United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1986
Commission on the 100th Congress Act - Establishes the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Congress to: (1) organize and coordinate the activities of private individuals and organizations in the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Congress; (2) provide guidance and materials about the Congress to further the celebration; (3) cooperate with the Historians of the Senate and of the House of Representatives in their programs; and (4) prepare materials necessary to enhance public knowledge of the history and accomplishments of the Congress. Requires the Commission to report annually to the Congress with a final report within 90 days after March 4, 1989, containing a detailed statement of its activities and financial operations. Terminates the Commission on June 30, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Amends general military law to authorize the President, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to assign or detail members of the armed forces to guard U.S. citizens and U.S. passenger air carriers at airports outside the United States against terrorism and other acts of violence. Prohibits any such assignment or detail if: (1) the military preparedness of the United States will be adversely affected; and (2) the foreign government of the airport involved has not agreed to allow the assignment or detail.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to annually furnish, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to annually publish, statistical data on adoptions finalized in the States during the preceding calendar year. Requires that such data include: (1) the number of adoptions finalized; (2) information pertaining to the adopted children as well as their biological mothers and adoptive parents; and (3) the manner in which such children were placed for adoption.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Directs the Postmaster General to produce and sell postage stamps commemorating the crew of the space shuttle Challenger. Requires that the design for the stamps be selected from among designs submitted by elementary and secondary school students.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Disapproves the President's recommendation to extend the President's authority to waive the freedom of emigration requirements under the Trade Act of 1974 in order to extend the most-favored nation status of Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives the deductibility of contributions to individual retirement accounts should be maintained for all citizens as part of any tax reform legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for damaging or destroying any religious real property or interfering with any person's free exercise of religious beliefs.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Child Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Statute to extend its coverage to the sexual exploitation of children. Allows any person injured personally or in his business or property by such violations to bring a civil suit for treble damages. Amends the Federal criminal code to require a mandatory life sentence in kidnapping offenses involving the murder of a minor. Establishes mandatory minimum sentences for the sexual exploitation of minors. Provides that the period of any applicable limitation for the commencement of prosecution for certain offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children shall not begin until the child has reached the age of 18 years. Directs the Attorney General to submit a report to the Congress detailing possible changes in the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and other procedures which would facilitate the participation of child witnesses in cases involving child abuse and sexual exploitation. Directs the Attorney General to modify the classification system used by the National Crime Information System and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with respect to offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children by: (1) including the age of the victim and the relationship of the victim to the offender; and (2) using a uniform definition of a child. Grants the Postal Service certain authority with respect to the seizure and forfeiture of materials used in, or depicting, the sexual exploitation of children. States that amounts received from such forfeitures shall be deposited in the Postal Service Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Directs the Postmaster General to produce and sell postage stamps commemorating the crew of the space shuttle Challenger. Requires that the design for the stamps be selected from among designs submitted by elementary and secondary school students.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that unless the Health Care Financing Administration allocates sufficient funds and and takes other action to ensure prompt payment of Medicare claims, the House of Representatives shall adopt legislation ensuring prompt claims payment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
National Organ and Tissue Donor Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to encourage and assist States in enacting and implementing State laws requiring hospitals to establish protocols for identifying and assisting human organ and tissue donors. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year on such activities.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
United States House of Representatives Election Recount Act of 1986 - Declares that any recount of ballots for the office of Representative shall be completed: (1) in a general election by December 31 of the year of the election; and (2) in a special election by the end of six weeks after the election.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should not abandon its obligation to promote democracy in Nicaragua; and (2) in order to ensure the implementation of democratic commitments, the United States should provide assistance to the United Nicaraguan Opposition forces until such commitments have been implemented and verified by the Organization of American States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Amends the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to establish a cost-sharing formula for certain Federal disaster assistance programs. Declares the Federal share of assistance to be 75 percent for the repair of damaged public facilities and debris removal on the condition that remaining costs are paid by a State or local government. Declares the Federal share of assistance to be 100 percent for: (1) unemployment assistance; (2) temporary housing assistance; and (3) crisis counseling assistance and training.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Social Security Disability Determination Act of 1986 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to establish a sequential disability evaluation process culminating in the determination as to whether an individual who is not engaged in substantial gainful activity has impairments which are of such severity that the individual should be deemed disabled for medical reasons alone or whether such individual lacks the residual functional capacity to engage in substantial gainful work anywhere in the economy. Codifies standards regarding the consideration of disability evidence. Requires the Congress to be given notice of, and the opportunity to comment on, proposed regulations governing disability determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1986
Depository Institution Examination Improvement Act of 1986 - Redesignates the Financial Institution Examination Council as the Depository Institutions Examination Council. Directs the Council to: (1) divide the continental United States into regions approximating the districts of the Federal depository institutions regulatory agencies; (2) study and report to such regulatory agencies annually on the amounts of compensation and benefits provided to private sector accountants, auditors, and other representatives of financial service industries in each region who perform functions similar to those performed by Federal examiners; and (3) prepare guidelines for such agencies which would ensure adequate compensation for living and travel expenses for any Federal examiner who is temporarily assigned outside of his or her regular region of employment. Requires such report to be considered in the establishment and approval of Federal examiner compensation. Repeals provisions requiring the Secretary of the Treasury's approval of examiners appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency. Provides that specified civil service laws concerning employment and retention, performance, pay and allowances, and retirement shall not apply to any Federal depository institutions regulatory agency or any officer or employee thereof. Defines such an agency as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB), the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Provides that the estimated expenditures and receipts of such entities (excluding the Federal Reserve Board) included in the annual Federal budget submitted to the Congress by the President shall be submitted to the President before October 16 of each year and included in the President's budget without change. Exempts such entities from fiscal, budget, appropriation, and fund apportionment requirements. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from reduction under any sequestration order: (1) assessment funds of the Comptroller of the Currency; (2) the FDIC; (3) the FHLBB; (4) the FHLBB revolving fund; (5) the FSLIC fund of the FHLBB; and (6) the central liquidity facility, the credit union share insurance fund, and the operating fund of the NCUA. Provides that the pay and number of employees of a regulatory agency shall not be subject to any limitation imposed by any executive branch officer outside such agency. Directs the Council to study and report to each regulatory agency on proposals for retirement, disability, and other appropriate benefit programs for agency employees and dependents. Requires each agency, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to establish a retirement and disability program or to consider modifying any existing program on the basis of the Council's recommendations. Permits each agency to establish other employee benefit programs. Provides for the transfer of accrued employee and employer contributions and interest therein from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund to the agency employee retirement and disability program. Subjects the FHLBB, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the FSLIC, and the NCUA to audits by the Comptroller General. Establishes the FSLIC as a mixed-ownership Government corporation (currently listed as a wholly owned Government corporation). Repeals specified authority of the Treasury to approve actions and appoint staff of the Comptroller of the Currency. Directs the Council to: (1) develop a proposal for consolidating all Federal examiner training programs in one school to be established and conducted by the Council; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on its findings, legislative recommendations, and the savings to the regulatory agencies that would result from such consolidation. Requires the Council to: (1) study the feasibility of establishing a graduate degree program in financial management analysis for officers and employees of the regulatory agencies and the State depository institutions' supervisory agencies (State agencies); and (2) report to specified Congressional committees on its findings, legislative recommendations, the cost of establishing and conducting the program, and on the approval or disapproval by each regulatory agency of the Council's proposal for such program. Requires the Council to establish minimum requirements for examinations of depository institutions by State agencies in order for such an examination to be acceptable for purposes of Federal law. Prohibits such requirements from exceeding the minimum standards in effect for Federal examiners. Directs the Council: (1) at least annually, to request each State agency which examines institutions subject to Federal examination to allow the Council to review its examination methods; (2) to notify a State agency if its examination methods do not satisfy such minimum requirements and allow the agency not more than three years to cure any deficiency; and (3) to notify each Federal regulatory agency if a State agency refuses to allow a review of its examination methods or fails to remedy any deficiency in its methods. Prohibits any Federal regulatory agency or any regional bank, branch, or other office of such Federal agency from relying on any report of examination by a State agency for which such a notice has been received to fulfill an examination requirement under Federal law. Permits the Council to limit the scope of a notice to: (1) a separate branch or department of a State agency which has authority to conduct examinations; or (2) a State agency's capacity to examine a particular type of depository institution. Requires the FDIC, the FHLBB, the FSLIC, and the NCUA Board to accept any report of examination made by a State agency which meets the minimum requirements as determined by the Council, unless any such entity determines that the State agency does not meet such minimum requirements and notifies the State agency of the reason for such entity's refusal to accept such agency report.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Federal Product Liability Reofrm Act of 1986 - Title I: - Sets forth findings and purposes of this Act. Title II - Limits the amount of damages which may be recovered against a product seller for noneconomic losses to $250,000. Makes a product seller who has acted with flagrant indifference to consumer safety liable for punitive damages. States that punitive damages may not be awarded in the absence of a compensatory award. Limits the amount of punitive damages which may be recovered. Provides that all product liability actions shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Specifies the manner in which damages are to be apportioned. Requires the reduction of any damages award by any amount received by the claimant from collateral sources (including workers' compensation benefits). Establishes a two-year statute of limitations and a ten-year statute of repose. Preempts inconsistent State and Federal laws.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Sub-Saharan Africa Natural Resource and Environmental Management Training and Education Act of 1986 - Requires the President, in order to promote a long-term development program for sub-Saharan Africa, to establish and provide assistance for a training and education program to encourage the development and utilization of appropriate natural resources and environmental management techniques. Requires particular emphasis to be placed on local-level training in techniques using smaller, cost-saving, community-based technologies. Sets forth elements to be included in such program. Requires the training under this program to incorporate women's needs in appropriate proportions to their traditional participation in the targeted activity. Requires each Agency for International Development (AID) development strategy statement for each sub-Saharan African country to include a plan to assist that country in the development of an effective natural resource and environmental management training and education program. Requires program activities to include close consultation with, and involvement of, community and local organizations. Requires the objectives of this Act to be accomplished whenever practicable through private and voluntary organizations or national nongovernmental organizations. Requires AID to make available funds for training and education activities in sub-Saharan African countries in accordance with this Act for FY 1987. Urges AID to request technical assistance from other Federal agencies where appropriate. Requires AID to review and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of existing indigenous capabilities for natural resource and environmental management training.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President, prior to each fiscal year, to transmit to the Congress a proposed Federal budget in which total outlays do not exceed total estimated revenues. Permits the President to recommend an alternative budget in which outlays exceed revenues with a detailed explanation of the need for such excess. Prohibits the Congress from making any law which would cause outlays to exceed revenues in a fiscal year. Permits the Congress to suspend such prohibition in time of war or national emergency by passing a concurrent resolution by a three-fifths vote of both Houses. Prohibits enactment of a bill to increase revenue unless it passes each House of Congress by a majority rollcall vote.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to increase from 2.93 percent to five percent the amount allocated in any fiscal year for public transportation projects in non-urbanized areas.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners to deduct the full amount of prepaid interest in connection with the refinancing of their principal residences for the taxable year in which paid.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot rental housing lease indemnity program under which the Secretary of each military department will guarantee to a lessor the lease payment of any member of such department, as well as any breach of the lease or damage to the rental unit. Requires such pilot program to be established within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, but not before October 1, 1986. Requires each Secretary to designate one military installation within the Secretary's jurisdiction for participation in such pilot program. Authorizes each Secretary to enter into agreements with rental unit lessors in order to carry out this Act. Outlines provisions to be included in such agreements. Authorizes any Secretary who compensates a lessor under this Act to garnish the wages of the member involved for an amount equal to the compensation paid to the lessor. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 18 months following the establishment of such pilot program, to report to the Congress concerning the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of such program. Terminates the authority of any Secretary to enter into lease guarantee agreements with lessors under this Act 18 months after the establishment of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Designates the school year of September 1986 through May 1987 as National Year of the Teacher and January 28, 1987, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the tax exclusion for interest earned on industrial development bonds issued by a State or local government if the proceeds of such bonds are used to finance milk production. Exempts from such requirement a limited amount of bonds used for first-time farmers and at times when there is a certification by the Secretary of Agriculture of a nationwide shortage of milk.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act of 1986 - Amends the Anti-Kickback Act to rename it the Anti-Kickback Act of 1986 and to revise its provisions regarding kickback practices by subcontractors. Prohibits the payment of kickbacks, the acceptance of kickbacks, attempted kickbacks, and the inclusion of kickback costs in contract expenses ultimately borne by the United States. Increases criminal and civil penalties for such conduct. Authorizes the termination of any prime contract for default if a kickback violation by a subcontractor has occurred. Authorizes the recovery of kickback costs through administrative offsets. Requires prime contractors to report kickback violations to appropriate agency officials or the Department of Justice. Requires employees of prime contractors to file annual declarations with the contracting agency listing compensation of any kind received from subcontractors in the previous year. Authorizes the contracting agency to inspect the facilities and audit the records and books of the prime contractor. (Currently, only the General Accounting Office has such authority.)
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit qualified pension and annuity plans to make distributions to participants for purposes of acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating a dwelling unit if: (1) within a reasonable period of time such dwelling unit is to be used as the principal residence of the participant; and (2) such participant has not previously received a distribution for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Title I: Short Title; Findings - Child Care Act of 1986 - Sets forth congressional findings regarding the child care policies of the country. Title II: Dependent Care Tax Credit and Voucher System - Part 1: Changes in Dependent Care Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow dependent care tax credits when a taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000. Provides for a yearly cost-of-living adjustment to both base and ceiling amounts. Disallows such credit where any of the employment-related expenses are paid with any vouchers. Part 2: Voucher System for Child Care - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to each State having an approved plan for child care vouchers for certain low income individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria, standards, and a timetable for the State plan. Requires the Secretary to reimburse a State for 75 percent of its costs under such plan. Provides for proportional allotments based upon the amount received under title XX (Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act. Permits a State to use block grant funds for the voucher plan. States that the redemption of a voucher for child care services by a child care provider constitutes receipt of Federal funds for purposes of provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 relating to racial discrimination. Prohibits sex discrimination by any child care program. Exempts child care providers serving seven or fewer children. Permits the Secretary to withhold payment from a noncomplying State. Excludes the amount of any voucher from determinations of income or resources for purposes of any Federal or State law. Requires each State to report biennially to the Secretary on the implementation of the plan including the amounts used on vouchers from block grant funds. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress an analysis of the State reports.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that if the basis recovery rule for annuities of employees who contribute to their retirement program is changed in tax reform legislation, in no event should such change apply to individuals retiring before the date of enactment of such legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1986
Directs the Secretary of Defense to recover from Ferdinand Marcos certain expenses incurred by the Department of Defense in connection with the transportation of Marcos, his family, and his associates from the Republic of the Philippines and all subsequent expenses incurred by the Department on their behalf.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should insist at the Vienna Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and in discussions with Communist Party and Soviet leaders, that imprisoned and exiled members of the Ukrainian and other Helsinki Monitoring Groups be released and allowed to emigrate to the countries of their choice. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Secretary of State should ensure that the U.S. consulate in Kiev reports on Soviet human rights violations in the Ukraine; and (2) such information should be included in reports on compliance with the Helsinki Final Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Urges that the list of foreign born Americans to be honored at the Statue of Liberty Centennial celebration be expanded so as to guarantee representation by all ethnic American organizations which have made significant contributions to our Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Medicare Adult Day Care Amendments of 1986 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of adult day care programs providing certain health services to chronically-impaired adults in a group setting outside their homes for up to 100 days on a less than 24-hour basis. Requires providers of such services to have a multidisciplinary group of health care personnel conduct a written assessment of the status of each chronically-impaired adult before the adult's admission to the program and thereafter periodically develop a coordinate an individualized treatment plan for, and with the cooperation of, the adult. Defines a "chronically-impaired adult" as an individual 18 years of age or older who has a physical, emotional, or mental impairment which, but for the provision of adult day care, would require the provision of care in a hospital, skilled nursing, or intermediate care facility. Makes deductibles inapplicable to adult day care, requiring only the payment of a specified coinsurance amount. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations regarding adult day care programs. Requires the Secretary to adopt the standards established by the National Institute of Adult Day Care as the minimum standards for qualifying as a provider of such care.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1986 - Establishes the President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Includes among the Council's responsibilities an assessment of available but under-used health promotion and disease prevention resources. Directs the Council to advise the President on how such resources can be better utilized. Requires the Council to prepare and transmit a report to the President and to the Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Council within 18 months after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
Ballistic Knife Prohibition Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the possession, manufacture, sale, importation, and mailing of ballistic knives (knives with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism).
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