United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987
International Child Abduction Act - Title I: Provisions Implementing the Convention - Grants State courts, the courts of the District of Columbia and the territories and possessions of the United States, and U.S. district courts original jurisdiction with regard to actions arising under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Convention) and this Act. Sets forth requirements with regard to notice and burden of proof for such actions. Allows any court exercising jurisdiction over a petition filed pursuant to the Convention or this Act to take provisional measures under Federal or State law to protect the well-being of the child or prevent the child's removal or concealment. Prohibits any court from ordering the provisional removal of a child from the person having physical control unless the applicable requirements of State law are satisfied. States that any application submitted to the Central Authority for the United States or petition submitted in accordance with the terms of the Convention shall be admissible in court without regard to the need for legalization or authentication. Directs the President to designate a Federal agency to serve as Central Authority for the United States for the purpose of: (1) issuing regulations to implement the Convention and this Act; (2) obtaining information from the Federal Parent Locator Service; and (3) collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information for purposes relating to the Convention and this Act. Directs the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Attorney General to designate Federal employees and private citizens to serve as an interagency coordinating group to monitor the operation of the Convention and provide advice on its implementation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of the Convention and this Act. Title II: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends the Social Security Act to provide the Central Authority for the United States access to the services of the Parent Locator Service. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the disclosure of tax returns and return information to Federal, State, and local child support enforcement agencies for the purpose of locating individuals in connection with the abduction or wrongful restraint or retention of a child.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1987
Authorizes the President to grant diplomatic and consular privileges and immunities to offices of the Commission of the European Communities which are established in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1987
Declares that: (1) proposals by Canada to impose discriminatory limitations on foreign companies to distribute motion pictures in Canada reflect a protectionist trade policy aimed primarily at U.S. motion picture distributors; and (2) such measures are at odds with free trade between nations and could bar completion of negotiations and Senate approval of a Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act of 1987 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to decrease from five percent to three percent the amount of securities acquired in a corporation which triggers disclosure requirements. Reduces from ten days to one day the time in which public disclosure must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission). Requires such disclosure to include: (1) the identity of all persons with whom the filing person had communications regarding such acquisition within 90 days prior to the acquisition; (2) the sources of financing used to make the acquisition; (3) a statement by the filing person as to whether the acquisition is for the purpose of investment or for the purpose of taking control of such corporation; and (4) an itemized statement of all fees and other expenses paid or incurred in connection with the acquisition. Prohibits any person required to file such a disclosure from acquiring any additional amount of securities until the disclosure has been filed with the Commission and an announcement has been publicly disseminated. Requires that any material changes in facts relating to a filing must be made by the end of the next business day following such change. (Present law requires such a change to be made promptly.) Includes within the definition of those required to file such disclosures any group of two or more persons acting in concert or in a coordinated or consciously parallel manner (whether or not pursuant to an express agreement). (Present law requires disclosure only from groups of persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group.) Prohibits anyone who has disclosed that the purpose of the acquisition is investment from making any tender offer for additional shares of securities until six months after the filing of an amended disclosure statement indicating that the purpose is to obtain control of the corporation. Makes unlawful: (1) the making of any false statements of material fact or the omission of any material fact regarding any required disclosure statement; and (2) engaging in any fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative acts or practices in connection with any required disclosure statement. Provides for a private right of action for damages and equitable relief by the issuer of securities for any intentional disclosure violations or for any violation of margin requirements in connection with tender offer financing. Requires any person making a tender offer for shares of securities of a corporation to keep such offer open for a minimum of at least 35 business days. Prohibits any person to acquire more than 15 percent of any of the shares of any class of securities in a corporation unless such acquisition is made pursuant to a tender offer. Allows the Commission to exempt any person or transaction from such prohibition to the extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors. Prohibits an issuer from: (1) buying back its securities at a price above the market value (Greenmail) from any person holding more than three percent of those securities if that person held the stock less than six months, unless the stock is purchased by a tender offer open to all shareholders or the repurchase is approved by a majority of the issuer's shareholders; (2) during the pendency of a tender offer, entering into agreements that increase the current or future compensation (except for a routine increase) of any officer or director (Golden Parachute payments); and (3) establishing any rights to acquire any securities, during the pendency of the tender offer, if such rights would permit such shareholders to purchase securities of an acquiring company or the issuer (Poison Pill defense). Prohibits any person from acting as a "tender offer arbitrageur" unless registered with the Commission. Defines a "tender offer arbitrageur" as any person who regularly buys and sells registered securities, for his or her own account or for the account of others, in response to, or in anticipation of, a merger, tender offer, recapitalization, restructuring, or other similar transaction. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to exempt from liability for breach of fiduciary duties any employee benefit plan trustees who decide in response to a tender offer not to tender securities which are held in trust by the benefit plan. Prohibits any part of the residual assets of a benefit plan from being used to finance, directly or indirectly, any acquisition of the securities of the employer pursuant to a tender offer including the repayment, redemption, or refinancing of any indebtedness incurred by such person in connection with any such acquisition. Increases the insider trading criminal penalties from a maximum of five years imprisonment or a $100,000 fine to a maximum of ten years imprisonment or a $1,000,000 fine. Requires a minimum criminal penalty of one year imprisonment for perjury or obstruction of justice in connection with an insider trading investigation. States that the Congress declares that the internal affairs or governance of corporations shall be subject to regulation by the laws of the State under which such corporation is organized.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Prevents the United States from implementing any agreement with any country bordering the Persian Gulf under which vessels of such country are registered under the U.S. flag. Urges the President to seek a United Nations Security Council meeting to establish a U.N. Peacekeeping Force to protect nonbelligerent shipping in the Persian Gulf and to seek an early end to the Iran-Iraq war.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Solar Development Initiative Act of 1987 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the authorizations provided by this Act indicate the minimum levels for a solar research effort that is sensitive to both the Federal deficit and to the growth of the domestic solar energy industry. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for specified Federal solar energy research and development programs. Directs the Secretary of Energy to include in the FY 1989 budget the funding necessary to implement a solar and renewable energy research program which: (1) has near-term commercial applications; and (2) enhances the international competitiveness of the solar and renewable energy industries. Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish an information-dissemination program for Federal procurement and loan officers regarding the application of solar heating and cooling technology in Federal buildings. Directs the Committee on Renewable Energy, Commerce, and Trade to continue to coordinate Federal programs affecting commerce in renewable energy products and services. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the renewable energy technologies programs established by the Secretary of Commerce should be funded in FY 1988 through 1990 through the Department of Energy at a specified minimum level. Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to direct the President to take into account, when determining whether to designate a beneficiary country, the degree to which it undertakes self-help measures to promote energy self-sufficiency using locally available renewable resources. Mandates that the design for new Federal facilities for specified agencies include consideration of energy systems using solar energy or other renewable energy forms. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to mandate that a specified percentage of loan authority be available only for solar and renewable energy loans. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the use of administrative funds for incentives, grants, and studies for renewable energy and other small business activities. Amends the Small Business Act to: (1) repeal provisions regarding loans to small business concerns for solar energy and energy conservation measures; (2) mandate that a certain percentage of loan authority be used only for small business energy measures; and (3) direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to give due consideration to the export potential of solar and renewable energy products, and to include a list of solar and renewable energy loan guarantees in an annual report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Economic Equity Act of 1987 - Title I: Employment - Part A: Pay Equity - Federal Employee Compensation Equity Act of 1987 - Establishes the Commission on Compensation Equity to provide for a consultant to study the classification, grading, and pay-setting processes within and between the position classification system and the job-grading system. Requires the study to determine whether these processes result in the payment of rates of basic pay for positions: (1) in which either sex is numerically predominant or any race or ethnic group is disproportionately represented; and (2) where such differences in pay are not in proportion to the duties, difficulty, responsibility, or qualification requirements of the work performed. Provides a timetable for: (1) the Commission to report to appropriate congressional committees and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management with advisory recommendations; (2) the Director to report to the committees and the Commission with a plan to carry out any of the recommendations; (3) additional comments from the Commission; and (4) termination of the Commission. Part B: Equal Credit - Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from exempting from such Act any class of credit transactions that are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. Permits the Board to exempt (for five years) a type or class of business or commercial transaction only after determining that application of such Act to such transaction would not contribute substantially to effecting the purposes of such Act. Part C: Pension and Health Benefits for Nonfull-time Workers - Part-Time and Temporary Workers Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to bring certain part-time employees within the participation, vesting, and accrual rules governing pension plans. Addresses any employee who, within a relevant 12-month period: (1) has customarily completed more than 500 but fewer than 1,000 hours of service; or (2) is employed in a type of position in which employment customarily consists of such a number of hours. Provides that completion of such hours of service will be treated as completion of 1,000 hours of service (thereby bringing the employee within the ERISA benefit framework). Permits a reduction in the employer-provided premium under a group health plan in the case of a part-time employee only when such employee: (1) has customarily completed fewer than 30 hours of service per week; or (2) is employed in a type of position in which employment customarily consists of such a number of hours. Limits such a premium reduction, when permissible, to not less than a ratable portion of the premium ordinarily provided in the case of an employee who completes 30 hours of service per week. Revises the ERISA definition of "employee" to include non-employees who, pursuant to a contract or agreement, provide employee-like service to an employer for at least one year at the rate of 500 or more hours per year. Part D: Economic Security - Social Security Equity Act of 1987 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the combined earnings of a married couple which are attributable to the period of their marriage shall be shared equally between them for purposes of determining the eligibility for, and amount of, OASDI benefits to which each spouse is or may become separately entitled. Credits the survivor of the marriage with 100 percent of the combined total wages for the period of the marriage. Provides that this Act shall not apply in specified cases when it would result in a reduction of OASDI benefits. Sets forth certain age and marriage requirements with which married couples must comply in order for this Act to apply. Repeals the separate definition of disability applicable to widows and widowers. Permits the months of a widow's or widower's entitlement to Supplemental Security Income benefits (title XVI of the Social Security Act) on the basis of a disability to be counted toward the 24 months needed to become entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) on that basis. Pension Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to extend to all accrued benefits existing in plan year 1989 and thereafter the amendments made with regard to the nondiscriminatory coordination of defined contribution plans with Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI). Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal provisions that permit a certain disparity in simplified employee pension plan contributions with respect to nondiscriminatory coordination with OASDI. Provides for the repeal, effective for plan year 2000 and thereafter, of IRC rules relating to: (1) the nondiscriminatory coordination of defined contribution plans with OASDI; and (2) pension integration exceptions. Amends the IRC to establish distinct minimum employee coverage requirements applicable in cases when an employer with respect to a plan is treated as operating a single line of business. Requires such a plan to benefit all the employer's employees. Limits the exception to minimum coverage requirements available to employers treated as operating separate lines of business for a year. Amends the IRC and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to eliminate the special vesting requirements governing multiemployer plans. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States, as soon as possible after this Act's enactment, to undertake thorough studies with respect to: (1) possible methods of requiring employee pension plans to provide cost of living and other adjustments to plan benefits; and (2) potential pension portability mechanisms, including ways to preserve and enhance the real value of deferred vested pension benefits. Lists specific items to be addressed in each study. Requires submission of the studies to specified Congressional committees within two years of this Act's enactment. Medicaid Community Spouse Safety Net Act of 1987 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to set special resource and income eligibility standards for institutionalized individuals so as to provide support and maintenance of their noninstitutionalized spouses. Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act - Bans discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the consideration of applications for, or the granting of, insurance policies and the terms of such policies. Prohibits the use of any statistical table as a basis for action banned by this Act, and discrimination in any manner against a person because that person has opposed any practice made unlawful under this section. Grants to States having insurance discrimination laws the primary opportunity to enforce the pertinent prohibitions. Permits a civil action against the insurer to be filed in State or Federal court by or on behalf of an aggrieved person. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in district court (without regard to the amount in controversy) when there is reasonable cause to believe that a person or group is engaged in a pattern or practice of violating these rights and that such violation raises an issue of general public importance. Directs the court to: (1) order the defendant to amend any relevant contract to comply with these provisions; (2) award actual damages for the period of noncompliance; and (3) award the aggrieved person reasonable attorney fees. Authorizes an award of punitive damages, in addition to actual damages. Describes rights, liabilities, premiums, benefits, and insurance coverages that are not to be affected by these antidiscrimination provisions. Federal Council on Women Act - Establishes a Federal Council on Women to: (1) collect and evaluate information with respect to any problems that are particular to women in the United States; (2) review and evaluate Federal policy related to any such problems; (3) coordinate the activities of the Council with similar activities conducted by States, local governments, and concerned organizations; and (4) make recommendations. Directs the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Dependent Care - Part A: Improving the Quality of Dependent Care - Family Day Care Provider Assistance Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to States for grants to support family day care providers. Directs States to make such grants to community nonprofit organizations with experience in working with family day care and which furnish or propose to furnish support primarily to providers serving low-income families. Requires such grants to be used to: (1) provide training to family day care providers; (2) operate resource centers for making available developmentally appropriate curriculum materials; (3) operate a system of substitute caregivers for providers; (4) furnish technical assistance to providers in understanding local regulations and relevant tax and other policies; (5) provide subgrants for the purchase of small equipment; and (6) provide other appropriate support to family day care providers. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Resource Center on Family Day Care, to be administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth a formula for State allotments. Child-Care Standards Improvement Act of 1987 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to improve State child-care licensing and regulatory systems. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such grants, the establishment of a State Advisory Committee on Child-Care Standards to review a State's child-care licensing and regulatory systems. Requires reports by such committees. Establishes a National Advisory Committee on Child-Care Standards to assist and provide guidance to the States in improving the quality of child-care services. Requires the National Advisory Committee to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services proposed recommended standards for child-care programs within 14 months after the enactment of this Act. Terminates the National Advisory Committee 90 days after the publication by the Secretary of final recommended standards. Part B: Access to Dependent Care for All Families - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the income tax credit for employment-related dependent care expenses to: (1) make the credit refundable; (2) increase the amount of the credit from 30 percent to 50 percent of the relevant expenses, reduced (but not below 20 percent) by one percent for each full $1,000 amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds $15,000, subject to an annual adjustment for inflation (the current reduction is one percent for each $2,000 in excess of $10,000 AGI with no provision for a cost of living adjustment); and (3) apply the credit to expenses for certain respite care of qualifying dependents of the taxpayer. Permits credit for up to $1,200 ($2,400 in cases involving more than one qualifying individual) of respite care expenses incurred in the care of: (1) a dependent of the taxpayer who is under the age of 15; or (2) a spouse or other dependent of the taxpayer who is physically or mentally incapable of self-care. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to bring within their respective frameworks loans or advances secured by a single residential property occupied as a single family residence in which community child care service is provided (thus making such loans eligible for purchase under each Act). Part C: Increasing Availability of Dependent Care for Low-Income Families - Amends the Social Security Act to increase appropriations for FY 1988 and thereafter for block grants to the States for social services. State Dependent Care Grants Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act to require that amounts paid to States for use in the operation of child care services be designed to enable children whose families lack adequate financial resources to participate in before or after school child care programs. Requires State Governors to include specified information in their grant reports. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1991, the time until which necessary revisions of grant program descriptions must be submitted. Public Housing Child Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) make grants to public housing agencies to contract for lower-income resident child care services; and (2) design such program to determine the extent to which it facilitates resident employability. Requires a report to the Congress within three years. Authorizes FY 1987 through 1989 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning October 18, 1987, as Financial Independence Week. Urges all citizens to pursue financial independence through sound planning and management of their individual resources.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning June 21, 1987, as National Outward Bound Week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first Outward Bound Outdoor Recreational Program offered in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1987
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to mandate that air carriers' representations regarding domestic airline schedules reflect the average actual arrival time for such carrier. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) conduct an ongoing review of such air carriers' representations and compliance; and (2) assess fines for violations of such mandate.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to require the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to promulgate regulations relating to the exchange of land or land interests, including the timing of appraisals and the submission of appraisals in disagreement to binding arbitration. Requires regulations governing appraisals to reflect nationally recognized appraisal standards and the differences between acquisition appraisals and transfer appraisals. Permits each Secretary to exchange land or interests of approximately equal value if to do so would be in the public interest and expedite the exchange. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1998 for land exchange activities. States that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act shall remain unaffected by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to establish a National Quality Award, to be evidenced by a medal. Directs the President (on the basis of recommendations received from the Secretary of Commerce) or the Secretary of Commerce to periodically make the award to companies and other organizations which have substantially benefited the economic or social well-being of the United States through improvements in the quality of their goods and services resulting from the effective practice of quality management. Sets forth categories in which the award may be given and qualification criteria. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board of overseers to make suggestions for improvements in the award process. Directs the Director of the National Bureau of Standards to provide information about the awards and about the successful quality improvement strategies and programs of the award winners to all participants and to other appropriate groups. Provides that funding for the award program shall be through gifts from public and private sources and fees imposed upon organizations applying for the award. Directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the President and the Congress a report on the progress, findings, and conclusions of activities conducted with respect to the award, along with recommendations for possible modifications.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
States that the Environmental Protection Agency should encourage States to mandate the use of fuel alcohol and other oxygenate/gasoline blends in CO nonattainment areas, and neat alcohols or other clean burning alternative transportation fuels in commercial fleets in ozone nonattainment areas as optional pollution control strategies in their State Implementation Plan under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress: (1) commending the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for efforts at district levels to implement the legalization program in ways that prevent the deportation of ineligible family members; and (2) that in order to ensure the success of such program and establish a uniform national policy, INS district directors should use their authority to provide relief from deportation, and authorize employment where appropriate, to assure family unity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Research Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (Director), to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a comprehensive national plan containing specified elements relating to education, information, and risk reduction activities concerning AIDS. Directs the Secretary to submit to the committees each year for the next ten years a revision of the plan. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the development, implementation, or expansion of State plans for education, information, risk reduction, and other activities relating to AIDS. Requires States, in order to receive grants, to submit an application with specified contents. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States relating to these grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities for development, establishment, or expansion of programs for targeted education, information, and risk reduction activities relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to activities directed toward individuals at highest risk of becoming infected with the acquired immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary to give preference to community-based organizations which are located in, have a history of service in, and will serve specified areas. States that the Secretary may review the content of any educational or information materials developed with grants only for scientific and factual validity. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control for the training of individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, laboratory analysis, and risk reduction relating to AIDS. Declares that individuals receiving fellowships shall not be counted in determining the number of full time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for specified purposes. Directs the Secretary to make grants to international organizations concerned with public health for: (1) programs of education, information, and risk reduction relating to AIDS; (2) projects to train individuals to develop skills and technical expertise regarding AIDS; and (3) epidemiological research relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to inform the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development of grants made under this provision. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application is submitted. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the grants be made through the World Health Organization and, in the Western Hemisphere, through the Pan American Health Organization. Requires grants to be in furtherance of the global strategy of the World Health Organization Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to States, for grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities, for fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control, and for grants to international organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the development, establishment, or expansion in a service area of networks of comprehensive medical services for individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Requires networks to provide: (1) comprehensive services, or referrals to comprehensive services, for such individuals, including specified services; and (2) continuing education for health care personnel involved in the delivery of services to individuals infected with the virus. Specifies allowed and prohibited uses of grants. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Requires entities applying for a grant, prior to applying, to establish a network advisory committee to assist in development of grant applications, provide support for the development, establishment, or expansion of the network, and monitor the implementation of, and the services provided through, the network. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to specified types of applicants. Directs the Secretary to make at least one grant each fiscal year to an applicant in each service area in which there is a high incidence of children who are infected with the virus. States criteria for selecting such applicant. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services to individuals with AIDS. Requires projects supported with such grants to provide for the delivery of health services in conjunction with the comprehensive medical services networks. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive medical service networks and for innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide long-term counseling to individuals who have AIDS or who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the virus; and (2) conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of such counseling. Specifies purposes for which grants may be used. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to entities based at, or having relationships with, entities providing comprehensive health services to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for the study of, and projects for the demonstration of, effective methods, with regard to intravenous drug abusers, to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide treatment to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to create the National Program on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, consisting of: (1) a research program on AIDS, including a research program relating to the prevention of AIDS; and (2) demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS and for the provision of counseling concerning AIDS. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate one of the Directors of the national research institutes as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coordinator. Makes the AIDS Coordinator responsible for administration of the Program. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to develop and implement a plan for NIH to expedite the award of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements by any agency of NIH for projects relating to AIDS, including projects initiated by investigators not in response to any solicitation for proposals. Requires the plan to provide, in the case of applications made in response to solicitations for proposals, for making of awards or disapproval of applications within six months after the date on which a solicitation is issued. Directs the AIDS Coordinator, in conjunction with the Directors of the national research institutes and in consultation with the National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board (Advisory Board), to promote cooperation between specified agencies in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report with specified contents. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for AIDS and infection with the virus. Authorizes the AIDS Coordinator to: (1) establish or support the large-scale production or distribution of specialized biological materials or other therapeutic substances for research relating to AIDS and set standards of safety and care for persons using such materials; (2) support, in consultation with the Advisory Board, research relating to AIDS outside the United States in certain circumstances, collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, the training of American scientists abroad and foreign scientists in the United States, and programs of education and training, including education and laboratory and clinical research training; (3) encourage and coordinate research relating to AIDS by industrial concerns in certain circumstances and provide for the exchange of information between Federal agencies and private entities involved in specified ways with therapies and vaccines for AIDS; (4) acquire, improve, repair, operate, and maintain, in consultation with the Advisory Board, laboratories and other real and personal property, make grants for the renovation of facilities, and lease certain spaces for a limited period; (5) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to expedite and coordinate research relating to AIDS; and (6) maintain and operate the International Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Data Bank. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the AIDS Coordinator, to establish in NIH a National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the implementation of the Program; (2) advise and make recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary, the Director of NIH, the AIDS Coordinator, and the heads of other Federal agencies; and (3) maintain liaisons with other advisory bodies and key non-Federal entities involved with the control of AIDS. Requires the Advisory Board to prepare an annual report for the AIDS Coordinator describing the Advisory Board's activities and making recommendations regarding the Program. Authorizes the Director of the Institute to enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities for planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Specifies permitted uses for Federal payments under a cooperative agreement or grant. Limits support of a center to five years, subject to extension for periods of up to five years, if recommended by a peer review group. Requires, in the Institute, appointment of an Associate Director for Prevention to coordinate and promote the programs in the Institute concerning the prevention of infectious diseases, including AIDS. Directs the Associate Director for Prevention to prepare, for inclusion in a biennial report required by existing law, a description of the prevention activities of the Institute. Requires the Director of the Institute to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serum are available to qualified investigators. States that AIDS is included within the scope of the purpose of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to make awards, under existing provisions for National Research Service Awards, for the training of individuals to participate in national research efforts relating to AIDS. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or the Administrator of General Services to respond to any priority request made by the AIDS Coordinator of the NIH within 14 calendar days.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress commending the Department of Agriculture on its 125th anniversary. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating such event.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Airport and Airway Capacity Expansion Act of 1987 - Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress the results of their jointly conducted review regarding the need and utilization of special use airspace in order to determine its impact on civil aviation operations. Specifies the aggregate amounts which shall be available to the Secretary of Transportation for making grants for FY 1988 through 1990 for airport noise compatibility. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1990, the period in which the Secretary may incur obligations to make such grants. Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund to liquidate obligations for certain noise abatement projects. Authorizes appropriations for the airway improvement program for FY 1988 through 1990. Sets forth apportionment guidelines for primary airports for FY 1988 through 1990. Increases the apportionments which the Secretary may make to a primary airport sponsor for any fiscal year. Reduces from 50 percent to 38 percent the ratio which such apportionments bear to the amounts authorized for obligation for the airport improvement program. Specifies the distributions which shall be set aside for cargo hub airports. Extends apportionments to States from FY 1987 to FY 1990. Sets forth cargo hub airport calculations for purposes of determining pro-rata fiscal year apportionments. Sets forth a sum certain which shall be annually apportioned to each primary reliever airport. Increases from eight percent to ten percent the funds which may be obligated for airport noise compatibility planning. Decreases from 5.5 percent to two percent the funds which may be distributed to commercial service and public airports. Sets forth a minimum threshold which shall be made available for distribution to primary and reliever airports for facilities expansion. Sets forth conditions under which the Secretary may approve a project grant and reimburse a sponsor for airport development already accomplished by such sponsor at a primary or reliever airport. Repeals the limit placed upon the Federal share of terminal development project costs. Directs the Secretary to promulgate final regulations regarding the airport grant program no later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations until FY 1990 for the Explosive Detection K-9 Team Training Program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make permanent the low activity (VFR) Level I air traffic control tower contract program. Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to hire an additional 1,000 air traffic controllers by September 30, 1988. Amends the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 to deny the use of funds provided under such Act for projects using products or services of foreign countries which are listed by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as not offering reciprocal opportunities for American firms. Requires the USTR to: (1) determine whether each foreign country denies fair and equitable market opportunities for U.S. products and supplies in procurement, or fair and equitable market opportunities for U.S. bidders, for construction projects that cost more than $500,000 and are funded by the government of such foreign country; and (2) maintain and publish annually a list of countries for which an affirmative determination is made. Allows an exception to such a denial of funds if the Secretary of Transportation determines: (1) the denial of funds would not be in the public interest; (2) products of the same class or kind are not produced or offered in the United States or in any foreign country not listed by the USTR in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or (3) exclusion of such product or service from the project would increase the cost of the overall project contract by more than 20 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Veterans' Administration Health-Care Personnel Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide premium pay if necessary to obtain or retain the services of pharmacists or occupational therapists. Authorizes premium pay for nurses performing a shift any part of which is performed on a Saturday. (Currently, such premium pay is authorized only for Sunday duty.) Directs the Administrator to require that the Chief of Nursing Service (or designee) at each Veterans Administration (VA) facility be included in the membership of each policymaking and fiscal committee at each such facility. Repeals current provisions governing the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program and adds a new chapter establishing a program to be known as the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Educational Assistance Program (the Program), to be comprised of: (1) the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program (the Scholarship Program); and (2) the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Tuition Reimbursement Program (the Tuition Reimbursement Program). Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Scholarship Program. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant to enter into a written contract which allows the applicant to accept payment of educational assistance in return for the promise to serve a period of obligated service within the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Entitles the United States to damages for a participant's breach of contract. Allows the monthly stipend paid under the Scholarship Program or the tuition reimbursement paid under the Tuition Reimbursement Program to be increased for each school year in conformity with increases in the GS wage levels of the Government. Directs the Administrator, no later than March 1 annually, to report to the Congress detailing certain information concerning the number of applicants, participants, scholarships awarded, and tuition and other expenses paid under the two educational assistance programs, as well as the number of participants who successfully completed such program during the previous year. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations to carry out the Educational Assistance Program. Provides that any obligation of a participant for service or payment of damages for breach of contract is canceled upon the death of the participant. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations providing for the waiver or suspension of any obligation under such Program when compliance by the participant is impossible due to circumstances beyond the control of the participant or whenever the Administrator determines that such waiver or suspension would be in the best interest of the VA. Authorizes such required service to be exchanged with similar service required under other Federal programs. Exempts educational assistance payments from State or Federal taxation. Prohibits the Administrator from furnishing scholarships to new participants in the Scholarship Program after September 30, 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Scholarship Program. Requires the Administrator to notify the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees no less than 60 days before awarding a scholarship in a course of training other than medicine or nursing. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant under the Scholarship Program to enter into a written contract which allows the participant to accept such scholarship payments from the Administrator in return for the participant's agreement to serve for a specified period of time in the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Sets forth the amounts of scholarship payments, educational expenses, and monthly stipends to be provided under the Scholarship Program. Provides for participation as a part-time student in the Scholarship Program for individuals who are full-time VA employees permanently assigned to a VA health-care facility. Provides for a reduced monthly scholarship payment for individuals participating as part-time students, and allows a scholarship for a part-time student to be extended for up to six school years if the Administrator determines such extension to be in the best interest of the United States. Requires each participant in the Scholarship Program to provide service as a full-time employee of the VA for the agreed-upon period. Requires the Administrator, for either a full-time or part-time student participant in the Scholarship Program, to notify the participant of the applicable date for the commencement of the obligated period of service as a VA employee. Provides further information concerning the obligated period of service for Scholarship Program participants and the determination of the service commencement period, including the determination of such commencement period for students who are required as part of their educational requirements to serve a period of medical internship or residency. Outlines provisions concerning the liability of a Scholarship Program participant who refuses to accept the scholarship payments as required under the written contract or who instructs the educational institution being attended to refuse to accept such payments. Specifies an amount to be owed to the United States as liquidated damages for breach of contract in such cases. States than an individual shall be liable to the United States for any amount that has been paid to the participant for which such participant failed to perform the service obligation as specified in the written contract. Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Tuition Reimbursement Program. Gives priority in the selection of individuals to individuals who have demonstrated superior proficiency and performance as determined by the Chief Nurse of the facility at which the individual is employed. Requires the Administrator, not less than 60 days before awarding tuition reimbursement assistance to any individual for a course of training other than nursing, to notify the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees of the reasons for the awarding of such assistance. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant to enter into a written contract under the Tuition Reimbursement Program whereby the Administrator agrees to provide tuition reimbursement assistance in return for the participant's promise to serve as a full-time employee in the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery for a specified period of obligated service. Sets an annual ceiling on the amount of tuition reimbursement paid per individual. Requires participants in the Tuition Reimbursement Program to provide full-time clinical practice service for the VA for the period of obligated service as provided in the written contract. Requires a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to a contract with an educational institution to provide courses at a VA health-care facility to complete the period of obligated service provided in the written contract even if the participant fails to complete the course involved for which the tuition was reimbursed. Outlines the liability of a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program who fails to maintain full-time employment with the VA while in such Program or who fails to complete the required period of obligated service. Requires the Administrator, in determining the amount of funding necessary for the Tuition Reimbursement Program, to take into account: (1) the personnel ceiling for nursing personnel; and (2) the recruitment and retention needs of that facility.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to allow a designee of the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration to appoint and act upon the recommendations of disciplinary boards for employees. (Currently, only the Chief Medical Director can take such actions.) Limits the types of action which shall be appropriate for such disciplinary boards to those actions which propose the removal, suspension for more than 14 days, or demotion involving loss of grade or pay.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the duty on preserved tuna (not in oil and in airtight containers). Decreases the duty on preserved tuna (in oil and in airtight containers).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987
Revises Federal law relating to the organization of the Office of the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration (the Department) to provide that such Office shall consist of the following: (1) not to exceed two Associate Deputy Chief Medical Directors; (2) not to exceed seven Assistant Chief Medical Directors; (3) such Medical Directors as may be appointed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs; (4) such directors of hospitals and other medical facilities as may be appointed by the Administrator; and (5) such other persons as may be appointed by the Chief Medical Director. Authorizes the Chief Medical Director to establish, modify, or abolish such positions and offices as are deemed necessary to carry out the needs of the Department. Outlines provisions concerning length of appointment to such offices and positions, and possible extensions or terminations of such appointment terms by the Administrator. Reduces the minimum and maximum annual salary rate for the position of Medical Director of the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) all funds appropriated to carry out the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 with respect to emergency treatment of alcohol abuse and drug abuse should be made immediately available to the States for initiation and expansion of treatment services; (2) States should not be required to use such funds in FY 1988; and (3) the proposed 50 percent cut by the Department of Education for FY 1988 education and prevention programs under the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 should be rejected by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Underground Nuclear Explosions Control Act of 1987 - Makes congressional findings concerning the testing of nuclear weapons. Prohibits the obligation of funds, during a two-year period beginning 180 days after enactment of this Act, for the conducting of an underground nuclear explosion: (1) with a yield greater than one kiloton, except for two test explosions, each with a yield not exceeding 15 kilotons; (2) at a location that is not part of a single designated test area; and (3) unless a public announcement has been made at least 30 days before the date of the explosion. Specifies that such prohibition shall not apply if the President certifies to the Congress (and the Congress approves such certification) that the Soviet Union: (1) has carried out such tests; or (2) has refused to implement reciprocal, in-country monitoring arrangements. Declares that such limitations on nuclear test explosions shall be supplanted by a U.S.-Soviet agreement which makes reductions in the number or yield of underground nuclear explosions permitted under treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union signed before January 1, 1987. Sets forth definitions. Specifies special procedures for considering legislation approving presidential certifications required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should take immediate action to: (1) provide sufficient funding to increase the number of air traffic controllers to at least pre-strike 1981 levels; and (2) ensure that air safety is given the highest funding priority.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the period of May 23 through May 30, 1987, is recognized as Hokule'a Week, celebrating the return to Hawaii after a two and one-half year voyage of the Polynesian Voyaging Society's sailing canoe.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Veterans Administration Insurance Amendments of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to periodically adjust the monthly installments payable to a veterans' beneficiary under the National Service Life Insurance, the Veterans Special Life Insurance, or the Veterans Reopened Insurance programs. Directs the Administrator to take specified action with regard to the trust funds set up to pay such insurance proceeds. Authorizes the Administrator to make similar adjustments to the monthly installments payable to a beneficiary of United States Government Life Insurance who is receiving such proceeds under a life annuity settlement option, requiring the Administrator to take specified action with regard to the trust fund set up to pay such insurance proceeds. Exempts any premiums paid under a veterans' life insurance policy from any State taxation. Amends Federal provisions relating to veterans' mortgage life insurance to require the United States to automatically insure any eligible veteran receiving housing assistance against the death of the veteran, with certain exceptions. Revises provisions governing the initial amount of such insurance to be paid for each housing unit, along with other administrative provisions regarding the payment of such insurance and the premiums charged for such insurance. Directs the Administrator to issue to each insured veteran a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he or she is entitled. Terminates reinsurance and accounting requirements for such insurance policies. Provides that, effective October 1, 1987, the Administrator shall discontinue the policy of insurance currently in effect under specified Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
State Home Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the acquisition by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs of facilities for veterans' State homes to authorize the Administrator to award and record as an obligation of the United States a grant for a project for which a State has submitted drawings and specifications that are 80 percent complete and which will meet all remaining requirements within six months. Prohibits the Administrator from certifying any amount for project payment until all requirements for such facilities are met. Directs the Administrator to rescind the contract award and deobligate such funds if all requirement are not met within the six-month deadline. Authorizes the Administrator to increase by up to ten percent the grant amount awarded, in certain circumstances. Authorizes the Administrator, between June 30th and October 1, 1987, to award a grant for a project for construction or acquisition of State home facilities if, prior to July 1, 1987, the Administrator notified the State submitting the grant application of the availability of funding for the grant and if the Administrator makes certain findings relating to the grant, the project, and the State's application for such project, including a finding that the grant amount does not exceed 65 percent of the project's estimated cost of construction.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Handicapped Transportation Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit the enforcement or implementation of minimum criteria for the provision of transportation services to handicapped individuals by recipients of certain Federal transportation assistance in such a way as to: (1) limit the category of handicapped individuals to those who are physically, rather than mentally, unable to use public bus systems; or (2) limit the expenditures which a recipient is required to make during any specified period. Authorizes individuals aggrieved by violations of certain handicapped transportation provisions to bring actions in Federal district court to enforce compliance with Federal provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Amends Federal pay provisions for health-care employees within the Veterans Administration to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide ten percent of the hourly overtime rate for on call pay to certain civil service health-care personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Veterans Administration Tort Claims and Hospital Cost Collections Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Hospital Cost Collections - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions relating to recovery by the United States of the cost of care and services provided to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities to provide a six-year statute of limitations for the bringing of a recovery action (measured from the last day on which such services were provided). Title II: Tort Claims - Excludes from immunity from suit (thereby allowing tort claims to be brought against) a negligent or wrongful act or omission of a person while exercising duties in or for the Veterans Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to settle any claims arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act to the extent delegated by the Attorney General, within specified limitations.
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