United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Postmaster General should issue a postage stamp honoring American servicemen and civilians still unaccounted for as a result of the conflict in Indochina.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Federal Lands Administration Act of 1986 - Title I: Purposes, Definitions, and Maps - Sets forth the purposes, definitions, and maps which delineate the areas of lands affected by this Act. Title II: Transfer of Lands to the Forest Service - Transfers lands delineated on the maps entitled "Interagency Land Transfers -- February 1986" to the Secretary of Agriculture to be reserved as national forests. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the boundaries of National Forest System units to facilitate administration. Requires newly established national forest lands to be eventually managed in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs the Secretary to adopt the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to such lands which have been reviewed for wilderness suitability and to assess unreviewed lands for their possible designation as wilderness. Requires lands recommended for wilderness designation to be managed as such until included in the National Wilderness Preservation System or released from consideration. Modifies land entry provisions to grant the Secretary of Agriculture authority over newly established national forest lands. Grants the Secretary authority to sell such lands as specified and other authorities over such lands. Title III: Transfer of Lands to the Bureau of Land Management - Transfers National Forest System lands within areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management to the Secretary of the Interior, withdrawing such lands from sale or disposal unless otherwise specified. Designates as conservation areas certain areas of newly established public lands known by a specific name. Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to prohibit surface coal mining operations on public lands which were formerly part of the Custer National Forest. Amends the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to grant the Secretary of the Interior authority over lands previously administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires such lands to be eventually managed in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to adopt the recommendations of the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to such lands which have been reviewed for wilderness suitability and to assess unreviewed lands for their possible designation as wilderness. Requires lands recommended for wilderness designation to be managed as such until included in the National Wilderness Preservation System or released from consideration. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to require deposits from purchasers of timber from public lands. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth which, if any, other designations and uses of such lands are affected by the interdepartmental exchange. Title V: Mineral Resources - Amends the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 and other Acts to empower the Secretary of Agriculture to administer National Forest System lands for multiple uses, including mineral claims and resources. Title VI: Transfer of O&C Lands - Transfers specified Oregon and California Grant Lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Forest Service. Title VII: Severability - States that the provisions of this Act are severable.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1986
Parental and Medical Leave Act of 1986 - Title I: General Requirements for Parental and Medical Leave - Entitles employees to parental leave for specified periods in cases involving the birth, adoption, or serious health condition of a child. Entitles employees to temporary medical leave for specified periods in cases involving inability to work because of a serious health condition. Sets forth conditions for certification for such types of leave. Provides that such leave may be without pay. Allows employees to substitute other types of paid leave to cover part of such leave period. Sets forth employment and benefits protections relating to such leave. Provides for administrative enforcement of this title by the Secretary of Labor, as well as enforcement by civil action. Sets forth provisions for injunctive relief, monetary relief, and attorneys' fees. Requires employers to post notice of the pertinent provisions of this title. Title II: Parental Leave and Temporary Medical Leave for Civil Service Employees - Amends specified Federal law to entitle civil service employees to parental leave and temporary medical leave for specified periods. Provides that such leave will be without pay. Allows employees to substitute other types of paid leave for part of such leave. Sets forth protection for job position and health insurance benefits of employees using such leave. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations for administration of this title which are consistent with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor under title I of this Act. Title III: Commission on Paid Parental and Medical Leave - Establishes the Commission on Paid Parental and Medical Leave. Requires the Commission to report on its study of paid parental and medical leave to the Congress within two years after the Commission first meets. Terminates the Commission within 30 days after its final report. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth the effect of this Act on existing laws and existing employment benefits. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out title I of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that both Spain and Israel should be congratulated on establishing full diplomatic relations with each other.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Navajo-Hopi Land Exchange Act of 1986 - Requires the Navajo Tribe, through its governing body, to adopt a resolution with respect to the transfer of the beneficial interest of the Hopi Tribe in and to the surface estate of specified trust lands and the extinguishment of specified claims of the Hopi Tribe against the Navajo Tribe. Directs the governing body to transmit such resolution to the Secretary of the Interior. Provides that such resolution shall represent the consent of the Navajo Tribe to the provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary to review the Navajo resolution to determine if it is in conformance with this Act and if it is a legal action of the Navajo Tribe. Provides that the authorities established by this Act shall lapse if such resolution is not adopted and delivered to the Secretary within a specified time after the enactment of this Act. Requires (upon the publication of the Navajo resolution in the Federal Register) the transfer of all the beneficial interest of the Hopi Tribe in and to the surface estate of specified trust lands in Arizona to the Navajo Tribe, such lands to be held in trust by the United States and made a part of the Navajo Reservation. Requires a similar transfer of specified Navajo lands to the Hopi Tribe. Provides that such lands transferred to the Hopi Tribe shall be in full satisfaction of all interest such Tribe has in the Navajo Indian Reservation. Excludes specified lands from the above-mentioned transfer. Sets forth a formula for the payment of royalties to the Secretary for the benefit of the Hopi Tribe. Entitles the Hopi Tribe to a specified percentage of annual revenues derived by the Navajo Tribe from the development of coal and other mineral resources on specified lands in New Mexico transferred to the Navajo Tribe. Establishes the Navajo Rehabilitation Fund from the remaining revenues for improvement of economic, educational, and social conditions of relocated Navajo families. Extinguishes, upon the publication of the Navajo resolution, specified claims that the Hopi Tribe may have against the Navajo Tribe or that the Navajo Tribe may have against the Hopi Tribe. Repeals specified provisions of the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Amendments Act of 1980. Sets forth a specified time by which members of the Navajo Tribe must relocate from lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe. Directs the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission to wind up its affairs and cease to exist within a specified time. Establishes the Office of Navajo Relocation within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior to perform the remaining relocation activities of the Commission. Requires the Secretary (when relocations have been completed) to abolish such Office and transfer the remaining responsibilities to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Disapproves a proposed deferral (number D86-48) of $500,000,000 of budget authority for the community development block grant program, as set forth in the President's message to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Expresses the support of the House of Representatives for the Haitian people as they try to rebuild their nation and make a peaceful transition to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Papago-Gila Bend Settlement Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay $30,000,000 plus interest to the authorized governing body of the Papago Tribe of Arizona if such Tribe assigns to the United States all right, title, and interest in 9,888 acres of land within the Gila Bend Indian Reservation which has been rendered unsuitable for economic use due to the operation of the Painted Rock Dam. Reserves hunting, fishing, and gathering rights in such land to the Tribe. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Tribe to invest such sums in interest-bearing deposits and securities. Allows the governing body of the Tribe to spend the principal, interest, and dividends for land and water acquisition and economic development in the San Lucy District. Authorizes the Tribe to acquire a specified amount of private lands. Requires the Secretary to hold in trust for the benefit of the Tribe private lands acquired by the Tribe. Deems such trust lands to be a Federal Indian Reservation. Requires the Secretary to establish a water management plan with respect to such acquired lands. Requires the Secretary to make payments in lieu of real property taxes to the State of Arizona with respect to such acquired lands. Authorizes the Secretary to satisfy such taxes by transferring public lands (including lands within the Gila Bend Indian Reservation) to the State of Arizona. Requires the Secretary, upon the request of the Tribe, to deliver water (at no cost to the United States) through the main project works of the Central Arizona Project to such acquired lands. Requires the Secretary to carry out the obligations under this Act if, within a specified time, the Papago Tribe executes a waiver of all claims for injuries to land or water rights (including both surface and ground water rights) with respect to the lands of the Gila Bend Indian Reservation. Requires the Secretary to construct: (1) a water treatment facility to provide water to San Lucy village; and (2) sewage disposal facilities to serve such village.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Papago-Tat Momolikot Dam Settlement Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) improve the Vaiva Vo irrigation project located within the Sif Oidak District of the Sells Papago Reservation for the annual distribution of an additional specified amount of water for agricultural purposes; (2) operate, maintain, and replace the existing Vaiva Vo irrigation project without cost to the Papago Tribe of Arizona; (3) construct fences and cattleguards in the vicinity of the Tat Momolikot Dam; and (4) determine what additional dam safety measures are necessary to protect life and property in the vicinity of the Tat Momolikot Dam. Requires functions of the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act with respect to lands within the Sells Papago Reservation to be subject to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act to the same extent as if performed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, if the Tribe executes a waiver of claims against the United States with regard to the construction of the Tat Momolikot Dam, to pay the authorized governing body of the Tribe the sum of $3,000,000 for the benefit of the Tribe, and $100,000 for the benefit of former residents of the Tat Momoli village for their relocation. Authorizes appropriations. Conditions the Secretary of the Interior's obligation to carry out functions under this Act upon tribal waiver of certain claims against the United States and the grant of appropriate rights with respect to the construction of the Tat Momolikot Dam.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Papago-Chuichu Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to contract for and make annual additional deliveries, through the Central Arizona Project, of specified quantities of water to the Chuichu area of the Sells Papago Reservation, Arizona. Directs the Secretary to construct and replace facilities to furnish domestic water to the villages of Chuichu, East Chuichu, and White Horse Pass. Requires the Secretary to construct an additional irrigation system within the Chuichu area of the Sif Oidak District of the Sells Papago Reservation sufficient for the distribution of specified acre-feet of water. Empowers the Papago Tribe to devote all water supplies to any use. Requires the Secretary to establish a water management plan for the Chuichu area. Conditions the Secretary's obligation to execute this Act only upon tribal waiver of certain claims against the United States regarding the Maricopa-Stanfield Water Basin. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, upon such waiver, to pay a certain sum to the Papago Tribe's governing body as trustee for the Tribe. Requires such funds to be invested in interest-bearing securities. Authorizes tribal spending of the principal, interest, and dividends. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits withdrawals of water from South Vekol Water Basin which underlies specified Federal lands in Arizona, except for specified uses. Requires functions of the Bureau of Reclamation under this Act regarding lands within the Sells Papago Reservation to be subject to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act to the same extent as if performed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, gold medals to Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky in recognition of their supreme dedication and total commitment to human rights and freedoms. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to determine the design of the medals. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to sell bronze duplicates of the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, and construct facilities for the National Air and Space Museum at Washington Dulles International Airport for expansion of the Museum. Authorizes the Board of Regents to receive and use private donations for carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
United States - Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from amounts allotted to each State, to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy to establish and operate health education and training center (border center) programs along the border with Mexico (in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas). Requires such border center programs to be cooperative programs between such schools and one or more private or public health education centers located along the border. Requires each border center to have an advisory board. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Requires all economic and military aid allocated for the Philippines to be withheld until the President certifies to the Congress that a president has been installed in the Philippines pursuant to a fair election which is recognized as legitimate by a majority of the population of the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Expresses the House of Representatives' support for the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people and calls upon the Government of Haiti to establish an electoral process culminating in free elections not later than six months after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Indian Self-Determination Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, upon the request of an Indian tribe, to enter into construction contracts with tribal organizations for the benefit of such tribes. Extends the Secretary of the Interior's authority to enter into contracts with such tribal organizations to administer education programs functions even when such functions are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies and regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of the Interior. Extends the Secretary of Health and Human Services' authority to enter into contracts with Indian tribal organizations to implement hospital and health facility functions even when such functions are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies and regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides, upon the request of a tribe, for the waiver of Federal contracting laws with respect to such contracts unless declined under specified criteria. Extends the eligibility period with respect to the retention of specified Federal benefits by employees who leave Federal employment to be employed by a tribal organization. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to contracts entered into under the Act. Requires the appropriate Secretary, in order to meet tribal requests, to designate an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Services to supervise the review of contracts by such agencies. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an effort by appropriate Federal agencies that contract with Indian tribes to revise procedures for the negotiation, payment, and audit of costs on grants and contracts with Indian tribes. Sets forth a procedure for the disallowance of such costs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native Regional Corporation to issue 100 shares of Native common stock to each Native enrollee. Sets forth certain requirements relating to the issuance, class, preference, dividend, and voting rights of such stock. Allows such Corporation, if authorized by an amendment to its articles of incorporation, to issue up to 100 additional shares of Native common stock to certain Natives. Grants specified rights to and places certain alienation restrictions on holders of Native common stock. Sets forth procedures for the termination of such alienation restrictions by the shareholders of a Regional Corporation (including the Bristol Bay Native Corporation and any Village Corporation in the Bristol Bay region). Allows an Alaska Native Regional Corporation, under certain circumstances or if authorized, to purchase any or all shares of its Native common stock then issued and outstanding. Sets forth procedures for a Regional Corporation to: (1) amend its articles of incorporation; (2) transfer its assets; and (3) approve certain resolutions. Allows a Native Corporation (any Regional Corporation, Village Corporation, Urban Corporation, or Native group) to convey its assets, including title to the surface and/or subsurface estate of land (or any interest therein) to a qualified transferee entity. Requires the conveyance of any assets to be approved by a prior vote of the shareholders. Sets forth specified requirements and restrictions with respect to the conveyance of assets by a Regional Corporation. Sets forth procedures for the Bristol Bay Native Corporation or any Village corporation located in the Bristol Bay region to vote on whether to continue restrictions on the alienation of Native common stock. Sets forth procedures for such entities to: (1) amend its articles of incorporation; (2) transfer their assets; and (3) approve certain resolutions. Prohibits any provision of this Act from diminishing or in any way affecting any governmental authority of a federally recognized tribe, traditional or statutory Native council, or any privilege of Alaska Natives as Native Americans with respect to the Federal Government. Requires, provisions regarding stock issuance, stockholders rights, and annual audits that relate to Regional Corporations to apply to Village Corporations, Urban Corporations, and Native groups. Provides that audits need not be transmitted to specified congressional committees. Requires restrictions on alienation of Native common stock of such corporations, inchoate rights, and dividends paid to continue after December 18, 1991. Provides for the removal of such restrictions on alienation of Native common stock. Authorizes the conveyance of subsurface lands by a Regional Corporation to a village entity. Exempts lands conveyed to a Native individual, Native group, village, or Regional Corporation from Federal, State, and local taxes and other specified claims. Provides that stock issued by a Regional Corporation or Village Corporation shall be exempt from State taxes provided the limitation upon alienation of such stock has been removed. Exempts, upon the happening of a specified event, any corporation organized under this Act from U.S. securities laws. Grants exclusive jurisdiction over any action challenging the constitutionality of specified provisions of this act to the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Provides that dissenting stockholders' rights in a merger or consolidation of Native corporations may not be exercised while the Native common stock of all corporations remains subject to restraints or alienation.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Disapproves a proposed deferral (number 86-48) of $500,000,000 of budget authority for the community development block grant program, as set forth in the President's message to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Declares that the Congress: (1) reaffirms its support for the Contadora initiatives and the resulting Document of Objectives, which sets forth a framework for negotiating peace in the region; (2) affirms its support for the Caraballeda Message; and (3) reaffirms its belief that the United States should provide such assistance as may be appropriate to reach final agreements based on the goals of the Document of Objectives and the Caraballeda Message.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States, in cooperation with other members of the international donor community, should call upon the Ethiopian Government to recognize that resources donated for famine relief should be used for that purpose and not diverted to resettlement efforts; (2) such forced resettlements by the Ethiopian Government should be halted and monitored by the United Nations (U.N.); (3) the Ethiopian Government should commit sufficient resources to move food and relief goods to meet the needs of its people; and (4) the U.N. should insist on free access to resettlement sites for international observers and the news media and report on conditions in the resettlement camps.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Terrorist Prosecution Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to punish anyone who in an act of international terrorism kills or attempts to kill any national of the United States in any foreign country or in international waters or airspace. Requires any such person who is found guilty of murder in the first degree to be sentenced to imprisonment for life and anyone found guilty of attempted murder to be imprisoned for not more than 20 years. Makes it an offense for any person in an act of international terrorism to assault, wound, strike, imprison, endanger, or make any other violent attack upon the person or liberty of any U.S. national in any foreign country or in international waters or airspace (or make violent attack on his or her premises, private accommodations, or means of transport). Provides for a fine of not more than $5,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than three years. Increases the fine to $10,000 and/or imprisonment for ten years if a deadly or dangerous weapon is used. Makes it an offense punishable by up to life imprisonment to: (1) conspire to murder a U.S. national who is in a foreign country or in international waters or airspace; or (2) conspire, while outside the United States, to murder a U.S. national within the United States. Authorizes the Attorney General to receive assistance of any Federal, State, or local agency (including the military) in enforcing this provision.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to install a plaque on the first permanent manned space station in honor of the space shuttle Challenger's crew.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should urge the Government of South Africa to indicate its willingness to negotiate with the black majority by: (1) granting unconditional freedom to Nelson Mandela; (2) recognizing the African National Congress; and (3) establishing a framework for political talks.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Michael J. Smith, Francis R. Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Judith A. Resnik, all of whom died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Prohibits any benefits payable from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, including cost-of-living increases, during calendar year 1987 from being subject to reduction or suspension by statute or presidential order.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Directs the President to submit to the Congress by March 1, 1986, a report on the national emergency with respect to Nicaragua. Sets forth questions that must be answered in such report. Requires each House of Congress to consider by April 1, 1986, a joint resolution on whether to terminate the emergency with respect to Nicaragua.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the termination date of the residential energy tax credit for solar property from December 31, 1985, to July 31, 1986. Sets forth definitions and special rules for solar property during such extension period. Extends the energy investment tax credit for solar energy property from December 31, 1985, to July 31, 1986. Sets forth special rules for solar property eligible for such credit during such extension period.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Establishes a field sanitation occupational health and safety standard with respect to agricultural employees engaged in hand-labor operations in the field. Provides that such standard shall be deemed to be an occupational health and safety standard promulgated, enforceable, and subject to penalties for violations under specified provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). Prohibits modification, revocation, or challenge of such standard under specified provisions of OSHA. Provides that this Act shall not preempt any State occupational health and safety standard, or any provision thereof, which is more effective in providing sanitized potable drinking water and toilet and handwashing facilities for agricultural employees than the standard established under this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to submit to the Congress a plan for inspecting agricultural establishments and to report within two years of the effective date of this Act on inspections made pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union has taken a step in allowing Elena Bonner to travel to the United States for medical purposes, and should follow up by restoring to her and Andrei Sakharov their right to travel and freedom of expression. Urges the President to protest the repeated violations of the Sakharovs' rights by the Soviet authorities and to call upon other signatory nations of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to join in such protests.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1985
Permits the reappointment of a specified number of air traffic controllers who were separated from service for participation in a strike initiated on August 3, 1981. Requires such reappointments to be made in FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1985
National Policy and Technology Foundation Act of 1985 - Establishes, as an independent agency, the National Policy and Technology Foundation to: (1) anticipate national problems and opportunities (especially with regard to world trade and labor, the environment, education, technological innovation, government, and tax and monetary policy); (2) develop cooperative public-private efforts; and (3) propose to the Congress and the President national policies for the improvement of the economic, industrial, environmental, and societal well-being of the United States (including development of the requisite knowledge base and the long-range analysis of these areas). Establishes in the Foundation, in order to facilitate its purposes: (1) a National Policy and Technology Board; (2) an Office of Director of the Foundation; (3) a National Information Office; (4) an Office of National Policy, Analysis, and Assessment; (5) an Office of National Programs; (6) an Office of the Professions; (7) an Office of Institutional and Human Resource Development; (8) an Office of Small Business; and (9) an Office of Intergovernmental Technology and Professions Delivery Systems. Transfers to the Foundation: (1) the National Bureau of Standards; (2) the Patent and Trademark Office; (3) the National Technical Information Service; (4) the Office of Small Business Research and Development; (5) the Directorate for Engineering; (6) the Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation (exclusive of the nonengineering programs of the industry/university cooperative research projects program element) of the National Science Foundation; (7) the Intergovernmental Programs section of the National Science Foundation; (8) the Office of Industrial Technology; (9) the Center for the Utilization of Federal Technology; and (10) the Division of Policy Research and Analysis of the National Science Foundation. Transfers to the Foundation all the functions and authorities of the National Science Foundation and the Secretary of Commerce under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (including the provision of assistance for the establishment of Centers for Industrial Design). Requires the Foundation to: (1) create a National Design Council, to encourage excellence in technological design; and (2) establish, through the Office of Institutional and Human Resources Development, the Federal Technological and Professions Extension Service. Requires the Foundation to submit various reports and information to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
Authorizes $228,000,000 in guaranteed annual amounts of direct grant assistance to the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands for an additional seven fiscal years. Sets forth the formula for the distribution of such funds. Requires the government of the Northern Mariana Islands to develop a seven year strategic plan for capital improvement programs. Requires the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to: (1) use certain funds to reduce its deficit incurred through September 30, 1985; (2) fully fund all public utilities owned or operated by such government; (3) transfer to the private sector certain functions of such government; and (4) implement a pension system for such government. Sets forth other specified requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should grant pardons to Rabbis Leonard Cahan, David Oler, Bruce Kahn, Mark Levine, and H. Steven Bayar, who were sentenced to prison for demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
States that the Congress declares that the primary purpose of U.S. assistance to the Republic of Korea shall be to promote the return to democracy in that country and to that end it places the highest priority on: (1) the replacement of the current climate of intimidation and abuses of human rights with dialog between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the democratic opposition; (2) restoration of the political rights of Kim Dae Jung and others; and (3) the peaceful democratic transfer of the Presidency of the Republic of Korea in 1988 elections that will be open to all who are committed to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow an income tax deduction for any tobacco and tobacco product sale promotion expenses. Defines "tobacco and tobacco products" as any small cigarette, large cigarette, cigar, or smokeless tobacco product, including snuff and chewing tobacco.
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