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United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Requests the President to designate November 1982 as National REACT Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Designates the week beginning September 5, 1982, as National Adult Day Care Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 1, through 7, 1982, as National Purple Heart Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
National Hostel System Plan Act of 1982 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop and transmit to specified congressional committees a national hostel system plan, which shall: (1) guide the development and implementation of a national hostel system; (2) encourage the development of hostels by Federal, State, and local agencies, private, nonprofit organizations, and private business; and (3) encourage the operation of hostels by private, nonprofit organizations and businesses. Requires full public participation, including public review and comment, in the development of such plan. Directs the Secretary to submit periodic status reports on the plan until it is completed. Requires the Secretary to ensure that State comprehensive outdoor recreation plans, developed pursuant to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, address the issue of the location and development of hostels in a manner consistent with the national hostel system plan. Authorizes appropriations. Makes the authority under this Act to enter into contracts, incur obligations, or make payments effective only to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Ethiopians who have lived in the United States for a substantial period of time should not be forced to return to Ethiopia; and (2) the Secretary of State should recommend to the Attorney General that extended voluntary departure status be continued for Ethiopians who have continuously resided in the United States since before January 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Government should maintain its commitment to the research and development of magnetic fusion energy.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Prohibition of Mandatory Retirement and Employment Rights Act of 1982 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to eliminate the upper age limitation of the class of persons to whom such Act applies.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Synthetic Fuels Corporation Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Energy Security Act to authorize the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation to make loans, loan and price guarantees, and purchase agreements and to enter into joint ventures for district heating or cooling projects. Authorizes the Corporation to make price support loans for municipal waste energy projects which produce and sell biomass energy. Requires the Corporation to solicit proposals and provide financial assistance for district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects. Requires that the synthetic fuel production strategy established by the Corporation address the types of district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects the Corporation intends to assist. Requires the Corporation's Board of Directors to assure that the Corporation is organized to evaluate, process, and review proposed and funded district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Export-Import Bank Restructuring Act of 1982 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to provide that the terms of the directors of the Bank will be four-years, except that two of the directors will be appointed initially for two years and then for four-years. (Current law provides that the directors serve at the pleasure of the President.) Excludes from the Federal budget the receipts and disbursements of the Bank in the discharge of its functions (other than salaries and expenses). Exempts such receipts and disbursements from the limitations on the Federal budget. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on the Bank's budget for program activities and administrative expenses and on the Bank's net lending. Establishes the Competitive Agricultural Commodity and Manufactured Product Export Subsidy Fund. Requires amounts appropriated to the Fund to be used to make interest subsidy payments to private lenders and to enter into arrangements with the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to enable private lenders or the CCC to reduce the interest rates on loans for financing U.S. exports. Requires the Board of Directors of the Fund to report to Congress on agreements to make interest subsidy payments. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Extends the authorization for the Bank until September 30, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Fair Trade Act of 1982 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to submit a report to the President on certain trade practices of countries designated as major trading countries. Requires the report to be completed within six months after enactment of this Act. Requires the report to contain a study on any major practice of each major trading country that: (1) is inconsistent with a trade agreement; (2) is unjustifiable and restricts U.S. commerce; or (3) denies to competitive U.S. products commercial opportunities that are substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Directs the President to publish and submit to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) such study; (2) an estimate of the trade distorting impact of the practices identified in the study; (3) all feasible courses of action which would redress imbalances caused by such practices if efforts to obtain their elimination fail; and (4) a proposed joint resolution which requires the President to take a specific course of action which the President has determined to be the most appropriate course of action. Authorizes other Federal agencies to help the USTR to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for expedited consideration of the proposed joint resolution which the President is required to submit to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the President, upon enactment of such resolution, to inform the countries involved that the President will undertake the course of action specified in the joint resolution unless the countries eliminate the offensive practices within 60 days. Adds to the list of unfair trade practices that require Presidential action under the Trade Act of 1974 those foreign trade practices that deny to the United States commercial opportunities substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Directs the President to take appropriate action to redress any imbalance resulting from such foreign trade practices. Provides that such action need not be limited to the equivalent product or service sector or the offending act, policy, or practice.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of such veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify each member of the armed forces that his or her dependents will be ineligible for such benefits should the member die after the applicable date, in no case later than August 13, 1983. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the Secretary concerned with information necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional opportunities for public, scientific, and professional comment on and to prepare a supplementary environmental impact statement regarding proposed National Forest System resource planning regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1982
Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with States to provide additional weeks of unemployment compensation for eligible unemployed workers. Requires that such agreements provide for reimbursement by the Secretary of State payments from the State unemployment fund of supplemental unemployment compensation to any eligible worker for any week during such worker's eligibility period, in the same manner and amount and with the same conditions and requirements as under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 and the State law approved under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Sets forth provisions for eligibility for individuals and for supplemental benefit periods for States. Limits compensation under this Act to an amount equal to 13 times an individual's most recent weekly benefit amount. Sets forth provisions for payments to States. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1982
Declares that the United States shall continue to abide by the terms of the SALT II Treaty so long as the Soviet Union continues to abide by the terms of the SALT II Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Low Interest Rate Act of 1982 - Amends the Credit Control Act to repeal the provision of such Act which would terminate credit control authority on June 30, 1982. Makes such authority permanent. Permits the President to authorize the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to regulate and control any or all extensions of credit whenever necessary or appropriate to reduce high levels of unemployment in any sector of the economy, or to prevent or control inflation or recession. Permits the Board, after receiving such presidential authorization, to prescribe limitations with respect to credit for nonproductive purposes. Amends the Credit Control Act to change the title of such Act to the Capitol Availability Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to extend by five months (until September 30, 1982) the period within which an individual must have become a full-time student at a postsecondary educational institution in order to receive, after July 1982, child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Extends by one year (through August 1986) the period during which such benefits may be paid to an individual so qualified. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify all individuals entitled to such benefits at the time this Act is enacted of the changes made by this Act. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement identification procedures for benefit checks issued under title II which have not been presented for payment within 12 months after their issuance. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to credit the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund with the amount of all such uncashed benefit checks. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay benefit checks presented for payment after they have been credited to a trust fund, recharge the trust fund, and notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Provides for the transfer of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to reimburse the trust funds for the total amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should permit Abe Stolar and his family to emigrate to Israel and that the President should express U.S. opposition to the forced captivity of the Stolar family by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit an Immigration and Naturalization Service official or employee from entering a farm or agricultural operation without a warrant.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to prohibit the export of major critical components of any facility for, and information and other assistance relevant to, the enrichment of uranium or other isotopic separation of special nuclear material, nuclear fuel reprocessing, or heavy water production. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit under any agreement of cooperation the reprocessing or the use or retransfer of any plutonium in quantities greater than 500 grams resulting from the reprocessing of any special nuclear material exported by the United States or produced through the use of any nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology exported by the United States, unless Congress enacts a joint resolution declaring that Congress finds that: (1) effective safeguards can be applied; and (2) adequate sanctions against violations of nonproliferation agreements have been established. Declares that the transfer or retransfer outside the United States of certain nuclear materials, facilities, or technologies: (1) may be engaged in only if authorized under an agreement for cooperation; (2) shall be considered exports; and (3) shall require a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Requires that the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards applied to U.S. nuclear exports must provide the United States with a timely warning of any diversion of any nuclear material which a non-nuclear weapon state could transform into a nuclear bomb.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) Federal financial assistance for grants or loans to States and local public agencies; (2) the urban mass transit grant program; (3) the formula grant program for areas other than urbanized areas; (4) research, development, and demonstration projects; (5) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (6) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (7) grants for establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to notify the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the proposed issuance of a letter of intent to obligate financial assistance to States and local public agencies. Grants priority funding to programs covered by letters of intent issued prior to enactment of this Act. Sets forth an apportionment formula for grants to assist the payment of construction and operating costs of public mass transportation systems for urbanized areas and for areas other than urbanized areas. Limits such assistance to the amount available for such areas in fiscal year 1982, except under certain circumstances. Sets forth provisions for compliance by grant recipients before any such assistance is made available. Makes funds apportioned for areas other than urbanized areas available for obligation for a period of two years (currently three years).
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Extends the congratulations of the Senate to the people and leaders of Greater Miami and Dade County, Florida, for their efforts in the production of the New World Festival of the Arts. Acclaims the Festival as a major cultural and artistic event.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1982
Amends the National Housing Act to limit the aggregate amount of commitments to guarantee mortgage-backed securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association that the Government National Mortgage Association may enter into during FY 1983. Limits the aggregate principal amount of loans and mortgages that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may enter into commitments to insure during FY 1983. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress whenever the cumulative amount of either of such commitments for any quarter of the fiscal year exceeds the pro rata share of the fiscal year commitment authority.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of May 2 through May 8, 1982, as National Clean Air Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the tariff on imported roses. (Makes the U.S. tariff consistent with the tariff imposed by the European Economic Community.)
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Declares that the United States cannot be neutral in implementing a specified United Nation's Resolution calling for the withdrawal of Argentine troops from the Falkland Islands. States that the United States should prepare to further all efforts pursuant to that Resolution to achieve full withdrawal of Argentine forces from the Falklands.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until December 31, 1987, the authority for the targeted jobs income tax credit. Extends the credit to all cooperative education students regardless of their economic status. Disallows the credit for employees who have worked for the same employer within the last 180 days. Limits the credit claimed on any individual to $4,500.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should encourage: (1) Indonesia to allow appropriate international relief agencies increased access to East Timor; (2) the appropriate international agencies, Indonesia, Portugal, and Australia to facilitate the reunification of families separated because of developments in East Timor; (3) Indonesia to allow journalists and human rights organizations free access to East Timor; and (4) Indonesia to agree to negotiations through which Indonesian troops will be withdrawn from East Timor and the people of East Timor will be allowed to exercise their right of self-determination.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Designates the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., as a national historic site. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Council of Negro Women, which may provide technical and financial assistance to restore and maintain the historic site and property related to such site. Requires the Council to submit to the Secretary and Congress an annual report on the activities and expenditures for which such assistance was used, as a condition of the receipt of such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Declares that the United States should begin negotiations with the Soviet Union to reverse the nuclear arms race by: (1) freezing the nuclear arsenals of both countries; (2) reducing the nuclear weapons stockpiles of both countries; and (3) slowing the process of weapons modernization.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Authorizes the Twenty-nine Palms Band of the Luiseno Mission Indians to lease for 99 years specified trust lands in California.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Federal Reserve System Reform Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the net earnings of a Federal reserve bank, after all the dividend claims have been fully met, to be paid into the general fund of the Treasury instead of such bank's surplus fund. Eliminates the provisions of such Act which allow the Board of Governors to levy assessments upon Federal reserve banks to pay its expenses. Authorizes appropriations as necessary for the operations of the Board. Permits the Board to enter into agreements with the Administrator of General Services with respect to the maintenance, operation, or protection of any building owned by the Board. Provides that as of enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Treasury shall serve as a member of the Board ex officio and that the term of office of each member shall be seven years. Changes the term of office of the Chairman of the Board from four years to such time as the term of the President making such designation shall expire.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Requests the President to designate March 1, 1983, as National Recovery Room Nurses Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the International Committee on the Red Cross should recognize the Red Shield of David of the Magen David Adom as an emblem: (1) meeting the membership requirements of the International Committee on the Red Cross; and (2) conforming with the appropriate Geneva Conventions.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene, as soon as possible, a summit meeting with the leaders of the Soviet Union to reduce the risk of nuclear war and to establish methods for better controlling and reducing nuclear arms.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Amends the Veterans Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program to make eligible part-time employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Sets forth the payments and obligations concerning such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Veterans' Administration Health-Care Programs Improvement and Extension Act of 1982 - Expands the definition of "Veterans Administration facilities" to include private facilities the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs contracts with to provide specified medical services for a woman veteran. Extends the authority of the Administrator to contract with private facilities through FY 1983. Permits the Administrator to furnish physical examinations to determine the eligibility of individuals for or the appropriate course of treatment in connection with services furnished by the Administrator. Entitles any spouse, surviving spouse, or child who loses eligibility for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) by becoming entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title I of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, but then exhausts such benefits, to regain and retain eligibility for medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans. Extends the pilot program for the treatment and rehabilitation for alcohol or drug dependency or abuse disabilities through FY 1983. Includes all veterans cared for in State homes in the payment procedures formulated for the care of war veterans. Permits the Administrator to extend the period for which additional pay for nurses is authorized to include a tour of duty any part of which occurs on Saturday. Permits the Administrator to use flexible and compressed work schedules for certain health professionals to obtain or retain their services. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 1987. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress within four years on the use of such work schedules. Authorizes the Administrator to provide that nurses employed at a Veterans Administration facility who work two regularly scheduled 12-hour tours of duty within a weekend shall be considered to have worked a full workweek and be paid as specified. Reduces the obligation and stipend payable to a part-time student participating in the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program. Increases the time for which such a scholarship may be awarded. Extends authorizations for state home facilities for furnishing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to veterans through FY 1986. Directs the Administrator to publish regulations concerning increasing the amounts and periods of additional pay for health professionals in the Department of Medicine and Surgery.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from gross income any income, gains, or other amounts derived by an eligible foreign pension plan from qualified investments in residential real property within the United States. Defines "eligible foreign pension plan" as a plan: (1) maintained primarily to provide retirement or similar benefits to employees who are primarily nonresident alien individuals; (2) whose assets are segregated from the assets of the employer maintaining the plan; and (3) that is tax exempt in the country in which the plan is maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth special temporary rules for the taxation of life insurance companies for 1982 and 1983. Revises provisions relating to policies reinsured under modified coinsurance contracts. Specifies that prescribed policy and other contract liability requirements shall not include interest payable after enactment of this Act by a reinsured to a reinsurer in connection with a coinsurance contract. Revises the method of computing the tax deductions for: (1) dividends to policyholders; (2) certain nonparticipating contracts; and (3) certain accident, health insurance, and group life insurance plans. Revises the method of determining adjusted life insurance reserves. Revises the method of computing the policyholder's shared investment yield, life insurance company taxable income, and net capital gain for companies filing consolidated returns. Specifies that the above method shall not apply to certain contract computation in effect before 1982. States that the determination for taxable years before 1982 as to whether a contract is a coinsurance contract shall be made solely by reference to the terms of the contract.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expands the membership of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to include three elected school board officials from different States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) proposed rescissions of Federal funds for multifamily rental housing projects on which construction can begin within 12 months after enactment of this Act should be rejected; and (2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should expedite construction of such projects. Amends the National Housing Act to increase the limitation on the amount of home mortgages the President can authorize the Government National Mortgage Association to purchase.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
High Technology Trade Act of 1982 - Authorizes the President to enter into bilateral or multilateral agreements to obtain the maximum openness with respect to international trade in high technology and to strengthen the international trading system. Lists policies that may be included in such agreements. Authorizes the President to: (1) proclaim changes in tariffs on high technology products; and (2) use procedures contained in the Trade Act of 1974 to change U.S. laws in order to carry out such agreements. Directs the President to determine whether certain key countries are providing national treatment for U.S. exports of high technology products and U.S. investments in high technology industries. Directs the President to enter into consultations with countries that the President determines are not providing national treatment. Directs the President to consider taking other appropriate actions if the consultations are not effective. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the High Technology Industry Advisory Committee, to report annually to Congress on: (1) the extent to which a key country uses industrial policies or measures which significantly distort international trade or investment and which have or may have a substantial adverse effect on the U.S. high technology industry; and (2) the steps which the President is taking or proposes to take to remedy such adverse effects. Sets forth the scope of the analysis to be included in such report. Directs the President to take whatever steps are necessary to eliminate or offset the adverse effects of foreign industrial practices that: (1) significantly distort international trade or investment harmful to the U.S. high technology industry; or (2) may result in sales of articles at less than fair market value in the United States or subsidization of articles imported into the United States and cause, or threaten to cause, material injury to any U.S. high technology industry. Directs the Secretary to establish a mechanism to analyze high technology trade and investment patterns in key countries, to evaluate competitive opportunities offered in foreign markets, and to further the objectives of this Act. Directs the USTR and the Secretary, after consultation with the High Technology Industry Advisory Committee, to report annually to the President on the foreign trade practices listed in such report which: (1) violate U.S. international agreements; or (2) are unjustifiable and a burden on U.S. high technology products, services, or investments. Directs the President to consider what action may be taken to reduce or eliminate such measures. Directs the Secretary and the USTR to establish a High Technology Industry Advisory Committee and to consult with the Committee on actions under this Act relating to: (1) preparing negotiating positions; (2) concluding agreements; (3) imposing restrictions; or (4) monitoring the results of any such agreement or restriction.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the National Housing Act to extend until April 30, 1982, the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into contracts to provide periodic mortgage assistance payments to assist lower income families in acquiring home ownership or membership in a cooperative housing association.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1982, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) an effective Federal environmental program is necessary to protect U.S. citizens' health and well-being; (2) the Environmental Protection Agency should be appropriated increased funds to protect our environment and meet expanded responsibilities mandated by law; and (3) the President should submit a new budget for the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1983 reflecting these principles.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Title I: Emergency Homeownership Program - Emergency Homeownership Act of 1982 - Amends the National Housing Act to activate the emergency housing market stimulation program to: (1) direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide periodic mortgage assistance payments to homeowners; and (2) authorize the Secretary to insure assisted mortgages. Extends, until March 31, 1983, the Secretary's authority to enter into such assistance contracts and to insure such mortgages. Requires such contracts to provide for assistance payments for up to five years. Directs the Secretary to continue assistance payments to mortgagors who remain eligible after a contract expires to the extent that funds remain in a revolving fund containing recaptured assistance payments and unexpended appropriations under such program. Increases the maximum family income (from 130 to 140 percent of the area median income) over which a mortgagor is disqualified from assistance payments. Allows the Secretary to raise such area median income ceiling to 145 percent when necessary. Limits the maximum amount of assistance payments to the lesser of: (1) the balance of the mortgagor's monthly payment for principal, interest, and mortgage insurance after applying 25 percent of the mortgagor's income; and (2) the difference between the maximum interest rate on a FHA mortgage and an interest rate four percentage points lower than such maximum rate, but not less than ten percent. Specifies the limit on assistance payments for loans on manufactured homes. Permits up to 30 percent of the mortgages assisted under such program to involve homes constructed before April 1, 1982. Requires that the remaining assisted mortgages involve homes the construction of which began on or after such date. Increases the maximum sales price of a home eligible for such mortgage insurance and assistance payments to 100 percent (currently 82 percent) of the maximum principal obligation of a FHA mortgage. Authorizes the Secretary to increase such maximum sales price to 105 percent when necessary in certain areas. Directs the Secretary to consider the unemployment rate in various regions of the country when allocating assistance under the emergency market stimulation program. Authorizes appropriations for such program. Authorizes the Secretary to advance downpayment assistance, matching up to $5,000 of a family's available funds, on a newly constructed home that is financed by a loan not insured under the National Housing Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide downpayment assistance to families: (1) whose income do not exceed 140 percent of the area median income; (2) who certify that they lack sufficient funds to purchase a home without such assistance; and (3) who have not owned a home in the preceding three years. Provides for the recapture of downpayment assistance plus interest upon the disposition of the home or when the owner rents the home for more than one year. Authorizes appropriations for downpayment assistance. Title II: Homeowners' Relief - Emergency Homeowners' Relief Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary to make emergency mortgage relief advances for certain mortgagors when, for three consecutive months, the amount of delinquent mortgage loans exceeds a specified percentage of the amount of all mortgage loans accounted for in the mortgage delinquency series maintained by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). Directs the Secretary to provide such emergency advances in States within a FHLBB district if such mortgage delinquency condition exists for that district, even if such condition does not exist for the nation. Directs the FHLBB to submit delinquency information to the Secretary and Congress monthly. Provides for the discontinuation and resumption of the emergency advances program depending on the mortgage delinquency condition. Lists the eligibility conditions for emergency advances, including requirements that: (1) foreclosure would result without such assistance; (2) the mortgagor has suffered a loss of income as a result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions; and (3) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgagor will be able to resume full mortgage payments. Limits the amount of emergency advances to the least of: (1) 80 percent of the total monthly mortgage payment; (2) $600; or (3) the amount necessary to supplement the amount the homeowner is capable of contributing. Limits the duration of emergency advances to 12 months plus any period of delinquency, with a six-month extension permitted. Declares that emergency advances shall be repayable on terms prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth the authority of the Secretary to recapture emergency advances. Requires the Secretary and specified agencies to: (1) waive or relax limitations pertaining to the operations of certain mortgagees and financial institutions with respect to mortgage delinquencies in order to encourage forbearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosure; and (2) request such institutions to notify the appropriate agency and the mortgagor of least 30 days before instituting foreclosure proceedings on a mortgage. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Requests the President to designate April 25 through May 2, 1982, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the aggregate amount of appropriations for conservation and renewable energy for FY 1983 should not be less than the amount appropriated for FY 1982.