secretary's duties to assist the homeless. Sets forth such duties, among them the review of Federal programs for the homeless, including on annual report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify and make available underutilized public buildings and property suitable for the homeless; and (2) make grants for services to be provided in such facilities, including child care. Sets forth applicant selection and priority provisions. Requires the Secretary to: (1) monitor such grant funds; and (2) inspect such facilities. Requires State or local certification to the Secretary of program compliance.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Driftnet Impact Monitoring, Assessment, and Control Act of 1987 - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to revise provisions concerning the presence of a U.S. observer aboard foreign fishing vessels fishing in a U.S. fishery conservation zone. Provides for the waiver of such requirement for specified vessels harvesting anadromous species. Provides that the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) shall not approve a foreign vessel's fishing permit application where the facilities aboard such vessels are so inadequate that the health, safety, and welfare of an observer on such vessel cannot be assured. Requires the Secretary, through the Secretary of State, to immediately negotiate with foreign governments conducting driftnet fishing operations off the U.S. coast an arrangement for the reliable monitoring and assessment of the number of fish, seabirds, and other marine creatures killed, discarded, or lost by such government's driftnet fishing vessels in waters beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing a permit to any foreign vessel whose government does not enter into such a monitoring arrangement within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the implementation of such arrangements. Directs the Secretary, within one year after the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress on the impact upon living marine resources of all driftnet fishing off the coasts of the United States. Requires enforcement costs to be taken into consideration when determining fishing permit fees to be charged. Directs the Secretary to implement a net bounty system to pay persons recovering and turning over to the Secretary lost, abandoned, or discarded driftnet or other plastic fishing net material. Requires such payments to be made from the Fishery Vessel and Gear Damage Compensation Fund. Directs the Secretary to develop recommendations to establish a driftnet marking, registry, and identification system to determine the vessel origin of lost, discarded, or abandoned driftnets or driftnet fragments. Directs the Secretary, no later than six months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress concerning such recommendations and their implementation. Establishes a seabird protection zone surrounding the Aleutian Islands off Alaska within which no driftnet fishing is permitted. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, to enforce such driftnet fishing prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that it: (1) supports continued Federal ownership and operation of power marketing administrations; (2) opposes the sale of such administrations; and (3) supports the continuation of existing Federal power marketing policies governing the allocation of resources and repayment of the Federal investment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Goose, Gander, and Sauce Act of 1987 - Permits garnishment of the wages of Federal employees.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Federal Equitable Pay Practices Act of 1987 - Establishes the Commission on Equitable Pay Practices to determine whether the Government's position-classification system and prevailing rate system are designed and administered in accordance with the general policy that sex, race, and ethnicity should not be among factors considered in determining pay rates. Requires the Commission to conduct, by contract with a consultant selected under this Act, a study under which job-content analysis and economic analysis shall be applied to a representative sample of occupations in which: (1) either ssex is numerically predominant; (2) any race is disproportionately represented; or (3) any ethnic group is disproportionately represented. Directs the Commission to report to the Congress and the President on the results of such study not later than 18 months after the Commission's date of establishment. Declares that such study shall be considered of an advisory nature only. Makes sums appropriated to the Office of Personnel Management for general operating expenses available to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Civil Liberties Act of 1987 - Title I: Recognition of Injustice and an Apology on Behalf of the Nation - States that the Congress recognizes that a grave injustice was done to both citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation, relocation, and internment of civilians during World War II. Title II: United States Citizens of Japanese Ancestry and Resident Japanese Aliens - Requests the President to offer pardons of those convicted of violating laws during the internment period whose violation was based on a refusal to accept racially discriminatory treatment. Provides that Federal departments and agencies that review applications for restitution of positions, status, or entitlement lost during the internment period shall review such applications giving full consideration to the findings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Establishes within the Treasury a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Requires the Attorney General to pay $20,000 from the Fund to each surviving internee. Establishes a Board of Directors which shall be responsible for making disbursement from the Fund. Provides that disbursement from the Fund shall be used to: (1) sponsor research and public educational activities dealing with the internment; (2) fund studies of similar civil liberties abuses; (3) prepare and distribute hearings and findings of the Commission; and (4) promote the general welfare of the ethnic Japanese community in the United States. Title III: Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution - Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act - Establishes within the Treasury the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Fund. Directs the Administrator of the Fund (the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association) to make restitution for certain Aleut losses sustained in World War II. Requires the Administrator to establish a trust of $5,000,000 and to distribute the interest of such trust for: (1) the benefit of the elderly, disabled, or seriously ill; (2) students in need of scholarship assistance; (3) preservation of Aleut cultural heritage and historical records; (4) the improvement of community centers of affected Aleut villages; and (5) other purposes to improve Aleut life. Authorizes the Administrator to rebuild and restore churches and church property damaged or destroyed in Aleut villages during World War II. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments of $12,000 from the fund to each eligible Aleut for any uncompensated personal property loss. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to implement a program for the removal and disposal of live ammunition, obsolete buildings, abandoned machinery, and other hazardous debris remaining in populated areas of the lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Aleut Corporation all right, title, and interest of the United States in Attu Island, Alaska. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides that all documents, personal testimony, and other material collected by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians shall be deposited in the National Archives of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Repeals specified provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which eliminate the income tax deduction for State and local sales taxes. Provides that the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied and administered as if such provisions had not been enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to direct that all or part of their income tax refunds be contributed to the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust. Establishes within the Treasury such Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust (trust fund) to distribute hunger relief funds to qualified nonprofit hunger relief services organizations. Appropriates to the trust fund revenues equivalent to those designated for such purpose by individual taxpayers. Sets forth standards and procedures for the distribution of trust fund monies. Limits the amount that recipient organizations can pay for administrative expenses to ten percent of amounts received from the trust fund. Prohibits organizations receiving funds from: (1) failing to match payment; (2) failing to use payments properly; (3) incurring excessive administrative expenses; and (4) not complying with certain Hunger Commission requests. Authorizes the Hunger Commission to inform State attorneys general of possible State law violations by organizations. Requires the Hunger Commission to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report detailing trust fund expenditures. Establishes a Hunger Commission to administer the distribution of funds to qualified hunger relief services organizations on a matching grant basis. Permits a maximum award of $100,000 to any single qualified organization in any fiscal year. Requires that: (1) at least 50 percent of amounts received into the trust fund in any year be paid to qualified organizations; and (2) monies in the trust fund be distributed within 180 days of their receipt in the fund. Sets forth: (1) criteria governing Commission organization and membership; and (2) powers of the Commission, including the power to hold hearings, to issue subpoenas, and to grant immunity. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to add to the list of products covered under the Act: (1) freezers which can be operated by alternating current electricity (with specified exceptions); (2) central air conditioning heat pumps; (3) direct heating equipment; and (4) pool heaters. Deletes from specific coverage: (1) humidifiers; and (2) dehumidifiers. Excludes from such coverage consumer products designed solely for use in recreational vehicles and other mobile equipment. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to amend Federal energy efficiency test procedures for appliances under specified guidelines. Prohibits manufacturers from making any representations regarding the energy efficiency of appliances covered by this Act unless such appliances have been tested in accordance with the Federal test procedures, and the manufacturer's representations fairly disclose the results of such testing. Sets forth specific Federal energy conservation standards for products covered by this Act and manufactured after certain dates. Establishes deadlines by which the Secretary must issue rules regarding such standards. Details the criteria to be applied if such standards are revised. Revises the information requirements with which manufacturers must comply to provide that the Secretary shall exercise authority in a manner designed to minimize unnecessary burdens on manufacturers of covered products. Revises the rules under which State regulations are superseded by the Federal regulations for testing and labeling requirements and energy conservation standards. Permits the waiver of Federal preemption if the Secretary finds that such waiver is needed to meet compelling and unusual local energy conditions. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such a waiver. Details conditions under which State and local building code requirements regarding energy conservation standards are not superseded by the standards promulgated under this Act. Permits the commencement of a citizen's suit against the Secretary for failure to comply with a nondiscretionary duty to issue rules according to prescribed schedules. Directs the courts to expedite the disposition of such suits. Vests jurisdiction in the Federal district courts over actions brought by any adversely affected person to determine whether a State or local government is complying with the requirements of this Act. Declares that the required submission by the Secretary of an annual report regarding Federal energy efficiency standards does not constitute a defense or justification for a failure by such Secretary to comply with the nondiscretionary duty provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
National Observance Advisory Act - Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on National Observances to establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed national observance be approved or disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Expedited Funds Availability Act - Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to begin to develop an expedited funds availability system which shall be implemented no later than three years and 90 days after enactment of this Act. Provides that such system shall require that funds deposited in an account of a depository institution by local and in-state checks be available for withdrawal the business day after deposit and that funds deposited by all other checks be available on the fourth business day after deposit. Lists considerations for the Board in establishing such system which include providing for the automated return of unpaid checks, a uniform endorsement standard, and direct notification of nonpayment. Directs the Board to report to the Congress every six months on its actions to implement such system and within two years after enactment of this Act on the effects of temporary schedules for funds availability established under this Act. Establishes specific time limits for funds availability for various types of deposits. Provides for next day availability for cash, the cash portion of a deposit, wire transfers, checks of $100 or less, checks drawn on in-state branches of the receiving depository institution or branches located in the same check processing region, U.S. Treasury checks endorsed only by the payee, State and local treasury checks endorsed only by the payee and deposited in special envelopes at manned branches, cashier's checks, certified checks, teller's checks, and depository checks endorsed only by the payee and deposited in special envelopes at manned branches. Sets forth a schedule, to be terminated upon implementation of the expedited funds availability system, providing that: (1) checks drawn on local originating depository institutions shall be available on the third business day after deposit during the one-year period beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act and on the second business day after deposit during the subsequent two years; and (2) checks drawn on nonlocal originating depository institutions shall be available for withdrawal on the seventh business day after deposit. Authorizes the Board to make certain adjustments in such time limits. Sets forth time limit exceptions and special time limits which shall apply: (1) to new accounts, deposits by checks in excess of $5,000, checks redeposited after being returned, repeated overdrafts, and foreign checks; and (2) under specified emergency conditions. Authorizes the Board to suspend the applicability of this Act to any classification of checks directly associated with an unacceptable level of losses due to check-related fraud. Requires the Board to transmit a report justifying any suspension to specified congressional committees. Prohibits any depository institution from freezing funds in an account because other funds deposited in such account by check are not yet available for withdrawal pursuant to this Act. Directs each institution to inform employees of, and ensure employee compliance with, the requirements of this Act. Provides that State laws providing for shorter time periods for the availability of funds deposited in a State-chartered institution shall supersede this Act and shall apply to all federally insured depository institutions located in such State. Requires interest to accrue on funds deposited in an interest-bearing account of an institution beginning on the business day on which the institution receives provisional credit for such funds. Requires a depository institution to meet specified disclosure requirements concerning its general policy on the availability for withdrawal of funds deposited by check. Authorizes the Board to publish model disclosure forms and clauses for common transactions. Directs the Board to establish a Payments System Advisory Council to advise and consult with the Board in the exercise of the Board's functions under this Act. Declares that this Act supersedes State law, including the Uniform Commercial Code, except as specified earlier. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the administrative enforcement of this Act; and (2) the civil liability of institutions that fail to comply with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Title I: National Development Investment - National Development Investment Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to cite such Act as the National Development Investment Act and to revise the emphasis of such Act from primary Federal initiative to coordination of investments between the public and the private sectors. Sets forth the findings of the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, upon the application of an eligible State, economic development district, distressed local government (with a population under 50,000 and located outside an economic development district), Indian tribe, or nonprofit economic development organization, to make a grant for a portion of the cost of projects submitted in a development investment strategy. Sets forth activities eligible for such development investment assistance, including: (1) construction and repair of public facilities; (2) revolving loan funds to promote small business; (3) feasibility studies to enhance the investment climate; and (4) development activities which prevent economic dislocation and promote employee ownership organizations. Sets forth specific eligibility criteria for applicants for such assistance. Requires an application for a grant under this Act to include: (1) a certification that the area concerned meets certain distress requirements; (2) a certification of any responsibilities which the Secretary has agreed to perform; and (3) a development investment strategy prepared in accordance with this Act. Requires the Secretary to consider specified purposes of this Act in approving applications. Lists as criteria any one of which an area must meet in order to be eligible for a grant under this Act: (1) a per capita income of 80 percent or less of the national average; (2) an unemployment rate one percent above the national average for the most recent 24-month period for which statistics are available; or (3) a sudden economic dislocation resulting in job losses. Sets forth the information to be contained in a grant applicant's development investment strategy. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to establish a revolving loan fund for making or guaranteeing loans to small businesses for initial or working capital, or for the purchase of facilities or equipment. Limits to $1,000,000 the amount of any such grant. Limits the amount of any grant under this Act to a maximum of 50 percent of the cost of completing the project as determined at the time of the grant application. Permits the Secretary to reduce or waive the non-Federal share of a project in the case of an Indian tribe. Limits expenditures in any one State to a maximum of 15 percent of the appropriations made pursuant to this Act, except for expenditures to Indian tribes. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating more than $2,000,000 in any fiscal year to any person, other than grants for employee ownership organizations. Requires the Secretary, each fiscal year, to obligate minimum amounts of funds for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make economic development planning grants to States, economic development districts, Indian tribes, distressed counties, and distressed units of local governments with populations over 50,000 (if located outside an economic development district). Earmarks such grants for coordination of investment for community facilities, economic development, manpower training, and transportation services. Authorizes the Secretary to evaluate Federal, State, and local development investment efforts. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct any demonstration program to test the feasibility of new ways to increase productivity, foster innovative technology, match labor force with labor markets, or encourage economic diversity and regional balance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to colleges, universities, and other nonprofit educational and research organizations. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine financing needs for the construction and repair of public facilities. Requires the Secretary to submit to each House of the Congress a detailed statement, including findings and recommendations, concerning such financing needs. Limits the amount of any such grant to not more than 75 percent of the cost of economic development planning or of investment strategy preparation. Declares that the Secretary of Commerce shall administer this Act with the assistance of a specified Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes the Secretary to consult with other persons and agencies. Prohibits the approval of any grant unless the Secretary is satisfied that the project concerned will be properly and efficiently administered, operated, and maintained. Sets forth the powers of the Secretary under this Act. Permits the Secretary to discharge responsibilities relative to a project by accepting a certification of the grant applicant's performance of such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to make comprehensive annual reports to the Congress detailing operations under this Act. Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on projects assisted under this Act to be paid the prevailing rate of wages. Requires the Secretary to maintain records of approved applications available for public inspection. Requires each recipient of a grant to maintain certain specified records. Allows the Secretary and the Comptroller General access to all records of such recipients. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1990. Title II: Appalachian Regional Development - Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to declare that investments under such Act shall also be made in severely distressed and underdeveloped counties lacking resources for basic services. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1992 for the administrative expenses of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Authorizes the Commission to lease office space through FY 1992. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1994 for the Appalachian development highway system. Increases from 70 to 80 percent the subsequent Federal share of an Appalachian development highway segment when a participating State proceeds to construct a segment of such a highway without the aid of Federal funds. Applies such increase to projects approved after March 31, 1979. Authorizes the Commission to make grants to States and public and nonprofit entities for projects which will: (1) assist in the creation or retention of permanent private sector jobs, the upgrading of the region's manpower, or the attraction of private investment; (2) provide special assistance to severely distressed and underdeveloped counties which lack financial resources for improving basic services; (3) assist in achieving the goal of making primary health care accessible in the region; or (4) otherwise serve the purposes of this Act. Prohibits the authorization of any financial assistance to enable plant subcontractors to undertake work previously performed in another area by other subcontractors or contractors. Prohibits grants with funds authorized after October 1, 1987, from exceeding 50 percent of the costs of any approved project. Permits such grants to increase the Federal contribution to any project to such percentage as the Commission determines, within specified limitations. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1992. Extends the termination date of such Act from 1982 to October 1, 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates the month of November 1987 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Child Safety Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the President an item veto of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such a bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
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 · 6 January 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the last Friday of April each year as National Arbor Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Gives special recognition to the achievements of wilderness ecologist Aldo Leopold. Urges Federal land management agencies to model their activities after the conservation ethic he inspired.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates May 7, 1987, as National Barrier Awareness Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Hunger to conduct a continuing comprehensive study of the problems of hunger and malnutrition. Requires an annual report from such committee, including a summary of its activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1986
Designates March 16, 1987, as Freedom of Information Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1986
Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to terminate the Farm Credit Administration's (FCA) prior approval authority over Farm Credit System (FCS) loan interest rates. Authorizes FSC banks, from July 1, 1986 through December 31, 1988, to reduce borrowing costs by capitalizing "excess" borrowing costs (amounts by which debt incurred before January 1, 1985, exceeds prevailing market rates) and loan losses and amortizing such amounts over 20 years. Terminates FCA's prior approval authority over interest rates on FCS direct and discounted loans. Exempts FCS banks from having to follow generally accepted accounting principles in preparing financial statements relating to amortization of capitalized costs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for State and local general sales taxes. Defines a "general sales tax" as a tax imposed at one rate in respect of the sale at retail of a broad range of classes of items. Treats a compensating use tax as a general sales tax.