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United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1981
Repeals the Federal requirement of incremental pricing under the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1981
Exempts nonprofit veterans' organizations and nonprofit fraternal organizations from the requirement that nondramatic literary or musical performance royalties be paid to copyright holders.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to establish an advisory committee to advise the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on policies and to assess information with respect to former prisoners of war (POW's). Requires that such committee include former POW's and individuals representing certain medical fields. Expands disability entitlement to captivity-induced or aggravated disabilities for any former POW's held in violation of the Geneva Conventions and suffering from any disease associated with nutritional deficiencies, any chronic disease having a gradual onset, and psychiatric disorders, including psychosis. Entitles all veterans who have been POW's during World War II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam era to: (1) hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care; (2) medical treatment; (3) outpatient dental services; (4) medical services on an outpatient or ambulatory basis; (5) readjustment counseling and related mental health services; and (6) vocational rehabilitation. Directs the President to authorize the award of the Purple Heart to former POW's who were tortured or suffered brutality or deprivation while being held captive.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
World War I Veterans Service Pension Act of 1981 - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any pension already paid) a monthly pension of $150: (1) to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements; (2) to the surviving spouse of each such veteran; or (3) when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1981
Amends the Walsh-Healey Act and the Contract Work Hours Standards Act to revise overtime requirements to accommodate an alternative workweek of four ten-hour days for employees of Government contractors.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) continue ozone protection studies and research while increasing actual measurements of stratospheric ozone and improving methods of monitoring potential trends in such measurements; and (2) contract with the National Academy of Sciences, in consultation with the Administrators of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to (a) continue review and research, (b) determine the extent, nature, and causes of changes in stratospheric ozone concentration (with particular attention to the effects of chlorofluorocarbons), (c) investigate unreasonable effects on health and the environment, and (d) report to the Administrator and the Congress. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, to the Congress at the end of a 24-month period. Prohibits the commencement or continuation of rulemaking by the Administrator with respect to regulations for the control in the United States of any chlorofluorocarbon until: (1) the Administrator, the Academy, and the President have submitted specified reports to the Congress; or (2) the Administrator determines that stratospheric ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbons at a rate eventually harmful to human health and the environment has actually been detected. Directs the Administrator to withdraw any such rulemaking commenced after January 1, 1981, and before the date of enactment of this Act, and declares that such rulemaking has no force or effect. Requires that such final regulations be submitted to the Congress and only take effect if both Houses of Congress do not adopt a concurrent resolution of disapproval within a specified period. Sets forth procedures relating to such resolutions. Requires that continuing research and monitoring programs be expanded to determine the extent, nature, causes, effects, and associated uncertainties of stratospheric ozone concentration changes. Directs the President, within two years from the date of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress and the public on efforts to reach international agreements among the major free-world countries producing chlorofluorocarbons as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Prohibits States or local governments from adopting or attempting to enforce any regulations (except ones controlling halocarbon use as an aerosol propellant) respecting the control of chlorofluorocarbons to protect the stratosphere or stratospheric ozone until the Administrator has promulgated such regulations for such control in the United States. Provides that this Act shall not affect the validity of regulations concerning aerosol propellants containing chlorofluorocarbons promulgated by the Administrator before January 1, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Administrative Rulemaking Reform Act - Directs a Federal agency preparing to hold a rulemaking session to make a reasonable effort to inform those likely to be affected by the proposed rulemaking. Requires the notice of rulemaking to include: (1) the projected effective date of the rules; (2) the purpose of the rulemaking; (3) the text of the proposed rules; and (4) the studies on which the agency intends to rely in the rulemaking proceedings. Requires public notice and public opportunity for comment on all rulemaking proceedings unless the agency finds that proposed rules are emergency rules or are of routine or insignificant impact. Requires Federal agencies to give interested persons at least 45 days to participate in the rulemaking. Provides for agency hearings to receive oral comments, and procedures to resolve significant controversies over factual issues. Requires each agency to maintain a public file of all relevant material and required statements for each rulemaking. Prohibits adoption of a proposed rule that has been revised substantially unless interested persons are provided an opportunity to comment on such revisions. Sets forth an expedited rulemaking procedure for rules to replace emergency rules. Directs each agency to submit a copy of each promulgated rule to each House of Congress. Declares that no rule, excluding an emergency rule, shall become effective if: (1) both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent resolution disapproving it within 90 days of continuous session of Congress; or (2) one House adopts such a resolution within 60 such days and the other House does not disapprove such resolution within 30 days thereafter. Authorizes either House to adopt a resolution directing an agency to reconsider and repromulgate a newly promulgated rule or an existing rule within a specified period. Provides that if such agency fails to act such rule shall lapse. Directs the Administrative Conference of the United States to study and report on the effects on rulemaking of the Congressional review provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Directs a court reviewing an agency rule to set aside any rule found to be unwarranted by material in the rulemaking file.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit married individuals filing separate income tax returns an election to be taxed at rates applicable to unmarried individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Authorizes expenditures for investigations and studies to be conducted by the Committee on Rules, including: (1) employment of personnel; (2) procurement of consultant services; and (3) specialized training of its professional staff. Prohibits the committee from expending such funds in connection with any study or investigation being conducted by any other House committee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 to provide that provisions of such Act shall not apply to: (1) any surface sand or gravel, stone, or clay mine; or (2) any surface structure or road, if constructed by employees not engaged in mining.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1981
Designates the "square dance" as the National folk dance of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981
Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to permit local distribution companies to provide natural gas service to residential customers for use in outdoor lighting fixtures installed and receiving natural gas before the enactment of such Act. Requires each local distribution company, in accordance with rules established by the Secretary of Energy, to: (1) periodically inform its customers of the amount of natural gas consumed by outdoor lighting; and (2) report such information method to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Internal Security with jurisdiction over communist, terrorist, and other subversive activities. Removes such jurisdiction from the Judiciary Committee. Transfers to the Internal Security Committee all of its property under the control of the Judiciary Committee or any other government agency.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1981
Savings and Retirement Income Incentive Act of 1981 - Amends the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 to make permanent the income tax exclusion for dividend and interest income. Increases such tax exclusion for persons over age 65 to $500 ($1,000 for joint returns). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $2,000 the amount of the income tax deduction for contributions to individual retirement accounts. Eliminates the prohibition against certain pension plan participants (e.g. government and military personnel) from making deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts. Increases the amount of nondeductible contributions which an individual may make to an individual retirement account in a taxable year and over such individual's lifetime. Permits contributors to an individual retirement account to withdraw from such an account up to $10,000, without tax penalty, in order to purchase a first home or finance the higher education of a dependent child. Allows an income tax deduction for voluntary employee contributions to tax-qualified employer pension and annuity plans.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the seven calendar days commencing on April 30 of each year as "National Beta Sigma Phi Week."
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Capital Cost Recovery Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Permits calculation of the investment tax credit for such property without regard to the useful life of the property. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits a taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Permits a taxpayer who is required to change his method of accounting pursuant to Revenue Ruling 80-60 (inventory valuation) and Revenue Procedure 80-5 to effect such a change only for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Requests the President to designate August 13, 1981, as "National Blinded Veterans Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the first full week of June of each year as "National Garden Week."
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981
Family Enterprise Estate and Gift Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the unified credit against the estate and gift taxes from $47,000 to $155,800 by specified annual increments through 1985. Increases from $175,000 to $500,000, by specified annual increments through 1985, the minimum gross estate requirement for filing of a return. Repeals the existing limitations on the marital deduction for gift and estate taxes. Increases from $3,000 to $6,000 the annual gift tax exclusion. Qualifies estates of decedents who were disabled or retired for the special valuation of certain farms based on use if such decedents materially participated in the operation of the farm for five out of eight years preceding the year in which they became disabled or eligible for disability benefits, under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Permits the spouse of a decedent to use such valuation if the spouse has managed the farm or business for ten years preceding the decedent's death or takes over active management upon the decedent's death. Qualifies the owner of a woodland for the special use valuation if the owner or a member of the owner's family actively managed the property for ten years prior to the owner's death. Reduces from 15 to ten years the length of time a qualified property must be held and put to a qualified use following the decedent's death before it can be disposed of without incurring a recapture of estate tax benefits. Permits active management rather than material participation as a test for qualification of the estate for spouses, children under 21, students, and disabled individuals who receive property from a decedent who qualified for special use valuation. Repeals the $500,000 limitation on the reduction of the value of qualified real property permitted by the special use valuation. Allows the like kind exchange of property without loss of special use valuation eligibility. Allows valuation based on net crop share rentals as an alternative method of valuing farms. Repeals the requirement that an heir elect special treatment for involuntary conversions of qualified real property, thus making such treatment automatic upon such conversion. States that gifts made within three years of a decedent's death shall be valued as of the time of transfer rather than as of the date of death. Authorizes an individual to elect to pay a gift tax rather than use the unified tax credit. Modifies the alternate extension of time for payment of the estate tax where the estate consists largely of an interest in a closely held business to: (1) allow an installment payment election if the value of the interest in the closely held business is either 35 percent of the value of the gross estate or 50 percent of the taxable estate; (2) increase to 50 percent the value of an interest disposed of which will accelerate the payment of tax; and (3) permit payment, but with a penalty, of an installment within six months after the due date. Allows a disclaimer of an interest in property for estate tax purposes in specified circumstances where such disclaimer does not result in the passing of the interest concerned under the applicable State law.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $20,000 to $75,000 in 1981 (with annual adjustments up to $95,000 in 1985 and thereafter) the earned income exclusion for U.S. citizens working abroad who are bona fide residents of a foreign country. Repeals the requirement that, as a condition of their employment, such individuals reside in a hardship area. Reduces from 17 to 11 months the residency requirement for such exclusion. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the value of employer-provided lodging in a camp in cases where satisfactory housing is not generally available. Reduces from 17 to 11 months the foreign residency requirement with respect to the deduction for certain housing expenses of living abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1981
Grants a Federal charter to the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the week of October 4 through October 10, 1981, as "National Diabetes Week."
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Prohibits the issuance of any regulations by the Internal Revenue Service on employee fringe benefits after April 30, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Geothermal Energy Control Act of 1981 - Establishes the National Geothermal Energy Commission for the purpose of granting licenses for the exploration for and commercial development of geothermal energy. Sets forth the membership structure of such Commission and the terms of office of the commissioners. Empowers the Commission to hold hearings, take testimony, and administer oaths in furtherance of the expressed purposes of this Act. Directs the Commission to identify those areas of the United States which have a potential for the extraction of geothermal resources and to publish its findings in the Federal Register. Empowers the Commission to grant licenses to individuals who are capable of carrying out exploration and marketing activities for geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources. Sets forth conditions for the granting of such licenses and for extensions of the term of such licenses. Authorizes the Commission to revoke the license of any person who is found to violate the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Individual Housing Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for cash contributions to a savings account created or organized for the benefit of the taxpayer (or the taxpayer and spouse if married) for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the taxpayer's first principal residence. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $3,000, with a maximum lifetime deduction of $12,000. Excludes distributions from such account from gross income so long as they are used exclusively for the purchase of a first principal residence. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions from an individual housing account which are not used for the purchase of a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Extends death benefit coverage under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include rescue squad members who are certified by a State to carry out such duties.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Authorizes the establishment of Senior Reserve Officers' Training programs at public community colleges.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt social security and railroad retirement benefits from the requirement that State unemployment plans reduce unemployment compensation by the amount of pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other similar payments.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requires the Federal Government, through the Administrator of the General Services Administration, to pay to the States and units of local government amounts equivalent to the property taxes that would be generated by federally owned land if such land were privately owned (in the case of any local government unit in which three percent or more of the land is federally owned).
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers who do not itemize income tax deductions to claim a deduction from gross income for charitable contributions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Small Business Earnings Retention Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit businesses to accumulate up to $500,000 of earnings without incurring liability for the tax on accumulated earnings; (2) increase from $100,000 to $500,000 the dollar amount of used investment property eligible for the investment tax credit; and (3) permit businesses with gross receipts of less than $1,000,000 for the last two preceding taxable years to elect to use the cash method of accounting in reporting inventories.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an income tax deduction from gross income for fees, court costs, attorney's fees, and other necessary expenses incurred in the adoption of a child.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the annual gift tax exclusion from $3,000 to $6,000.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include within the reasonable reimbursable cost of inpatient nursing care a salary cost differential of at least eight and one-half percent in recognition of the above-average cost of furnishing such care to aged patients.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Removes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the district courts to hear any case arising out of State law or any Federal law interpreting or enforcing a State law relating to voluntary prayer in a public building or school.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Sunset Program Evaluation Act of 1981 - Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Requires Government programs to be evaluated pursuant to a specified schedule to determine whether each such program should be continued, terminated, or altered (sunset review). Prohibits the authorization of new budget authority for a period of more than six years. 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 of the United States and specified retirement pay and benefits. Prohibits the authorization of new budget authority for any program for which there has not been conducted a sunset review. Requires that the report accompanying such review contain specified information. Provides that before the Congress can appropriate funds for any program, after its first review date, there must be a specific authorization in law to support the appropriation. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in consultation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to compile a list of programs subject to a review date for which new budget authority was not authorized. Title II: Program Inventory - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to compile and report to Congress by July 1, 1983, an inventory of Federal programs. Requires that the report specify the duration of the new budget authority provided for each program. Enumerates information to be included in the inventory, including the identification of Congressional committees having jurisdiction over each program and the agency responsible for administering each program. Requires the Congressional committees to review the program inventory and 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. Directs the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit periodic reports to the Congress on the adequacy of the functional and subfunctional categories used for grouping programs of like missions or objectives for review. Title III: Program Evaluation - Requires each House of Congress to select from programs scheduled for sunset review in a given Congress a number of programs for comprehensive evaluation. Requires the President and each Congressional committee to recommend such programs. Directs the Budget Committees of each House to incorporate such recommended programs into a resolution for consideration by each House. Sets forth the criteria for evaluating each program continued in such an approved resolution, including an assessment of the degree to which the program attained Congressional objectives, and an analysis of the services which could be provided if the program were continued at a lower or higher level. Permits Congressional committees which have jurisdiction over common programs to conduct a joint evaluation of any such program. Requires each committee conducting an evaluation to submit to Congress a report on its findings during the session of Congress in which the review date for the program occurs. Directs the President to submit to Congress an evaluation and recommendations concerning each program. Title IV: Citizens' Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government - Establishes, as an independent instrumentality of the United States, the Citizens' Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government to conduct a nonpartisan study and investigation of the organization and methods of operation of all departments, agencies, independent instrumentalities, and other authorities of the Executive branch of the Government, and to make such recommendations as it determines are necessary to promote economic, efficient and improved services in the transaction of public business. Requires the Commission to submit interim reports to the President and the Congress, and to submit a final report with its findings and recommendations. Requires the Comptroller General to report once a year for two years on the status of actions taken as a result of the report. Specifies the composition of the 18-member Commission and sets forth the duties and powers of the Commission. States that the Commission shall cease to exist 90 days after submission of its final report. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Title. 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. Requires each agency which administers a program scheduled for review, if requested by Congress, to submit a report setting forth the regulations to be retained, eliminated, or modified if the program is reauthorized. Requires the Comptroller General to furnish Congress with the results of prior audits and reviews of programs being reviewed under this Act. Sets forth House and Senate procedure for the consideration of a sunset reauthorization bill. Stipulates that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to specified agencies until January 1, 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Entitles a qualified, nonprofit, senior citizens organization to the reduced postal rates in effect for other qualified nonprofit organizations (currently third class mail rates).
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to require that aged, blind, or disabled aliens, as defined in title XVI, must have resided in the United States during the three years immediately preceding application for benefits under title XVI. Exempts from the three-year requirement those aliens: (1) who are political refugees into this country; (2) who have been excused from the support agreement under the Immigration and Nationality Act; or (3) certain blind or disabled individuals. Stipulates that such three-year requirement shall apply only to aliens applying for supplemental security income benefits under title XVI. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to stipulate that no immigrant shall be admitted into the United States unless: (1) at the time of application for admission, a support agreement exists which states that the immigration sponsor shall provide such financial support as is necessary to maintain the immigrants' income at a dollar amount equal to the dollar amount such immigrant would receive under title XVI of the Social Security Act if aged, blind, or disabled; or (2) such immigrant presents evidence of other means to provide the required support; or (3) such immigrant is designated as a political refugee without available means of private support. Authorizes the Attorney General, the immigrant, or any State which is making payments to such immigrant under any program based on need, to enforce such agreements in a civil action. Declares a support agreement excused and unenforceable if: (1) the sponsor dies or is adjudicated as bankrupt; (2) the alien becomes blind or disabled from causes arising after admission to the U.S.; (3) the sponsor can affirmatively demonstrate that his or her financial resources have diminished beyond the sponsor's control and that the sponsor is financially incapable of supporting the alien; or (4) judgment cannot be obtained in court because of circumstances unforeseeable to the alien at the time of admission.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Repeals the Gun Control Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the categories of deportable aliens foreign students who knowingly participated in a political demonstration resulting in, or intending to result in, injury or damage to another's person or property. Permits the Attorney General to suspend deportation of such students.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Mail Delivery to Physically Handicapped Act of 1981 - Requires, upon approval of an application which includes a physician's certification of need, the delivery of mail to the door of handicapped individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to require the inclusion of professional registered nurses in Professional Standards Review Organizations of medical professionals. Requires the inclusion of two professional registered nurses on the Statewide Professional Standards Review Councils. Requires the inclusion of three professional registered nurses on the National Professional Standards Review Council. Includes professional registered nurses in that class of health care practitioners which may not be held civilly liable for action taken in compliance with or reliance upon norms of care and treatment applied by a Professional Standards Review Organization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment for psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance program. Amends title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to require that psychologists be included in any appointed Professional Standards Review Organization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include the services of licensed practical nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include medical or other remedial care, as defined by State law, furnished by licensed registered nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requires the use of the current assessed values of Federal property in determining the eligibility of a local educational agency for Federal compensation for the revenue the agency fails to receive because of Federal acquisition of such property.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to lower the age at which specified railroad employees, their spouses, or their surviving spouses are entitled to an annuity from age 60 to age 55.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to provide assistance for the treatment of epilepsy. Authorizes necessary appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to extend, from five to ten years, the period during which a spouse or mother becoming eligible for a Government pension may qualify for an exemption from provisions of the Social Security Amendments of 1977 requiring a reduction in such spouse's or mother's OASDI benefits based on receipt of a Government pension.