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United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1983
Designates the week of January 22 through January 28, 1984 as National Meat Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President shall reorganize the Children's Bureau and provide such administrative powers as are necessary for it to: (1) gather extensive data on the status of children (and child health) and on the impact of Federal programs on that status; and (2) prepare and submit to the Congress an annual report on the status of children.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Amends the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase Federal school meal (lunch and breakfast) reimbursement. Amends the National School Lunch Act to provide funds to the States for donated commodity storage and transportation. Eliminates the tie between eligibility for such program and for the food stamp program. Delays the requirement that local school authorities verify application information until the completion of an Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 pilot study. Excludes certain medical expenses from household income for program eligibility purposes. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price lunches. Increases the number of reimbursable meals and snacks under the child care food program. Amends such Acts to eliminate private school tuition eligibility limits. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit all kindergarten children in nonprofit schools to participate in the special milk program. Increases reimbursement amounts for breakfast nutrition improvement. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price breakfasts. Makes the existing nutrition education authorization permanent.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) urge the Council of European Community Ministers to reject their Commission's proposals that seek to shift to other countries the financial burden of disposing of their agricultural surpluses; and (2) continue to oppose proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) modifications that would adversely affect the access of U.S. agricultural exports to European Community markets. States, also, that if the European Community adopts such proposed CAP modifiestions, then it is the House's sense that measures should be implemented to protect U.S. trade interests.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1983
Condemns the Soviet Union's systematic disregard for human life and liberties and urges the President to: (1) proclaim May 28, 1984, as a day to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the original resolution on the Ukrainian famine in the House of Representatives; (2) call the attention of the world to the Soviet policies which caused Ukrainian deaths by famine during 1932 through 1933; and (3) urge the Soviet Union to remove restrictions on the shipment of food and other necessities to Soviet citizens by private individuals and charitable organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation to assist in the development of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Designates July 20, 1984, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Requests the President to designate October 2 through 9, 1983 National Schoolbus Safety Week of 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1983
Amends a specified Act to provide that any widowed spouse (currently, only a widow who has not remarried) of a former employee of the Lighthouse Service may receive an annuity. Increases such annuity from $100 per month to $422 per month and any lawful additional amount.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1983
Emergency Feed Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit farmers and ranchers to qualify for disaster assistance whether or not their counties have been designated as disaster areas. States that during the period July 1, 1983 through September 30, 1984, findings of the Secretary of Agriculture under such Act that a natural disaster exists in an area shall be deemed as determinations that an emergency exists for purposes of: (1) reserve wheat and feed grain inventories under the Agricultural Act of 1970; (2) the livestock and poultry emergency feed program under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977; and (3) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) surplus feed sales. Directs the Secretary to make such disaster assistance available for the preservation of foundation herds of livestock and poultry until September 30, 1984, or earlier as the Secretary may determine.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1983
Designates October 1, 1983, the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Expresses Congress' outrage over the assassination of Benigno Aquino and conveys its sympathy to the Aquino family and Philippine people. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the restoration of democracy and human rights in the Philippines would be the most fitting memorial to Benigno Aquino and urges the United States to support Filipinos who share his commitment to peaceful change; and (2) the President should not visit the Philippines until there has been an accounting of the Aquino assassination and until his security can be guaranteed.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) U.S. negotiators, in negotiations with Japan, should insist that Japan dismantle all nontariff barriers to imports of beef; and (2) if progress is not made toward the dismantling of such nontariff barriers by a specified time, the U.S. Trade Representative should seek appropriate relief under U.S. and international trade law.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Terminates the annuity of a retired Federal employee or Member of Congress on the date the Office of Personnel Management determines such person to be missing. Authorizes payment of a survivor annuity to an individual who would be entitled to an annuity upon the death of such employee or Member if OPM is not notified of the reappearance of such employee or Member within six months after such date. Terminates such a survivor annuity if OPM receives notice that such employee or Member has reappeared and requires the amount of the survivor annuity paid to be deducted from any accrued annuity owed to such employee or Member. Prohibits the payment of any portion of the annuity of such a missing employee or Member pursuant to any court order, other than an order to enforce this Act. Terminates the annuity of a survivor determined to be missing.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Requests the President to proclaim the month of September 1983 National Sickle-Cell Anemia Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should use his authority to designate farming communities especially hard-hit by the current drought as eligible for Federal disaster assistance. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration should use their existing authorities to assist farmers in drought areas and to strengthen U.S. agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1983
Title I: Short Title - Declares that this Act may be cited as the National Productivity and Innovation Act of 1983. Title II: Joint Research and Development Ventures - Provides that no joint research and development program shall be deemed illegal per se in any action under the antitrust laws. Limits to actual damages, interest thereon, and the cost of suit the amount that any person or State may recover in an antitrust action based on conduct that is part of such a program and that has been disclosed to the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Authorizes any individual participating in such a program to file with the Attorney General and the Commission a notification describing the program and specifying conduct to be performed under the program. Directs the Commission to publish in the Federal Register a notice of each such notification, including a description of the participants, the program, and its objectives. Declares that material submitted as part of such notification shall be available to the public upon request, unless the Attorney General or the Commission determines that the individual who submitted the notification shows good cause for not disclosing certain material. Allows an individual to withdraw a filed notification before it is published and accompanying material is made publicly available. Exempts actions and determinations of the Attorney General or the Commission concerning such notifications or antitrust actions or investigations from judicial review. Title III: Intellectual Property Licensing Under the Antitrust Laws - Amends the Clayton Act to provide that agreements to convey rights to use, practice, or sublicense patented inventions, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, know-how, or other intellectual property shall not be deemed illegal per se in actions under the antitrust laws. Limits to actual damages, interest thereon, and the cost of suit the amount that any person or State may recover in an antitrust action based on such an agreement. Title IV: Patent and Copyright Misuse - Prohibits a patent or copyright owner who is entitled to relief for patent or copyright infringement from being denied relief or being deemed guilty of misuse or illegal extension of the patent right or copyright by reason of doing any of the following, unless such conduct violates the antitrust laws: (1) licensing the patent or copyright under terms that affect commerce outside the scope of its claims; (2) restricting a licensee in the sale of a patented or copyrighted product; (3) obligating a licensee to pay excessive royalties, royalties that differ from those paid by other licensees, or royalties not related to a licensee's sale of the patented or copyrighted product; (4) refusing to license a patent or copyright to any person; or (5) otherwise using the patent or copyright allegedly to suppress competition. Title V: Process Patents - Requires a process patent to grant the patentee the right to exclude others from using or selling products produced by that process. Includes as patent infringement the unauthorized use or sale of a product of a patented process. Places the burden of proving that a product was not produced by the patented process on the defendant in a patent infringement action if the court finds that: (1) a substantial likelihood exists that the product was produced by that process; and (2) the claimant has exhausted all reasonable means of determining the process used and was unable to make such determination.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1983
Small Business Capital Formation and Inventory Simplification Tax Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business corporations an income tax deduction for dividends paid during the taxable year. Limits such deduction to $250,000. Requires that such dividends be paid in cash, be pro rata, and not be in redemption or liquidation. Disallows such deductions for: (1) certain insurance companies; (2) regulated investment companies and real estate trusts; (3) certain domestic corporations with operations in Puerto Rico; (4) domestic international sales corporations; (5) cooperatives; and (6) certain service corporations. Disallows such deductions for corporations which pay 20 percent or more of their dividends to tax-exempt organizations or certain trusts. Eliminates the qualification requirement for the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method of accounting that a taxpayer use no inventory method for financial reporting or credit purposes other than the LIFO method. Allows a taxpayer who adopts the LIFO method to spread increases in taxable income attributable to such change over a ten-year period. Allows an election by small businesses which use the dollar method of pricing inventories under the LIFO method and which have average annual receipts of $4,000,000 or less for the three taxable years ending with the year of election to use one inventory pool for any trade or business. Permits a wholesaler or retailer who uses such method to elect the use of inventory pools based on the applicable Government price index categories for all items of inventory. Allows the use of such index categories in the pricing of inventories under such dollar-value methods. Allows an election to use a link chain or index method to compute the LIFO value of dollar-value pool without regard to suitability or practicality of any other method. Repeals the requirement, with respect to liquidation plans adopted after December 31, 1983, that a corporation inventorying goods under the LIFO method treat the LIFO recapture amount with respect to distributed inventory assets as ordinary income. Allows an election by small businesses which are at least half- owned by active participants in the trade or business and which have average annual gross receipts of $1,500,000 or less for the three taxable years ending with the year of election to use the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting without regard to any inventory requirements. Increase to 80 percent the rate of the capital gains tax deduction for new issues of domestic corporate stock which are held by a taxpayer for at least five years. Eliminates the dollar limitation on the amount of used property for which the investment tax credit is allowable.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to extend by three months the cutoff date for disability determinations which will be subject to provisions allowing the continued payment of disability benefits during an administrative appeal.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1983
Designates the week of October 17 through October 24, 1983, as National Adult Continuing Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1983
States that the United States: (1) condemns the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 7 and calls for an explanation from the Soviets; (2) extends its sympathies to the families who lost loved ones and supports their rights to obtain compensation from the Soviets; (3) calls on the Soviets to assist in the recovery of the remains of the victims; (4) reaffirms the actions against Aeroflot and calls for an international investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization; (5) urges the international community to demand that the Soviets modify its air defense procedures to assure the safety of commercial airliners; (6) urges other nations to join the United States in applying sanctions against Soviet civil aviation; (7) notes that Soviet refusal of responsibility raises doubts among the world community over the Soviet's willingness to behave as a responsible member of the international community; and (8) urges our allies to cooperate with the United States in implementing additional sanctions against the Soviet's until certain conditions are met.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates August 4, 1984, as Coast Guard Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the Sabine River Authority of Texas specified Federal lands located within the Sabine National Forest in Texas and within the project boundary of the Toledo Bend Dam and Reservoir, Louisiana and Texas. Conditions conveyance upon use of such lands only for purposes of the Toledo Bend project. Reverts ownership to the United States if such lands are used for any other purpose. Reserves all mineral rights in such lands to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Accounting Cost Recovery Simplification Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a recovery account system for calculating the depreciation deduction under the accelerated cost recovery system for three and five year personal property. Determines the recovery deduction each year by computing a percentage of the amount in the recovery account. Sets forth rules and guidelines for the maintenance and operation of the recovery accounts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Amends the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to make permanent the provisions of title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act concerning benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Pension Correction Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers to make certain retroactive changes in pension plans if a short form amendment incorporating specific changes in the Internal Revenue Code is adopted by reference and notice is provided to the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides for any extension for a period of five years to any participant loan entered into prior to August 12, 1982 and by its terms was due and payable before August 13, 1985. Repeals the ten percent penalty on distributions made to key employees of a top-heavy plan prior to age 59 1/2 by reason other than death or disability. Changes the vesting requirements for top-heavy plans from six year graded vesting to 11 year graded vesting. Repeals requirements which impose a lower benefit limitation on top-heavy plans in which 90 percent or more of the aggregate benefits are received by key employees. Exempts from the limitation on estate tax exclusions amounts received from a qualified plan to the extent such amount is attributable to an irrevocable election made before January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates March 23, 1984, as National Energy Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates the week of September 25 through October 1, 1983 as National Rehabilitation Facilities Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates the week of October 2 through October 8, 1983, as National Port Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing before November 1, 1983, the second scheduled 50-cent milk producer assessment (otherwise effective September 1, 1983, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982).
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates September 5, 1983, as National Beale Street, Home-of-the-Blues Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Urges the Secretary of Education to postpone further action on the reorganization of certain programs in the Department of Education until a study by the General Accounting Office determines that such reorganization would not reduce the ability of the Department to achieve the goals intended by Congress when it authorized the affected programs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Designates the week of October 3 through October 9, 1983, as National Productivity Improvement Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States shall call upon El Salvador to: (1) appoint a special prosecuting attorney to investigate those responsbile for the murders of four American churchwomen; and (2) bring the accused to trial by December 2, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1983
Competition in Television Production Act - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from repealing, amending, or otherwise modifying specified rules regarding network television syndication, network television financial interests, and prime time access before July 1, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of hepatitis B vaccination and its administration for end stage renal disease patients.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make an earlier announcement than is required under current law of any acreage limitation or set-aside program established for the 1984 or 1985 crop of feed grains or the 1985 crop of wheat.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Malt Beverage Interbrand Competition Act - Declares that no antitrust law shall prohibit the importer, brewer, or trademark licensee of a trademarked malt beverage, when such beverage has substantial competition from other malt beverages in an area, from: (1) entering into an agreement granting a wholesale distributor the exclusive right to sell such beverage within any defined geographic area within a State; or (2) limiting such distributor to the sale of such beverage for ultimate resale to consumers in such area. Declares that this Act shall not affect any provision of State law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Designates the week of November 27 through December 3, 1983, as National Entomology Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1983
Unfair Trade Remedies Simplification Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow petitioners to elect a "fast track" procedure when filing a petition with the Department of Commerce (the Department) in antidumping and countervailing duties cases. Eliminates preliminary determinations by the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Department in such cases and provides a timetable within which determinations under the fast track procedure must be made. Establishes within the Department the Small Business International Trade Advocate Office (Advocate) which shall assist small businesses in the preparation for, and participation in, any proceedings related to the administration of the U.S. trade laws (including arguing on behalf of petitioners who are financially unable to prosecute antidumping and countervailing duties investigations). Provides that the Advocate may request the ITC to conduct on behalf of small businesses no more than three fact-finding investigations in a given fiscal year. Requires the Advocate each fiscal year to report its activities to the specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Eliminates the judicial review of antidumping and countervailing duties cases by the U.S. Court of International Trade. Provides such review by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Capital Formation Tax Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the income tax deduction for net capital gains to 80 percent on the sale of stock if the following requirements are met: (1) the stock must be purchased through an initial stock offering; (2) the stock must be purchased from the initial offeror, underwriter, broker, or agent; (3) the stock must represent contributions to capital or paid-in surplus; and (4) the stock must have been held for at least five years at the time of the sale or exchange.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a percentage depletion rate of 15 percent (up to 1,000 barrels a day) for secondary and tertiary production shall be allowed independent producers and royalty owners after 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee Act of 1983 - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to state that the number of local agricultural stabilization and conservation committees in a county shall not be fewer than existed as of December 31, 1980. Requires with regard to such committees that: (1) all members, as of January 1, 1984, be elected to three-year terms; and (2) they meet at least four times a year. Sets forth committee duties and makes them effective as of January 1, 1984. Expands the Secretary of Agriculture's authority to use local and county committees. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require the Secretary to pay: (1) travel expenses for members of State, county, and local committees; and (2) hourly compensation for work actually performed by county members (at GS-11 rate) and by local members (at GS-9 rate).
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) proclaim his intention to establish a Productivity and Quality Award to be made to businesses, workers, other individuals, and public sector organizations that make major contributions toward sustained improvement in productivity and quality performance; and (2) establish a President's interagency Productivity and Quality Award Committee to recommend criteria for such awards and to design certificates and medals of commendation for presentation to award recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1983
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to require that benefit payments to a person other than the individual entitled to such payments be made on the basis of an investigation and on the basis of adequate evidence that such payments are in the interest of the individual so entitled, unless the benefit recipient is a relative of such individual or such individual is legally incompetent or a drug addict or alcoholic. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system of accountability monitoring whereby a person receiving benefit payments to which another individual is entitled shall report annually (or more frequently if required by the Secretary) on the use of such payments, unless such person is a relative of and lives in the same household as such individual. Directs the Secretary to monitor and periodically review a statistically significant number of all payments made under titles II and XVI in order to ensure that payments are being made to the proper parties and to determine whether payee changes must be made. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress annually on the payment review and on cases involving inappropriate payees. Imposes criminal penalties on recipients of supplemental security income to which another individual is entitled if such recipients are convicted of fraud.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1983
Alien Education Assistance Act - Title I: General Provisions - Defines "alien children" as aliens to whom State or local educational agencies (SEAs or LEAs) provide educational services, including Cuban and Haitian refugee children (as defined under the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for payments to which SEAs are entitled under this Act and payments for State administrative costs. Reserves up to one percent of such funds for grants to specified territories and possessions of the United States in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of Education. Reserves up to one percent of such funds for payments for State administrative costs. Sets forth provisions relating to withholding of payments. Permits classroom facilities obtained by an LEA with assistance under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to be used in any fiscal year for educational services of alien children if the number of alien children enrolled in the elementary or secondary public schools under the jurisdiction of such agency during that fiscal year is equal to at least 500 or at least five percent of the total number of students enrolled in such schools. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to SEAs for FY 1984 through 1986 to assist LEAs to provide basic education for alien children. Bases the amount of such a grant to an SEA on the number of alien children in the public schools multiplied by the average per pupil exepnditure in the State, or $1,000, whichever is less. Sets forth requirements for applications by SEAs for such grants and for payments by the Secretary to SEAs having applications approved.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1983
Designates the week beginning August 7, 1983, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Public Works Investment Incentive Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, upon State application and after a certain finding by the National Infrastructure Commission (the Commission), to allocate to the State funds for the establishment of a State Infrastructure Bank. Provides for Commission review of applications. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1993. Requires the Commission to withdraw grant approval from States which fail to maintain their public works financing program as originally proposed. Establishes State Infrastructure Banks to make loans to State and local governments for public works projects and to provide them with interest subsidies for bond issues. Provides for the division of funds to such Banks. Provides rules regarding loans made for public capital investment projects. Establishes a formula for apportioning sums among the States. Establishes a National Infrastructure Commission. States the functions of the Commission shall be to insure: (1) acceptable accounting procedures among such infrastructure banks; (2) annual audits; (3) fund use limited to infrastructure investment; and (4) repayment of loans made. Authorizes the Commission to provide technical information on financial management upon request. Authorizes the Board of Directors to employ an Executive Director and authorizes expenses for the Commission and its staff. Requires the Commission to submit to Congress an annual report which should include the following: (1) a summary of municipal bond sales for various public works areas; (2) a summary of amount and type of direct Federal assistance to States for public works; and (3) an assessment of the total public investments. Provides further that such report should also include a State-by-State summary of capital investment and spending.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
National Commission on Neurofibromatosis Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within 60 days a National Commission on Neurofibromatosis which shall formulate a plan to identify the research needed to develop an effective treatment and a cure for neurofibromatosis. Sets forth operating and related provisions. Authorizes the Commission to transmit interim reports. Requires the Commission to make a final report to the President and to each House of Congress within two years. Terminates the Commission three months after submission of the final report.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Designates the week of September 18-24, 1983, as Cystic Fibrosis Week.