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United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1985
Recognizes the contributions made by members of the Airborne Ranger companies who served in the Korean conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Older Americans Food Stamp Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit elderly or disabled food stamp recipients to use food stamps at restaurants (currently limited to private establishments that contract with the State agency and provide concession-price meals). Permits recipients who are unable to purchase and prepare their own meals to be considered as a separate household regardless of the income level of the caretaker family. Allows an elderly or disabled recipient to deduct as a medical expense the excess costs of a physician-advised special diet. Makes supplemental security income and aid to families with dependent children recipients categorically eligible for food stamps. Makes the monthly medical expense threshold the lesser of $35 or five percent of gross income (currently $35 a month). Raises financial resource ceilings from: (1) $1500 to $2250 for nonelderly households; and (2) $3000 to $3500 for elderly households. Authorizes recipients to maintain separate burial funds of up to $1500. Requires (50 percent reimbursed) outreach programs for the elderly and disabled. Provides for food stamp program and application information to be available at Social Security Administration offices.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Designates the square dance as the national folk dance for 1985 and 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1985
Narcoterrorism Information Rewards Act of 1985 - Authorizes the Attorney General to reward any individual who furnishes information leading to the arrest or conviction of any individual who killed or kidnapped, or conspired to do so, any U.S. officer or employee (or family member) on account of his or her official duty involving drug enforcement. Grants a reward to any individual who furnishes information leading to the prevention or frustration of such a kidnapping or killing. Authorizes the Attorney General to determine the amount of such reward. Allows the Attorney General to protect the identity of a recipient, if necessary. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1985
Fair Insurance Coverage Act - Prohibits any insurer from discriminating in an insurance contract against any person because of blindness. Includes within the prohibition refusing to make or negotiate a contract for insurance or giving different treatment with respect to terms, conditions, rates, or benefits because of blindness. Establishes a preference for State actions prior to judicial enforcement under this Act. Authorizes any aggrieved person, in the absence of State actions or jurisdiction, to bring an action under this Act for individual relief. Authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to bring an action for injunctive relief whenever there is reasonable cause to believe a person is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination or when an individual is aggrieved and an issue of general public importance is raised. Grants the Federal district courts jurisdiction of such actions regardless of the amount in controversy. Allows a court to order monetary, equitable, or other appropriate relief, including punitive damages.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1985
Directs the President to ensure that no agricultural commodities provided under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 are transported on any vessel owned by South Africa or any citizen or national of South Africa or on any vessel registered under the flag of South Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1985
Designates the month of November 1985 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1985
Designates August 13, 1985, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1985
Older Workers' Pension Rights Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code to require pension plans to allow: (1) participation by employees nearing retirement age; and (2) benefit accrual by participants to continue past normal retirement age.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1985
Reproductive Health Equity Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the Peace Corps Act, the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, and other Federal laws covering armed forces personnel and dependents and Federal employees' health benefits to provide that services related to abortion be made available in the same manner as are other pregnancy-related services under federally funded programs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1985
Obstetric Care Information Act - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to require a State plan under such title to insure that a pregnant woman: (1) has the opportunity, upon her request, to inspect, copy, and have explained any medical records relating to her condition or treatment; (2) is informed, beforehand, of the side effects, risks, contraindications, and effectiveness of the procedures, drugs, or devices, and of alternative methods of treatment; and (3) consents to treatment. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish guidelines with respect to the explanation of the side effects, risks, contraindications, and effectiveness of drugs and devices intended for use by pregnant women. Deems misbranded any drug or device offered for sale to a woman for use during pregnancy or parturition which does not meet such guidelines.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1985
Designates the week beginning on October 20, 1985, as Benign Essential Blepharospasm Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1985
Education Improvement for Pacific Islands and Territories Act - Requests the President to invite Pacific Island participants (i.e. Fiji, Papua New Guinea, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau) to participate with the United States in the establishment of the Institute for Pacific Islands Education. Authorizes the President to use funds appropriated pursuant to this Act to assist the establishment and initial development of the Institute. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Institute should: (1) be an educational center located at the University of Guam and financed in part by that University; and (2) have specified functions relating to faculty development, administration, and improvement of the universities, colleges, and secondary schools of the Pacific Island participants. Directs the President to encourage increased enrollment at U.S. institutions of higher education in courses of study in faculty development or university, college, and secondary school administration by individuals from Pacific Island participants who indicate a commitment to return to their respective Pacific Island participants and improve the universities, colleges, and secondary schools there. Directs the President to identify appropriate individuals for such enrollment and provide information to them with respect to that course of study. Authorizes the President to pay transportation and living expenses for up to 50 such individuals at any one time who are enrolled in such course of study. Declares that the President should encourage such individuals who enroll in such course of study to spend a period of residence at the Institute. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1985
Acid Deposition Control Act of 1985 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish an interstate transport and acid precursor reduction program. Designates an acid deposition impact region comprising a long-range transport corridor of 31 States east of the Mississippi and the District of Columbia. Sets forth sulfur dioxide emission reduction standards for such region of ten million tons below 1980 levels by the beginning of 1996. Requires such reduction to be accomplished in two phases, half the reductions to be made by the start of 1991. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force to conduct an accelerated research program during the first phase, examining the pattern of effects of atmospheric loading of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1990, the program itself to be completed by the start of 1990. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the results by the start of FY 1991. Authorizes the Administrator to change the second phase of the reduction program, based upon first-phase research, in any of the following areas: (1) excluding or including States; (2) restricting reallotment of reductions among States; (3) altering individual State targets; and (4) requiring reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions. Requires alterations to be made through public rule-making and after notice to the Congress, demonstrating increased protection. Requires impact region States to reduce their sulfur dioxide emissions in two phases to achieve a rate of no more than 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million British thermal units (Btus). Grants credits for reductions achieved after 1980 and permits States to reallot reductions among themselves unless otherwise prohibited. Requires State Governors to submit to the Administrator for approval two-phase reduction plans and compliance schedules. Directs the Administrator to establish reduction standards for any major source in noncompliance with its own plan or in a State without an acceptable emissions reduction plan. Requires owners or operators of major sources of sulfur dioxide emissions to submit to the Administrator reduction plans for such emissions if their State does not have an approved plan. States that failure to do so constitutes an emissions violation. Sets forth alternative methods of maintaining emissions limitations in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures if such measures are enforceable by entities and persons other than the State in which the emissions occur: (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (2) retirement of major stationary sources at an earlier than provided for date; (3) investments in energy conservation where emission reductions can be identified with such investments; (4) trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions through emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions; (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels; and (6) fuel substitution. Directs the President and the Secretary of State to negotiate emissions reductions with the Governments of Canada and Mexico to protect U.S. air from pollution from foreign sources. Directs the President to report periodically to the Congress on progress made. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress within four years on a study of long-range transport of pollutant problems in the remaining States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the emission limitation and enforceable measures adopted by the States or major stationary sources and approved by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to develop and report to the Congress within four years on an inventory of sources of oxides of nitrogen in the impact region, control methods, and recommendations for emissions standards.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1985
Fair Employment Relations Resolution - Title I: Amendments to House Rules - Amends rules XI and XLIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit discrimination against the handicapped in the hiring or discharge of House employees. Title II: Fair Employment Relations Board - Establishes the House Fair Employment Relations Board to: (1) make policies and guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of such rules; (2) supervise the operation of the House Fair Employment Relations Office; and (3) hear and determine complaints alleging violations of such rules. Title III: House Fair Employment Relations Office - Establishes the House Fair Employment Relations Office, headed by a Director (appointed by the Board), to: (1) develop procedures to implement the policies and guidelines of the Board; and (2) report to the House on information maintained on each category of individuals afforded equal employment opportunity by such rules. Directs the Office to utilize such information to identify discriminatory wage-setting practices. Requires the Office, upon request, to recommend to House committees improvements in their employment practices. Directs the Office to report to the House, by January 3, 1985, on the continuation or improvement of the procedures for settling complaints. Title IV: Complaints of Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity - Sets forth procedures for individuals who allege discrimination in violation of rules XLIII or XI, including counseling and conciliation, formal complaints and hearings, and appeals to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Title V: General Provisions - Requires the cooperation of committees and offices with the Board, the Office, and the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should grant a posthumous full, free, and absolute pardon to Marcus Garvey for any offenses for which he was convicted.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 1985 - Establishes within the Department of Justice a program to fund State medical malpractice programs. Requires States to establish medical malpractice screening panels (Panels) to receive such funding. Grants such Panels original and exclusive jurisdiction to hear all claims of medical malpractice which are not against the United States. Sets forth the powers of such Panels. Provides rules governing Panel decisions. Requires Panel decisions to be made within 30 days after a hearing. Empowers the Panel to determine the amount of damages owed to the claimant by each liable defendant and enter an order against such defendants. Directs States to provide judicial enforcement of such award if not paid promptly. Limits any court proceeding to enforce an order to pay an award to the issue of whether such payment was made according to the terms of the order. Directs each State to permit recovery for noneconomic losses. Limits recovery for such losses to $250,000. Specifies damage award payment methods. Permits any party to appeal the decision of the Panel to a State court of appropriate jurisdiction within 60 days. Entitles the appellant to a trial de novo where such court finds the Panel decision clearly erroneous. Grants such appellant the right to a trial by jury. Requires the Panel or court to transmit to the State insurance commissioner and appropriate licensing body within 30 days a report on: (1) the Panel's or court's findings; and (2) any settlement agreement. Requires the State insurance commissioner to make such reports available for public inspection and to notify each malpractice insurance provider within the State. Allows malpractice insurance providers to adjust their rates for: (1) persons found liable; and (2) persons who entered into three or more settlement agreements that required payments to claimants. Limits attorney's fees. Subjects an attorney who accepts excess payments to civil liability. Directs each State to provide that any member or employee of the Panel shall be immune from suits for defamation, libel, or slander arising from the performance of official duties. Directs the Attorney General to make specified payments to States for: (1) malpractice screening Panels; (2) malpractice studies; and (3) the development of health care facility risk management programs. Directs the Governor of a State receiving such funding to report to the Attorney General on the use of such payments. Provides that decisions of the Attorney General regarding compliance with the requirements of this Act and the allocation and repayment of funds shall be final and not subject to judicial review. Authorizes appropriations beginning in FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to revise the humane standards for animals transported in commerce. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate standards to govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals by dealers, research facilities, and exhibitors. Requires each research facility to establish an institutional animal study committee with sufficient expertise to assess the appropriateness of animal care and treatment in experimental research. Requires the committee at each facility to: (1) inspect at least semiannually all animal study areas and animal areas and animal facilities at the research facility; (2) file an inspection certification report of each inspection at the research facility; (3) notify the administrative representative of the research facility of any deficiencies; and (4) notify the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the funding Federal agency if such deficiencies remain uncorrected. Requires each research facility to provide for annual training in the humane treatment of animals for scientists, animal technicians, and other personnel involved with animal care and treatment in such facility. Directs the Secretary to establish an information service at the National Agricultural library to provide information on improved methods of animal experimentation, including: (1) employee training; (2) preventing unnecessary duplication of animal experimentation; (3) reducing or replacing animal use; and (4) minimizing pain and distress. Requires funding Federal agencies to revoke Federal support for a project if it is determined that conditions of animal care, treatment, or practice in a particular project have not been in compliance with standards promulgated under this Act. Requires the Secretary to inspect each research facility at least once each year. Requires such follow-up inspections as may be necessary until all deficiencies which may be found are corrected. Imposes penalties for the release of any confidential information or trade secrets by any member of an institutional animal committee. Increases penalties for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Designates August 14, 1985, as Social Security Day and the week of August 11 through August 17, 1985, as Social Security Week. Authorizes and requests the President to commemorate August 14, 1985, as the 50th anniversary of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Establishes the House of Representatives Foreign Student Intern Program. Lists the requirements for eligibility under this program.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States, in its endeavor to help developing countries to preserve the health of environmental systems and to promote global peace and security, should maintain the level of its contribution to the United Nations Environment Program at no less than the amount of its 1973 contribution.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to formulate a program known as the Indian Juvenile Treatment Program for the treatment of Indian juvenile drug and alcohol abuse, including post-treatment counseling, and to coordinate such program within existing general programs for the treatment and control of alcoholism and drug abuse. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior to share resources, including field facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate existing funds or personnel of an existing or new program to designated "crisis areas" on an emergency basis. Requires the Secretary to establish an Office of Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse within the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration which shall integrate the Program with the programs and authorities of the Department of Health and Human Services in the field of alcohol and drug abuse. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretaries of the Interior and of Education to coordinate their departmental efforts and programs related to Indian juvenile alcohol and drug abuse. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Interior and of Education, to develop a program of training in: (1) the identification of juvenile alcohol and drug abusers; (2) preventive education, health promotion, and disease prevention; and (3) counseling techniques on juvenile alcohol and drug abuse. Requires such training to be made available to elementary and secondary teachers and counselors at specified schools. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for such program. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services, to review existing materials on juvenile alcohol and drug abuse, including studies and school curricula relating to such problems, and to make available the results of such review to such schools. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to require Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools and schools operated under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide alcohol and drug abuse instruction to students in kindergarten and grades one through 12. Requires any training program for community health representatives funded under the Bureau of Indian Affairs to include training on the problems of alcohol and drug abuse, including instruction in crisis intervention, family relations, and the causes and effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, to make available training on such problems to: (1) specified agency and school personnel; and (2) other specified groups upon request. Provides for the certification, by the Secretary, of any person who completes such training for purposes of obtaining academic credit or certification at any post-secondary schools. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to determine: (1) the size of the juvenile population in need of residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment; (2) the definition of a "crisis area" in which the need is critical; (3) where other programs for emergency and long-term treatment should be located; and (4) the cost of such treatment. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement for the operation of any program authorized under this Act with a "participating" tribe or tribal organization. Defines "participating" tribe or tribal organization.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance for economic relief and rehabilitation for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if specified conditions are met. Authorizes such assistance for Northern Ireland if: (1) at least 30 days before the funds are obligated the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) reports to the Congress on plans for the use and disbursement of the funds and the Congress does not object to such plans within 30 days; (2) Great Britain commits itself to discussions aimed at achieving a political solution with all parties in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; and (3) Great Britain declares its intention to withdraw from Northern Ireland. Authorizes assistance for the Republic of Ireland if all the above conditions for aid to Northern Ireland are met and Great Britain includes in its declaration of withdrawal from Northern Ireland its intention to seek or promote reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1986 through 1990. Provides for the establishment of an advisory board that will assist the Administrator of AID in administering such assistance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the European Economic Community should also provide economic assistance to Northern Ireland once a political solution is developed.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require: (1) each State agency to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a statistically reliable sample of cases for purposes of quality control review; (2) the Secretary to analyze such information and notify the State agency of its error rate; and (3) the State agency to develop, submit to the Secretary, and implement a corrective action plan. Directs the Secretary to: (1) waive the requirement of a corrective action plan where a State's error rate has been consistently below the "target" error rate; (2) establish corrective action plan criteria; (3) monitor the implementation of any such plans; and (4) reduce a State's federally funded share of administrative costs if its error rate exceeds "target" rates. Provides with regard to such financial sanctions that: (1) the Secretary may waive such sanctions based on a State's good faith effort to reduce its error rate; (2) sanctions shall be reduced by the amount of collections from allotments to ineligible households or from overissuances to eligible households; and (3) the Secretary waive such sanctions if a State spends the sanction amount on implementation of a corrective action plan. Sets (fiscal year) error rate tolerance levels at five percent adjusted by specified socio-economic factors. Imposes a one-year moratorium on sanctionable food stamp program errors, and a 90-day moratorium on administrative errors. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of client errors and broader performance measures; and (2) report to the Congress within one year.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish regulatory requirements by a certain date in order to ensure that imported motor vehicles are brought into compliance with Federal motor vehicle safety standards. Prescribes guidelines for such requirements. Sets forth a specific time-frame within which the Secretary is required to report to the Congress regarding the efficacy of such regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
College Athlete Education and Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the deduction for a charitable contribution to an institution of higher education for use in the athletic program of such institution or to any other organization for use in supporting the athletic program of such institution unless for the 5-calendar-year period ending with the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the contribution is made at least 75 percent of the scholarship athletes ceasing to be students at such school during such period receive a bachelor's degree after the completion of not more than five academic years.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Designates the week beginning July 27, 1986, as National Nuclear Medicine Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Recognizes Camp Fire, Incorporated for its 75 years of service to our Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Designates the week beginning May 18, 1986, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present gold medals to Jan Scruggs, Robert Doubek, and Jack Wheeler, in recognition of their tireless efforts to give the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Nation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to sell bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Young Astronaut Program Medal Act - Commemorates the Young Astronaut Program by directing the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and deliver to the Young Astronaut Council no more than 750,000 medals with emblems, devices, and inscriptions determined by the Secretary. Authorizes the Council to dispose of the medals at a premium and to have them delivered as required in quantities of no less than 2,000. Directs that no medals be struck after December 31, 1987. Directs the Secretary to set the price of the medals at no less than the manufacturing cost plus a surcharge of ten percent of such cost. Requires the furnishing of security sufficient to fully indemnify the United States for such costs. Directs that the medals be struck in gold, silver, and bronze and in such size or sizes as determined by the Secretary. Gives the U.S. Comptroller General the right to examine the records of the Council which are related to the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Prohibits any person from mining or using any natural resource situated in or originating from Namibia or otherwise removing any natural resource from Namibia without the permission of the United Nations Council for Namibia. Provides for enforcement of such prohibition. Directs the President to try to persuade other governments to adopt restrictions on activities affecting natural resources situated in or originating from Namibia until Namibia has achieved internationally recognized independence. Terminates this Act if: (1) the President certifies that Namibia has achieved internationally recognized independence and that legal authority for Namibia has been transferred from the United Nations Council for Namibia to the lawful government of Namibia; (2) the President submits that certification to the Congress; and (3) a law or joint resolution is enacted approving such certification. Declares that it is U.S. policy that any U.S. person that is sued for damages as provided in a specified United Nations decree relating to the protection of the natural resources of Namibia will receive no aid from the United States in defending against such suit and will receive no compensation from the United States for damages assessed or paid on account of such liability.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Family Economic Security Act of 1985 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require each State to have in operation at any time and to carry out either a work incentive program under part C (Work Incentive Program) of title IV or an employment program demonstration project under part A (General Provisions) of title XI of such Act. Repeals time restriction limitations on demonstration projects. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make annual grants to each State to carry out special programs, projects, and experiments designed to reduce the dependency of AFDC individuals and families, including: (1) supported work programs for long-term adult AFDC recipients; (2) work experiments aimed at easing the transition to jobs in the private sector; and (3) other programs, projects, and experiments designed to reduce AFDC dependency. Provides that grants shall be made only on the basis of a plan submitted to the Secretary by a State and approved by the Secretary. Provides that a grant shall be in an amount ranging from two to seven percent of a State's Federal share under part A of title IV or title XI. Requires reports concerning such grants from a State to the Secretary. Permits a State to transfer up to ten percent of its grant for use in carrying out programs to prevent teenage pregnancies and to assist pregnant individuals and mothers of young children in achieving self-sufficiency. Requires a State to make monthly payments to each family with dependent children in an amount determined by subtracting, after the application of resource and disregard provisions, the family's monthly income from its monthly cash needs standard (equal to one-twelfth of the annual cash needs standard) or from its monthly payment standard (equal to one-twelfth of the annual payment standard). Requires a State to establish for any family with dependent children: (1) an annual cash needs standard; and (2) an annual payment standard specifying the amount of AFDC that the family would receive monthly under AFDC if it had no other income. Requires that, in the case of a family with no income other than AFDC (and reducing such income only by the applicable standard deduction specified by the Food Stamp Act of 1977), each of such standards when added to the total monthly allotments of food stamp coupons equal an amount that places the family at no less than a specified percentage of the poverty level. Provides that such percentage shall be 55 percent for 1986 and rise to 70 percent by 1991. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine the poverty level for each State. Provides for increases in the Federal AFDC contribution to States increasing AFDC benefits. Revises provisions relating to dependent children of unemployed parents. Requires a State to make AFDC payments with respect to dependent children in two-parent families not otherwise eligible. Authorizes a State, with respect to making such payments, to establish appropriate work requirements and related registration and training requirements. Requires State plans to provide that at least one such parent: (1) register for manpower services, training, and employment, if either parent is required to register; and (2) participate in some State job search, training, or work program. Sets forth requirements relating to the provision day care and the payment of the minimum wage. Provides that the Federal AFDC matching rate shall be 75 percent with respect to families that include one or more dependent children. Directs the Secretary to make grants to assist States and localities to establish and carry out programs to: (1) reduce the rate of teenage pregnancies in AFDC families; and (2) help pregnant individuals and mothers of young children in such families, who might otherwise become long-term AFDC recipients, to achieve self sufficiency. Requires applications to be submitted for such grants. Sets forth program objectives and requirements. Provides that a grant shall be in an amount equal to two percent of a State's Federal share under part A of title IV or title XI. Requires reports concerning such grants from a State to the Secretary. Permits a State to transfer up to ten percent of its grant for use in encouraging programs to reduce welfare dependency. Authorizes appropriations. Redefines the term "aid to families with dependent children" so as to include a pregnant woman in any case where the child would be eligible for AFDC in the month of payment if such child had been born and was living with the mother in that month. Disregards the first $100 of unearned income, including payment of benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of such Act, unemployment benefits, and child support payments. Requires a State to periodically reevaluate its AFDC needs standards. Requires a State to provide Medicaid eligibility for one year to an AFDC family following the family's removal from the State's AFDC plan. Permits a State to provide an additional year of Medicaid eligibility. Increases the amount of assets which a family may possess and still receive AFDC. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the type and allowable amounts of resources a family may own while eligible for AFDC. Prohibits including as such resources a home, burial plots, certain real property, and certain licensed vehicles. Revises AFDC earned income disregards. Excludes the first $100 and one-fourth of other earnings. Limits the monthly child care disregard to $320 for a family. Directs the Secretary to: (1) notify all recipients of and applicants for benefits under title II of the Act of the availability of the supplemental security income program (title XVI of the Social Security Act); (2) notify all recipients of and applicants for SSI or AFDC of the availability of food stamps; (3) notify unemployment compensation benefit recipients of the availability of AFDC; and (4) notify food stamp recipients of the availability of AFDC. Increases the SSI benefit. Prohibits the reduction in OASDI widow's and widower's benefits which may occur after a beneficiary attains age 80. Provides for a Federal matching rate of 30 percent for SSI State supplementary payment increases made after May 22, 1985. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for an increase in the earned income credit; (2) provide for the disregard of any needs-based governmental benefit in determining support and maintenance of a household; (3) provide for the disregard of any refund of Federal income taxes made because of the earned income credit for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of benefits under any Federal or State program which receives Federal funds; (4) provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the earned income credit; (5) extend and increase the targeted jobs credit; (6) include food stamp recipients as members of targeted groups; and (7) provide for an increase in the zero bracket amount for heads of households for taxable years beginning after 1985. Requires a State's Medicaid plan to cover SSI recipents.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Korean War Veterans Memorial Act of 1985 - Authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to erect a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Korean war. Subjects the selected site, design, and plans for the construction of such memorial to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs that, upon its completion, the memorial shall be turned over to the Department of the Interior which shall then be solely responsible for its maintenance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1985
Designates June 12, 1985, as Anne Frank Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1985
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to limit eligibility for certain block grants to States which require local firearms registration and also have in effect criminal penalties for the removal or alteration of the importer's or manufacturer's serial number from a firearm.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1985
Prohibits the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from using any Smithsonian Institution funds to make, directly or indirectly: (1) any extension of credit to the Government of South Africa; (2) any extension of credit to, or investment in, any corporation or other business enterprise that is owned (in whole or part) or controlled by the Government of South Africa; and (3) any extension of credit or investment in South Africa. Requires the Board, within one year after the effective date of this Act, to liquidate any such extensions of credit or investments which are in existence on such date. Makes such requirement inapplicable to any extension of credit or investment for which a contract or other legally binding agreement is entered into before the effective date of this Act. Terminates such prohibition and requirements imposed by this Act upon approval by law of any report submitted to the Congress by the Board which contains a determination that the abolition of apartheid has taken place in South Africa and the reasons for such determination.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1985
Military Drug Interdiction Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (upon request from the head of a Federal agency with jurisdiction to enforce the Controlled Substances Act or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act) to assign members of the armed forces under his jurisdiction to assist drug enforcement officials in drug searches, seizures, or arrests outside the land area of the United States. Allows such assistance only if: (1) the assistance will not adversely affect the military preparedness of the United States; (2) the Attorney General verifies that the drug enforcement operation may not succeed without assistance by members of the armed forces; and (3) Federal drug enforcement officials maintain ultimate control over the activities and direction of any drug enforcement operation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1985
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add a new title XII, University-High School Partnerships. (Redesignates the current title XII as title XIII.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for the new title XII, to encourage partnerships between institutions of higher education and secondary schools serving low-income students in order to support programs that: (1) improve the academic skills of secondary school students; (2) increase their opportunity to continue a program of education after high school; and (3) improve their prospects of employment after high school. Requires, for purposes of eligibility for a title XII grant, an institution of higher education and a local education agency to enter into a written partnership agreement. Allows the partnership to include businesses, labor organizations, professional associations, community-based organizations, or other private or public agencies or associations. Requires all partners to sign the agreement. Requires the agreement to include a listing of all participants in the partnership, a description of their responsibilities, and a listing of the resources to be contributed by them. Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve 65 percent of title XII funds for programs operating during the regular school year and 35 percent for summer programs. Limits the amount of such a grant to between $250,000 to $1,000,000. Allows the partnership to use the grant for programs that use college students to tutor high school students and that improve high school students' basic academic skills, their understanding of specified subjects, opportunity to continue a program of education after graduation, and their prospects for employment after graduation. Directs the Secretary, in making such grants, to give preference to: (1) programs which will serve predominantly low-income communities; (2) partnerships which will run programs during the regular school year and the summer; and (3) programs which will serve educationally disadvantaged students, potential dropouts, pregnant adolescent and teen parents, or the gifted and talented. Sets forth grant application requirements. Limits the Federal share of the cost of the project to no more than 70 percent in the first year, 60 percent in the second year, and 50 percent in the third year and any subsequent year.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1985
Tenant Credit Reporting Act - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to include within the definition of "consumer report" any information received from a consumer reporting agency for the purpose of establishing a consumer's eligibility for rental of any property as a principal place of residence. Permits the use of information obtained from a consumer reporting agency in connection with the rental of any property by the consumer as a principal place of residence. Sets forth information which may not be included in any such consumer report, including the consumer's involvement with tenants organizations, any safety or sanitation complaints, any rent abatements, or unadjudicated landlord complaints. Requires a consumer reporting agency that records and retains any information regarding an adverse rental action to make a clear and accurate disclosure to the consumer involved. Sets forth information which a consumer reporting agency must disclose to a consumer when the agency furnishes a report to a person in connection with the consumer's rental of any property as a principal place of residence. Requires the user of a consumer report that results in an adverse rental action to inform the consumer of the name and address of the consumer reporting agency making the report.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1985
Permits the Archivist of the United States to make available for public use all records of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the 94th and 95th Congresses other than those voted to be kept secret or confidential. Requires the guidelines governing disclosure of such records to be those used by the General Services Administration for the records of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) State constitutions and county and city charters should reflect the right of pretrial detainees, convicted misdemeanants, and persons appealing convictions to register and to vote; (2) all registrars should provide adequate voter registration and voting accessibility (voting booths and absentee ballots) to such persons; (3) parole and probation boards consider the rehabilitative value of voting in probation and parole determinations; and (4) voter education for such persons be encouraged.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the imputation rate on seller-financed transactions from 120 percent to 100 percent of the Federal rate. Eliminates the separate testing rate for the determination of imputed interest. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make a determination of the Federal short-term, mid-term, and long-term rates on a monthly basis. Permits the use of a lower rate than the applicable Federal rate where such rate is based on the same principles as the applicable Federal rate and is appropriate for the term of the instrument. Provides that the rate used to test the adequacy of stated interest on the first $2,000,000 of seller financing cannot exceed nine percent. Provides that where the amount of seller financing is greater than $4,000,000, the test rate is 100 percent of the applicable Federal rate. Establishes a blended rate for sales between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 equal to nine percent on an amount which phases out dollar-for-dollar as the amount of seller financing exceeds $2,000,000 and 100 percent of the applicable Federal rate on the excess. Provides that the $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 threshold amounts will be indexed for inflation after 1988. Allows the parties to elect to account for interest using the cash method of accounting where the transaction amount of seller-financing is not more than $2,000,000. Lengthens the recovery period for real property from 18 to 19 years.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the earned income tax credit from 11 percent to 16 percent of the first $5,000 of earned income. Provides for a phaseout of such credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes between $11,000 and $16,000. Provides that governmental payments shall be disregarded for purposes of determining support and maintenance of a household. Provides that any refund of Federal income taxes or advance payment made to an individual by reason of the earned income credit shall not be taken into account as income for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits or assistance under any Federal program or any State or local program financed in whole or part with Federal funds. Provides for cost-of-living adjustments for the amount of the earned income credit and the phase-out thresholds of such credit beginning in 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) retire all circulating U.S. notes of the denomination of $100; (2) issue new notes in such denomination; and (3) provide a ten-day period for the exchange of the circulating notes for the new notes. Requires the name, address, and social security or Federal employer identification number of any holder who exchanges $5,000 or more in notes to be forwarded to the Department of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Designates October 1985 as Learning Disabilities Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an offense for any Federal law enforcement officer to assault or otherwise physically injure an individual by using greater force than is necessary to carry out the officer's official duties. Imposes a fine of not more than $100,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Requires the Attorney General to review each report of such violation and to determine whether a prosecution should not be undertaken.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into agreements with the State of Illinois or appropriate units of local government to permit the joint use of Scott Air Force Base for military and civilian aviation purposes. Renames Scott Air Force Base as the Mel Price Air Force Base and Airport Illinois.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Authorizes the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a monument on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Subjects the Fraternity's design and plans for the monument to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs the Secretary to: (1) select a site for the monument with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission; (2) prohibit its construction unless sufficient funds are available for its completion; and (3) provide for the maintenance of the monument upon its completion. Provides that U.S. funds may not be used to establish the monument. Directs that the authority to establish the monument is contingent upon its construction beginning within five years.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the executive branch should release appropriations for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).