United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Title I: Wild and Scenic River Designations - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, as part of the wild and scenic rivers system. Authorizes appropriations for land acquisition. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to provide grants and assistance to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, for studying the possibility of designating a segment of such river as a national recreation area. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within three years on such study. Designates as part of the wild and scenic rivers system: (1) a segment of the Saline Bayou, Louisiana; (2) a segment of Black Creek, Mississippi; (3) a segment of the North Fork Kern River, California; and (4) a segment of the South Fork Kern River, California. Title II: Wild and Scenic River Studies - Designates the following river segments for study for their possible inclusion in the wild and scenic rivers system: (1) a segment of Henry's Fork, Idaho; and (2) a segment of the Farmington Rivers, West Branch, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Farmington River Study Committee to provide consultation during the study of the Farmington River's potential. Title III: Technical Amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Makes technical amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Requires maps of designated river segments to be available for public inspection. Requires the preparation of management plans to protect river values for all rivers designated after 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1986
Provides that any requirement to substantiate a deduction under the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the business use of a vehicle must be based on regulations in effect before the Tax Reform Act of 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Congratulates Robert H. Helmick and George D. Miller upon their appointment as president and secretary general, respectively, of the United States Olympic Committee. Encourages U.S. citizens and businesses to support the U.S. Olympic team.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, gold medals to Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky in recognition of their supreme dedication and total commitment to human rights and freedoms. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to determine the design of the medals. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to sell bronze duplicates of the medals.
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
General Aviation Tort Reform Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to provide uniform rules for negligence and products liability claims arising from general aviation accidents. Allows any person claiming damages from such an accident to bring a products liability action against the general aviation manufacturer if: (1) the product was defective when it left the control of the manufacturer; (2) the defective condition was the proximate cause of the harm; (3) the condition would not have been corrected by actions described in directives issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or the manufacturer; and (4) the aircraft was being used for a purpose and in a manner for which it was manufactured. Provides an alternative method to establish manufacturer liability where the manufacturer failed to provide reasonable warnings (unless such warnings would not have affected the conduct of the product user). Provides a third method to establish manufacturer liability where: (1) the manufacturer made an express warranty with respect to the product; (2) the warranty related to that aspect of the product which caused the harm; (3) the product failed to conform to the warranty; and (4) such failure was the proximate cause of the harm. States that all actions for damages arising from a general aviation accident shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Provides that defendants in such actions are severally but not jointly liable for damages (except that manufacturers of airframes and systems or components of aircraft may be jointly and severally liable under certain circumstances). Provides a 12-year limitation on liability of manufacturers. States that express warranties running for a longer period of time and the duty to provide additional warnings shall not be affected by such limitations. Allows awards of punitive damages. Prescribes a statute of limitations for such actions. Preempts State laws to the extent that this Act establishes applicable rules or procedures. Grants Federal district courts (concurrently with State courts) original jurisdiction (without regard to the amount in controversy) in all civil actions for damages arising out of a general aviation accident. Allows the removal of State actions to an appropriate Federal district court by any defendant. Prescribes venue restrictions. Expresses the intent of the Congress that orders to pay reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, be enforced.
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
Social Security Trust Funds Safeguard Act of 1986 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require that all amounts appropriated to, or deposited in, a trust fund established under one of those programs be immediately and exclusively available for the purposes for which trust fund amounts are specifically made available under such program. Requires the President, in addition to appointing one member of the the public to the Board of Trustees of the social security trust funds (currently two members of the public are chosen), to appoint a Managing Trustee to the board, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of four years. Provides that the Managing Trustee may be removed only for cause, but is prohibited from engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide the Managing Trustee with appropriate assistance. Directs the Managing Trustee to invest that portion of the social security trust funds which is not required to meet current withdrawals in accordance with an annual investment plan submitted by the Board. Requires the Board to conduct a continuing study and actuarial analysis of the status of investments made by the Managing Trustee and, by August 1 of each year, formulate and submit to the President and each House of the Congress an investment plan to govern the investments of the social security trust funds during the fiscal year. Requires the annual investment plan to set forth standards governing the investment and disinvestment of the trust funds which ensure, so far as is possible, that the OASDI and Medicare programs fulfill their intended purposes in a fiscally and actuarially sound nonpartisan manner, free from the influence of irrelevant budgetary or fiscal considerations. Directs that such plan be accompanied by any recommendations of the Board regarding investment of the social security trust funds. Directs that the investment plan and recommendations be incorporated in a special message to each House. Sets a minimum and maximum on amounts of the social security trust funds to be invested in obligations which are not obligations of the United States but which are guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. Sets forth effective date and transitional provisions.
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 · 12 December 1985
Title I: Amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to alter specified notice and administrative requirements. Requires each administering Federal agency to prepare a comprehensive management plan for a designated river segment. Sets forth boundary requirements and land acquisition policies. Authorizes the donation of land as specified to conserve components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Permits the selling and exchange as well as the leasing of Federal lands within or adjacent to the boundaries of such System to achieve the purposes of this Act. Title II: Wild and Scenic River Designation - Designates the North Fork Kern River, California, as a wild and scenic river. Title III: National Park Wilderness - Designates specified lands in Sequoia National Park, California, as part of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Title IV: Additions to the National Forest System - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to remove specified lands from the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for inclusion in the Sequoia National Forest. Prohibits redwoods from such lands from being harvested. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to the Congress, within two years, a comprehensive management plan for the areas added to such forest. Title V: Sequoia Wilderness Permit - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a pilot wilderness permit fee system for FY 1987 through 1990 for the National Wilderness Preservation System lands in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Requires annual reports on such system to the appropriate congressional committees. Title VI: Ozone Base Study - Authorizes the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to contract for the development of an air quality model for Southern San Joaquin Valley to provide a foundation for ozone emission control strategies that will benefit the forest ecosystems of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia National Forest. Requires any information developed to be made available to the appropriate State and Federal authorities. Title VII: Mount Peters Designation - Designates a specified mountain peak within Kings Canyon National Park as Mount Peters. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires spending under this Act to comply with the requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
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 · 9 December 1985
California Public Lands Conservation and Use Act of 1985 - Title I: Bureau of Land Management and National Forest Service Exchange - Modifies the boundary of the Sequoia National Forest, California, to include specified lands. Designates Scodies Wilderness in the Sequoia National Forest as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Title II: Dusey Trail - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to regulate the use of off-road vehicles on the Dusey Trail in the Sierra National Forest, California.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1985
California Public Lands Conservation and Use Act of 1985 - Title I: National Park Wilderness - Designates specified lands in Sequoia National Park, California, as part of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Title II: Bureau of Land Management and National Forest Service Exchange - Modifies the boundary of the Sequoia National Forest to include additional lands. Includes Scodies Wilderness, California, within the National Wilderness Preservation System. Title III: Additions to National Forest System - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to remove specified lands from the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for inclusion in the Sequoia National Forest. Prohibits the harvesting of Sequoia redwoods added to the National Forest by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and report to the Congress on a comprehensive management plan within two years. Title IV: Wild and Scenic River Designation - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the North Fork of the Kern River, California, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Title V: Amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to alter specified notice and administrative requirements. Requires each administering Federal agency to prepare a comprehensive management plan for a designated river segment. Sets forth boundary requirements and land acquisition policies. Authorizes the donation of land as specified to conserve components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Permits the selling and exchange as well as the leasing of Federal lands within or adjacent to the boundaries of such System to achieve the purposes of this Act. Title VI: Dusey Trail - Requires the Secretary to regulate the use of off-road vehicles on the Dusey Trail, Sierra National Forest, California. Title VII: Wilsonia Area - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire land within the Wilsonia Area in Kings Canyon National Park only through purchase or donation. Title VIII: Sequoia Wilderness Permit - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a pilot wilderness permit fee system for FY 1987 through 1990 for the National Wilderness Preservation System lands in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Requires annual reports on such system to the appropriate congressional committees. Title IX: Ozone Base Study - Authorizes the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to contract for the development of an air quality model for Southern San Joaquin Valley to provide a foundation for ozone emission control strategies that will benefit the forest ecosystems of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia National Forest. Requires any information developed to be made available to the appropriate State and Federal authorities. Title X: Mount Peters Designation - Designates a specified mountain peak within Kings Canyon National Park as Mount Peters. Title XI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires spending under this Act to comply with the requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any bill for borrowing money on the credit of the United States or for raising revenue from being presented to the President, except in time of war, unless three-fifths of the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed it.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any bill for raising revenue or for carrying into execution the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States from being presented to the President, except in time of war, unless three-fifths of the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed it.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any bill for borrowing money on the credit of the United States from being presented to the President, except in time of war, unless three-fifths of the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed it.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1985
Amends Federal law to provide for the administration of a museum, to be known as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, through a Board of Regents (Board). Establishes the size and composition of the Board. Sets the terms of office and means of appointment of Board members. Directs the Board to elect a chairperson and adopt bylaws.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985
Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985 - Title I: Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System - Establishes a Civil Service Supplemental Retirement Plan for Federal employees, postal employees, and Members of Congress who began service after December 31, 1983. Sets forth provisions for the benefit plan including: (1) eligibility for an annuity after five years of creditable service; (2) entitlements to retirement based on age and years of service; (3) the formulas for computing an annuity; (4) survivor election reductions; and (5) funding. Sets forth provisions for mandatory retirement for air traffic controllers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters. Establishes a Thrift Savings Plan under which participants may contribute up to 10 percent of their annual basic pay. Requires employing agencies to contribute the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of amounts contributed by the employee; or (2) three percent of such employee's basic pay. Provides for the payment of benefits, lump sum or annuity, at the employee's separation from service. Establishes in the Treasury the Thrift Savings Fund for the deposit and accounting of amounts under the Plan. Prescribes how money in such Fund shall be invested. Describes survivor annuities under the supplemental retirement plan. Describes disability benefits for employees who have completed five years of creditable service. Sets forth general and administrative provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to pay all benefits payable under the benefit plan and administer provisions not specifically assigned to another entity. Directs the Office to adjudicate all claims under provisions it administers. Provides for annual cost-of-living adjustments in basic pensions based upon an increase in the Consumer Price Index. Provides for withholding of State income taxes from retirement annuities. Declares that basic annuities, survivor annuities, and disability benefits are exempt from legal process (i.e. levy, attachment, garnishment) unless otherwise provided by Federal law. Establishes in the executive branch the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to be responsible for policies and regulations for, and review of, the investment and management of the Thrift Savings Fund. Directs the Board to establish an Employee Thrift Advisory Council to advise the Board on matters relating to investment policies for the Fund. Directs the Board to appoint an Executive Director to carry out its policies, invest and manage the fund, and administer provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan. Title II: Amendments to Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code - Provides for civil service retirement for certain employees excluded from the supplemental retirement plan. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Federal Employees' Retirement Contribution Temporary Adjustment Act of 1983 to extend its provisions until January 1, 1987. Allows employees covered under such Act to elect participation in the supplemental retirement plan. Title IV: Effective Dates - Declares this Act in effect on January 1, 1987, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1985
Authorizes the President to provide military assistance to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1985
Confers jurisdiction upon the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment on any claim of a named individual against the United States arising out of injuries suffered in an automobile accident while a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1985
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a sum to be determined to two named individuals in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for damages caused by their reliance upon an unfulfilled commitment made by the Small Business Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1985
Indian Economic Development Act of 1985 - Title I: Designation of Indian Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of Indian enterprise zones by the Secretary of the Interior for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this Act. Provides that tribal governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits the designation of Indian enterprise zones to 30 nominated areas over a 36-month period (one-third of which must be in areas with a population of less than 1,000). Limits the period during which such designation shall remain in effect. Provides that the Secretary may designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the tribal government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area is determined to be Indian lands by the Secretary; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating tribal governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area, or actions for the partial limitation of tribal sovereign immunity for purposes of recourse in contract and other civil disputes within the zone. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to designate such Indian enterprise zones on July 1, 1986, or 36 months after the publication of regulations pertaining to such zones, whichever is later. Describes areas to which preference shall be given in deciding to designate Indian enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress every four years a report on the effects of such Indian enterprise zones' designation. Requires that any tax reduction effected by a tribal commitment under the terms of this Act shall be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a tribe for Federal assistance or benefits. Specifies that a designation of an Indian enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquired Policies Act of 1970. Exempts Indian enterprise zones from certain requirements relating to Federal environmental policy. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers - Allows employers located in Indian enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Allows a three-year carryback and a 15-year carryover of such credit. Sets the amount of such credit at ten percent of the increase in payroll (taking into account $17,500 in wages per year per employee) plus a specified percentage of wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first seven years of the Indian enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages taken into account for such credit. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Indian Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investment in certain tangible property located in Indian enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property, ten percent for new zone construction property, and 20 percent for zone infrastructure investment. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Reduction in Capital Gain Tax Rates - Eliminates the capital gains tax on property of corporations acquired after the enterprise zone designation and used in a zone business. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Allows noncorporate taxpayers to deduct from gross income 100 percent of any net capital gain from qualified enterprise zone property. Subtitle D: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt industrial development bonds shall not apply to Indian enterprise zone property. Provides that the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to industrial development bonds the proceeds of which are used to finance facilities in such enterprise zones. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified businesses (as defined in Title II of this Act) and tribal governments and nonprofit enterprises operating within Indian enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating tribal government, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuation of the rule changed. Disallows waiver or modification if a rule would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that no waiver or modification of a rule shall remain in effect for a longer period than the period for which the Indian enterprise zone designation is in effect. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign - Trade Zones in Indian Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within Indian enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that, to the maximum extent practicable, foreign-trade zones should be established within Indian enterprise zones. Title V: Partial Waiver of Tribal Sovereign Immunity - Authorizes the Secretary to approve plans, pursuant to a tribal economic development plan, which include provisions for the partial waiver of sovereign immunity, including provisions for binding arbitration of contract and other civil disputes between tribal entities and non-tribal businesses or entities. Specifies that such a partial waiver of sovereign immunity shall not encumber nor diminish the trust assets of the tribe.
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