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United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1985
Designates the month of May 1985 as Very Special Arts U.S.A. Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the administration should comply with the automatic appropriation and earmarking provisions of the Wallop/Breaux Sport Fish Restoration Trust Fund and support adequate appropriation for the Boating Safety Account in such Fund. States that funds owed to the States from such Fund should not be withheld or delayed.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1985
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend the time for conducting the referendum with respect to the national wheat marketing quota for the June 1, 1986, marketing year.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1985 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to authorize employers to pay employees under 20 years of age 75 percent of the minimum wage rate between May and September of each year. Exempts such employees from special certificate requirements. Restricts such authorization to: (1) hours worked by eligible employees in compliance with applicable child labor laws; and (2) youth employed after May 1 of each year. Prohibits the removal of employees ineligible for the subminimum wage rate in order to replace them with employees who are eligible. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to monitor the implementation of this Act and to report to the Congress concerning the employment effects of this Act. Terminates such minimum wage rate exception after September 30, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Amends the national cemeteries and memorials provisions of Federal law to require that each grave marker in a national cemetery be upright unless the deceased or the deceased's survivor requests a flat marker. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to designate within each national cemetery a section with flat markers and a section with upright markers.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to use its authority under the Net Worth Certificate Act to purchase net worth certificates of certain qualified financial institutions which have made more than 20 percent of their loans for agricultural purposes. Revises capital to adjusted total asset ratio requirements for such qualified institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Amends the Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act of 1980 to extend through September 30, 1985, all conditional commitments for loan guarantees which were in existence on September 30, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 to producers unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere. Makes up to one-third of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Requires a participating producer to: (1) obtain crop insurance if available; and (2) use his crop as loan collateral. Limits loans to any single person to $30,000. Directs the Secretary to take immediate steps to make personnel and other Department of Agriculture resources available to improve the administration of such program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Prohibits U.S. aid to Bolivia, beginning in FY 1986, unless the President certifies to the Congress that coca production in Bolivia is at least ten percent less than the level during the preceding fiscal year. Permits a carryover of the amount of reduction if it exceeds ten percent. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose aid by such institutions to Bolivia during FY 1986 or thereafter unless the President certifies that Bolivian coca production has been reduced.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Designates the month of October 1985 as National Foster Grandparent Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Agricultural Trade Amendment Act of 1985 - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Act to provide that agricultural exports, except for those under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480), shall not be subject to cargo preference requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Age Discrimination in Employment Act Public Safety Officers Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to exclude State and local law enforcement officers and firefighters from coverage under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Directs that funds be made available from appropriations under the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1985 to enable the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration to award 7,083 new competitive research grants in FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Designates March 21, 1986, as Henry Ossian Flipper Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should report to the Congress by October 1, 1985, his intention to begin negotiations on a five-year agreement on agricultural trade with the Soviet Union. Declares such agreement should include: (1) provisions for expanded trade in farm products; (2) provisions for information exchanges and trade facilitation and assurances that U.S. suppliers will receive fair and equal access to the Soviet market; and (3) credible mutual assurances that contracts for farm products shall be fully performed by both countries.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Designates July 19, 1985, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1985
Prohibits the importation of: (1) beef or veal, lamb, skins bearing wool, wool, and uranium ore from Australia; and (2) lamb, skins bearing wool, and wool from New Zealand.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1985
Prohibits the cargo preference laws from applying to export activities of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) or the Department of Agriculture under which: (1) stocks of farm commodities or the products thereof acquired by the CCC are made available to U.S. exporters, users, or foreign purchasers for the maintenance or expansion of commercial export markets for U.S. farm commodities; (2) commercial credit guarantees are blended with direct interest-free credits from the CCC to reduce the interest rate on export sales of U.S. farm commodities; or (3) the CCC or the Department of Agriculture promotes commercial exports of U.S. farm commodities. Exempts from such prohibition export activity undertaken to fulfill an agreement entered into before enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1985
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1985
Designates the month of April 1985 as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Designates the Federal Building located at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., as the Ariel Rios Memorial Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends the Federal Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1982 to make permanent the authority of Federal agencies to use flexible and compressed work schedules.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 to eliminate the recordkeeping requirements imposed on the sale of small arms ammunition (sold or delivered in a single transaction in quantities of 5,000 rounds or less).
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that a hostile stock purchase in a corporate takeover attempt be treated as an asset acquisition by the purchasing corporation. Disallows any income tax deduction for: (1) any "greenmail payment" made in connection with a corporate takeover; or (2) any interest paid or accrued on indebtedness incurred to acquire stock in a corporation pursuant to a hostile offer. Defines "greenmail payment" as any payment made by a corporation in redemption of stock of such corporation which is held by a four-percent shareholder if: (1) such shareholder held such stock for less than two years; and (2) during the two-year period ending on the date of such sale or exchange there was a public tender offer for stock in such corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends the Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act of 1980 to extend through September 30, 1985, all conditional commitments for loan guarantees which were in existence under such Act as of September 30, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Tender Offer Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require any person who acquires specified securities, resulting in ownership of more than five percent of the issuer's securities, to: (1) publicly announce such acquisition on the day it occurs; and (2) send a statement disclosing specified information to the issuer and to each exchange where the security is traded and file such statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission within two (currently ten) days. Includes among the information to be disclosed if the purpose of the acquisition is to acquire control or more than 20 percent of the securities of the issuer: (1) any plans to change management, personnel, employment policies, the location of the issuer's principal executive office or principal business activities, or relationships with suppliers, customers, or the communities in which it operates; (2) anticipated effects of the acquisition on the innovation, productivity, efficiency, and profitability of the acquirer and the issuer; and (3) financial statements indicating anticipated operations of the acquirer and the issuer for the next three years. Prohibits such an acquirer from acquiring any additional securities of the issuer until two days after such statement is filed. Prohibits any acquirer who discloses in such statement the intention to acquire control or more than 20 percent of the securities of the issuer from acquiring any additional securities of the issuer unless such acquisition has been approved by: (1) a majority of the issuer's disinterested directors if such persons comprise a majority of the issuer's board of directors; and either (2) a majority of the acquirer's disinterested directors; or (3) a majority of the acquirer's shareholders, if the acquirer's disinterested directors do not comprise a majority of the acquirer's board of directors or if the value of the securities to be acquired exceeds 20 percent of the book value of the acquirer. Prohibits any acquirer who does not disclose such intention in such statement from commencing a tender offer for, or acquiring, for two years after such statement is filed, securities that would provide the acquirer in excess of 20 percent of the issuer's voting securities, unless such approval has been obtained. Declares that any acquirer who fails to comply with disclosure requirements or who makes false or misleading disclosures shall be: (1) liable to any person who purchased, sold, or retained securities in reliance on such disclosures; and (2) subject to a court injunction against further acquisitions and a court order to divest the securities acquired.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Directs the President to designate June 10 through June 16, 1985, as National Scleroderma Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1985
Designates the month of February 1986 as National Black (Afro-American) History Month.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 regarding urban development action grant criteria to place major emphasis on private investment leveraging and job creation, especially for low-income persons and minorities, including the unemployed. Limits fiscal year grant amounts to any single community.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Drug Money Seizure Act - Amends the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to investigate the compliance of financial institutions with recordkeeping and reporting requirements with respect to monetary instruments transactions, to: (1) examine the books, papers, and records of such institutions; and (2) summon and take testimony from an institution officer or employee or other person possessing relevant reports or records. Increases the civil penalty for violations of such Act to: (1) the full amount of the transaction where the violation involves a transaction reporting requirement; or (2) $10,000 for any other violation. Creates a civil penalty of up to the amount of the transaction or account involved for any violation of a reporting or recordkeeping requirement for a transaction with a foreign financial agency.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Money Laundering Crimes Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish money laundering as a Federal criminal offense. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed against anyone who conducts transactions involving monetary instruments through a financial institution engaged in or affecting interstate commerce: (1) with the intention of carrying out specified types of unlawful activity; or (2) with knowledge that such monetary instruments represent income derived from such unlawful activity. Requires investigation of such an offense by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service, as appropriate. Establishes extraterritorial jurisdiction over such prohibited conduct.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to include in its biannual report to the Congress an assessment of the effect its objectives and plans regarding monetary policy will have on agriculture and small business.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Designates the week of September 15 through September 21, 1985, as National Independent Free Papers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Declares that the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services should immediately study and report to the Congress on ways to change the benefit disparity caused by the 1977 changes in the social security benefit formula.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Proclaims March 20, 1985, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Designates the week beginning on October 6, 1985, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Highly Erodible Land Conservation Act of 1985 - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) use the agricultural stabilization and conservation committees to help administer this Act; and (2) complete specified soil capability surveys.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Readiness Enhancement of Air Force Reserve Special Operations Act of 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the operation and maintenance of: (1) a Special Operations Wing of the Air Force Reserve; and (2) the Directorate of the Department of Defense Task Force on Drug Law Enforcement. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than September 30, 1985, to report to specified congressional committees concerning the expenditure of funds authorized by this Act. Outlines information to be included in such report.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Bulgarian Interrelation Review Act - Directs the President to conduct a review of U.S. policies with respect to Bulgaria's involvement in narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, and terrorism. Provides that such review include the options of: (1) suspending U.S. diplomatic relations; (2) terminating U.S. bilateral agreements, including the maritime transport agreement; (3) imposing stricter controls on exports to Bulgaria; (4) requesting the United Nations Security Council to place on its agenda Bulgaria's involvement in arms trafficking, drug smuggling, and terrorist acts; and (5) submitting a request to the Secretary General of the United Nations that a review conference be convened to determine what steps should be taken to end Bulgaria's abuses of the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets. Directs the President to report to the Congress on the results of such review.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Designates the week beginning May 5, 1985, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) veterans' disability compensation payments should remain exempt from Federal income taxation; and (2) the President should reject any proposals to tax such payments.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should request, in accordance with the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets, that the Secretary General of the United Nations convene a review conference to determine what steps should be taken to end Bulgaria's abuses of that Convention in facilitating the transportation of illicit narcotics, arms, and terrorists; and (2) the President should encourage other parties to the TIR Convention to use procedures provided in the Convention to end such abuses by Bulgaria.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the administration should perform specified actions with regard to emergency agricultural credit.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1985
Designates the week of May 1 through May 7, 1985, as National Osteoporosis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1985
Designates the week of March 31 to April 6, 1985, as National Weather Satellite Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Designates the week of May 12 through May 18, 1985, as Senior Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Intergovernmental Regulatory Relief Act of 1985 - Title I: Review of Intergovernmental Regulations - Requires the President, within 30 days after submitting the annual Federal budget, to submit to the Congress a report specifying and evaluating the economic costs, noneconomic costs, and additional direct costs to State and local governments of complying with intergovernmental regulations during the most recently completed fiscal year, the fiscal year in progress, and the next two fiscal years. Defines an "intergovernmental regulation" as a Federal regulation that requires a State or local government to take certain actions or to comply with certain conditions in order to receive Federal assistance. Specifies the contents of such report which include: (1) an estimate of the economic and noneconomic benefits that will be provided to each State government and all local governments in such State as a result of compliance with each such regulation during each fiscal year; and (2) proposals for legislation and administrative actions to change regulations in order to reduce compliance costs or to achieve a more favorable balance between costs incurred and benefits received. Directs the President to consider the potential for reducing State and local compliance costs by promulgating intergovernmental regulations using means such as performance standards, special provisions for small governments, marketable rights, economic incentives, compliance reforms, and simplified procedures to certify the compliance of Federal assistance recipients with Federal requirements. Authorizes the President to delegate the responsibility of preparing such report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the head of any other Federal agency. Directs the responsible official to prescribe standards to be used by agencies in estimating the compliance costs and benefits of intergovernmental regulations. Directs each agency to furnish such official with the information required in such report for the regulations administered by such agency. Title II: Compensation of State and Local Governments for Additional Direct Costs - Prohibits any Federal agency or U.S. court from requiring State or local governments, in any fiscal year, to comply with any intergovernmental regulation which takes effect on or after enactment of this Act and which is promulgated pursuant to a significant law, unless sufficient funds have been provided to reimburse such governments for the total amount of additional direct costs such governments will incur in complying with such regulation in such fiscal year as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Defines a "significant law" as any Federal law which is likely to result in total additional direct costs to all State and local governments of $100,000,000 or more in a fiscal year or to have exceptional fiscal consequences for a geographic region or a particular level of government. Prohibits a Federal agency or a U.S. court, beginning in FY 1987, from requiring State or local governments to comply with any intergovernmental regulation which took effect before enactment of this Act and which was promulgated pursuant to a significant law, unless: (1) sufficient funds have been provided to reimburse such governments for a specified percentage of the additional direct costs such governments will incur in complying with such regulation during such fiscal year; (2) the additional direct costs such governments would have incurred in such fiscal year have been reduced by such percentage as a result of either a revision in the significant law under which the regulation was promulgated or administrative actions; or (3) the combined amount of funds provided and reductions obtained equals or exceeds such percentage of the additional direct costs such governments would have incurred in such fiscal year. Increases the applicable percentage each year from ten percent in FY 1988 to 100 percent by FY 1997. Requires the Director of CBO to transmit to the President and the Congress by September 1 of each year a report specifying an estimate of the total amount of additional direct costs that will be incurred in the upcoming fiscal year and the two succeeding fiscal years by State and local governments in complying with each intergovernmental regulation promulgated pursuant to a significant law. Directs the chairmen of the congressional committees having jurisdiction over any significant law under which an intergovernmental regulation is promulgated to propose, to a bill providing funds for each fiscal year in which such regulation will be in effect, an amendment to appropriate funds to reimburse State and local governments for the total amount or applicable percentage of additional direct costs they will incur in complying with such regulation. Sets forth the procedures for reimbursements of such additional direct costs by Federal agencies to States and by the States to local governments. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the definition of a "significant bill or resolution" by reducing the annual cost to State or local governments likely to result from such a bill or resolution from $200,000,000 to $100,000,000. (The Act requires CBO to submit to each congressional committee reporting such a bill or resolution an estimate of the cost which would be incurred by State and local governments in complying with such bill or resolution in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in each of the four succeeding fiscal years.)
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Designates the week of April 21 through April 27, 1985, as National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week.