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United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984
Designates the week beginning September 2, 1984, as National School-Age Child Care Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984
Designates July 1984 as National Ice Cream Month and July 15, 1984, as National Ice Cream Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1984
Title I: 15 Percent Increase in Rates - Increases veterans' educational assistance, including assistance for survivors and dependents, by 15 percent. Revises the formula for the reimbursement of administrative expenses to State and local agencies who monitor educational institutions attended by GI bill veterans to increase such allowance. Increases the subsistence allowance rate under the vocational rehabilitation program. Title II: Veterans' Employment in Civil Service - Extends veterans' readjustment appointments in the Federal Government up to and including the GS-11 level (currently fixed at GS-7). Grants a Vietnam veteran so appointed and terminated within the year to the same right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board as is held by a career or career-conditional employee during the first year of employment. Extends such appointments through FY 1987 (currently through FY 1984). Requires the Office of Personnel Management's annual report to Congress on veterans' readjustment appointments to breakdown by agency the number and grade of appointments, the number converted to career or career-conditional appointments, and the number and categories of causes of termination. Requires such report to breakdown such information for all veterans, with a separate breakdown veterans of the Vietnam era who are disabled.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that : (1) the risk for foreign loans should be borne by the lenders and not by the American taxpayers; (2) the Exchange Stabilization Fund should not be used to finance the foreign debt of other countries; and (3) it should not be the policy of the United States to protect the profits of U.S. and foreign banks engaged in international lending.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1984
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that no U.S. taxpayers' funds should be expended or transferred to aid Argentina or Third World nations with outstanding debts without congressional approval.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to remove the requirement that the Director General of the Foreign Service and the person who chairs the Board of the Foreign Service shall be career members of the Senior Foreign Service. Provides that members of the Senior Foreign Service shall be considered management officials for purposes of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and shall be excluded from the bargaining unit.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the delay in the enforcement of a Smoot Hawley Tariff Act provision, which prohibits importation of goods mined or produced wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict, forced, or indentured labor under penal sanctions, is unacceptable to the Congress. Requests the Secretary of the Treasury to end the delay in the enforcement of such provision and immediately prohibit the importation of such goods.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Amends part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a State plan to deny assistance to an individual under age 18 who is not and has never been married and who is responsible for the care of a dependent child (or is pregnant) unless such individual lives with a parent or legal guardian. Makes such requirement inapplicable if: (1) such individual has no parent or legal guardian who is living and whose whereabouts are known; (2) the health and safety of the child or individual would be jeopardized if such individual lived with the parent or legal guardian; or (3) such individual has not lived at home for at least one year prior to the child's birth or making a claim for AFDC.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Designates October 1984 as National Down's Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make the present optional State food stamp workfare program mandatory.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Designates the week beginning June 11, 1984, as National Scuba Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of January 1985 as National Cerebral Palsy Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Permits the President, in the light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors, to permanently reserve from obligation and expenditure any budget authority which is otherwise available for FY 1984 or 1985 to the extent necessary or appropriate to reduce the Federal deficit. Sets forth limitations on such reservations by the President. Requires that at least 25 percent of the total amount of the reservations made by the President for either of the two fiscal years involved be made from appropriations and other obligational authority available for national defense. Provides that no such reservation shall have the objective, or the effect, of eliminating any program or combination of programs which has been specifically authorized by law. Declares that the authority conferred upon the President by this Act shall be in addition to and separate from any impoundment authority granted by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 or any other law and shall not be subject to any restrictions or limitations other than those imposed by this Act. Requires the President, whenever he reserves any budget authority under this Act, to transmit to Congress a special message specifying certain information. Sets forth the procedure for congressional veto of any or all of such reservations by passage of a joint resolution of disapproval by both Houses of Congress within 60 days after notification. Requires the Comptroller General to review each such reservation and inform the House and the Senate whether or not it was made in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Declares that in the administration of any program for which reservation has been made and the distribution of funds is to be determined by a formula, the amount available for expenditure after such reservation shall be substituted for the amount appropriated or otherwise made available in the application of the formula.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Repeals the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code which would include one-half of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits in the gross income of the taxpayer. Provides that one-half of social security benefits paid to nonresident aliens is includible in gross income of the nonresident alien.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
States that the House of Representative supports Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry on May 6, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Designates the month of June 1984 as Veterans' Preference Month.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Designates the month of September 1984 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Revised Statutes) to prohibit the award of damages against any Federal, State, or local governmental entity in any action for the deprivation of rights where the court finds that the officials involved acted in good faith. Amends the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act of 1976 to limit the award of Attorneys' fees in certain civil rights actions. States that attorneys' fees should be awarded: (1) to prevailing plaintiffs unless special circumstances would make the award unjust; and (2) to prevailing defendants if the plaintiff's claim is found to be frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, or that the plaintiff persisted in litigating after it clearly became so, even though there was no subjective bad faith. Allows attorneys' fees where a party prevails on another claim which is merely pendent to a civil rights claim only if the court finds that the civil rights claim has sufficient merit to have justified a separate suit. Prohibits the award of fees for any litigation following rejection of a settlement offer substantially favorable to the prevailing party. Allows fees where a claim is mooted by a change in Government policy only if the pendency of the claim was a material factor for such change. Requires the amount of fees awarded to be based on a reasonable market rate for time reasonably spent on the claims. Prohibits awards based on bonuses or multipliers. Requires the attorney of a party seeking an award of fees to apply to the court with an itemized statement of hours worked, the nature of the work, and the rates charged.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criteria for the imposition of the death penalty for Federal crimes. Requires the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a plea that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury. Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Includes as threshold, aggravating factors for homicide that the defendant: (1) intentionally killed the victim; (2) intentionally inflicted serious bodily injury which resulted in the death of the victim; (3) intentionally participated in an act which he reasonably should have known would create grave risk of death to a person and the victim did die as a direct result of the act; or (4) attempted to kill the President of the United States. Sets forth special aggravating factors with respect to the crimes of treason, espionage, homicide, and attempted murder of the President. Includes among the mitigating factors that the defendant was less than 18 years old at the time of the crime. Directs the court, or the jury by unanimous vote, to impose the death penalty upon a finding that such sentence is justified based on consideration of both the aggravating and mitigating factors. Requires the court to instruct the jury not to consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant in its consideration of the sentence. Limits the circumstances under which the offense of delivering defense information to aid foreign governments is punishable by death. Allows the death penalty to be imposed for the murder of foreign officials and for an offense of kidnapping resulting in the death of any person. Eliminates the death penalty for the crime of rape. Authorizes the death penalty for the crime of attempting to kill the President of the United States if the attempt results in bodily injury to the President or otherwise comes dangerously close to causing his death. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the Court of Appeals, upon considering the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors or the absence of mitigating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination. Provides for the death penalty for murders committed by prisoners in Federal correctional institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Amends the Federal criminal code to impose the death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for murders committed by prisoners serving life sentences in Federal correctional institutions. Requires the Government, for any offense punishable by death, to serve notice upon the defendant a reasonable time before trial or acceptance of a guilty plea that it intends to seek the death penalty and the aggravating factors upon which it will rely. Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant with the approval of the Government, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death. Eliminates the requirement for a presentence report. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading of the jury. Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Directs the jury or the court to consider all the information and return a special finding identifying any mitigating or aggravating factors. Directs the court upon a finding that a sentence of death is justified to impose the death penalty. Requires the court, in any hearing before a grand jury under this Act, to instruct the jury in considering the death sentence to not consider the race, color, national origin, creed, or sex of the defendant. Establishes procedures for appeal from a death sentence. Requires the Court of Appeals, upon considering the record and the information and procedures of the sentencing hearing, to affirm the decision if: (1) the sentence was not imposed under influence of passion, prejudice, or arbitrariness; and (2) the information supports the finding of aggravating factors or the absence of mitigating factors. Requires the court to provide a written explanation of its determination.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the Committee on Appropriations from considering any supplemental appropriation bill unless the request for such appropriation is accompanied by a statement of necessity.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Requires that the U.S. Embassy in Israel and the residence of the American Ambassador to Israel shall be located in Jerusalem.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates June 6, 1984, as D-Day National Remembrance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Requires that such amounts as may be necessary of the Polish currencies held by the United States shall be available for construction of a new facility at the American Children's Hospital in Krakow, Poland, which would be known as the Clement J. Zablocki Outpatient Facility. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) equipping and furnishing such Facility; (2) improving medical equipment at the American Children's Hospital in Krakow; and (3) providing medical supplies to Poland through private and voluntary agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Incorporated to erect a National Law Enforcement Heroes Memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor and recognition of law enforcement officials in the United States who died in the line of duty. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Fund, to select with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial other than expenses incurred in the process of site selection and approval of design and plans.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 6 through May 13, 1984, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Designates the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984, as National Week of the Ocean.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Grants a Federal charter to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Directs the President to designate the month of May 1984 as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Prohibits the importation of any article grown or produced in Iran. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the exportation to Iran of goods, technology, or other information subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Prohibits any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction from exporting to Iran goods, technology, or other information. Exempts from such prohibition exports of food or medicine.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to disapprove any item of appropriation in any bill or resolution, except an item of appropriation for national defense. Requires the President to return with his objections any item of reduced appropriation to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that no administrative or disciplinary action arising out of the terrorist bombing on October 23, 1983, of U.S. forces in Lebanon should be taken against any officer of the armed forces in the chain of command of those forces.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1984
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage for anesthesia services and related care provided by a registered nurse anesthetist.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that any marking on an article imported into the United States that would make a purchaser believe that it was from another country shall be in violation of U.S. labeling laws unless the English name of the country of origin (preceded by specified words) appears legibly and in such a manner as prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require an export license for the export in bulk by tanker of fresh water removed from the navigable waters of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to issue regulations providing for such export licenses. Provides for granting such licenses only if the affected States and local governments concur in the granting of the license and receive reimbursement for the exported water. Permits administrative and judicial review of such export license requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Amends the Social Security Amendments of 1983 to delay until after December 31, 1985, mandatory coverage under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program for employees of tax-exempt religious or apostolic organizations which do not have in effect on January 1, 1984, a waiver certificate (which waives such an organization's exemption from taxation for purposes of the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program).
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Designates January 1 through December 31, 1984, as the Year of Excellence in Education.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Designates the month of April 1984 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Designates the month of June 1984 as Student Awareness of Drunk Driving Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act of 1983 - Title I - The Credit for Increasing Research Activities; ACRS for R&D Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for research and development (R&D) expenditures. Modifies the definition of qualified research for purposes of the R&D credit to narrow the category of eligible activities for which the credit is allowable. Makes depreciation of research equipment eligible for the R&D credit. Eliminates the special three-year accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS) category for research equipment. Increases contract research expenses eligible for R&D credit purposes to 75 percent of the amount paid to others for research on the taxpayer's behalf. Provides that in-house and contract research expenses paid or incurred by a regular corporation will constitute qualified research expenses for R&D credit purposes. Provides that in the case of research being conducted in partnership form, the "in carrying on" test is applied at the partnership level, and the credit is apportioned among the partners in accordance with general partnership rules. Title II - Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education - Establishes a new income tax credit equal to 25 percent of payments to universities for basic research which exceed a fixed, maintenance-of-effort floor. Calculates the maintenance-of-effort floor as the greater of the annual average of university basic research payments over 1982-1983 or one percent of the average annual R&D budget over 1981-1983. Treats the portion of the university basic research payments which is not in excess of the maintenance-of-effort floor as contract research expenses eligible for purposes of computing the regular incremental R&D credit. Allows corporations an income tax deduction for contributions of scientific and technical property or services to an institution of higher education. Defines scientific property to mean computer software or other equipment used in a trade or business, which is donated for the direct education of students and faculty, for research and experimentation, or for research training in the United States in mathematics, the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of the allowable deduction for contributions of scientific property or services. Limits the amount of such deduction to ten percent of taxable income computed without regard to specified deductions. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the scholarships, fellowship grants, student loan forgiveness, or stipends of a graduate student in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or the physical or biological sciences. Specifies that such tax exclusion is not forfeited merely because the student is required, as a condition of the scholarship or fellowship, to perform future service in teaching or research.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
National Observance Advisory Act - Establishes a commission known as 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 · 18 November 1983
Tax Equity for Women Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow married individuals to compute the amount of their income tax deduction for contributions to retirement savings accounts on the basis of the earnings of their spouse. Treats alimony as compensation for purposes of determining an individual's income tax deduction for retirement savings. Grants tax-exempt status to certain organizations which provide nonresidential dependent care to the general public. Increases the income tax credit for household and dependent care services for low and moderate income taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act - Establishes a Commission to be known as the Commission on the Ukraine Famine which shall study the 1932-1933 Ukraine famine in order to: (1) expand the world's knowledge of the famine; and (2) provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Uniform Single Audit Act of 1983 - Amends title 31 of the United States Code to add a new chapter 75 - Requirements for Single Financial Audits. Establishes uniform single financial audit requirements for State and local governments and nonprofit organizations that receive Federal assistance. Directs the President to prescribe policies, procedures, and regulations to implement this chapter. Permits the President to delegate the authority to prescribe policies and procedures to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the responsibility to prescribe regulations to the appropriate executive agencies. Requires the Director of OMB and the appropriate executive agencies to consult with the Comptroller General of the United States in the preparation of such policies, procedures, and regulations. Requires the Director within one year to establish a plan of action to assure that single financial audits are conducted within three years from the enactment of this Act, and thereafter. Requires any entity receiving at least $100,000 in Federal assistance for a fiscal year to conduct at least biennially a single financial audit covering all of its funds. Requires such audits to be conducted by independent auditors in accordance with accepted Government auditing standards. Declares that the total amounts of Federal, State, local, and other assistance, respectively, received from all sources by the entity shall be used in a single financial audit for testing compliance with the financial requirements of such assistance programs. Requires the materiality level selected in the audit for testing to be based on the professional judgment of the independent auditor, except in the case of an individual grant, program, or project that exceeds $30,000,000 (or does not exceed $30,000,000 but does exceed $500,000 or three percent of the entity's total Federal expenditures,) in which case the auditor must apply tests in accordance with this Act. Requires the Comptroller General, for every five year period, to report to specified Congressional committees as to whether such thresholds should be increased. Requires each entity receiving Federal assistance and subsequently making a portion of it available to another entity to ascertain whether a single financial audit has been conducted of the recipient. Permits the use of Federal assistance to pay for such audits. Permits the Director of OMB to arrange an audit of any entity that has failed to comply with the requirements of this Act. States that small business concerns and business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals shall have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the performance of audits under this Act. Declares that single financial audits conducted in accordance with this Act shall fulfill any other financial audit requirement imposed by the Federal government. Requires the Comptroller General to monitor all reported bills of the House and the Senate and review any audit provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Directs the Administrator of General Services to assign to the Secretary of the Interior for use as a public park or recreation area certain portions of the Montauk Air Force Station in East Hampton Township, Suffolk County, New York, that had previously been declared surplus Federal property. Requires the Secretary to convey the property within 30 days of such assignment to the town of East Hampton, New York, for public park or recreation uses.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to introduce before the U.N. General Assembly a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Syrian and Syrian-controlled forces from Lebanon in order to facilitate the return of peace to the country.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1983
Designates July 1 through July 8, 1984, as National Duck Stamp Week, and 1984 as the Golden Anniversary Year of the Duck Stamp.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should return to Cuba those Cuban nationals from the 1980 Mariel boatlift who are excludable because of criminal activity.