United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1984
United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act - Directs the President, acting through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Information Agency, to provide an undergraduate scholarship program for citizens and nationals of developing countries to study at American institutions of higher education. Requires that half of each payment to a student shall be in the form of a loan with repayment to be forgiven upon the student's prompt return to his or her country of origin for a period of no less than the years spent studying in the United States plus one. Sets forth guidelines for implementing the program. Directs the President, before allocating any funds, to consult with U.S. educational institutions, educational exchange organizations, U.S. missions, and the governments of participating countries on how to implement the guidelines. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements with foreign governments to further the scholarship program. Urges the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in implementing such programs, to increase assistance for undergraduate scholarships for students of limited financial means from developing countries to study in the United States. Urges the President to take steps to expand the opportunities for Americans from all economic classes to study in developing countries. Authorizes the President to establish counseling and orientation services: (1) abroad to prepare foreign students for study in the United States; and (2) at U.S. schools to help them while they are in the United States. Directs the Board of Foreign Scholarships to advise and assist the President in the discharge of programs authorized by this Act. Requires the public and private sectors in the United States to be encouraged to contribute to the costs of the programs financed under this Act. Directs the President to engage the public and private sectors of developing countries in programs to maximize the use of program participants upon their return to their own countries. Authorizes the President to publicize the scholarship program abroad. Authorizes the President to provide English instruction abroad when necessary. Provides for funding to carry out this Act. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on the activities taken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1984
Amends the Federal criminal code to define "armor piercing ammunition." Excludes from the definition: (1) shot gun shot required by Federal or State regulations for hunting; (2) frangible projectiles for target shooting; and (3) projectiles that the Secretary of Treasury determines are primarily intended for sporting purposes. Makes it unlawful for any person to manufacture or import armor piercing ammunition. Allows for: (1) the manufacture or importation of armor piercing ammunition for the use of the United States or any State or local government; and (2) manufacture for the sole purpose of exportation. Establishes a licensing fee of $1,000 per year for manufacturers and importers of armor piercing ammunition. Imposes an additional mandatory sentence of not less than five years for any person who uses or carries a firearm and is in possession of armor piercing ammunition during the commission of a violent felony. Provides that such sentence shall not be suspended nor probation nor parole granted.
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
Medicare and Medicaid Patient Protection Act of 1984 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exclude from participation in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act, and to direct State agencies to exclude from participation in programs under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act, title V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant) of the Act, and title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Act, for a period of not less than five years, any individual or entity that has been convicted of a criminal offense related to such individual's or entity's participation in the delivery of items or services under title XVIII or any such State health care program. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude from participation in Medicare and to direct State agencies to exclude from participation in such State health care programs: (1) any individual or entity convicted of any financial abuse or abuse of patients in connection with the delivery of health care items or services in any publicly operated or financed program; (2) any individual or entity convicted of unlawful manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance; (3) any individual who has had his or her health care license revoked or suspended; (4) any individual suspended or sanctioned under any Federal program involving the provision of health care; (5) any individual or entity that the Secretary determines has knowingly made any false statement in an application for payment under Medicare or a State health care program; (6) any entity whenever the Secretary determines that any person with an ownership or controlling interest in that entity or a managing employee of that entity is a person who has been convicted of specified health care related crimes, fined for specified health care abuses, or denied payment pursuant to this Act; or (7) any individual or entity which fails to supply certain information. Entitles any individual or entity excluded from participation to a hearing. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify each appropriate State agency administering or supervising the administration of a State health care program of the fact and circumstances of each exclusion and of the period for which the State agency shall exclude the individual or entity from health care program participation. Permits the Secretary to waive the requirement to exclude an individual or entity from participation if a waiver request is received from the State. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate State or local licensing authority of the fact of an individual's or entity's exclusion. Permits reinstatement of an individual or entity if there is no basis for continuing the exclusion. Requires a State, under title XIX of the Act, to supply the Secretary information with respect to any health care practitioner or entity against whom a formal proceeding is undertaken by a State licensing authority. Requires each State having a plan approved under title XIX of the Act to have in effect a system of reporting under which the State agency administering Medicaid reports in a timely manner to the Secretary any proceeding commenced against a health care practitioner or entity and any results of such proceedings. Directs the Secretary to maintain a central information system on all such proceedings. Authorizes the Secretary to release information from the system to a State if such information may be useful to the State in determining the fitness of an individual to provide health care services. Establishes as the criminal penalties for violations of this Act the penalties set forth under title XIX of the Act. Sets forth civil penalties. Requires any health care provider providing health care services for which payment may be made under the Act to assure that services or items furnished: (1) will be provided economically and only when, and to the extent, medically necessary; (2) will be quality services which meet professionally recognized standards of health care; and (3) will be supported by evidence of medical necessity and quality in such form and fashion and at such time as may reasonably be required by a reviewing peer review organization in the exercise of its duties and responsibilities. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to permit the Attorney General to suspend or revoke a registration to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance upon a finding that the registrant has been excluded from participation in the Medicare program pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to give an individual or entity six months to correct any deficiencies in meeting the requirements of this Act in any case in which an individual or entity must obtain certification for participation in the programs covered by this Act and such deficiencies do not immediately jeopardize the health and safety of patients.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984
Expresses the sense of Congress that copyright protection is essential for computer software and lack of such protection or the use of other legal protections incorporating compulsory licensing would undermine the computer software industry here and abroad. States that any nation's withdrawal of copyright protection or instigation of broad compulsory licensing of software should be opposed under the Universal Copyright Convention or through other avenues.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1984
Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes a corporation to be known as the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development, with a board of trustees including Native Americans from the private sector, appointed by the President, and Members of Congress. Identifies the Institute's primary functions as: (1) scholarly study and instruction in Native American arts and culture; and (2) the establishment of degree-awarding programs in Native American art and culture. Establishes within the Institute: (1) a Center for Culture and Art Studies; and (2) a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Establishes the Institute as non-profit and tax-exempt. Prohibits the Institute from engaging in any political activity regarding elective public office. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Directs the President of the Institute to submit an annual report to the Congress and the Board. Establishes the Institute of American Indian Arts, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the site of the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984
Uniform Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to withhold five percent in FY 1987, and ten percent in FY 1988, of certain Federal-aid highway funds from States in which the minimum drinking age is less than 21 years.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Reagan administration and succeeding administrations: (1) stress to China the importance the American people attach to religious freedom; and (2) urge the Chinese Government to release from prison five Roman Catholic priests and persons of various faiths who are being held because of religious activities.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in accordance with the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and other specified human rights agreements, the Soviet Union should permit Elena Bonner to obtain medical treatment outside of that country and allow her and Andrei Sakharov to live in the country of their choice. Urges the President to: (1) protest the detention of and charges against Elena Bonner and the continued refusal of an exit visa to her, and to call upon the Soviet Union to meet Doctor Sakharov's hunger strike demands; and (2) call upon other signatory nations of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to join in such protests and urge that the Sakharovs be allowed to emigrate to the country of their choice.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984
Real Property Disposal Policy Act of 1984 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the Administrator of General Services to notify State and local governments and certain institutions that surplus Federal property is being considered for disposal. Requires the Administrator to submit to appropriate congressional committees, executive agencies, and local zoning agencies a description of the real property intended for disposal and of the method of disposal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984
Praises the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal." Designates May 17, 1984, as a national day of commemoration of that decision.
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 · 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 · 12 April 1984
Department of Defense Spare Parts Procurement Improvement Act of 1984 - Requires a defense agency procuring property which will need replacing at a future date to purchase unlimited rights to the technical data relating to such property unless it would be economically disadvantageous to the United States. Requires that such data be available and delivered to the agency within a specified time. Directs a contractor to make available or deliver to the agency all subsequent design changes and revisions in such data. Requires the contractor to certify the data's accuracy and to cure any deficiencies. Suspends progress payments under a contract when the contractor fails to comply with such requirements. Limits the proprietary interest of a contractor in technical data generated in connection with the item to be procured to five years from the date of contract award. Requires the competition advocate of the contracting defense agency to review within four years each designation of proprietary interest. Directs the advocate to remove any inappropriate designations. Requires a bidder to state the extent of the proprietary interest expected to be claimed if awarded a procurement contract. Directs the Secretary of Defense to promulgate regulations determining the manner the Department of Defense negotiates prices with nonproducing suppliers. Requires all suppliers to mark the name of the contractor, the stock number, and the original manufacturer of each item, and to include all technical data. Reduces from $500,000 to $100,000 the amount of a negotiated prime contract which requires the contractor to certify the accuracy of the cost data submitted. Directs the head of each defense agency to designate an advocate for competition to promote competition in the procurement of property and services by such agency through review of activities and opportunities to achieve competition. Directs defense agencies to procure supplies in quantities reflective of agency needs and which offer the total and unit cost most advantageous to the United States. Requires all bidders to state whether the quantity proposed is the most economically advantageous, and, if not, to put forth two quantities which would be more so.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
International Trade and Export Policy Study Commission Act of 1984 - Establishes the International Trade and Export Policy Study Commission which shall be composed of 18 members, six of whom shall be appointed by the President, six by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and six by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sets forth administrative provisions. Requires the Commission to study and make recommendations concerning U.S. international trade and export policies and practices. Requires the Commission, in conducting its study, to review and make recommendations concerning specified items, including: (1) existing impediments to exports by American industries; (2) the information needs of American industry; and (3) methods for improving export incentives for U.S. businesses. Requires the Commission to submit its report to the President and to the Congress by July 1, 1985. Terminates the Commission on such date. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) pursue with the Soviet Union the resolution of concerns over compliance with strategic and other arms control agreements through the Standing Consultative Commission and other diplomatic channels; and (2) continue its commitments under such agreements as long as the Soviet Union continues to observe such agreements, or until a new agreement is concluded. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should consider the impact of any changes to his policy regarding such agreements on the long-term security interests of the United States and its allies.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1984
Copper and Extractive Industries Fair Competition Act of 1984 - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to direct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to present proposals to the Fund's Executive Board to ensure that countries experiencing a shortfall in export earnings from nonfuel, nonmetal or nonferrous metals or minerals may not borrow from the Fund's compensatory financing facility if such shortfall was produced by declining prices of such commodities in surplus on world markets unless the borrowing country agrees to take certain actions to stabilize the market for the commodity. Directs the U.S. Executive Director to vote against providing financing assistance to countries producing surplus commodities before the Executive Board completes action that would implement the limitation on borrowing by such countries. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare quarterly reports for the President and Congress: (1) listing all appraisal reports which have been circulated during the preceding quarter within certain international financial institutions for project assistance to help a country produce a commodity for export if the commodity is in surplus or is likely to be in surplus on world markets at the time the country's productive capacity is expected to become operative and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a competing commodity; and (2) describing requests by any of the major copper producing countries for assistance from the Fund. (Current law requires such a report to be included in the annual report to the Congress of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies.) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. representatives to the international financial institutions to take into account, in their review of the utilization of the resources of their respective institutions, the effect that country adjustment programs would have upon individual industry sectors and international commodity markets in order to: (1) minimize adverse impacts on such sectors or markets; and (2) avoid government subsidization of production and exports of international commodities without regard to economic conditions in markets for such commodities. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to change the standard of proof for import relief from requiring a finding that increased imports are a "substantial" cause or threat of serious injury to domestic industries to requiring a finding that such imports are a cause of such injury. Requires the President, if the President decides not to provide other import relief with the President's discretion, to implement, within 15 days of making such decision, the import relief recommended by the International Trade Commission. Requires the import relief to take effect 90 days after the import relief determination date unless the President announces on such date the intention to negotiate orderly marketing agreements in which case the import relief shall take effect in 120 days. Makes the import relief effective for at least three years. Eliminates the President's authority to reduce or terminate such import relief. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to use the U.S. vote in the Fund to obtain the implementation of policies that would remove hard commodities from eligibility under the compensatory financing facility of the Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1984
Small Business Competition Enhancement Act of 1984 - Amends the Small Business Act to set forth specified evaluation considerations which must be weighed by Federal agencies with respect to solicitations for competitive and noncompetitive awards of development or production contracts for a major system. Provides a waiver for certain evaluation considerations if the contracting officer determines in writing that such requirement would not be applicable to the production contract or would not be in the best interests of the Government. Requires an agency before it can establish any prequalification requirement with respect to the awarding of a contract to: (1) prepare a written justification stating the reasons for the restriction and why free and open competition is not feasible; (2) specify in writing and make available upon request all standards which a contractor, or its product, must meet in order to become qualified; (3) provide an opportunity for a contractor to demonstrate its ability to meet such standards; and (4) inform such contractor as to whether qualification has been attained. Sets forth procedures an agency must follow in the event that the number of available qualified sources or products is less than five. Sets forth additional information which is to be included in all notices of proposed competitive and noncompetitive civilian and defense procurement actions of $10,000 and above. Requires an agency to: (1) publicly post solicitations which would have been synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily if it had equalled or exceeded the applicable dollar threshold for such publication; and (2) make available to small businesses the solicitation package for solicitations posted in abstract form and permit the copying of such solicitation. Declares it to be the policy of the United States that small businesses and small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals shall have to the maximum extent possible the opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts which are in excess of $10,000 and are not for personal services for subsystems, assemblies, components, and related services for major systems. Requires an agency with responsibility for a major system to include provisions relating to specified technical data in all production contracts in order to foster competitive procurement of spare parts requirements to maintain such systems. Provides a waiver for such provisions if the contracting officer determines in writing that any such provision would not be applicable to the production contract or would not be in the best interests of the Government. Requires an agency: (1) within one year after the enactment of this Act, to develop a plan for the management of such technical data received under contracts for the development, production, modification, or maintenance of major systems within its jurisdiction; and (2) within five years after the enactment of this Act, to complete implementation of such management plan and include the technical data for each major system within its jurisdiction. Specifies other matters the management plan shall address. Requires the Comptroller General, not later than 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to transmit to the Congress a report evaluating the plans of specified Federal agencies for the management of technical data for major systems within their jurisdiction. Requires a contracting officer, under specified circumstances, to initiate a review of the validity of restrictions on the Government's rights in technical data furnished under contract. Sets forth procedures for the certification of such restrictions. Requires the Small Business Administration to assign to each major procurement center a breakout procurement center representative who shall: (1) participate in evaluating the maintenance of a major system during its service life and determine whether requirements are to be procured through other than free and open competition; (2) review procurement method codes that restrict competition among small businesses and to request reevaluation of such restrictions by agency personnel; (3) review restrictions on competition that arise out of restrictions on the Government's rights in technical data and, when appropriate, recommend that the contracting officer initiate a review of the validity of such restriction; (4) obtain technical data for the preparation of a competitive solicitation package; and (5) have access to the unclassified procurement records and other data of the procurement center. Directs each agency to assign technical advisors to assist each breakout procurement center representative.
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 · 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 · 12 March 1984
Amends the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act to direct the Secretary of the military department concerned to honor court orders for child support or alimony through payments from the disposable military pension of the member of the armed forces concerned without regard to whether or not the court order specifies that such payments be made from such pension.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Declares that all Federal right, title, and interest in specified lands is held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior for the Pueblo de Cochiti (New Mexico). Directs the Secretary to conduct a cadastral survey of such lands. Declares such lands to be part of the Pueblo Reservation and prohibits their development for uses other than those existing on the date this Act is enacted. States that permittees of such lands who are not members of the Pueblo shall be given the opportunity to renew their permits in the same manner as appropriate before enactment of this Act. Sets the term for permits renewed under this Act at 30 years or the death of the permittee, whichever occurs later. Allows the spouse or children of a deceased permittee to assume the permit for the balance of the thirty-year period upon notice to the Pueblo and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Declares that if the Pueblo obtains relinquishment of a certain number of grazing permits in the portion of the Caja del Rio allotment in the Santa Fe National Forest that overlaps the Santa Cruz Spring Tract, then the remaining permittees in that overlap area shall lose their interests and all rights to renew their permits. Preserves the grazing rights of remaining permittees within the portion of the Caja del Rio allotment which does not overlap the Santa Cruz Spring Tract. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to deposit all permit fees into the Treasury to the credit of the Pueblo. Authorizes the Pueblo to: (1) obtain relinquishment of permits on specified lands; and (2) grant in consideration of such relinquishments, agricultural or grazing leases or permits to existing permittees on other Pueblo Reservation lands for a maximum 50-year term. Subjects such grants to the Secretary's approval. Requires the Secretary to give full recognition to all land interests acquired by the Department of the Army in the Cochiti Lake project under specified Memoranda of Agreement and through fee acquisition, until such time as the project is deauthorized by Congress. Directs the Secretary to grant easements for access to specified lands. States that the fees charged for utility easements shall not exceed current Federal rates for such easements. Declares the water rights appurtenant to specified lands shall be those in existence under State law on the date this Act is enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Earmarks certain housing funds for energy conservation projects only. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a water supply and flood control project for the Santa Margarita River, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes improvements to existing military family housing units. Earmarks certain housing funds for energy conservation projects only. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units as specified. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Amends the Military Construction Authorizations Act, 1984, to increase the authorizations level for defense agency construction in FY 1984. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total cost of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1986 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the ceiling on facility acquisitions which the Secretary of Defense may make using funds available for operations and maintenance. Expands the authority of the Secretary to contribute funds to a State for arms storage rooms to encompass any critical portion of State facilities related to a Federal military mission. Title VIII: General Provisions - Expands the liability of a member of the armed forces for damage to housing, equipment, and furnishing to include damage to an unaccompanied personnel housing unit as well as to a family unit. Permits the Secretary to establish limitations of liability or to compromise or waive claims. Sets 75 percent as an absolute rather than a ceiling for the amount of a member's basic allowance for quarters which will be charged when a member with dependents occupies a substandard family housing unit under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a military department. Treats land acquisition projects involving condemned lands the same as all other land acquisition projects conducted by a military department. Increases from five to 12 the percent of available real property funds a Secretary of a military department may use to acquire options. Authorizes a Secretary of a military department to use operation and maintenance or construction funds to restore land to a condition required by another military department or Federal agency which has permitted such land to the department. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to exchange specified lands with the Colorado Board of Land Commissioners to acquire title to or interests in lands in the vicinity of Consolidated Space Operations Center, Falcon Air Force Station, Colorado. Expands the Secretary of Defense's emergency construction authority to activate it whenever the President determines an imminent threat to the national security exists such that current facilities would be inadequate to meet a mobilization effort. Terminates such authority in six months or at the end of a declared war or national emergency. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress when contract cost variations are in excess of 25 percent of funds appropriated for the project and the total cost under the contract exceeds the maximum amount for a minor military construction project. Eliminates the 21-day congressional notice period before emergency or contingency military construction may proceed, but requires the Secretary to submit a detailed report to Congress on such projects prior to the obligation of funds. Title IX - Authorizes appropriations for military construction for FY 1986.
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
Declares that Congress asks the American people to take cognizance of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome on June 2 through June 3, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the President should submit a revised budget proposal containing specific provisions to reduce the Federal deficit by a total of at least $200,000,000,000 over the next three fiscal years. Calls for the Congress to act expeditiously through legislative procedures to consider such proposals and enact a deficit reduction package.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Makes a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for FY 1984 to carry out the famine relief provisions (title II) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480).
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
States that the President should: (1) renew the agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on space cooperation for peaceful purposes; (2) initiate talks with the Soviet Union and other interested governments on opportunities for cooperative East-West space ventures as an alternative to an arms race in space; and (3) submit to the Congress a report detailing the steps taken in pursuance of these goals.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Computer Crime Prevention Act of 1984 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for using or attempting to use certain computers with intent to defraud or obtain property by false pretenses. Limits the kinds of computers covered by this Act to those operating in interstate commerce or operating on behalf of the Federal Government or a financial institution, where the prohibited conduct directly affects the computer operation. Makes it a separate offense to damage or destroy such a computer or to alter or delete any computer program or data stored in such a computer without authorization. Establishes criminal penalties for any person who buys, procures, or sells the password or access code for a computer with the purpose to defraud or obtain money by false pretenses. Sets forth a fine of not more than three times the amount of the gain derived from the offense or $50,000, whichever is higher, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. Makes it a federal offense to use such computer without authorization. Sets forth a fine for unauthorized use of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Domestic Petroleum Company Acquisition Act of 1984 - Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit: (1) any major energy concern or affiliate from acquiring voting securities that would provide ownership or control of a domestic petroleum company; and (2) any domestic petroleum company or affiliate from acquiring, owning, or controlling any major energy concern or affiliate. Defines a "major energy concern" as any person engaged in commerce in the United States: (1) whose average net production of crude oil in the previous calendar year exceeded 500,000 barrels per day; or (2) who is under the control of one or more foreign persons. Authorizes the Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commission, or any aggrieved person to bring an action in the appropriate U.S. district court to enjoin such prohibited acts. Provides that temporary or permanent injunctive relief shall be granted upon proper showing. Provides that this Act shall not apply to an acquisition if the parties show that the transaction: (1) is likely to result in a material increase in new energy exploration, extraction, production, or conversion that cannot be achieved otherwise; or (2) is necessary to prevent one or both of the parties from becoming bankrupt.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Declares U.S. policy toward Lebanon should include: (1) the prompt withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from the multinational force in Lebanon; (2) a diplomatic effort at the United Nations to replace the multinational force with another peacekeeping force, preferably under U.N. auspices; (3) advising Lebanon of their need to develop a plan which recognizes the aspirations of all groups there; (4) development of diplomatic efforts with Syria to achieve acceptance by Syria of a reconciliation plan for Lebanon; (5) promotion of a dialog between Israel and Lebanon concerning security arrangements and a reconciliation plan for Lebanon; (6) continuation of other efforts to achieve the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon and the reestablishment of a sovereign Lebanon; (7) renewal of efforts to pursue a broader Middle East peace; (8) intensification of U.S. efforts to retrain and reequip the Lebanese Armed Forces; (9) implementation of an economic assistance program for the reconstruction and development of Lebanon; and (10) implementation of military contingency plans to protect U.S. interests from terrorist attacks.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Commends the President for his support for specified confidence building measures between the United States and the Soviet Union. Urges the President to pursue negotiations with the Soviet Union concerning such measures, adding to such negotiations the establishment of nuclear risk reduction centers in both countries.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for seven years, until December 31, 1990, the period during which mortgage revenue bonds may be issued as tax-exempt bonds (interest excluded from gross income).
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Amends veterans' hospitalization benefits to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to carry out a screening and treatment program for eligible veterans suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Permits the furnishing of hospital or nursing home care to certain afflicted veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Continues to apply after FY 1983 the certification requirements of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 which relate to El Salvador until Congress enacts new legislation providing conditions for U.S. military assistance to El Salvador or until September 30, 1984, whichever occurs first.
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