United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to extend until September 30, 1986, the authorization for the Secretary of Transportation to issue and sell anticipation notes for the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund for FY 1983 to remain available until October 1, 1986. Sets forth limitations on authorized expenditures from the Fund. Provides that funds appropriated for the preference share program (a program which provides low interest loans for the rehabilitation and acquisition of railroad facilities) before October 1, 1982, shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
National Technical, Engineering, and Scientific Manpower and Education Act of 1982 - Requires the President to coordinate the activities of all executive agencies in implementing a national policy to maintain a competent employment force of technical, engineering, and scientific personnel and an adequate supply of educators in science and mathematics. Directs each executive agency, in cooperation with State and local governments and private organizations, to establish technical, engineering, and scientific training and education programs and activities which shall be reviewed by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and coordinated by the National Coordinating Council on Technical, Engineering, and Scientific Manpower and Education. Establishes in the National Science Foundation a National Coordinating Council on Technical, Engineering, and Scientific Manpower and Education which shall: (1) monitor and assess the need for trained technical, engineering, and scientific personnel, including educators, for industry, academia, the military, and the Government; (2) coordinate Federal efforts in technical, engineering, and scientific manpower and education with State, municipal, and private sector efforts; (3) cooperate with executive agencies in reviewing all Federal programs in technical, engineering, and scientific manpower and education; (4) encourage high quality scientific and mathematical education and promote careers in such areas; (5) encourage access into the technical, engineering, and scientific fields for minorities and women; (6) help with long range technical manpower assessments and policy recommendations; and (7) prepare annually a national technical manpower and education plan which the Council shall use in carrying out its responsibilities. Requires the Council to report directly to the National Science Board. Establishes a Technical, Engineering, and Scientific Manpower and Education Fund which shall be available: (1) in the first year after enactment of this Act to pay for the preparation of the first national technical manpower and education plan; and (2) after the first year to pay the Federal share of research, fellowships, grants, capital equipment, salaries, instrumentation, and other activities necessary to carry out this Act. Limits the Federal share of any financial assistance under this Act to 50 percent. Provides for administration of the fund by the Council. Requires the Council's review and and approval of any obligation or expenditure of fund money that exceeds $500,000 to an institution or $200,000 to an individual. Terminates the fund five years after enactment of this Act. Requires the Council to transmit annually to Congress a report which shall include: (1) the funds obligated and expended from the fund; (2) all of the Council's activities in carrying out this Act; (3) the state of the Nation's engineering, technical, and scientific manpower and education resources; (4) legislative recommendations for incentives to develop technical, engineering, and scientific personnel; and (5) the national technical manpower and education plan required by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the fund for FY 1983 through 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth special temporary rules for the taxation of life insurance companies for 1982 and 1983. Revises provisions relating to policies reinsured under modified coinsurance contracts. Specifies that prescribed policy and other contract liability requirements shall not include interest payable after enactment of this Act by a reinsured to a reinsurer in connection with a coinsurance contract. Revises the method of computing the tax deductions for: (1) dividends to policyholders; (2) certain nonparticipating contracts; and (3) certain accident, health insurance, and group life insurance plans. Revises the method of determining adjusted life insurance reserves. Revises the method of computing the policyholder's shared investment yield, life insurance company taxable income, and net capital gain for companies filing consolidated returns. Specifies that the above method shall not apply to certain contract computation in effect before 1982. States that the determination for taxable years before 1982 as to whether a contract is a coinsurance contract shall be made solely by reference to the terms of the contract.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish regulations to ensure reasonable access to telephone service by persons with impaired hearing. Directs the FCC to require that coin-operated public telephones be capable of coupling with hearing aids through the use of an inductive receptor. Permits the FCC to require that other telephones frequently used by the public have a similar capability. Authorizes the FCC to establish technical standards to ensure compatibility between telephones and hearing aids. Directs the FCC to establish the labeling requirements necessary to provide adequate information for consumers on the compatibility between telephones and hearing aids. Directs the FCC to consider in rulemaking decisions the costs and benefits to telephone users with and without hearing impairments. Directs the FCC to ensure that regulations adopted to implement this Act do not impair development of new technology.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Bus Deregulation Act of 1982 - Sets forth the findings of Congress regarding the need for a safe, competitive, and fuel-efficient motor bus system. Excludes from the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regarding motor carrier transportation: (1) brokers for motor carriers of passengers; (2) motor contract carriers of passengers; (3) transportation of motor carrier passengers in charter service or special operations; and (4) transportation of motor carrier passengers in vehicles carrying fewer than 30 individuals. Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to include the interstate motor carrier transportation of passengers in the overall transportation policy of the United States. Revises the entry policy for motor carriers of passengers, motor contract carriers, and brokers of passengers. Directs the ICC to implement, within 120 days after the effective date of this Act, procedures to process expeditiously applications of motor carriers of passengers to remove certain operating restrictions. Allows a motor common carrier of passengers to transport special or charter passengers in the same motor vehicle with regular-route passengers. Describes ratemaking procedures and the use of rate bureaus by motor carriers of passengers. Amends the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 to increase the membership of the Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study Commission. Extends to January 1, 1984, the due date of such Commission's final report on the collective ratemaking process. Sets forth the zone of pricing freedom for motor carriers of passengers. Permits the ICC to increase rates within specified percentage ranges. Declares that rates and fares implemented pursuant to this Act shall be subject to specified antitrust laws. Declares that certain rate establishment actions shall not be in and of themselves sufficient evidence of an antitrust violation. Exempts motor carriers of passengers from certain restrictions on the notice period when proposing a change in rates. Grants the ICC discretionary authority over permits for motor carriers from countries contiguous to the United States. Requires denial of permit to any person from a political subdivision of such a country which denies authority to United States motor carriers to provide transportation under continuing agreements in such subdivision or country. Sets forth procedures for carriers to discontinue or substantially reduce service on the intrastate portion of a route for which they have interstate and intrastate authority. Authorizes the ICC to prescribe rates, rules, or practices applicable to intrastate transportation provided by a motor common carrier of passengers under specified conditions. Establishes a rebuttable presumption that such rates, rules, or practices impose an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce if: (1) such a rate, rule, or practice results in intrastate rates lower than comparable interstate rates; (2) a carrier's revenues fall below the variable costs of providing such intrastate service; or (3) the State having jurisdiction over the rate, rule, or practice failed to act on a carrier's request within a specified time. Directs the ICC to report to Congress on the results of its efforts to establish uniform standards and procedures applicable to carrier rates, rules, and practices. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish minimum levels of financial responsibility for any motor vehicle operated in interstate or international commerce by a motor carrier of passengers. Establishes civil penalties for violations of such financial responsibility provisions. Exempts school buses, taxicabs, and certain roundtrip commuter vehicles from such provisions. Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to grant jurisdiction over the issuance of securities by motor carriers of passengers to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prohibits a State or subdivision thereof from levying a discriminatory or unreasonably burdensome tax on interstate motor carrier transportation. Exempts motor carriers of passengers from ICC merger procedures. Authorizes the ICC, upon petition by the Secretary of Transportation, to suspend the certificate or permit of a motor carrier of passengers if it is determined that the carrier has been conducting unsafe operations which are a hazard to public health or property. Sets forth civil penalties for illegal operations. Authorizes the ICC to provide administrative assistance to small motor common carriers of passengers and local government preparing for certain of its proceedings. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the use of citizen band radios by the bus operator on motor vehicles providing intercity motor carrier passenger transportation. Requests the Academy to report to the Secretary and to Congress on such study. Requires the Secretary and the ICC to report to the President and to Congress not later than December 31, 1982, on the ownership, location, and adequacy of bus terminals. Provides specified protection to employees whose employment is terminated by a motor common carrrier of passengers (other than for cause) within ten years after enactment of this Act. Directs the ICC to maintain a list of jobs available with class I motor carriers of passengers.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Voting Rights for the Handicapped and the Elderly Act - Directs the Attorney General to promulgate guidelines to assure that registration and polling place facilities used for Federal elections are readily accessible to handicapped and elderly individuals. Sets forth minimum requirements for these guidelines. Requires States to make available registration and voting aids for handicapped and elderly individuals in Federal elections. Authorizes the Attorney General and aggrieved persons to bring actions in Federal court to enforce this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Title I: Emergency Homeownership Program - Emergency Homeownership Act of 1982 - Amends the National Housing Act to activate the emergency housing market stimulation program to: (1) direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide periodic mortgage assistance payments to homeowners; and (2) authorize the Secretary to insure assisted mortgages. Extends, until March 31, 1983, the Secretary's authority to enter into such assistance contracts and to insure such mortgages. Requires such contracts to provide for assistance payments for up to five years. Directs the Secretary to continue assistance payments to mortgagors who remain eligible after a contract expires to the extent that funds remain in a revolving fund containing recaptured assistance payments and unexpended appropriations under such program. Increases the maximum family income (from 130 to 140 percent of the area median income) over which a mortgagor is disqualified from assistance payments. Allows the Secretary to raise such area median income ceiling to 145 percent when necessary. Limits the maximum amount of assistance payments to the lesser of: (1) the balance of the mortgagor's monthly payment for principal, interest, and mortgage insurance after applying 25 percent of the mortgagor's income; and (2) the difference between the maximum interest rate on a FHA mortgage and an interest rate four percentage points lower than such maximum rate, but not less than ten percent. Specifies the limit on assistance payments for loans on manufactured homes. Permits up to 30 percent of the mortgages assisted under such program to involve homes constructed before April 1, 1982. Requires that the remaining assisted mortgages involve homes the construction of which began on or after such date. Increases the maximum sales price of a home eligible for such mortgage insurance and assistance payments to 100 percent (currently 82 percent) of the maximum principal obligation of a FHA mortgage. Authorizes the Secretary to increase such maximum sales price to 105 percent when necessary in certain areas. Directs the Secretary to consider the unemployment rate in various regions of the country when allocating assistance under the emergency market stimulation program. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Authorizes the Secretary to advance downpayment assistance, matching up to $5,000 of a family's available funds, on a newly constructed home that is financed by a loan not insured under the National Housing Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide downpayment assistance to families: (1) whose income do not exceed 140 percent of the area median income; (2) who certify that they lack sufficient funds to purchase a home without such assistance; and (3) who have not owned a home in the preceding three years. Provides for the recapture of downpayment assistance plus interest upon the disposition of the home or when the owner rents the home for more than one year. Authorizes appropriations for downpayment assistance. Title II: Homeowners' Relief - Emergency Homeowners' Relief Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary to make emergency mortgage relief advances for certain mortgagors when, for three consecutive months, the amount of delinquent mortgage loans exceeds a specified percentage of the amount of all mortgage loans accounted for in the mortgage delinquency series maintained by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). Directs the Secretary to provide such emergency advances in States within a FHLBB district if such mortgage delinquency condition exists for that district, even if such condition does not exist for the nation. Directs the FHLBB to submit delinquency information to the Secretary and Congress monthly. Provides for the discontinuation and resumption of the emergency advances program depending on the mortgage delinquency condition. Lists the eligibility conditions for emergency advances, including requirements that: (1) foreclosure would result without such assistance; (2) the mortgagor has suffered a loss of income as a result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions; and (3) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgagor will be able to resume full mortgage payments. Limits the amount of emergency advances to the least of: (1) 80 percent of the total monthly mortgage payment; (2) $600; or (3) the amount necessary to supplement the amount the homeowner is capable of contributing. Limits the duration of emergency advances to 12 months plus any period of delinquency, with a six-month extension permitted. Declares that emergency advances shall be repayable on terms prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth the authority of the Secretary to recapture emergency advances. Requires the Secretary and specified agencies to: (1) waive or relax limitations pertaining to the operations of certain mortgagees and financial institutions with respect to mortgage delinquencies in order to encourage forbearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosure; and (2) request such institutions to notify the appropriate agency and the mortgagor of least 30 days before instituting foreclosure proceedings on a mortgage. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the aggregate amount of appropriations for conservation and renewable energy for FY 1983 should not be less than the amount appropriated for FY 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Declares that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union: (1) a long-term, mutual, and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced levels; and (2) practical measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear war and to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should channel their resources away from amassing nuclear armaments and towards fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. Declares that the United States should continue to work for balanced arms reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow first-time home buyers an income tax credit equal to nine percent of the purchase price of a principal residence. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $5,400. Provides a three year carryback of excess credit amounts. Specifies that such credit shall be available with respect to only one residence of the taxpayer. Requires the recapture of credit amounts for the purchase of a principal residence if such residence is sold within 36 months after the date of acquisition. Repeals the provision allowing all-savers tax-exempt certificates, effective March 31, 1982. Revises requirements for mortgage subsidy bonds.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Coast Guard Authorization Act for 1983 and 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for FY 1983 and 1984 for: (1) operation and maintenance; (2) acquisition and improvement of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation; and (4) retired pay, including payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefit Plans and the Dependents Medical Care Act. Authorizes end-strength levels of 41,500 active duty and 5,484 civilian personnel for both fiscal years. Authorizes average military student training loads for both fiscal years. Permits the Coast Guard to delegate by contract its aids to maritime navigation responsibilities. Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to report to Congress within the year on the effects of such delegation and on the advantages of increasing the ratio of civilian to military employees in the operation of aids to navigation on the inland waterways. Requires that complete records of inspections or examinations delegated to the American Bureau of Shipping or a similar entity be kept in the United States and be accessible to the Coast Guard. States that a vice admiral's place on the active duty promotion list, grade, rank, pay, and allowances shall not be disturbed by the termination of an appointment for reappointment to another position as vice admiral. Repeals the requirement that the Coast Guard discharge upon petition any person under 21 who enlisted without parental consent. Permits the Commandant of the Coast Guard to provide medical and dental care to entitled personnel. Eliminates the Secretary's annual report to Congress concerning: (1) the utilization of authority to lease housing facilities for military personnel and their dependents; and (2) inspection and enforcement activities on vessels having inflammable or combustible liquid cargo in bulk.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, through the Government National Mortgage Association, to assist middle- and lower-income families in acquiring a home or membership in a cooperative housing association by making periodic interest reduction payments on behalf of such families to mortgagees and lenders. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into contracts to provide interest reduction payments during any month unless the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's home mortgage interest rate index for the most recent two-month period exceeds 12.5 percent per year. Conditions eligibility for interest reduction payments on the insurability of the first mortgage or loan secured by such property. Sets forth the qualifications for insurance, which include requirements that: (1) the loan be executed by a borrower who has an annual income of less than $30,000; (2) the loan involve a one- to four-family dwelling the construction of which was completed on or after March 6, 1982; (3) the loan be amortized over 30 years; and (4) beginning with the second year, the loan payments be increased by a specified amount which shall be applied to the principal obligation until it is paid off. Limits the duration of the interest reduction payments to five years. Declares that the amount of all such payments shall constitute a second lien on the property. Requires repayment of such amount, not to exceed 60 percent of the homeowner's net equity: (1) upon the sale or disposition of the property; (2) upon the refinancing of the loan; or (3) when the owner ceases to occupy the property as a principal residence for a period exceeding nine months. Limits the amount of interest reduction payments to the difference between the amount of the monthly principal and interest payment under the terms of the loan and the amount such payment would be if the interest rate on the loan were: (1) 11 percent per year; or (2) four percentage points less than the rate specified in the loan, whichever rate is higher. Requires the Secretary to: (1) allocate the amount available to carry out this Act on the basis of the population, number of housing starts, and unemployment in each State relative to all States; and (2) assure that the allocated amounts are made available in a manner which maximizes participation by eligible lenders and borrowers. Declares that any mortgage insured or assisted under this Act shall be eligible for purchase by the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association Corporation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Condemns the religious persecution by Iran of persons of the Baha'i faith. Holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of all its citizens. Expresses the hope that the discrimination against and executions of the Baha'is will cease. Urges Iran to end the executions.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Reaffirms that deposits, up to the statutorily prescribed amount, in federally insured depository institutions are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules applicable to "false" or "deceptive" commercial advertising, but continues the current provision eliminating the Commission's rulemaking authority based on "unfairness." Eliminates "unfairness" as a basis for Commission case-by-case adjudication with regard to commercial advertising. Makes the State action doctrine applicable to Commission authority over unfair methods of competition. Eliminates Commission authority to make substantive rules based principally on unfair methods of competition. Defines "unfair methods of competition" to mean conduct which is inconsistent with the principles of the Sherman or Clayton Acts. Defines "unfair acts or practices" as those causing substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers nor outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or competition. Applies current civil investigative demand requirements to the Commission's competition authority. Continues, with modification, the congressional veto procedures governing Commission regulations. Requires the President to sign the joint resolution disapproving a regulation. (Current law does not require the President's signature.) Establishes a $1,000,000 limit on civil penalties assessed by the Commission. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Commission from FY 1982 through FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Declares the sense of the Congress that the Congress shall authorize and appropriate such sums as may be necessary to assure the full coverage of all the deposits and accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration Board upon documented notification of need by such agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Amends the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to declare that actions concerning water and related land resources projects upstream from the Imperial Dam shall not be governed by specified provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to give preference to those salinity control units that reduce the salinity of the Colorado River at the least cost per unit of salinity reduction. Deletes certain provisions of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act concerning agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture for the Grand Valley unit. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct and maintain the following salinity control units according to specified directions: (1) Stage I of the Lower Gunnison Basin, Colorado; (2) McElmo Creek, Colorado; (3) Stage I of the Uinta Basin, Utah; (4) Palo Verde Irrigation District, California; (5) saline water use and disposal opportunities, Colorado River Basin; and (6) Sinbad Valley, Colorado. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary cooperative program with private landowners to improve on-farm water management and reduce watershed erosion on non-Federal and Department of Agriculture lands. Directs the Secretary to issue reports to certain congressional committees and others. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for measures implementing such program until the lapse of 60 days following submission of such reports, and not then if any of the congressional committees or the others reported to veto it. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1989. Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from assuming continuing operation and maintenance obligations for permanent salinity control measures constructed on non-Federal lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a program for minimizing salt contributions to the Colorado River from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Transfers all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands in Lander County, Nevada, to the Pershing County Water Conservation District of Nevada. States that this Act does not relieve the water conservation district from its existing contracts with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Requires the District to continue to protect the water rights for the Humboldt project (a portion included in the transferred lands).
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that no action be taken to terminate or otherwise weaken the community service employment program for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Declares that if Israel or any other democratic state is denied its rights and privileges in the United Nations' General Assembly the United States will suspend its participation in the General Assembly and will withhold its contribution to the United Nations until the action is reversed.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Authorizes appropriations for the administration of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for FY 1983. Directs the Secretary of State to select representatives from Federal agencies and from the private sector to represent the United States at international telecommunications conferences. Exempts representatives from the private sector from certain conflicts of interest provisions of the Criminal Code. Requires all such representatives to maintain financial disclosure statements with the Department of State.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that if Israel is expelled from the United Nations General Assembly or if Israel's credentials are suspended or denied by the General Assembly the United States will withhold: (1) its participation from the General Assembly; and (2) its assessed contributions to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982
Orphan Drug Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations to exempt from such Act drugs intended solely for drug treatment investigations. Defines "drug treatment investigation" as an investigation of a drug which involves human participants with a rare disease or condition. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an interagency committee known as the Committee on Orphan Drug Development. Makes it the function of such committee to promote the development of drugs for rare diseases or conditions (orphan drugs). Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to submit to the Committee an annual report on the rare disease and condition research activities of NIH. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit to the Committee an annual report on the use of the tax credit for experimental expenses. Requires the Committee to report by June 1 of each year to the appropriate congressional committees on its activities and the results of its evaluations, including the report submitted by NIH and the Secretary of the Treasury. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified experimental expenses incurred while researching orphan drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1982
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to extend by five months (until September 30, 1982) the period within which an individual must have become a full-time student at a post secondary educational institution in order to receive, after July 1982, child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Extends by one year (through August 1986) the period during which such benefits may be paid to an individual so qualified. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify all individuals who are entitled to child's insurance benefits for the month in which this Act is enacted of the changes made in the eligibility requirements and benefit amount by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that graduate and professional students should remain eligible for guaranteed student loans under part B (Federal, State, and Private Programs of Low-Interest Loans in Institutions of Higher Education) of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the Interstate Commerce Commission should temporarily refrain from granting applications for motor carrier operating authority filed by foreign companies or by companies controlled by foreign nationals.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Royalty Collection Incentive Act of 1982 - Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to designate a principal lessee with respect to any oil or gas lease issued under such Act. Makes the principal lessee responsible for making all royalty and lease payments under such lease. Directs the Attorney General at the request of the Secretary of the Interior to bring a civil action to enforce any law governing any oil or gas lease or any term of such a lease. Sets forth a maximum penalty for failure to comply with such laws or lease terms. Sets an additional fine of a five percent interest payment above the current interest rate for any overdue royalty payments. Provides a maximum fine of $100,000, a maximum prison term of the ten years, or both for any person who knowingly and willfully, with respect to any oil or gas lease issued under such Act: (1) violates any lease term; (2) makes any false statement or representation; (3) falsifies or tampers with any record; or (4) reveals confidential information. Requires convictions for such willful violations to result in the forfeiture of the lease held by the person convicted. Makes officers and agents of corporations prosecuted for such activities subject to the same penalties and prison terms.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Federal Election Campaign Equal and Total Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to include all persons, committees, and organizations within such Act's coverage. Provides penalties for using information disclosed under such Act to threaten or harass another person.
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