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United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Authorizes the classification of a certain individual as a child for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe rules and regulations requiring certain air carriers, railroads, and motor carriers carrying passengers for hire in interstate commerce to set aside areas for the exclusive use of nonsmokers.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to require each Federal agency to submit a copy of its promulgated rules to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Provides a 60-day period for Congress to review such a rule. Prohibits any rule (with specified exceptions, including limited duration, emergency rules) from taking effect if either House of Congress adopts a resolution disapproving it within such period. Sets forth House and Senate procedure for consideration of such a resolution. Prohibits an agency from promulgating a rule identical to a disapproved rule unless a statute is adopted which affects the agency's authority in the subject area of the rule. Requires an agency to provide a period of at least 60 days after the general notice of proposed rulemaking for public comment on the proposed rule.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing general permits which authorize the taking of marine mammals in connection with commercial fishing operations. Redefines the term "Secretary" under such Act to mean the Secretary of the Interior (presently such term includes the Secretary of the department in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is operating with respect to responsibility regarding the Cetacea order and the Pinnipedia order (other than walruses)).
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to require that resident aliens reside continuously in the United States for five years to qualify for supplemental security income benefits. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent an immigrant from entering the United States unless a United States citizen (immigration sponsor) agrees to support the immigrant for five years from the date of admission at 125 percent of the current poverty level rates. Excuses the sponsor from performance if bankrupt.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Public Disclosure of Lobbying Act of 1981 - Requires any organization which expends more than $1,250 in a quarter year for the retention of persons to make lobbying communications or which employs at least one individual who spends 20 percent of his or her time on such communications to register with the Comptroller General of the United States. Requires that such registration identify the organization, the organization's lobbyists, and any person who has contributed over $2,500 to the organization or an affiliate. Directs each organization and lobbyist to maintain records necessary for filing such registration and other reports for five years. Requires each such organization to file quarterly reports with the Comptroller General concerning lobbying activities. Enumerates the contents of such reports which include, in addition to the registration information: (1) an itemized listing of each expenditure exceeding $25 made to any Federal officer or employee; (2) a listing of the primary issues for which the organization lobbied; (3) a description of lobbying solicitations made to a specified number of officials or employees; (4) a disclosure of the known business contacts between the organization and the person the organization sought to influence; and (5) a list of the names of each Federal employee and officer contacted. Specifies limitations on lobbying in areas proximate to the House and Senate Chambers. Authorizes the Comptroller General to require by subpoena written reports and witnesses necessary to implement this Act. Sets forth recordkeeping and investigative duties of the Comptroller General concerning the registrations and reports filed under this Act. Directs the Comptroller General to make such registrations and reports available to the public. Requires the Comptroller General to render written advisory opinions upon the request of any individual or organization with respect to the requirements of this Act. States that anyone who acts in good faith reliance upon such advisory opinion shall be presumed to be in compliance with this Act. Requires the Comptroller General to enforce this Act using informal methods of conference or conciliation or, if necessary, referring apparent violations to the Attorney General. Directs the Comptroller General to transmit annual reports to the President and Congress concerning activities under this Act. Declares that any regulation issued by the Comptroller General concerning the form of registrations, reports, and records, shall take effect 90 days after it is transmitted to Congress unless either House adopts a resolution disapproving it. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and specified provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for whoever: (1) attaches a U.S. flag to his body or clothing in a degrading manner; (2) alters the shape or traditional methods of displaying the U.S. flag for personal, political, or monetary gain; or (3) casts contempt upon such flag by using it to cause an individual to commit treason or a violent act of civil disobedience.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to eliminate all provisions authorizing union security agreements (requiring union membership as a condition of employment).
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to remove the existing 70- year upper age limit to which the prohibitions of such Act apply, thus extending the protection of such Act to all individuals who are at least 40 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Requires recipients of Federal grants made for other than personal use to allow the public to inspect any disbursement records the recipient is required to keep as a condition for receiving such grant. Exempts from disclosure specified information, including classified information, trade secrets, and personnel and medical files.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the taxation of any title II benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Provides that no veterans shall be denied medical care under CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services) for any service-connected disability solely because care for such disability is available at Veterans' Administration medical facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer to elect to treat expenditures for removing architectural and transportational barriers to the handicapped and elderly in any facility owned or leased by the taxpayer as current expenses and thus deductible in the current taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act to provide that pay adjustments for Members of Congress may take effect no earlier than the beginning of the next Congress following the Congress in which they are approved.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Requires any candidate for a Federal elective office to resign any elective public office held (Federal or State) the term of which ends after the beginning of the term of the Federal office which such candidate seeks. Declares such resignation to be: (1) effective as of the beginning of the term of office which the candidate seeks; and (2) irrevocable.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Provides that remarriage of a veteran's surviving spouse after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Declares two named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Repeals the provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 permitting automatic cost-of-living adjustments in the salaries of Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be deemed to prohibit voluntary participation in prayer in public buildings or schools or making reference to a Supreme Being in public activities or documents. States that nothing in this article shall constitute an establishment of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any Member of Congress who is convicted of a felony and who has exhausted all appeals from continuing to hold such office.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the national motto, "In God We Trust," shall be reaffirmed and shall continue to be engraved and printed on coins and currency.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the phrase, "Under God," shall be reaffirmed and shall continue to be part of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) enter into negotiations to secure the withdrawal of Soviet personnel and the release of political prisoners from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; (2) instruct the U.S. delegation to present the illegal Soviet actions in such countries at the preparatory meeting of the 1980 Madrid meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (3) gain the cooperation of other nations in achieving such objectives.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981
Declares the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should take all necessary steps to: (1) bring the Baltic States question before the United Nations; (2) urge the United Nations to request the Soviet Union to withdraw all non-native troops, agents, colonists, and controls from the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; and (3) return all Baltic exiles from Siberia, prisons and labor camps in the Soviet Union. Requires the Secretary of State to do his utmost to bring the matter of the Baltic States to the attention of all nations by means of special radio programs and publications. Declares that the United States should not agree to the recognition of the Soviet Union's annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Directs the President to take steps to provide that all maps of Europe show the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as independent states. Calls for a return of self-determination to Lithuania, Latvia,and Estonia through free elections conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Elementary School Guidance and Counseling Incentive Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations: (1) in fiscal years 1983 through 1987 for comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs, supplemental grants to States for such programs and research and demonstration programs; (2) through fiscal year 1988 for employment of one new and/or additional elementary guidance counselor per school district, evaluation of programs, and in-service counselor training; and (3) for teacher and counselor centers. Provides formulas, based on the population of elementary school children, for determining allotments to States for such programs. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Elementary/Secondary Education to administer State allotments and State plans through the Office of Guidance and Counseling of the Department of Education. Requires that each State, to be eligible for such allotments, submit to the Assistant Secretary a State plan for providing comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs for a five-year period, with necessary annual revisions, which meets such criteria as the Assistant Secretary may by regulation prescribe. Sets forth required provisions of such plans and programs. Provides for appeal by a State of a final action of the Assistant Secretary to a circuit court of appeals. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary, through the Office of Guidance and Counseling, to make supplemental grants to States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of State agency leadership activities on the basis of statewide needs and priorities in elementary school guidance and counseling. Sets forth approved uses of such grants. Directs the Assistant Secretary to carry out a research and demonstration program relating to elementary and secondary school guidance and counseling. Directs the Assistant Secretary to make an annual evaluation report to the appropriate Congressional committees. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include training for counselors under the teacher centers program. Provides for a program of in-service training for elementary school guidance counselors. Requires the designation of professionally trained counselors: (1) at the Federal level, to provide information on, and to administer, such programs; and (2) at the State, local school district and intermediate administrative unit levels, to supervise such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs unless a waiver is granted. Establishes a program of low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Requests the President to designate the week of May 3 through May 10, 1981, as "Jewish Heritage Week."
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1981
Designates the "square dance" as the National folk dance of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires the rate of wages for workers employed on public buildings by contractors to be based upon the prevailing wages for corresponding classes of workers employed on similar projects in the same area.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1981
Savings and Retirement Income Incentive Act of 1981 - Amends the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 to make permanent the income tax exclusion for dividend and interest income. Increases such tax exclusion for persons over age 65 to $500 ($1,000 for joint returns). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $2,000 the amount of the income tax deduction for contributions to individual retirement accounts. Eliminates the prohibition against certain pension plan participants (e.g. government and military personnel) from making deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts. Increases the amount of nondeductible contributions which an individual may make to an individual retirement account in a taxable year and over such individual's lifetime. Permits contributors to an individual retirement account to withdraw from such an account up to $10,000, without tax penalty, in order to purchase a first home or finance the higher education of a dependent child. Allows an income tax deduction for voluntary employee contributions to tax-qualified employer pension and annuity plans.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Capital Cost Recovery Act of 1981 - 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. Permits calculation of the investment tax credit for such property without regard to the useful life of the property. 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 a taxpayer 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 · 22 January 1981
Requests the President to designate August 13, 1981, as "National Blinded Veterans Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total amount of money expended by the United States in any fiscal year from exceeding the total amount of revenue received by the United States during such fiscal year, except in time of war as declared by the Congress. Allows the suspension of the amendment by a joint resolution approved by a vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of the Congress and approved and signed by the President, or by a vote of two-thirds of the Members of each House of the Congress. Requires tax rates to be reduced to offset the effects of inflation. Establishes a procedure for the approval of bills or joint resolutions affecting taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the standard mileage rate used in computing the charitable deduction for expenses incurred in the operation of a motor vehicle shall be the same as the standard mileage rate for the business related deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Extends through September 30, 1984, the period of Vietnam-era veterans' eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Elder Abuse Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an office known as the National Center on Elder Abuse to: (1) compile an annual summary of recently conducted research on elder abuse; (2) develop and maintain an information clearinghouse on all programs for the prevention and treatment of such abuse; (3) compile training materials for personnel engaged in elder abuse prevention; (4) provide technical assistance for the planning and implementing of programs relating to the problems of elder abuse; and (5) investigate the causes and national incidence of elder abuse. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts with public agencies or nonprofit organizations for demonstration projects designed to prevent and treat elder abuse. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for the development and implementation of elder abuse prevention and treatment programs. Requires such States to have in effect a State elder abuse law with mandatory reporting provisions. Sets forth other requirements for eligibility. Prohibits the use of assistance for construction of facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria to achieve equitable distribution of assistance among the States. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Requests the President the designate the week commencing with the third Monday in February of 1982 as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Provides that remarriage of a veteran's surviving spouse after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the categories of deportable aliens foreign students who knowingly participated in a political demonstration resulting in, or intending to result in, injury or damage to another's person or property. Permits the Attorney General to suspend deportation of such students.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Anti-Inflation Tax Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require annual cost of living adjustments, based on the Consumer Price Index, to individual income tax rates, the personal tax exemption, withholding requirements, and minimum income tax return amounts.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony. Defines such offense as using a firearm to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a firearm during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "illegally." Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense from one to ten years' imprisonment to five to ten years' imprisonment for a first offender and from two to 25 years to ten years to life imprisonment for a second or subsequent offender. Extends to first offenders the directions, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence or grant probation and that the additional sentence not run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the offense itself. Makes a first offender ineligible for parole for five years and a second or subsequent offender ineligible for ten years. Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the taxation of any title II benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Apalachicola and Osceola Wilderness Act of 1981 - Designates the following lands in Florida as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Bradwell Bay Wilderness Addition and the Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness in the Apalachicola National Forest; and (2) the Big Gum Swamp Wilderness in the Osceola National Forest. Prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing phosphate leases in the Osceola National Forest, Florida, unless and until the United States determines that the mining of phosphate deposits in such leases would be necessary to the national interest. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, within three years from the date of enactment of this Act, with respect to specified applicants for phosphate preference right leases which have made discoveries of valuable deposits, to exchange their applications for leases covering other minerals. Requires such an exchange to be of equal value, with a payment of money to the Secretary or the applicant if necessary, so long as such payment does not exceed 25 percent of the value of the leases to be issued by the Secretary. Permits disapproval of any such exchange, within 60 days, by a specified committee of either House. Provides that the designation of the Big Guam Swamp Wilderness will not alter phosphate lease rights applicable to lands within the wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Intelligence Identities Protection Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish criminal penalties for any person who knowingly discloses information which identifies a U.S. covert intelligence agent. Establishes a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment and/or a $50,000 fine for any person who, having had authorized access to classified information which identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses such information. Establishes a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment and/or a $25,000 fine for any person who, having had authorized access to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses such information. Establishes a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment and/or a $15,000 fine for any person who, in the course of an effort to identify covert agents "with intent to impair" U.S. foreign intelligence activities, discloses information identifying an agent. Directs the President to establish procedures requiring Federal agencies to provide assistance in concealing the identity of U.S. intelligence agents.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Establishes in the House of Representatives a Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control to review problems of narcotics abuse, including enforcement, international trafficking, organized crime, and the criminal justice system with respect to narcotics law violations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1980
Authorizes the classification of a named individual as a child for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1980
Amends the Comprehensive Employment Training Act Amendments of 1978 to exclude from participation in any program authorized by such Act any person who publicly advocates the violent overthrow of the United States or has so advocated such a course of action within a specified prior period.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Declares that the Congress accepts the gift of a red oak tree as a symbol of American hopes for the immediate release of the hostages in Iran. Dedicates the tree to the principles of individual freedom and world peace.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that aliens who engage in unlawful or disorderly activities in the United States should be promptly deported in accordance with provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.