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Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 351 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress that the monkeys known as the Silver Spring Monkeys should be transferred from the National Institutes of Health to the custody of the Primarily Primates, Incorporated, animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas.

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Director of the National Institutes of Health should transfer the Silver Spring Monkeys to the Primarily Primates, Inc., animal sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas.

Bill· HRH.R. 4934 (99th)referred

A bill to establish cost sharing formulas for certain forms of assistance under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974.

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.

Bill· HRH.R. 4938 (99th)referred

Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986

Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to permit States to provide emergency assistance to needy families by purchasing, constructing, renovating, or renting emergency shelter for such families.

Bill· HRH.R. 4929 (99th)referred

Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986

Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact of 1986 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require AFDC applicants and recipients to register with a State agency for employment counseling, training, and assignment. Authorizes AFDC recipients to refuse employment which results in a net loss in their income. Directs an agency of each State to: (1) establish a single intake and registration process for AFDC applicants and recipients; (2) determine whether training or education is needed to prepare registered applicants and recipients for employment and then provide counseling regarding prospects and needs; (3) arrange for participation in one or more of the work-related programs established under title IV of the Act or other Federal law, while coordinating such programs to enhance the availability and efficiency of services provided; and (4) develop an employment plan for each AFDC applicant or recipient. Requires the State agency to provide AFDC applicants and recipients assigned to employment, training, or education programs with child care and transportation services. Sets the Federal contribution to education, training, and assignment costs at 70 percent and the Federal share of administrative and support service costs at 50 percent. Increases, by five percent in any fiscal year after FY 1987, the Federal share of education, training, and assignment costs, provided a State meets certain performance standards to be developed by the Office of Technology Assessment. Provides that such standards shall measure a State's success in reducing welfare costs and helping AFDC recipients achieve self-sufficiency, while accounting for differing conditions among the States. Requires the publication of such standards within two years of enactment of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 4917 (99th)open

Depository Institution Examination Improvement Act of 1986

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.

Bill· HRH.R. 4894 (99th)open

Micro-Enterprise Promotion Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1986

Micro-Enterprise Promotion Act of 1986 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to provide for a program to use the foreign currency proceeds of U.S. agricultural commodity sales abroad to provide loans through financial intermediaries to micro-enterprises owned by the poor in developing countries. Defines "micro-enterprise" as a small enterprise operating within the informal sector economy of a developing country which lacks access to foreign credit sources. States that for FY 1987 through 1990 foreign currencies shall be made available for such program in an aggregate amount of between 20 percent and 30 percent of the value of all such foreign currency commodity sales.

Bill· HRH.R. 4840 (99th)referred

A bill to provide a rental housing lease indemnity program by the Department of Defense.

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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 631 (99th)reported

White House Conference on Drug Abuse and Control Resolution of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986

White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control Resolution of 1986 - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control to develop recommendations to control the illicit production, trafficking, and distribution of narcotics, and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse. Directs the Conference to review: (1) the impact of recently enacted laws on efforts to control trafficking in narcotics and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse; and (2) the recommmendations of the President's Commission on Organized Crime as they relate to narcotics abuse and control. Requires the Conference to report its findings to the President and the Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 4756 (99th)open

Torture Victim Protection Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986

Torture Victim Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to impose civil liability on anyone who, under actual or apparent authority of any foreign nation, subjects any person to torture or extrajudicial killing. Grants jurisdiction over such cases to U.S. district courts only after claimants have exhausted all available remedies in the place in which the conduct giving rise to the claim occurred.

Bill· HRH.R. 4711 (99th)open

Ballistic Knife Prohibition Act of 1986

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).

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 325 (99th)passed

A concurrent resolution to commend the government and people of Berlin for keeping alive the spirit of equality, freedom, and human dignity through their solemn commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jesse Owens' victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986

Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to Berlin and commends that city for its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jesse Owens' victories at the 1936 Olympics. Honors Jesse Owens' accomplishments as the triumph of equality and justice over racism and bigotry.

Bill· HRH.R. 4671 (99th)referred

A bill to provide that any cost-of-living adjustment in military retirement and survivor benefit programs provided by law to take effect during fiscal year 1987 shall be made in accordance with the law providing for such adjustment.

United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986

Provides that any cost-of-living adjustment in military retirement and survivor benefit programs provided by law to take effect during FY 1987 shall be made in accordance with such law and not subject to any reduction, suspension, or contrary presidential order. Defines "military retirement and survivor benefit programs."

Bill· HRH.R. 4679 (99th)referred

Community Development Block Grant Improvement Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986

Community Development Block Grant Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to set minimum distribution requirements for home loans and loan guarantees for low and moderate income persons. Sets FY 1986 support levels as minimum levels for subsequent fiscal years. Increases income levels for purposes of defining low and moderate income. Defines "persons of very-low income." Requires community development block grant applications to be submitted to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development prior to the receipt of any grant funds. Prohibits a grantee from using such funds in a manner that will result in the involuntary displacement of low- and moderate-income persons. Requires grant applications to include a neighborhood economic development strategy. Authorizes multiyear grants for nonentitlement areas.

Bill· HRH.R. 4650 (99th)open

Youth Suicide Prevention Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986

Youth Suicide Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a grants program to assist local educational agencies and private nonprofit organizations to establish and operate youth suicide prevention programs. Sets forth program requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989.

Bill· HRH.R. 4660 (99th)referred

A bill to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to contract for health care for veterans in certain areas in which medical facilities of the Veterans' Administration are geographically inaccessible.

United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986

Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract with non-Veterans Administration (VA) health-care facilities for the furnishing of health care for veterans in areas determined to be substantial growth areas which are geographically inaccessible to present VA facilities. Defines "substantial growth area."

Bill· HRH.R. 4593 (99th)referred

A bill to permit the Government National Mortgage Association and the Federal Housing Administration to enter into additional commitments during fiscal year 1986 to guarantee mortgage-backed securities and insure loans under the National Housing Act.

United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986

Authorizes the Government National Mortgage Association and the Federal Housing Administration to enter into additional specified FY 1986 commitments to guarantee mortgage-backed securities and insure loans under the National Housing Act.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 413 (99th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to Federal funds for the Cooperative Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal funds for the Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service should be maintained at a level sufficient to prevent the reduction of benefits provided by such Service.

Law· HRH.R. 4545 (99th)enacted

A bill to authorize appropriations for the American Folklife Center for fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986

Amends the American Folklife Preservation Act to extend through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations for the American Folklife Center, located in the Library of Congress. Repeals a restriction on the Center's use of FY 1985 or 1986 funds to pay for any personnel position established after August 21, 1984.

Bill· HRH.R. 4528 (99th)referred

A bill to provide for the continuation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission until 1989, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986

Amends Federal law to continue the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission until April 20, 1989 (three years beyond the present termination date). Directs the Commission to annually report to the President and the Congress on its activities, the final report being submitted on the Commission's termination date. Authorizes the Commission to appoint nine additional Commission members.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 411 (99th)referred

A resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the deferral process established by the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is unconstitutional under the United States Supreme Court decision in "Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha et al".

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the deferral process established by the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is unconstitutional.