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United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Designates the week of May 11 through May 17, 1985, as Handicapped Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Designates the week beginning October 27, 1985, as National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to impose a duty on uranium hexafluoride (UF6) that is imported for use in U.S. reactors and is a product of a country that requires that uranium mined in that country be converted or upgraded into uranium hexafluoride (UF6) before its export. Provides for the termination of such duty by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1990, the duty on 3,7-Bis(dimethylamino)-phenazathionium chloride (methylene blue).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide, through December 31, 1990, duty-free treatment of 1,1-bis (4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-2-trichloroethanol (dicofol).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through a three-year period beginning on the 15th day after the enactment of this Act, the duty on machines used to prepare wool.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend, through September 30, 1988, the suspension of duty on p-hydroxybenzoic acid.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
Designates June 14, 1985, as Baltic Freedom Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Perot Commission on Americans Missing in Southeast Asia to conduct an investigation and report to the Congress its findings with respect to the existence and the release of prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Sets forth specified administrative procedures and powers of the Commission. Requires the Commission to terminate 30 days after the filing of its report to the Congress or on January 3, 1987, whichever occurs first.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal honoring George Gershwin to his sister, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, and a gold medal honoring Ira Gershwin to his widow, Lenore Gershwin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Military Chaplains Faith Balance Act of 1984 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to increase the representation of underrepresented religious faiths among armed forces chaplains.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take appropriate action to: (1) enforce U.S. rights under international agreements to which Japan is a party; and (2) obtain the elimination of Japanese acts and policies which deny benefits to the United States under such international agreements and which burden or restrict U.S. commerce. Directs the President, within a specified time, to: (1) report to the Congress and give notice of the actions the President has decided to take to accomplish such objectives; and (2) implement all such actions. Declares that such actions should at least negate the cumulative impact that the elimination or relaxation of the voluntary restraints on Japanese automobile imports will have on the merchandise balance of trade between Japan and the United States. Declares that action taken to accomplish this objective should be directed against competitive Japanese exports, including automobiles, telecommunication products, optical fibers, textiles, and electronic products. Declares action taken to accomplish the major objectives of the resolution should be modified or revoked only if the President determines that such minimum objective has been achieved.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an amortization deduction, based on a period of 60 months, for bus operating authorities held by the taxpayer on November 19, 1982, or acquired under a binding contract in effect on that date. Limits the aggregate amount of such deduction to $5,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit members of tax-exempt religious and apostolic organizations to claim a share of any investment tax credit accruing to such organizations from taxable business activity.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the tariff on imported roses. (Makes the U.S. tariff consistent with the tariff imposed by the European Economic Community.)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Establishes the House of Representatives Minority Student Intern Program. Lists the requirements for eligibility under this program.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Nuclear Decommissioning Tax Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a deduction for amounts which are to be used to decommission a nuclear powerplant if the amounts are either: (1) deposited in a Nuclear Decommissioning Reserve Fund; or (2) recorded in an unfunded reserve on the financial books of account of the taxpayer during the taxable year. Provides that the determination of whether the taxpayer uses the Reserve Fund or the unfunded reserve account shall be made by the applicable regulatory body that establishes the taxpayer's rates. Sets limits on the amounts which the taxpayer may pay into the fund or record in the unfunded reserve account. Requires the taxpayer to include in gross income any amount distributed from the Reserve Fund or any unused balance in the unfunded reserve account which is not distributed or used to pay the cost of nuclear decommissioning of a powerplant. Permits an additional deduction for any taxable year for the amount of the nuclear decommissioning costs with respect to which economic performance occurs during such taxable year. Requires the taxpayer to obtain a ruling as to the amount of the deduction allowed for the Reserve Fund or recorded in the unfunded reserve account. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to review, and revise if necessary, such amount at least once during the useful life of the nuclear powerplant. Sets forth rules for the establishment and operation of a Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund or an unfunded reserve account.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985 - Limits the total quantity of 1985 imports of textiles and textile products from a major exporting country to the lesser of an amount equal to 101 percent: (1) of the total quantity of textile products imported from such country if the total had increased by six percent annually (one percent annually for wool products) during 1981 through 1984; or (2) if the United States has an agreement with such country providing for an annual growth rate of less than six percent, of the total quantity of such products from such country imported during 1984. Limits the total quantity of 1985 imports of textiles and textile products from an exporting country to an amount equal to the total quantity of such products imported from such country during 1984 plus: (1) 15 percent of such quantity in the case of a category that is not an import sensitive category; or (2) one percent in the case of an import sensitive category. Provides for changing the classification of a country, except for a Caribbean country, from an exporting country to a major exporting country if the total textile imports from such country equals or exceeds one and one-quarter percent of all textiles imported into the United States. Sets forth a formula for adjusting the growth of textile imports annually. Sets forth certain minimum quantities of textile imports that all countries shall be allowed to export to the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to enforce this Act. Directs the Secretary, within six months of enactment of this Act, to establish an import licensing system under which an importer of textiles will be required to present an import permit as a condition of entry of such textiles. Directs the President to report to the Congress annually on the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
International Human Dignity and Opportunity Act of 1985 - Title I: Human Dignity Generally - Reaffirms the U.S. policy of prohibiting importation into the United States of goods produced by forced, convict, or indentured labor. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure that such policy is enforced. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit imports of all goods which are determined by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board (established by this Act) to be the product of forced, convict, or indentured labor. Deletes the exception to such prohibition which allows imports of such goods if they are in short supply in the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to oppose any financial or technical assistance by the IMF or any of its facilities to any country which: (1) practices policies of official racial segregation; or (2) is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which supports international terrorism or as a country which has not taken adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking. Authorizes the President to waive U.S. opposition to IMF aid to such a country if national security or humanitarian reasons justify the waiver. Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to repeal certain provisions of such Act relating to apartheid and international terrorism. Declares that if a country is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which does not respect freedom of the press: (1) products from that country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment; (2) that country shall not be eligible to participate in any U.S. program which extends credits, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees; and (3) the President shall not conclude any commercial agreement with that country. Authorizes the President to waive such sanctions against such countries if national security or humanitarian reasons justify the waiver. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President, subject to congressional approval, to waive certain sanctions against communist countries which deny freedom of emigration if the President makes specified determinations. Makes such waiver effective only if it is reported to the Congress and the Congress by a two-thirds vote in each House enacts a joint resolution approving that waiver. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to international organizations and forums in which the Soviet Union participates to demand compliance by the Soviet Union with the Helsinki Accords. Directs the President to report to the Congress any failure of the Soviet Union to comply with the Helsinki Accords and to identify appropriate U.S. responses to Soviet noncompliance. Requires the President to direct the U.S. representatives to international organizations and forums to demand a full accounting of prisoners of conscience. Title II: Foreign Assistance Programs - Prohibits the United States from providing foreign assistance to any country whose votes in the most recent session of the United Nations General Assembly differed from the U.S. position by more than 85 percent. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Prohibits the United States from providing bilateral or multilateral assistance to any country which is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which supports international terrorism. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to delete the prohibition in that Act against providing aid to countries that support international terrorism. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to direct the President to terminate all foreign military sales (currently all such sales, credits, and guarantees) to countries that aid international terrorists. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to suspend all U.S. bilateral and multilateral aid to or for a country if the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board lists such country as a country which has not taken adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Prohibits the United States from providing any foreign assistance to any country which is listed by the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board as a country which does not respect freedom of the press. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security or humanitarian reasons. Directs the President to give preference in allocating funds for food assistance programs to those countries which promote an agricultural sector consisting of small, individually-owned farms. Directs the President to reallocate U.S. economic assistance funds to expand programs designed to increase world food production, especially: (1) programs to increase research and development efforts by the private sector and the academic community; and (2) programs to promote the development of free-market agriculture. Directs the President to coordinate and target food aid and emergency relief programs to areas of countries in which a government engages in a deliberate policy of withholding from or preventing the free passage of food and nutrition to any segment of that same country's population. Title III: International Code for Trade and Democracy - Urges each company which has financial or other business relations with a communist country to implement the following principles: (1) encouraging compliance by such country with specified labor and human rights standards; (2) not providing any goods or technical aid to any business that supports international terrorism or illegal drug trafficking or that is engaged in the illegal acquisition of strategic technology; (3) fostering free market practices; (4) encouraging nondiscriminatory hiring policies; (5) discouraging dumping in western markets of goods that cause significant injury to western producers; and (6) not importing goods which are produced by forced, convict, or indentured labor. Title IV: United States Policy Toward Southern Africa - Prohibits the Government from entering into a contract with and from providing economic assistance to any person who establishes a business in South Africa or operates or controls a business in South Africa and invests in that business after the effective date of this subtitle, unless that person implements the following employment principles: (1) desegregation in any employment facility; (2) equal employment for all employees; (3) equal pay for equal work; (4) establishment of a minimum wage and salary structure; (5) increase in the representation of nonwhites in managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs; (6) improvement of the quality of employees' lives outside the work environment; and (7) implementation of fair labor practices. Authorizes the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board to issue guidelines on the implementation of the principles and to determine whether the affected persons are complying with the employment principles. Requires each affected person to submit to the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board: (1) an annual report on compliance with such employment principles; and (2) such other information as necessary. Requires the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board to establish in South Africa a Compliance Council to: (1) advise the Board concerning the implementation of the employment principles; and (2) monitor compliance with such principles. Sets forth administrative provisions governing the Council. Imposes such contract and economic assistance restriction on persons: (1) who, according to a determination of the Board, are not in compliance with the employment principles; or (2) whose compliance cannot be established because of a failure to provide information to the Board or because of the provision of false information. Requires that Board to issue a list to all Federal agencies of all persons with respect to whom determinations or redeterminations are made. Requires the Board, at least once every two years, to review and redetermine a person's compliance with the employment principles. Provides for judicial review of such determinations or redeterminations. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress on the compliance of affected persons with the employment principles. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this subtitle for national security or humanitarian reasons. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State shall call an international conference of countries that do business with South Africa to develop a collective strategy for a constructive multilateral policy to promote the elimination of the practice of systematic racial discrimination in South Africa. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the limitation on U.S. aid to military or paramilitary operations in Angola. Requires the President to direct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to oppose any settlement negotiated in the United Nations on the independence of Namibia which does not include a guarantee of the full withdrawal of foreign troops from Angola. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should recognize the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) as the legitimate governing authority in Angola. Expresses the sense of the Congress that free elections should be held in Namibia and no specific political organization should be required to participate in those decisions. Title V: International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board - Establishes within the Department of State the International Human Dignity and Opportunity Certification Board consisting of five members appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Board to submit to the President and the Congress annual reports on all foreign countries which shall include lists of those countries that support international terrorism, those that are not taking adequate steps to halt illegal drug trafficking, and those that are not respecting freedom of the press. Grants the Board the responsibility for determining whether imported goods are goods produced in a foreign country by convict, forced, or indentured labor. Requires the Board to carry out its functions under title IV of this Act. Sets forth administrative provisions governing the Board. Directs the Board to report annually to the President and to each House of Congress on its activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1984 to make permanent the rules relating to the allocation of research and experimental expenditures for purposes of determining income from sources within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1985
Defense Cost Reduction Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for the development, use, and joint use of standard equipment, including systems, components, parts, weapons, and automated data processing systems, throughout the Department of Defense. Requires the Secretary to consider cost, performance, reliability, and field maintainability. Directs the Secretary to review and adjust equipment specifications and to require defense contracts to specify functional or performance characteristics rather than method-of-manufacture or design. Directs the Secretary to simplify procurement procedures by replacing regulations with policy guidelines, simplifying contract language, limiting contractor to subcontractor flow down of terms, training procurement personnel, and centralizing procurement. Directs the Secretary to modernize and standardize existing automated data processing systems used for inventory management and control, including changes which would improve the readiness of the armed forces. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by December 1 of every year after 1984 on the progress of equipment standardization, procurement simplification, and inventory and management, including information on which equipment has been standardized and training improvements. Revises the commencement dates of military pensions for certain members of the uniformed services. Sets forth a formula for the computation of the military pension of a person who first became a member of a uniformed service after the enactment of this Act. Reduces the amount of such pension for a person who has completed fewer than 30 years of service and elects to receive such pension on the first day of entitlement.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts. Permits the Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Requires the President and the Congress to ensure that actual outlays do not exceed the outlays set forth in such statement. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless the Congress passes by a three-fifths vote a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits the Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war or national emergency is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United states except those for repayment of debt principal.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Designates 1985 as the 75th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Reciprocity Incentive for Trade Equality Act - Imposes an import surcharge on articles imported during the period between the date of enactment of this Act and the date of enactment of a specified trade reciprocity bill. Establishes the Trade Consultation Group composed of the members of the congressional trade subcommittees. Requires the Trade Consultation Group to undertake discussions with foreign countries in order to identify and evaluate those actions that would achieve the U.S. negotiating objectives of more open and equitable market access and the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of distortions to trade and commerce. Requires the introduction of a trade reciprocity bill containing the legislative proposals of the Trade Consultation Group if the Trade Consultation Group decides that its proposals, if enacted, will achieve the U.S. negotiating objectives and will impose sufficient conditions to ensure that the foreign country will undertake appropriate actions to achieve those objectives. Provides for expedited consideration of the trade reciprocity bills.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide an exemption from coverage under the social security program for employers and their employees in cases where both are members of faiths opposed to participation in such program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a one percent surtax on all individual gross income and on corporate gross sales for firms reporting more than one billion dollars in sales. Exempts individuals eligible for the credit for the elderly and permanently disabled and the earned income credit. Provides that the surtax will not apply after 1987. Provides that the surtax will not be treated as tax for purposes of the alternative minimum tax. Calculates the gross receipts of foreign corporations subject to the surtax by taking into account only gross receipts effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States. Establishes within the Treasury the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund. Transfers amounts received from the individual and corporate surtax to the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund. Requires an annual report to the Congress by the Congressional Budget Office stating: (1) the amount of the revenue raised by these surtaxes; and (2) the impact of such surtaxes.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Declares that the House of Representatives deplores the denial of the rights of Hungarians and people of other nationalities in Transylvania by the Romanian Government. Requests the President and the Secretary of State to discuss the human rights of the Hungarians in Transylvania with the Government of Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1985
Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to revise restrictions on certain imported vehicles that do not conform to Federal standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to exempt certain motor vehicles or equipment from such restrictions for purposes of research, investigation, study, demonstration, training, national security, competitive racing events, or completion in the United States of an incomplete foreign-built vehicle or equipment item. Authorizes the Secretaries of Transportation and of the Treasury to promulgate joint regulations which authorize the importation of non-conforming vehicles or equipment if an individual has never imported such a vehicle before and seeks to do so for personal use to meet unforeseen cases of extreme hardship or extraordinary circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1985
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to allocate takeoff and landing rights by sale to air carriers and commuter air carriers at Washington National Airport. Directs the Administrator to promulgate, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, rules for the sale of takeoff and landing rights at such Airport. Establishes two categories for the sale of takeoff and landing rights: (1) commuter air carriers; and (2) air carriers other than commuter air carriers. Prohibits the transfer of air carrier rights from one category to the other, but permits the transfer of such rights within the same air carrier category. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress regarding the allocation of takeoff and landing rights by sale.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of gambling winnings which are subject to the withholding of tax. Increases such amount from $1,000 to: (1) $2,000 in 1985 and 1986; (2) $3,000 in 1987; (3) $4,000 in 1988; and (4) $5,000 in 1989 and thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a six-year term for the offices of President and Vice President and prohibits any person from being elected to such offices more than twice. Declares the term of office of a Representative to be three years. Prohibits a person from being a Senator if such person has been a Senator throughout the immediately preceding three terms, or from being a Representative if such person has been a Representative throughout the immediately preceding six terms. States that such prohibition does not prevent any person from filling a congressional vacancy during a term.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a one percent surtax on all individual gross income and on corporate gross sales for firms reporting more than one billion dollars in sales. Exempts individuals eligible for the credit for the elderly and permanently disabled and the earned income credit. Provides that the surtax will not apply after 1987. Provides that the surtax will not be treated as tax for purposes of the alternative minimum tax. Calculates the gross receipts of foreign corporations subject to the surtax by taking into account only gross receipts effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States. Establishes within the Treasury the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund. Transfers amounts received from the individual and corporate surtax to the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund. Requires an annual report to the Congress by the Congressional Budget Office stating: (1) the amount of the revenue raised by these surtaxes; and (2) the impact of such surtaxes.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1985
Requires the containers of imported preserved mushrooms to indicate in English the country in which the mushrooms were grown in order to comply with labeling laws relating to imports.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the duty on waterbed mattresses, liners, and parts thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the repayment of the increased excise tax imposed on fuel used in diesel-powered automobiles or light trucks. Sets the amount of such repayment at six cents per gallon. Reduces such repayment amount by repayments payable as of December 31, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1985
Biennial Budgeting Act of 1985 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish a two-year cycle for the presidential and congressional budget process. Requires each standing committee of Congress to review the laws and programs under its jurisdiction every other year and to consider the desirability of new legislation in such areas. Eliminates provisions requiring a second concurrent resolution on the budget. Permits revisions only in new spending authority, revenues, and the public debt limit through the reconciliation process.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the excise tax on transportation by air the transportation of an injured or ill person by an air ambulance which: (1) contains special equipment for purposes of transporting injured or ill persons and is used predominantly for the transportation of injured or ill persons; or (2) must have its seating modified to accommodate such persons. Exempts from such excise tax any air transportation by a helicopter which does not use federally assisted facilities. Exempts from the excise tax on aviation fuels any fuel sold for use in such an air ambulance or helicopter.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase, for a three year period, the duty on sheet vinyl flooring.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1985
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the Department of Justice (Administrator) to make grants to States for the purpose of establishing, operating, or expanding Missing Children Information Clearinghouses. Limits the grants to 50 percent of the costs of establishing and operating the Clearinghouse. Requires any State Clearinghouse to: (1) work in conjunction with the National Crime Information Center; (2) educate parents, children, and community agencies; (3) provide public information to assist in locating missing children; (4) publish a directory of organizations that provide assistance in locating missing children; (5) establish an in-State toll-free line for reporting missing children; (6) work with other public and private organizations; and (7) work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Allows the Administrator to prescribe rules necessary to carry out this Act. Grants the Comptroller General of the United States access to any books, documents, or records of any State receiving assistance for the purpose of audit. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1985
Repeals the requirement added by the Tax Reform Act of 1984 relating to the maintenance of contemporaneous records with respect to: (1) business travel expenses, including automobile expenses; (2) business entertainment expenses; and (3) expenses for gifts.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1985
Amends the Steel Import Stabilization Act to direct the U.S. Trade Representative, in negotiating with Japan and South Korea on steel products import limits, to negotiate the apportionment of the aggregate limit among specified subcategories of steel products. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to apportion the aggregate limit if such negotiations are not successfully concluded within 30 days of the enactment of this Act. Sets forth such subcategories.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
National Observance Advisory Act - Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on National Observances to establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed national observance be approved or disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
National Dividend Act of 1985 - Establishes a program for the distribution of corporate income tax, capital gains tax, and insurance company income tax revenues to the registered voters of each State in the form of dividend payments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the chief financial officer of each State an amount equal to the National Dividend Payment, as computed under this Act, multiplied by the number of registered voters in such State. Establishes the National Dividend Payment Trust Fund. Directs the payment of specified amounts to the Trust Fund between FY 1986 and 1989. Establishes a National Dividend Review Board to review the manner in which payments are made from the Trust Fund and to make investments of trust funds which are not required to meet current expenses. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income all dividend income, including dividends received under this Act, received by a taxpayer from a domestic corporation. Increases the income tax deduction to corporations for dividends received on the preferred stock of a public utility. Prohibits an increase of corporate income tax rates above 46 percent. Limits increases in Federal expenditures during the five-year period beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act to an amount which is attributable to inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Designates the week of May 1 through May 7, 1985, as National Osteoporosis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts. Permits the Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Requires the President and the Congress to ensure that actual outlays do not exceed the outlays set forth in such statement. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless the Congress passes by a three-fifths vote a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Requires the President, prior to each fiscal year, to transmit to the Congress a proposed statement of receipts and outlays for that year consistent with the provisions of this article. Permits the Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Designates 1985 as the Year of Social Security.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1984
SELF-Tax Plan Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide lower income tax rates for individuals, estates, and trusts, and to reduce the number of tax brackets to four (three for estates and trusts). Repeals all the nonrefundable personal tax credits available to individuals. Repeals the earned income credit. Limits to corporations the availability of the tax credit for clinical testing expenses for drugs, the tax credit for producing fuel from nonconventional sources, the tax credit for increasing research activities, and the general business tax credit. Repeals all exclusions from gross income except certain listed exclusions. Repeals provisions relating to dividend reinvestment in public utilities. Limits the amount of scholarship and fellowship awards which may be excluded from gross income to the amount of tuition and related expenses. Provides that payments for teaching, research, or other services may not be excluded as scholarship or fellowship amounts where the teaching, research, or other services are not required of all candidates for a particular degree as a condition to receive such degree. Repeals the qualified tuition reduction exclusion. Makes certain exclusions available only to corporations. Repeals all itemized deductions for individuals and corporations except certain listed deductions. Repeals the additional personal exemption for age and blindness. Repeals the deduction for all consumer interest other residential property interest. Includes in the gross income of an individual any unemployment compensation or any government or welfare assistance benefits. Provides that certain employee benefits shall be taken into account in computing FICA taxes, railroad retirement taxes, unemployment taxes, and withholding taxes. Repeals the tax exemption for deposits into, and withdrawals from, the capital construction fund under the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Repeals the capital gains deduction for individuals. Limits the individual deduction of capital losses to a maximum of $3,000. Eliminates the distinction between short-term and long-term gains and losses based on holding period. Sets forth capital gains and losses provisions which are applicable only to corporations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study on how the incorporation into the tax system of certain tax principles relating to the taxation of income from a trade or business, the taxation of corporations, the elimination of preferential tax treatment for specific industries, and the taxation of individuals would affect the national economy, Federal revenues, and the competitive balance between corporations and unincorporated trades and businesses.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1984
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the duty on vinyl sheet flooring.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the repayment of the increased excise tax imposed on fuel used in diesel-powered automobiles or light trucks. Sets the amount of such repayment at six cents per gallon.
United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide an exemption from coverage under the social security program for employers and their employees in cases where both are members of faiths opposed to participation in such program.