United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1981
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony. Defines such offense as using a firearm to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a firearm during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "illegally." Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense from one to ten years' imprisonment to five to ten years' imprisonment for a first offender and from two to 25 years to ten years to life imprisonment for a second or subsequent offender. Extends to first offenders the directions, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence or grant probation and that the additional sentence not run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the offense itself. Makes a first offender ineligible for parole for five years and a second or subsequent offender ineligible for ten years. Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1981
Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to require mine operators to notify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the type of construction and number of employees involved in a construction project. Exempts a State or political subdivision of a State from coverage under such Act. Authorizes any State agency or court to assert jurisdiction under State law over any mandatory health or safety standard involving a State-owned mine.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1981
Social Security Reform Act of 1981 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to make loans to the other Funds, prior to fiscal year 1991, whenever one of the Funds falls below 25 percent of the amount of its disbursements for the 12 months preceding the borrowing. Provides for the repayment of such loans. Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to finance the hospital insurance program partially through general revenues and to provide a corresponding decrease in the hospital insurance tax rates on employers, employees, and self-employment income. Requires that any change in the Consumer Price Index (used to determine cost-of-living increases under title II) be submitted for appropriate Congressional review. Provides from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2012, a phased increase in the eligibility age for title II benefits. Sets forth interim rules for determining entitlement to and the amount of title II benefits to be paid as well as the amount of social security taxes to be paid during such time period. Ends the payment of child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status. Eliminates the minimum benefit amount used in computing the primary insurance amount under title II. Eliminates the earnings limitation under title II for individuals aged 65 or older for taxable years after 1985. Exempts from social security taxes wages paid to an employee who has reached age 65 and the earnings of a self-employed individual who has reached age 65. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to prohibit discrimination because of age by employers, employment agencies, or labor organizations against individuals aged 40 or older (currently such prohibition applies to individuals who are at least 40 years old but less than 70 years old).
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1981
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide Federal drug enforcement officials with any information, equipment facilities, training, personnel, or advisors which may be helpful to enforcing Federal laws relating to the use of controlled substances. Permits drug officials to provide training and advice to members of the armed forces on the identification of drug traffickers and any other matter related to controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1981
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no bill to reduce Federal revenues shall take effect until the enactment of legislation to reduce current spending programs by a sufficient amount to reduce Federal outlays progressively as a percentage of the gross national product in the current and future fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Family Enterprise Estate and Gift Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the estate and gift tax rates beginning in 1981. Increases the unified credit against the estate and gift taxes from $47,000 to $124,750 by specified annual increments through 1985. Increases from $175,000 to $600,000, by specified annual increments through 1985, the minimum gross estate requirement for filing of a return. Repeals the existing limitations on the marital deduction for gift and estate taxes. Increases from $3,000 to $10,000 the annual gift tax exclusion. Qualifies estates of decedents who were disabled or retired for the special valuation of certain farms based on use if such decedents materially participated in the operation of the farm for five out of eight years preceding the year in which they became disabled or eligible for disability benefits. Permits the spouse of a decedent to use such valuation if the spouse has managed the farm or business for ten years preceding the decedent's death or takes over active management upon the decedent's death. Qualifies woodlands for the special use valuation if the decedent or a member of the decedent's family owned and farmed the property for ten years prior to the decedent's death. Reduces from 15 to ten years the length of time a qualified property must be held and put to a qualified use following the decedent's death before it can be disposed of without incurring a recapture of estate tax benefits. Permits active management rather than material participation as a test for qualification of the estate for spouses, children under 21, students, and disabled individuals who receive property from a decedent who qualified for special use valuation. Repeals the $500,000 limitation on the reduction of the value of qualified real property permitted by the special use valuation. Allows the like kind exchange of property without loss of special use valuation eligibility. Revises the method of valuing farms by providing that the basis of such valuation shall be the average annual gross rental value. Authorizes the step-up in basis of such assets. Repeals the requirement that an heir elect special treatment for involuntary conversions of qualified real property, thus making such treatment automatic upon such conversion. States that gifts made within three years of a decedent's death shall be valued as of the time of transfer rather than as of the date of death. Authorizes an individual to elect to pay a gift tax rather than use the unified tax credit. Modifies the alternate extension of time for payment of the estate tax where the estate consists largely of an interest in a closely held business to: (1) allow an installment payment election if the value of the interest in the closely held business is either 35 percent of the value of the gross estate or 50 percent of the taxable estate; (2) increase to 50 percent the value of an interest disposed of which will accelerate the payment of tax; and (3) permit payment, but with a penalty, of an installment within six months after the due date. Allows a disclaimer of an interest in property for estate tax purposes in specified circumstances where such disclaimer does not result in the passing of the interest concerned under the applicable State law.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981
Petroleum Displacement Act of 1981 - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to repeal certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of natural gas as a primary energy source in electric powerplants. Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Energy to prohibit the use of petroleum or natural gas or both: (1) as a primary energy source in electric powerplants where coal or alternate fuel capability exists; and (2) in excess of a minimal amount in an electric powerplant where feasible to use a mixture of petroleum or natural gas or an alternate fuel as a primary energy source.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 to provide that the provisions of such Act shall not apply to any surface mining of stone, clay, sand, or gravel.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that, in accordance with specified international agreements, the Soviet Union should provide proper medical care for Viktor Brailovsky and permit him to emigrate to Israel with his family. Urges the President to: (1) continue to express U.S. opposition to the imprisonment and treatment of Brailovsky; and (2) inform the Soviet Union that the United States, in evaluating its relations with other countries, will consider the extent to which those countries honor their commitments to human rights under international law.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1981
Agency Accountability Act of 1981 - Requires each Federal agency to: (1) prepare a semiannual agenda listing significant rules to be proposed during the next twelve months; and (2) transmit such agenda to the Congressional committee having primary jurisdiction over the statute pursuant to which such rule may be issued. Directs each agency to forward a copy of each proposed and final significant rule to the appropriate Congressional committee on the same day such rule is sent to the Federal Register for publication. Prohibits any such rule from becoming effective: (1) within 20 days after it is transmitted to such committee; (2) within 60 days of such a transmittal if a committee reports a joint resolution disapproving the rule, unless either House rejects the resolution or Congress adjourns sine die before such period has expired; or (3) if such a joint resolution is enacted into law during such period. Authorizes the head of an agency, upon written notice to the appropriate Congressional committees, to waive the requirements of this Act with respect to a rule upon determining that: (1) the rule is being issued in response to exceptional circumstances requiring immediate agency action in the public interest; or (2) the contents of the rule must be kept confidential prior to the effective date of the rule. Exempts agency compliance from judicial review.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981
Declares that seven members of named families have resided since a certain date in the United States Embassy in Moscow and have been living there in accordance with United States laws. Authorizes the granting of a visa and admission to the United States for permanent residence to each individual. Provides that each individual shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of a specified date, and to have been physically present and residing therein continuously since such date.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Reye's Syndrome Act of 1981 - Amends title XI (Genetic Disease, Hemophilia Programs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, through the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders, and Stroke, the Reye's Syndrome Coordinating Committee. Directs such Committee to: (1) make grants and enter into contracts for clinical research and treatment; and (2) establish mobile research teams. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984 for such activities. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within six months following the end of the Committee's authorization.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1981
Criminal Justice Construction Reform Act - Title I: Findings and Definitions - Sets forth definitions and findings. Defines "criminal justice facilities" to include court, law enforcement, juvenile, correctional, and other facilities used for any criminal justice purpose. Title II: Grants for the Construction and Modernization of Criminal Justice Facilities - Authorizes the Administrator of the Criminal Justice Facilities Administration (established under title III) to make grants to States for the construction and modernization of criminal justice facilities during fiscal years 1983 through 1988. Apportions appropriations among States on the basis of population and the volume and expenditure of criminal justice activities. Sets aside another portion of such sums appropriated for demonstration grants to test the applicability of advanced practices on the design, construction, and modernization of facilities. Requires any State desiring to receive such funding to submit a seven- year State plan. Directs the Administrator to operate a criminal justice facilities information clearinghouse. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay State and local governments an interest subsidy for criminal facility construction bonds which reduce the cost of such bonds to not more than five percent interest. Title III: Administration Provisions - Establishes the Criminal Justice Facilities Administration within the Department of Justice, headed by an Administrator appointed by the President. Charges the Administrator with carrying out this Act and submitting to the President for transmittal to Congress a report at least once per year. Sets at 75 percent the Federal share of the cost of a State plan approved under this Act. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the Administrator of the General Services Administration to donate surplus property to any State for construction and modernization of criminal justice facilities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1981
Expresses the jubilation and relief of the Senate at the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran. Expresses appreciation for the efforts of various Government officials to secure the release of the hostages. Recognizes the patriotism of the military personnel who tried to rescue them. Thanks Algeria for its help in securing the hostages' release.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers who do not itemize income tax deductions to claim a deduction from gross income for charitable contributions.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that evidence shall not be excluded from any criminal proceeding solely because it was obtained in violation of the fourth amendment to the Constitution, unless the court finds as a matter of law that an intentional or substantial violation has occurred. Directs the court to consider specified criteria in determining whether a violation is substantial.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for whoever robs, by force and violence or intimidation, a licensed pharmacy which is regularly engaged in retail dispensing of prescription drugs or devices in interstate commerce, if such robbery is part of a pattern of robberies in the locality. Defines "property" as a controlled substance, as defined in the Controlled Substances Act, whose value exceeds $500.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Federal Assistance Reform Act of 1981 - Title I: Consolidation of Federal Assistance Programs - Directs the President: (1) prior to each regular session of Congress, to examine the various Federal assistance programs to determine if consolidation of any such programs is necessary or desirable to promote the efficiency, administration, or coordination of such programs; and (2) upon making such a determination, transmit to Congress a plan for consolidating functionally related programs. Requires that such a plan: (1) designate a single agency to administer the plan and the consolidated programs; (2) specify the terms and conditions under which such programs will be administered; (3) expire no later than ten years after enactment of this Act; and (4) include a message describing the difference between the terms and conditions of the programs to be consolidated before and after consolidation, and assessing the plan's effects on the costs of implementing the programs. Directs the President to transmit a report on the administration of this title to Congress within 60 days of each session of Congress. Prohibits a consolidation plan from: (1) consolidating programs which are not functionally related; (2) designating an administering agency that did not administer any program to be consolidated; (3) excluding any person or group who is eligible for assistance under one of the programs to be consolidated from eligibility for assistance under the consolidation plan; or (4) making eligible for assistance under the plan any person or group not eligible under one of such programs. Terminates the consolidation authority under this title ten years after it becomes effective Declares that a consolidation plan shall become effective upon approval by the President of a Congressional resolution approving the plan. Sets forth House and Senate procedures for considering such a resolution. Authorizes the aggregation of appropriations for programs consolidated under such a plan. Title II: Financial Management and Audit of Federal Assistance Programs - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): (1) in consultation with the Comptroller General of the United States, to establish and maintain standard procedures to be utilized by all Federal agencies for the administration, accounting, and financial auditing of Federal assistance to State and local governments and nonprofit organizations; and (2) to prescribe directives to agencies for coordinating Federal, State, and local audits of grant programs. Requires a single, independent, biennial, compliance, and financial audit of State and local government entities, nonprofit organizations, and subgrantees which receive Federal assistance. Requires such an audit of an organization which receives less than $100,000 a year to be conducted quinquennially. Establishes the responsibility of State and local governments and nonprofit organizations to utilize independent auditors to conduct audits of Federal assistance recipients within their jurisdictions in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Makes the Federal Government responsible for: (1) utilizing the quality review process to be established by the Director of OMB and the Comptroller General to assure the proper performance of such audits; and (2) conducting audits which are not financial and compliance audits. Directs the OMB to establish methods of payment of independent auditors for the expense of performing all or any part of an audit on behalf of the Government. Title III: Integrated Grant Development - Integrated Grant Development Act of 1981 - Repeals the Joint Funding Simplification Act. Directs the President to issue guidelines necessary to assure that Federal agencies: (1) identify related Federal assistance programs that would be suitable for providing joint funding; (2) issue guidelines and develop materials to assist in the development of projects drawing support from different assistance programs; (3) review and modify administrative requirements which impede integrated grant development for projects; (4) establish common administrative rules with respect to related programs to assist in integrated grant development for specific projects; and (5) create joint or common procedures for processing applications, supervising projects, and evaluating performance (including procedures insuring that agencies participating in integrated grant programs contribute proportionately to the lead agency's costs of administering the program). Requires the heads of Federal agencies to cooperate with respect to Federal assistance programs which may be suitable for providing joint support of projects of State or local governments or nonprofit organizations. Declares that the Director of OMB shall have responsibility for carrying out the provisions of this title. Specifies guidelines to be followed by each Federal agency participating in an integrated grant program when processing applications for assistance from State or local governments or nonprofit organizations. Sets forth special authorities to be utilized by an agency providing support to a project assisted by more than one Federal program only when a problem cannot be solved through other actions by this title or other applicable law. Directs an agency to adopt uniform provisions governing the financial management of a project, the timing of Federal payments for such project, the form of assistance, and accountability procedures when such project otherwise would be subject to conflicting administrative rules. Permits the review of integrated grant project proposals by a single board or committee. Allows an agency to delegate its functions for the administration of a Federal assistance program to another agency with the approval of the President. Authorizes the establishment of a management fund with respect to a project receiving support from more than one program. Permits the transfer to such fund of the proportionate share of payments for the project from each affected appropriation. Directs the OMB to report to the Appropriations Committees of Congress on the savings effected by integrated grants. Requires the recipients of assistance under a program financed by a management fund to keep records necessary for an effective audit. Grants access to the papers and records of such a recipient to the Comptroller General and the head of the agency administering the management fund. Terminates the provisions of this title five years after they become effective. Directs the President, at least two years before the provisions expire, to transmit to Congress a report which evaluates and makes recommendations for the administration of this title. Title IV: Administration of Generally Applicable Federal Assistance Requirements - Defines the term "generally applicable requirement" as any requirement with which a recipient of Federal assistance has to comply in order to achieve national policy objectives, and which applies to programs administered by two or more agencies. Requires the President, within 120 days after enactment of this title, to designate Federal agencies to: (1) coordinate the preparation of national policy assistance standards for one or more generally applicable requirements in various subject areas; and (2) report on the implementation of such requirements. Directs the President to establish a date for the preparation of such standards which shall be not later than two years after enactment of this Act for existing requirements or two years after a requirement is established by statute or administrative rule. Directs each designated agency to organize and chair a task force to prepare such standards. Requires such a task force to consist of each assistance agency responsible for implementing the national policy objective. Requires that such standards eliminate any unnecessary compliance burdens for assistance recipients while ensuring the achievement of national policy assistance objectives. Directs each agency which administers a program to which such standards apply, to implement such standards within 120 days after they are published by a designated agency. Directs each designated agency to coordinate the implementation of such standards, and to insure that such standards are revised only on the first day of each fiscal year. Requires the head of each assistance agency to designate a senior official to: (1) coordinate such agency's actions to comply with such standards; and (2) ensure active agency participation in the development and implementation of such standards. Authorizes such agency head to certify that State and local governments are in compliance with State and local government requirements that contain the same requirements as national policy assistance standards. Directs a designated agency to report to the President concerning any impediments to the development of such standards. Permits the President to direct the agency to prepare a proposed bill for transmission to Congress, to remove such impediments. Allows the President to submit to Congress proposed legislation exempting certain programs from inappropriate generally applicable requirements. Authorizes the President to delegate responsibility for monitoring the overall implementation of this title to the Director of OMB or the head of any other Federal agency. Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 to require any Federal agency which administers a program of Federal assistance to a State government or a political subdivision, upon request, to provide written information to a designated State agency on the amount and purpose of such assistance. Requires any Federal agency: (1) to provide notice to a State or local government before withdrawing or refusing to renew financial assistance; (2) upon request, to provide such government with an opportunity to demonstrate why such action should not be taken; and (3) upon request, to explain why such a government's application for assistance was rejected. Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to waive any changed requirements for the receipt of grants with respect to a State, local government, or nonprofit organization which has expended substantial effort to apply for such grant under the existing requirements. Directs the United States Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations: (1) to conduct a study of alternative methods of delivering public services supported by grants-in-aid in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of such services; and (2) to report its findings and recommendations to Congress and the President. Requires the Director of OMB to prepare a list of the 100 largest Federal assistance programs of each year. Directs the head of an agency administering any such program to prepare and transmit to the Director an analysis of the administrative costs of that program during the preceding year. Requires the Director of OMB to conduct and report to Congress concerning a pilot program to develop and implement methods to assess the administrative costs of Federal assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize payment for specified services performed by chiropractors, including x-rays, physical examinations and related routine laboratory tests.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the week beginning with the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that it supports the President's efforts to: (1) communicate the opposition of the United States to any attempt by the Soviet Union to violate the sovereignty of Poland; (2) encourage other nations to affirm their support for respect of principles of international relations; (3) consider, in cooperation with allies and friends of the United States, measures to be taken if Warsaw Pact forces invade Poland; and (4) inform the Soviet Union of the consequences of such an invasion.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1980
Designates the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable locations within such center to commemorate and designate such building.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Amends the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to repeal the provision providing for the accompanying transfer of appropriations with any transfer of refugee responsibilities from the Federal Emergency Management Administration to other Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1980
Establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which shall: (1) provide and encourage appropriate ways for the Nation to observe the Days of Remembrance to commemorate the holocaust; (2) plan, erect, and oversee the operation of a memorial museum to the victims of the holocaust; and (3) plan for carrying out the recommendations of the report submitted to the President on September 27, 1979, by the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Authorizes the Council to receive public land in the District of Columbia on which it may erect the memorial. Terminates the Council's authority to construct a memorial if the erection of the memorial has not commenced within five years of enactment of this Act and sufficient funds to ensure completion of the memorial have not been certified to be available. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1980
Authorizes the Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging to release certain records and documents created or obtained by and in the possession of the Committee to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court, State of Hawaii.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1980
Limitation on Government Recordkeeping Requirements Act of 1980 - Prohibits any Federal agency from: (1) requiring any person to maintain, prepare, or produce any record (other than a record relating to a dangerous material) of an event after five years have expired since the event occurred; and (2) commencing an action against a person who violated a regulation if five years or more have expired since such violation occurred, except as otherwise provided by the Internal Revenue Code. Declares that this Act shall not apply in any case involving: (1) fraud; (2) a willfull or knowing violation; (3) a false statement of fact made to an agency; or (4) the omission of information necessary to make a statement not misleading.
United States · United States Congress · 3 September 1980
Congratulates Polish workers on the successful completion of their strikes. Urges the Polish government to respect the agreement. Calls upon other nations to not interfere in Poland's internal affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1980
Provides for the use and distribution of the award granted by the Indian Claims Commission to the Seminole Nation as it existed in Florida on September 18, 1823. Directs the chief trial judge of the United States Court of Claims to report to the Congress findings of fact and a recommendation as to what constitutes a fair, just, and equitable division of the award between the Seminole Indians of Florida and the Seminole Indians of Oklahoma. Makes such recommendation binding on the Secretary of the Interior at the end of the 60-day period following its submission if neither House of Congress adopts a resolution to the contrary. Provides for the allocation of the total share of the award of the Seminole Indians of Florida among the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and those Indians in Florida possessing at least one-fourth degree of Florida Seminole blood who have not shared in the claims of any other tribe.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1980
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise the common boundary between Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida to include a specified trail within the Preserve.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1980
Inspector General Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to establish an Office of Inspector General pursuant to such Act in each of the Departments of Defense, Energy, Health and Human Resources, Justice, State, and Treasury and in the International Development Cooperation Agency. Transfers to such Offices the functions of specified existing audit and investigation offices of such Departments and Agency. Authorizes the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to use part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus to conduct an audit or investigation. Directs the Inspector General to: (1) conduct a study of the operation of the audit, investigative, and inspection components of the Defense Department which engage in the prevention and detection of fraud, waste, and abuse, including a review of the findings of the task force established to evaluate such components; and (2) report to the Secretary of Defense and Congress by September 30, 1983, concerning such study and any recommendations for changes in the organization and operations of such components. Declares that all of the auditors engaged in internal and contract auditing for the Department of Energy will be a part of the Department's Office of Inspector General. Transfers to the Office certain auditor and auditing support positions of specified Department Offices. Repeals certain provisions of Federal law concerning the existing Offices of Inspector General of the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1980
Authorizes the Community Services Administration to transfer funds from its Rural Development Loan Fund to its ongoing heat crisis program. Reimburses such Fund from specified unexpended funds appropriated for energy crisis activities. Exempts such heat crisis program funds from prohibitions against awards of such funds after June 30, 1980. Authorizes such funds to assist States which: (1) have experienced extreme heat conditions for a significant period of time; and (2) have significant numbers of low-income individuals whose health is threatened due to such heat.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1980
Amends the Home Energy Assistance Act of 1980 to require that the allotment of home energy grant funds be based on the number of heating and cooling degree days (currently, the number of heating degree days squared) multiplied by the number of low-income households. Authorizes States to make grants to eligible households to meet the rising costs of cooling.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Provides for decreasing interest rate differentials between deposits or accounts in insured banks and those in savings and loan institutions. Prescribes maximum rates for savings and loan accounts in excess of 0.25 percent of the maximum rates for bank accounts decreasing to 0.05 percent until June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Declares seven named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Directs the Senate Finance Committee to report to the Senate by September 3, 1980, a responsible, targeted anti- inflationary tax cut to take effect in 1981. Directs the Democratic Task Force on the Economy to recommend to the Senate a comprehensive economic policy at the earliest possible date.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to only those workers who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
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