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United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to extend current offenses involving the use of explosives to include the use of fire.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) graduate and professional students should remain eligible for guaranteed student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965; (2) Congress should provide Pell grant assistance for academic year 1982 through 1983 that fully funds the need analysis criteria of January 6, 1982, in order to provide assistance to 2,600,000 needy students; and (3) Congress should not further reduce the amount of funds available for campus-based student assistance programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 below the levels established by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the commendation of the House of Representatives to the Knights of Columbus on its 100th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
National Park System Resources Evaluation and Management Act of 1982 - Requires the Director of the National Park Service to prepare on a fiscal year basis a biennial State of the Parks report. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to transmit such report every two years to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate. Provides that such report shall include: (1) a description for each national park system unit of the condition of its natural and cultural resources, factors which alter or damage such resources, and ongoing and planned mitigation actions and their results; (2) a description of the systemwide efforts to address the resource protection requirements listed above; (3) a discussion of resource protection and management policies for natural and cultural park resources; (4) a description of the funds and staff to be allocated to such resource protection and management; (5) a discussion of the adequacy of administration budget requests and congressional appropriations in addressing specific mitigation measures; and (6) a description of funding needs with respect to implementing such policies and measures. Requires the National Park Service to solicit public involvement in the preparation of such report. Directs the Director to contract with the National Academy of Sciences for conduct of a study and a continuing advisory function on the protection of natural and cultural park resources. Requires a report based on such study to be submitted to the Director, the Secretary, and the relevant congressional committees. States that funding for such study and the Academy's advisory functions shall derive from funds specifically appropriated for such purpose to the National Park Service. Requires that resource management plans for each national park system unit be prepared and updated continually. Provides that general management plans for each park unit shall be based upon the park's resource management plan. Requires Federal agencies to notify the Secretary before the undertaking on areas adjacent to a park unit of any Federal project which threatens the park's natural or cultural resources. Directs the Secretary to recommend necessary changes for the proposed project within 60 days after receiving such notice. Requires the proposing Federal agency to adopt such recommendations so as to mitigate the adverse effects of the proposed project. Provides for the Secretary to cooperate with, and provide technical assistance to, governmental and other entities to protect national park system resources. Requires the superintendent of each park unit to work with governmental and other entities which influence or control lands, resources, and activities exterior to the park unit to develop a regional plan for the general area under which the activities of all entities can be undertaken in a mutually compatible way. Requires that at least one park unit for each administrative region of the national park system initiate such a regional plan as a pilot program within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides that all park units shall have such programs within two years after enactment of this Act. Requires that each park unit have on its staff a person to coordinate activities with respect to its regional plan. Requires the Director to initiate a training program for park personnel in cooperative land and resource planning. Provides that park units designated as biosphere reserves or world heritage sites shall receive priority attention and consideration for resource data gathering and monitoring, and resource protection efforts. Requires the Director to review the current land classification system for the preservation and use of lands within park units and adopt revisions necessary to assure the maximum protection of park resources, balanced with the use and appreciation of those resources by visitors. Requires the establishment of a public information program on the problems of protecting park resources and the solutions being implemented. Requires that the National Park Service be adequately staffed by personnel with knowledge and expertise in park resource protection and management. Makes scientific research subordinate to the resource protection and management needs of the park units. Requires the development of programs and guidelines for employee training programs, performance standards, qualification criteria, and career ladders in resource protection and management programs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
States that the Federal Government should restore balance to the Department of Energy's FY 1983 budget by maintaining funding for energy conservation, renewable energy, and weatherization programs and by distributing information on conservation and renewable energy.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow either an income tax deduction or credit for expenditures made in connection with the illegal sale of drugs or in connection with other business activities for which a taxpayer is convicted of a Federal felony.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to exclude burial plots and burial insurance policies from the determination of an SSI applicant's resources.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U. S. citizen or national if such individual: (1) is not a permanent resident of the United States; or (2) is outside the United States. Prohibits the payment of title II benefits to any dependent or survivor of such an individual on the basis of such individual's wages and self-employment income. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the benefit involved is payable to such an individual as the dependent or survivor of: (1) a U. S. citizen or national; (2) a permanent resident of the United States; or (3) a U. S. citizen or national residing outside the United States if the relationship required for such individual's entitlement already existed at the time such national or citizen reached age 50. Authorizes the payment of title II benefits to an individual who is not entitled to benefits pursuant to this Act until the total amount of such benefits equals the total amount of any taxes paid on the wages and self-employment income on which the benefits are based.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Requests the President to designate August 14, 1982, as National Navajo Code Talkers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1982 - Title I: Control of Illegal Immigration - Part A: Employment - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it unlawful for a person to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer any alien not authorized to work. Makes following the appropriate verification procedures an affirmative defense for an employer so charged. Sets forth a transitional verification procedure (for the first three years) under which an employer must attest that he or she has examined the alien's identity and work eligibility papers (passport, social security card, etc.). Requires the President to implement a secure verification system within three years. Prohibits the use of this system or any required identification document for other law enforcement purposes. Sets forth graduated civil and criminal penalties for verification violations. Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, to inform employers, employment agencies, unions, and the public about these requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983. Makes it illegal to fraudulently misuse or manufacture entry or work documents (up to $5,000 fine or five years' imprisonment or both). Part B: Enforcement and Fees - Makes it unlawful for a person to knowingly, or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien is not authorized to enter the United States, bring such person into the country (up to $2,500 or one year's imprisonment or both). Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) enforcement activities and resources should be increased; and (2) the Attorney General should use his existing authority under such Act to impose maintenance and operating fees for an alien's use of INS border facilities and services. Part C: Adjudication Procedures and Asylum Inspection and Exclusion - Establishes in the Department of Justice a United States Immigration Board to hear appeals from final decisions of administrative law judges under such Act. Provides that the Chairman of such Board shall appoint these administrative law judges. Grants such judges responsibility over cases of exclusion, deportation, status rescission, and asylum. Requires exclusion appeals to be filed with the Board (rather than the Attorney General) within 15 days. Limits judicial review in exclusion and asylum cases to the question of habeas corpus. Reduces the period for filing a petition for judicial review of final orders of exclusion, deportation, and asylum from six months to 30 days. Revises asylum provisions to: (1) require an alien under an exclusion or deportation order to apply for asylum within 14 days after notice of such order unless changed circumstances in the alien's country cause a change in asylum eligibility; (2) prohibit an alien from reapplying for asylum after having been denied such status unless such changes have occurred; (3) require asylum applications to be heard before administrative law judges having special training in international law; (4) permit legal counsel at asylum hearings; (5) require an alien to be an admissible refugee in order to be granted asylum; (6) place the burden of proof on the applicant; and (7) prohibit the reopening of an application proceeding unless changed circumstances in the alien's county cause a change in asylum eligibility. Requires the President to nominate members of the Board within 45 days. Sets forth administrative and operating provisions for the transfer of asylum proceedings from the existing special inquiry system to the administrative law judge system. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1983. Part D: Adjustment of Status - Prohibits adjustment of status to permanent resident for violators of (nonimmigrant) visa terms. Title II: Reform of Legal Immigration - Part A: Immigrants - Revises numerical limitation provisions to: (1) establish a "family reunification" category of 325,000 (minus the number of prior-year immediate relatives); (2) establish an "independent" category of 100,000 (minus the number of prior-year special immigrants); and (3) permit 40,000 annual entrants each from Mexico and Canada, with each country entitled to the other's unused visas. Sets forth family reunification preference allocations as follows: (1) unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; (2) spouses and children of permanent residents; (3) married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; and (4) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens with already approved visas. Sets forth "independent" preference allocations as follows: (1) aliens of exceptional ability; (2) skilled workers; (3) investors; (4) unskilled workers; and (5) nonpreference workers. Sets forth an interpreference allocation guide. Provides that labor certifications will be granted on the basis of national job market data, and requires a finding that U.S. workers could not be trained (or be presently available) within a reasonable period of time. Includes within the definition of "special immigrant" Amerasian children who: (1) are unmarried and between 14 and 21 years old; (2) were fathered by a U.S. citizen on active duty in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos, and subject to discrimination in such countries; (3) are orphans or have been put up for adoption; and (4) are coming to the United States to be adopted by a U.S. citizen or citizens. Limits such annual entrants to 2,000. Terminates such category after five years. Includes within the definition of "special immigrant" unmarried sons and daughters and surviving spouses of employees of certain international organizations. Part B: Nonimmigrants - Limits (H-2 visa) temporary workers to a maximum stay of eight months per year unless the Secretary of Labor extends such period. Requires an employer petition (to bring in such workers) to certify that: (1) there are not enough U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected. Provides that: (1) employers need not submit such petition more than 80 days in advance of need; and (2) the Secretary must take a decision on a petition within 20 days of need, or else the petition is considered approved. Provides for a seven-day expedited certification. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Agriculture, to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1983 to recruit domestic workers and monitor the nonimmigrant worker program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report on the H-2 worker program to Congress within six months. Prohibits foreign students from adjusting their status to permanent resident unless they are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. Requires foreign students to return to their home country for two years before being eligible to apply for a U.S. permanent resident visa. Authorizes the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to establish a three-year pilot visa waiver program for up to five countries providing a similar benefit to the United States. Sets forth program provisions. Title III: Legalization - Authorizes adjustment of status to permanent resident for specified undocumented aliens who have resided in the United States since January 1, 1978. Authorizes a temporary resident status for Cuban/Haitian entrants and for specified undocumented aliens who have resided in the United States since January 1, 1980. Permits such temporary resident aliens to: (1) work in the United States; and (2) apply for permanent resident status after two years. Makes temporary residents (other than Cuban/Haitian entrants) ineligible for Federal public assistance (other than medical care, aid to the aged, blind, or disabled, and public health). Prohibits the legalization of persons: (1) convicted of a felony or three or more misdemeanors in the United States; or (2) who have taken part in political, religious, or racial persecution. Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with designated voluntary agencies and the Secretary of Labor, to disseminate information about such status legalization program. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Prohibits Federal involvement in the performance of abortions, except when the life of the mother would be endangered if the child were carried to term. Includes the following activities within the scope of this prohibition: (1) performance of an abortion by a Federal agency; (2) use of appropriated funds to perform or reimburse or refer for abortions; (3) use of funds for research or training with respect to abortion; or (4) contracting for insurance which pays or reimburses for abortions. Prohibits any institution receiving Federal funding from discriminating against any employee or student because of such person's opposition to abortion. Declares that for the purposes of the due process clause of the 14th amendment to the Constitution, human life exists from conception without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency, and that "person" includes all human beings. Recognizes the compelling interest of each State to protect the lives of those whom the State regards as human beings, independent of the status of unborn children under the 14th amendment. Provides for expedited Supreme Court review with regard to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to specified congressional committees on the advisability of replacing the Federal individual income tax or such income tax and the Federal corporate income tax with a simplified income tax on gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Directs the President to designate April 12, 1982, as American Salute to Cabanataun Prisoner of War Memorial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Designates the week of April 18, 1982, as National Architecture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve public utility rate increases for electric energy based on costs of proposed or ongoing construction in regard to: (1) pollution control facilities; or (2) conversion of oil or gas-fired facilities to use of other fuels. Directs the Commission to order rate increases to cover construction costs for facilities other than those above only after an evidentiary proceeding. Sets forth requirements concerning such proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Lech Walesa and others detained by Poland's government for political reasons should be released. Declares that Walesa and other Solidarity members should be permitted to: (1) participate in negotiations concerning the future of Solidarity; (2) comment on the situation in Poland; and (3) travel freely.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1982
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a broadcast station license renewal application if the licensee has operated the station during the most recent license period: (1) in a manner which serves the public interest; and (2) without serious violations of related regulations or treaties. Directs the FCC to deny a renewal application and to consider applications for a construction permit for that station if the FCC determines that a broadcast station licensee has not met the requirements for license renewal.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Title I: Equal Opportunity Provisions - Establishes uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights laws, including title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and numerous other discrimination laws and provisions. Continues to authorize individual Federal agencies to investigate, attempt to resolve, and monitor compliance with regard to discrimination complaints, but otherwise centralizes enforcement authority in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Attorney General. Permits an individual to bring a civil action directly in Federal court for an alleged act of discrimination. Requires an investigative agency to seek to develop a voluntary compliance agreement by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions in court for patterns or practices of unlawful discrimination. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing any regulation with regard to employment discrimination without the prior approval of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prohibits any Federal agency and the Commission from issuing any regulation without the approval of the Attorney General. Establishes a one-House congressional veto procedure for regulations under this Act issued by any Federal agency, the Commission, and the Attorney General. Makes any such regulation effective 45 days after its transmittal to Congress if it is not disapproved. Continues generally an "effects" standard for proving discrimination, but requires the effect to be "reasonably foreseeable" with regard to certain discriminatory acts, including denial of Federal benefits. Title II: Administrative Provisions - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine which personnel employed in connection with functions affected by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1982, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that the interest rate on overpayments and underpayments of tax be based on the average prime rate for the first nine months of the calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Designates the week beginning on June 6, 1982, as National Child Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Trade and Investment Equity Act of 1982- Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include restrictions on direct investments by U.S. citizens or nationals among the discriminatory foreign trade practices that trigger a U.S. response. Requires U.S. action if the President determines such action is appropriate to respond to a foreign trade practice that denies the United States commercial opportunities substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Authorizes the President, upon making such a determination, to: (1) change Government procurement policies to provide for procurement from nations that provide substantially equivalent commercial opportunities to comparable U.S. producers; or (2) propose legislation that would impose equivalent restrictions within the United States on countries that do not provide such opportunities. Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements to eliminate discriminatory barriers on foreign direct investment by U.S. citizens or nationals. Imposes specified conditions and limitations on Presidential action to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to respond to foreign trade practices. Authorizes the President to take action: (1) on a nondiscriminatory basis or solely against the products, services, or investment of the foreign entity involved; and (2) against products, services, or investments other than those involved in the investigation. Directs the President to take into account: (1) U.S. trade agreement obligations; and (2) the impact of the action taken on the U.S. economy. Directs the President to review at least biennially each such trade action. Directs the President to rescind an enforcement action within 30 days after: (1) the offending practice is eliminated; or (2) it is determined that continuing the action is not in the national interest. Authorizes the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate Finance Committee to file a resolution with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) requesting the President to take action to enforce U.S. trade rights or to respond to discriminatory trade practices. Directs the USTR to recommend possible Presidential actions concerning specified trade agreements within one year of the start of the dispute settlement procedure. (Current law requires such recommendations within 30 days of the end of the dispute settlement procedure.) Requires the USTR to consult with the U.S. International Trade Commission on the probable impact on the U.S. economy of taking action with respect to such product, service, or direct investment. Authorizes the President to negotiate international agreements on restrictions on foreign direct investment. Directs the President to take such action as may be necessary to extend the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to cover trade in services and direct investment. Directs the USTR to report biennially to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee on the principle trade barriers of any major trading country.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Prohibits the production of lethal binary chemical munitions after the enactment of this Act. Defines lethal binary chemical munitions to mean: (1) toxic chemicals intended to injure or kill humans; and (2) devices intended to disseminate such chemicals. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should begin negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutual, verifiable limitation on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the tax on generation-skipping transfers.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of May 2 through May 8, 1982, as National Physical Fitness and Sports for All Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
Technology Education Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase for one year the maximum allowable charitable contribution income tax deduction for corporations which donate computers during 1983 to primary and secondary schools. Increases the income tax deduction from 10 to 30 percent of a corporation's taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the President to declare a "corporate acquisition moratorium period" which would terminate for a period of not more than two years the income tax deduction for interest on loans made to finance corporate mergers.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures for identifying social security benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within 12 months and to credit the appropriate social security trust fund on a monthly basis for the amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks drawn on such trust fund. Requires the Secretary to pay a benefit check presented for payment after it has been credited to one of the trust funds if it is otherwise proper. Authorizes appropriations to reimburse the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the total amount of unnegotiated benefit checks.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President must take action to prevent nuclear war. States that the United States, in negotiations with nuclear weapon states, should propose halting further testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Designates March 18, 1982, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1982
Amends the Second Liberty Bond Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to fix the investment yield on any United States savings bond at a yield which makes such bond competitive with comparable investments. Prohibits the investment yield on such bonds from exceeding 85 percent of the average investment yield for the most recent auction (before the week in which the certificate is issued) of United States Treasury bills with maturities of 52 weeks.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1982
Productivity and Human Investment Act - Declares the purposes of this Act: (1) preparation of youth for entry into the labor market; (2) provision of job skill training, education, and remedial services for unemployed and underemployed adults and young adults; (3) maintenance of an effective labor exchange and provision of job placement, search assistance, assessment, and counseling; (4) reorganization of the use of resources previously authorized under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA), the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 (Federal Employment Service), the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937, and part C (Work Incentive-WIN- Program) of title IV of the Social Security Act; and (5) coordination of activities authorized under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 1962, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the Revenue Act of 1978. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to carry out the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act (Federal Employment Service). Permits the Secretary of Labor to use discretionary funds thus appropriated for specified transition activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to carry out transition activities, such as planning and preparation for implementation of this Act, by delivery institutions, labor market areas (LMAs) and State and Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for allocation of such funds among States and local governments. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 and thereafter. Provides for a transition to the advance funding method of timing appropriation action for appropriations under this Act. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), as of October 1, 1983. Distributes sums available for carrying out this Act as follows: (1) 50 percent for title I, labor market area investment activities; (2) 15 percent for title II, State responsibilities; and (3) 35 percent for title III, Federal responsibilities. Title I: Labor Market Area Investment Activities - Part A: General Provisions - Distributes resources available under this title as follows: (1) 30 percent for part B, youth preparatory programs; (2) 30 percent for part C, remediation and training; (3) 30 percent for part D, labor-exchange activities; and (4) 10 percent to local boards for management, oversight, and planning for investment activities. Directs each State Governor to divide each State into labor market areas (LMAs), with the approval of the State labor force investment board ("State investment board") and in accordance with specified provisions. Makes the local governments for jurisdictions constituting the LMAs subgrantees of the States under this Act. Requires the establishment of an independent labor force investment board ("LMA investment board") in each LMA. Directs the chief elected officials of local governments in each LMA to appoint LMA investment board members from representatives of business, labor organizations, community-based organizations, veterans' and handicapped organizations, the eligible population, secondary, postsecondary, and national education institutions, and public assistance agencies. Requires that industry and business representatives constitute a majority of each boards' members. Requires that industry, business, and labor representatives of each board be designated as a private sector committee whose approval is necessary for board plan adoption of competency standards and procedures for contracting, management, and employer-related activities such as job placement and development. Makes the LMA investment board responsible for planning for the use of all resources provided to the LMA under formula grants, State incentive grants, and Federal performance supplements. Directs each board to decide on target group priorities, allowable services mix, and most appropriate service providers. Requires boards to: (1) serve the purposes of specified entities under CETA, the WIN program, and the Wagner-Peyser Act; (2) coordinate apprenticeship activities and occupational information within the LMA; (3) where designated by the State, serve as LMA advisory councils for vocational education and rehabilitation; and (4) where designated by the State and local elected officials, coordinate economic development planning and enterprise zone planning with labor force investment activities. Requires each LMA investment board to establish a contracting, monitoring, and reporting system. Authorizes each board to hire professional, technical, and clerical personnel. Authorizes each Board, subject to local government approval, to: (1) be constituted as a nonprofit corporation, hiring administrative and planning staff; (2) use local government employees as such staff; or (3) contract with a managing agent. Prohibits boards and their administrative units from providing services to eligible participants, except as permitted by the State investment board. Authorizes boards to contract with local and State agencies, various nonprofit institutions, and for-profit providers. Requires that delivery agents be selected on ability to provide most effective and efficient services. Requires consideration of use of public vocational education and local education agency facilities and programs in providing investment activities. Requires performance-based contracting. Permits a board to support establishment of special-purpose nonprofit groups in certain circumstances. Permits ten percent of LMA funds to be used for planning, contract management, monitoring, and reporting. Requires submittal of a labor market area labor force investment plan to the State every two years. Sets forth required inclusions in such plans. Requires approval of local officials before plan submission to the Governor. Provides that the State shall determine, in cases of disagreement, whether the plan recommendations of the LMA investment board or the local officials best meet the purposes and requirements of this title. Requires the State investment board to review each local investment plan and to require the LMA investment board to conform plans to this Act and improve any deficient performance of LMA investment activities. Provides for appeals to the Secretary from State disapproval of local plans. Requires appropriate modifications where specified factors result in substantial deviations from an approved plan. Sets forth provisions to assure maximum feasible flexibility to LMAs for investment activities. Requires that Federal grants to each State be suballocated to LMAs upon approval of investment plans and have separate allocation components and performance criteria for: (1) youth preparatory programs; (2) labor exchange functions; and (3) adult and young adult remediation and training. Permits LMAs to shift up to 15 percent of funds for any one component for use in either or both of the other components. Permits the LMA investment board to determine types and mix of services and allowable activities within each component. Directs the State investment board to establish rules for reasonable deviation from investment plans. Makes LMA acceptance of a State incentive grant imply acceptance of State terms and conditions for its use. Requires that the LMA be provided with a needs based allocation of training opportunities in Job Corps, as well as State and Federal business/labor advanced career training programs. Authorizes the Governor to assure recruitment of eligible residents of the LMA for such opportunities, if the LMA investment board does not use its quota of opportunities. Requires that the effectiveness of screening and referral for such opportunities be considered in determining the LMA's qualification for Federal performance supplements. Sets forth provisions for wages and allowances under LMA programs. Makes all participants in LMA preemployment skills training education for employment and first- and second-tier remediation and training programs eligible for subsistence, participation cost, and incentive stipends. Sets forth needs-based formulas and other rules for such stipends. Requires that all participants in LMA program work activities be paid wages consistent with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Declares that youth participants in entry employment experience shall be considered student learners under such Act. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for wage rates to be paid by employers to participants in on-the-job training (with various factors taken into account, but in no event less than the higher of Federal, State, or local minimum wage rates). Part B: Youth Preparatory Programs - Allocates funds appropriated for this part to the States to be suballocated to designated LMAs as follows: (1) one- third according to each State's and each LMA's share of the youth population age 14 to 19; and (2) two-thirds according to each State's and each LMA's share of the Nation's average annual nonemployed population age 14 to 19. Provides for an LMA "education for employment" program for youth below age 20 who have not attained a high school diploma or who have educational deficiencies despite diploma attainment. Gives first priority to high school dropouts and second priority to high school students not meeting established achievement levels and at risk of dropping out. Authorizes the LMA to maintain a network of learning centers offering individualized, competency-based instruction, including remedial reading and mathematics, preparation for a general education development (GED) test, and training for individuals with limited English language proficiency, as well as preparatory materials for applicants to the Armed Forces. Declares that program activities are to supplement, and not substitute for, local school and other Federal, State, and local programs. Provides for an LMA "preemployment skills training" program for youth age 14 through 19, with priority given to those planning to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school and with first priority among these given to those who do not meet established academic achievement levels and to those from families with income below the lower living standard. Requires that, insofar as possible, preemployment skills training be concentrated on youth age 14 to 16. Requires that eligible youth be provided with up to 200 hours of instruction and activities. Requires that, to the extent possible, such instruction be individualized and competency-based. Directs each LMA to establish an employability skills certification for participants who successfully meet program performance standards, within State competency guidelines approved by the Secretary. Requires that individual records be kept to provide youth with resumes. Sets forth some allowable types of program instruction and activities. Provides for an LMA "entry employment experience" program for youth age 16 through 19 who: (1) have completed the preemployment skills component or its equivalent; (2) have not held a regular part-time or summer job for more than 250 hours of paid employment (except if this requirement is waived in accordance with plan criteria); (3) have searched for but have not secured unsubsidized employment; and (4) are enrolled in a secondary school or a certified high school equivalency program and are meeting or have met current or most recent term minimum academic and attendance requirements. Gives priority to those not planning to continue on to postsecondary education, with first priority among these to those from families with income below 100 percent of the lower living standard. Permits entry employment to be up to 20 hours weekly during the school year or full time during the summer and holidays, for an individual total up to 500 hours. Requires supervision, including attendance and worksite performance standards. Provides for "tryout employment" in private for-profit worksites, with wages paid by the youth preparatory programs delivery system. Limits tryout employment to: (1) 250 hours per participant; and (2) assignments for which the participant would not usually be hired. Prohibits refilling tryout positions where a previously successful participant was not hired. Permits assignments to entry employment jobs in the public and nonprofit sector: (1) only when private sector tryout employment cannot be arranged; and (2) for community improvement services complementing specified types of LMA expenditures. Mandates participation in the education for employment program for dropout youth not enrolled in other certified education activities who wish to qualify for the entry employment program (and permits such a requirement for summer month entry employment for any youth). Requires that all entry employment participants be paid the minimum wage student learners differential. Requires each participant to: (1) secure entry employment through competitive labor market application procedures; (2) meet performance and attendance standards; and (3) be evaluated (and, if necessary, terminated) on the basis of such standards. Provides for an LMA "school-to-work transition assistance" program for: (1) high school seniors planning to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, with first priority to those in high schools which have a predominance of students from families below 100 percent of the lower living standard and to those from such families in other high schools; and (2) dropouts, with immediate followup after leaving school. Sets forth some allowable types of transition services. Requires that all seniors and dropouts eligible for and in need of labor force investment activities be provided information and, where appropriate, be referred to specified types of employment and training programs. Part C: Remediation and Training Activities - Allocates funds appropriated for this part among States and by States to LMAs on the basis of numbers of individuals who: (1) had annual earnings less than the amount which a minimum wage for all hours of availability for work would have provided; and (2) reside in a family with combined earnings less than 70 percent of the lower living standards. Makes eligible for programs under this part individuals who are beyond normal school leaving age in the LMA and who, for the last six months, have had such a low earnings rate and have resided in such a low-income family. Makes also eligible for such programs any handicapped individual living at home. Permits the State investment board, under certain circumstances, to authorize an LMA to substitute an individual eligibility standard based on family income which is 100 percent of the lower living standard rather than 70 percent. Requires that participants in first-tier training and remediation activities be referred from youth preparatory programs and from the labor exchange system, with first priority to applicants for or recipients of income transfers and in-kind aid. Requires that each referral have received a comprehensive employability assessment and participated in job placement and search assistance activities. Requires that second-tier participants be selected first from successful completers of first-tier or youth preparatory activities. Sets forth some allowable first-tier training and remediation activities which are intended to be completed in 1,000 hours or less of participation. Includes among these: (1) classroom occupational training; (2) employability skills training; (3) education, including remedial, GED preparation, English language, and military enlistment test preparation; (4) on-the-job training; and (5) work and training combinations. Limits subsidized work or sheltered workshop employment to 500 hours per participant. Requires that subsidized work experience be combined with classroom or employability skills training or education. Requires that each participant receive an agreement containing program objectives and other items. Requires that each participant be assessed at termination according to such objectives. Sets forth second-tier activities which require over 1,000 hours for completion, but no more than a maximum of two years of participation. Includes among these: (1) classroom occupational training, including vocationally-oriented postsecondary instruction; and (2) postsecondary educational vouchers, if no other financial assistance is available, as part of an employment plan for which higher education is most appropriate. Permits the LMA to contract with private for-profit corporations and business associations to support on-the-job and institutional training combinations plus subsidized internships as career employment preparation for economically disadvantaged adults and young adults. Requires such contracts to contain specified items, including a presumptive guarantee of employment for all completers. Requires that such advanced career training: (1) be for jobs in expanding employment occupations with entry wages at least double the Federal minimum wage; (2) not result in displacement or forestall advancement of current workers; (3) receive advance comment from labor organizations representing corporation employees engaged in the same work; and (4) refill positions only if three of every four completors of such positions have been suitably placed and completion rates are reasonable. Provides each LMA with a quota of such business/labor advanced training opportunities supported by the State and the Federal Government, as well as a quota of Job Corps training opportunities. Permits the LMA investment board to use its allocated remediation and training funds to purchase additional training opportunities in State and Federal programs. Requires the LMA to monitor the progress of residents in such programs and assist those who terminate unsuccessfully or complete without finding employment. Provides for job access and placement assistance for individuals who have participated in remediation and training activities. Permits one of these forms of assistance: (1) tryout employment for up to 250 hours at minimum wages paid by the LMA investment board for an unsubsidized permanent job in the private for-profit, nonprofit, or public sectors (with no assignment refilled more than twice without an offer of permanent employment to at least one participant); (2) employment bonuses to private for-profit, nonprofit, and public agencies for one-half of the wages paid a participant for the first six months of employment; and (3) targeted jobs tax credit or WIN tax credit, under specified circumstances. Part D: Labor Exchange Activities - Allocates funds appropriated for this part among States and by States among LMAs on the basis of the relative number of unemployed individuals within States and LMAs. Requires that LMAs maintain a network of local labor-exchange offices to provide comprehensive labor-exchange services. Directs the Secretary to provide States and LMAs a comprehensive guide to assure nationwide consistency of labor-exchange operations. Sets forth required uses of the federally specified management information system. Permits the LMA to contract with several different delivery agents for labor exchange activities. Permits States to: (1) continue to maintain State labor-exchange agencies; and (2) use State incentive grants to match LMA expenditures where the LMA uses the State agency. Prohibits States from invalidating an LMA investment plan for not using the State agency as long as alternate deliverers can provide the same services as effectively and efficiently. Sets forth requirements for labor force services. Requires that placement services be available to any applicant. Authorizes counseling, assessment, and testing services to be provided, with first priority given to individuals with the most severe unemployment problems. Requires that specified information be gathered. Requires that job search assistance be provided for those whose lack of job-seeking and job applicant skills has prevented placement. Requires that: (1) referral services to LMA remediation and training and to Job Corps be integrated with other labor force services; and (2) all referrals be counseled about the full-range of available training and remediation. Requires LMAs and States to assure that: (1) veterans and the handicapped are given priority in the provision of labor force services; and (2) comprehensive services are available for persons with limited English-speaking ability and for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Sets forth requirements for employer services. Requires each LMA to: (1) maintain labor-exchange services for agricultural and related industry employers and workers, including cooperation with Federal efforts for intrastate recruitment and transfer of migrant and foreign labor; (2) cooperate with work force recruitment, development, utilization, and stabilization by employers, education and training institutions, labor organizations, and other government agencies; (3) provide information to local employers on labor market conditions and employment-related legislation; (4) coordinate all publicly funded job development activities and employer-incentive information; and (5) provide temporary and permanent foreign labor certificates where requested by LMA employers. Sets forth requirements for labor market and occupational information. Requires that the federally specified management information system include detailed reporting items, specified forms, and due dates. Requires each LMA to: (1) cooperate with studies by the Governor or the Secretary; (2) issue information on current labor market developments, employment trends, and opportunities; (3) collect and disseminate job matching information; and (4) compile and furnish to the Secretary and to the public current information on wages and worker supply and demand in the LMA. Title II: State Responsibilities - Part A: General Provisions - Allocates to each State for this title an amount equal to 26.3 percent of an amount equal to the sum of funds allocated to LMAs by the title I needs-based formula plus Federal performance supplements received by LMAs in the State. Distributes such allocation as follows: (1) 25 percent for part B, State oversight and support of LMA activities; (2) 50 percent for part C, incentive grants to LMAs; and (3) 25 percent for part D, State-operated investment activities. Requires each State receiving funds under this Act to establish a State labor force investment board ("State investment board") to implement, with the Governor, State responsibilities under this Act. Directs the Governor to appoint board members representative of labor organizations, industry, commerce, education, community-based organizations, veterans and handicapped organizations, and the eligible population. Requires that a majority of the board be industry and business representatives and that such representatives, with those of labor, be designated as a private sector committee with approval power over certain State plan elements. Requires that the chairpersons of: (1) the State advisory councils on vocational education and on apprenticeship be appointed board members, unless such councils are consolidated with the board; and (2) the LMAs serve as ex officio board members. Requires that the State investment board: (1) assume all responsibilities of specified entities under CETA, the Vocational Education Act, and the WIN program; and (2) coordinate (or consolidate if the Governor so specifies) the functions of State advisory councils on vocational education, apprenticeship, and adult education. Directs the State to establish an administrative unit under State investment board direction. Grants the board and its administrative unit administrative and planning options similar to those granted to LMA investment boards. Prohibits the State investment board from providing services to eligible participants. Provides, if a State is designated as the LMA, that the State investment board serve as the LMA investment board. Subjects State investment board plans and decisions to approval of the Governor, with appeals to the Secretary in disputed matters. Directs the State investment board to prepare and submit to the Secretary every two years a State investment plan detailing use of resources provided to the State and its LMAs under this Act, evaluating the previous two years' experience, setting policy and program goals for the next two years and subsuming all approved LMA investment plans. Directs the Secretary to specify minimum requirements for State plans, review State plans, identify violations and suggest modifications, and investigate where necessary. Requires State plan modifications detailing major changes in State and LMA investment activities. Part B: Oversight and Support of Labor Market Area Activities - Directs the Governor, with State investment board approval and in consultation with elected local officials, to assign all jurisdictions to a designated LMA. Provides that each local government with a population of 200,000 or more will be designated as an LMA, with specified exceptions. Provides for local government appeals of LMA assignments to the Governor and subsequently to the Secretary. Provides for realignments of LMA designations at the end of any two-year program cycle. Sets forth requirements relating to State investment board approval of biannual LMA investment plans. Sets forth provisions for State auditing and monitoring of funds under this Act. Requires State annual reports to the Department of Labor on the statistical performance of all investment activities within the State under this Act. Authorizes States to establish: (1) uniform competency standards consistent with Federal guidelines; and (2) statewide certifications of preemployment skills, basic education achievement, and vocational competency. Prohibits State requirements of specific curricula by LMAs, except for State incentive grants. Sets forth provisions for State labor market information programs. Requires each State to: (1) designate an organizational unit to manage a statewide comprehensive labor market/occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment/economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system (if Federal funds are used for such projects results must remain in the public domain). Allows States to combine, consolidate, or otherwise alter Federal administrative management information reporting requirements relating to employment, productivity, or training, if the Governor notifies each responsible Federal and State agency. Directs the appropriate Federal agency to approve such alteration within 60 days after receiving notice, unless such agency can show that the essential purposes of the affected Federal law will not be met. Permits appeals of adverse decisions to the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget for final decision within 60 days. Authorizes States to: (1) provide training for LMA planning, management, and delivery staffs and State program contractors; and (2) require participation in such training and completion of specified instructional materials. Prohibits States from specifying experience and educational requirements for LMA staff or contractors, except where State-certified educational or vocational instructors are required by law. Part C: State Incentive Grants - Declares that all funds provided to a State under this part are to be added to the needs-based formula grants of LMAs within the State. Directs the State investment board, prior to each two-year LMA planning cycle and with the Governor's approval, to: (1) designate certain activities, target groups, delivery agencies, or management and delivery systems as priorities; and (2) set conditions for receipt of State incentive grants. Authorizes the State to: (1) require matching from the LMA needs-based formula grant as a condition for incentive grants; and (2) withdraw incentive grants during the two-year contract period if such conditions are violated. Requires that all LMAs in a State have equal opportunity to compete for incentive grants. Sets forth activities for which State incentive grants may be used. Part D: State-Operated Investment Activities - Authorizes States to use funds provided under this part for business/labor advanced career training, relocation assistance, and/or special needs groups programs, as determined most appropriate by the State investment board. Sets forth provisions for State-operated business/labor advanced career training which are similar to provisions for LMA advanced career training programs (but requires a "good faith commitment," rather than a "presumptive guarantee," of employment for completers). Allocates advanced career training opportunities funded by the State among LMAs on the basis of each LMA's share of the State's labor-market related economic hardship. Makes LMAs responsible for recruiting eligible candidates. Requires States to assure that LMA eligible residents are afforded opportunity to apply. Authorizes States to provide relocation assistance necessary to enable individuals to become permanently employed and self-supporting. Requires that such assistance be given only to individuals who: (1) agree to relocate; (2) have been advised of employment and investment options within the LMA; and (3) have received a bona fide job offer or are enrolled in a training activity linked to employment at the place of relocation. Limits the amount of such assistance to reasonable transportation and shipping costs, plus a reasonable allowance. Limits such assistance to individuals eligible for LMA remediation and training activities, with first priority given to completers of such activities and of LMA youth preparatory programs. Authorizes States to contract for delivery of services for incarcerated offenders who will be reentering the work force and other individuals in State-maintained facilities whose needs cannot be adequately addressed by LMA investment activities. Provides that all title I allowable activities and eligibility requirements are applicable to such special needs groups programs. Title III: Federal Responsibilities - Part A: General Provisions - Distributes funds available to carry out this title as follows: (1) 50 percent for Job Corps; (2) five percent for economic distress programs; (3) five percent for Native American programs; (4) five percent for migrant and seasonal farmworker programs; (5) five percent for business/labor advanced career training programs; (6) 20 percent for performance supplements; (7) eight percent for program improvement and supportive services; and (8) two percent for the National Labor Force Investment Board. Directs the Secretary to coordinate activities funded under this Act with other Federal policies and national needs through arrangements in agreement with: (1) the Secretary of Defense, for (A) referral of participants in programs under this Act to employment within the Armed Forces and on military bases, (B) remedial education of rejected Armed Forces applicants, and (C) advanced career training with private for-profit defense contractors; (2) appropriate Federal officials, for advanced career training in synfuel projects and Government-owned company-operated energy facilities; (3) the Office of Personnel Management, for an advanced career training programs in all Federal agencies; (4) the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, for recruitment for conservation programs on Federal lands; (5) the Corps of Engineers, for job placements and advanced career training related to large-scale Federal projects; (6) the Department of Transportation, for advanced career training in conjunction with with large-scale Federal transportation grant programs; and (7) the Secretary of Education, for (A) basic educational competencies structuring, (B) vocational education and training cooperative planning and implementation, (C) dissemination of nationally validated programs to education and training providers; and (D) joint research, development, and evaluation. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on activities funded under this Act. Part B: Federally Operated Programs - Sets forth provisions relating to the Job Corps which are similar in part to CETA provisions. Sets Job Corps enrollee age limits of 14 through 24 (CETA provides limits of 14 through 21). Provides that Job Corps enrollees: (1) must be eligible for remediation and training activities under title I of this Act; and (2) cannot be effectively served by less comprehensive LMA and State investment activities. Requires that each State: (1) be provided with a quota of Job Corps opportunities based on its share of the eligible population; and (2) assure that such opportunities and recruitment are equitably allocated among its LMAs. Provides for exceptions from the two-year Job Corps enrollment limit in cases of advanced training program participation. Authorizes the Job Corps to arrange for advanced career training for up to two years in addition to regular center program participation. Provides that such training may be arranged in postsecondary institutions or, by contract with private for-profit business and labor unions, in company-sponsored training programs. Limits Job Corps personal allowances to no more than $75 per month for the first six months and no more than $150 per month for the remainder of Corps service and for readjustment allowances (in constant dollars using FY 1983 as a base year). Requires that the appropriate LMA be notified prior to termination of a Jobs Corps member so that training-related job placement can be arranged. Authorizes the Secretary to make other arrangements if the LMA is unable to arrange a placement. Makes Job Corps participants eligible for job access assistance under this Act. Permits Job Corps reimbursement of LMA expenditures for tryout employment and social bonuses for Job Corps terminees. Sets forth provisions for economic distress programs. Authorizes the provision of training, retraining, job search assistance, placement relocation assistance, and other aid to individuals who: (1) are affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal actions such as facilities relocations, and other exigencies; or (2) reside in high chronic unemployment areas or enterprise zones for which (A) State and LMA programs have not been planned and (B) assistance is best initiated from the Federal level. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue regulations for such programs; (2) maintain the capacity for timely intervention in such situations, on a regional or national basis through contracts with for-profit or nonprofit intermediaries; and (3) select an intermediary at the request of the affected LMA and with the Governor's approval. Requires the intermediary, in coordination with the LMA investment board, to assess eligibility for economic distress assistance and develop an action plan which, upon LMA investment board and State approval, will be submitted to the Secretary for approval or disapproval within 30 days. Authorizes the intermediary to provide short-term assistance prior to action plan approval. Adds, upon action plan approval, funds for authorized services to the affected LMA's grant. Adds the action plan to the biannual LMA investment plan and State investment plan. Permits the LMA to contract with the intermediary for delivery of services, which may include all allowable title I LMA activities as well as relocation assistance. Authorizes the Secretary, for economic distress program purposes, to waive certain eligibility requirements with regard to family income over the previous six months, but limits services to individuals whose annualized family earnings during participation do not exceed 70 percent of the lower living standard. Sets forth provisions for a Native American labor force investment program which are similar in part to CETA provisions for administration at a national level. Directs the Secretary to designate any native American group on Federal or State reservations as an LMA eligible to establish an LMA investment board and serve as a managing agent, upon determination that such group has the demonstrated capacity to effectively administer comprehensive remediation and training, youth preparatory, and labor exchange programs (if such group cannnot effectively function as an LMA, the Secretary is to arrange with public agencies or private nonprofit organizations approved by such group to provide LMA services). Permits combinations of Native American groups with State-designated LMAs. Provides that all activities under titles I, II, and III are allowable in the Native American program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations and performance standards, and to provide technical assistance, for such program. Sets forth provisions for a migrant and seasonal farmworker investment program which are similar in part to CETA provisions for administration at a national level. Authorizes the Secretary to contract on a competitive basis with public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, or for-profit organizations to provide comprehensive remediation and training, youth preparatory, and labor exchange programs for such farmworkers to secure full-time employment and stable incomes within or outside of agriculture. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with LMAs for such services under certain circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to establish special labor-exchange services for such farmworkers, but obligates each LMA to provide labor-exchange services to such farmworkers who are temporary or permanent LMA residents. Provides that all activities authorized in titles I and II are allowable in the farmworker program. Directs the Secretary, upon request of an LMA, to certify eligibility for importation of foreign workers in accordance with U.S. agreements or arrangements with foreign governments only if domestic migrant and seasonal farmworkers are not available. Sets forth provisions for a national business/labor advanced career training program which are similar to provisions for LMA and for State programs. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with private for-profit corporations and business associations to support combinations of on- the-job and institutional training plus internship assignments to prepare economically disadvantaged adults and young adults for career employment. Declares that such corporations and associations may include companies operating Government-owned energy facilities, defense contractors, synfuel grant recipients, and other Federal contract recipients. Allocates national advanced career training opportunities on the basis of each State's share of the Nation's labor market-related economic hardship. Makes the States responsible for recruitment from LMAs. Requires successful completion of youth preparatory or first-tier remedial and training activities for an individual to be eligible for the national advanced career training program. Directs the Secretary to reserve sums necessary to operate a Federal/State cooperative statistical labor market information program. Authorizes the heads of other Federal agencies to make specified funds available for such program. Directs the Secretary to maintain on a national, State, local, and other appropriate basis: (1) a comprehensive national system of labor market information; and (2) household budget data reflecting differences in location. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report linking labor force status with earnings and income. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, and Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; (3) provide technical assistance to the States for occupational supply/demand information systems; and (4) assure that occupational analysis relative to specified factors is conducted for the Nation's labor force. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for coordination functions for the cooperative labor market information program. Part C: Oversight of State and Labor Market Area Investment Activities - Directs the Secretary to specify minimum standards for fiscal control and fund accounting for State and LMA investment activities funded under this Act. Sets forth required procedures for such fiscal controls. Directs the Secretary to establish a uniform management information system for use in programs funded under this Act. Sets forth reporting requirements to be included in such system. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines covering appropriate procedures for private sector contracting under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a performance rating system for: (1) youth preparatory programs; (2) labor market exchange programs; and (3) remediation and training programs. Sets forth separate criteria and criteria weights for these three programs. Provides that funds available for performance supplements be given to those programs within each LMA classified as adequate performers, with double supplementation for exemplary performers, and none for inadequate performers. Provides for appeal of performance ratings to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to distribute interim period supplements in FY 1984 and FY 1985 according to qualitative standards of effective and comprehensive implementation in each State. Part D: Program Improvement and Support - Distributes funds available for this part as follows: (1) one-half for improvement and development grants to States; (2) one-fourth for Federal research and evaluation; and (3) one-fourth for core support of national intermediaries. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for improvement and development of investment activities under this Act through specified means. Authorizes the Secretary to fund demonstration projects, research, evaluation, and curriculum development activities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an ongoing evaluation of investment activities in a stratified sample of LMAs and States; (2) contract for periodic evaluation of Job Corps and other nationally operated projects; and (3) summarize results of specified activities in the annual report to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide core support grants to specified types of nationally networked organizations to maintain capacity to provide technical assistance to States and LMAs. Provides for assessment of national intermediary services. Part E: National Labor Force Investment Board - Establishes a National Labor Force Investment Board to: (1) advise the President, Congress, and the Secretary concerning national labor force investment policies, programs, and practices; (2) assist State and LMA investment boards; (3) coordinate occupational information, computer usage, competency standards, and other issues; and (4) support and coordinate industry wide labor force investment committees. Sets forth provisions for Board organization, membership, and administration. Requires that the Board: (1) assume all responsibilities authorized for the National Commission for Employment Policy (by CETA), the National Coordinating Committee (for the WIN program), and the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (under the Vocational Education Act of 1963); and (2) coordinate or consolidate, or both, the functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (under the Vocational Education Act of 1963) and the National Advisory Council on Apprenticeship (under the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937). Establishes the Board as a nonprofit public corporation under contract to the Department of Labor with funds provided under this Act. Authorizes the Board to provide grants for specified purposes to business/labor labor force investment committees established on an industrywide basis. Permits the Board to provide full financing for staffing and technical support of such committees during a reasonable startup period, but requires, after such period, that private business match Board contributions in maintaining such committees.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 1982 - Establishes criminal penalties applicable to licensees under the Gun Control Act of 1968 who import, manufacture, or sell a "restricted handgun bullet," except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. Establishes additional criminal penalties, including a mandatory minimum sentence of one year imprisonment, for: (1) using a restricted handgun bullet to commit a Federal felony; or (2) carrying a restricted handgun bullet unlawfully during commission of a Federal felony.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Amends the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act of 1980 to include biomass in the definition of synthetic fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Expresses the commendation of the House of Representatives to the Knights of Columbus on its 100th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Amends rule VIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Speaker or chairman of the committee with subject matter jurisdiction to summarize provisions of a bill or resolution which would adjust the pay or affect outside earned income limitations of Members at least 24 hours before the final vote on such legislation. Directs the Speaker not to entertain a unanimous consent request to consider a bill or resolution out of order with such requirement.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Permits Federal, State, Territorial, and local governments to establish negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Requests the President to designate March 21, 1982, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Amends rule VIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a recorded vote on final passage of legislation that adjusts the pay of Members, affects limitations on outside earned income, or provides tax credits or deductions for Members as a separate or distinct class. Excludes adjustments made pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act from such requirement. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill or resolution subject to such amended rule unless: (1) it is comprised solely of the items affecting the pay or benefits of Members; and (2) it takes effect at the beginning of the subsequent Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Amends rule VIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a recorded vote on the final passage of legislation that economically affects Members of Congress as a separate and distinct class. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill or resolution subject to such amended rule unless it is comprised solely of items relating economically to congressmen.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that priority attention be given to recommendations of the 1981 White House Conference on Aging.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Extends burial benefits to specified veterans with service-connected disabilities (formerly provided until October 1, 1981). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Designates June 14 as Baltic Freedom Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1982
Designates July 9, 1982, as National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day.