United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1984
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire approximately 15 acres of land outside the boundaries of the Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas for purposes of a visitor contact and administrative site for such preserve. Authorizes appropriations for such acquisition.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Administration should continue to oppose the imposition of restrictions by the European Community (EC) on imports of nongrain feed ingredients and corn gluten as a means to shift to other countries part of the cost of its domestic agricultural policies; and (2) imposition of a consumption tax on vegetable oils and fats by the EC would restrain trade and violate the tariff bindings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on soybeans and soybean products. States that if EC action is taken to inhibit the importation of such products, then the United States should restrict EC imports by the same proportion of reduced U.S. export products.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express to the Soviet Union the U.S. disapproval of the Soviet Union's: (1) systematic nondelivery of U.S. mail addressed to persons in the Soviet Union; and (2) violation of specified treaties governing international mail. States that at the meeting of the Congress of the Universal Postal Union in Hamburg, Germany, U.S. representatives should: (1) bring such violations to the attention of the Union; (2) request that an investigation of such violations be conducted by the Union; and (3) consider possible sanctions against the Soviet Union for such violations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1984
Condemns the infringement of religious freedom by the Warsaw Pact states. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should raise the failure of the Warsaw Pact states to fulfill commitments on religious freedom undertaken in the Helsinki Final Act and to respect international law on human rights in the area of religion at every appropriate international forum, including all of the meetings of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and appropriate gatherings of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1984
Expresses the sense of Congress that the portion of the street in the District of Columbia on which is located the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the portion of any street in any other city in the United States on which is located a consular office or mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, should be named Andrei Sakharov Avenue.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984
Authorizes the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation of Washington, District of Columbia, to erect a memorial on public ground in the District of Columbia in commemoration of the Lebanese-American poet and artist, Kahil Gibran. Provides that the memorial shall be in the form of a sculptured monument and shall be designated the Kahlil Gibran Memorial. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select a site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Prohibits the United States or the District of Columbia from expending any money for the establishment of the memorial. Provides that the authority of this resolution shall lapse unless: (1) construction is commenced within five years from the enactment of this resolution; and (2) prior to the commencement of construction, the Secretary determines that sufficient funds are available for the completion of the memorial. Makes the maintenance and care of the monument the responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1984
Designates June 30, 1984, as Screen Actors Guild Day and extends the gratitude of the Senate to the Screen Actors Guild. Calls on all Americans to recognize and celebrate the contribution to American culture of the Guild and its members.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1984
Agricultural Efficiency and Equity Act of 1984 - Title I: Acreage Base and Program Yield System - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish farm acreage and crop acreage bases for each program crop based on the preceding five crop years. Permits producer crop acreage base adjustment. Requires program participation in order to receive price support assistance. Sets forth exceptions. Requires the Secretary to provide for a farm program yield for each crop based on the preceding five years. Sets forth related county committee recordkeeping responsibilities. Title II: Price-Support Levels for Program Crops - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide: (1) that price supports for peanuts for which marketing quotas have been disapproved shall be 50 percent of parity; and (2) no supports for tobacco for which marketing quotas have been disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984
Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to declare as an objective of the Act that community services provided under the Act should place emphasis on maintaining a continuum of care for the vulnerable elderly. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to develop linkages with utilization and quality control peer review organizations under the Social Security Act in order to insure the development of community alternatives. Increases the number of programs related to the purposes of the Act, for purposes of Federal agency cooperation. Revises provisions relating to the appointment of members to the Federal Council on Aging. Authorizes appropriations for the Council for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Provides for the annual authorization of appropriations to conduct program and project evaluations in an amount not exceeding one-tenth of one percent of annual funding or $300,000, whichever is lower. Defines the term: (1) "multipurpose senior center" to mean a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, which shall include, but not be limited to, provision of health, social, nutritional and educational services and the provision of facilities for recreational activities for older individuals; and (2) "focal point" to mean a facility established to encourage the maximum collocation and coordination of services for older individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants for: (1) supportive services and senior centers; (2) congregate nutrition services; and (3) home delivered nutrition services. Permits a State to use up to one percent of its allotment for conducting effective demonstration projects in health and nutrition education. Requires a State agency designating an area agency on aging to give the right of first refusal to a unit of general purpose local government when the boundaries of such a unit and the boundaries of the area are reasonably contiguous. Requires area plans: (1) to provide supportive services for families of elderly victims of Alzheimers' disease and other neurological diseases and organic brain disorders; (2) to provide services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (3) in providing services, to give preference to older individuals, especially minorities, with the greatest economic or social needs. Requires an area agency before requesting a waiver of any requirements for furnishing services to conduct a public hearing. Repeals the authority of grant recipients to charge for meals. Permits grant recipients to request voluntary contributions for meals. Requires a State plan to provide that with respect to services for the prevention of elder abuse: (1) the State will identify the public and private nonprofit entities involved in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (2) the State will, based on such identification, determine the extent to which the need for services for the prevention of elder abuse are unmet; (3) the State will establish, in areas where the need for services is unmet, a program for public education to identify and prevent elder abuse, receive reports of elder abuse, and refer complaints to law enforcement agencies; (4) the State will not permit involuntary or coerced participation in the program of services by alleged victims, abusers, or their households; and (5) all information gathered shall remain confidential unless all parties to the complaint agree to the release of the information, except that the information may be released to a law enforcement agency. Requires a State plan to provide assurances that each State will: (1) provide inservice training opportunities for personnel of agencies and programs funded under the Act; and (2) assign personnel to provide State leadership in developing legal assistance programs for the elderly throughout the State. Requires each State to establish at least one demonstration project for health and nutrition education to be conducted by one or more area agencies on aging. Limits State expenditures for plan administration to an amount not exceeding five percent of its allotment or $500,000, whichever is greater, except that in the case of Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the amount shall be five percent or $200,000, whichever is greater. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for the surplus commodities program under the Act. Prohibits State agencies and area agencies on aging from requesting information or data of providers which is not pertinent to a payment made under the Act. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States with approved State plans for: (1) supportive services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (2) inservice training and State leadership for legal assistance activities. Revises provisions relating to training, research, and discretionary projects and programs. Authorizes appropriations for such projects and programs for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. States that the purpose of such projects and programs is to expand the knowledge and understanding of aging and the aging process, to design and test innovative ideas in programs and services for older individuals, and to help meet the needs for trained personnel in the field of aging. Directs the Commissioner to administer such projects and programs through the Administration on Aging. Provides for the special consideration of Alzheimers' disease with respect to such projects and programs. Provides for the dissemination of information with respect to project results. Directs the Commissioner, upon request, to provide assistance to State agencies on aging, to work in conjunction with State protective service agencies so as not to duplicate activities already undertaken by such protective service agencies, for the provision of technical assistance and development of training materials for personnel in State and area agencies who are engaged or intend to engage in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse. Limits to 12 percent of Federal funding the amount which shall be available for the costs of administration of a State's older American community service employment program. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate such employment program with programs of the Job Training Partnership Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, and the Vocational Education Act of 1984, if the Secretary determines that to do so would increase job opportunities available under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Requires each State receiving funds under the older American community service employment program to report to the Secretary annually concerning the equitable distribution of funds within the State. Authorizes appropriations for such employment program for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants to Indian tribes under the Act. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to add to the definition of the term "employee." States that such term includes any individual who is a U.S. citizen employed by an employer in a workplace in a foreign country. Provides that the provisions of such Act shall not prohibit the compulsory retirement of any employee between 65 and 70 years of age who, between the two year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit of at least $44,000. (Current law provides that the benefit must be at least $27,000.)
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984
Texas Wilderness Act of 1984 - Designates the following lands in Texas as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Turkey Hill Wilderness in the Angelina National Forest; (2) the Upland Island Wilderness in the Angelina National Forest; (3) the Big Slough Wilderness in the Davy Crockett National Forest; (4) the Indian Mounds Wilderness in the Sabine National Forest; and (5) the Little Lake Creek Wilderness in the Sam Houston National Forest. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire lands within the Indian Mounds and Upland Island Wilderness Areas owned by Temple-Eastex Incorporated by exchange. Requires the Secretary to terminate any existing timber sales contracts within the boundaries of the Indian Mounds, Upland Island, and Little Lake Creek Wilderness Areas without cost to the buyer. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Texas shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Texas which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending revision of initial forest management plans. Releases lands in Texas reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Texas without express congressional authorization.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984
United States-Mexican Border Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 to carry out grants for public works and development facilities, with specified amounts earmarked for grants for health projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 for: (1) public works and development facility loans and for business loans and loan guarantees; (2) the redevelopment area loan program; (3) technical assistance and economic development planning, with specified amounts earmarked for grants to the States; (4) supplemental and basic grants to the States; (5) certain economic development districts; and (6) special economic development and adjustment assistance. Limits the percentage of special economic development and adjustment assistance funds that may be expended in areas suffering from the effects of extraordinary, severe and temporary natural conditions and in areas suffering from the effects of foreign currency devaluations, unless the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) determines that additional funds are necessary. Extends the job opportunities program through FY 1987. Title II: Technical Trade Assistance - Border Communities' Trade Capacities Expansion Act of 1984 - Authorizes any community affected by extraordinary, severe temporary natural conditions and foreign currency devaluation to file with the Secretary a petition for certification for technical assistance. Permits the petition to be filed by one or more affected communities or by the Governor of the State in which the affected community is located. Provides for investigation of such petition. Requires the Secretary, within 60 days of the filing of the petition, to certify an affected community as eligible for technical assistance if the Secretary determines that extraordinary, severe temporary natural conditions and foreign currency devaluation have contributed importantly to a decline in sales or production in the affected community. Directs the Secretary, if a petitioner meets such requirements, to: (1) determine whether there are any other affected communities located in the same area in which the petitioner is located which meet such requirements; and (2) after consulting with the Secretary of Labor, establish the size and boundaries of each impacted area. Provides for termination of the certificate of eligibility if the Secretary determines that no additional assistance is necessary for an impacted area. Requires the Secretary, within 60 days after a community is certified, to: (1) inform officials and other residents of affected communities of benefits available; and (2) assist such officials and residents in developing and planning programs to increase such localities' foreign trade capacity. Directs the Secretary to establish an Area Council for Technical Assistance for each impacted area or to designate an appropriate entity as the Council for an area. Requires the Council to develop a proposal for a technical assistance plan and to coordinate community action under the plan. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to such Council. Authorizes the Council to apply to the Secretary for technical assistance. Declares that technical assistance shall consist of: (1) assistance to an affected community in developing a proposal for increasing its foreign trade capacity; (2) assistance in the implementation of such a plan; and (3) such additional assistance as the Secretary determines appropriate. Prohibits technical assistance unless the Secretary approved the technical assistance plan. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: United Services Customs Service - Amends the Customs Procedural Reform Simplification Act of 1978 to prohibit paying administrative expenses in connection with reducing employment in the U.S. Customs Service below the level of December 31, 1983. Title IV: Enterprise Zones - Border Aid Enterprise Zone Act of 1984 - Subtitle A: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this title. Requires State and local governments to nominate areas for such designation. Limits the period during which such designations shall remain in effect. Prohibits a designation as an enterprise zone from taking effect until the State or local government submits to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development an inventory of historic properties within such area. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the local government; (2) the boundary of the area is contiguous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000 if any portion thereof is located within a standard metropolitan statistical area (within a population of at least 50,000) or 1,000 otherwise, or is within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements and the area suffers from significant economic difficulties resulting from the decline in value of a foreign currency. Requires nominating State and local governments, as a condition of designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, or receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit to the Congress every four years a report on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this title be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that designation of an enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Exempts enterprise zones from certain requirements relating to Federal environmental policy. Subtitle B: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Part I: Credits for Employers and Employees - Allows employers located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit for increased employment expenditures and employment of the disadvantaged. Allows a three-year carryback and 15-year carryover of such credit. Sets the amount of such credit at ten percent of the increase in payroll (taking into account a maximum of $17,500 in wages per year per employee) plus 50 percent of the wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first three years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages taken into account for such credit. Allows employees located in enterprise zones a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to five percent of qualified wages earned per year (taking into account a maximum of $10,500 in wages per year). Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Requires each employer of employees located in enterprise zones to furnish employees with a written statement showing the amount of qualified wages paid by the employer to each such employee. Part II: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for investment in certain tangible property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property and ten percent for new zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be predominantly used in the zone, be purchased after zone designation, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Part III: Reduction in Capital Gain Tax Rates - Reduces the capital gains tax of a corporation on the capital gains attributable to the sale or exchange of qualified enterprise zone property made after the enterprise zone designation. Disallows certain capital gains or losses attributable to the sale or exchange of an interest in a qualified enterprise zone business. Qualifies certain rental property located in an enterprise zone for reduced corporate capital gains treatment. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Allows noncorporate taxpayers to deduct from gross income 100 percent of any net capital gain from qualified enterprise zone property. Part IV: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that limitations on the cost recovery deductions for property financed with tax-exempt industrial development bonds shall not apply to enterprise zone property. Provides that the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to industrial development bonds the proceeds of which are used to finance facilities in such enterprise zones. Part V: Sense of the Congress with Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Subtitle C: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions, to include qualified businesses (as defined in Subtitle B of this title), governments, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuation of the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of a rule shall remain in effect as long as the zone designations. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Subtitle D: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that to the maximum extent practicable foreign-trade zones should be established within enterprise zones. Title V: Veterans' Administration - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to submit to Congress, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, a report on the need for a veterans medical facility in southern Texas. Title VI: Farmers Home Administration - Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to fix the amount of the grant for each rural water and waste facility project. Provides for a graduated scale of grant amounts with higher grants being provided for projects in communities that have lower population and income levels. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use a project selection system to determine on the basis of relative need which applicants shall receive assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to certain rural associations for certain predevelopment costs incurred in connection with the planning and design of community water and waste disposal facilities. Requires such payments to be not less than five percent of any appropriations provided to carry out such projects unless applications for payments total less than five percent of such amount. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to private nonprofit organizations to enable such organizations to provide to rural associations technical assistance to: (1) identify and evaluate solutions to water treatment and waste disposal problems in rural areas; (2) prepare applications for financial assistance; and (3) improve the operation and maintenance practices at existing water treatment or waste disposal plants in rural areas. Requires such payments to be not less than two percent of the appropriations provided to carry out such projects unless applications for payments total less than two percent of such amount. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use a project selection system to determine which applicants for financial assistance for essential community facilities shall be selected. Sets forth provisions of such selection system. Sets the interest rate for water and waste disposal facility loans at: (1) not more than five percent in areas where the median family income is below 80 percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan median family income; and (2) not more than seven percent in areas where such income level is less than 100 percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan median family income. Requires the interest rate on loans for such facilities and for essential community facilities to be the lower of either the rate in effect at the time of the loan approval or the rate in effect at the time of the loan closing. Amends business and industry loan provisions to give priority to areas of economic distress. Provides for the recapture of low-income farm ownership loans when a borrower sells such property. States that these loans constitute a secured debt. Permits borrowers of farm ownership, operating, or emergency loans, or loans under the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to use mineral (including oil and gas) rights leasing proceeds (from land used as security for such loans) to make current loan payments. Establishes FY 1984 through 1986 lending limits under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund for real estate loans, farm ownership loans, water development and conservation loans, operating loans, and emergency loans. Allocates specified amounts for insured and guaranteed loans. Authorizes fund transfers. Establishes FY 1984 through 1986 lending limits under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for water and waste disposal loans and for community facility loans. Reserves at least 20 percent of the farm ownership and operating loans for low-income, limited-resource applicants. Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that certain grants by the Secretary of Health and Human Services may cover the costs of repaying loans made by the Farmers Home Administration and other lending institutions for buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1984
National Wildflower Landscaping Act of 1984 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to approve the planting of native wildflowers for landscaping and scenic enhancement of Federal-aid highways.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Civil Rights Act of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination by any recipient of Federal financial assistance. (Currently, discrimination is prohibited only in a program or activity receiving Federal assistance.) Defines the term "recipient" to extend comprehensive coverage for purposes of the four Acts to any State or local governmental unit, any public or private agency or entity, and any subunit successor, assignee, or transferee of any such unit, agency, or entity.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984
Declares two named individuals and their dependent children to have satisfied certain requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to eligibility for naturalization.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1984
White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act - Calls upon the President to conduct a National White House Conference on Small Business, not earlier than January 1, 1985, and not later than September 1, 1986, to: (1) increase public awareness of the contributions of small business; (2) identify small business problems; (3) examine the status of minority and women small business owners; (4) assist small business in carrying out its role as the nation's job creator; (5) develop specific recommendations for executive and legislative action; and (6) review the status of recommendations adopted at the Conference. Authorizes and directs Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to provide support and assistance to the planning of such conference. Requires a final report of the Conference, within six months from the date such conference is convened, to be submitted to the President and the Congress. Requires the Small Business Administration to report annually to the Congress for the next three years following the submission of the final report of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide a duty for naphthas derived from petroleum, shale oil, natural gas or combinations thereof (except motor fuel).
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1984
Requires that all salary adjustment rates of certain Federal judges be paid, as of January 1, 1984, in accordance with the presidential recommendation of August 31, 1983 (Presidential Message No. 74) (thus granting Federal judges the same cost-of-living pay raise Federal officers and employees received on January 1, 1984).
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to request the Secretary General to seek the cooperation of Vietnam with the United States and specified other countries in ascertaining the whereabouts of the crewmen of the sunken U.S. vessel Glomar Java Sea.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1984
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Federal bank regulatory agencies should require their examiners to exercise caution and restraint in adversely classifying loans made to agricultural borrowers.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1984
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for: (1) FY 1985 through 1987 to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities; and (2) FY 1987 through 1989 for the Public Broadcasting Fund used by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Paperwork Reduction Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 to require the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Currently, the Administrator is appointed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.) Requires the Director to: (1) integrate his or her statistical policy and coordination functions under such Act with his or her other information resources management functions; (2) appoint an experienced statistician as a chief statistician; (3) update annually the five-year plan for meeting the Government's automatic data processing and telecommunications needs; (4) set goals of reducing the burden of Federal information collection requirements by at least five percent each year for FY 1984 through 1988; and (5) issue a comprehensive set of information resources management policies and guidelines to implement such policies. Requires the Director to include in the annual report to Congress on Federal information policy activities: (1) a summary of accomplishments and planned initiatives to improve information resources management within agencies; (2) a statement on each agency's initiatives to acquire information technology to improve such management; (3) an analysis of the extent to which the newly issued information management guidelines deter or promote such initiatives; (4) a description of the actions taken or planned to carry out statistical policy and coordination functions; and (5) a description of the status of each major statistical program. Requires the Director, when the President submits the annual budget to Congress for FY 1986, to submit a report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives which describes the funds requested for such fiscal year and the funds allocated to OIRA in the preceding fiscal year for each of specified information resources management functions. Requires the Director to make available to the public a copy of each proposed agency rule or regulation reviewed by OIRA and any material submitted to OIRA by the agency or to the agency by OIRA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 to carry out the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to combine the existing Federal telecommunications and automatic data processing funds into an Information Technology Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund. Directs the Administrator: (1) to determine the cost and capital requirements for the Fund for each fiscal year and submit plans for such requirements to the Director; and (2) if such plans are approved by the Director, to establish rates to be charged to agencies provided information technology resources through the Fund. Permits the Administrator to enter into multiyear contracts for the provision of such resources if: (1) adequate funds are available to pay contract costs for the first fiscal year any costs of cancellation or termination; (2) such a contract is awarded on a fully competitive basis; (3) the Government's need for such resources will continue over the contract period; and (4) use of a multiyear contract will cost less than other acquisition methods and will not exclude small business participation. Requires the Administrator to report to the Director on the operation of the Fund annually. Authorizes the Director to employ up to 20 individuals, without regard to specified provisions of Federal law governing civil service appointments and pay, to carry out OIRA functions.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1984
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to prohibit any Department of Agriculture officer or employee who acts upon or reviews any land purchase loan applications under such Act from acquiring any interest in the land involved for five years.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Impact Aid Authorization Act of 1984 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations through FY 1989 for the impact aid program for federally affected schools. Increases the authority for reimbursements to eligible local educational agencies for revenues lost from federally owned, nontaxable property. Requires the Secretary of Education, not later than November 15, of each year, to publish the percentage change in the price index published for October of the preceding fiscal year and October of the fiscal year in which such publication is made. Bases the amount authorized for such impact aid programs on such percentage change. Limits such percentage change to no more than five percent. Repeals the three-year phaseout of impact aid to federally affected schools whose students' parents either live or work on Federal property. Authorizes appropriations for such impact aid through FY 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Directs the President to: (1) secure from the Southeast Asian nations a full accounting of Americans captured or missing as a result of the Vietnam conflict; and (2) work for the release of Americans listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing-in-action (MIA) and the return of the remains of all American POWs and MIAs who died in Southeast Asia. Requires the President to submit two reports to Congress on the POW/MIA problem.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that nursing care and home health aid services may be provided on a daily basis as home health services for up to 60 days with monthly physician certification of the need for such services, and after the 60 day period, on a physician certification of exceptional circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow married individuals to compute the amount of their income tax deduction for contributions to retirement savings accounts on the basis of the earnings of their spouse.
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