United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should exercise his authority to issue an Executive Order disqualifying Japanese-manufactured, numerically-controlled machining centers and punching machines for the investment tax credit until Japan provides persuasive evidence to the President that certain unfair and discriminatory acts and policies restricting U.S. commerce have ceased.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such a policy.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Temporary Natural Gas Market Correction Act of 1982 - Declares that any contract for the first sale of natural gas shall be deemed to include a volume adjustment option with respect to any natural gas the first sale of delivery of which could occur pursuant to such contract at any time after the effective date of this Act and before November 1, 1983. Defines a volume adjustment option as a contract provision under which the purchaser may elect to refuse to take delivery under such contract of any volume of natural gas without incurring an obligation to pay any fee or charge with respect to the natural gas not delivered pursuant to such election. Provides, subject to certain exceptions, that the purchase by any natural gas pipeline company of any natural gas which is delivered on any day after the effective date of this Act and before November 1, 1983, at an excessive price shall be considered as fraud, abuse, or similar grounds for purposes of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reviewing cost passthroughs. Considers the price of natural gas delivered to any natural gas pipeline company on any day excessive if that price exceeds the price of any other natural gas not delivered to such pipeline company on that day but which could have been acquired by such pipeline company for delivery on that day under any contract to which the pipeline is a party. Requires every natural gas pipeline company to file monthly with FERC: (1) a statement concerning the volume adjustment clause, as well as steps it has taken to achieve the lowest possible weighted average acquisition cost of natural gas; and (2) a modification of the costs to be recovered by the pipeline under a purchased gas adjustment clause (as defined in the Natural Gas Act), if the weighted average acquisition cost of natural gas by the pipeline is lower because of the volume adjustment option or because of other steps taken by the pipeline.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Reaffirms the commitment of Congress to locating and repatriating Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Expresses congressional appreciation to the Lao Government for its expressed willingness to help. Supports the President's actions to locate and return missing Americans. Urges the President to respond to the indicated willingness of the Lao Government to cooperate in this effort.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to increase for FY 1983 and 1984 the funding authorization for low-income home energy assistance grants to States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Prohibits the use of FY 1983 appropriations to pay: (1) any officer or employee of the Federal or District of Columbia government at a rate exceeding the rate for such individual's position on September 30, 1982, if the salary for such position is equal to or greater than the basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule; or (2) performance awards to more than 20 percent of the members of the Senior Executive Service or any comparable personnel system established on or after October 13, 1978. Declares that the pay rates payable after enactment of this Act shall be the rates used in the administration of provisions providing retirement, life insurance, or other employee benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Federal Anti-Tampering Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal offense to maliciously cause or attempt to cause injury or death to any person, or injury to any business' reputation, by adulterating a food, drug, cosmetic or other product. Provides for a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $20,000 if personal injury results, or a prison term of up to life if death results. Establishes a separate offense, with similar penalties, for any person who willfully or maliciously conveys false information concerning an attempt at such adulteration, if injury or death results.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1982
Establishes a peacetime veterans' educational assistance program for persons who served on active duty or in the Selected Reserve after August 31, 1983. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for such assistance based on period and type of service. Creates a basic entitlement of 24 months of assistance for the first 24 months of service with an additional month of assistance for each additional month of service, up to a total of 36 months. Establishes a delimiting period for the use of such assistance of ten years after discharge. Excepts those suffering from a physical or mental disability which prevented their completing their education and persons held as prisoners of war. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in specified amounts. Permits educational benefits to be transferred by the eligible person to a spouse or child. States that appropriations for this program be considered as made for the functions of the Department of Defense rather than for the functions of the Veterans Administration. Prohibits persons eligible for this program from participating in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on whether the program should be expanded to attract and retain certain qualified persons. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant educational leave for up to 12 months if the person concerned agrees to serve two months for each month off. Sets forth other conditions of such leave, including pay and eligibility for retired pay. Permits such Secretary to cancel this leave in time of war or national emergency or if he determines the member is not pursuing his education satisfactorily. States that there shall be no increase in pay for members in pay grade E-1 in FY 1983 and 1984 unless an increase becomes unavoidable through the general pay increase requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Designates 1983 as the "Tricentennial Anniversary Year of German Settlement in America". Expresses congressional support for the President's Youth Exchange Initiative, and especially the concept of a United States-German teenage exchange sponsored by the Congress and the West German Bundestag.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take action to encourage increasing the processed product share of farm exports, including but not limited to: (1) urging U.S. negotiators to try to include a quantity of value-added processed farm products in grain agreements with the Soviet Union or other nonmarket economy countries; (2) seeking elimination of unfair trade practices by foreign competitors by pursuing international trade negotiations; (3) using the authority of Public Law 480 to encourage inclusion of more processed products under both concessional sales and food aid programs; and (4) using authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export- Import Bank to ensure that credit arrangements for farm exports and farm product exports are on terms equal to those offered by other countries.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Soviet-Bloc Research and Training Act of 1982 - Establishes the Soviet-Bloc Research and Training Trust Fund in the Treasury. Appropriates a specified amount for the Fund. Requires that the interest on any obligations held in the Fund shall be available for payments to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. Requires the Council to use one-fourth of the payments made in each fiscal year to develop and publicize a research agenda at the postdoctoral level in the field of Soviet and East European studies and to award contracts for appropriate research projects. Requires the Council to use parts of the payments to: (1) establish and publish the findings of a fellowship program for advanced training in Soviet studies; (2) make payments to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to provide fellowship support and research facilities in Washington, D.C., for American specialists to conduct advanced research and to conduct workshops designed to facilitate research collaboration between Government and private specialists; and (3) make payments to the International Research and Exchanges Board to conduct specialized reciprocal programs in advanced training and research in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to facilitate access for American specialists to research resources in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Sets forth the method of submitting applications to the Secretary of the Treasury for payments from the Fund. Provides that the Secretary shall manage the Fund. Requires the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on the activities supported by this Act of the Council, the Board, and the Wilson Center.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Exempts any qualified mortgage transaction at arms-length engaged in by an employee benefit plan from specified prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that such exemption shall supersede any and all State laws as they relate to qualified mortgage transactions to the extent engaged in by employee benefit plans.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) national efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition should continue; (2) a national commitment to vital nutrition programs should continue; and (3) the Federal Government should retain primary responsibility for child nutrition programs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1982
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to provide that all countries whose students receive U.S. military training under the foreign military sales program shall reimburse the U.S. Government for such training based on the additional costs which the United States incurs rather than on the full cost of the training.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend until June 30, 1985, the existing suspension of duties on color couplers and coupler intermediates used in the manufacture of photographic sensitized material.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Grants congressional approval of the Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System as a guide for future water policy on such System. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide for the engineering, design, and construction, of a second lock at locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake with respect to the Upper Mississippi River System: (1) a habitat rehabilitation and enhancement program; (2) the implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; (3) the implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system for data storage and retrieval; and (4) the implementation of a program of recreational projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) review the Master Plan; (2) assign priorities; and (3) develop and submit to Congress a proposal for further implementation. Declares that such Master Plan has reasonably complied with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
States that each person has the right to be free from any classification based on sex, made by the United States or any State, unless such classification is necessary to achieve a compelling interest of the United States or such State. Provides that if any person under color of Federal or State law subjects one to a classification based on sex which is not necessary to achieve a compelling governmental interest, he or she shall be liable to the person injured. Allows any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act to bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States. Enables the Attorney General to bring an action for declaratory or injunctive relief.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1982
Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act - Title I: Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults - Establishes a Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults to: (1) provide specialized intensive services for deaf-blind persons; (2) train personnel to provide such services; and (3) conduct applied research, development, and demonstrations relating to communication techniques, teaching methods, aids, and devices, and delivery of services. Requires an annual audit of the Center. Directs the Secretary of Education to ensure that: (1) Center Service and training programs are monitored regularly; and (2) Center operation is evaluated annually, with written reports to the President and the Congress submitted by specified deadlines. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and succeeding fiscal years for Center operation and maintenance in accordance with guidelines or regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Title II: Vinland National Center for Healthsports and Physical Fitness for Handicapped Individuals - Establishes the Vinland National Center for Healthsports and Physical Fitness for Handicapped Individuals to: (1) provide training for handicapped individuals and training and technical assistance for the establishment of healthsport and physical fitness activities and programs for the handicapped in States and local communities; and (2) conduct basic and applied research and collect and disseminate information. Directs the Center to establish a National Advisory Panel on Healthsports and Physical Fitness for Handicapped Individuals. Exempts the Panel from the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) Center construction and program plans and reports; (2) Center expenditures from non-Federal support; (3) limits on Center use of funds; and (4) auditing of the Center's records and monitoring, and evaluation of its activities. Directs the Secretary of Education, acting through the Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services Administration, to administer the provisions of this title. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1984 through 1988. Title III: Regional Postsecondary Educational Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with: (1) specified institutions of higher education for regional programs of academic, vocational, and supportive education services for deaf students and for graduate occupational placement; and (2) other institutions of higher education and appropriate nonprofit education agencies for model postsecondary programs for serving handicapped (other than deaf) individuals. Directs the Secretary to give priority to programs: (1) serving multistate regions or large population centers; (2) adapting existing programs of vocational, technical, postsecondary, or adult education to the special needs of handicapped individuals; (3) designed to serve areas where a need for such services is clearly demonstrated; and (4) that have demonstrated proven effectiveness. Sets forth provisions for auditing, monitoring, and continuing evaluation of each program assisted under this title. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of Special Education Programs, to administer the provisions of this title. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1984 through 1988. Sets forth formulas for allotment of such funds. Title IV: Captioned Films and Related Services for Deaf and Other Handicapped Individuals - Directs the Secretary to establish a loan service of captioned films and educational media for handicapped individuals, their parents, and others directly involved in activities for the advancement of the handicapped. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) acquire such films, educational media, and equipment; (2) provide, by grant or contract, for film captioning, for distribution of media and equipment to State schools and other appropriate local or regional agencies, for production and distribution of such media, and for research and training in their use; (3) utilize other governmental agencies' facilities and services; and (4) accept gifts, contributions, and voluntary and uncompensated services of individuals and organizations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, to administer the provisions of this title. Authorizes appropriations for the provision of services under this title for FY 1984 and succeeding fiscal years. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth definitions under this Act and this Act's effect on specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Education of the Handicapped Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1982
Indian Housing Act of 1982 - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to provide grants, financing, and loan guarantees to assist Indians in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Title I: Indian Housing Improvement Program - Establishes an Indian housing improvement program to make grants or provide assistance to preserve existing housing, make repairs, and construct or acquire standard housing for Indians. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, upon application of an Indian tribe or individual, to make grants or provide assistance to assist Indian families who are not eligible for housing assistance under titles II or III of this Act because of low income or extremely isolated circumstances. Directs the Secretary to assure that grants or assistance under this title be consistent with plans and priorities established by tribes. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of the appropriate tribe or tribal housing agency, to make such grants or assistance available through agreements with the tribe or tribal housing agency. Authorizes the Secretary, in the absence of such agreements, to: (1) make, with appropriate safeguards, direct grants to individual Indians; (2) contract with private construction firms (provides that specified law pertaining to the employment of Indian labor and the purchase of products of Indian industry shall apply unless the concerned tribe formally requests waiver on a specific procurement action); or (3) have repairs or new construction performed directly by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Authorizes a tribe or tribal housing agency, with respect to such agreements, to require an assisted family to make a monthly payment, not to exceed the amount of an administrative charge or an amount satisfactory to the Secretary, to be used solely for tribal housing-related activities. Permits grants or assistance under this title to be used, under specified conditions, to finance: (1) minor repairs and additions to existing substandard housing to improve safety and sanitary conditions until standard housing assistance can be made available; (2) major repairs, renovations, and/or enlargement of existing dwellings, including structually sound but deteriorated dwellings which can be economically placed in standard condition; and (3) construction or acquisition of new standard housing where severe need is demonstrated and it is established that there is no reasonable prospect that standard housing can be financed from other sources. Requires appropriate insurance for such housing, unless waived by the Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary from approving the sale of individual trust land or lease of tribal trust land upon which a house is constructed, acquired, or repaired pursuant to this title, unless specified conditions are met. Directs the Secretary to insure that a lien upon fee land is recorded under appropriate State law whenever a house constructed, acquired, or repaired pursuant to this title is located on such land. Permits the sale of a house constructed, acquired, or repaired pursuant to this title if the sale price is not less than the value of the assistance reduced five percent per year for 20 years. Requires that the amount of such minimum sale price be reimbursed to the United States and credited to the appropriation authorized under this title. Requires that any amount in excess of such minimum sale price shall be the property of the assisted Indian family. Grants the tribe the right of first refusal on the sale of any such house located on tribal trust land. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1983 through 1987. Title II: Indian Housing Finance Fund - Establishes an Indian housing finance fund to provide financing to Indian tribes for construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation of standard housing for Indian families who are: (1) unable to obtain financing from other sources on reasonable terms and conditions; (2) not eligible for assistance under title III of this Act; and (3) able to meet the minimum monthly payment required by this title. Directs the Secretary to limit assistance under this title to families with incomes at the time of initial occupancy not exceeding 130 percent of the area median income, with adjustments for specified factors. Requires a tribe, as a prerequisite for eligibility for financing from the fund, to submit a tribal housing plan for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth required inclusions in such plan and in applications for financing from the fund. Sets forth criteria upon which applications shall be evaluated and approved (including a determination by the Secretary that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment). Requires that tribal housing agencies be established to implement project agreements. Sets forth requirements for project agreements, including a tribe's: (1) setting forth its means of collecting monthly payments and depositing residual receipts; (2) agreeing to require any Indian family executing a housing assistance contract to authorize the Secretary to attach unobligated trust funds of the adult members for failure to meet such contract obligations; and (3) agreeing that its unobligated tribal trust funds may be subject to attachment for failure to meet specified requirements under certain conditions. Provides for a period of notice, prior to attachment of trust funds, during which a tribe or Indian family may: (1) pay the amount in default; (2) negotiate a repayment schedule; or (3) institute administrative appeals or judicial actions. Prohibits the Secretary from refusing to execute a housing assistance contract under this title on the basis that a tribe or Indian family has no trust funds to their credit. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) disbursements from the fund; (2) construction or acquisition contracts; (3) final plans and specifications; (4) fee titles and leases; (5) land purchase; and (6) final inspections and certifications of completions of projects. Directs the Secretary to encourage the development of plans and specifications that promote the conservation and efficient use of energy. Sets forth provisions for housing assistance contracts between eligible Indian families and tribal housing agencies. Provides for monthly payments to the agency by the family in the amount of 20 percent of the adjusted family income, but not more than the amortization payment nor less than specified minimum payment. Requires annual review of such adjusted family income. Provides for reversion of the land to its former status and transfer of ownership of the house to the family at the end of 25 years. Prohibits the tribe from denying the family continued use of the land site unless the Secretary, the tribe, and the family negotiate for the tribal purchase of the house for an amount not less than the fair market value. Requires families receiving assistance under this title to make a minimum monthly payment to cover agency administrative costs, insurance premiums, and a contingency reserve for maintenance. Requires the agency to establish an account for residual receipts in the amount of the monthly payments collected less the minimum payment to be retained by the agency. Sets forth requirements for deposit of residual receipts in the fund. Makes tribal housing agencies responsible for implementation of monitoring and construction inspection procedures. Makes the technical staff of the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the adequacy of such procedures to assure compliance with minimum housing standards and project plans and specifications. Sets forth bonding requirements. Makes maintenance and utilities costs the responsibility of participating families. Sets forth contract requirements. Provides that specified provisions of the Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act (requiring wages in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act and contract preferences for Indians) shall apply to all contracts, subcontracts, and employment opportunities supported by funding under this title unless a tribe formally requests waiver of such applicability in specific cases. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) family sale or purchase of houses constructed, acquired, or rehabilitated with funds under a project agreement; (2) inheritance or assignation of family contractual interests in such housing; and (3) abandoned houses. Prohibits any Indian from being party to more than one housing assistance contract providing for a new standard house under title I or this title. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitation in appropriate circumstances. Authorizes tribal housing agencies to use project agreement funds to assist Indian families in making downpayments on standard housing to be financed through other sources of credit, under specified conditions. Requires tribal housing agencies to require that families with specified incomes provide evidence that at least two area lending institutions rejected home loan applications before such families are eligible for housing assistance under this title. Permits funds made available under this title to be used to construct rental housing. Sets forth requirements for maximum and minimum monthly rental payments, residual receipt payments, and tribal responsibility for utility and maintenance costs for such rental housing. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1983 through 1987. Title III: Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund - Establishes an Indian housing loan guarantee fund to provide access to sources of private financing for Indian families or tribes who otherwise would not be eligible for housing credit because of Federal laws restricting mortgage or other encumbrance of trust land. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee up to 100 percent of the unpaid principal and interest due on any loan made to an Indian for the acquisition or construction of a standard house on trust land. Sets forth provisions relating to such loans' security, interest, premium charges, applications, sale or assignment, maturity, default, collection, and reimbursement guarantee. Sets forth requirements for lenders. Creates an Indian housing guarantee fund to be available to the Secretary as a revolving fund to carry out this title. Requires that this title's guaranteed loan program be operated separately from the Indian housing finance fund under title II of this Act and that no designated funds be transferred from one program to the other. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through FY 1987. Sets forth permissible uses of such guarantee fund. Limits the aggregate outstanding principal amount which may be guaranteed by the Secretary, Sets forth provisions relating to guarantee fund assets, liabilities, and obligations and to servicing or purchase of guaranteed loans. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to establish in the Bureau of Indian Affairs an Office of Indian Housing Programs with primary responsibility for administering the programs established by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to Indian tribes for housing plan development and implementation and for application preparation and submission. Directs the Secretary to provide for establishment of a training program to develop understanding by the participating families of the roles and responsibilities of the tribal housing agency, the Federal Government, and participants under titles I and II. Requires that such program include basic home maintenance training. Allows up to one percent of funds appropriated under authority of titles I and II to be used to provide such technical assistance and training. Makes the Indian Health Service responsible for provision of water and sanitation facilities for houses constructed, acquired, or rehabilitated with assistance provided under this Act. Directs the Secretary to coordinate such activities and responsibilities with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs the Secretary to ensure that planning and budgeting for necessary roads and sanitation facilities shall be done in conjunction with planning and budgeting for new housing to be constructed with funds appropriated pursuant to this Act. Permits funds appropriated under titles I and II to be used to provide site improvements, streets, and driveways within multiunit housing projects. Requires that such streets be built to BIA standards and maintained by the BIA. Directs the Secretary to continue to provide all-weather access roads to multiunit projects constructed under this title through existing road programs and authorizations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a biennial housing inventory of current Indian housing needs and conditions to be used for purposes of specified title II provisions; and (2) submit copies of such inventory to the Congress. Directs the Secretary, within two years of enactment of this Act, to conduct and submit to the Congress a study of the potential uses of trust funds of Indian tribes and individuals to support, directly or indirectly, the provision of housing for Indians and Alaska Natives (subject to the consent of the beneficial owner and the continued ensured integrity of such funds). Directs the Secretary to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to carry out this Act. Directs the chairmen (in consultation with the ranking minority members) of the appropriate congressional committees to appoint persons of Indian descent, knowledgeable about Indian affairs and housing assistance programs, to be involved in the initial drafting and formulation of such regulations. Provides that housing assistance provided under this Act shall not exclude Indians from being eligible for other federally-assisted housing programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1982
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean War. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commisson of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1982
Disapproves the President's recommendation to extend the President's authority to waive the freedom of emigration requirements under the Trade Act of 1974 in order to extend the most-favored nation status of Romania.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Dairy Products Promotion Act of 1982 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, by dairy products promotion order, to establish a National Dairy Promotion Board made up of dairy farmers to promote dairy products. Finances such Board through dairy producer assessments. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat use of a family farm or business by a family member of an heir to such property as a qualified use for purposes of the special use valuation provisions of the estate tax if such use occurred while the heir qualified under the special use valuation provisions or had attained age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Product Liability Act - Preempts State product liability laws. States that this Act governs any civil action for harm caused by a product which would have been based on: (1) strict or absolute liability in tort; (2) negligence or gross negligence; (3) breach of express or implied warranty and; (4) failure to discharge a duty to warn or instruct. Makes a manufacturer liable if the claimant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that a product was unreasonably dangerous: (1) in construction or design; (2) because the manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings of danger; or (3) because the product did not conform to an express warranty. Specifies the requisite findings which must be made for such proof of unreasonable danger to be determined. Subjects a product seller to liability if the claimant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the claimant's harm was proximately caused by such seller's failure to use reasonable care with respect to the product. Enumerates circumstances under which such a seller is also subject to the liability of a manufacturer. Provides that all claims, under this Act shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Sets forth rules with respect to conduct affecting comparative responsibility, including misuse, alteration or modification of a product. Specifies the manner in which damages are to be apportioned. Requires that damages in any product liability claim be reduced by an amount paid as workers' compensation benefits. Prescribes statutes of limitation for recovery. Allows punitive damages to be awarded if the claimant proves by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the result of the product manufacturer's or sellers's reckless disregard for the safety of product users, consumers, or others who might be harmed by the product. Provides that evidence of corrective measures taken by a product seller after a harm has occurred would not be admissible in court to prove liability.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1982
Small Business Debt-Equity Relief Act of 1982 - States that no Intenal Revenue Service regulations determining whether an interest in a corporation is to be treated as stock or indebtedness shall apply to an instrument issued before 180 days after the regulations are submitted to Congress. Requires that any such proposed regulations shall be consistent with the findings of Congress set forth in this Act if the Secretary of the Treasury chooses to adopt them.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Dairy Stabilization Act of 1982 - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to revise the method of determining milk price support levels for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets the price of milk for domestic needs: (1) at $13.10 per hundred weight for FY 1983; and (2) at the percentage of parity for FY 1984 and 1985 which $13.10 represented as of October 1, 1982. Declares that price support for milk shall be provided through the purchase of milk and milk products by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) under borrowing authority approved by Congress and repayments from the National Dairy Board established by this Act. Authorizes the Board to make payments to milk marketers whose levels of marketing have been reduced from the levels of the prior fiscal year. Sets forth the method of determining such payments. Authorizes the CCC to increase its milk purchases in the event of an increase in dairy product imports. Establishes a National Dairy Board to: (1) determine the relative proportions of milk to which the price support levels will apply and the producer responsibility for dairy product purchases; (2) establish a uniform rate by which the price paid farmers for milk in excess of domestic commercial market needs shall be reduced to achieve the price support provided by this Act and announce such rate before October 1 of each year; (3) dispose of dairy products acquired by the CCC through authorized price support operations; and (4) remit proceeds from price support operations to the CCC. Authorizes the Board to develop innovative programs for the disposition of dairy products and to make recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture regarding details of the operation of the price support program. Sets forth methods of deriving funding for producer responsibility of program operations. Sets forth the duties of the Secretary under the price support program with respect to relations with the Board and responsibility for collection and payment of the funds under such program. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act and vests jurisdiction for enforcement with the U.S. district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to make investigations for the administration of this Act and to invoke the aid of any U.S. court to enforce subpenas. Deems all operations conducted under this Act as a program or operation of the Department of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should direct the appropriate agencies to pursue vigorously and promptly conclude certain countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigatons and the pending steel unfair trade practices investigation; and (2) Congress should consider legislation to strengthen U.S. trade laws.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Pension Plan Capital Formation Act of 1982 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to delete from the definition of "qualifying employer real property" the condition that a substantial number of parcels of employer real property be dispersed geographically. Provides that the Secretary of Labor must consult with and coordinate actions with the Secretary of the Treasury for exemptions from prohibited transactions only with respect to specified employee benefit plans. Exempts from ERISA prohibited transaction provisions certain loans and leases made by an employee benefit plan to a substantial employer maintaining the plan. Conforms specified ERISA provisions with Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to transactions by parties in interest. Makes provisions for a prohibited transaction exemption procedure applicable to owner-employees. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make conforming amendments. Provides that the amendments made by this Act shall be effective for taxable years ending after December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should permit Abe Stolar and his family to emigrate to Israel and that the President should express U.S. opposition to the forced captivity of the Stolar family by the Soviet Union.
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