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United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1987
Expresses the Senate's profound sorrow and regret at the death of economist Walter Wolfgang Heller.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the prohibition against indirect income tax deductions through pass-through entities shall not apply to any regulated investment company whose shares are: (1) continuously offered pursuant to a public offering; (2) regularly traded on an established securities market; or (3) held by or for at least 500 persons at all times during the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1987
Agricultural Producer and Farm Credit System Borrower Act of 1987 - Title I: Farm Credit System Liability and Insurance - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to provide that after December 31, 1992: (1) each Farm Credit System (FCS) institution shall be individually liable for its notes and other obligations; and (2) FCS institutions will no longer be jointly and severally liable. Establishes a Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (Corporation) which shall insure the full payment of FCS institution interest and principal. States that the Farm Credit Reserve Fund Board (established by this Act) shall act as the Corporation's board of directors until its termination, upon which the Farm Credit Administration Board shall assume such duties. Sets forth Corporation powers. Prohibits an FCS institution from joining with other institutions in issuing consolidated obligations payable after December 31, 1992, unless it is insured by the Corporation. Funds the Corporation through institution insurance premiums and stock sales. Directs the Corporation to set uniform premium levels. Authorizes the Corporation, pursuant to enumerated conditions, to terminate an institution's insured status for uncorrected status or operations violations. Directs the Corporation to maintain a general reserve, and after the Reserve Board's termination, permits it to supplement such reserve through the issuance of federally-guaranteed bonds and other obligations. Caps such obligations at $1,000,000,000. Stipulates that such supplemental reserves may only be used for insurance purposes. Requires institutions to maintain adequate capital. Directs the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) to periodically consult with the Corporation regarding capitalization levels. Provides that the Corporation shall serve as a receiver for an insured institution in receivership. Sets forth related provisions. Sets forth Corporation fund provisions, including investment provisions. Authorizes the Corporation to make loans to, or purchase the assets of, an institution if the Board determines such action is necessary to reopen a closed institution or prevent the failure of an operating institution. Title II: Financial Assistance-Subtitle A: Farm Credit Reserve Fund and Financial Assistance - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish a Farm Credit Reserve Fund Board to temporarily administer Federal assistance to FCS institutions and oversee the loan restructuring process. Grants emergency powers through 1989 to the Board to permit it to manage financially-troubled institutions. Requires an annual report to the Congress. Establishes a Farm Credit Reserve Fund which shall be available to the Board to carry out its operations. Funds such Fund through: (1) guaranteed debt obligations; (2) assessments; (3) Capital Corporation asset transfers; (4) revolving fund transfers; (5) Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) land assets transfers; and (6) appropriated funds. (Provides initial funding through institution assessments.) Requires: (1) each FCS district to establish a special credit unit to review and make final disposition of all nonaccrual and high risk loans held by institutions within its district; and (2) each unit to develop a loan disposition plan which emphasizes the importance of keeping farmers on their land through deferrals and restructuring. Subtitle B: Termination of Capital Corporation and Reserve Fund - Directs FCA to terminate the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation: (1) 90 days after enactment of this Act; or (2) earlier, upon the recommendation of the Board of Directors of such Corporation. States that the Farm Credit Reserve Fund Board shall succeed to the Capital Corporation's rights, assets, and obligations. Title III: Stock Protection and Capitalization - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to require that through December 31, 1992, retired institution stock shall be redeemed at par value in interest-bearing notes, unless the borrower requests a cash payment. Provides for post-1992 payment only in cash. Requires institutions to adopt a capitalization plan that meets FCA minimum requirements and is based on generally accepted accounting principles. Title IV: Structural Changes in the Farm Credit System - Subtitle A: Mergers of Farm Credit System Institutions - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to make FCS structural changes regarding: (1) the merger of banks within a district; (2) the merger of like banks in different districts; (3) transfers by production credit associations to banks; (4) transfers by Federal land banks to Federal land bank associations; (5) the merger of associations into banks; (6) the merger of like and unlike associations; (7) institutional termination and dissolution; (8) the merger of service organizations; (9) prior approval of information disclosure and issuance of charters; and (10) the taxation (or exemption) of merged banks and associations. Requires the establishment of a FCS-wide finance committee. Subtitle B: General Provisions - Authorizes a Federal land bank association or production credit association to have on its board of directors a person who is not otherwise connected with FCS institutions. Authorizes such associations to borrow and lend money without the supervision or assistance of a Federal land bank. Authorizes an FCS institution to operate outside its normal service territory. Subtitle C: Effective Date - Makes this title effective 30 days after enactment of this Act. Title V: Agricultural Mortgage Secondary Market - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish a federally-chartered Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation to: (1) develop uniform underwriting, security appraisal, and repayment standards for qualified loans; (2) determine the eligibility of agricultural mortgage marketing facilities for credit enhancement of specific mortgage pools; and (3) provide credit enhancement for the repayment of qualified loan pool principal and interest. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the temporary and permanent boards of directors; (2) powers and duties; (3) capitalization through stock issuances; (4) agricultural mortgage marketing facilities' certification; (5) credit enhancement of qualified loans and the establishment of uniform underwriting, security appraisal, and repayment standards. Authorizes the Mortgage Corporation to charge fees to cover operating and credit enhancement expenses. Title VI: Export Financing and OFI Authorities - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to make permanent: (1) Federal intermediate credit banks' lending authority; and (2) cooperative banks' authority to finance certain import and export transactions. Authorizes Federal land banks to make loans and provide related financial assistance to other financing institutions. Title VII: Disposition of Acquired Property - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to express the sense of the Congress that FCS institutions: (1) should sell foreclosure-acquired property unless such sale would have a detrimental effect on farm land value; and (2) should try to make such sales to local people.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1987
Directs the President to call and conduct, once during each presidential term, a National White House Conference on Rural Development and the Family Farm, bringing together State, regional, and Federal representatives for the purpose of preserving and stimulating economic and cultural vitality in rural communities. Mandates, to the extent practicable, State and regional conferences, at least one in each State, to be held as preparatory to the National Conference. Limits participation in these local conferences to participants in the National Conference and to residents of farms or of small rural communities who have a vested interest in rural community life. Directs the National Conference to examine such topics of rural concern as: (1) the delivery of essential services to rural communities; (2) the role of the family farm in these communities; (3) economic development, including job opportunities for displaced farmers; (4) the maintenance and development of the rural infrastructure; and (5) the interrelationship among Federal, State, and various local levels of government. Names the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) as the administrator of the National Conference and directs the heads of Federal departments and agencies to provide support and assistance as necessary. Directs the Secretary to assist in implementing the State and regional conferences. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with public agencies, private organizations, and academic institutions to carry out this Act. Makes participants responsible for their own National Conference expenses. Authorizes the President to appoint and compensate an executive director and other personnel for the National Conference. Requires: (1) the National Conference to submit a final report to the President and to the Congress not later than six months after convening; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Director of the Extension Service, after submission of the National Conference report, to submit annual reports to the Congress on the status and implementation of the National Conference's findings and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations, to remain available until expended. Prohibits Department of Agriculture funds not so specifically appropriated from being used for this Act's implementation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1987
Farm Credit System Loan Restructuring Act - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize the Central Reserve Fund Board (established by this Act) to issue up to $4,000,000,000 in federally guaranteed bonds. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to assist in the interest payments on such bonds for five years. Establishes the Central Reserve Fund Board. Provides for Federal assistance to Farm Credit System institutions. Permits the use of Central Reserve Fund moneys to pay System institutions to enable them to redeem stock at par value and to otherwise remain financially viable. Requires the board of directors of a farm credit district to have a certain plan in place in order for any System institution in its district to be eligible. Requires a recovery plan to be submitted within 60 days of the enactment of this Act. Requires a plan to: (1) establish a special credit team in the district to review on a case-by-case basis the nonaccrual and high risk loans; (2) describe how the team plans to restructure rather than foreclose on troubled loans whenever it is cheaper for the institution to do so; and (3) describe how the district will reduce its operating costs at least ten percent below their 1985 levels. Requires that: (1) the restructuring of each loan be done by the System institution that holds the loan; and (2) the district have in place a system for monitoring restructured loans to determine whether the restructuring has been successful. Sets forth a procedure for determining whether a loan should be restructured or foreclosed. Requires the Farm Credit Administration to report quarterly to the Central Reserve Fund Board on the adherence of the districts to their filed plans. Directs the Board, on the basis of such reports, to determine whether or not a district should receive, or continue to receive, Federal assistance. Provides for protection of borrower stock. Declares that during the five year period following enactment of this Act, in the case of any System institution loan to a borrower that is secured by borrower stock: (1) if the stock is retired, it shall be paid at par value; (2) if the borrower defaults on the loan, the stock may be canceled; or (3) under other specified circumstances, the stock may be otherwise disposed of. Terminates the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation and transfers all of its assets and liabilities to the Central Reserve Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1987
Declares that the Congress encourages all Americans to read the Constitution within one year of its 200th anniversary and strongly encourages Members of Congress, Federal judges, and officials of the executive branch to set the example in studying this cornerstone of democratic government.
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1987
Prohibits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, in providing for the payment of travel expenses by the Veterans Administration of certain veterans and their dependents between their residence and Veterans Administration health facilities as currently required under Federal law, from limiting eligibility for, or the amount of, payments for such travel expenses when the distance exceeds 40 miles.
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1987
Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to authorize a civil action to be brought on behalf of the Social Security Administration against anyone who uses the words "Social Security" or "Social Security Administration" in trade or commerce in a manner which: (1) falsely represents an association with, or authorization by the Social Security Administration; (2) tends to cause confusion or mistake; or (3) tends to deceive.
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1987
Designates the week of February 21 through February 27, 1988, as National Visiting Nurse Association Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1987
Designates the week beginning on November 8, 1987, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1987
Designates October 2, 1988, as a national day of recognition for Mohandas K. Gandhi.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1987
Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act of 1987 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to recommend a methodology to the Congress by April 1, 1988, that provides for a graduated reduction of the differences in the prospective payment rates applicable to urban and rural hospitals during the 36-month period beginning October 1, 1988, and the complete elimination of such differences on or after October 1, 1990. Requires the Secretary to promulgate final regulations by August 30, 1988, to implement such recommendations. Provides that payment rates shall be determined in accordance with such regulations unless the Congress enacts legislation before October 1, 1988, with respect to such rates. Directs the Secretary and the Commission to each report to the Congress by April 1, 1989, on the manner in which urban and rural hospital payment rates should be adjusted to reflect legitimate differences in the operating costs of inpatient hospital services for urban and rural hospitals. Requires the Secretary to promulgate final regulations by August 30, 1990, to implement such adjustments. Provides that such adjustments shall be made in accordance with the Secretary's regulations unless the Congress enacts legislation before October 1, 1990, with respect to such adjustments. Provides for a greater increase in FY 1988 payments for inpatient hospital services furnished in rural areas than for those furnished in urban areas. Directs the Congressional Budget Office to study and report to the Congress within 180 days of this Act's enactment regarding the feasibility and effect of making certain changes in the method of calculating the amounts to be paid to hospitals to cover their wage-related costs. Requires the Secretary to conduct a survey at least once every 36 months of hospital wage-related costs for use in updating the wage index used in reimbursing hospitals for such costs. Permits sole community hospitals to choose one of two payment formulas which differ in that one considers hospital costs on a national basis while the other is more hospital-specific. Makes it clear that the payment adjustment for sole community hospitals experiencing a decline in patient volume of more than five percent over the preceding cost reporting period due to circumstances beyond their control shall be inapplicable to actions taken by a hospital to reduce capacity or case load. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue instructions before October 1, 1987, clarifying the criteria used in granting such adjustment and simplifying the process of applying for such adjustment; and (2) report to the Congress by October 1, 1987, on the feasibility and appropriateness of making sole community hospital payment adjustments on the basis of the average increase in costs incurred by similar hospitals experiencing declines in patient volume. Requires that amounts set aside for making payments to hospitals for unusually long or costly cases (outlier payments) be based on actual outlier payments made during the second previous fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to include in the annual Medicare report to the Congress a comparison of outlier payments made to rural hospitals with those made to urban hospitals.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1987
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1987, as National Adult Immunization Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1987
Declares that the American people reaffirm their commitment to promoting the development of democracy in all the Americas. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of Panama should respond to the points contained in the communique issued on June 17, 1987, by the Panamanian Episcopal Conference; (2) the vital interests of the United States in securing authentic democracy in Panama would be best served by the peaceful establishment of genuine democratic institutions in accordance with the Panamanian constitution; (3) compliance with internationally recognized human rights and the lifting of the suspension of constitutional guarantees are essential preconditions to the restoration of democracy in Panama; (4) an independent investigation into allegations against senior Panamanian civilian and military officials should be conducted by an objective group of Panamanians with authority to publish their findings without delay or fear of reprisal; and (5) the Government of Panama should direct the current commander of the Panama Defense Forces and any other implicated officials to relinquish their duties pending the outcome of the independent investigation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to cancel the registration of the pesticides chlordane, heptachlor, aldrin, and dieldrin (cyclodienes).
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Hazardous Waste Reduction Act - Requires filings of the annual toxic chemical release forms required under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 to include a toxic chemical waste reduction and recycling report for each listed toxic chemical for the preceding calendar year. Requires such report to include information on a facility-by-facility basis as to the amounts and disposition of each toxic chemical, including levels of waste reduction and recycling achieved and expected. Requires that toxic chemical waste reduction practices be delineated according to set categories, such as equipment, redesign, and substitution of raw materials. Requires the inclusion of a production index for each toxic chemical waste and a list of techniques used to identify waste reduction opportunities. Provides protection for trade secrets. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a central receiving facility at EPA for the storage and retrieval of waste management program information. Requires the Administrator to collect, coordinate, and consolidate data collection requirements under environmental statutes. Requires all such information to be compiled into a data base organized on an industry-by-industry basis according to Standard Industrial Classifications and on a waste stream basis. Directs the Administrator to establish a Waste Reduction and Recycling Clearinghouse Program to include information on approaches to waste reduction and recycling and information from States receiving grants for technical assistance programs. Requires the Clearinghouse to be actively involved in technology transfer and the development of waste reduction technologies. Requires the Administrator to make matching grants to States for innovative waste reduction programs. Requires such programs to make specific and targeted technical assistance available to businesses as well as for funding experts and research and providing training. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on the waste reduction information gathered pursuant to this Act. Requires such report to include a profile of waste reduction levels on an industry-by-industry basis and identify priorities as to industries, pollutants, and research. Establishes the Office of Waste Reduction within EPA to collect waste reduction plans and information from other EPA offices on an industry-by-industry basis, administer the clearinghouse and State grants programs, and carry out other related responsibilities including improving EPA's ability to evaluate multimedia waste management practices and the potential for waste reduction through information collection and retrieval. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Makes a supplemental appropriation for FY 1987 to the Department of Agriculture to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1987
Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act - Title I: Rural Development Program and Authority-Subtitle A: Rural Development Authority - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish and maintain a revitalized nationwide rural development program as set forth in the Rural Development Act of 1972, the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980, and this Act. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a Rural Development Authority (Authority) headed by an Assistant Secretary appointed by the Secretary, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Secretary to: (1) transfer to the Authority those agencies, offices, or entities in the Department that perform rural development functions, including certain loan programs currently administered by the Farmers Home Administration; (2) establish in the Authority units to perform the various categories of transferred functions, such as rural housing, research, and public affairs; and (3) report to specified congressional leadership within one year with respect to transfers made or to be made Directs the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the President and to the Congress within one year about services, functions, and missions of other Federal departments and agencies that could be transferred to the Authority. Subtitle B: Rural Development Assistance - Directs the Secretary to consolidate and coordinate, under the Authority, all rural development and assistance programs established by the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, related programs administered by the Secretary, and, to the extent feasible, rural-oriented programs administered by other agencies. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) remove the Secretary's authority to grant up to $15,000,000 annually for certain rural development technical assistance, rural community leadership development, and rural development planning projects; and (2) direct the Assistant Secretary of the Authority, under the rural industrialization assistance program, to provide matching grants to States and loan guarantees to State-designated recipients to fund these same rural development interests, and to develop plans designed to encourage the growth of private business enterprises in rural areas. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) a Rural Fund for Development account, to be administered by the Assistant Secretary, to guarantee loans made to finance rural development projects. Instructs the CCC to make available to this fund at least $1,100,000,000 in either commodities or cash. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to enter into agreements with State and private entities to guarantee loans for such rural development projects as the start-up costs of small businesses, plan construction, and equipment purchases. Describes the limitations on the amounts of such loans and the procedures applicable if a borrower defaults. Directs the Assistant Secretary to report annually to specified Congressional leadership concerning the loan program. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) extend through FY 1990 guarantees by the Secretary of loans to nonprofit national rural development and finance corporations; (2) revise the eligibility requirements for such loan guarantees; (3) earmark $50,000,000 of certain available funds for loan guarantees; and (4) authorize FY 1987 through 1990 appropriations. Directs the Assistant Secretary to use low quality grain from CCC inventories as collateral to guarantee loans under the subtitle to borrowers for the purpose of constructing or operating a grain processing facility. Title II: State Cooperative Agreements and Plans - Directs the Assistant Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements, based on comprehensive plans submitted by the States, to: (1) enable the States to carry out laws and implement Federal rural development programs; (2) provide matching grants to the States; and (3) assist States in the development and administration of Federal programs that provide educational opportunities, job training, health services, and other specified benefits to rural residents. Permits the Secretary and other Federal agency heads to enter into agreements with State and local governments to provide educational training, job training, health services, and other benefits to rural residents. Directs the Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary, to use the Cooperative State Extension Service to inform rural residents about such programs. Establishes in the National Agricultural Library the National Rural Assistance Information Clearinghouse to distribute information and data about Federal, State, and local programs. Title III: Rural Technology Development Centers - Amends the Consolidated Farms and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to conduct pilot projects in States or universities to enable them to establish and operate centers for rural technology development. Requires applicants to submit plans for such centers, which must: (1) be located in rural areas; (2) be designed to improve the economic condition of the area through projects to collect, test, and disseminate information on relevant new services and products; (3) consult with colleges or universities administering rural development and small farm research and education programs under the Rural Development Act of 1972; (4) take steps to develop continuing sources of financial support; and (5) provide for the maximum application of technology in those rural areas strongly affected by a depressed farm economy. Sets forth criteria to be met by pilot projects established under this title. Permits the Secretary to provide employment-related technical assistance to economically distressed rural areas. Directs the Secretary, for each of FY 1988 through 1990, to make grants of up to $500,000 per project to public, private, or cooperative organizations, to Indian tribes on reservations, other tribal groups, or individuals to assist rural entities in funding projects for the development of marketing plans to promote rural economic development. Enumerates criteria to guide the Secretary in determining grant recipients. Provides for the monitoring of projects funded under this program. Directs the Secretary to report the monitoring results to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Rural Dislocation Set-Aside Program - Sets aside ten percent of certain funds provided to the Secretary of Labor in each of FY 1988 through 1992, for programs providing basic readjustment services to dislocated farmers, ranchers, and farm workers. Directs the Secretary of Labor to notify the Governors of eligible States of the availability of such funds. Bases State eligibility on the extent of declining farm equity and the percentage increase in the average debt-to-asset ratio of farms. Sets forth criteria based on farm population for the allocation of funds to eligible States. Requires the Governor of each eligible State to submit a plan describing the readjustment services to be provided. Specifies required contents of the plan. Indicates potential recipients of services under the plan, including individuals whose farm or ranch operations have ended or are likely to end as a result of foreclosure, bankruptcy, or other unfavorable economic circumstances. Enumerates possible activities and services to be included in the State plan, such as counseling services, vocational evaluation, job search, and training assistance, and various support services (transportation, meals, temporary shelter, dependent care). Title V: Rural Set-Asides and Priority - Directs agency heads, in cases when funds are allocated to States according to a mandated formula, to take specified actions that would result in benefits to rural areas from Federal procurement and construction projects. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the heads of executive agencies to give equal consideration to rural areas when determining the location of new Federal buildings and activities related to their construction. Title VI: Special Assistant for Agriculture and Rural Development - Directs the President, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, to establish in the White House an Office of Agriculture and Rural Development to coordinate executive branch programs affecting rural areas. Provides that the Office shall be headed by a Special Assistant appointed by the President. Directs the Special Assistant to: (1) systematically review Federal programs affecting rural areas; (2) monitor activities and legislation affecting rural areas; and (3) assist in the full preparation of a comprehensive rural development strategy designed to maximize the effectiveness and increase the responsiveness of Federal programs to rural areas. Requires the Secretary, within one year after enactment of this Act, to transmit the rural development strategy to the congressional agriculture committees and to report annually to such committees on any changes to such strategy. Requires the Special Assistant to use the Office of the President to maximize coordination of Federal programs affecting rural areas. Title VII: Technical Provisions - Subtitle A: Administration - Provides for transfer of personnel to the Rural Development Authority from the Farmers Home Administration as may be necessary with respect to the functions transferred to the Authority. Sets forth other administrative details relevant to these functions transfers. Subtitle B: Conforming Amendments - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, the Community Economic Development Act of 1981, and other Federal law to reflect the creation of the Rural Development Authority and the transfer of certain functions to it. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to continue the program of guaranteed loans and grants to nonprofit national rural development and finance corporations (Under current law, the program ended as of FY 1987). Title VIII: Implementation - Mandates that this Act be implemented not later than six months after its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it is in the best interests of U.S. wheat producers to immediately receive the details of the program for the 1988 crop of wheat established under the Agricultural Act of 1949; and (2) such program should provide for an acreage limitation program under which a farm's wheat acreage would be limited to the wheat crop acreage base for the farm reduced by no more than 27 1/2 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should express to West Germany that the United States expects it to comply with its treaty obligations by extraditing terrorist Mohammed Hamadei to the United States; and (2) any action by West Germany that involves the exchange of Hamadei for German nationals being held hostage by terrorists will have extremely serious consequences for the relationship between the two countries.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to declare June 27, 1987, as National Sokol Day in the United States, commemorating the Sokol, an association of Americans of Czech ancestry dedicated to gymnastics and democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1987
Amends Federal law to direct the President to set aside and proclaim the first Thursday in May in each year as a National Day of Prayer. (Current law directs the President to set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, for such purpose.)
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1987
Designates November 1987 as National Family Bread Baking Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Designates July 25, 1987, as Clean Water Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1987
Designates the month of October 1987 as Lupus Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987
International Child Abduction Act - Title I: Provisions Implementing the Convention - Grants State courts, the courts of the District of Columbia and the territories and possessions of the United States, and U.S. district courts original jurisdiction with regard to actions arising under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Convention) and this Act. Sets forth requirements with regard to notice and burden of proof for such actions. Allows any court exercising jurisdiction over a petition filed pursuant to the Convention or this Act to take provisional measures under Federal or State law to protect the well-being of the child or prevent the child's removal or concealment. Prohibits any court from ordering the provisional removal of a child from the person having physical control unless the applicable requirements of State law are satisfied. States that any application submitted to the Central Authority for the United States or petition submitted in accordance with the terms of the Convention shall be admissible in court without regard to the need for legalization or authentication. Directs the President to designate a Federal agency to serve as Central Authority for the United States for the purpose of: (1) issuing regulations to implement the Convention and this Act; (2) obtaining information from the Federal Parent Locator Service; and (3) collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information for purposes relating to the Convention and this Act. Directs the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Attorney General to designate Federal employees and private citizens to serve as an interagency coordinating group to monitor the operation of the Convention and provide advice on its implementation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of the Convention and this Act. Title II: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends the Social Security Act to provide the Central Authority for the United States access to the services of the Parent Locator Service. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the disclosure of tax returns and return information to Federal, State, and local child support enforcement agencies for the purpose of locating individuals in connection with the abduction or wrongful restraint or retention of a child.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Prohibits the proposed enhancement or upgrade in the sensitivity of technology of, or the capability of, Maverick missiles for Saudi Arabia.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Designates August 1, 1987, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert the American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; (4) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity regarding such Accords; (5) continue his efforts to achieve the release of political prisoners of the Soviet Union, an increase in Soviet emigration, resolution of family reunification cases, and cessation of radio transmission jamming; (6) seek the inclusion, in any concluding document agreed to in Vienna, of a mechanism to sustain human rights progress after the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (7) convey to signatory states the desire of the United States for a result at Vienna that will not favor military security at the expense of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Designates the period commencing on June 21, 1989, and ending on June 28, 1989, as Food Science and Technology Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates January 8, 1988, as National Skiing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning October 18, 1987, as Financial Independence Week. Urges all citizens to pursue financial independence through sound planning and management of their individual resources.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates October 1, 1987, as National Medical Research Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week of September 20 through September 26, 1987, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning June 21, 1987, as National Outward Bound Week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first Outward Bound Outdoor Recreational Program offered in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates August 29, 1988, as National China-Burma-India Veterans Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates the week of July 13, 1987, as Snow White Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates July 13 through July 26, 1987, as U.S. Olympic Festival-'87 Celebration. Designates July 17, 1987, as U.S. Olympic Festival-'87 Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates July 20, 1987, as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
Declares that the United States should continue to aggressively pursue an agreement on international conflicts in agricultural trade policies. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should make a resolution of agricultural issues a primary priority during the seven nation economic summit in June. States that the seven nations participating should work together to reduce global grain and other agricultural products supplies and eliminate agricultural export subsidies.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
States that the Environmental Protection Agency should encourage States to mandate the use of fuel alcohol and other oxygenate/gasoline blends in CO nonattainment areas, and neat alcohols or other clean burning alternative transportation fuels in commercial fleets in ozone nonattainment areas as optional pollution control strategies in their State Implementation Plan under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates the week of December 13 through December 19, 1987, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates the week beginning on the third Sunday in May 1988 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates October 1987 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should not be considered as a possible participant in any conference concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict unless the Soviet Union has first: (1) re-established diplomatic relations with Israel at the ambassadorial level; (2) publicly re-affirmed its acceptance of specified United Nations resolutions concerning the recognition of Israel; (3) substantially increased and maintained the number of exit visas granted to Jewish individuals and families within the Soviet Union who have applied for emigration to Israel. States that if such conditions are met, Soviet participation shall require the approval and joint invitation of the Governments of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Veterans' Beneficiary Travel Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to direct (current law authorizes) the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay travel expenses of certain veterans to or from a Veterans Administration facility or other authorized place in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, or medical treatment or care. Defines those veterans entitled to such payment, including: (1) those veterans financially unable to meet such travel costs; and (2) those veterans unable to bear the cost of special transportation necessitated due to a medical disability. Limits such payments in the case of travel by a privately-owned vehicle to the cost of similar public transportation for such travel. Limits, in any event, such payment to the actual cost incurred for such travel.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Research Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (Director), to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a comprehensive national plan containing specified elements relating to education, information, and risk reduction activities concerning AIDS. Directs the Secretary to submit to the committees each year for the next ten years a revision of the plan. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the development, implementation, or expansion of State plans for education, information, risk reduction, and other activities relating to AIDS. Requires States, in order to receive grants, to submit an application with specified contents. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States relating to these grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities for development, establishment, or expansion of programs for targeted education, information, and risk reduction activities relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to activities directed toward individuals at highest risk of becoming infected with the acquired immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary to give preference to community-based organizations which are located in, have a history of service in, and will serve specified areas. States that the Secretary may review the content of any educational or information materials developed with grants only for scientific and factual validity. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control for the training of individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, laboratory analysis, and risk reduction relating to AIDS. Declares that individuals receiving fellowships shall not be counted in determining the number of full time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for specified purposes. Directs the Secretary to make grants to international organizations concerned with public health for: (1) programs of education, information, and risk reduction relating to AIDS; (2) projects to train individuals to develop skills and technical expertise regarding AIDS; and (3) epidemiological research relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to inform the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development of grants made under this provision. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application is submitted. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the grants be made through the World Health Organization and, in the Western Hemisphere, through the Pan American Health Organization. Requires grants to be in furtherance of the global strategy of the World Health Organization Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to States, for grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities, for fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control, and for grants to international organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the development, establishment, or expansion in a service area of networks of comprehensive medical services for individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Requires networks to provide: (1) comprehensive services, or referrals to comprehensive services, for such individuals, including specified services; and (2) continuing education for health care personnel involved in the delivery of services to individuals infected with the virus. Specifies allowed and prohibited uses of grants. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Requires entities applying for a grant, prior to applying, to establish a network advisory committee to assist in development of grant applications, provide support for the development, establishment, or expansion of the network, and monitor the implementation of, and the services provided through, the network. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to specified types of applicants. Directs the Secretary to make at least one grant each fiscal year to an applicant in each service area in which there is a high incidence of children who are infected with the virus. States criteria for selecting such applicant. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services to individuals with AIDS. Requires projects supported with such grants to provide for the delivery of health services in conjunction with the comprehensive medical services networks. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive medical service networks and for innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide long-term counseling to individuals who have AIDS or who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the virus; and (2) conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of such counseling. Specifies purposes for which grants may be used. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to entities based at, or having relationships with, entities providing comprehensive health services to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for the study of, and projects for the demonstration of, effective methods, with regard to intravenous drug abusers, to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide treatment to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to create the National Program on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, consisting of: (1) a research program on AIDS, including a research program relating to the prevention of AIDS; and (2) demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS and for the provision of counseling concerning AIDS. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate one of the Directors of the national research institutes as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coordinator. Makes the AIDS Coordinator responsible for administration of the Program. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to develop and implement a plan for NIH to expedite the award of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements by any agency of NIH for projects relating to AIDS, including projects initiated by investigators not in response to any solicitation for proposals. Requires the plan to provide, in the case of applications made in response to solicitations for proposals, for making of awards or disapproval of applications within six months after the date on which a solicitation is issued. Directs the AIDS Coordinator, in conjunction with the Directors of the national research institutes and in consultation with the National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board (Advisory Board), to promote cooperation between specified agencies in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report with specified contents. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for AIDS and infection with the virus. Authorizes the AIDS Coordinator to: (1) establish or support the large-scale production or distribution of specialized biological materials or other therapeutic substances for research relating to AIDS and set standards of safety and care for persons using such materials; (2) support, in consultation with the Advisory Board, research relating to AIDS outside the United States in certain circumstances, collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, the training of American scientists abroad and foreign scientists in the United States, and programs of education and training, including education and laboratory and clinical research training; (3) encourage and coordinate research relating to AIDS by industrial concerns in certain circumstances and provide for the exchange of information between Federal agencies and private entities involved in specified ways with therapies and vaccines for AIDS; (4) acquire, improve, repair, operate, and maintain, in consultation with the Advisory Board, laboratories and other real and personal property, make grants for the renovation of facilities, and lease certain spaces for a limited period; (5) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to expedite and coordinate research relating to AIDS; and (6) maintain and operate the International Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Data Bank. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the AIDS Coordinator, to establish in NIH a National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the implementation of the Program; (2) advise and make recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary, the Director of NIH, the AIDS Coordinator, and the heads of other Federal agencies; and (3) maintain liaisons with other advisory bodies and key non-Federal entities involved with the control of AIDS. Requires the Advisory Board to prepare an annual report for the AIDS Coordinator describing the Advisory Board's activities and making recommendations regarding the Program. Authorizes the Director of the Institute to enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities for planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Specifies permitted uses for Federal payments under a cooperative agreement or grant. Limits support of a center to five years, subject to extension for periods of up to five years, if recommended by a peer review group. Requires, in the Institute, appointment of an Associate Director for Prevention to coordinate and promote the programs in the Institute concerning the prevention of infectious diseases, including AIDS. Directs the Associate Director for Prevention to prepare, for inclusion in a biennial report required by existing law, a description of the prevention activities of the Institute. Requires the Director of the Institute to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serum are available to qualified investigators. States that AIDS is included within the scope of the purpose of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to make awards, under existing provisions for National Research Service Awards, for the training of individuals to participate in national research efforts relating to AIDS. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or the Administrator of General Services to respond to any priority request made by the AIDS Coordinator of the NIH within 14 calendar days.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 - Expresses the determination of the Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): (1) is a terrorist organization; (2) is a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law; and (3) should not benefit from operating in the United States. Prohibits, if the purpose is to further the interests of the PLO: (1) the receipt of anything of value except informational material from the PLO; (2) the expenditure of funds from the PLO; (3) the establishment or maintenance of a PLO office within the jurisdiction of the United States. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall cease to have effect if the President certifies to the Congress that the PLO no longer practices or supports terrorist actions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress commending the Department of Agriculture on its 125th anniversary. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating such event.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Agricultural Mortgage Marketing Act of 1987 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish as a federally-chartered institution of the Farm Credit System (System) the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Corporation). States that the Corporation shall not be liable for the debts of any other System institutions. Directs the Corporation to provide a secondary agricultural mortgage market by: (1) developing uniform underwriting, security appraisal, and repayment standards; (2) determining the eligibility of agricultural mortgage marketing facilities to contract with the Corporation for credit enhancement of specific mortgage pools; and (3) providing credit enhancement to assure the repayment of principal and interest. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the Board of Directors; (2) operating powers; (3) stock; (4) agricultural mortgage marketing facility certification (including revocation); (5) credit enhancement of qualified agricultural mortgage loans; (6) the required ten-percent contribution reserve (including distributions of any earnings on such reserve and loss allocation); (7) standards for qualified agricultural mortgage loans; (8) credit enhancement (including fees and limitations on liability); (9) Corporation regulation (including an annual report); and (10) exemption from Federal and State securities laws under specified conditions (including authorized investments).
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Designates March 16, 1988, as Freedom of Information Day.