Skip to content
PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

Person

Official portrait of Rep. Rowland, J. Roy [D-GA-8]

Rep. Rowland, J. Roy [D-GA-8]

United States · Official source

Records

1,518 records where Rep. Rowland, J. Roy [D-GA-8] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years

Bill· HRH.R. 3865 (99th)referred

Federal Incentives for State Health Care Professional Liability Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985

Federal Incentives for State Health Care Professional Liability Reform Act of 1985 - Establishes a program to provide development and incentive grants to States for enacting medical malpractice liability reforms. Describes the reforms which must be in effect for States to receive incentive grants, including: (1) the manner of payment of damage awards exceeding $100,000; (2) a $250,000 limit on noneconomic losses; (3) the method for determining attorneys' fees; and (4) certain requirements regarding health care professional liability insurance. Requires each State receiving an incentive grant to prepare and transmit a report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services every two years describing: (1) State liability reforms enacted, adopted, or in effect; (2) activities conducted by the State with grants received under this Act; and (3) any current problems with respect to health care professional liability or health care professional liability insurance. Requires the Secretary to transmit periodic reports to the Congress summarizing the information provided by the States. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3807 (99th)referred

Local Signal Carriage Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985

Local Signal Carriage Act of 1985 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that a cable system with 13 or more signals which fails to carry the local primary television broadcast stations on a nondiscriminatory basis shall not be entitled to any compulsory license with respect to secondary transmissions of primary transmissions by licensed broadcast stations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3799 (99th)referred

Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985

Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) increase dollar limits on personal contributions to candidates and their authorized political committees; and (2) decrease the amount one multicandidate political committee may contribute to any other political committee. Limits to $100,000 ($125,000 where two or more candidates qualify for the ballot) the aggregate amount which all multicandidate political committees may contribute to a candidate for the House of Representatives in a general or special election, including any primary election, convention, or caucus relating to such general or special election. Limits to $25,000 the aggregate amount allowed for multicandidate political committee contributions in a runoff election for the office of Representative. Establishes a formula for multicandidate political committee contributions to candidates for the Senate based upon State populations and limited to an aggregate total of $750,000. Requires multicandidate political committees which make independent expenditures for advertisements connected with a candidate's campaign to disclose such information within the advertisement. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require any station licensee which allows a person to broadcast material endorsing or opposing a candidate to provide the candidate opposing the endorsed candidate, or to the candidate opposed by the material, the opportunity to use the same amount of broadcasting time, without charge, during the same period of the day.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 462 (99th)open

A joint resolution to designate May 25, 1986, as "Hands Across America Day", for the purpose of helping people to help themselves, and commending United Support of Artists for Africa for their efforts toward combatting domestic hunger with a nationwide linkup coast-to-coast human chain 4000 miles long.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985

Designates May 25, 1986, as Hands Across America Day. Authorizes and requests the President to commend: (1) United Support of Artists for Africa for their Hands Across America project; and (2) the American people for their commitment to helping people help themselves.

Bill· HRH.R. 3780 (99th)referred

Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1985

Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax credit for contributions to presidential, state, and local candidates, political action committees, and newsletter fund contributions. Allows an income tax credit for congressional candidate contributions. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 for a taxable year ($200 in the case of a joint return).

Bill· HRH.R. 3747 (99th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 30 of title 38, United States Code, to provide for educational assistance for apprenticeship or other onjob training under the All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program.

United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1985

Authorizes educational assistance for apprenticeship or other on-the-job training under the All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program. Limits the amount of educational assistance payable in any one month where the individual pursuing the educational program fails to complete 120 hours of training.

Bill· HRH.R. 3660 (99th)open

Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985

Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985 - Title I: Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System - Establishes a Civil Service Supplemental Retirement Plan for Federal employees, postal employees, and Members of Congress who began service after December 31, 1983. Sets forth provisions for the benefit plan including: (1) eligibility for an annuity after five years of creditable service; (2) entitlements to retirement based on age and years of service; (3) the formulas for computing an annuity; (4) survivor election reductions; and (5) funding. Sets forth provisions for mandatory retirement for air traffic controllers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters. Establishes a Thrift Savings Plan under which participants may contribute up to 10 percent of their annual basic pay. Requires employing agencies to contribute the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of amounts contributed by the employee; or (2) three percent of such employee's basic pay. Provides for the payment of benefits, lump sum or annuity, at the employee's separation from service. Establishes in the Treasury the Thrift Savings Fund for the deposit and accounting of amounts under the Plan. Prescribes how money in such Fund shall be invested. Describes survivor annuities under the supplemental retirement plan. Describes disability benefits for employees who have completed five years of creditable service. Sets forth general and administrative provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to pay all benefits payable under the benefit plan and administer provisions not specifically assigned to another entity. Directs the Office to adjudicate all claims under provisions it administers. Provides for annual cost-of-living adjustments in basic pensions based upon an increase in the Consumer Price Index. Provides for withholding of State income taxes from retirement annuities. Declares that basic annuities, survivor annuities, and disability benefits are exempt from legal process (i.e. levy, attachment, garnishment) unless otherwise provided by Federal law. Establishes in the executive branch the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to be responsible for policies and regulations for, and review of, the investment and management of the Thrift Savings Fund. Directs the Board to establish an Employee Thrift Advisory Council to advise the Board on matters relating to investment policies for the Fund. Directs the Board to appoint an Executive Director to carry out its policies, invest and manage the fund, and administer provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan. Title II: Amendments to Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code - Provides for civil service retirement for certain employees excluded from the supplemental retirement plan. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Federal Employees' Retirement Contribution Temporary Adjustment Act of 1983 to extend its provisions until January 1, 1987. Allows employees covered under such Act to elect participation in the supplemental retirement plan. Title IV: Effective Dates - Declares this Act in effect on January 1, 1987, with specified exceptions.

Bill· HRH.R. 3521 (99th)open

A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to prohibit the conveyance of the right to perform publicly syndicated television programs without conveying the right to perform accompanying music.

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1985

Amends the copyright law to prohibit a copyright holder from conveying the right to publicly perform an audiovisual work on non-network commercial television without simultaneously conveying the right to perform in synchronization any copyrighted music which accompanies such work.

Bill· HRH.R. 3508 (99th)referred

Federal Government Easy Access Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1985

Federal Government Easy Access Act - Requires Federal agency correspondence outside the executive branch to include the name, phone number, and mailing address of individuals to whom responses and inquiries may be made.

Bill· HRH.R. 3473 (99th)referred

Federal-Aid Highway Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1985

Federal-Aid Highway Reform Act of 1985 - Repeals apportionment guidelines for the Interstate System for FY 1957 through 1959 and for FY 1960 through 1990. Repeals the availability guidelines for sums apportioned for certain Interstate priorities. Repeals the authority the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) to transfer upon State request certain amounts apportioned for Interstate System resurfacing. Authorizes the Secretary to apportion and approve certain Interstate System construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a highway on the Federal-aid primary system as part of the Interstate System upon determining that such highway is a logical component to a system serving principal cities, national defense needs and certain transportation modes. Includes as part of the Interstate System any project whose construction costs are included in the Interstate cost estimate for 1985. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for Interstate System resurfacing for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to set aside $1,000,000,000 for Interstate discretionary projects before any apportionment is made for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating and reconstructing the Interstate System. Makes sums apportioned to the States for the Interstate System available for expenditure until the close of the fiscal year for which such sums are authorized (currently such availability is for a period of two years after the close of the fiscal year). Makes sums apportioned to the States for the Interstate System available for construction projects by States in advance of apportionment. States that sums obligated for projects under highway assistance programs for FY 1986 and 1987 shall be available out of the Highway Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Congress revised estimates of the cost of completing substitute highway and substitute urban mass transit projects, and to use the Federal share in making apportionments for such projects for FY 1988 through 1990 upon approval by the Congress. Makes sums available for expenditure for substitute highway projects for FY 1986 through 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to approve as a project on the Federal-aid primary system any project for replacement or rehabilitation of any bridge on the Federal-aid secondary system or Federal-aid urban system. Amends the Highway Improvement Act of 1982 to extend the Federal-aid primary formula for authorizations from FY 1986 to 1990, and to include an authorization formula for deficient bridges in each State. Authorizes appropriations for Federal-aid primary system projects out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and report to the Congress regarding: (1) Federal-aid primary funds apportionment formulas; and (2) national defense and national economic development needs with respect to the Federal-aid primary system routes and projects. Authorizes appropriations for such study for FY 1987. Repeals the Secretary's authority to approve Federal participation in replacing or rehabilitating deficient highway bridges upon State request. Repeals authorizations for such bridges. Requires the Secretary to obligate in FY 1987 through 1990 all funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for bridge replacement and rehabilitation using certain discretionary guidelines. Authorizes appropriations for such bridge replacement and rehabilitation for FY 1987 through 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to make a block grant to each State for FY 1987 through 1990 for highway, mass transportation, and highway safety projects. Sets apportionment and reallocation guidelines. Authorizes appropriations for such block grants for FY 1987 through 1990. Extends from FY 1986 to 1990 the period during which the Secretary shall allocate among the States a minimum percentage of funds apportioned for Federal-aid highway programs. Prohibits the authorization of appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for implementing projects in the Federal facilities highway program. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1987 through 1990. Permits the States to impose tolls on any highway project without payback of Federal-aid highway funds expended on such highway if the State highway department agrees that toll revenues which exceed highway maintenance costs will be used for projects eligible for Federal funds, and if such highway is publicly owned and operated. Sets guidelines for Federal participation in: (1) the construction or reconstruction of new State toll highways; (2) the construction of ferry boats (whether toll or free); (3) construction projects constituting an approach to a ferry (whether toll or free) on the Federal-aid primary or secondary system; and (4) engineering and fiscal assessments, traffic and design analyses to determine whether a privately owned toll road, bridge or tunnel shall be acquired by a State or its political subdivision. Sets an obligation ceiling, with specified exceptions, for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1987 through 1990. Sets allocation guidelines for the distribution of such obligation limitations. Sets obligation limitations upon the States for the first quarter of FY 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) provide all States with authority to prevent lapses of authorized appropriations which have been apportioned for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction; and (2) redistribute Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction funds based upon a determination of which States will obligate such funds and which States will not. Prohibits the Secretary from distributing amounts authorized for administrative expenses and Federal lands highways. Requires the Secretary to reduce the Federal share payable on a Federal-aid highway or Interstate System project according to the percentage requested by the State implementing such project.

Bill· HRH.R. 3349 (99th)referred

National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1985

National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality - Establishes the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality (Commission). States the duties of the Commission, which include: (1) identifying and examining Federal, State, local, and private resources which affect infant mortality; (2) identifying barriers to the health care needed to prevent high infant mortality; and (3) reviewing and carrying forward appropriate recommendations that promote the health status of childbearing women and their infants. Directs the Commission to: (1) recommend a national policy designed to improve the current approach to preventing infant mortality; and (2) recommend specific changes needed in Federal laws and programs. States that the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the Commission. Sets forth the powers of the Commission. Directs the Commission to transmit a report detailing its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress. Provides for the termination of the Commission. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3202 (99th)referred

A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from changing reimbursement levels or methodologies for home health services under the Medicare program prior to October 1, 1986, or during a freeze period.

United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from changing reimbursement levels or methodologies for home health services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act prior to the later of: (1) October 1, 1986; or (2) any freeze period beginning after June 30, 1985, and before October 1, 1986.

Bill· HRH.R. 3081 (99th)open

Judicial Survivors' Annuities Amendments Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1985

Judicial Survivors' Annuities Amendments Act - Amends the Judicial Code to increase the amount that a judicial official has withheld from his or her salary for purposes of the Judicial Survivors' Annuities Fund. Requires funding in amounts necessary to reduce to zero the unfunded liability of such fund. Increases the amount of the annuity received by a surviving widow or widower with children. Increases the amount of the annuity received by the surviving children of a judicial official leaving no widow or widower. Revises the formula used to determine the amount of the annuity given a widow or widower of a judicial official. Makes survivors of the Deputy Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts eligible for annuities under such Act. Makes the benefits conferred by this Act available to any eligible individual. Permits a judicial officer who has participated in the present annuity program to withdraw, in writing, according to specified procedures. Allows such officer, if eligible, to subsequently join the judicial survivors' annuities program created by this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3041 (99th)passed

A bill to provide for the awarding of a special congressional gold medal to Aaron Copland.

United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1985

Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Aaron Copland in recognition of his contributions to American musical composition. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3006 (99th)open

A bill to correct certain inequities by providing Federal civil service credit for retirement purposes and for the purpose of computing length of service to determine entitlement to leave, compensation, life insurance, health benefits, severance pay, tenure, and status in the case of certain individuals who performed service as National Guard technicians before January 1, 1969.

United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1985

Entitles individuals who performed service as National Guard technicians before January 1, 1969, to credit for such service when determining length of service for purposes of civil service retirement, leave, employee death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status.