United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1980
Authorizes the superintendent of each of the service academies to nominate additional candidates for appointment to their respective institutions. Limits such nominations to not more than 50 each year and prohibits any such appointments from causing the total strength of an academy to exceed authorized limits.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make alien crewmen serving onboard a fishing vessel having its home port or operating base in the United States nonimmigrant aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 28 August 1980
American Wine Labeling Equity Act - Requires the wine ingredient labeling regulations promulgated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms pursuant to the Federal Alcohol Administration Act to be applied to foreign producers of wine imported into the United States as well as to American producers.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Urges the peaceful resolution of issues raised by Polish workers in accordance with international agreements. Requests the Polish government to release persons unjustly imprisoned during recent worker unrest. Asks all signatories to observe the Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1980
Authorizes the sale or lease of specified naval vessels to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Greece, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Peru, and Taiwan. Requires such sales to be at a price at least equivalent to the U.S. value of such vessels. Permits leases of such vessels to provide for maintenance by the lessee. Requires the recipient government to pay any transfer expenses. Terminates the authority to transfer such vessels two years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1980
Petroleum Displacement Act of 1980 - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to repeal certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of natural gas as a primary energy source in electric powerplants. Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Energy to prohibit the use of petroleum or natural gas or both as a primary energy source in electric powerplants where coal or alternate fuel capability exists. Makes certain technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Tax Rate Reduction Act of 1980 - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates for calendar years 1981 through 1985, and permanently thereafter. Title II: Inflation Adjustments for Taxable Years Beginning After 1985 - Requires annual cost of living adjustments to income levels in each income tax bracket, beginning in calendar year 1985. Requires similar cost of living adjustments to the $1,000 personal tax exemption. Increases the minimum income levels at which a taxpayer is required to file an income tax return by providing that such levels shall be equal to the taxpayer's income tax exemption and zero bracket amount, adjusted for inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Tax Reduction - Job Creation Act - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income tax rates for each category of individual taxpayers. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayers to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1980
Authorizes the Secretary concerned of the Armed Forces to conduct a safety investigation of any aircraft accident under his or her jurisdiction to determine its cause and obtain information for the prevention of similar accidents. Prohibits the public release, or use in discovery or as evidence in a judicial or administrative proceeding, of deliberative portions, confidential information, or life science reports of such investigation. Declares that this Act does not limit or alter the authority of the National Transportation Safety Board under other specified Acts. Directs the Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations to carry out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the provisions of law requiring twice a year cost of living adjustments for Federal civil service and military retirees should not be changed.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1980
Authorizes the President to present a gold-plated medal, on behalf of the Congress, to those athletes selected through the Olympic trial process to be members of the United States Summer Olympic Team of 1980. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be stricken 650 such medals with suitable emblems. Declares that such medals are national medals and that funds to carry out this Act shall be made available under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
National Defense Compensation Act of 1980 - Increases the pay and allowances, and certain special and incentive pays, of members of the uniformed services for pay periods beginning after December 31, 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs the President, in any year in which an alternative pay plan is transmitted to the Congress, to include in such plan a statement specifying the adjustments which would have been made but for such alternative plan.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
Excludes the requirement that an individual have two academic years remaining at an educational institution to be eligible for advanced training in a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at such institution.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the seven-day period beginning October 5, 1980, as "National Port Week." Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report annually to Congress on the conditions of U.S. public ports.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Armed Forces Educational Assistance Act of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to establish an educational assistance program for persons enlisting in an armed force under such Secretary's jurisdiction. Requires the Department of Defense to bear the costs of any such program. Prohibits requiring that any person participating make any contribution to such program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations for such programs taking account of the differences among the several armed forces. Requires that such programs provide that any person initially enlisting in an armed force who meets eligibility requirements established by the Secretary concerned, according to specified guidelines, become entitled to educational assistance at the time of such enlistment, with specified exceptions. Sets the period of educational assistance entitlement at one standard academic year (or the equivalent) for: (1) each year of the initial enlistment, up to four years; and (2) each year of active service, provided the person has completed at least two years active service before discharge or other release from active duty. Denies such entitlement to members discharged or otherwise released from active duty before completing two years of active service or under other than honorable conditions. Provides that such entitlement may not be used until a member has completed two years of active service. Directs the Secretary concerned to limit eligibility to persons who: (1) initially enlist for service on active duty as a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps after September 30, 1980; (2) are graduates of a secondary school; and (3) meet other requirements the Secretary may consider appropriate for the purposes of this Act and the needs of the armed forces. Directs the Secretary concerned to establish the maximum amount (up to $1,200) of assistance for educational expenses at an accredited institution of postsecondary education which may be provided any person under such program in any academic year. Permits different amounts to be established for different categories of persons enlisting. Entitles program participants to subsistence allowances of $300 per month during a nine-month academic year for full-time students (one-half of such amount for less than full-time). Directs the Secretary of Defense to increase the maximum amounts of yearly educational assistance and the subsistence allowance, once each year in a manner consistent with the increase over the preceding 12-month period in the average actual cost of attendance at public institutions of higher education. Allows persons upon reenlistment at the end of their initial enlistment to: (1) elect a 60 percent lump-sum payment in lieu of such educational assistance and subsistence allowance; or (2) transfer such entitlement to their spouses or dependent children. Provides that any unused entitlement of a person who dies before electing to transfer such entitlement, but has never elected not to make such a transfer, be automatically transferred to such person's surviving spouse or (if there is no surviving spouse or if the surviving spouse so elects) to such person's children. Sets a ten-year duration for such entitlement beginning on the date of retirement or discharge or other separation from active duty or, in the case of a member who dies on active duty and whose entitlement was thereby automatically transferred, beginning on the date of death. Requires persons entitled to such assistance to submit applications to the Secretary concerned to receive such benefits. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress every three months on the operation of such program. Raises the limit on the amount of educational assistance which may be provided for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve, under a specified program for such purpose, to $1,000 in any 12-month period, or a total of $4,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Authorizes the Secretary concerned to determine, based upon military requirements, the period of time between which a reservist is ordered to active duty and the time such reservist must enter that duty.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Increases from 50,000 to 100,000 the number of members of the Selected Reserve who may be ordered to active duty other than during a war or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1981 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes the appropriation of funds for fiscal year 1981 to the Department of Energy for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment costs incurred in carrying out national security programs, including scientific research and development, strategic and critical materials necessary for common defense, and military applications of nuclear energy, as specified. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of authorized funds for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement as specified. Imposes specified limits on the costs of general plant projects and construction projects. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for proposed construction projects with amounts authorized for plant engineering and design, and to perform such services using available funds for any Department of Energy defense activity construction project in the event of any national emergency. Prohibits the use of any funds available under this or any other Act from being used: (1) for the licensing of any defense activity or facility of the Department of Energy by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; or (2) to pay any penalty, fine, forfeiture, or settlement resulting from a failure to comply with the Clean Air Act with respect to any defense activity of the Department of Energy if either compliance is impossible or the President has specifically requested appropriations for compliance and Congress has failed to appropriate the funds.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Makes permanent specified provisions of Federal law providing for the payment of enlistment, reenlistment, or extension of enlistment bonuses to members of the uniformed services who qualify in a critical military skill. Increases the maximum amounts of such bonuses. Extends to not more than 14 years the maximum period a member may serve and still remain eligible for the reenlistment or extension of enlistment bonus. Repeals the requirement that a person must enlist for four years to be eligible for the enlistment bonus.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1980
Proclaims October 19, 1981, a national day of celebration as the two hundredth anniversary of the victory of General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1980
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for use by the armed forces for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons. Authorizes appropriations for the United States' share of the cost of NATO's Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for military research, development, test, and evaluation. Permits the use of unobligated or unexpended funds from fiscal year 1980 for the study of a logistic surface effect ship. Title III: Active Forces - Establishes the authorized end strength for active duty personnel for fiscal year 1981 for each of the armed forces. Title IV: Reserve Forces - Prescribes the average strengths for the reserve components of the armed forces for such fiscal year. Extends: (1) the educational assistance program for enlisted reserves; and (2) enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the Selected Reserve. Title V: Civilian Personnel - Sets forth the authorized end strength for civilian personnel within the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1981. Allows the Secretary of Defense to apportion such personnel among the various military departments. Authorizes the Secretary to employ civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized by this Act to the extent necessary to continue the performance of such functions by Department of Defense personnel. Excludes civilian personnel employed in industrially-funded activities of the Department of Defense from the calculation of the strength for civilian personnel for fiscal year 1981. Title VI: Military Training Student Loads - Prescribes the average military training student loads for each of the armed forces for fiscal year 1981. Title VII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to acquire fee title to parcels of real property currently leased by such agency in Olney, Maryland. Permits the Director to establish a pilot program of designing and constructing buildings to enhance the ability of the buildings to withstand nuclear explosions and to minimize the damage to such buildings caused by a nuclear explosion. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the pilot program. Title VIII: General Provisions - Increases the amount for independent research and development costs and bid and proposal costs. Requires annual authorization of appropriations for operation and maintenance of any armed force or of the activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments). Repeals the requirement for a reduction in the number of senior grade civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Strengthens restrictions on the conversion of performance of commercial and industrial type functions from Department of Defense personnel to private contractors. Requires the Secretary to submit a written report to Congress each year describing the extent to which commercial and industrial type functions were performed by Department of Defense contractors during the preceding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire a leasehold interest in certain land in Balboa Park, San Diego, California for construction of a new naval medical center. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to the city all of the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. Authorizes the construction of any military construction project on such land.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1980
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the Department of Energy concerning the conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1980
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to acquire title to certain lands currently leased by such agency in Olney, Maryland, which: (1) are used as a communications site; or (2) contain the water wells at such site.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1981 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes the appropriation of funds for fiscal year 1981 to the Department of Energy for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment costs incurred in carrying out national security programs, including scientific research and development, strategic and critical materials necessary for common defense, and military applications of nuclear energy, as specified. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of authorized funds for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement as specified. Imposes specified limits on the costs of general plant projects and construction projects. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for proposed construction projects with amounts authorized for plant engineering and design, and to perform such services using available funds for any Department of Energy defense activity construction project in the event of any national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1980
Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to permit up to 40 foreign students to enroll as cadets at each of their respective service academies. Sets forth related provisions regarding pay and allotments, reimbursement by a sponsoring foreign government, and administrative regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Increases the monthly subsistence allowance (for up to 20 months) for Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets from $100 a month to $150 a month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1980
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for use by the armed forces for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons. Authorizes appropriations for the United States' share of the cost of NATO's Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS). Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1980, to make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Defense to: (1) waive reimbursement for certain administrative expenses and surcharges in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the Ministers of Defense of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the NATO E-3A Cooperative Program; and (2) assume contingent liability for other specified expenses incurred in connection with such program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for military research, development, test and evaluation. Title III: Active Forces - Establishes the authorized end strength for active duty personnel for fiscal year 1981 for each of the armed forces. Title IV: Reserve Forces - Prescribes the average strengths for the reserve components of the armed forces for fiscal year 1981. Title V: Civilian Personnel - Sets forth the authorized end strength for civilian personnel within the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1981. Allows the Secretary of Defense to apportion such personnel among the various military departments. Title VI: Military Training Student Loads - Prescribes the average military training student loads for each of the armed forces for fiscal year 1981. Title VII: General Provisions - Raises from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000, and from $250,000 to $500,000, the dollar amounts at which certain requirements regarding companies doing independent research and development for the Department of Defense shall come into effect. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to review and adjust such amounts once every three years (beginning on October 1, 1983).
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of any military department to make a safety investigation and report of an accident involving an aircraft of his or her department. States that unless authorized by the Secretary concerned, no part of any such accident investigation record shall be: (1) released outside the armed force concerned; (2) subject to discovery; or (3) used for evidentiary purposes in any proceeding arising from an investigated accident. Applies the above prohibitions to: (1) proceedings, findings, and recommendations; (2) confidential statements made by a witness or manufacturer; (3) life science reports; and (4) other personnel and medical records whose disclosure has not been authorized by the individual concerned or next of kin. States that this Act does not limit: (1) the authority of the National Transportation Safety Board under specified Acts; or (2) the use of Federal agency records furnished for air safety purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Military Appellate Procedures Act of 1980 - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to eliminate the mandatory review by Courts of Military Review and the Court of Military Appeals of sentences affecting general or flag officers. Stipulates that such amendment shall not apply to cases begun before the effective date of this Act. Revises provisions relating to status, jurisdiction, membership, organization, procedure, and administration of the Court of Military Appeals. States that: (1) the Court shall consist of five members (presently three); and (2) a member must be appointed before reaching 65 years of age and must be a member of the bar of a Federal court or the highest court of a State. States, with regard to organization, that: (1) the seal of the Court shall be judicially noticed; (2) a majority of the Court shall constitute a quorum (presently two judges for a quorum); and (3) the principal office of the Court shall be in the District of Columbia. States, with regard to procedure, that: (1) the rules of practice may be prescribed by the Court, and as far as practical, shall be the same as those used before the United States courts of appeal; (2) the accused has 60 days from (a) the date of notification of the decision of a Court of Military Review, or (b) the date on which the decision of a Court of Military Review is deposited with the post office for delivery to the accused, to petition for review. States, with regard to administrative procedures, that the Court: (1) shall provide for the publication of its reports for public use; (2) may appoint and fix the pay of necessary employees; and (3) may make necessary expenditures and set fees for the copying of transcripts and other related documents. Sets forth transition provisions regarding: (1) continuation of status; (2) term of office; and (3) employees. Provides for Supreme Court review by writ of certiorari of: (1) cases reviewed by the Court of Military Appeals in which the sentence extends to death; (2) issues certified to the Court of Military Appeals by the Judge Advocate General; (3) issues reviewed by the Court of Military Appeals upon petition of the accused, except that the Supreme Court may not review a refusal by the Court of Military Appeals to grant a petition for review; and (4) other issues for which the Court of Military Appeals granted relief. States that Appellate Government counsel may represent the United States before the Supreme Court if so requested by the Attorney General in cases arising under the Military Code. Provides for Appellate defense counsel representation in such cases. Makes technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1980
Establishes the office of Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General. States that such appointment shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Provides for an exemption from the windfall profits tax for independent oil producers for an amount equal to 1,000 barrels of crude oil multiplied by the number of days in the taxable period.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Calls upon the President to consult with friendly nations to coordinate naval and other resources in a Sealane Security System to provide lifesaving assistance and insure free passage through East and Southeast Asian sealanes.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1979
Increases the Government's monthly payments for mentally or physically handicapped dependents of members of the uniformed services from $350 to $800. Provides for annual increases in such payments based on the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
States that enlisted members of the armed forces are entitled to a daily ration of nutritionally adequate, consumer-acceptable food. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration, and to periodically review it to reflect changes in food service technology, nutritional knowledge and requirements, and food preference of the enlistees. Provides for: (1) ration adjustments; and (2) ration sales to enlisted members, officers, and civilians. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) Presidential authority for prescribing Army and Air Force rations; (2) commissioned officers in the field buying rations; (3) disposition of a deceased's member's personal effects; (4) money for commuted rations; and (5) flight rations.
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