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Rep. Pashayan, Charles, Jr. [R-CA-17]

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Bill· HRH.R. 4779 (98th)open

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the windfall profit tax shall not apply to an amount of crude oil equal to the amount of residual fuel oil used in enhanced recovery processes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the windfall profit tax an amount of crude oil equal to an amount of residual fuel oil used in enhanced recovery processes. Defines "enhanced recovery process" as any process: (1) for increasing the ultimate total recovery of oil from a reservoir which is designed to modify any property of any fluid in the reservoir or the reservoir rock; or (2) for displacing or controlling the flow rate or flow pattern in the reservoir.

Bill· HRH.R. 4643 (98th)referred

Textile Fiber and Wool Products Identification Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1984

Textile Fiber and Wool Products Identification Improvement Act - Amends the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 to require a textile fiber or wool product to be so labeled if it has been processed or manufactured in the United States. Requires the product, as well as the package in which it is contained, to be labeled as to country of origin. Requires catalog sales descriptions and other advertisements for textile and wool products to contain country of origin information. Requires that the identification label on imported textile fiber or wool products be affixed to the most conspicuous place on the inner side of the product. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the additional duty for failure to mark those articles exported to the country of origin.

Bill· HRH.R. 4480 (98th)open

Water Project Financing and Insurance Fund Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983

Water Project Financing and Insurance Fund Act of 1983 - Establishes the Water Project Insurance Fund to provide for the insurance of tax-exempt bonds to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of reclamation, irrigation, and other water-related projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to administer such Fund in accordance with provisions of this Act. Exempts projects funded under such Act from Federal reclamation laws unless such projects are otherwise subject to such laws.

Bill· HRH.R. 4536 (98th)open

Colorado River Disaster Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983

Colorado River Disaster Assistance Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide compensation to individuals who have suffered property and income losses resulting from the release of water by the Bureau of Reclamation from dams located along the Colorado River. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate and publish in the Federal Register final regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 4571 (98th)referred

National Observance Advisory Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983

National Observance Advisory Act - Establishes a commission known as the President's Advisory Commission on National Observances to establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed national observance be approved or disapproved.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 237 (98th)open

A concurrent resolution declaring the support of the United States for the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free of foreign domination.

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983

Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.

Bill· HRH.R. 4453 (98th)open

A bill to amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Auburn-Folsom South unit, American River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws", enacted September 2, 1965.

United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into negotiations directed toward agreements with non-Federal entities which provide for cost-sharing toward financing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Prohibits any agreement from taking effect until funds are appropriated to carry out such agreement. Authorizes participating non-Federal entities to share in the power and other project services of the Auburn-Folsom South unit. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate House and Senate committees concerning such agreements.

Bill· HRH.R. 4452 (98th)open

A bill to amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Auburn-Folsom South unit, American River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws", enacted September 2, 1965, and the Flood Control Act of 1970.

United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983

Amends Federal law to authorize certain principal works for the Auburn-Folsom South unit of the American River Division, Central Valley irrigation project, California. Directs that certain expenditures, as determined by the Secretary of the Army, shall be nonreimbursable. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) maintain minimum water flows in the American River (downstream from Nimbus Dam) for fish, recreation, and National Wild and Scenic River System purposes; and (2) release water from the Nimbus Dam necessary for the operation of an expansion of the Nimbus fish hatchery. Requires the cost of water to be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of such hatchery are borne by the State of California. Requires that the costs for maintaining minimum flows in the American River shall be nonreimbursable, provided that the costs of constructing and operating the Hood-Clay Pump Connection and Clay Station Reservoir shall be reimbursable. Authorizes appropriations for the Auburn-Folsom South unit in terms of July 1982 prices, starting with FY 1985. (Current law authorizes appropriations of a lesser sum in terms of 1965 prices.) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 provide for the relocation of the southern terminus of the existing Placer County Road from Auburn to Foresthill, California.

Bill· HRH.R. 4438 (98th)referred

Uniform Single Audit Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983

Uniform Single Audit Act of 1983 - Amends title 31 of the United States Code to add a new chapter 75 - Requirements for Single Financial Audits. Establishes uniform single financial audit requirements for State and local governments and nonprofit organizations that receive Federal assistance. Directs the President to prescribe policies, procedures, and regulations to implement this chapter. Permits the President to delegate the authority to prescribe policies and procedures to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the responsibility to prescribe regulations to the appropriate executive agencies. Requires the Director of OMB and the appropriate executive agencies to consult with the Comptroller General of the United States in the preparation of such policies, procedures, and regulations. Requires the Director within one year to establish a plan of action to assure that single financial audits are conducted within three years from the enactment of this Act, and thereafter. Requires any entity receiving at least $100,000 in Federal assistance for a fiscal year to conduct at least biennially a single financial audit covering all of its funds. Requires such audits to be conducted by independent auditors in accordance with accepted Government auditing standards. Declares that the total amounts of Federal, State, local, and other assistance, respectively, received from all sources by the entity shall be used in a single financial audit for testing compliance with the financial requirements of such assistance programs. Requires the materiality level selected in the audit for testing to be based on the professional judgment of the independent auditor, except in the case of an individual grant, program, or project that exceeds $30,000,000 (or does not exceed $30,000,000 but does exceed $500,000 or three percent of the entity's total Federal expenditures,) in which case the auditor must apply tests in accordance with this Act. Requires the Comptroller General, for every five year period, to report to specified Congressional committees as to whether such thresholds should be increased. Requires each entity receiving Federal assistance and subsequently making a portion of it available to another entity to ascertain whether a single financial audit has been conducted of the recipient. Permits the use of Federal assistance to pay for such audits. Permits the Director of OMB to arrange an audit of any entity that has failed to comply with the requirements of this Act. States that small business concerns and business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals shall have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the performance of audits under this Act. Declares that single financial audits conducted in accordance with this Act shall fulfill any other financial audit requirement imposed by the Federal government. Requires the Comptroller General to monitor all reported bills of the House and the Senate and review any audit provisions.

Bill· HRH.R. 4402 (98th)open

Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983

Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue a new license to an existing licensee for a hydroelectric project authorized under such Act if the United States does not, upon the expiration of the existing license, exercise its right to take over, maintain, and operate such licensee's project, unless the Commission determines that such licensee's project will not meet the licensing standards under such Act. Provides that if the Commission determines that such licensee's project does not meet such standards, the Commission is authorized to issue a new license to a new licensee which may cover the existing licensee's project provided that the new licensee pays just compensation determined by the Commission and enters into any contracts required under the Federal Power Act. (Under current law, the Commission is authorized to issue a new license to the original licensee or a new license to a new licensee if the United States does not exercise its rights with respect to an expired license.)

Bill· HRH.R. 4312 (98th)referred

A bill to amend section 47 of title 18 of the United States Code to permit the use of aircraft and motor vehicles to capture certain wild horses and burros on lands administered by the National Park Service or by the Navy.

United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1983

Amends the Federal criminal code to permit the use of aircraft or motor vehicles to capture certain wild horses or burros on lands administered by the National Park Service or by the Navy.

Law· HRH.R. 4280 (98th)enacted

Retirement Equity Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1983

Retirement Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code to lower from age 25 to age 21 the age limitation for minimum participation and vesting standards for pension plans. Prohibits certain defined benefit plans from requiring, as a condition for plan participation, that employees complete period of service extending beyond the earlier of age 25 or the vesting expectation date. Lowers from age 22 to age 18 the age limitation for the computation of periods of service. States that years of service may be disregarded when computing periods of service for participation or vesting purposes if breaks in service during such a period amounted to five or more one-year breaks. Treats breaks in service due to pregnancy, birth, or adoption of a child as completed hours of service according to a specified formula. Accords such treatment only in the year of the pregnancy, birth or adoption, and only to participants who would incur a one-year break in service without such treatment. Requires pension plans which provide life annuity benefits to pay such benefits in the form of a qualified joint and survivor annuity. Requires that each pension plan participant have the option of electing, waiving, or revoking the joint and survivor annuity form of benefit. Conditions the efficacy of such election upon: (1) the written consent of a participant's spouse; (2) a written acknowledgement by a participant's spouse of the effect of such election; and (3) an official witnessing of such spousal consent by a plan representative or notary public. Limits such consent to the signatory spouse. Requires pension plans to furnish participants with written explanations of the terms and rights of election regarding joint and survivor annuities. Prohibits joint and survivor annuity payments from being less than the actuarial equivalent of payments made if the annuitant had lived to the earliest date of retirement or had separated from service on the date of death. Requires the surviving spouse's consent for any distribution of nonforfeitable benefits exceeding $3,500. Requires such benefits to be paid according to the surviving spouse's written requests. States that plans subject to funding requirements must provide benefits payable in the form of an annuity. Exempts qualified domestic relations orders from the Act's proscriptions against alienation and assignment of pension plan benefits. Sets procedural guidelines for the payment of such benefits to an alternate payee under such orders. Prohibits alternative payees from receiving any portion of any increase in a participant's accrued benefits if such increases occur after payments to such payees have begun. Declares that alternate payees under domestic relations orders are not considered to be, by virtue of such orders, participants or beneficiaries under the pension plan. Increases from $1,750 to $3,500 the allowable mandatory distribution from a retirement plan. Requires notification to participants that certain benefits may be forfeitable if the participant dies before a certain date. Sets December 31, 1984 as the effective date of this Act for existing plans. Provides transitional dates and certain effective dates for plans maintained under collective bargaining agreements.

Bill· HRH.R. 4292 (98th)referred

A bill for the relief of Wesley P. and Lois R. Kliewer.

United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1983

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.

Bill· HRH.R. 4243 (98th)open

Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1983

Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1983 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from specified prohibited transactions: (1) any qualified mortgage transaction engaged in by an employee benefit plan if such transaction received the prior approval of an independent fiduciary; (2) the purchase, retention, or sale by an employee benefit plan of interests in Federal or State guaranteed residential mortgage loans; and (3) any participation or dealings by an employee benefit plan in residential mortgage-backed securities if such securities bear one of the three highest ratings of a nationally recognized rating service. Prohibits the promulgation of rules or orders which limit, interpret or implement: (1) the exemptions or definitions of this Act; and (2) the term "reasonable rate of interest."

Bill· HRH.R. 4171 (98th)referred

Consumers and Dairy Producers Fairness Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983

Consumers and Dairy Producers Fairness Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to repeal the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Reduces FY 1984 milk support prices from $14.00 per hundredweight to $12.50 per hundredweight. Provides for 50-cent price support decreases if Government purchases are in excess of specified levels on October 1, 1984, and October 1, 1985, respectively. Requires a report by July 1, 1984, on the effect of applying nationally fluid milk standards similar to those in California.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 190 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Transportation should submit to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate full research and development program planning documentation leading to expedited use by the civilian sector of certain satellite-directed navigational aids developed by the Department of Defense for the guidance of aircraft.

United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Transportation should submit to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than June 30, 1984, full research and development program planning documentation for the expedited civilian use of the Global Positioning System (a system which provides navigational information to aircraft).

Bill· HRH.R. 4152 (98th)referred

A bill for the relief of Rodney E. Hoover.

United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1983

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.

Bill· HRH.R. 3939 (98th)referred

Regulatory Oversight and Control Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1983

Regulatory Oversight and Control Act of 1983 - Title I: Agency Rulemaking Improvements - Requires each executive agency and each independent regulatory agency to include in the notice of a proposed rule an explanation of the agency's determination as to whether the rule is a major rule. Directs each agency, before or upon publishing notice of a proposed rulemaking proceeding for a major rule, to issue statements concerning: (1) the need for the rule; (2) the reasonable alternative approaches; (3) regional differences; (4) the benefits, costs, and effectiveness of the proposed rule and alternatives; (5) the advantages and disadvantages of adopting performance standards rather than design standards; (6) the technical information the agency will rely on in making the rule; and (7) the statutory authority of the agency to regulate any areas previously regulated only by State law. Requires that each agency issue additional statements upon providing notice of the promulgation of a major rule, including a statement of its determination that the benefits of the rule will justify the costs of the rules and that the rule will achieve rulemaking objectives in a more cost effective manner than the alternatives. Directs each agency to: (1) include in the notice of each proposed and final major rule, instructions on how the public may obtain copies of agency statements on such rule; (2) send a copy of all statements required at the notice and publication of a major rule to the President; and (3) include such statements and any technical information considered in the rulemaking file. Requires agencies to provide for oral presentations at informal public hearings as part of the rulemaking proceedings for major rules. Directs agencies to allow cross-examination of persons presenting information if necessary to resolve significant issues of fact. Directs agencies to regulate such public hearings so as to ensure orderly and expeditious proceedings. Allows an agency to delay completing the rulemaking requirements of this Act if it publishes a finding that complying with such requirements before making the rule would be impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. Requires an agency to complete such requirements as soon as practicable after promulgating the rule unless the rule will expire within two years. Sets forth provisions governing the judicial review of agency compliance with rulemaking and rule review requirements of this Act and the President's compliance with oversight requirements. Directs the President to: (1) establish procedures for agency implementation of the requirements of this title; (2) afford the public an opportunity to comment on such procedures before adoption; and (3) monitor, review, and comment on agency compliance with such requirements. Permits the Comptroller General to review agency compliance with this Act. Requires each agency to publish in the Federal Register, semiannually, a regulatory agenda containing a list of all rules the agency expects to propose, promulgate, repeal, modify, or review in the next year and specified information concerning such rules. Requires publication of the agendas of all agencies in a single issue of the Federal Register. Directs each agency to publish for public comment a proposed schedule for the review of its existing major rules and other rules that may be added by the agency or the President. Declares that each such rule shall cease to be effective not more than ten years after the date the final schedule is published. Directs each agency to publish its responses to public comments upon publishing the final schedule. Requires an agency to include with the publication of a major rule the date, within ten years, on which the rule will expire and the date by which the rule must be reviewed. Directs each agency to: (1) publish a notice of the initiation of the review of a rule; (2) describe the costs, benefits, problems, and alternatives to the rule; (3) provide a period for public comment; and either (4) conduct a rulemaking proceeding to reissue or amend the rule; or (5) publish an explanation of its decision to allow the rule to expire. Allows agencies to alter review schedules if the President agrees. Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to eliminate the exemption of rules concerning loans, grants, and benefits from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. Requires that the notice of a proposed rulemaking include: (1) a statement of the objectives of the rule; (2) a statement that the agency seeks proposals from the public of alternative methods; and (3) a statement of where the file of the rulemaking proceeding may be inspected or how file copies may be obtained. Requires an agency to: (1) provide a period of at least 60 days after publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking for the public to submit comments on a proposed rule; and (2) include the agency's response to such comments in the statement published with the adopted rule. Prohibits an agency from relying on any material of central relevance in a rulemaking if the material is not included in the rulemaking file or the public has not had an opportunity to comment on the material. Directs each agency to maintain a public file on each rulemaking proceeding. Allows an agency to exclude from such file any material relied upon which is exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, if a statement of the basis for such exclusion is included. Requires a court reviewing an agency action: (1) not to accord any presumption in favor of or against agency action; (2) in determining questions of law other than statutory jurisdiction, to give the agency's interpretation such weight as it warrants considering the agency's authority under law; (3) in making determinations concerning statutory jurisdiction, to determine whether the action is within the agency's jurisdiction on the basis of the statutory language or other indications of legislative intent; and (4) in determining whether the adoption of a rule is in accordance with law, to consider whether there is substantial support in the rulemaking file for the agency's factual determinations. Declares that when proceedings for review of the same agency action are instituted in two or more courts of appeals within ten days, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall select, by a system of random selection, the court in which the record shall be filed. Authorizes the courts to postpone the effective date of the agency action as necessary to permit designation of the court of record. Prohibits agencies from paying expenses of persons participating or intervening in agency proceedings except as specifically authorized by statute. Title II: Congressional Review of Agency Proceedings - Requires each agency to transmit a copy of each rule it promulgates to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Declares that such rule shall be considered only as a recommendation of the agency to Congress. Prohibits a major rule from taking effect unless a joint resolution approving the rule is enacted within 90 days. Prohibits a rule other than a major rule from taking effect if a joint resolution disapproving the rule is enacted within 90 days. Prohibits an agency from promulgating a new rule that is substantially the same as a major rule that was not approved or any other rule that was disapproved. Directs the Comptroller General, at the request of a committee of either House which has primary legislative jurisdiction over a rule or on his or her own initiative, to inform such committee as to whether the rule is consistent with the statutory authority under which it was promulgated. Exempts an emergency rule from such congressional review requirements if the agency submits to the appropriate congressional committees a written notice of: (1) its determination that the rule is an emergency rule; (2) the time period (limited to 210 days) during which the rule will be effective; and (3) its intention to issue a final rule, if necessary, when such emergency rule expires. Sets forth House and Senate procedure for the consideration of such resolutions of approval or disapproval. Declares that: (1) congressional inaction on or rejection of a resolution disapproving a rule shall not be deemed an expression of approval of that rule; and (2) enactment of a resolution approving a major rule shall not be construed to create any presumption of validity with respect to such rule and shall not affect the judicial review of such rule. Title III: Regulatory Oversight and Control Amendments to House Rules - Amends the rules of the House of Representatives to establish a Regulatory Review Calendar to which all resolutions for the approval or disapproval of agency rules shall be referred. Provides for the consideration of the resolutions on such Calendar on the first and third Monday and the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Declares that it shall be in order during the reading of a general appropriation bill to consider any germane amendment proposing a limitation restricting the implementation of an agency rule, other than a major rule, for which a resolution of disapproval has not been considered by the House, or has been passed by the House but not enacted, within the time required under this Act. Requires each standing committee of the House to consider and adopt its oversight plans in a meeting which is open to the public by March 1 of the first session of a Congress. Directs each such committee to: (1) consult with other congressional committees with jurisdiction over the same areas to assure that such areas are reviewed in the same Congress and that there is maximum coordination and cooperation between such committees in conducting such review; (2) give priority to the review of programs under permanent budget or statutory authority; and (3) attempt to ensure that all laws, programs, activities, and agencies within its jurisdiction are reviewed at least once every ten years. Requires each committee to submit its final plans to the Committee on Government Operations which shall report all such plans to Congress with recommendations to assure the effective coordination of such plans. Authorizes the Speaker of the House, with the approval of the House, to appoint special ad hoc committees to review specific matter within the jurisdiction of two or more standing committees. Requires each committee to include in its biennial report to the House separate sections summarizing the legislative and oversight activities of that committee. Declares that it shall not be in order in the House to consider a primary expense resolution for any committee that has not submitted its oversight plans to the Committee on Government Operations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3866 (98th)referred

A bill to honor Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald and to award a special congressional gold medal to the family of the late Honorable Lawrence P. McDonald.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983

Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to the family of the late Honorable Lawrence P. McDonald in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the facts surrounding his untimely death. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the striking of such gold medal and authorizes the Secretary to make duplicates in bronze of such medal available for public sale. Authorizes appropriations after October 1, 1983.