United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1983
Title I: Labor Standards - Requires any United States person who has or controls an enterprise in South Africa which employs more than 20 people to insure that in operating such enterprise the following employment principles are implemented: (1) desegregation in any employment facility; (2) equal employment for all employees; (3) equal pay for equal work; (4) establishment of a minimum wage and salary structure; (5) increase in the representation of nonwhites in managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs; (6) improvement of the quality of employees' lives outside the work environment; and (7) recognition of labor unions and fair labor practices. Declares that the Secretary may issue guidelines and give advisory opinions on compliance with such principles. Directs the Secretary of State to establish an Advisory Council in South Africa to advise the Secretary with respect to the implementation of such employment principles and to review the annual reports which each U.S. person covered by this Act must submit to the Secretary on the progress made in implementing such principles. Directs the Secretary to establish in the United States an American Advisory Council to make policy recommendations regarding labor practices of U.S. persons in South Africa and to review such persons' progress in implementing such employment practices. Directs the Secretary: (1) to take specified actions to insure compliance with the implementation of such employment principles; and (2) to review the compliance of such persons at least biennially. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance. Authorizes the President to waive compliance with the implementation of such principles if such compliance would harm U.S. national security. Title II: Prohibition on Loans and Importation of Gold Coins - Prohibits any U.S. financial or lending institution from making any loan directly or through a foreign subsidiary to South Africa unless such loan is for educational, housing or health facilities available to all persons on a nondiscriminatory basis. Prohibits the importation of any gold coin minted in South Africa or sold by South Africa. Directs the Secretary to take specified actions to enforce the prohibitions on loans and the importation of gold coins. Sets forth penalties for violations of such prohibitions. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibitions for one year if South Africa meets specified conditions. Title III: General Provisions - Directs Federal agencies to cooperate with the Secretary in carrying out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a shoreline protection project for Maumee Bay State Park, Lake Erie, Ohio. States the non-Federal share of the cost of such project.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
DISC Revision Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the imposition of an interest charge on the accumulated income of a Domestic International Sales Corporation (DISC) which has been subject to deferral. Sets such interest rate at four percent for small exporters (those with less than $250,000 of DISC taxable income) and at the Federal funds rate for large exporters. Permanently defers all accumulated DISC income existing for taxable years beginning on or before December 31, 1983. Revises rules concerning the taxation of DISC income to shareholders. Revises rules concerning allocation in case of distributions and losses.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Countercyclical Community Development Employment Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make supplementary community development grants to States, metropolitan cities, and urban counties which have high unemployment rates. Authorizes appropriations. Requires 75 percent of the amount available for such grants during any calendar quarter to be allocated to metropolitan cities and urban counties based on the relative number of unemployed persons in each city or county exceeding the number representing nine percent unemployment. Requires the Secretary to allocate the remaining amount available for supplementary grants to States for local governments, other than metropolitan cities and urban counties, experiencing high rates of unemployment and serious fiscal problems as a result of adverse economic conditions. Directs the Secretary to determine the amounts of grants to States on the basis of the relative number of unemployed persons in the local governments of each State exceeding the number representing nine percent unemployment. Sets forth grant application requirements and procedures. Allows funds provided under this Act to be used to supplement other Federal grant programs in lieu of local share requirements if the funded projects are consistent with community development objectives.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Increases from 26 to 30 the number of members of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, by adding: (1) one elected officer of a local government of an area with a population of less than 10,000 and one elected school board member, to be appointed by the President; and (2) one judge of a U.S. court of appeals or district court and one chief justice or judge of a State court of last resort, to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Authorizes the establishment of Federal employee health benefit plans for members of employee organizations which applied at any time to the Office of Personnel Management for plan approval. (Current law authorizes the establishment of such plans for members of organizations which applied between December 31, 1978, and January 1, 1980.) Specifies the period during which members of such organizations may transfer their enrollments to such an approved plan.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Natural Gas Import Policy Act of 1983 - Suspends an order issued under the Natural Gas Act authorizing the importation of natural gas unless: (1) the price and terms of the applicable import contract have been renegotiated to be responsive to current market prices and demand; and (2) the renegotiated contract and tariff adjustments have been filed with the Secretary of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Provides that in the case of any terminal or attendant facility located in the United States and constructed for the importation of Algerian natural gas (the authority for which is suspended by this Act), FERC shall permit recovery of the costs prudently incurred in connection with the construction of such facility to the same extent and in the same manner as if such facility were used and useful for the importation and transportation of natural gas (without regard to the suspension under this Act of importation authority). Prohibits FERC from permitting any rate of return on such costs. Includes "liquefied natural gas" within the term "natural gas" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 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 transaction provisions: (1) any qualified mortgage transaction engaged in by an employee benefit plan provided only that such transaction received the prior approval of an independent fiduciary; and (2) purchase, retention, or sale by an employee benefit plan of interests in Federal or State government-guaranteed residential mortgage loans.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983
Adds the South Africa Investment Prohibition Act as a new title to the President's war powers authority. Directs the President to issue regulations prohibiting U.S. investment in South Africa. Directs the President to establish mechanisms to monitor compliance with such regulations. Sets forth penalties for violations of such prohibition. Terminates such prohibition after the President submits to Congress a determination that South Africa has made progress toward full participation by all South Africans in the life of that country and toward an end to discrimination, unless Congress adopts a resolution disapproving such determination.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution Act - Establishes the United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolutions as an independent nonprofit corporation. Permits the Academy to use "United States" or "U.S." or any other reference to the United States Government or Nation in its title, corporate seal, emblem, or other mark of recognition in any fiscal year only if there is an authorization of appropriations for the Academy for such fiscal year provided by law. Sets forth the powers and the duties of the Academy, including establishment of an Endowment of the United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Authorizes the Academy to: (1) conduct research on the causes of war and the elements of peace; (2) provide peace education and research programs; (3) conduct training in conflict resolution; (4) disseminate information on peace learning; (5) establish a Center for International Peace; and (6) establish a United States Medal of Peace and other medals or honors. Authorizes the Academy to refuse research requests of Federal agencies for reason of cost or of inappropriateness to the Agency's purpose or independence. Prohibits the Academy from undertaking to influence the passage or defeat of any Federal, State, local, or United Nations legislation, but permits Academy personnel to testify or make other appropriate communication when formally requested to do so by a legislative body, committee, or member thereof. Provides for appointment of members of the Academy's Board of Directors. Sets forth grounds for removal of Board members. Permits Board meetings to be closed only in exceptional circumstances. Sets forth provisions for Academy officers, employees, procedures, and records. Provides that, with certain exceptions, the Academy shall not be considered a department, agency, or instrumentality of the Government. Prohibits the use of any political test or political qualification with respect to personnel actions of the Academy or financial assistance by the Academy. Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for an Academy principal office capitalization fund. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for FY 1984 and 1985 for Academy programs and administration. Requires that Academy expenses in connection with the United States Medal of Peace or the accompanying cash award be paid out of the private funds of the Endowment. Restricts contract-making authority under this Act to the extent and amounts provided in appropriation Acts. Directs the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academy to report to the Congress and the President, beginning two years after the enactment of this Act and at two-year intervals thereafter. Directs the President to transmit to the Congress the recommendations of the appropriate Federal agencies with respect to such report and to any legislation concerning the Academy. Requires the appropriate congressional committees to hold hearings to review such report and recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983
Competitive Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of 1983 - Requires that, by 1984, five percent of all bulk cargoes imported into or exported from the United States by water be carried on U.S.-flag ships. Requires yearly one percent increases until the percentage of bulk cargoes carried on U.S.-flag ships reaches 20 percent. Provides for credit to importers and exporters for the use of U.S.-flag ships for the transportation of bulk cargoes between foreign ports. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide relief from the requirements of this Act upon a finding that U.S.-flag ships are not available within guideline rates. Sets forth factors which the Secretary shall consider in determining the extent of relief granted. Requires the Secretary to establish and publish guideline rates for the carriage of bulk cargoes subject to this Act. Requires the Secretary to assure that such rates take into account certain objectives. Requires the Secretary, in order to establish guideline rates, to estimate the current cost of operating U.S.-flag ships in the foreign bulk trades of the United States and of constructing such ships. Requires such cost estimates to be published within six months after enactment of this Act. Requires such estimates to be revised annually. Requires that such rates: (1) be reviewed and adjusted at least annually; (2) not reflect costs greater than the estimated current costs; and (3) be the maximum rates which may be charged for the charter of U.S.-flag ships for the transportation of bulk cargoes governed by this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish and publish interim guideline rates in the first calendar year following the enactment of this Act. Sets forth factors to be taken into account in determining such rates. Requires the Secretary to appoint and consult with an advisory committee to establish and review U.S.-flag ship operating costs, shipyard construction costs, guideline rates, and regulations. Requires anyone engaged in importing or exporting bulk commodities in U.S. foreign commerce whose business volume exceeds $1,000,000 annually to report to the Secretary on the percentages of such person's exports and imports carried on U.S. flag ships. Requires anyone who fails to transport the required percentage of U.S. bulk cargoes to use exclusively U.S. flag ships until the deficiency has been recouped, unless Secretarial relief has been granted. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this Act. Sets forth procedures for the investigation, prosecution, and judicial review of violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Housing Finance Opportunity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit the continued issuance of tax-exempt (interest excluded from gross income) mortgage revenue bonds after December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act - Sets forth for all motor vehicle manufacturers which produce over 100,000 motor vehicles for ultimate retail sale in the United States "minimum domestic content ratios" (the domestic value, including labor and parts, of the manufacturer's production costs of all automotive products sold in the United States). Requires all vehicle manufacturers producing more than 100,000 motor vehicles for sale in the United States to provide information to the Secretary of Transportation for the purpose of administering this requirement. Establishes penalties for a vehicle manufacturer who fails to meet the minimum domestic content ratio. Directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and prepare a written report regarding policies and practices of vehicle manufacturers used to persuade U.S. motor vehicle dealers to favor foreign made parts rather than domestically produced parts.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Tax Rate Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit to $700 the maximum reduction in individual income tax resulting from the third year of rate reductions enacted by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 for FY 1984 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as long-term capital gain, amounts actually paid to a taxpayer with respect to a small business participating debenture which constitute the distribution of a share of the earnings of the issuer. Defines "small business participating debenture" (SBPD) as a written debt instrument issued by a qualified small business which: (1) is a general obligation of such business; (2) bears interest at a specified rate; (3) has a fixed maturity; (4) grants no voting or conversion rights in the business to the purchaser; and (5) provides for the payment of a share of the issuer's total earnings. Defines "qualified small business" as one: (1) whose equity capital does not exceed $10,000,000; (2) the face value of all of whose outstanding SBPD's does not exceed $1,000,000; and (3) which has no outstanding securities subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Treats losses on small business participating debentures as ordinary losses. Allows an interest expense deduction for interest and share-of-earnings payments made on such debentures.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that more money should be made available for jobs and programs in socially productive industries by reducing the amount of tax dollars spent on nuclear weapons, foreign military intervention, and wasteful military programs. Endorses the Jobs with Peace Week of April 10 through April 16, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Federal nutrition programs, including the food stamp, child nutrition, and elderly feeding programs, should be protected from budget cuts; (2) the WIC (supplemental food program for women, infants, and children) should continue to be fully funded; and (3) the Federal Government should maintain primary responsibility for nutrition programs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
American Conservation Corps Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to establish and administer a public lands conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement program called the American Conservation Corps. Requires the Secretary to provide assistance to program agencies (any Federal or State agency responsible for the management of public lands) to establish and operate residential and nonresidential conservation centers to implement program projects. Describes the types of projects which will receive program preference. Limits program projects to those on public lands or Indian lands, except where projects on nonpublic lands provide documented public benefits. Sets forth requirements for establishing conservation centers and eligibility criteria for enrollees in the program. Makes persons eligible for enrollment and employment in the program if they are: (1) unemployed; (2) between the ages of 16 and 25 years; and (3) citizens, lawful permanent residents, or lawfully admitted alien parolees or refugees. Provides that, in the selection of enrollees for the program, preference shall be given to economically, socially, physically, and educationally disadvantaged youth and youth residing in areas having substantial unemployment. Requires program agencies to provide services, facilities, supplies, and equipment for conservation centers as the Secretary deems necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to, or enter into agreements with, program agencies for the funding and operation of conservation centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1989. Requires that such appropriations come from specified Treasury receipts. States that program enrollees shall not be deemed Federal employees, except for certain purposes. Directs the Secretary to establish pay rates and to coordinate the program with related Federal, State, local, and private activities. Directs the Secretary to submit a report to Congress, within one year of enactment of this Act, on the feasibility of allowing enrollees who have completed two years in the program an exemption from training and service under the Military Selective Service Act. Directs the Secretary to make arrangements with educational institutions to award academic credit to enrollees for competencies developed under this Act. Authorizes program agencies to make arrangements with such institutions for academic study by enrollees during nonworking hours. Requires program agencies to provide certification of skills acquired by program participants and to provide job guidance and placement information as necessary. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President and Congress detailing the activities carried out under this Act. Entitles to an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board any Federal employee displaced rightly or wrongly by activities under this Act. Grants similar appeal rights to the employees of any contract grantee similarly displaced.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Regulatory Negotiations Commissions Act of 1983 - Directs the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States to announce the availability of funds for the creation of five regulatory negotiation commissions comprised of representatives of business, local government, and public interest organizations to negotiate and make recommendations concerning regulatory policy in the areas of health, safety, and the environment. Permits interested persons proposing to form such a commission to apply for such funding. Sets forth the required contents of the application and the criteria for approving a commission to receive funds. Requires a commission to have sufficient representation of all persons significantly affected by the area of regulation concerned. Directs each commission receiving such funding to submit to the Chairman annual reports on its activities and a final report containing its recommendations for regulatory policy. Directs the Chairman to transmit the recommendations to all agencies concerned with such area of regulatory policy for their consideration and comments. Requires any agency, when requested by a commission, to send observers to commission meetings to provide requested information. Directs the Chairman to report to Congress by January 1, 1984, on the results of commissions funded under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and 1984. Exempts such commissions from provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit the employment of any blind person, or person with impaired sight, at less than the applicable minimum wage under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out, at full Federal expense, nonstructural projects to prevent or mitigate shore damage attributable to Federal navigation works.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require Federal agencies which are about to dispose of surplus real property suitable for agricultural use to offer such property for sale to the individual who transferred such property to the agency or to the individual who leased such property from the agency for a specified period, provided that the individual had used such property for agricultural purposes. Requires the deed of conveyance of any property sold under this Act to provide that the property shall revert to the United States if it is not used and maintained for agricultural purposes for at least 15 years.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Judicial Tenure Act - Establishes a seven-member Judicial Conduct and Disability Commission, consisting of six Federal judges and one layman, to receive complaints filed by any person with respect to the condition or conduct of Federal judges appointed to hold office during good behavior. Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to appoint an executive director of the Commission. Requires complaints within the jurisdiction of the Commission to be investigated to determine the existence and nature of any grounds specified: (1) in existing law for the involuntary retirement of a judge; or (2) in this Act for the removal or censure of a judge. Establishes the Court on Judicial Conduct and Disability, consisting of three members elected by the Judicial Conference, as a court of record with all appropriate judicial powers incident or necessary to hear matters concerning the involuntary retirement, removal, or censure of a Federal judge. Directs the Commission, or a panel acting on its behalf, by majority vote to: (1) dismiss any complaint which it finds to be frivolous, insufficient in law or fact, or outside its jurisdiction; or (2) recommend to the Court that a hearing be held upon a finding of sufficient cause to believe that the condition or conduct of the judge may be inconsistent with the good behavior standard. Authorizes the Court to decide the merits of a written complaint against a judge upon receipt of the Commission's report. Gives the Commission the burden of proving such report before the Court by clear and convincing evidence. Specifies due process protections for the judge who is subject of such hearing. Authorizes the Court to suspend without hearing a judge who has pleaded guilty, nolo contendere, or has been found guilty of a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude under Federal or State law. Conditions such suspension in all other cases on the holding of a hearing as provided by this Act. Directs the Court, in each case brought before it, to order: (1) involuntary retirement; (2) removal from office; (3) censure; or (4) dismissal of the case. Allows the Commission or the judge affected to petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court within ten days after notification of such order. Provides that removal or censure may be ordered by the Court upon a finding that the conduct of the judge has been inconsistent with the good behavior standard required by article III, section 1 of the Constitution. Specifies that such conduct includes, but is not limited to: (1) willful misconduct in office; (2) willful and persistent failure to perform duties of the office; (3) habitual intemperance; and (4) other conduct which is prejudicial to the administration of justice and brings the judicial office into disrepute. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth a formula for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Sets forth provisions for participation in such program by children enrolled in private schools. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local education 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 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE), in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education to be made available to NIE to carry out such educational research program for FY 1985 through 1987. Title IV: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to administer the program and to pay each local educational agency with an approved application the amount to which it is entitled for each fiscal year. Provides for a joint survey and report to Congress by the Secretaries of Defense and Education, for each year from 1983 through 1987, on the academic achievement levels of U.S. 18-year-olds and the personnel training and educational needs of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Temporary Natural Gas Market Correction Act of 1982 - Declares that any contract for the first sale of natural gas shall be deemed to include a volume adjustment option with respect to any natural gas the first sale delivery of which could occur pursuant to such contract at any time after the effective date of this Act and before November 1, 1983. Defines a volume adjustment option as a contract provision under which the purchaser may elect to refuse to take delivery under such contract of any volume of natural gas without incurring an obligation to pay any fee or charge with respect to the natural gas not delivered pursuant to such election. Provides, subject to certain exceptions, that the purchase by any natural gas pipeline company of any natural gas which is delivered on any day after the effective date of this Act and before November 1, 1983, at an excessive price shall be considered as fraud, abuse, or similar grounds for purposes of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reviewing cost passthroughs. Considers the price of natural gas delivered to any natural gas pipeline company on any day excessive if that price exceeds the price of any other natural gas not delivered to such pipeline company on that day but which could have been acquired by such pipeline company for delivery on that day under any contract to which the pipeline is a party. Requires every natural gas pipeline company to file monthly with FERC: (1) a statement concerning the volume adjustment clause, as well as steps it has taken to achieve the lowest possible weighted average acquisition cost of natural gas; and (2) a modification of the costs to be recovered by the pipeline under a purchased gas adjustment clause (as defined in the Natural Gas Act), if the weighted average acquisition cost of natural gas by the pipeline is lower because of the volume adjustment option or because of other steps taken by the pipeline.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor to approve job training assistance for workers adversely affected by imports. (Currently the Secretary is authorized to approve such training.) Directs the Secretary to pay a daily supplemental assistance benefit to any worker who begins approved job training after enactment of this Act and who is not eligible for trade adjustment allowances. Increases the maximum job search and relocation allowances to $800. Establishes an Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund in the Treasury. Authorizes appropriations to the Trust Fund, payable out of the general fund of the Treasury attributable to the collection of customs duties, to carry out provisions for adjustment assistance for workers. Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to amend the definition of "suitable work" for a worker who would be eligible for a trade readjustment allowance if the worker were not eligible for extended compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Social Security Reform Act of 1983 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program under which States periodically furnish the Secretary with information on the death certificates officially filed with them so that necessary corrections may be made to the beneficiary records maintained under the social security program. Requires the Secretary to issue a social security card at the same time a social security account number is issued. Requires that social security cards be made of banknote paper and be unable to be counterfeited. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on plans for implementing such requirements. Requires that social security cards issued to individuals who are not U.S. citizens or nationals indicate any restriction on employment of such individuals. Permits reissuance of social security cards to reflect any change in employment status at the request of such individuals or when the Secretary determines that such an individual's employment status has changed. Requires the Secretary to reissue a card to such an individual when he or she becomes a U.S. citizen or national. Requires the Secretary to issue a certification of pending issuance or reissuance in any case in which an individual or the Secretary seeks issuance or reissuance of a social security card. Prohibits the employment of an individual in the United States unless such individual has a social security card, or a certification, and may be lawfully employed. Requires an employer to verify the identity of an individual to whom a card or certification has been issued. Provides criminal penalties for knowingly committing violations of this Act which result in the employment of a non-U.S. citizen or national who cannot be employed lawfully in the United States. Prohibits entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or national and whose entitlement is based upon the wages and self-employment income of a resident of a foreign country who is entitled to old-age or disability benefits if such individual does not bear a spousal, filial, parental, divorced, or surviving relationship to such resident as of the date such resident reaches age 57.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Full Employment Work Opportunity Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to local governing boards to assist local job projects to employ unemployed individuals. Defines "eligible area" (for purposes of receiving funds under this Act) as a county or comparable unit of local government as designated by the Secretary after consultation with affected officials in each State. Requires that the populatio of such an eligible area not exceed 300,000, but authorizes the Secretary to waive this requirement. Directs each eligible area to establish a local governing board composed of: (1) two members (who are not members of the same political party) appointed by the State Governor; and (2) 11 members appointed by local governments within the eligible area, including representatives from major political parties, labor organizations, business management, and education. Directs the local governing board to: (1) select a manager for job projects, in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary; and (2) determine the job projects to be assisted, after receiving recommendations from and subject to the Secretary's approval. Makes an individual eligible for job project employment only if such individual has been unemployed for at least 30 days. Prohibits job project employment of more than two individuals from the same household. Requires that preference in selection for job project employment be given to: (1) honorably discharged veterans; and (2) individuals from households in which no one is employed. Requires that job project wages equal the higher of the minimum wage under: (1) the Fair Labor Standards Act; or (2) the applicable minimum wage law. Restricts job project employment to not more than 32 hours per week. Prohibits eligibility for unemployment compensation during, or on the basis of, job project employment, but otherwise requires that job project employees be provided benefits and employment conditions comparable to those provided to others employed in similar occupations by the same employer. Limits the number of supervisory employees to ten percent of those on any job project. Permits such supervisors: (1) to be selected without regard to eligibility requirements; and (2) to receive wages in excess of the rate determined for other employees. Requires each job project to be of limited duration and to be directed to the completion of a specific objective. Requires each job project to maintain an evaluation file for each employee. Requires that the file be made available to the employee monthly, but not be available to any other person without the employee's consent. Requires that the employee be afforded the opportunity to discuss any matter contained in or omitted from the file. Directs the President, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to appoint a task force to plan for the coordination of job projects assisted under this Act with welfare and unemployment compensation programs. Requires that such task force include representatives of the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services and of labor organizations and business management. Directs the task force to report to Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish and appoint a 13-member national advisory council to oversee and make recommendations on: (1) job projects assisted; (2) the type of jobs to be provided; and (3) a comprehensive list of the type of projects the local governing board shall consider. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
National Education and Economic Development Act of 1983 - Provides for Federal assistance for improved elementary and secondary school programs in mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages. Title I: Funding - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to reserve from such appropriations: (1) not more than ten percent for specified programs of national significance under title IV of this Act; and (2) one percent for allocation to specified territories and possessions in accordance with their respective needs and to the Secretary of the Interior for schools operated for Indian children. Directs the Secretary to make allocations to States from the remaining funds, based on the relative numbers of children aged five through 17. Title II: Local School District Programs - Directs the State educational agency to distribute the State allocation among local educational agencies which have filed specified plans, based on the relative numbers of children aged five through 17. Permits local agencies to combine to operate joint programs. Permits the State agency to reserve up to five percent of the State allocation for State programs and administration. Provides that local agencies shall receive such grants if they have comprehensive plans covering up to three-year periods on file with the State agency. Requires the school board of the local agency to approve such plan and to certify that State agency comments were given due consideration. Requires that the size and scope of the program contained in the plan involve a total expenditure in excess of $25,000 from Federal, State, and local resources. Sets forth requirements for comprehensive plan contents. Requires local agencies to use such funds for one or more of the following programs and activities: (1) acquisition of technological equipment, including microcomputers and cable television; (2) acquisition, development, and use of educational software programs in mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages; (3) inservice personnel training in the use of technological hardware and software and in upgrading and modernizing content and methods in such course areas and technology career awareness; (4) payment of bonuses, fees, and other arrangements with employees or consultants for attracting and retaining qualified teachers in such course areas; (5) establishing cooperative programs with local businesses, universities, libraries, museums, and other institutions and organizations to use equipment, software, and personnel to enrich, expand, and modernize school district offerings and career awareness activities in such areas; (6) informational activities to assist administrators and school board members in the selection and evaluation of equipment and activities; (7) promotion of student interest and assessment of student achievement in such course areas; (8) programs for children with special needs; (9) construction and remodeling of facilities; and (10) program monitoring, planning, evaluation, and management. Sets forth provisions relating to program participation of children enrolled in private schools. Title III: State Programs and Administration - Requires States, in order to receive funds under this Act, to file with the Secretary a State plan for a period not to exceed three years submitted by the State educational agency. Sets forth requirements for such plan. Directs State educational agencies to review and, if necessary, comment on any local plan, in order to determine consistency with Federal requirements and to propose improvements. Directs the State agency to make payments to local agencies within a specified period. Provides for withholding of payments until the local agency certifies that State comments were fully considered. Directs the State agency to monitor the local agency activities and to require such recordkeeping as the Secretary considers necessary to meet audit and evaluation responsibilities under this Act. Permits State's to impose requirements applicable to projects and programs assisted under this Act, if such requirements do not conflict with Federal law. Requires the State agency to spend at least 60 percent of sums reserved for State programs and administration for one or more of the following purposes: (1) research in curriculum, materials, and teacher improvement in courses involving mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages; (2) evaluation of technological hardware and software; (3) experimental and pilot programs to test the effectiveness of curriculum innovations, new technologies in education, and coordination activities between local agencies and other organizations; (4) technical assistance; (5) programs to promote student interest; (6) examining the relationship of market place needs for persons in such course areas and the preparation of students for careers in those areas or enrollment in higher education courses leading to such careers; (7) programs involving resources of outside entities to assist State and local educational officials in such activities; and (8) dissemination of information on such activities. Permits such funds to be used for grants and contracts with public and nonprofit private agencies and institutions. Requires States, in order to receive payments under this Act, to establish State advisory councils. Sets forth requirements for the appointment of State council members. Sets forth the duties of the State council, including program review and recommendations. Requires the State council to report annually to the Secretary and the National Advisory Council. Sets forth provisions for State council meetings. Directs the State agency to pay not more than 20 percent of the sum reserved for State programs and administration to the State council. Provides that the State council is to determine the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the State agency to pay administrative expenses under this Act, using up to 20 percent of its reserved sum or $75,000, whichever is greater (with the Secretary paying the excess, if any, from amounts reserved for national programs). Title IV: Programs of National Significance - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with institutions of higher education (and consortia), regional laboratories and centers, State and local educational agencies, and other educational organizations and institutions, for: (1) determining hardware technology developments applicable for classroom use; (2) experiments with and assessments of educational benefits of hardware and software approaches; (3) assessment of national progress in elementary and secondary mathematics, science, technology, and foreign language programs; and (4) specified exemplary, pilot, and dissemination programs. Directs the Secretary, from sums reserved for such purpose, to pay the Secretary of the Interior for programs at schools operated for Indian children, pursuant to specified agreements. Directs the Secretary, beginning in FY 1985, to make an annual report to the President and Congress on specified matters relating to purposes and programs under this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Education and Technology. Sets forth requirements for appointment of national council members. Sets forth national council duties, including program review and evaluation. Directs the national council to advise the President, the Congress, and the Secretary through annual reports and other means as to its findings, activities, and recommendations. Directs the Secretary to allocate a specified minimum amount for national council purposes. Directs the Secretary to review and, if necessary, comment on State plans, in order to determine consistency with Federal requirements and to propose recommendations. Directs the Secretary to make specific payments, as soon as possible, to any State whose State plan is not inconsistent with Federal requirements. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to withholding of payments to States by the Secretary and to judicial review of such withholding. Provides that all but specified provisions of the General Educational Provisions Act shall apply to programs under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to availability of appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit States and local governments to provide statements of tax refunds, credits, and offsets to individuals at any time during the calendar year for which such governments make a return, but not later than January 31 of the year following the year of the return. (Current law requires such statements to be furnished in January of the year following the year of the return.) Eliminates the requirement to furnish such statements with respect to any refunds, credits, or offsets made before January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Construction Work in Progress Policy Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve, upon application by a public utility, the inclusion of the costs of construction work in progress (defined as construction of a facility used to generate electric energy) in the rate base of such public utility with respect to: (1) any pollution control facility; and (2) the conversion of oil or natural gas-fired facilities to the use of other fuels. Requires the Commission to hold an evidentiary hearing upon application by a public utility for approval of such a rate increase. Sets forth the items required in any such application. Requires the Commission to approve the rate increase applied for or to order a lesser rate increase if, after the hearing, the Commission finds that: (1) the utility will be in severe financial difficulty unless construction work in progress costs are included in the rate base; (2) the facility being constructed is reasonably necessary to meet energy demands; (3) any mismanagement involved will not affect the utility's future financial situation; (4) the long-term benefits justify short-run rate increases in the case of customers purchasing electric energy for resale; (5) such wholesale customers have been offered an ownership interest in the facility under construction; (6) the rate increase will not unreasonably impair the ability of wholesale customers to sell electric energy to their retail customers at the least cost; and (7) the applicant utility will discontinue the capitalization of allowance for funds used during construction for those construction work in progress costs included in the rate base. Provides that no rate increase approved or ordered under this Act may: (1) be charged for electric energy sold before the date of such approval or order; (2) exceed the amount needed to alleviate the utility's financial difficulties; (3) have an anticompetitive effect; (4) be applied to any customer who holds an ownership interest in the facility being constructed (with limited exceptions); or (5) be unduly discriminatory or preferential or exceed a just and reasonable amount.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to increase the maximum daily benefit for unemployment and sickness for registration periods after June 30, 1983. Increases the monthly amount to be taken into account as employee remuneration in determining the number of benefit days for which an employee is entitled. Redefines periods of high unemployment as three consecutive months of railroad unemployment at five percent or more. Increases employer and employee representative contributions to the railroad unemployment insurance account after March 31, 1983. Decreases from .5 percent to .25 percent the amount of unemployment contributions which shall be deposited in the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund. Repeals the Railroad Retirement Board's authority to transfer funds from the Railroad Retirement Account to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
States that as part of the strategic arms reduction negotiations (START) the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) place the highest priority on eliminating the fear of a first-strike by either nation; and (2) seek a verifiable agreement that produces a stable strategic relationship by ensuring that neither nation possesses capabilities of a first strike.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Directs the President to negotiate an agreement with the Soviet Union for the establishment of a permanent joint United States-Soviet Communications Center to provide an additional channel for communications between the United States and the Soviet Union in order to reduce the threat of an accidental nuclear war. Declares that the agreement should provide that: (1) the function of the Center would be to serve as a direct and secure means of communications between the two countries; (2) the Center would have no intelligence gathering capabilities and would not be used for espionage; (3) the Center would be located in an agreed upon third country with the operating costs shared equally; and (4) the Center would be staffed by an equal number of personnel from each country. Requires the agreement to be either a treaty or an executive agreement which will enter into force only upon its approval by both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the consideration of applications for, or the granting of, insurance policies and the terms of such policies. Permits insurers who regularly provide insurance solely to persons of a single religious affiliation to continue to do so. Grants to State or local governments having insurance discrimination laws the primary opportunity to enforce this Act. Permits an aggrieved person to file a civil action in State or Federal court against an insurer, if a State or local authority which has received notice of a complaint fails to act within 60 days or with respect to those authorities not having insurance discrimination laws. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in district court when there is reasonable cause to believe that a person or group is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the rights granted by this Act and that such denial raises an issue of general public importance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to include chiropractic care among the services offered members, former members, and dependents of the uniformed services. Authorizes the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Medical Services Corps of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Entitles such officers to the same pay as dental officers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Sunset Act of 1983 - Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs - Sets forth a ten-year schedule for reauthorization of all Federal programs according to budget function and subfunction as set forth in the Budget of the United States Government for fiscal year 1983. Sets forth the procedure in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the consideration of any bill, resolution, or amendment which authorizes new budget authority. States that it is not in order for either House to consider any legislation which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program for a period of more than ten years, for an indefinite period, or for any fiscal year beginning after the next reauthorization date applicable to such program. Provides that before the Congress can appropriate funds for any program, after its first reauthorization date, there must be a specific authorization in law to support the appropriation. Requires the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives to schedule and conduct a sunset review of programs to be reauthorized. Requires that the report accompanying such reauthorizations contain specified information and be completed during the Congress in which the program is scheduled for reauthorization. Exempts from the requirements of this Act specified programs such as interest on Federal debts, health care services, general retirement and disability payments, as well as litigation activities which have as their objectives the protection and implementation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and specified retirement pay and benefits. Allows the reauthorization schedule set forth in this Act to be changed by concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress and sets forth the procedure for such change. Requires all legislation and other matters related to changes in the dates for programs under this Act to be referred to the committee with legislative jurisdiction over any program affected by the proposal and, sequentially, to the Committee on Rules in the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Rules and Administration in the Senate. Requires such committees to report any concurrent resolution or bill referred to it by a committee of legislative jurisdiction within 30 days, with a statement on each of its recommendations. Makes provisions for any proposed change which has been reported by a committee before June 1, 1984. Title II: Program Inventory - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs. Declares that the purpose of such program inventory is to advise and assist Congress in carrying out reauthorization and reexamination requirements and to link such reauthorization and review process with the budget process. Requires the Comptroller General to submit such program inventory to each House of Congress no later than January 1, 1984. Sets forth the contents of the inventory program, including the type of authorization provided for such programs' new budget authority and the manner in which related program areas may be grouped for evaluation and review. Permits the congressional committees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service to review the program inventory and to suggest revisions. Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of Congress, and that such revisions be reported to each House. Requires that periodic reports tabulate the progress of congressional action on bills and resolutions authorizing budget authority for programs in the inventory. Requires the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit periodic reports to the Congress on the adequacy of the functional and subfunctional categories for grouping programs of like missions or objectives. Title III: Program Reexamination - Requires each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. Sets forth procedures for such review, and criteria for selection of program areas for evaluation. Directs each committee to consult with the appropriate committees of either the House of Representatives or the Senate in order to achieve coordination of program reevaluation. Directs each Committee to inform itself of the related activities of or available assistance from the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Office of Technology Assessment, and other appropriate instrumentalities in the executive and judicial branches. Requires each committee to deliver a report on the reexamination to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House at the date specified in the funding resolution first reported by such committee in 1985 and thereafter for the first session of each Congress. Allows two or more committees which have legislative jurisdiction over the same programs or portions of the same programs to examine such programs jointly and submit a joint report. Stipulates that such report: (1) contain the findings, recommendations, and justifications of the program; and (2) include specified information including, but not limited to, an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the program and an identification of any trends, developments, and emerging conditions which are likely to affect the nature and extent of the problems or needs which the program is intended to address. Requires each executive department or agency which is responsible for a program selected for reexamination to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget and to the appropriate committees of the Congress on its findings, recommendations, and justifications of specified aspects of the program. Title IV: Tax Expenditures - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, after consultation with the Joint Committee on Taxation of the Congress, to prepare an inventory of tax expenditure provisions and to submit a report on such inventory to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Senate Finance Committee. Defines the term "tax expenditure provision" as any provision of Federal law which allows a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction in determining liability for any tax or which provides a special credit against any tax, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability. Specifies the contents of the report, which include an estimate of the revenue loss from each tax provision. Requires the Director to: (1) submit a revised inventory to each House of Congress by December 1, 1984; (2) revise the inventory after the close of each session of Congress and report such revisions to Congress; and (3) periodically report on Congressional action on bills and resolutions which create or affect tax provisions. Directs the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance to prepare a reauthorization schedule for all tax provisions similar to the schedule set out for Federal programs in title I of this Act. Requires Congress to take final action on the reauthorization schedule for tax provisions before the end of the 98th Congress. Provides that each tax expenditure provision shall expire unless it is reauthorized by a law enacted during the Congress in which it is scheduled for review. Sets forth procedures and restrictions for the consideration of bills reauthorizing tax provisions, which are similar to the restrictions and procedures governing bills authorizing new budget authority for Federal programs as described in title I. Requires that the report accompanying a reauthorization bill include specified information. Permits Congress to prescribe technical rules necessary to mitigate adverse effects which might result for taxpayers who rely on a certain tax provision. Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to permit the committees of Congress to obtain from the agencies of the Government estimates or requests for appropriations, or requests for increases in an item of any such estimate or request, and recommendations as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met. Sets forth administrative procedures and requirements. Directs the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, to submit to the Congress a "Regulatory Duplication and Conflicts Report" for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. Requires that each such report identify duplicative or conflicting rules and regulations promulgated by executive departments, independent agencies, and State and local governments and contain recommendations which address such conflicts or duplications. Directs the chairmen of the House and Senate committees having jurisdiction over a program scheduled for reauthorization during a Congress, to introduce a bill constituting a reauthorization within 15 days of the beginning of the second session of that Congress. Declares that it shall be in order to discharge a committee from consideration of such a bill if the committee fails to report the bill by a specified date. Makes it the duty of the Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committees on Government Operations and Rules of the House of Representatives to review the operation of the procedures established by this Act and to submit a report every five years beginning December 31, 1990. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 to require a judicial officer, in setting conditions for pretrial release for any person charged with certain narcotics offenses, to consider which conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community, the personal safety of persons in the community, and the prevention of similar offenses by such person. Requires a judicial officer to deny release to any person charged with a narcotics offense who: (1) has previously been convicted of a felony narcotics offense under Federal, State, or foreign law; (2) is on parole, probation, or other conditional release for a felony offense under Federal or State law; (3) is an illegal alien; (4) was arrested in possession of a false passport; or (5) has been convicted of being a fugitive from justice. Requires the Government to provide clear and convincing evidence that the person charged falls within any such category and to establish that there is substantial probability that the person committed the offense . Permits the judicial officer to grant release to a person who has not been previously convicted of a felony narcotics offense upon a finding of special mitigating factors. Requires that the case of a person who is denied release be placed on an expedited calendar.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
States that the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) between the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; (4) pursue reductions through numerical ceilings and other means; (5) preserve present limitations on nuclear weapons; and (6) incorporate ongoing negotiations in Geneva on land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles into the START negotiations. Requires that every effort be made to reach common positions with the NATO allies.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
States that the President should, at the earliest possible date: (1) request Senate consent to ratification of the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaties; and (2) resume trilateral test ban treaty negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1983
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Hunger to conduct a continuing comprehensive study of the problems of hunger and malnutrition.
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