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United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1986
Designates the Arctic Coastal Plain Wilderness, Alaska, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1986
Limits the obligation of funds for the deployment and maintenance of launchers for U.S. nuclear weapons. Waives such limitations if: (1) the President so requests in writing to the Congress, citing national security reasons for such waiver; and (2) each House of the Congress votes to authorize such waiver by bill or joint resolution within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require any proposed budget deferral to specify a date on which the budget authority shall be released for obligation. Prohibits any amount of the authority to be withheld from obligation after such date. Requires such date to be no later than the earlier of: (1) the end of the fiscal year or the date on which the authority must be released to assure its prudent obligation, if the authority expires at the end of the fiscal year in which the deferral is proposed; and (2) 365 days after the special message proposing the deferral is transmitted to the Congress or the date on which the authority must be released to assure its prudent obligation, if the authority is available for more than one fiscal year. Deems any budget deferral not meeting such requirements to be a budget rescission as determined by the Comptroller General within five days after the proposed deferral is transmitted to the Congress. Prohibits more than one proposed deferral of budget authority available for more than one fiscal year. Requires budget authority proposed to be deferred to be made available for obligation if a joint resolution disapproving such deferral is enacted. Directs the President to include with any special message to the Congress proposing to reserve budget authority the same information required to be included with a proposed budget deferral. Requires the Comptroller General, within five days after such transmittal, to determine whether the proposed reservation: (1) meets statutorily prescribed requirements; and (2) proposes to withhold or delay the obligation or expenditure of budget authority in a manner which imposes the management and administration of the authority without diverging from the purposes of the Congress in making such authority available. Requires the proposal to be treated as a deferral if it does meet such standards and as a rescission if it does not.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners to deduct the full amount of prepaid interest in connection with the refinancing of their principal residences for the taxable year in which paid.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Designates 1988 as the National Year of Friendship with Finland.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Designates the week beginning May 17, 1987, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Hunger Relief Act of 1986 - Title I: General Food and Nutrition Programs - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the thrifty food plan base by two and one-half percent annually. Exempts the first $50 paid in child support from counting for food stamp program (program) eligibility. Increases the shelter deduction cap. Sets the threshold for the elderly and disabled medical deduction at the lesser of five percent of monthly income, or $35 a month. Increases resource limitations to: (1) $2,250 for nonelderly households; (2) $3,500 for elderly households; and (3) $5,500 for automobiles. Makes State outreach programs for the elderly, disabled, or the unemployed eligible for matching funds. Increases FY 1987 through 1990 program authorizations. Requires a report to the House and the Senate evaluating the budgetary and administrative consequences of an equity-based calculation of household resources. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to increase authorization levels for commodity distributions. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase authorization levels for the expanded program of food, nutrition, and consumer education. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from determining that cheese made available under the temporary emergency food assistance program has displaced commercial products unless the unemployment rate in the geographic area affected does not exceed 20 percent of the national unemployment rate during a specified time. Increases authorizations for such program. Title II: Special Food and Nutrition Programs for Children, Women, and the Elderly - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to reduce the amount children pay for a reduced price breakfast. Increases Federal reimbursement to improve the nutritional quality of school breakfast by five cents, and by ten cents for "severe need" schools. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to review the nutrition requirements for breakfasts served under such Act. Amends the National School Lunch Act to reduce the amount children pay for a reduced price lunch. Permits reimbursement for an additional meal or snack under the child care feeding program. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase FY 1987 through 1989 authorizations for the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children. Increases authorization limits for nutrition education training in schools. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to increase FY 1987 authorizations for congregate meals, home delivered meals, and nutrition education for the elderly. Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to authorize FY 1987 appropriations for the community food and nutrition program. Title III: Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research - National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1986 - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Sets forth the purposes of and definitions for this title. Subtitle B: Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research - Establishes a ten-year coordinated program, to be known as the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program, which will be implemented by the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Agriculture. Establishes an Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research to facilitate the implementation of such program. Authorizes the Secretaries to appoint an Administrator of Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research to coordinate such program. Sets forth the functions of the Secretaries with respect to such program, including: (1) establishing matching grants programs for specified nutritional and dietary purposes; and (2) submitting an annual report to the President for transmittal to the Congress. Requires the Secretaries to prepare and implement a comprehensive national nutrition monitoring and related research plan which shall: (1) assess and report on U.S. nutritional and dietary trends; (2) assess and report on low-income food and household expenditures; (3) sponsor and conduct research; (4) develop and update a national dietary and nutritional status data bank; (5) assist State and local agencies in developing procedures and networks for nutrition monitoring and surveillance; and (6) focus the activities of Federal agencies. Requires the plan to allocate the project functions and activities among the various Federal agencies and offices involved. Requires the Secretaries to provide for and coordinate such scientific research and development as may be necessary to support the coordinated program and comprehensive plan. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council - Establishes a National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council to: (1) provide scientific and technical advice on the development and implementation of all components of the coordinated program and the comprehensive plan; (2) evaluate such program and plan; and (3) submit an annual report to the Secretaries. Subtitle D: Dietary Guidance - Directs the Secretaries to publish and review dietary guidelines for the general population. Title IV: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1986
Farm Mortgage Guarantee Act of 1986 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase or repurchase specified farm real estate loans. Directs the Secretary to guarantee such loans on terms that will assure them of an adequate secondary market. Authorizes the Secretary to similarly guarantee farm real estate loans held by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) or other qualifying institution . Authorizes the Secretary to offer for sale such guaranteed FmHA-held loans. Establishes the: (1) Farm Mortgage Revolving Fund; and (2) Farm Real Estate Insurance Fund. Terminates loan guarantee authority under this Act as of December 31, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot rental housing lease indemnity program under which the Secretary of each military department will guarantee to a lessor the lease payment of any member of such department, as well as any breach of the lease or damage to the rental unit. Requires such pilot program to be established within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, but not before October 1, 1986. Requires each Secretary to designate one military installation within the Secretary's jurisdiction for participation in such pilot program. Authorizes each Secretary to enter into agreements with rental unit lessors in order to carry out this Act. Outlines provisions to be included in such agreements. Authorizes any Secretary who compensates a lessor under this Act to garnish the wages of the member involved for an amount equal to the compensation paid to the lessor. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 18 months following the establishment of such pilot program, to report to the Congress concerning the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of such program. Terminates the authority of any Secretary to enter into lease guarantee agreements with lessors under this Act 18 months after the establishment of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Designates the school year of September 1986 through May 1987 as National Year of the Teacher and January 28, 1987, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1986
Farm Loan Mediation Act of 1986 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from making loans under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to persons in States not having a loan mediation system. Requires such a system to provide for: (1) local mediation; (2) voluntary and mandatory mediation; (3) debtor and creditor eligibility; (4) foreclosure only after mandatory mediation; and (5) procedures in the case of unsuccessful mandatory mediation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
States that U.S. defense programs should not carry out any development, test, or deployment activity of any antiballistic missile system or component. (This is in conformance with the defense system restrictions of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.)
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1986
Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Requirement Act of 1986 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing pork irradiation regulations and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing other food irradiation regulations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to arrange for and report within two years on a study of the risks to human health and the environment presented by food irradiation. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that food for domestic use or export which has been irradiated be labeled in a prescribed fashion. Requires restaurant menus to indicate when foods have been irradiated. Requires persons irradiating food to report semiannually to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Amendments Act of 1986 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary), or the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of public domain National Forest System lands, to lease onshore Federal lands for oil and gas development by competitive bidding if the appropriate Secretary determines such lands to be suitable for such development. Increases land units for development from 640 acres to 2,560 acres. Requires the Secretary to: (1) invite public nomination of areas favorable for oil and gas discovery at least once each calendar quarter; (2) automatically offer to lease any area receiving two or more such public nominations if the Secretary has determined such areas to be available and suitable for leasing; (3) hold competitive oil and gas lease sales on a quarterly basis; and (4) issue a lease to the highest responsible qualified bidder. Authorizes the Secretary to extend the initial five-year lease term of a non-producing oil or gas lease only upon finding that the lessee could not adequately explore during the initial lease term due to certain circumstances not attributable to the lessee. Requires an extension application to include an exploration plan. Limits total extensions to five years. Proscribes guidelines for rentals and royalties. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report periodically to the Congress regarding fees, rentals, and royalty payments; (2) notify the appropriate State Governor and the general public of scheduled lease offerings and of the scheduled approval of lease development activities; (3) regulate all surface-disturbing operations conducted under a lease; and (4) determine surface-resources conservation activities. Conditions the granting of a drilling permit on an oil or gas lease upon: (1) the Secretary's approval of an operations plan covering all surface-disturbing activities; and (2) the posting of sufficient bond by the lessee to ensure reclamation of surface disturbing activities. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing any lease on national forest lands without the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. Conditions the issuance of oil and gas leases on public lands (or public domain national forest lands) upon evaluation and approval of such leases in a land use plan meeting specified environmental requirements. Proscribes the issuance of oil and gas leases upon specified wilderness study lands. Authorizes either Secretary to issue permits for prospecting, seismic surveys, and core sampling not requiring road construction or improvements, if such activity is conducted in a manner compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment. Prohibits the use of explosives in designated wilderness areas. Requires an exploration license for the commercial exploration of oil and gas on lands subject to this Act. Sets forth a one-year term for such license. Provides that exploration licenses for lands under the jurisdiction of other Federal agencies may only be issued by the Secretary of the Interior upon such conditions as the surface management agency may prescribe regarding the use and protection of the nonmineral interest in those lands. Imposes a fine for commercial oil and gas exploration without a commercial exploration license.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Education and Training for American Competitiveness Act - Title I: Education for American Competitiveness - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1987 and each succeeding year. Makes available 80 percent of such funds for subtitle A and 20 percent for subtitle B. Subtitle A: Education and Training to Strengthen the Competitiveness of Domestic Industry - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary for purposes of this title) to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) for programs to improve the education and skills of our current and future workers in those areas that will enhance their productivity and competitiveness. Allots subtitle A funds among States on the basis of relative numbers of unemployed individuals and of adults without high school degrees. Sets forth requirements for submission, contents, and approval of State plans under this subtitle. Encourages States to coordinate services under this subtitle with those provided under the Training for Industrial Competitiveness provisions added by this Act to the Job Training Partnership Act. Allows funds under this subtitle to be used for programs of literacy training, vocational training services, and elementary and secondary education in mathematics, science, or foreign languages. Makes such literacy training available to unemployed or underemployed individuals, displaced workers, illiterate adults, and illiterate out-of-school youth. Make such vocational training services available to: (1) workers who have been or who are about to be adversely affected by foreign competition; (2) unemployed or underemployed individuals, for employment in new, expanding, or export-related industries or businesses; (3) current employees, in order to make their existing industries and business more competitive; and (4) individuals in order to assist their entry into or advancement in high technology occupations or to meet the technological demands of other industries or businesses. Provides that such elementary or secondary level instruction in mathematics, science, or foreign languages be through programs to: (1) meet needs not being met under the Education for Economic Security Act (through activities such as education partnerships with business, industry, and labor, interdisciplinary programs, and after-school and summer advanced or supplementary programs); (2) begin preparation for advanced courses and careers in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology; and (3) develop the specific technological and foreign language skills required by local industries and businesses. Sets forth eligible service providers under this subtitle. Limits administrative costs under this subtitle. Subtitle B: Postsecondary Education Programs to Improve Instruction in Mathematics, Science, and Foreign Languages - Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for: (1) summer language institutes and science and mathematics workshops; and/or (2) special equipment acquisition and workshops. Provides for competitive selection of grant recipients. Limits the amounts of grant awards. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires the institution, or consortium of such institutions, to assure that it will obtain at least one-half of the cost of the programs with non-Federal funds. Provides that the grants for summer institutes (either here or abroad) for intensive training in foreign languages and cultures shall be for: (1) secondary and postsecondary school students (with stipends provided); (2) language teachers and faculty (with stipends provided) to improve their language proficiency and pedagogical techniques; and (3) American international business persons, on a cost reimbursement basis, to improve their effectiveness in doing business abroad. Provides that the grants for intensive workshops for preservice and inservice mathematics and science teachers and faculty shall be to demonstrate the most recent developments in science, mathematics, and technology, and their application to improve our economic development, especially in export and foreign trade businesses and industries. Encourages the involvement of State and local governments, labor, business, and industry in planning for such workshops. Provides that the equipment grants shall be for: (1) the purchase of laboratory and other special equipment suitable for use in providing undergraduate classroom instruction in mathematics and/or science; and (2) workshops for secondary and vocational school teachers and postsecondary institution faculty on the use of such equipment. Title II: Training for Industrial Competitiveness - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1987 and succeeding fiscal years, to fund programs added by this Act to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Allocates such funds as follows: (1) 60 percent for trade-impacted worker assistance programs; (2) 20 percent for joint labor-management training programs; (3) nine percent for demonstration programs (for FY 1987 and 1988 only); (4) ten percent for State job bank systems (for FY 1987 and 1988 only); and (5) one percent for certain studies under this Act. Reallocates such funds after the FY 1987 and 1988 limited purposes are completed. Amends title IV (Federally Administered Programs) of the JTPA to add a new part H: Training for Industrial Competitiveness. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to: (1) provide training and employment assistance to trade-impacted workers; (2) provide financial and technical assistance to labor-management committees; and (3) establish demonstration programs to improve worker adjustment to changing world markets. Sets forth requirements for trade-impacted worker assistance programs. Directs the Secretary to provide, on a competitive basis, financial assistance to eligible public or private nonprofit programs for training and employment assistance to eligible workers in industries that the Secretary determines have been adversely affected by international trade. Allows eligible individuals to be provided with: (1) intensive job search assistance; (2) basic skills training and other educational assistance; (3) job training; (4) job development; (5) training in job skills for which demand exceeds supply; (6) supportive services, including commuting assistance and financial and personal counseling; (7) pre-layoff assistance; and (8) relocation assistance. Authorizes subsistence stipends if the enrolled individual is not currently receiving unemployment compensation or trade readjustment assistance. Requires that such services shall: (1) be in addition to, and coordinated with, those provided under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of JTPA; and (2) supplement and not supplant any other federally-assisted training assistance or services. Includes specified considerations under criteria for determining if an industry has been adversely affected by international trade. Sets forth requirements for joint labor-management training programs. Directs the Secretary to award, on a competitive basis, grants to labor-management committees to provide not more than one-half of the cost of programs of training, retraining, and education for eligible workers. Sets forth grant eligibility requirements for labor-management committees and program eligibility requirements for workers. Allows committees to use grant funds to provide the following services to eligible workers: (1) early warning adjustment services in the event of mass layoffs or plant closings (including personal and financial counseling, referral to community services, career counseling, job search assistance, job development, retraining, and relocation assistance); (2) aptitude testing and career counseling; (3) on-the-job training; (4) institutional training; (5) tuition assistance; (6) upgrading of skills; and (7) education, including basic skills, literacy training, and more advanced education. Sets forth requirements for cooperative agreements for such committees. Sets forth requirements for demonstration programs. Directs the Secretary, within six months after enactment of this Act, to establish programs to demonstrate the feasibility of providing worker retraining payments to workers who: (1) are or were employed in an industry determined to have been adversely affected by international trade; and (2) meet specified criteria for dislocated workers. Limits such payments to $4,000 each, to enable such workers to purchase their own job search, education, training, and retraining services from certified providers. Sets forth program evaluation requirements. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on such programs. Adds to JTPA new provisions for State job bank systems. Directs the Secretary to make funds from this Act available through the U.S. Employment Service for the development and implementation of computerized job bank systems in each State, for purposes such as: (1) identification of, and referral to, job openings; (2) information on occupational supply and demand; and (3) use by career information, including school counseling, programs. Encourages compatibility of such systems with other systems used in employment and training program administration. Requires special consideration to be given to the advice of State occupational coordinating committees and other users of such systems. Directs the Secretary, within six months after enactment of this Act, to commence a study of the feasibility of providing portability for pensions and health benefits for dislocated workers. Requires such study to also evaluate the benefits of providing early retirement benefits without penalty for older dislocated workers. Requires a report of such study to be submitted to the Congress within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Includes among the data which the Secretary is required to maintain under JTPA data on the mass layoffs or closings that are caused by or substantially related to international trade. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to conduct a study to identify the countries that fail to recognize and enforce, and the foreign producers that fail to comply with, basic labor rights. Requires an annual report of such study to be submitted to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Medicare Adult Day Care Amendments of 1986 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of adult day care programs providing certain health services to chronically-impaired adults in a group setting outside their homes for up to 100 days on a less than 24-hour basis. Requires providers of such services to have a multidisciplinary group of health care personnel conduct a written assessment of the status of each chronically-impaired adult before the adult's admission to the program and thereafter periodically develop a coordinate an individualized treatment plan for, and with the cooperation of, the adult. Defines a "chronically-impaired adult" as an individual 18 years of age or older who has a physical, emotional, or mental impairment which, but for the provision of adult day care, would require the provision of care in a hospital, skilled nursing, or intermediate care facility. Makes deductibles inapplicable to adult day care, requiring only the payment of a specified coinsurance amount. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations regarding adult day care programs. Requires the Secretary to adopt the standards established by the National Institute of Adult Day Care as the minimum standards for qualifying as a provider of such care.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Designates the week beginning January 4, 1987, as National Bowling Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1986 - Establishes the President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Includes among the Council's responsibilities an assessment of available but under-used health promotion and disease prevention resources. Directs the Council to advise the President on how such resources can be better utilized. Requires the Council to prepare and transmit a report to the President and to the Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Council within 18 months after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
Designates the week beginning September 21, 1986, as National Adult Day Care Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Economic Diversification Promotion Act of 1986 - Amends title III (Special Programs) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (the Act) to add a new part F: Industry-Education Partnership for Training and Retraining in Defense-Dependent Communities. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to carry out industry-education partnership training programs in defense-dependent communities. Provides that such funds will be used solely for vocational education programs designed to train and retrain workers at defense or defense-related industries or facilities and other workers in defense-dependent communities to allow such workers to find employment in nondefense or defense-related businesses or industries. Requires coordination of part F programs with those under the Job Training Partnership Act and under title II (Basic State Grants for Vocational Education) of the Act. Requires active participation of State vocational education councils in developing part F programs. Requires at least 50 percent of program funds from non-Federal sources, and 50 percent of such non-Federal funds from participating business and industries (through cash or in-kind contributions). Provides that the Federal share of program costs shall be available equally from part F funds and from funds allotted to States under title II of the Act. Provides for State designation of specified funds for program use if an eligible recipient demonstrates that it is incapable of providing its share. Permits grant funds to be used solely for the part F programs already described and for: (1) limited administrative costs; (2) training and retraining of instructional and guidance personnel; (3) curriculum and materials development; and (4) other activities authorized under title III of the Act which may be essential to operating part F programs (including ensuring access of women, minorities, the handicapped, and the economically disadvantaged). Sets forth guidelines for State board approval of part F programs. Authorizes appropriations for part F programs for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Designates the week beginning September 7, 1986, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986
Declares that the House of Representatives: (1) condemns the Soviet Union's failure to provide notification and information about the nuclear accident at Chernobyl; and (2) calls upon the Soviet Union to permit outside nuclear experts to assist with the accident and to allow the international press corps to cover the situation.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986
Designates May 5 through May 11, 1986, as Public Service Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Medicare Quality Protection Act of 1986 - Title I: Quality Assurance in Inpatient Hospital Settings - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and submit to the Congress a legislative proposal to improve the prospective payment system established under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act so that it more accurately approximates the costs of inpatient hospital services and accounts for variations in case complexity. Amends the Medicare program to require a hospital to give Medicare beneficiaries, upon their admission to the hospital, a written statement explaining: (1) the individual's rights to benefits for inpatient hospital and post-hospital Medicare services; (2) the circumstances under which such individual will be liable for charges for a continued hospital stay; (3) the individual's right to appeal denials of continued hospital services; and (4) the individual's liability for payment for services if such a denial of benefits is upheld on appeal. Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act to require peer review organizations receiving a hospital inpatient's request for review of a hospital's decision that the patient no longer needs inpatient care to inform the patient of its decision within two days of receiving the request. Prohibits hospitals from charging patients for inpatient hospital services provided while patients wait for a peer review organization to respond to their timely review requests. Imposes a civil money penalty on hospitals which make payments to physicians and on physicians who knowingly receive payments which constitute an inducement to curtail the stay of, or services provided to, an identifiable patient. Directs the Secretary to study the adequacy of standards used for hospital compliance with Medicare participation conditions in assuring the quality of hospital services. Requires the Secretary to study the adequacy with which the prospective payment system compensates hospitals, and distributes such compensation among hospitals, for costs attributable to patients' extended hospital stays necessitated by delays in patient placement in skilled nursing facilities. Title II: Access to Appropriate Post-Hospital Care - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program to require hospitals to implement a discharge planning process which meets guidelines and standards, to be established by the Secretary, ensuring patients a timely and smooth transition to the most appropriate type of, and setting for, post-hospital or rehabilitative care. Extends the limitations on beneficiary liability for disallowed Medicare claims to cover home health services provided to certain unqualified individuals. Provides that skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies which keep their services for which Medicare coverage is denied below specified percentages and comply with certain administrative requirements shall not subsequently be denied payment for care provided. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to develop a uniform needs assessment instrument enabling health care providers and fiscal intermediaries to evaluate an individual's need and ability to pay for post-hospital extended care, home-health, and long-term care services. Requires the Secretary to develop procedures to expedite fiscal intermediaries' determinations as to whether provider claims for post-hospital extended care and home health services may be reimbursed under the Medicare program. Directs the Secretary to provide for prompt response (within 24 hours) to beneficiary requests as to whether the beneficiary's Medicare coverage for post-hospital extended care services has been exhausted. Authorizes providers to represent beneficiaries on appeals of benefit determinations. Permits beneficiary appeals of the Secretary's denials of claims for home health service benefits. Amends the Social Security Amendments of 1983 to extend, through 1989, the annual report on the impact of the prospective payment system and require the inclusion of information in such reports regarding the quality, and accessibility to Medicare beneficiaries, of post-hospital services. Title III: Improved Review of Quality by Peer Review Organizations - Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act to require hospitals to submit data to peer review organizations on a monthly basis. Requires peer review organizations to review selected cases where individuals are readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of their most recent hospital discharge to determine if the previous inpatient hospital services and post-hospital services met professionally recognized health care standards. Directs each peer review organization to commit a reasonable proportion of its activities to review of the quality of services provided in cases and settings where potential quality problems have been identified. Requires the Secretary to identify methods facilitating the discovery of such cases. Requires each peer review organization to have at least one consumer representative on its board of directors. Directs such organizations to investigate all written beneficiary complaints about the quality of Medicare services which are filed with the organization. Requires peer review organizations to share data with organizations responsible for accrediting providers or State officials responsible for assuring quality care if such data reflects a substantial failure by providers or practitioners to provide quality care. Title IV: Study to Develop a Strategy for Quality Review and Assurance - Directs the Secretary to arrange a study which will serve as the basis for establishing a strategy for reviewing and assuring the quality of care provided under the Medicare program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding the study within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Kings River, California, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1986
Agricultural Credit Act of 1986 - Title I: Interest Subsidy Incentives for Restructuring Loans - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, and a State at its option, to provide interest rate subsidies to lenders who defer principal or interest payments on agricultural loans. Limits eligible aggregate loan amounts. Sets forth rate reductions. Establishes a three-year deferral period. States that at the end of such period lenders may not charge interest rates in excess of existing comparable rates. Permits lenders to enforce pre-deferral loan terms in the event of a nonmonetary borrower default. Requires lenders to make a good faith effort to reduce principal or interest due before foreclosing, except in the case of a bankruptcy. Requires lenders to develop debt restructuring guidelines. Terminates Federal and State subsidy payments upon foreclosure. Directs the Secretary to use the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund to carry out such subsidy program. Authorizes the use of additional specified funds under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Title II: Conservation Provisions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to prohibit such loan deferral assistance to producers who cultivate crops on erodible land or wetlands. Title III: Accounting Provisions - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require the appropriate Federal banking agency to: (1) permit an insured agricultural bank to account for debt restructuring according to generally accepted accounting principles by not requiring a change in the recorded investment unless the investment exceeds total, reasonably anticipated, future receipts given the new terms of the loan; (2) establish a program of capital standard forbearance for such an insured bank for which capital reduction is attributable to problems in the agricultural sectors of the economy; and (3) implement call report requirements for renegotiated loans which authorize such loans to be disclosed as "restructured and in compliance with modified terms." Requires States to conform their appropriate regulations to such amendments. Prohibits a national banking association from holding real estate under mortgage or purchased to secure debts for longer than ten years with no extension (currently, five years with a five-year extension if approved by the Comptroller of the Currency). Directs the Comptroller of the Currency to establish new lending limits for banks covered by the capital standard forbearance program. Prohibits such lending limitation from exceeding 20 percent of the unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus of the lending institution. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to prescribe implementing regulations within 30 days. States that any State law prohibiting fixed rate loans shall not apply to credit extensions under this Act. Sets forth penalties for misuse of funds under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1986
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out a flood control project in the Felton Grove area, Santa Cruz County, California. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Designates April 17, 1986, as National Pension Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in light of specified international human rights agreements, the Soviet Union should approve the exit visa applications of Doctor Naum Meiman and his wife, Inna Kitrosskaya, and arrange for them to go to the country of their choice. Urges the President to: (1) protest the Soviet Government's refusal to consider the exit visa applications of Dr. Meiman and his wife; (2) call upon all other signatory nations of the Helsinki Accords to join in such protest; and (3) instruct the U.S. delegation to the meeting of experts on human contacts organized under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to be held in Bern, Switzerland, to pursue this matter.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should acknowledge the serious economic depression in the beef and pork industries and take the steps to alleviate such condition, including increasing Government meat purchases, restricting imports, and administering the milk production termination program in an orderly fashion.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Acid Deposition Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Stationary Sources - Amends the Clean Air Act to require States to develop and submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an emissions limitation compliance schedule for sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from fossil-fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units. Requires a two-phase reduction in such emissions, the first to be achieved by 1993, the second by 1997. Requires each State to develop and submit to the Administrator a plan to achieve emissions reductions from other fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units by 1977. Directs the Administrator to conduct and update a comprehensive annual inventory of emissions of sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources, identifying achievable reductions which could be made by 1997. Requires States to submit to the Administrator for approval a plan for achieving such reductions. Grants States discretion in their choice of compliance measures. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress by July 1, 1993, on phase I reductions and the feasibility of meeting phase II reductions. States that phase II reductions will not take effect if the Congress enacts legislation to that effect. Sets forth emissions rates a State without an approved reductions plan must follow. Authorizes the Administrator to impose a fee on the generation and importation of electric energy between December 31, 1988, and December 31, 1996, to subsidize the interest on qualified pollution control debt incurred by the utility. Establishes civil penalties for fee violations. Establishes in the Treasury the Acid Deposition Control Fund to receive such fees and provide interest subsidy payments for pollution control systems meeting specified standards. Revises the standards for nitrogen oxides emissions for new electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and for certain fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units. Requires certain smelters to be in compliance with the applicable emissions reduction standard by January 2, 1988, without extension or delay. Title II: Control of Emission from Mobile Sources - Sets oxides of nitrogen emission standards for motor vehicles for model years 1988, 1989, and beyond. Modifies hydrocarbon standards for trucks after model year 1989. Directs the Administrator to regulate sulfur in diesel fuel for 1989 and beyond. Requires either the use of onboard hydrocarbon control technology or the use of gasoline vapor recovery of hydrocarbon emissions emanating from fueling motor vehicles. Title III: International Cooperation - Expresses the concern of the Congress over transboundary pollution between the United States and Mexico and directs the Secretary of State and the Administrator to conclude an agreement within three months of enactment. Requires such an agreement to cover specified copper smelters. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to report to the Congress within six months on negotiating such agreement. Requires EPA to perform atmospheric field experiments to determine the effects of sulfur dioxide emissions, before and after pollution controls, of the Nacozaria smelter, Mexico, on specified western States. Directs the Secretary to establish an international agency, or utilize an existing agency, to report on the effects of transboundary air pollution from copper smelters on public health and welfare in the United States and in Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Designates the week beginning May 4, 1986, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the week beginning on November 9, 1986, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates June 21, 1986, as National Save American Industry and Jobs Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Designates November 18, 1986, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit Administration and its associated agencies and institutions should take additional actions to alleviate the agricultural financial situation, including restructuring, rather than foreclosing, loans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Pesticide Reform Act of 1986 - Title I: Preregistration Access to Data - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide for public access to health, safety, and environmental data submitted in support of an initial application for the registration of a new active ingredient or initial food use of a previously registered active ingredient. Makes such information available in EPA offices or authorized State agencies upon submission of an affirmation that the reviewer is not employed by a pesticide company and will not violate specified confidentiality provisions. Provides criminal penalties for the wrongful disclosure of such data. Title II: Conditional Registration - Prohibits EPA from granting conditional registration for a new use or active ingredient where the data concerning chronic toxicity, neurotoxicity, or teratogenicity are required for registration for a nonminor use, and such data requirement was in effect at the time the data studies were begun. Provides that such conditional registrations shall not cause any unreasonable adverse effect on the environment and shall be in the public interest. Requires registrants to provide all additional registration data within a reasonable time. Title III: Reregistration - Establishes a pesticide reregistration schedule. Requires EPA to develop within: (1) 90 days a priority list of 300 pesticide active ingredients that have not been reregistered since September 30, 1978; and (2) 180 days a list of remaining chemicals that have not been reregistered since such date. Directs that highest reregistration priority be given to pesticides that: (1) are in major food or feed use; (2) will result in toxic residues in potable groundwater, fish, or shellfish; or (3) have significant outstanding data requirements. Requires EPA data evaluations of such lists within 36 months. Grants registrants up to four years (plus a possible discretionary three-year extension) to complete any outstanding data requirements. Requires suspension of registration for failure to meet such deadlines. Requires EPA to complete registration within two years of receiving such data. Title IV: Inert Ingredients - Directs EPA to establish a priority list of not more than 50 inert ingredients based on apparent health or environmental dangers. Subjects such list to judicial review. Sets forth the conditions for: (1) removal from such list based on administrative review or additional data; and (2) additional data studies. Provides for the substitution of listed inert ingredients with other inert ingredients not posing similar health or environmental dangers. Requires pesticides containing listed inert ingredients to list them on the label. States that a pesticide whose ingredient statement does not satisfy the requirements of such Act (as amended by this Act) with respect to a listed ingredient shall not be misbranded until 360 days after the publication of the data plan or the date on which EPA approves a label change, whichever occurs later. Requires registrants of pesticides containing listed inert ingredients to make necessary formula statement changes. Title V: Public Right to Know - Requires registrants to develop and submit to EPA a Material Safety Data Sheet for each pesticide produced, imported, or used. Sets forth information to be included in such Sheets. Requires such Sheets to be maintained by the registrant and made available to the public. Provides for confidentiality of certain information. Title VI: Data Disclosure to States - Provides for data disclosure to States that have entered into cooperative agreements with EPA. Establishes criminal penalties for wrongful disclosure of such information by Federal or State officers or employees. Permits disclosure to contractors under such conditions as the Secretary may specify. Directs the Administrator to : (1) establish (through an EPA committee) a data system for the information required by this Act; and (2) establish a retrieval system for pesticidal, toxicological, and other scientific data. Requires a report to the Congress within 24 months. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1989 appropriations. Title VII: Cancellation Procedures - Authorizes the Administrator to conduct a special review of a pesticide if its use may pose a risk to: (1) humans or domestic animals; (2) the environment of non-target organisms; or (3) to an endangered or threatened species or critical habitat. Prescribes notice, period of comment, and related procedures for the initiation of an interim administrative review. Permits the Administrator to: (1) cancel the registration or change the classification of a pesticide; or (2) hold hearings to determine whether such changes should be made. Title VIII: False or Invalid Data - Directs the Administrator to issue immediately a notice of intent to suspend or cancel a pesticide registration if submitted information is invalid (and has not been replaced) or false. Makes it unlawful to willfully falsify all or part of any data submitted under FIFRA, or to willfully submit such false data knowing it to be false. Title IX: Inspection of Laboratories - Authorizes Federal or State officers or employees duly designated by the Administrator to enter or inspect laboratories or testing facilities, or to obtain pesticide samples or make copies of records. Sets forth inspection procedures. Directs the Administrator to avoid duplication of inspections by coordinating actions taken under this title with actions taken under other Federal laws. Title X: Export of Pesticides - Requires registrants exporting pesticide products to inform foreign importers and the appropriate government regulatory office in the importing country concerning pesticide products whose registrations are cancelled, suspended, restricted, are not registered for any U.S. use, or have been voluntarily withdrawn with concern for potential adverse public health or environmental effects. Requires the Administrator to provide similar notices to foreign governments and appropriate international agencies. Requires labeling on exported pesticides that contains the same health, safety, and hazard precautions as on U.S. labels if such exports are substantially similar in composition and use to pesticides registered in the United States. Exempts exports from such requirements only if the precautions on the label conflict with the importing country's law. Directs the Administrator to participate actively in international efforts to develop improved pesticide research programs. Requires an annual report to the Congress on such programs. Title XI: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes FY 1987 through 1991 appropriations. Title XII: Label Use Protection - States that proof that an application was made in compliance with the label shall be presumptive evidence that the applicator was not negligent. Title XIII: Certification, Training, and Recordkeeping Amendments - Sets forth certification, training, and recordkeeping (including public access) provisions for noncertified commercial applicators, employees, and certified commercial applicators. Requires certification of enforcement personnel. Title XIV: State Authority to Regulate Sale and Use of Pesticides - States that enforcement authority does not extend to State political subdivisions. Directs States to consider the differences between agricultural and nonagricultural pesticides in promulgating pesticide regulations or policies. Title XV: Use of Any Registered Pesticide in a Manner Inconsistent with its Labeling - Permits use of one pesticide in the formulation or repackaging of another registered end-use product. Exempts household cleaning agents from "inconsistent use" labeling requirements. Title XVI: Definitions - Defines "antimicrobial," "to distribute or sell," "pesticide product," and "terms of registration" for purposes of such Act. Title XVII: Registration of a Pesticide - Directs the Administrator to publish guidelines regarding registration support data. Requires EPA to review an application and notify the applicant of any deficiencies within 90 days of receipt. Requires EPA review of such additional information within 180 days of receipt. States that an application shall be deemed approved if EPA fails to act within 360 days. Authorizes the Administrator to use label warnings and other regulatory restrictions before giving a pesticide a restricted use classification. Title XVIII: Protection of Trade Secrets and Other Information - Protects marketable data from disclosure until the start of sales, unless such disclosure is necessary to protect against risk to health or the environment. Requires EPA to notify applicants if a disclosure request has been made for their information. Title XIX: Information Requested - Requires EPA to catalogue and retrieve data in such manner as to reduce duplicate registrant requests. Title XX: Research and Monitoring - Directs the Administrator to maintain a facility at Beltsville, Maryland, to conduct biological testing of pesticides, especially disinfectants. Title XXI: State Cooperation, Aid, and Training - Provides for a 50-50 Federal-State sharing of applicator training costs. Sets forth minimum fiscal year appropriations for such purpose. Title XXII: Scientific Advisory Panel - Extends authority for the scientific advisory panel through FY 1994. Title XXIII: State Enforcement Responsibilities - States that the term "primary enforcement responsibility" shall include State actions having the Administrator's concurrence, including banning, seizing, and cancellation of a registered product. Title XXIV: Low Volume Non-Food Pesticide Use - Permits interested persons to petition the Administrator to relax or amend regulations regarding low-volume, nonfood pesticide uses. Bases such request upon whether or not the new use will cause an unreasonable risk to man or the environment. Permits such new use for two years, after which a repetitioning shall be required. Title XXV: Unlawful Acts - Revises current provisions regarding unlawful acts and penalties. Title XXVI: Penalties - Increases specified criminal and civil penalties. Subjects applicants for registration and pesticide testing facilities to specified penalties. Title XXVII: Congressional Review of Regulations - Replaces congressional veto provisions with a 60-day delay period after promulgation of pesticide regulations. Directs the Administrator to provide the Congress with copies of regulations issued under such Act. Title XXVIII: Administrative Procedure: Judicial Review - Provides for judicial review of regulations issued under this Act in the appropriate court of appeal or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Title XXIX: Delegation and Cooperation - Declares that the Administrator, in implementing this Act, shall not be deemed to be exercising authority to prescribe or enforce workplace standards affecting occupational safety and health. Title XXX: Indemnities - Authorizes FY 1987 through 1991 appropriations for the indemnity program. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury to carry out such activities. Requires an annual report to the Congress. Requires a comprehensive program evaluation to be submitted to the Congress on April 1, 1991. Title XXXI: Voluntary Cancellation - Permits a registrant to cancel a product registration or delete one or more uses. Title XXXII: Technical Amendments - Amends the table of contents of such Act. Title XXXIII: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective 60 days after enactment, unless otherwise provided for.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates the week beginning September 7, 1986, as National Freedom of Information Act Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Amends Federal military pay and allowances provisions to provide increased authority for the temporary storage of household effects of members of the armed forces in connection with a change of duty station.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Proclaims the week of June 15, 1986, as National Agricultural Export Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Designates May 8, 1986, as Naval Aviation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1986
Community Services Programs Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Head Start Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to carry out the Head Start program. Amends the Follow Through Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to carry out the Follow Through program. Amends the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 to: (1) rename specified provisions as the "Dependent Care Programs Act"; and (2) authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to make allotments to States for such dependent care programs. Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act (the Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for grants to States to ameliorate poverty. Requires compliance evaluations to include identification of the impact the use of such funds has on children, homeless families, and the elderly poor. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for use of community services block grants under the Act for specified programs of the Community Economic Development Act of 1981. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for community food and nutrition programs under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide that upon conviction of an air carrier for either failure to file requisite reports, or the falsification of such reports, the criminal penalty shall include a fine in accordance with Federal criminal law, or a maximum term of five years' imprisonment, or both. Provides a maximum civil penalty of $1,000 for safety violations relating to notification of proposed construction of structures which could pose a hazard to air navigation. (Current law provides only for a criminal penalty.) Increases from $1,000 to $10,000 the maximum civil penalty which may be imposed for violation of certain administrative, security, and safety regulations by commercial aircraft operators.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Designates the month of October 1986 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 1987. Specifies the following budgetary levels for FY 1987: (1) $653,314,000,000 as the recommended level of Federal revenue; (2) $20,000,000,000 as the amount by which the aggregate level of Federal revenue should be increased; (3) $866,421,000,000 as the appropriate level of total new budget authority; (4) $796,256,000,000 as the appropriate level of total budget outlays; (5) $142,942,000,000 as the amount of the deficit in the budget which is appropriate in light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors; (6) $2,307,000,000,000 as the appropriate level of the public debt; (7) $37,503,295,000 as the appropriate level of total new direct loan obligations; and (8) $88,147,100,000 as the appropriate level of total new primary loan guarantee commitments. Specifies the appropriate levels of total new budget authority, budget outlays, Federal revenue, and the deficit, including receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, for FY 1987 for purposes of the maximum deficit amount mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 only. Sets forth the levels of budget authority, budget outlays, new direct loan obligations, and new primary loan guarantee commitments for each major functional category for FY 1987. Requires certain House committees, within 30 days after final action on this resolution, to submit to the House Budget Committee recommended changes in laws within their jurisdictions sufficient to reduce budget authority or outlays or to increase revenues by specified amounts in FY 1987. Requires the Budget Committee to report a reconciliation bill or resolution carrying out such recommendations without any substantive revision.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Designates 1988 as the Year of New Sweden.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Designates the month of April 1986 as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Directs the President to provide, within seven days, to the House of Representatives documents relating to the use of specified funds appropriated for humanitarian assistance for the Nicaraguan democratic resistance.