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United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Requires that the U.S. Embassy in Israel and the residence of the American Ambassador to Israel shall be located in Jerusalem.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Atlantic Striped Bass Restoration Act of 1984 - Imposes a three-year moratorium on fishing for Atlantic striped bass in order to allow restoration of such species. Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to terminate or extend (for up to 24 months) the moratorium under specified circumstances. Sets forth procedures for consultation, public notice, and opportunity for public comment prior to final determinations of moratorium termination or extension. Exempts such determinations from judicial review. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for noncompliances with the provision under this Act. Declares that any vessel connected with a violation shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States. Grants jurisdiction to the United States district courts over civil forfeitures. Directs the Administrator to enforce this Act as well as monitor the Atlantic striped bass fisheries in certain waters. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as National Birds of Prey Conservation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates June 6, 1984, as D-Day National Remembrance.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) continue to express U.S. opposition to the exile of Igor Ogurtsov; and (2) urge the Soviet Union to provide Igor Ogurtsov with medical care, grant his release from exile, and accept his application for an exit visa and allow him to emigrate without forcing him to renounce his views (in accordance with a specified international treaty).
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1984 for emergency food assistance for Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Indian Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1984 - Title I: Statement of Findings and Policy - Declares the findings and purposes of this Act. Title II: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement - Delineates the authority and duties of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement which shall be deemed to extend to Indian lands and tribes. Title III: Tribal Mining and Mineral Resources and Research Institutes - Makes Indian tribes eligible to participate as States in the Mining and Mineral Resources and Research Institutes program, on the condition that full Federal funding may be available for the establishment of tribal institutes which train members in disciplines related to the regulation of surface mining and reclamation operations. Requires the Advisory Committee on Mining and Mineral Research to include at least one representative of coal-owning Indian tribes. Title IV: Abandoned Mine Reclamation - Establishes in the Treasury the Tribal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. Outlines the procedure for collection and expenditure of funds used to implement the tribal reclamation program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the regulations covering tribal reclamation plans. Title V: Control of the Environmental Impacts of Surface Coal Mining - Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register, within six months of enactment, the Federal regulatory procedure and performance standards for surface coal mining and reclamation operations. Presents criteria to be met by tribal programs seeking full or partial regulatory authority over surface coal-mining operations and reclamations. Imposes a Federal regulatory program for all aspects of the regulation of surface mining operations that have not been assumed by an approved tribal regulatory program. Requires the Secretary to continue Federal enforcement of the part of a tribal regulatory program that is not being enforced by a tribe. Sets forth procedures for issuance of mining permits under tribal and Federal regulatory programs. Directs the Secretary to implement a program to compensate tribes for the fair market value of coal that is precluded from being mined under specified law. Applies specified environmental protection performance standards to Indian lands. Requires tribal regulatory programs to incorporate enforcement procedures and penalties that are at least as stringent as Federal regulatory programs. Grants enforcement authority to approved tribal programs regulating surface coal mining and reclamation operations on Indian lands. Sets forth standards under which a tribe may designate Indian lands unsuitable for surface coal or noncoal mining operations. Provides for administrative and judicial review of tribal regulatory action. Title VI: Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets procedural guidelines for the leasing of Federal coal deposits located under land owned by non-Federal entities, including Indian tribes. Provides for energy resource fellowships to 200 American Indian students. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President and the Congress regarding activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Designates the week beginning May 20, 1984, as National Arts with the Handicapped Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the: (1) Republic of South Africa should release Nelson Mandela from prison and should revoke Winnie Mandela's banning order; (2) President should use his position to secure the release of Nelson and Winnie Mandela; and (3) Speaker of the House is requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President and to the Republic of South Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to installment sales and the regulations relating to such sales should not be modified or amended in any way that will alter the manner in which mortgage-backed builder bond transactions are currently taxed.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984 - Title I - Designates the following lands in Arizona as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness in the Kaibab National Forest; (2) the Juniper Mesa Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (3) the Arnold Mesa Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (4) the Castle Creek Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (5) the Granite Mountain Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (6) the Apache Creek Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (7) the Sheridan Mountain Wilderness in the Prescott National Forest; (8) the San Francisco Peaks Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (9) the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (10) the Wet Beaver Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (11) the Fossil Springs Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (12) the West Clear Creek Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (13) lands in the Coconino National Forest which shall be included in the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness; (14) the Rattlesnake Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest; (15) lands in the Tonto National Forest which shall be included in the Mazatzal Wilderness; (16) lands in the Tonto National Forest which shall be included in the Superstition Wilderness; (17) the Hellsgate Wilderness in the Tonto National Forest; (18) the Salome Wilderness in the Tonto National Forest; (19) the Four Peaks Wilderness in the Tonto National Forest; (20) the Salt Wilderness in the Tonto National Forest; (21) the Rincon Mountain Wilderness in the Coronado National Forest; (22) lands in the Coronado National Forest which shall be included in the Chiricahua Wilderness; (23) the Pajarita Wilderness in the Coronado National Forest; (24) lands in the Coronado National Forest which shall be included in the Galiuro Wilderness; (25) the Santa Teresa Wilderness in the Coronado National Forest; (26) the Mt. Wrightson Wilderness in the Coronado National Forest; (27) the Miller Peak Wilderness in the Coronado National Forest; and (28) the Bear Wallow Wilderness in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to review and report to specified congressional committees on the Department of Agriculture policies, practices, and regulations regarding livestock grazing in national forest wilderness areas in Arizona. Requires the Secretary to determine the suitability of the following lands in the Coronado National Forest for preservation as wilderness and to submit recommendations to the President: (1) the Bunk Robinson Peak Wilderness Study Area; (2) the Whitmire Canyon Wilderness Study Area; and (3) the Mount Graham Wilderness Study Area. Provides that the President shall submit recommendations with respect to such areas to Congress by January 1, 1986. Requires that such areas be administered so as to maintain their presently existing wilderness character and potential. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Arizona shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Arizona which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Arizona reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless areas review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Arizona without express congressional authorization. Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a portion of the Verde River in Arizona as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. Title II - Designates specified lands in Graham and Pinal Counties in Arizona as the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness. Title III - Designates the following lands as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Cottonwood Point Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District of the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona; (2) the Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District; (3) the Kanab Creek Wilderness in the Kaibab National Forest and in the Arizona Strip District; (4) the Mt. Logan Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District; (5) the Mt. Trumbull Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District; (6) the Paiute Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District; (7) the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District and in the Cedar City District in Utah; (8) the Saddle Mountain Wilderness in the Kaibab National Forest; and (9) the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness in the Arizona Strip District and in the Cedar City District. Releases from management as wilderness areas those lands in the Arizona Strip District of the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona and those portions of the Starvation Point Wilderness Study Area and of the Paria Canyon Instant Study Area plus contiguous units in the Cedar City District of the Bureau of Land Management in Utah which are not designated as wilderness by this Act. Releases lands in the Kaibab National Forest which have been reviewed in the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) program from further review by the Department of Agriculture and from management as wilderness areas pending the revision of initial national forest management plans.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs for the second session of the 98th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1984
Expresses the sense of the House that travel by Members of Congress to the Soviet Union and travel by Soviet leaders to the United States serves the interests of the two nations and that such travel is encouraged.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1984
Federal Polygraph Limitation and Anti-Censorship Act of 1984 - Prohibits a Federal agency from: (1) requiring any present, past, or prospective employee to take a polygraph test; (2) requesting any employee to take a polygraph test voluntarily, unless the test is administered as part of an investigation into alleged criminal conduct or an unauthorized disclosure of classified information; or (3) imposing any sanction against any employee on the basis of the employee's refusal to take such a test or on the basis of the employee's performance on such a test. Prohibits an agency from imposing or enforcing any agreement or requirement providing for agency review of an employee's information before the employee may disclose the information to the public outside of his or her official capacity. Directs the head of each agency to rescind all such agreements and to notify affected employees. Authorizes any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act to institute an action for injunctive or monetary relief in the appropriate U.S. district court and to petition the court for appropriate temporary relief. Directs the court to award the costs of litigation and attorney's fees to the prevailing party in such action. Exempts the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency from the applicability of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1984
Designates the Week of November 12 through November 18, 1984, as National Reye's Syndrome Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Expresses the appreciation of Congress to the descendants of blacks who contributed to American Independence. Encourages State and local governments and private organizations to conduct activities during Black History Month 1985 in honor of black involvement in the American Revolution.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1984
Fair Insurance Coverage Act - Prohibits any insurer from discriminating in an insurance contract against any person because of blindness. Includes within the prohibition refusing to make or negotiate a contract for insurance or giving different treatment with respect to terms, conditions, rates, or benefits because of blindness. Establishes a preference for State actions prior to judicial enforcement under this Act. Authorizes any aggrieved person, in the absence of State actions or jurisdiction, to bring an action under this Act for individual relief. Authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to bring an action for injunctive relief whenever there is reasonable cause to believe a person is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination or when an individual is aggrieved and an issue of general public importance is raised. Grants the Federal district courts jurisdiction of such actions regardless of the amount in controversy. Allows a court to order monetary, equitable, or other appropriate relief, including punitive damages.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1984
Designates the month of November 1984 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Calls upon the news media to voluntarily refrain from: (1) projecting presidential election results; or (2) predicting the outcome of such elections until all polling places have closed.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should initiate discussions with the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the Security Council to effectuate the replacement of the Multinational Force in Lebanon with a U.N. peacekeeping force.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Congressional Child Care Center for the use of children of Members, officers, and employees of the House. States that the Committee on House Administration shall operate the Center. Directs the Chairman of such Committee to appoint a nonpartisan advisory board to make recommendations on management and operation of the Center, and to conduct semiannual reviews of such Center. Requires that operating expenses be recovered through child care fees. Establishes a revolving fund within the House contingent fund for the purpose of operating the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Indian Health Care Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, as amended by the Indian Health Care Amendments of 1980, to authorize specific appropriations for FY 1985-1987. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine which individual Indians shall receive Indian Health Scholarships. Prohibits the payment of health professions preparatory scholarships to Indians who are employed in the Indian Health Service during nonacademic periods of the school year. Prohibits the use of funds which were authorized to eliminate backlogs in Indian health care to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Lists the purposes for which the appropriated funds shall be expended. Designates as the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund certain authorized appropriations necessary to raise all tribes to a specified level on the Indian Health Service's priority system. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a current health services priority system report, including the levels of health services and funds needed to raise Indian communities to a parity with that of the general population. Specifies the minimum percentage of funds to be expended by the Secretary for research into specified areas of Indian health care. Sets a deadline by which the Secretary must develop and implement a plan to reduce infant mortality among Indian tribes to a rate no greater than infant mortality among all citizens. Specifies funds available for such a plan. Establishes an Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund to be administered by the Secretary for the sole purpose of meeting the extraordinary cost of medical disasters or catastrophic illnesses. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to expend certain sums over a three- year period for the construction or renovation of the top five priority inpatient care facilities and ambulatory care facilities, together with the requisite staff quarters. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress the current health facilities priority system report. Directs the Secretary to provide the Congress with one year's notice of any contemplated closing of an Indian health care facility. Directs the Secretary to begin implementing in FY 1985 a ten-year plan to provide safe water supply and sanitary sewage and solid waste disposal facilities to Indian homes and communities. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the Service's current Indian sanitation facilities priority system, and the funds needed to raise all communities to a zero level of deficiency. Authorizes specified appropriations to provide sanitation facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance for the operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities, utility organizations, and emergency repairs of sanitation facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to contract with urban Indian organizations to administer health services programs in urban areas. Details eligibility criteria for such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes eligibility guidelines for certain persons who are otherwise ineligible for medical care and benefits provided by either the Indian Health Service or by tribes contracting from the Service. Establishes the Office of Indian Health Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to administer all Indian health programs and authorities. Places the Office of Indian Health Affairs under the direction of an Assistant Secretary for Indian Health. Transfers the Indian Health Service to such Office. Authorizes the Secretary to waive Indian preference laws on an ad hoc basis for transfers occurring during a specified period.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Amends the Sherman Act to prohibit any rail carrier, with intent to monopolize, from denying a person the use, at reasonable terms, of a facility which is the sole facility for movement of such person's shipment of bulk ore, coal, or grain to the tracks of a competing carrier or to the destination of shipment. Declares that a carrier shall be conclusively presumed to have denied use of such facility with intent to monopolize if it denies use of such facility at reasonable terms to such a person and to other carriers for the transportation of such person's goods.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act of 1983 - Title I - The Credit for Increasing Research Activities; ACRS for R&D Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for research and development (R&D) expenditures. Modifies the definition of qualified research for purposes of the R&D credit to narrow the category of eligible activities for which the credit is allowable. Makes depreciation of research equipment eligible for the R&D credit. Eliminates the special three-year accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS) category for research equipment. Increases contract research expenses eligible for R&D credit purposes to 75 percent of the amount paid to others for research on the taxpayer's behalf. Provides that in-house and contract research expenses paid or incurred by a regular corporation will constitute qualified research expenses for R&D credit purposes. Provides that in the case of research being conducted in partnership form, the "in carrying on" test is applied at the partnership level, and the credit is apportioned among the partners in accordance with general partnership rules. Title II - Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education - Establishes a new income tax credit equal to 25 percent of payments to universities for basic research which exceed a fixed, maintenance-of-effort floor. Calculates the maintenance-of-effort floor as the greater of the annual average of university basic research payments over 1982-1983 or one percent of the average annual R&D budget over 1981-1983. Treats the portion of the university basic research payments which is not in excess of the maintenance-of-effort floor as contract research expenses eligible for purposes of computing the regular incremental R&D credit. Allows corporations an income tax deduction for contributions of scientific and technical property or services to an institution of higher education. Defines scientific property to mean computer software or other equipment used in a trade or business, which is donated for the direct education of students and faculty, for research and experimentation, or for research training in the United States in mathematics, the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of the allowable deduction for contributions of scientific property or services. Limits the amount of such deduction to ten percent of taxable income computed without regard to specified deductions. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the scholarships, fellowship grants, student loan forgiveness, or stipends of a graduate student in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or the physical or biological sciences. Specifies that such tax exclusion is not forfeited merely because the student is required, as a condition of the scholarship or fellowship, to perform future service in teaching or research.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Indian Gambling Control Act - Declares gambling illegal within Indian country unless a tribal government has adopted rules and regulations for the conduct of gambling, and such rules have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Prohibits gambling activity within Indian country where Federal law or State public policy proscribes such activity. Requires the Secretary to approve tribal ordinances which meet specified standards for the conduct, licensing or regulation of gambling. Requires such ordinances to be as restrictive as those established by State law governing similar gambling. Proscribes the issuance of a tribal gambling license to any person who is ineligible to receive a State gambling license. Prohibits a tribe from entering into a management contract for the operation of a tribal gambling enterprise if such contract is based upon any percentage of the gross or net revenues of such enterprise.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Amends Federal bankruptcy law to provide for the appointment of trustees in reorganization cases if the debtor is an airline and there are a substantial number of individuals holding an otherwise valid ticket for transportation which the airline did not provide. Charges the trustee to provide for an immediate refund on the tickets as an expense of the debor in the ordinary course of business.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Designates the second full week in March of each year as National Employ the Older Worker Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Designates 1984 as the Year of the Grand Canyon.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider that country's October 1983 treaty proposals; (2) encourage Honduras to enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider Nicaragua's treaty proposal to Honduras; and (3) encourage other Central American countries to enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider Nicaragua's treaty proposal to them.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Directs the President to investigate and report to the Congress within 18 months concerning the living conditions and available assistance for El Salvadorans displaced inside and outside their country. Requires such investigation to report on the fate of El Salvadoran deportees. Requires the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to hold hearings within two years to consider appropriate U.S. steps to assure the personal safety and equitable distribution of assistance to such displaced El Salvadorans. Provides for a three-year moratorium on specified categories of El Salvadoran deportations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Amends the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 to authorize an additional $600,000,000 for assistance to non-Federal organizations in developing reclamation projects.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Native American Programs Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Native Americans Programs Act of 1974 to state that decisions to grant financial assistance shall not consider whether such aid accrues to the benefit of Indians who are not members of a federally recognized tribe. Prohibits the rejection of financial assistance solely on the grounds that the request serves Indians or an Indian organization in a nonreservation area. Requires that programs under this Act be administered within the Department of Health and Human Services (currently they may be delegated to other Federal departments and agencies). Prohibits any transfer of such administration outside of the Department. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to continue the administration of grants through the Administration for Native Americans (the Administration). Requires the Commission of such Administration to delegate all functions within the Administration. Restricts the delegation and redelegation of functions by the Secretary to personnel within the Department. Permits interagency funding agreements between the Administration and other Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987. Specifies the percentage of appropriated funds which shall be used for financial assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Congressional Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit for contributions to candidates for the office of U.S. Representative. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 for any one qualified candidate, and $200 for all qualified candidates. Requires that such contributions be verified in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury. Prohibits a candidate from misrepresenting his eligibility for office or the eligibility of a potential contributor for the tax credit. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the use of such political tax credits not later than June 30 following each Federal election. Adds a new title to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971: "Title V: Financing of General Election Campaigns for the House of Representatives." Sets forth requirements for the qualification of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives to receive contributions eligible for the tax credit provided by this Act. Requires a candidate to certify to the Federal Election Commission that neither he nor his authorized committee will accept any contribution or make any campaign expenditure in excess of prescribed limits. Requires further that the candidate maintain a separate accounting of contributions which qualify for the income tax credit for political contributions provided by this Act and that the candidate provide any appropriate information to the Commission for purposes of auditing or examining campaign contributions. Requires the candidate to certify the receipt of a certain amount of threshold contributions. Limits to $20,000 the amount of personal funds (from the candidate or his immediate family) that a candidate may spend in an election. Waives spending limits for eligible candidates whose opponents have exceeded applicable expenditure limits or who have otherwise failed to meet the requirements of this Act. Requires independent expenditures in excess of $5,000 to be reported to the Commission and each candidate within specified time frames. Qualifies a candidate against whom more than $5,000 in independent expenditures have been made for premium postal rates. Requires the Commission to verify upon request the eligibility of a candidate under this Act to the Secretary. Requires the Commission to conduct an examination and audit of the campaign accounts of ten percent of the qualified candidates under this Act to determine compliance with the expenditure limitations and other requirements of this Act. Empowers the Commission to bring a civil suit in U.S. district court to enforce any requirement of this Act or recover any amounts resulting from an audit of campaign expenditures. Permits private citizens to file complaints with the Commission and initiate court actions. Authorizes appropriations. Includes within the definition of "contribution" for purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 certain extensions of credit for advertising and broadcasting in excess of $1,000 for a period of more than 60 days. Limits to $90,000 (adjusted for inflation) in any calendar year the amount of contributions which candidates for U.S. Representative may accept from non-party multicandidate political committees. Specifies exceptions for candidates in general and special elections. Limits to $240,000 the expenditure amounts for such candidates. Permits candidates for the office of U.S. Representative to make expenditures independently of the campaign committee of his party in specified circumstances. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide candidates for the office of U.S. Representative with equal time in broadcast media to respond to the remarks of an opposing candidate.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Designates April 8 through 14, 1984, as Parkinson's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Designates March 1984 as National Eye Donor Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Designates the week beginning March 4, 1984, as Women's History Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Urges the United States and the People's Republic of China to begin talks aimed at creating a jointly administered United States-People's Republic of China student exchange program. Sets forth certain aspects of such exchange program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Requires the President to submit to Congress, and the Congress to adopt, for FY 1985 and each year thereafter, a "pay as you go" budget which freezes all revenues and outlays at current levels. Requires any future legislative reductions in revenues to be offset by equivalent reductions in outlays and any spending above the outlay baseline to be offset by equivalent increases in revenues or reductions in outlays so that no spending increase results in an increase in the deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Designates 1984 as the Year of Water. Requests the President to welcome the delegates of the International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage in Fort Collins, Colorado.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
Commends the Solar System Exploration Committee and its staff for their contribution toward the development of a coherent, affordable, and scientifically valuable program for the continued exploration of the solar system by the United States. Endorses specified recommendations of the Committee, including its: (1) goals and recommendations for the solar system exploration program; (2) core program projects (Venus Radar Mapper, Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter, a comet rendezvous/asteroid flyby, and the Titan probe/radar mapper); and (3) subsequent core missions identified for further research and development.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
Commends the Astronomy Survey Committee. Endorses certain astronomical and astrophysical research objectives including the evolution of galaxies and the formation of stars and planets. Endorses certain continuing programs, as set forth by the Astronomy Survey Committee, including the Space Telescope and the associated Space Telescope Science Institute and the Gamma Ray Observatory. Endorses certain prerequisites for gathering and analyzing data, including instrumentation and detectors and laboratory astrophysics. Endorses certain major new programs, including an Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility and a Very-Long-Baseline Array of radio telescopes. Endorses other moderate and lower cost new programs, including an augmentation to the NASA Explorer Program, an Advanced Solar Observatory in space, a ground based antenna and a spatial interferometer.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1983
Designates the week beginning April 8, 1984, as National Mental Health Counselors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1983
Public Assistance Amendments of 1983 - Part B - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize any State having an approval plan under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of such Act to establish and conduct one or more pilot projects to demonstrate the use of integrated service delivery systems for human services programs in the State. Requires the integration of service delivery systems for human services programs in any State under a pilot project to include: (1) the development of a common set of terms; (2) the development for each applicant of a single comprehensive family profile; (3) the establishment of a single resources directory; (4) the development of a unified budget; (5) the implementation of unified planning; (6) the consolidation of agency locations; (7) the standardization of purchasing procedures; (8) the creation of communications linkages among agencies; (9) the development of uniform application procedures; and (10) any other procedures determined desirable by the Secretary. Requires a State interested in such a project to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services within six months of enactment. Directs the Secretary to: (1) approve between three and five projects (including at least one project which will be operated on a statewide basis); and (2) pay to each State with an approved project 90 percent of the State's costs during the projects first 18 months, 80 percent in the following 12-month period, and 70 percent for the next 12-month period. Defines "human services program" to include AFDC, title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act, the Federal food stamp program, and any other Federal or federally assisted program (other than a program under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) which provides assistance based on need or income or which is designed to help in an emergency or a crisis. Requires reports from participating States. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress. Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects and report the results to Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to publish regulations under which any State which is currently participating in the AFDC program, the Medicaid program (title XIX of the Social Security Act), and the food stamp program and which desires to conduct a demonstration project designed to demonstrate the use in the AFDC program of rules, procedures, and specifications which are the same as those in either or both of the other two programs may apply to the Secretary to conduct such a project. Directs the Secretary to approve no more than five of the applications. Provides that a project shall be conducted for no longer than three years, except that the Secretary may approve a two-year extension. Authorizes a State conducting a demonstration project to develop for the three programs: (1) a common set of terms and definitions; (2) uniform application and eligibility determination procedures; (3) a unified budgeting process; (4) a single-family case file; and (5) a common administrative structure. Provides that expenses incurred in carrying out a demonstration project shall be considered to be expenditures either as AFDC payments under an approved State plan or for the administration of such plan. Requires reports from participating States to the Secretary and the submission of the final report to Congress along with the Secretary's findings and recommendations. Exempts under the AFDC program a women who is pregnant from registering for work training and employment if her child is expected to be born within three months. Authorizes a State to take into account changes in family composition, income, resources, and other circumstances which increase the financial need of a family when determining the eligibility of an AFDC family which has received a nonrecurring lump sum of income. Provides for the direct reimbursement of AFDC recipients for transportation and day care costs attributable to participation in community work experience programs, to the extent that the State is unable to provide such services. Excludes from an AFDC family's resources burial plots, funeral agreements, and real property which the family is making a good-faith effort to sell. Waives the requirement imposed on a State to seek recovery of an AFDC overpayment made to a former AFDC recipient, if recovery costs would equal or exceed the amount of the overpayment. Permits a State to make AFDC protective payments for a child in cases where an applicant, recipient, or relative refuses to cooperate with the State in seeking employment, assigning other support rights to the State, determining paternity, and obtaining support payments. (Under current law, a State is required to make AFDC protective payments for a child in such cases.) Makes ineligible for AFDC for three years any alien whose sponsor was a public or private agency, unless the State determines that the sponsor no longer exists or cannot meet such individual's needs. Revises the formula for determining the maximum number of hours per month of work required in a community work experience program. Permits disclosure of information concerning AFDC applicants and recipients to a law enforcement officer, if the officer demonstrates that the information is necessary to apprehend a fugitive felon. Establishes the payment schedule for the reimbursement of certain back claims due the States for expenditures under certain Social Security Act provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1983
Amends the Act of February 12, 1929, to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to invest Indian trust funds in public debt securities bearing interest as the Secretary determines, considering current market yields (currently such funds are fixed at 4 percent per annum).
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1983
Eliminates the statutory position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior. Replaces it with the statutory position of Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Considers presidential appointments of persons as Assistant Secretary for the Department of the Interior responsible for Indian affairs to be appointments as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1983
Title I - Federal Reclamation Hydroelectric Powerplants Authorization Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the following hydroelectric powerplants: (1) the Whiskeytown powerplant in California; (2) the Yellowtail Afterbay powerplant in Montana; (3) the Red Bluff powerplant in California; (4) the Palisades powerplant enlargement in Idaho and Wyoming; (5) the Anderson Ranch powerplant in Idaho; (6) the Minidoka powerplant rehabilitation and enlargement in Idaho and Wyoming; and (7) the Guernsey powerplant enlargement in Wyoming. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to construct, operate, and maintain transmission facilities for such powerplants and to purchase replacement capacity and energy in order to maintain contractual deliveries to customers during unit outages caused by powerplant construction. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy to minimize the loss of capacity and energy to power customers due to unit outages resulting from such powerplant construction. Directs the Secretary of Energy to maintain deliveries of capacity and energy at contract prices to customers affected by such unit outages. Requires that the hydroelectric power generated by such facilities be marketed through specified Federal hydroelectric power marketing systems. Authorizes appropriations beginning in FY 1985 to the Secretary of the Interior for construction, operation, and maintenance of the powerplants authorized under this Act and the cost of replacement capacity and energy. Authorizes appropriations beginning in FY 1985 to the Secretary of Energy for transmission facilities and the purchase of replacement capacity and energy. Title II - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to increase the capacity of existing generating equipment at Hoover Powerplant (the uprating program) and to improve parking, visitor facilities, roads, and other facilities which will contribute to the safety and sufficiency of visitor access to Hoover Dam and Powerplant (the visitor facilities program). Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct a Colorado River bridge crossing immediately downstream from Hoover Dam in order to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce safety hazards. Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 to provide that non-Federal funds advanced for the Central Arizona Project and the Orme Dam and Reservoir project shall be credited to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and shall be available without further appropriation for such projects. Provides that the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund shall include all revenues collected in connection with the operation of facilities with respect to the Central Arizona Project and with respect to the Orme Dam and Reservoir until completion of repayment requirements of the Central Arizona Project. (Under current law, such fund shall include all such revenues including revenues which are determined to be surplus after the completion of the Central Arizona Project.) Requires the Secretary of Energy to provide for surplus revenues for the Boulder Canyon Project and for the Parker- Davis Project by increasing the rates charged to purchasers of electricity in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Provides that after the repayment period for the Central Arizona Project, the rates charged to such purchasers shall include an additional charge to provide revenues for repayment of costs in connection with the operation of Hoover Dam, certain salinity control units for the Colorado River, and certain water supply augmentation units for the Colorado River. Amends the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 to eliminate the ceiling on the aggregate amount of advances which the Secretary of the Treasury may make to the Colorado River Dam fund to carry out such Act. Increases the ceiling on the authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act. Permits the adjustment of the funds required for the uprating program and the visitor facilities program at Hoover Dam and Powerplant. Amends the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act of 1940 to make open-ended the period of time for which the Secretary of the Interior is directed to promulgate charges for electricity generated at Hoover Dam. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate charges for electricity generated at Hoover Dam to provide revenues for the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund. Includes in the operation costs for the Boulder Canyon project which may be paid for out of the Colorado River Dam Fund the purchase of supplemental energy to meet temporary deficiencies in firm energy which the Secretary of Energy is obligated by contract to supply. Provides that receipts from the Boulder Canyon Project which are placed in the Colorado River Dam Fund shall be available for transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund. Sets forth the interest rates for advances made for the uprating program and for the visitor facilities program at Hoover Dam and Powerplant. Requires the Secretary of Energy to offer: (1) a renewal contract for specified amounts of energy to each contractor for power generated at Hoover Dam; (2) contracts for capacity and associated energy resulting from the uprating program at Hoover Dam in the amounts specified in the General Consolidated Power Marketing Criteria or Regulations for Boulder City Area projects to purchasers in Arizona, Nevada, and California who are eligible to enter into such contracts pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act; and (3) contracts for such energy as is available respectively to Arizona, Nevada, and California under such Criteria to the Arizona Power Authority, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada, and purchasers in California who are eligible to enter into such contracts pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act. Sets forth requirements and restrictions with respect to such contracts. Provides that the uprating program may be undertaken with appropriated funds, funds advanced under contracts between the Secretary of the Interior and non-Federal purchasers of electricity from such program, or a combination thereof. Sets forth conditions under which claims with respect to this Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, or the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act may be brought. Provides that reimbursement of funds appropriated for the construction of facilities at Hoover Dam and Powerplant under this title shall be a repayment requirement of the Boulder Canyon Project. Requires that electrical capacity and energy associated with the United States' interest in the Navajo generating station which is in excess of the pumping requirements of the Central Arizona Project and any needs for desalting and protective pumping facilities be marketed and exchanged by the Secretary of Energy. Requires that the marketing and exchange plan for the Navajo surplus optimize the availability of such surplus and provide financial assistance in the timely construction and repayment of construction costs of authorized features of the Central Arizona Project. Authorizes the establishment of rate components which shall be deposited in the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and made available to implement such plan.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1983
Designates November 12, 1983, as Anti-Defamation League Day in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1983
Designates the week beginning April 8, 1984, as National Hearing Impaired Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1983
National Professions and Technology Foundation Act of 1983 - Establishes as an independent agency the National Professions and Technology Foundation which shall: (1) develop coordinated efforts among the public professions, industry, labor, government, and academia for the resolution of national problems and the identification of national opportunities on a multiprofessional, multidisciplinary bases; and (2) promote the advance of technology, professional innovation, and the supply of professional and technical manpower in the United States. 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 of the National Science Foundation; (5) the Directorate for Engineering of the National Science Foundation; (6) the Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation 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 authorities of the National Science Foundation and the Secretary of Commerce under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980. Specifies the Foundation's functions with respect to: (1) the development of national policies and programs relating to industrial, technological, and professional needs and opportunities in the United States; (2) the development and support of engineering programs; (3) the development of long-term national professional and technological human resource policies and the support of public professions and technical training and educational institutions; (4) the development and implementation of policies and programs which materially improve the resources and capabilities of small businesses; (5) the promotion of technology transfer from the Federal Government and private enterprise to State and local governments and the delivery of services by the professions; (6) the promotion and protection of U.S. interests in international voluntary standardization activities and the development of a long-term public and private national standards policy; and (7) the development of a national information and statistics policy. Requires the Foundation to create a National Design Council which shall promote excellence in technological design through its programs. Establishes a National Professions and Technology Board to supervise and control the policy of the Foundation. Provides for the appointment of a Director who shall formulate the programs and the budgets of the Foundation and insure that such programs are coordinated with other Federal, State, and local government programs and with the private sector. Establishes a National Professions and Technology Medal which the President shall periodically award to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of the professions, technology, and technological manpower for the improvement of the economic, environmental, or social well-being of the United States. Authorizes the Foundation to award scholarships for the study of the public professions. Requires the Foundation to report periodically to the President (for submission to Congress) on its activities and to make recommendations with respect to important national policy issues and emerging problems and opportunities. Requires that the Foundation respond to any congressional request for assistance or information. Eliminates the National Industrial Technology Board established by the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984.