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691 records where Rep. Zablocki, Clement J. [D-WI-4] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Designates the week beginning October 17, 1982, as National Federal Retirees Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend for one year the Agricultural and Productive Credit and Self-Help Community Development Programs.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Congratulates the government and people of Mexico on the occasion of the 172nd anniversary of Mexican independence.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Authorizes the transfer of nine U.S. naval vessels as follows: (1) two patrol combatants to be leased to Colombia; (2) three fast patrol boats to be leased to the Dominican Republic; (3) one auxiliary drydock to be sold to Ecuador; (4) one oceanographic research ship leased to Mexico; (5) one destroyer tender to be leased to Pakistan; and (6) one destroyer tender to be leased to Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal provisions which require the withholding of tax on interest and dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to entitle members, former members, and dependents of members of the uniformed services to chiropractic care. Permits the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Medical Service Corps. Entitles such officers to the same special pay received by dental officers.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to repeal provisions which impose the hospital insurance tax on Federal employees.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Designates the week beginning with the third Monday in February 1983 as National Patriotism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Designates March 21, 1983, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Expresses the gratitude of Congress for the service of Special Envoy Philip Habib in Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1982
Urges the President to: (1) avoid taking any actions which could foreclose eventual U.S. participation in the Convention on the Law of the Sea; (2) evaluate U.S. objectives for ocean use and relevant foreign policy interests with respect to the Convention; and (3) designate a U.S. representative for the meetings of the Preparatory Commission of the Conference on the Law of the Sea that will formulate the rules and regulations for seabed mining.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982
Expresses the concern of the House of Representatives in the preservation and restoration of Rhodes Tavern in Washington, D.C. Encourages preservation and restoration efforts by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Capitol Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, the mayor and city council, and other interested organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Requests the President to designate the first week in October of 1982, 1983, and 1984 as National Port Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Revitalization Act of 1982 - Authorizes additional FY 1982 appropriations to carry out the purposes of the Economic Support Fund in Caribbean countries. Sets forth requirements relating to the use of funds appropriated under this Act. Earmarks a specified amount for projects which are: (1) consistent with U.S. development assistance policy, as expressed in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; and (2) in accordance with the provisions of such Act dealing with agricultural development in rural areas, agricultural research, population planning and health programs, and education and human resources development. Earmarks a specified amount for: (1) scholarships for persons from Caribbean countries; and (2) the Inter-American Foundation. Limits the amount of funds appropriated under this Act that may be used for aid to any one country. Directs the President to seek a reasonable balance in allocating the funds appropriated under this Act between aid for the public sector and aid for the private sector and between balance-of-payments support and support for development projects. Authorizes providing El Salvador with funds in excess of the per country limitation set in this Act in order to facilitate implementation of El Salvador's land reform program. Sets forth the manner in which such funds shall be used. Prohibits using any of the funds appropriated under this Act for El Savador unless the President reports to Congress that: (1) El Salvador has not altered the land reform program in a manner detrimental to the rights of the beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of the reform; and (2) El Salvador is making substantial progress in implementaing the land reform program. Directs the President to include in the annual report to Congress on foreign assistance programs a report on the disposition of the funds appropriated under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Educational Opportunity and Equity Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit in an amount equal to 50 percent of the tuition paid to an elementary or secondary educational institution for any dependents who have not attained the age of 20. Limits such credit to: (1) $100 in 1983 (2) $300 in 1984; and, (3) $500 in 1985 and thereafter. Reduces such limit by specified percentages of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $50,000 ($25,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). Reduces such limits by any amounts paid to the taxpayer or his dependents as scholarships or other financial assistance. Disallows such credit for tuition paid to schools found to maintain racially discriminatory policies. Requires all educational institutions which receive tuition payments for which such credit is taken to file with the Secretary of Treasury a statement, subject to the penalties for perjury, declaring that the institution does not follow a racially discriminatory policy. Requires a taxpayer claiming such credit to attach a copy of such statement to the income tax return. Authorizes the Attorney General, upon the filing of a petition alleging racial discrimination, to bring an action for declaratory judgment against an educational institution to determine whether the institution has followed a racially discriminatory policy.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should begin the strategic arms reduction talks (START), which should have the following objectives: (1) pursuing a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) deciding when and how to achieve and pursue a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) giving special attention to destabilizing weapons; (4) preserving present limitations and controls on current nuclear weapons and delivery systems; and (5) incorporating ongoing negotiations in Geneva on land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles into the START negotiations. Declares that the United States shall try to reach a common position with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies on any agreement that would be inconsistent with existing U.S. commitments to those allies. Declares that the United States shall promptly approve the SALT II agreement if adequate verification capabilities are maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of April 17 through April 23, 1983, as National Coin Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Lebanon Emergency Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance for the relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction needs of the victims of recent fighting in Lebanon. Authorizes FY 1982 appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit reimbursement to health care providers for costs incurred which are directly related to influencing employees respecting proposed unionization.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Limits the outside earned income of Senators to $18,000 per calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain proposed health care facility certification regulations should be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Designates the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Alzheimer's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982
Professional Sports Stabilization Act of 1982 - Declares that it shall not be unlawful under any antitrust law for a professional sports league and its member clubs to enforce rules: (1) requiring approval by the league membership for the relocation of a member club; or (2) providing for the division of league or member club revenues that promote comparable economic opportunities for member clubs. Prohibits State and local governments from imposing limitations on the collective conduct of sports leagues or member teams authorized by this Act. Specifies the applicability of this Act to actions commenced under the antitrust laws before its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) propose at the June 1982 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit meeting that the NATO allies should pool their resources for their common defense; and (2) present such agreements to Congress for approval.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1982 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase, for FY 1983, the : (1) authorized appropriations for the foreign military sales credit and loan guarantee program; (2) ceilings on the amount of such credits and guarantees; (3) allocation of such credits and guarantees to Israel; (4) amount of foreign military sales credits which Israel shall be released from repaying; (5) amount that must be available for loan guarantees to Greece; and (6) amount of foreign military sales credits which Egypt shall be released from repaying. Reaffirms U.S. policy toward the Eastern Mediterranean as stated in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Permits the FY 1983 foreign military sales financing program for Turkey or for Greece to exceed the FY 1982 program for that country only if the President makes a specified certification to the Congress. Limits the amount of FY 1983 foreign military sales financing to Zaire. Permits only loan guarantees to be made to Zaire. Prohibits sales credits to Zaire. Prohibits Economic Support Fund assistance to Zaire in FY 1983. Excludes a pro-rata share of fixed base operations costs from the full-cost recoupment requirement of the section of the Arms Export Control Act dealing with sales from U.S. military stocks. Directs the President to grant congressional committees, upon request, access to security assistance surveys conducted by U.S. personnel in foreign countries. (Current law requires the President to grant Congress access only to defense requirement surveys.) Includes within the definition of security assistance surveys: (1) defense requirement surveys; (2) site surveys; (3) general surveys; and (4) engineering assessment surveys. Amends the provision dealing with quarterly reports by the President to the Congress on the estimated number of U.S. personnel abroad to require the estimate to include an estimate of the number of different categories of personnel abroad and an estimate of the number of each category of personnel who were in each foreign country at any time during the quarter. Includes within such report all such personnel in a foreign country in connection with the implementation of: (1) sales and commercial exports under the Arms Export Control Act; or (2) certain assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes the President to sell defense articles and unclassified defense service publications to a U.S. company for incorporation into end items that will be sold by such company to a friendly foreign country or international organization. Permits such sales only if specified conditions are met. Provides that administrative surcharges for sales of defense articles shall include the recovery of extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out such sales. Prohibits the acquisition for the Special Defense Acquisition Fund of any aircraft designed specifically for export which is not in the inventory of the Department of Defense or is in the inventory solely for training purposes. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 military assistance programs and international military education and training programs. Authorizes the President to provide free training of foreign military personnel at professional U.S. military schools (other than the Service academies) in accordance with reciprocal programs between U.S. and foreign schools. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President to order the use of Federal agency commodities and services, up to a specified value, for emergency peacekeeping operations. Requires the President to notify the Congress before taking such an action. Revises the limitations on the authority of the President to furnish foreign assistance without regard to the provisions of various Acts. Imposes a ceiling on the amount of sales under the Arms Export Control Act that the President may authorize under such section. Allocates the amount the President may authorize between the funds that the President may make available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act and the funds the President may make available for foreign military sales. Limits the amount of funds that the President may make available under such authority to any one country. Makes the amount higher if the country is the victim of Communist or Communist-supported aggression. Exempts from the congressional prenotification requirements the reprograming of international narcotics control programs or military education and training programs if the reprograming involves less than $50,000 and the programs for that fiscal year were justified to Congress. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to change the certification that the President must make to Congress before granting aid to El Salvador. Requires the President to certify that El Salvador's government is: (1) actively engaged in a good faith dialog with all major parties willing to participate in the democratic process to bring about an equitable political solution to hostilities in that country; or (2) unable to proceed with such a dialog because the opposition is unwilling to participate. Directs the President to consult with Congress in making the determinations required in the certification. Requires the President, upon making the first such certification in FY 1983, to also certify to Congress that El Salvador has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador and to bring those responsible to justice. Directs the President to consult with Congress before exercising specified authorities to grant aid to El Salvador. Requires any decision to invoke such authority to take into account the certification criteria established under the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981. Title II: Antiterrorism Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish antiterrorism assistance for foreign countries. Sets forth the purposes for which antiterrorism activities shall be conducted. Permits training services for antiterrorism to be furnished only within the United States. Limits the amount of time U.S. personnel performing services for a foreign country under the antiterrorism aid program may remain in that country. States that antiterrorism aid may not include furnishing defense articles or services. Prohibits furnishing antiterrorism assistance to any country for which one or more types of security assistance is prohibited. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if the President makes a specified certification to Congress. Requires that the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs be consulted in developing and implementing antiterrorism assistance programs. Prohibits furnishing any antiterrorism assistance until a specified time after the President transmits to the Congress a list of the countries being considered as possible recipients of such assistance for FY 1983. Authorizes Federal agencies to furnish services and commodities, subject to payment in advance, to eligible foreign countries to further the antiterrorism program. Makes the antiterrorism provisions inapplicable to certain information exchange activities of Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for antiterrorism assistance. Requires the President to make an annual report to Congress on such assistance. Provides for the administration of the antiterrorism assistance program. Sets forth the expiration date for such assistance. Prohibits furnishing antiterrorism assistance to countries that engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Amends a specified definition to establish a costing formula for sales of commodities and services provided under the antiterrorism assistance program. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Increases the authorized appropriations for the Economic Support Fund for FY 1983. States that priority consideration should be given in negotiating, planning, and administering economic support programs for countries where significant amounts of illicit narcotics are grown to programs which would stimulate broader development opportunities and strengthen the security of such countries. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for the Middle East Special Requirements Fund. Deletes the provisions which earmarked specified amounts for FY 1983 for: (1) Tunisia; (2) Costa Rica; and (3) Nicaragua. Requires consideration to be given to providing assistance to Mozambique. Permits the use of Economic Support Fund assistance for training in South Africa only if the recipients of the training will be able to receive the training in nonsegregated institutions, will be allowed to use all the facilities of those institutions on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, and will not be prohibited from using their training in racially integrated organizations. Provides that any funds not used for such training programs shall be made available for the scholarship program for disadvantaged South African students under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title IV: Development Assistance - Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) education and human resources development programs; (2) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities; (3) international organizations and programs (with specified amounts allocated for certain United Nations funds and programs); and (4) trade and development programs. Extends until September 30, 1983, the agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs. Prohibits the use of funds authorized to be appropriated under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for programs or projects benefitting the Palestine Liberation Organization or South West Africa People's Organization. Requires the Secretary of State to report annually to the Congress on the amount of funds spent by U.S. supported international organizations for such programs or projects. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to set a target number of food for development programs for each fiscal year. Directs the President to explain to Congress the reasons for any failure to reach such target. Requires consideration to be given to using the expertise of U.S. nonprofit voluntary agencies and cooperatives in developing and carrying out food for development programs. Requires the agreements entered into under the food for development programs to provide that commodities made available under those agreements or funds generated from the sale of those commodities shall be used to establish rural projects in famine-prone countries. Title V: Other Authorizations - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for international narcotics control. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should give greater priority to international narcotics control as a component of U.S. foreign policy toward the major illicit drug producing nations. Provides that funds made available to carry out the Economic Support Fund programs shall be used for the operating expenses directly attributable to the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of those programs. States that if the operating expenses of the Economic Support Fund's programs for FY 1983 exceeds a specified amount the funds of another agency may be used. Amends the Peace Corps Act to increase the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for the Peace Corps. Eliminates the ceiling on readjustment allowances for volunteer leaders. Provides for an increase in the readjustment allowances for volunteer leaders that is the same as the increase received by volunteers under an amendment made by the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981. Increases the authorized appropriations for FY 1983 for migration and refugee assistance. Allocates the increase to combat piracy in the Gulf of Thailand. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance to communist countries if the President reports to Congress that making such countries eligible for such assistance is important to U.S. security. (Current law prohibits assistance to such countries unless the President makes certain findings and report to Congress.) Expresses the sense of Congress that up to a specified amount of the development assistance funds available for FY 1983 should be available for development assistance for Haiti. States that such assistance should be provided, to the maximum extent possible, through private and voluntary organizations. Authorizes spending development and military assistance funds for Haiti and extending military sales credits and guarantees to Haiti only if the President makes a specified certification to Congress concerning Haiti. Directs the President to report to Congress six months after such certification on the actions of the Government of Haiti that were consistent with the certification. Prohibits furnishing Economic Support Fund assistance to Haiti until the President has certified to the Congress that Haiti has met certain fiscal performance targets established by the International Monetary Fund. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to reimpose and extend certain export controls that were imposed for foreign policy purposes. Authorizes the President to extend such controls beyond a specified date in accordance with certain provisions of such Act. Authorizes the President to waive the requirement to reimpose certain export controls if the President determines that the waiver is necessary for U.S. security interests and the President notifies Congress of that determination.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Requests the President to designate 1983 as Year of the Bible.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct a memorial to honor and recognize law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. Directs that such memorial be known as the National Law Enforcement Heroes Memorial and be located near the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, District of Columbia. Establishes the National Law Enforcement Heroes Memorial Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to the Secretary on the appropriate location and design of the Memorial, not later than six months after the last appointment to the Committee. Requires approval of such Memorial by the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, unless they fail to notify the Secretary of approval or disapproval within 90 days of receipt of plans or proposals. Prohibits the use of Federal or District of Columbia funds to carry out this resolution. Requires the Secretary to provide maintenance for the Memorial and to begin construction, if funds are available, not later than two years after enactment of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Permits any parcel of food, medicine, or clothing weighing not more than 22 pounds to be mailed for free from the United States to Poland, if it may be opened by the Postal Service for inspection. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes such mailing privilege for a period of two years.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates the week commencing the fourth Monday in June 1982 as National NCO/Petty Officer Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates July 9, 1982, and April 9, 1983, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
National Crude Oil Profit-Sharing Act of 1982 - Title I: National Crude Oil Profit-Sharing Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a severance tax on crude oil. Sets the rate of such tax at 30 percent of the removal price of such oil. Defines "removal price" as the amount for which the taxable crude oil is sold. Requires withholding of such tax by the first purchaser. Exempts from such tax any oil produced by a qualified charitable interest. Establishes in the Treasury an Energy and Economic Development Trust Fund (Trust Fund). Allocates to such trust fund 25 percent of the revenues raised by such severance tax. Title II: State Energy and Economic Development Block Grant Program - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make block grants out of such trust fund to the States for energy and economic development. Provides that 50 percent of such grants shall be alloted to the States for energy and 50 percent for economic development. Sets forth rules for determining the amount allocable to each State. Sets forth application and State public hearing requirements. Requires the chief executive officer of any State receiving such grants to: (1) certify that the State agrees to specified conditions; and (2) prepare and furnish a compliance plan to the Secretary. Allows the Secretary, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, to withhold funds from any State which fails to meet the requirements of this Act or of its own compliance plan. Title III: Limitation on Certain State Severance Taxes - Limits severance taxes imposed by any State with respect to crude oil, natural gas, or coal transported outside such State. Sets such limit at the higher of: (1) the adjusted 1978 State tax rate; or (2) the adjusted 1978 national average tax rate.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to eliminate provisions which: (1) permit petitions to the Secretary of Energy for prescription of rules which supersede State energy efficiency standards; and (2) provide for supersedure of State energy efficiency standards prescribed after January 1, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act - Designates the Secretary of Agriculture as the competent authority to implement the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be Used for Such Carriage. Lists the duties of the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Agriculture, to take appropriate action to protect U.S. rights under the Agreement. Authorizes inspection and testing organizations designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to establish reasonable fees to cover the costs of inspection or testing. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Amends the Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Resources Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1982
Congratulates Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, on the celebration of its 70th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Establishes U.S. policy concerning commercial food exports. Declares that there should be no interruptions in exports unless there is a general embargo in circumstances that justify the united support of the free world.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates the week beginning July 18, 1982, as National Junior Bowling Championship Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates September 19 through September 25, 1982, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1982 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase for FY 1983: (1) authorized appropriations for the Foreign military sales credit and loan guarantee program; (2) ceilings on the amount of such credits and guarantees; and (3) allocation of such credits and guarantees to Israel. Reduces that portion of the total allocation of military sales credits and loan guarantees to Israel which must be available only as military sales credits in FY 1983. Eliminates the allocation of foreign military loan guarantees for Greece for FY 1983. Repeals the provisions allocating a specified amount of FY 1983 foreign military sales credits for Egypt and the Sudan. Increases the amount of such credits that Egypt is released from repaying. Decreases the amount of such credits that Israel is released from repaying. Amends certain definitions to provide that administrative surcharges include recovery of extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out foreign military sales. Authorizes the President to provide free training of foreign military personnel at professional U.S. military schools (other than the Service academies) in accordance with reciprocal programs between U.S. and foreign schools. Authorizes the President to sell defense articles to a U.S. company for incorporation into end items that will be sold by such a company to friendly countries or international organizations. Permits such sales only if specified conditions are met. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1983 authorized appropriation for the international military education and training program. Exempts the international narcotics program and the international military education and training program from the requirement that Congress receive prior notification of reprogramming of funds, if the reprogramming involves less than $50,000. Limits the meaning of the phrase "communist countries" for purposes of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to a specified list of countries. (Current law indicates that the phrase includes but is not limited to the countries on such list.) Deletes from the list Tibet and the People's Republic of China. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to declare that the People's Republic of China shall be considered a friendly country eligible to enter into sales agreements and to receive assistance under such Act. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase FY 1982 and 1983 authorized appropriations for peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President to order the use of Federal agency commodities and services, up to a specified value, for emergency peacekeeping operations. Requires the President to notify Congress of such an action. Title II: Anti-Terrorism Assistance - Authorizes the President to furnish eligible countries with anti-terrorist assistance. Authorizes providing services and commodities for such assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Increases the FY 1983 authorized appropriations for the Economic Support Fund. Eliminates the FY 1983 Fund allocations earmarked for: (1) Egypt; (2) Israel; (3) certain regional cooperative projects in the Middle East; (4) relief and rehabilitation programs in Lebanon; (5) Turkey; (6) Cyprus; (7) Tunisia; (8) Costa Rica; and (9) Nicaragua. Title IV: Development Assistance - Increases the FY 1983 authorized appropriations for assistance programs for: (1) education and human resources development; (2) indigenous resources development; and (3) trade and development. Extends the authorization for the agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs. Deletes the allocations of the funds authorized for international organizations and programs. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Increases the FY 1983 authorized appropriations for: (1) international narcotics control programs; and (2) the operating expenses of the agency primarily responsible for administering international development programs. Title VI: Authorizations for the Fiscal Year 1984 and Effective Date - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for programs for which appropriations are authorized for FY 1983 by this Act or by the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends the International Communication Authorization Act, fiscal years 1982 and 1983, to authorize additional appropriations for FY 1983 for the International Communication Agency (ICA). Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to allow the fees received by the ICA in connection with its English-teaching programs to be credited to the ICA's applicable appropriation. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to allow Inter-American Foundation grantees to keep the interest earned on investments of grant funds if the interest is used for the purposes for which the grant was made.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Grants a Federal charter to the Polish Legion of American Veterans, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families to conduct a comprehensive study on their problems and to develop policies to coordinate governmental and private programs to address such problems. Provides that the committee shall not have legislative jurisdiction and shall terminate at the close of the Ninety-ninth Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the commendation of the House of Representatives to the Knights of Columbus on its 100th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
Authorizes the President to designate April 4, 1982, as the National Day of Reflection. Notes that such date coincides with the 80th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, head of the Lubavitch movement.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Health Care Delivery Systems Administration (Administration). Delegates to the Administration functions currently performed by specified units of the Health Services Administration and the Health Resources Administration. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Administration a Bureau for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Health Education. Transfers to such Bureau functions of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Center for Health Promotion and Education, the Office of Smoking and Health, and the Center for Environmental Health. Directs the Secretary to establish within the National Institutes of Health a National Institute of Health Statistics and Systems Research. Transfers to such Institute functions of the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Health Services Research. Directs the Secretary to transfer the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health a Center for State Services to be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for State Services. Transfers to such Office functions of specified units of the Center for Disease Control. Directs the Secretary to transfer to the Food and Drug Administration the functions of the Center for Disease Control's laboratory improvement program. Directs the Secretary to delegate specified international health functions to the Assistant Secretary for International Health.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Duty-Free Treatment - Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for all eligible articles from Caribbean countries the President designates as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from terminating a country's beneficiary designation unless both Houses of Congress are notified 60 days before the termination. Requires the President to consider only specified countries and territories as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from designating as a beneficiary country any country that: (1) is a Communist country; (2) has nationalized or seized control, or effectively nationalized or seized control, of U.S. property, unless the President determines that a good faith effort is being made to compensate for such seizure; (3) fails to act in good faith in recognizing as binding or in enforcing arbitral awards in favor of U.S. citizens or corporations; or (4) grants preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States which may have a significant adverse effect on U.S. commerce, unless the President reports to Congress that certain assurances have been made. Permits the President to designate as a beneficiary country a Communist country, an expropriating country or a country that fails to act in good faith with respect to an arbitral award if the President determines and reports to Congress that such designation will be in the national interest. Lists factors the President should consider in determining whether to grant beneficiary designation. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to grant to imports from U.S. insular possessions, subject to specified provisions of this Act, duty treatment no less favorable than the treatment afforded such imports from a beneficiary country. Directs the President to withdraw or suspend a country's beneficiary designation, if the President determines that changed circumstances in such country would prohibit such designation under the guidelines in this title. Requires duty-free treatment to apply to any article imported from a beneficiary country, unless otherwise excluded from eligibility, if: (1) the article is imported directly from such country into U.S. customs territory; and (2) the sum of specified costs of the article is not less than 25 percent of its appraised value at the time of its entry. Prohibits this duty-free treatment from applying to textile and apparel articles covered by textile agreements. Sets forth the manner of governing the importation and duty-free treatment of certain sugars, sirups, and molasses. Authorizes the President to suspend the duty-free treatment provided by this title and to proclaim a duty for an eligible article if such action is taken pursuant to certain import relief or national security provisions. Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC) in any report on a petition for import relief under the Trade Act of 1974 to state how its findings and recommendations apply to any duty-free article imported from beneficiary countries. Authorizes the President to reduce or end the application of import relief measures with respect to articles imported from beneficiary countries earlier than otherwise scheduled. Provides that suspension of duty-free treatment provided by this title shall be treated as an increase in duty for purposes of the import relief section of the Trade Act of 1974. Prohibits such a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC finds that the harm caused by the imports results from its duty-free treatment by this title. Authorizes the filing of petitions for import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as with the ITC, for injury from imports of perishable products from beneficiary countries. Directs the Secretary to recommend the granting or denying of such petition within 14 days of its filing. Requires the President to take emergency action or to publish a notice of determination not to take emergency action within seven days of receiving the Secretary's recommendation. Sets forth the limits on the duration of the emergency action. Defines perishable products to include certain fresh or chilled vegetables, fresh mushrooms, fresh fruit, and fresh cut flowers. Exempts from proclamations under this title certain fees imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase to five liters (currently, four liters) the amount of duty-free liquor that may be brought into the United States. Requires that not more than four liters, of such five liter limit, may have been produced outside American Samoa, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorizes the President to withdraw duty-free treatment on rum if the amount of excise taxes on rum that is paid into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands falls below the amount that would have been paid if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to repeal the provision for protecting U.S. possessions against revenue losses caused by concessions granted by the United States in the Tokyo Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Prohibits any action under this title from affecting a tariff imposed by Puerto Rico on coffee imported into Puerto Rico. Limits the duration of duty-free treatment under this Act to 12 years. Title II: Emergency Economic Assistance - Authorizes FY 1982 appropriations for economic support funds for countries in the Caribbean Basin. Title III: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require excise taxes on rum imported into the United States to be paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Limits the amount paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the amount those possessions would have received if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands and transported to the United States. Provides an investment tax credit for investments in Caribbean Basin property placed in service within five years after enactment. Defines Caribbean Basin property as new investment credit property used predominantly in a country that is: (1) a beneficiary country, as defined under this Act; and (2) a party to a bilateral agreement providing for exchange of information between the United States and the beneficiary country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to conclude an agreement with a beneficiary country to provide information to carry out the tax laws of the United States and the beneficiary country. Prohibits allowing an investment tax credit to foreign corporations for Caribbean Basin property. Allows an investment tax credit to a U.S. shareholder of a foreign corporation that invests in Caribbean Basin property if the shareholder holds five percent of the foreign corporation's stock. Requires recapture of the investment credit if, during any taxable year, the Caribbean Basin property is used predominantly outside a qualifying country or the United States. Extends an investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction to property owned or used by U.S. corporations or citizens engaged in trade or business in Puerto Rico or other U.S. possessions. (Current law excludes such corporations and citizens from obtaining such credit and deduction.) Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction available to corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession. Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and the accelerated cost recovery deduction available to the corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands. Excludes from the definition of qualified leased property for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery deduction Caribbean Basin property and property in Puerto Rico or U.S. possessions owned by certain U.S. corporations or citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
National Defense Port System Act of 1982 - Title I: Establishment of National System of User Taxes for Deep-Draft Channels and Harbors - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, not later than three months after recommendations have been made by the Deep-Draft Port Task Force established by this Act, to develop a nationally uniform system of user taxes to be imposed on the use of ports with deep-draft channels or harbors by any vessel which is in: (1) the business of transporting property or passengers for compensation or hire; or (2) transporting property or passengers in the business of the owner, lessee, or operator of the vessel. Requires such taxes to be imposed with respect to commodities, classes of commodities, and passengers. Prohibits any such tax from being levied on any item with respect to which such a tax has been previously paid. Allows the Secretary to increase or decrease such user tax under certain circumstances. Requires the master of any vessel with respect to which a tax is imposed to deliver to the Customs Service a manifest of the cargo and a declaration of the passengers upon arrival in a port having a deep-draft channel or harbor. Establishes the Deep-Draft Commercial Port Task Force to make specific recommendations to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the classifications and amounts of tax which should be established for commodities. Directs the Secretary to impose a tax on the use of any deep-draft channel or harbor by any vessel transporting property which is to be unloaded at a privately owned port which is not open to public navigation and is not operated and maintained by the United States. Grants the consent of Congress, subject to certain conditions, to the imposition of certain State user fees at deep-draft channels or harbors. Requires the net produce of such fees to be transferred to, and for the use of, the United States Treasury. Prohibits the use of funds from the Port System Trust Fund or the general fund of the Treasury for any approved navigation improvement project, the operation or maintenance of any deep-draft channel or harbor, or any other civil works project of the Secretary of the Army in any State unless such State has port user fees in effect not later than two years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to collect and enforce such State port user fees. Establishes the Port System Trust Fund within the Treasury. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on Trust Fund operations. Makes amounts in the Trust Fund available for: (1) navigation improvement projects; and (2) operation and maintenance of specified channels and harbors, including those in the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Great Lakes, or their connecting waters. Sets the Federal share of any approved navigation improvement project at 90 percent. Revises financing procedures of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. Terminates Corporation obligations outstanding on the effective date of this Act. Title II: Construction and Financing of Navigation Improvement Projects to Increase the Depth of Deep-Draft Channels and Harbors to More Than Forty-Five Feet - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to expedite construction of approved navigation improvement projects if the appropriate State port authority enters into a specified agreement with the Secretary. Requires such port authority to reimburse the United States for 100 percent of construction, operation, and maintenance costs. Allows State port authorities to construct approved navigation improvement projects at their own expense and to finance such construction through the adoption of duties of tonnage. Grants the consent of Congress, subject to certain conditions, to the levying by the States of such duties of tonnage. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the operations of such State port authorities and to report to Congress thereon. Sets forth enforcement procedures concerning such duties of tonnage. Title III: Expedited Procedure for Approval of Navigation Improvement Projects and Related Landside Facilities Projects - Directs the Secretary to establish a project schedule for all agency decisions relating to navigation improvements and landside facilities projects. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the project schedule at any time. Describes procedures concerning judicial review of final agency decisions covered by a project schedule.