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United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1986
Designates the week beginning on March 16, 1986, as National Congregate and Meals on Wheels Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Benefits Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to: (1) provide that certain cost of living increases in railroad retirement annuities shall not be prevented from taking effect by any provision of law other than such Act; (2) prohibit the sequestration of any amounts appropriated to the Dual Benefits Payment Account other than by such Act; and (3) prohibit the sequestration of administrative expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board other than by such Act. Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to prohibit any: (1) legislative limitation from being placed upon the availability of railroad unemployment insurance benefit payments other than by such Act; and (2) sequestration of railroad unemployment insurance administration funds other than by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 11 through May 18, 1986, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Social Security Act Mental Health Amendments of 1986 - Amends titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income), XVIII (Medicare), and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide benefits for chronically mentally ill individuals. Requires State plans under title XIX to include case management services and home and community-based services for such individuals. Requires any hospital receiving funds under titles XVIII or XIX to have a case plan established for, and a case manager assigned to such individuals prior to their discharge. Treats certain chronically mentally ill individuals about to be discharged from an institution as presumptively disabled for purposes of title XVI. Extends the period during which certain institutionalized mentally ill may receive SSI benefits if such individuals are expected to return home upon discharge. Provides Medicaid coverage for certain SSI recipients who are chronically mentally ill and would be institutionalized but for such coverage. Preserves the eligibility of such individuals for SSI benefits for the period during which they are in transitional living facilities. Repeals limits on coverage of outpatient services relating to mental illness under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
State Comprehensive Mental Health Services Plan Act of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for the development of State comprehensive mental health services plans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987. Sets forth the requirements for such plans, which include: (1) establishing objectives for providing mental health prevention and treatment services; (2) describing the resources devoted to, and the activities to be carried out under, such plan; (3) providing case management services for each chronically mentally ill individual; (4) establishing and implementing a program of outreach to, and services for, chronically mentally ill individuals who are homeless; and (5) providing, to the maximum extent feasible, for the delivery of services through community mental health centers. Requires each State to transmit a report to the Secretary describing the progress made by such State in implementing its comprehensive plan. Requires each State to establish an Advisory Council on Mental Health Planning. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish national goals and objectives for a community-based system of mental health care; and (2) conduct a review, at least every three years, of each State's program to determine whether it is in accordance with the national goals and objectives. Authorizes appropriations for Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grants through FY 1988. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for demonstration projects to provide services for homeless mentally ill individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Housing for the Chronically Mentally Ill Act of 1986 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to permit State mental health authorities, or other private nonprofit or public agencies designated by a State, to use vacant residential property to provide supervised living for the chronically mentally ill. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and for each fiscal year thereafter. Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to set aside specified amounts beginning in FY 1986 for handicapped family housing loans. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize a housing voucher program for the chronically mentally ill. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1988 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Designates August 1986 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Designates the week beginning on October 5, 1986, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1986
Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission Act - Establishes the Dwight David Eisenhower Centennial Commission to encourage, plan, and coordinate the centennial of the birth of former President Dwight David Eisenhower. Requires annual Commission reports to the Congress and the President. Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to designate the date for a joint meeting of the Congress commemorating the centennial. Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp on October 14, 1990, in honor of the 100th birthday of Dwight David Eisenhower. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Designates March 21, 1986, as National Energy Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Disapproves a proposed deferral (number D86-48) of $500,000,000 of budget authority for the community development block grant program, as set forth in the President's message to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Amends Federal law regarding emergency relief projects for specified Federal aid highways (including Interstate highways) to increase from $30,000,000 to $100,000,000 the amount of funds which may be obligated in any State for natural disasters and catastrophic failures occurring in 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Designates the week of May 11 through May 17, 1986, as Senior Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Competitive America Trade Reform Act of 1986 - Declares that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the United States shall call for a multilateral conference to seek a new international monetary regime; (2) the United States shall try to use its foreign aid programs to aid the development of the private sectors in less developed countries; (3) rules of trade, dispute settlement procedures, and penalties for trade violations should be strengthened; (4) new policies are required to aid U.S. industries to improve their international competitiveness; and (5) a new program of transition aid for workers and firms is needed. Title I: International Monetary Reform - Establishes a temporary National Commission on International Monetary Reform which shall prepare a report for the President and the Congress analyzing and evaluating: (1) proposed reforms of the international monetary system; (2) the effects of international capital flows on exchange rate volatility and proposals for restricting capital transactions; (3) proposed methods for coordinating monetary policies of major industrialized nations; (4) objectives for joint intervention in foreign exchange markets; (5) a detailed working agenda to be presented to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a new "Bretton Woods" conference; and (6) other matters, including legislative recommendations. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, within 45 days of the submission of the Commission's report, to submit legislation to the Congress implementing policy changes recommended by the Commission and authorizing submission of the agenda to the IMF. Provides for expedited consideration of such legislation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, within 15 days of enactment of such legislation, to request the IMF to convene a working group to consider the agenda for a conference on monetary reform. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the 30 percent withholding tax on portfolio interest paid to foreign persons. Title II: Foreign Assistance and Investment - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) administer the aid programs referred to in this title in a manner that promotes the development of as diverse a range of economic sectors within developing countries as is practicable; and (2) prevent any domestic industry or economic sector from bearing a disproportionate economic burden as a result of a bilateral trade or investment agreement or of the operation of a U.S. development program in foreign countries. Authorizes the Secretary of State to: (1) develop a list of those less developed countries in which Cooley Loan Program activities may be conducted; and (2) negotiate and conclude agreements for the implementation of a Cooley Loan Program. Requires such agreements to provide for: (1) the sale of surplus U.S. commodities to be paid for by local currencies; (2) such currencies to be made available to designated accounts under the control of the Secretary of State; (3) spending no less than 50 percent of certain development funds for private sector development; and (4) specifying maximum local currency reserve levels in designated accounts, monetary growth targets in the host country, and termination conditions. Establishes an Economic Security Council. Requires the Council to: (1) advise the President on domestic and international economic matters; (2) develop and oversee U.S. economic policy; and (3) develop an international bankruptcy procedure to guide U.S. banks and agencies in responding to impending defaults by debtor nations. Abolishes the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs. Authorizes the President to enter into trade agreements with least developed developing countries which provide for liberalization of trade between the United States and such countries. Establishes within the International Development Cooperation Agency the International Private Enterprise Institute which shall: (1) provide expertise and technical aid to less developed countries in attracting financial investment, developing indigenous industries, and promoting exports; and (2) serve as U.S. liaison for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Requires that funds authorized: (1) for programs conducted by the Agency for International Development shall be used for government-to-government and official activities which foster economic growth and promote a favorable climate for development of the private sector in developing countries; and (2) for programs conducted by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) shall be used to promote economic growth and stability through the direct involvement of the private sector. Creates four special offices within OPIC for program development. Authorizes OPIC to take partial equity interest in qualified development projects. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should call upon the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to convene a special meeting of the Group of Ten industrial nations and debtor nations for the purposes of formalizing growth-oriented conditionality guidelines to promote the creditworthiness of less developed countries, debt repayment flexibility, and trade liberalization. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a report in preparation for such conference and submit such report to the Congress. Title III: Trade Laws and Agreements - Subtitle A: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to request the contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to join the United States in ministerial sessions preparatory to a new round of negotiations which would seek to: (1) create or strengthen GATT articles on certain trade issues; (2) strengthen the GATT as an institution by means of certain administrative and rules changes; and (3) tighten GATT enforcement mechanisms through reforms of the panel system. Subtitle B: Reform of Certain States Trade Laws - Declares that it is U.S. policy to regard a country as not subscribing to the open trade principles of the GATT and to impose trade sanctions on such country if such country fails to: (1) demonstrate good faith in adhering to GATT principles; (2) cooperate in extending GATT coverage to the areas listed in Subtitle A; (3) seek to eliminate counterfeiting, piracy of intellectual property, or violations of export licensing regulations; or (4) assist in international efforts to curb illicit drug traffic. Requires petitions for import relief that are filed with the International Trade Commission (ITC) to: (1) allege that an article is being imported in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause of serious injury to the competing domestic industry or a substantial threat of serious injury to a nascent competing domestic industry; and (2) include a statement describing the purposes for which import relief is sought, including the objective of facilitating methods of adjusting to the competition. Requires the ITC to decide within 25 days whether the petition alleges all the elements necessary for import relief. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) to initiate an import relief investigation if the ITC determines that the petition contains all the necessary elements. Declares that the Secretary shall initiate such an investigation upon request of the President, the USTR, the ITC, or upon the Secretary's own motion. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days of the start of such investigation, to determine whether: (1) any domestic industry is being seriously injured; or (2) any nascent domestic industry is being threatened. Sets forth factors the Secretary shall consider in making such determination. Sets forth the method of determining whether the article that a domestic industry produces is like or competitive with an imported article. Requires the Secretary, if the Secretary determines that imports are injuring or threatening a domestic industry, to: (1) notify the ITC; and (2) make available to the ITC certain information relating to such determination. Requires the ITC, within 30 days of the Secretary's determination, to determine whether imports are a substantial cause of the serious injury, or threat of injury, found by the Secretary. Sets forth factors the ITC shall consider and investigate. Requires the ITC to report to the USTR the ITC's determination and the basis for such determination. Requires the ITC to recommend to the USTR the duty, import restrictions, or adjustment assistance necessary to remedy or prevent the injury. Prohibits another import relief investigation of the same subject matter until one year after the ITC's report to the USTR, unless the ITC determines there is good cause for another investigation. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor, upon the start of an import relief investigation, to begin negotiations with representatives of the affected domestic industry on an industry modernization agreement. Prohibits granting import relief unless an industry modernization agreement has been entered into and the National Commission on International Competitiveness has approved such agreement. Authorizes the USTR to waive the requirement of having such an agreement for six months if specified conditions are met. Requires the USTR to request certain proceedings under the GATT, if appropriate. Transfers from the President to the USTR certain duties relating to actions taken after import relief investigations. Reduces from 60 to 30 days the amount of time that may elapse between submission of a report recommending import relief and the determination of the method and amount of import relief to be granted. Includes among the factors the USTR must consider in determining the amount and method of import relief: (1) domestic, economic, and political constraints affecting the domestic industry; and (2) the international market for articles under investigation and labor conditions in the production of such articles. Transfers from the President to the USTR the duty to determine the method and amount of import relief to be granted (except that the President may, when it is necessary for national security, reduce or terminate such import relief). Requires import relief ordered by the USTR to take effect within 15 days of such order. Requires the USTR to order the import relief within 15 days after the date on which the USTR determines to provide import relief. Prohibits such import relief from taking effect if the President: (1) determines that such import relief should not be taken for reasons of national security; or (2) certifies to the Congress that negotiations on orderly marketing agreements or voluntary restraint agreements have been entered into regarding imports of the affected article. Requires the USTR to submit semiannual reports on such negotiations if no import relief is granted because of such negotiations. Requires the USTR to order such import relief if, 18 months after the President makes such certification, a joint resolution is adopted ordering such relief. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires the Secretary, if the USTR grants import relief, as long as such relief remains in effect to: (1) monitor the domestic industry that was found to be injured or threatened by imports; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter the continued validity of such determination. Requires the ITC, if the USTR grants import relief, as long as such relief remains in effect to: (1) monitor the domestic industry and any foreign country or trade agreement that were the subjects of a finding that imports injured or threatened a domestic industry; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter the continued validity of such determination. Changes the method of petitioning for enforcement of U.S. rights under trade agreements and for a U.S. response to certain foreign trade practices. Authorizes any person which is representative of a domestic industry to file with the ITC a petition requesting the USTR to enforce U.S. rights under a trade agreement or respond to unfair foreign trade practices. Sets forth the allegations that shall be included in such petition, including the allegation that unenforcement of U.S. rights or use of the foreign trade practice is a cause of injury to a domestic industry or a threat of injury to a nascent domestic industry. Requires the ITC to determine within 25 days whether the petition alleges all the necessary elements for relief. Requires the Secretary to initiate an investigation if the ITC finds that the petition is sufficient. Declares that the Secretary shall initiate such investigation upon request of the President, the USTR, or the ITC, or upon the Secretary's own motion. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days of the start of such investigation, to determine whether: (1) the domestic industry is being injured; or (2) any nascent domestic industry is being threatened with injury. Sets forth factors to be considered in making such determination. Requires the Secretary to notify the ITC if such determination is affirmative. Terminates the investigation if the determination is negative. Sets forth the definition of injury and threat of injury with respect to such investigation. Requires the ITC, within 30 days of receipt of the Secretary's affirmative determination, to determine: (1) whether U.S. rights under a trade agreement are not being enforced or a foreign country's policy denies benefits to the United States under any trade agreement or is unjustifiable or restricts U.S. commerce; and (2) whether such unenforcement or policy is a cause of the injury or threat of injury found by the Secretary. Sets forth factors the ITC shall consider in making such determination. Requires the ITC to report its determinations to the USTR and to submit a recommendation of actions that the USTR should take if the conditions described in both (1) and (2) are found to exist. Sets forth definitions. Requires the USTR to request certain proceedings under the GATT, if appropriate. Requires the USTR, if both determinations of the ITC are affirmative, to determine what actions the USTR will take to: (1) enforce U.S. rights under such trade agreement; and (2) obtain the elimination of the unfair foreign policy. Sets forth actions the USTR may take, including: (1) withdrawal of trade agreement concessions; (2) increases in import restrictions on the goods or services of such country; (3) increases in restrictions on, or denial of issuance of, service sector access authorizations; and (4) denial of intellectual property protections to nationals of such country. Sets forth factors the USTR shall consider in determining what action to take. Requires the USTR to issue the order taking such action within 15 days of determining what such action should be. Prohibits such action from taking effect if the President: (1) determines that such action should not take effect for national security reasons; or (2) certifies to the Congress that such foreign country has entered into certain good faith negotiations. Provides for imposing such action if a joint resolution is enacted 18 months after the President makes such certification to the Congress. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires the Secretary to: (1) monitor the domestic industry or nascent industry that the Secretary found to be injured or threatened with injury; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter such determination. Requires the ITC to: (1) monitor the domestic industry and any foreign country or trade agreement that the ITC found to be injured or unenforced; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter such determinations. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to change the method of investigation and relief under section 337 of such Act (relating to unfair practices in import trade). Adds a new title to such Act covering such changes. Authorizes any person that is a representative of a domestic industry to file a petition with the ITC requesting the USTR to investigate and provide relief from unfair practices in import trade. Requires such petition to allege that: (1) the owner or consignee of an import is using an unfair method of competition or is committing an unfair act in the importation of any article or in the sale in the United States of any import; and (2) the effect or tendency of such unfair method or unfair act is to injure substantially an efficiently operating U.S. industry, to prevent the establishment in the United States of a competing industry, or to restrain or monopolize U.S. trade. Requires the ITC to determine within 25 days whether the petition alleges all the necessary elements for relief. Requires the Secretary to initiate an investigation if the ITC finds that the petition is sufficient. Declares that the Secretary shall initiate such investigation upon request of the President, the USTR, or the ITC, or upon the Secretary's own motion. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days of the start of such investigation, to determine whether: (1) the domestic industry is being operated efficiently and is being substantially injured; (2) the establishment of a competing industry in the United States is being prevented; or (3) U.S. trade or commerce is being restrained or monopolized. Sets forth factors to be considered in making such determination. Requires the Secretary to notify the ITC if such determination is affirmative. Terminates the investigation if the determination is negative. Sets forth the definitions of "substantially injured" and "restrained or monopolized" with respect to such investigation. Requires the ITC, within 30 days of the Secretary's affirmative determination, to determine: (1) whether the alleged method of competition or act exists and is an unfair method of competition or an unfair act; and (2) if such determination under (1) is affirmative, whether such method or act effects or tends to effect the Secretary's finding of substantial injury to a domestic industry, prevention of establishment of a domestic industry, or restraint or monopolization of trade or commerce. Sets forth factors the ITC shall consider in making such determination. Requires the ITC to report its determinations to the USTR and to submit a recommendation of actions that the USTR should take if the conditions described in both (1) and (2) are found to exist. Authorizes the ITC to order that certain articles may not be imported by any person reasonably suspected of violating section 337 if the ITC, during its investigation, determines that there is reason to believe that such violation may threaten the public health or safety or cause irreparable harm to a domestic industry. Authorizes the ITC to vacate such order at any time before its report to the USTR. Requires such order to expire 30 days after such report to the USTR. Requires the ITC to request certain proceedings under the GATT, if appropriate. Requires the USTR, if both determinations of the ITC are affirmative, to determine what actions the USTR will take to respond to such violations of section 337. Authorizes the USTR to take the following actions: (1) denial of entry into the United States of articles imported by persons who engaged in an unfair method of competition or unfair act; (2) issuance of a cease and desist order to persons engaging in such method of competition or such acts; and (3) (if a foreign country is engaged in such method of competition or committed such unfair act) withdrawal of trade agreement concessions, increases in import restrictions on such country's products, suspension of certain compensation under the Trade Act of 1974, and denial of intellectual property protection to nationals of such country. Authorizes the USTR to determine not to take any action to respond to a violation of section 337 if each of the above actions would have a substantial adverse effect in the United States on: (1) the public health and safety; (2) competitive conditions; (3) the production of like or directly competitive articles; or (4) consumers. Sets forth factors the USTR shall consider in determining what action to take. Requires the USTR to issue the order taking such action within 15 days of determining what such action should be. Prohibits such action from taking effect if the President: (1) determines that such action should not take effect for national security reasons; or (2) certifies to the Congress that in the case of an action against a foreign country such foreign country has entered into certain good faith negotiations. Provides for imposing such action if a joint resolution is enacted 18 months after the President makes such certification to the Congress. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires the USTR to terminate any such action if the USTR determines that the relevant unfair method of competition or unfair act has terminated. Excludes certain imports needed by the Federal Government from the USTR's orders. Sets forth penalties for violations of such actions. Requires the Secretary to: (1) monitor the domestic industry, trade, or market that the Secretary found to be injured, prevented, or restrained; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter such determination. Requires the ITC to: (1) monitor the unfair method of competition or unfair act that the ITC found to exist; and (2) notify the USTR of any change in circumstances that would alter such determinations. Reverses the roles of the ITC and the administering authority in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. Changes the definition of the "administering authority" from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of Commerce. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include in the annual report to the Congress on barriers to market access an identification and analysis of: (1) foreign industrial targeting; (2) protection of intellectual property rights by foreign countries; (3) procurement practices of foreign governments; (4) foreign protection of nascent industries; and (5) subsidies provided by foreign countries. Transfers the responsibility for generating such report from the USTR to the ITC. Title IV: Enhancing International Competitiveness - Subtitle A: International Commerce - Establishes the National Commission on International Competitiveness (the Commission) which shall assist U.S. industries in competing in international markets. Amends the Sherman Act to require courts to consider global market and competitive conditions in any case in which it has been alleged that there has been a monopoly or attempt to monopolize. Amends the Clayton Act to require courts to consider global market and competitive conditions before finding that such Act has been violated. Directs the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission to develop regulations for expedited procedures to consider applications for antitrust waivers for joint ventures proposing to undertake research and development ventures. Requires such regulations to be developed under guidelines established by the Commission and the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984. Authorizes the Commission to modify such regulations. Amends the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 to authorize the Attorney General to waive the provisions of title I of such Act and a specified provision of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to conduct involving a foreign country that the Attorney General certifies has: (1) effective bribery or corruption statutes; and (2) an established record of aggressive enforcement of such statutes. Authorizes the Attorney General to share certain information with such countries. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a classification code for monitoring international trade in services; (2) monitor international trade in service; and (3) report annually to the Congress on such trade. Requires the President to pursue bilateral agreements on trade in services until such trade is brought within the scope of the GATT. Requires the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service to expand commercial attache programs to cover developing countries now served by State Department personnel. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Export-Import Bank to: (1) develop a program of coinsurance to expand small business exports; and (2) develop with the Agency for International Development a special fund to counter predatory, subsidized financing and mixed credit programs of other countries. Subtitle B: Technology, Transfer, Research, and Development - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require the Secretary to increase the availability of foreign science and engineering literature to U.S. businesses, scientists, and engineers. Establishes the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer in the National Science Foundation. Sets forth the duties of the Consortium. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to report biennially to the Congress and to the President on the Consortium's activities. Requires each Federal agency to transfer a specified percentage of funds to the National Science Foundation for the Consortium. Reauthorizes the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 through FY 1990. Authorizes additional appropriations for such Act for FY 1986, 1987, and 1988 in order to increase the availability of foreign technical literature. Requires the National Science Foundation, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the relative merits and feasibility of establishing the National Corporation for Cooperative Laboratory Research (the Corporation). Sets forth factors to be included in such study. Declares that the Corporation would be an independent Federal entity with control over designated Federal laboratories. Sets forth the primary functions of the Corporation. Requires the National Science Foundation, through the Consortium to: (1) monitor technology transfer activities of Federal laboratories; (2) assess the resources and effectiveness of collaborative efforts among the laboratories, private industry, and academia; and (3) promote a national information network to foster private sector commercialization of Federal laboratory research and discoveries. Title V: Education for American Competitiveness - Education for American Competitiveness Act - Subtitle A: High Technology Morrill Program - Establishes in the Treasury a Technology Education Trust Fund. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Trust Fund for each of FY 1987 through 1991 a certain amount of the sums paid to the United States under: (1) the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act; (2) the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920; and (3) other mineral resource development Acts. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants for technology education programs. Sets forth the: (1) conditions of such grants; (2) method of applying for such grants; and (3) uses for such grants. Requires the Secretary of Energy to pay the Federal share of the costs of activities described in the application. Provides for equitable distribution of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to withhold payments if the conditions of the application are not met. Sets forth provisions for the administration of this subtitle. Subtitle B: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education in order to encourage coordination between such institutions and local educational agencies in the improvement of science, mathematics, and foreign language education. Requires the Secretary of Education to give priority to proposals which include certain activities for teachers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Subtitle C: Foreign Language Assistance - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies to fund model programs providing commencement or improvement and expansion of foreign language study for students residing within their school districts. Provides a formula for the amount of such grants. Sets forth the application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Title VI: Trade Adjustment Assistance - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to prohibit paying trade adjustment assistance benefits to a dislocated worker until the worker submits to the Secretary of Labor an agreement to make certain repayments to the Secretary which shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. Sets forth the formula for determining what amount the worker must repay. Provides that an adversely affected worker may receive trade adjustment assistance for the weeks of unemployment: (1) which occur after a certain date relating to certification of the worker's status; and (2) for which no unemployment insurance has been received by the worker. (Prohibits unemployment insurance payments to workers eligible for trade adjustment assistance.) Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to require all trade-dislocated workers, in areas where training is available, to accept such training within 14 days of the date such workers apply for trade adjustment assistance except that no worker may be required to: (1) accept training or undertake a job search until eight weeks after the start of unemployment; or (2) accept or participate in such training for a period longer than the remaining period of eligibility for trade adjustment assistance. Provides trade readjustment assistance for workers for 26 weeks. Requires trade adjustment assistance agreements with States to prohibit payment of unemployment compensation if a worker eligible for such compensation is eligible for trade adjustment assistance. Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of Labor to approve training for a trade-dislocated worker if certain circumstances exist. Authorizes paying for such training through a voucher system. Limits the amount of payments for such training to $4,000 for each worker. Sets forth the type of training programs that may be approved. Requires firms, in order to receive trade adjustment assistance, to have entered an agreement which: (1) provides for the modernization of the industry and a gradual elimination of trade adjustment assistance to such firm; and (2) has been approved by the National Commission on Industrial Competitiveness. Eliminates the termination date for trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms. Establishes in the Treasury a Trade Adjustment Assistance Fund. Provides for the transfer to such Fund of the amounts attributable to: (1) a specified duty imposed by the Competitive America Trade Reform Act of 1985; and (2) certain other amounts paid into the general fund by the Secretary of Labor. Requires annual reports to the Congress on the Trust Fund. Requires the USTR to enter into negotiations to achieve changes in the GATT that would allow a country to impose a small uniform duty on all imports in order to fund a program that assists workers and firms of such country in adjusting to import competition. Imposes a one-percent duty on all imports into the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1986 to the: (1) Department of the Army for the flood control and coastal emergencies account of the Corps of Engineers--Civil; (2) Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster relief; and (3) Department of Agriculture for watershed and flood prevention operations of the Soil Conservation Service and the emergency conservation program of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Provides that the limitation on the amount of funds that may be obligated from the emergency highway repair fund of the Secretary of Transportation in relation to a single disaster in any State shall not apply to disasters occurring in FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Designates the week of September 21 through September 27, 1986, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Designates the week of May 25 through May 31, 1986, as Critical Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Nonprogram Crop Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the provision authorizing producers to plant nonprogram crops on certain excess wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice acreage under an acreage limitation program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to redesignate part F (National Talented Teacher Program) as "Part F-Christa McAuliffe National Talented Teacher Fellowship Program." Renames the fellowships awarded under part F the McAuliffe Fellowships.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States, in cooperation with other members of the international donor community, should call upon the Ethiopian Government to recognize that resources donated for famine relief should be used for that purpose and not diverted to resettlement efforts; (2) such forced resettlements by the Ethiopian Government should be halted and monitored by the United Nations (U.N.); (3) the Ethiopian Government should commit sufficient resources to move food and relief goods to meet the needs of its people; and (4) the U.N. should insist on free access to resettlement sites for international observers and the news media and report on conditions in the resettlement camps.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Establishes a veterans' home loan guaranty limitation amount of $17,600,000,000 reduced by 4.3 percent for purposes of implementing any sequestration order issued by the President for FY 1986 calling for a reduction of such loan commitments.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Designates the week of April 14 through April 20, 1986, as National Mathematics Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should urge the Government of South Africa to indicate its willingness to negotiate with the black majority by: (1) granting unconditional freedom to Nelson Mandela; (2) recognizing the African National Congress; and (3) establishing a framework for political talks.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Disapproves specified proposed deferrals and rescissions of budget authority for specified housing and community development programs (including a rescission of budget authority for the housing for the elderly and the handicapped and the urban development action grant program and a deferral of budget authority for the community development block grant program).
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Consumer Rail Equity Act - Reaffirms the intent of the Congress that the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 and the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 be implemented in a manner which provides both greater competitive alternatives and adequate railroad revenues. Establishes a rebuttable presumption of rail market dominance if a person challenging a transportation rate shows that the railroad charging such rate does not face effective transportation competition. Shifts the burden of proof regarding transportation rate reasonableness from the shipper to the rail carrier establishing the challenged rate. Declares that it is Federal policy to encourage and promote competitive transportation rates for domestically produced coal and other commodities in order to increase their competitive position in domestic and export markets. Directs the Commission to establish a rail cost adjustment factor which includes changes in railroad productivity, volume, and output mix. Provides that certain rail carrier rates shall be reduced to the extent of any subsequent decreases in rail cost adjustment factors. Includes within the standards used to determine railroad revenue adequacy: (1) identification of revenues, expenses, and investment base reasonably related to rail transportation service; (2) straight-line depreciation of assets reasonably related to rail transportation service, minus deferred tax reserves resulting from accelerated depreciation; and (3) actual cost of debt capital and reasonable estimates of the current cost of equity capital. Requires the Commission, when making revenue adequacy determinations, to consider specified indicators of a rail carrier's financial status. Requires the Commission to determine, on an annual basis, which rail carriers are earning adequate or inadequate revenues and to determine for each rail carrier the revenues required to achieve or maintain revenue adequacy. Allows (current law requires) the Commission to exempt persons from application of this Act when: (1) such application is not necessary to implement Federal transportation policy; and (2) the Commission finds there is no market dominance involved in the affected transaction. Requires any rail carrier providing service under certain line rates to participate in competitive joint rail rates through practicable interchange connections (or publish a competitive proportional rate) if requested to do so by a rail carrier (or shipper or receiver) who has an actual or practicable interchange connection. Directs the Commission, upon petition of any interested party, to require certain terminal facilities owned by a rail carrier in interstate or foreign commerce to be used by another rail carrier if the Commission finds: (1) it is in the public interest to do so; and (2) that the owner of such terminal facility will not suffer substantial impairment of its own business interests. Directs the Commission to require, upon petition by an interested party, that rail carriers enter into reciprocal switching agreements if such an agreement is in the public interest or necessary to provide alternative competitive rail service. Directs the Commission to establish reciprocal switching compensation at a level not to exceed the current percentage of the actual variable costs for such service (unless the carrier demonstrates that a higher level is reasonable and necessary). Revises railroad line abandonment procedures to provide that a rail carrier must wait one year before resubmitting a previously denied abandonment application, unless a substantial change in circumstances can be shown. Requires the Commission to hold hearings in communities affected by a proposed railroad line abandonment if requested to do so by community protestants. Requires the Commission to base its abandonment determination upon financial data regarding the facility proposed to be abandoned rather than upon financial data regarding industry-wide averages. Subjects to Commission review any State decision regarding intrastate rates, rules, and practices if a party to such State proceedings petitions for Commission review. Requires the Commission to take action on such petition within 120 days of its receipt. Authorizes the Commission to vacate a State decision found inconsistent with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Requests the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union to officially designate seven of the ten moons recently discovered by the Voyager-2 spacecraft near the planet Uranus in the names of the seven astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Michael J. Smith, Francis R. Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Judith A. Resnik, all of whom died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1986
Designates January 28 of each year as National Teacher Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the U.S.S.R. to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates the 14th day of June 1986 as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of Baltic self-determination to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Designates the week beginning on March 2, 1986, as Women's History Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1986
Amends Federal law relating to the transportation of military personnel and supplies to prohibit the use of an aircraft chartered by the Department of Defense (DOD) for transporting members of the armed forces unless an inspection of the aircraft and check of its operators has taken place within 48 hours prior to its flight. Requires the Secretary of Defense to receive a report on each inspection performed by Federal Aviation Administration personnel on aircraft used by a firm that contracts with DOD to provide transportation for members by charter. Requires the Secretary to exclude from contracting with DOD firms found to be using unsafe aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt for FY 1986 and partially exempt for FY 1987 through 1991 certain portions of cost-of-living increases in Federal retirement and disability programs from reduction under the President's sequestration order.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1985
Permits the reappointment of a specified number of air traffic controllers who were separated from service for participation in a strike initiated on August 3, 1981. Requires such reappointments to be made in FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1985
Amends the National Endowment for Democracy Act to prohibit the National Endowment for Democracy from making grants to any organization if a member of the Board of Directors of the Endowment: (1) is affiliated with that organization; or (2) has been affiliated with that organization within the preceding two years.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1985
Rural Satellite Dish Owners Protection Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit encryption of any satellite cable programming for private viewing beginning 30 days after enactment of this Act, unless: (1) the encryption complies with Federal Communications Commission standards; (2) decryption devices are available for lease or purchase by all interested persons within 60 days after request at a reasonable price relative to manufacturing and distribution costs; and (3) monthly subscription fees for such programming do not exceed fees assessed to cable subscribers within the same vicinity. Provides for the civil enforcement of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1985
Designates the week of May 11 through May 17, 1986, as National Science Week 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1985
Designates the week of February 9 through February 15, 1986, as National Burn Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1985
Designates the first Friday of May of each year, commencing with May 2, 1986, as National Teachers Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1985
Designates the month of May 1986 as Better Hearing and Speech Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1985
Calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development to work in a global effort to provide universal access to childhood immunization by 1990 by: (1) assisting in the delivery, distribution, and use of vaccines; and (2) performing and supporting research and development activities that will be targeted at developing new vaccines and at modifying existing vaccines to make them more appropriate for use in developing countries. Declares that the President should appeal to the public to provide the necessary resources to achieve universal access to childhood immunization by 1990. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 1987 for the Child Survival Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985
Amends the Small Business Act to make permanent the authority of the Small Business Administration to award Federal contracts to not-for-profit organizations that are operated in the interest of handicapped individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985
Title I: Short Title - Farm Credit Partnership Act. Title II: Definitions - Defines "borrower" for the purposes of this Act as being any individual, family corporation, or family partnership that makes at least 50 percent of its gross income from farming and holds an agricultural loan. Limits assistance for any borrower to $400,000 for an individual, and $600,000 for a family corporation or partnership. Lists the qualifications a borrower must demonstrate to receive such assistance. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a cooperative Federal- State-Lender Agricultural Loan Interest Subsidy Program. Allows a borrower to apply to a lender for an interest rate subsidy with respect to any agricultural loan outstanding on October 1, 1985. Provides that the interest rate for such loans shall be fixed for a period of three years at a rate equal to the rate of the borrower's loan as of December 1, 1985, less up to five percent subsidy. Provides that two percent of the subsidy shall be paid by the Federal Government, one to two percent by the State, and one percent by the lender. Requires participating States to submit a plan, by June 1, 1986, and March 1 of each year thereafter, which: (1) designates a single agency to run the program; (2) assesses the interest subsidy needs of borrowers in the State; (3) describes the program for the provision of interest subsidies; and (4) estimates the amount of expenditures necessary. Requires the Secretary to review and rule on such plans by July 15, 1986, and by April 15 of subsequent years. Provides for disapproval and sanctions of noncompliant plans. Title III: Agricultural Loan Principal Reduction - Allows a participating lender to write down the outstanding principal balance on a loan by such amount as will permit a borrower to qualify for assistance. Declares that the borrower shall not be liable for any of the written-down portion of the loan or the accrued interest attributable. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to establish and carry out a guaranteed loan program pursuant to the Agricultural Loan Cancellation Program. Lists the qualifications and conditions for such guarantees. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Comptroller of the Currency (CCC), and the Federal Reserve System to develop an Inter-Agency Agricultural Task Force. Describes the responsibilities of such task force. Sets forth criminal penalties for anyone who embezzles, misapplies, steals, or obtains by fraud, false statement, or forgery any funds, assets, or property provided under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1985
Designates September 17, 1987, as Constitution Day. Requires such day to be treated as a legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Competitive America Trade Reform Act of 1985 - Declares that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the United States shall call for a multilateral conference to seek a new international monetary regime; (2) the United States shall try to use its foreign aid programs to aid the development of the private sectors in less developed countries; (3) rules of trade, dispute settlement procedures, and penalties for trade violations should be strengthened; (4) new policies are required to aid U.S. industries to improve their international competitiveness; and (5) a new program of transition aid for workers and firms is needed. Title I: International Monetary Reform - Creates a temporary National Commission on International Monetary Reform which shall prepare a report for the President and the Congress analyzing and evaluating: (1) proposed reforms of the international monetary system; (2) the effects of international capital flows on exchange rate volatility and proposals for restricting capital transactions; (3) proposed methods for coordinating monetary policies of major industrialized nations; (4) objectives for joint intervention in foreign exchange markets; and (5) a detailed working agenda to be presented to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a new "Bretton Woods" conference. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, within 45 days of the submission of the Commission's report, to submit legislation to the Congress implementing policy changes recommended by the Commission and authorizing submission of the agenda to the IMF. Provides for expedited consideration of such legislation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, within 15 days of enactment of such legislation, to request the IMF to convene a working group to consider the agenda for a conference on monetary reform. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the 30 percent withholding tax on portfolio interest paid to foreign persons. Title II: Foreign Assistance and Investment - Amends the Agriculture Trade and Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to provide for a revived and expanded Cooley Loan Program. Authorizes the Secretary of State to: (1) develop a list of those less developed countries in which Cooley Loan Program activities may be conducted; and (2) negotiate and conclude agreements for the implementation of a Cooley Loan Program. Requires such agreements to provide for: (1) the sale of surplus U.S. commodities to be paid for by local currencies; (2) such currencies to be made available to designated accounts under the control of the Secretary of State; (3) spending no less than 50 percent of certain development funds for private sector development; and (4) specifying maximum local currency reserve levels in designated accounts, monetary growth targets in the host country, and termination conditions. Creates a Cabinet level Economic Security Council to advise the President on domestic and international economic matters and to develop and oversee U.S. economic policy. Directs the Council to develop an international bankruptcy procedure to guide U.S. banks and agencies in responding to impending defaults by debtor nations. Abolishes the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs. Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a program for extending certain trade concessions to least developed developing countries that are designated by the Secretary of State. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to request a waiver of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) nondiscrimination standards in order to implement this program. Requires congressional ratification of any agreements incorporating trade concessions. Creates within the International Development Cooperation Agency the International Private Enterprise Institute which shall: (1) provide expertise and technical aid to less developed countries in attracting financial investment, developing indigenous industries, and promoting exports; and (2) serve as U.S. liaison for the World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Expresses the intent of the Congress that funds authorized: (1) for programs conducted by the Agency for International Development shall be used for government-to-government and official activities which foster economic growth and promote a favorable climate for development of the private sector in developing countries; and (2) for programs conducted by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) shall be used to promote economic growth and stability through the direct involvement of U.S. private sectors. Grants OPIC the primary responsibility for developing and packaging aid provided through the International Development Cooperation Agency for private sector development in less developed countries. Creates four special offices within OPIC for program development. Authorizes OPIC to take partial equity interest in qualified development projects. Requires OPIC to administer the private sector development initiatives authorized by the Cooley Loan Program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States shall call upon the IMF and the World Bank to convene a special meeting of the Group of Ten industrial nations and debtor nations for the purposes of formalizing growth-oriented conditionality guidelines to promote the creditworthiness of less developed countries, debt repayment flexibility, and trade liberalization. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a report for such conference. Title III: Trade Law Reform - Directs the USTR to notify the GATT of the U.S. request to join other contracting parties in ministerial sessions preparatory to a new GATT round which would seek to: (1) create or strengthen GATT articles on certain trade issues; (2) strengthen the GATT as an institution by means of certain administrative and rules changes; (3) tighten GATT enforcement mechanisms through reforms of the panel system; and (4) have consultations in dispute settlement cases take place under GATT participation. Expresses the intent of the Congress to: (1) establish overall structural reforms of U.S. trade laws; (2) redefine the trade roles of the President, the ITC, the Department of Commerce, and the USTR; and (3) clarify the standards and procedures which apply in trade remedy cases. Makes the ITC the primary factfinding agency for all determinations involving international trade. Requires the Commerce Department to be responsible for assessing the injurious effects of foreign trade on domestic industries. Declares that it is the primary function of the USTR to formulate and implement U.S. trade policy. Limits the President's discretion in unfair trade cases to the suspension of sanctions determined by the USTR. Sets forth the alternative bases for suspending sanctions. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to define and clarify references in existing U.S. trade laws to serious injury or the threat of serious injury to domestic industry. Requires the ITC to define and clarify references in U.S. trade laws to unfair trade practices. Directs the ITC to develop standard administrative procedures of factfinding and determinations for all unfairness cases. Exempts certain unfair trade practice cases brought under the Tariff Act of 1930 from the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act. Directs the ITC to: (1) determine the extent to which foreign trade practices contribute to injury to domestic or emerging industry; (2) certify to the USTR that an injury has occurred or an unfairness threshold has been exceeded; and (3) recommend sanctions appropriate to the character and extent of unfairness found. Expresses the intent of the Congress that the mission of the ITC shall include the investigation of economic policies and practices in other countries which affect the market for American products and services in those countries, in third-party countries, and in the United states. Requires that injury determinations made by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to import relief investigations shall take into account the extent to which the domestic industry is operated efficiently and economically. Makes grants of import relief conditional upon the existence of an industry modernization agreement. Requires injury to a domestic industry to be shown in an unfairness case. Requires the USTR to declare sanctions against countries that the ITC has found to have committed unfair trade practices within 15 days of such finding. Sets forth procedures and deadlines to be followed in unfairness cases. Authorizes the President to suspend sanctions in such cases for national security reasons or upon certification that such country has entered into good-faith negotiations to end the offending practice or to achieve compensatory trade liberalization measures. Sets forth sanctions that the USTR may invoke in the most severe cases of violations of the GATT or U.S. trade laws. Requires the USTR to take into account specified factors in determining appropriate sanctions against unfair foreign trade practices. Title IV: Enhancing International Competitiveness - Creates a National Commission on International Competitiveness which shall report annually to the Congress on key factors affecting the competitive posture of American industry and services. Requires the Commission to report periodically on the effects of foreign industrial policies on U.S. industry. Requires the Commission to grant or deny approval to industrial modernization agreements before the granting of import relief or the provision of trade adjustment assistance to firms. Amends the antitrust laws to require the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take into consideration global competitive conditions when determining market concentration. Directs the Attorney General and the FTC to develop regulations for expedited procedures to consider applications for antitrust waivers for research and development consortia under guidelines established by the National Commission on International Competitiveness. Amends the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to waive the provisions of that Act with respect to a country if the Attorney General certifies that such country has: (1) effective bribery or corruption statutes; and (2) an established record of aggressive enforcement of such statutes. Provides for sharing information with foreign countries to assist their prosecution of incidents of bribery. Requires the Commerce Department to develop a classification code for monitoring and reporting on international trade in services. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report annually to the Congress on actual and potential U.S. services trade. Requires the United States to pursue bilateral services agreements pending development of a GATT article on services trade. Requires the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service to expand commercial attache programs to cover developing countries now served by State Department personnel. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Export-Import Bank to: (1) develop a program of coinsurance to expand small business exports; and (2) develop with the Agency for International Development a special fund to counter predatory, subsidized financing, and mixed credit programs of other countries. Provides for the enactment of the High Technology Morrill Act (S. 935, 99th Congress). (High Technology Morrill Act - Establishes the Technology Education Trust Fund in the Treasury. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress annually on the Fund's operation. Directs the Secretary to transfer from the Treasury's general fund to the Fund, for FY 1987 through 1991, three percent of the rents, royalties, and other sums paid to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, and any other Federal statute authorizing payments for mineral resource development designated by the Secretary for the purpose of this Act. Limits the amount of such transfers to $250,000,000 in any one fiscal year. Provides that amounts in the Fund shall be available for making payments in accordance with this Act as provided in advance by appropriation Acts, and without fiscal year limitation on availability unless specifically enacted. Prohibits the Secretary from making transfers to the Fund after FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to pay into the Treasury's general fund any amounts remaining in the Fund after FY 1993. (Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to educational institutions (including vocational schools), private for-profit business concerns, and State agencies making application jointly to pay the Federal share of the cost of technology education programs. Allows private nonprofit organizations and State agencies to submit applications jointly if the nonprofit private organization represents an educational institution and a for-profit business concern, or a group of such institutions and concerns. (Requires that such applications be consistent with State economic development and educational policies and with private sector priorities and educational institution needs. Requires the State and local public sources pay 30 percent, and for-profit businesses pay 20 percent, of total program costs. Sets forth other application requirements. (Allows grants made under this Act to be used for: (1) laboratory equipment and facilities in educational institutions; (2) improving science and mathematics education and computer literacy in elementary and secondary schools through teacher training, equipment improvement, and curricula development; (3) research/education centers for training new scientific, engineering, and technical employees while carrying out applied research or stimulating innovation, technology transfer, and the application of new technologies; (4) mathematics, science, and engineering faculty development through support for graduate students who enter teaching, faculty exchange with industry, teaching retraining, and other faculty retention programs; (5) lifelong learning and cooperative education activities for the scientific, engineering, and technical work force; (6) development of new educational methods and equipment such as computer-based educational aids and telecommunication instructional technologies; (7) expansion of technical training programs and initiation of programs at institutions of higher education (including postsecondary vocational education institutions) designed to retrain workers for jobs requiring more technical skills; (8) improving the access of women, minorities, and handicapped to technical, engineering, and scientific fields; and (9) cooperative programs between the humanities and the sciences. (Sets forth provisions for grant payments, distribution of funds, withholding, administration, and audit. (Authorizes the Secretary to establish advisory committees for purposes of this Act. (Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Defense to coordinate technical training programs supported by the Department of Defense and activities assisted under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer Department of Defense funds for technical training programs to the Secretary to carry out programs under this Act. (Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, and Education and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies in carrying out this Act. (Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on activities assisted by this Act.) Provides for the enactment of title II (relating to science, mathematics and foreign language education) of the American Defense Education Act (S. 177, 99th Congress). (Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local educational agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. (Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. (Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for such grants.) Provides for the enactment, with a modification, of the Japanese Technical Literature Act of 1985 (S. 1073, 99th Congress). (Foreign Technical Literature Act of 1985 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce, on a continuing basis and through the Director of the Office of Industrial Technology, to increase the availability of foreign science and engineering literature to U.S. businesses, scientists, and engineers through increased accessibility, monitoring, screening, translation, abstracting, indexing, dissemination, and marketing. (Authorizes the Secretary, in conducting such activity, to: (1) make grants to private for profit, nonprofit, and educational organizations (and, to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, enter into contracts with such organizations); (2) provide funds to, and coordinate with, other Government organizations; and (3) utilize (for all or part of this effort) the directors, staff, and facilities of the National Bureau of Standards and the National Technical Information Service. (Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988.) Directs the Secretary of State to implement a program of acquisition of foreign scientific and technological materials by U.S. embassy personnel. Expresses the intent of the Congress to promote the commercialization of Products and processes developed in Federal laboratories. Provides for the enactment of the Federal Science and Technology Transfer Act of 1985 (H.R. 1572, 99th Congress). (Federal Science and Technology Transfer Act of 1985 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to authorize Federal agencies, subject to specified conditions, to permit the directors of their Government-operated Federal laboratories to enter into cooperative research and development agreements with other Federal agencies, State or local governments, industrial organizations, universities, or other persons. Authorizes Government-operated Federal laboratories, under such agreements and subject to specified conditions, to: (1) grant patent licenses or assignments, or options, in any subject invention made by a Federal employee, or made jointly by a Federal employee and an employee of the collaborating party, and to retain such rights as the laboratory deems appropriate; and (2) waive in advance any right of ownership which the Federal Government may have to any subject invention made by a collaborating party or such party's employee under the agreement. (Requires Federal agencies to establish certain plans to be followed in entering into such agreements. (Prohibits such agreements with: (1) any person who is not located in the United States, does not have a place of business located in the United States, or is subject to the control of a foreign government; or (2) any other entity which is owned or controlled by any such person. Prohibits such agreements if an authority of the Federal Government which is authorized by statute or executive order to conduct foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities determines that ownership or licensing rights granted by the agreement must be restricted or eliminated in order to protect the security of such activities. Provides for an appeals procedure with respect to such determinations. (Provides that specified provisions of Federal law relating to patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance shall apply to certain types of such agreements. (Provides that small businesses will be given preference in the making of certain types of such agreements. (Prohibits any person (or his or her assignee) who receives title or exclusive right or exclusive patent license to any subject invention from granting the exclusive right to use or sell, or from making exclusive use of, such invention unless the products embodying it or produced through its use will be manufactured substantially in the United States. Authorizes the Federal agency concerned to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis under specified conditions. (Directs each agency to maintain a record of all such agreements. (Establishes the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer in the National Science Foundation. Requires the Director of the Foundation to appoint an individual to manage the Consortium and authorizes such individual to appoint Consortium employees. (Sets forth Consortium duties relating to the commercial potential of new technologies generated by Federal laboratory research. (Requires the Director of the Foundation to report biennially to the President and to the appropriate authorization and appropriation committees of the Congress on Consortium and other specified activities. Requires other Federal agencies to: (1) cooperate in providing information for such reports; and (2) transfer a specified portion of their research and development budgets to the Foundation to carry out Consortium activities. (Sets forth rules and formulas for the distribution of royalties or other income received by Federal agencies from the licensing or assignment of inventions under such agreements under this Act, and from inventions licensed under provisions of Federal law relating to domestic and foreign protection of federally-owned inventions, or under any other provision of law. Requires Federal agencies to report annually to the appropriate authorization and appropriation committees of the Congress detailing the amount of such royalties or other income received and expenditures made under such rules and formulas.) Reauthorizes the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 for five years. Repeals the agency waiver provisions of such Act. Makes the Federal Laboratory Consortium a permanent agency within the National Science Foundation which shall: (1) monitor technology transfer activities of Federal laboratories; (2) assess the resources and effectiveness of collaborative efforts among the laboratories, private industry, and academia; and (3) promote a national information network to foster private sector commercialization of Federal laboratory research and discoveries. Title V: Trade Adjustment Assistance - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to: (1) repeal the condition that all rights to unemployment insurance be exhausted before one is eligible for trade adjustment assistance; (2) make a worker who is separated from employment in an industry that qualifies for an industrial modernization agreement and trade adjustment benefits automatically eligible for trade adjustment assistance; (3) deem a worker ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits during the operative period of trade adjustment assistance if the worker's separation is found to be trade-induced; (4) require workers, before receiving trade adjustment assistance, to agree to repay certain amounts of such assistance; (5) provide a worker eligible for trade adjustment assistance with a voucher to defray the cost of specified training programs; and (6) require the establishment of a national retraining certification program. Makes assistance provided to firms under this title conditional upon the approval of an industrial modernization agreement by the National Commission on International Competitiveness. Establishes a trust fund in the Treasury to finance the provisions of this Act. Finances such fund through a one percent duty on all imports. Directs the USTR to undertake negotiations through the GATT to impose such duty.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985
Designates the week of June 1 to June 8, 1986, as National Theatre Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985
Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) increase dollar limits on personal contributions to candidates and their authorized political committees; and (2) decrease the amount one multicandidate political committee may contribute to any other political committee. Limits to $100,000 ($125,000 where two or more candidates qualify for the ballot) the aggregate amount which all multicandidate political committees may contribute to a candidate for the House of Representatives in a general or special election, including any primary election, convention, or caucus relating to such general or special election. Limits to $25,000 the aggregate amount allowed for multicandidate political committee contributions in a runoff election for the office of Representative. Establishes a formula for multicandidate political committee contributions to candidates for the Senate based upon State populations and limited to an aggregate total of $750,000. Requires multicandidate political committees which make independent expenditures for advertisements connected with a candidate's campaign to disclose such information within the advertisement. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require any station licensee which allows a person to broadcast material endorsing or opposing a candidate to provide the candidate opposing the endorsed candidate, or to the candidate opposed by the material, the opportunity to use the same amount of broadcasting time, without charge, during the same period of the day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985
Designates May 25, 1986, as Hands Across America Day. Authorizes and requests the President to commend: (1) United Support of Artists for Africa for their Hands Across America project; and (2) the American people for their commitment to helping people help themselves.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1985
Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax credit for contributions to presidential, state, and local candidates, political action committees, and newsletter fund contributions. Allows an income tax credit for congressional candidate contributions. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 for a taxable year ($200 in the case of a joint return).
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1985
Establishes one additional position of agency training representative on the Capitol Police for duty under the House of Representatives. Requires such appointment to be made from among members and officers of the Capitol Police, with prior approval of the Committee on House Administration, and without regard to political affiliation. States that the former position of any officer or member serving as agency training representative shall not be filled while that person is so serving, and that upon ceasing to serve in such capacity, such officer or member shall revert to his or her former position.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1985
Designates September 19, 1986, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.