United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a partial exclusion from gross income of interest and dividends, beginning in 1983. Limits the amount of such exclusion to 15 percent of the lesser of (1) $3,000 ($6,000 for joint returns) or (2) the excess of interest and dividend amounts received by a taxpayer during a taxable year over certain interest and penalty expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Local Government Antitrust Act of 1983 - Declares that Federal antitrust laws shall not apply to laws or actions of local governments, excluding activities involving the sale of goods or services by such a government in competition with private persons, except to the extent Federal antitrust laws would apply to a similar State law or action.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Program Fraud Civil Penalties Act of 1983 - Establishes penalties and assessments to be imposed against any person who knowingly makes a false claim or statement to: (1) an authority of the United States; (2) a recipient of property, services, or money from such authority; (3) a party to a contract with such authority; or (4) any State. Declares that such penalties and assessments are in addition to criminal and civil penalties and assessments provided by other laws. Requires that the total amount of a penalty and assessment imposed under this Act be at least equal to the damages sustained by the Government as a result of the false claim or statement, except under specified circumstances. Directs the Inspector General or other investigating official of a Federal authority to investigate allegations that a person made a false claim or statement and to report findings to the reviewing official designated for that authority. Directs the reviewing official to refer such allegations to the authority head for a hearing upon determining there is probable cause to believe that the person is liable for a penalty or assessment. Requires the authority head to notify the Attorney General of any intention to initiate a hearing. Allows the authority head to initiate a hearing if the Attorney General approves it or does not disapprove it within 90 days. Entitles the defendant in such a hearing to: (1) written notice of the hearing; (2) be present and represented by counsel; (3) present evidence and cross-examine witnesses; (4) prompt, written notice of the authority head's determination; and (5) judicial review of an adverse determination. Specifies the authority of the investigating official and the official conducting the hearing, and the procedure for judicial review of the determination reached in the hearing. Authorizes the Attorney General to commence a civil action to recover a penalty or assessment determined by such a hearing. Authorizes the authority head to settle a final penalty or assessment determined by hearing. Grants the Attorney General exclusive authority to settle a claim subject to judicial review or collection procedures. Provides for the reimbursement, out of any penalty or assessment collected, of a State or political subdivision for damages sustained as a result of a false claim or statement. Specifies time limitations for commencing a hearing concerning a false statement or claim and for commencing an action to recover any penalty or assessment. Permits the deduction of any penalty or assessment from any amount owed the liable person by the Government, including tax refunds. Requires each investigating official to report annually to the authority head on actions taken under this Act during the most recent 12-month period ending September 30. Requires the transmission of such reports to the appropriate congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile which may be used in computing the charitable contribution deduction shall be the same as the standard mileage rate which may be used in computing the business expense deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to set the cap amount for hospice care at $6,500, to be increased or decreased annually according to the consumer price index.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Amends the Truth in Lending Act and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to expand fraudulent use of a credit card or debit instrument to include any transaction affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any person: (1) who knowingly furnishes, transfers, or obtains a credit card or debit instrument for use in connection with a scheme to defraud a consumer or any other person; or (2) who, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, furnishes, acquires, or uses any actual or fictitious credit card or debit instrument account numbers or identification or other access codes, whether alone or together with credit card or account holders, or other information pertaining to a credit card or debit instrument account in any form, and as they may be reflected or retained in any medium. Sets the penalty for a subsequent violation of either Act at a fine of up to $100,000 or imprisonment for up to 20 years, or both. Defines "debit instrument" to include an account number or other means of account access.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to reduce until June 30, 1986, the duty on odd-shaped or fancy watch crystals to the same rate as round watch crystals.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1983
Interstate System Resurfacing, Restoration, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Amendments of 1983 - Revises the apportionment formula for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Interstate Highway System.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1983
Highway Use Tax Equalization Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the highway use tax on heavy trucks. Increases the excise tax on diesel fuel from nine cents per gallon to 12 cents per gallon in 1983 and from 12 cents per gallon to 14 cents per gallon in 1984. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations exempting from such increases diesel fuel used in automobiles and light trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1983
Directs the Administrator of General Services to assign to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to the Secretary of the Interior specified lands at Fort Totten, New York. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convey a portion of such property to the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association of New York House. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey the remainder of such property to the City of New York, for public park and/or recreation uses.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a married taxpayer filing a joint return to deduct from gross income certain amounts paid to an individual retirement plan established for the benefit of a spouse without regard to any compensation received by the spouse.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1983 - Title I: Improved Identification for Motor Vehicle Parts and Components - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate a Federal motor vehicle security standard applicable to parts used in the manufacture of motor vehicles, other than motorcycles, after the effective date of such standard, or manufactured as new replacement parts after such date. Directs the Secretary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before promulgating such standard, which includes the effect on domestic motor vehicle production and sales. Stipulates that the standard shall not: (1) impose additional costs upon manufacturers in excess of $10 per motor vehicle; or (2) require the identification of more than 14 parts for any motor vehicle, nine parts for any truck, or four parts for any trailer. Declares that a Federal motor vehicle standard supercedes any State or local standard. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct studies on the development of security devices and systems. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on such devices and systems within one year of enactment. Provides for repeal of this title on a specified date. Title II: Antifencing Measures - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing or altering any identification number of any motor vehicle or motor vehicle part required by regulation. Requires the forfeiture of any vehicle or part which has had such number removed, with specified exceptions. Applies to the seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicles and parts those provisions of law relating to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels and merchandise under the customs laws. Establishes penalties for anyone who buys, receives, possesses, or obtains control of, with intent to sell or otherwise dispose of, any motor vehicle or motor vehicle part knowing that such identification number has been removed or altered. Designates as nonmailable matter any manipulative type device which is designed or adapted to operate, circumvent, remove, or render inoperative the ignition switch or lock, or door or trunk lock of two or more motor vehicles, or any advertisement for the sale of such device. Title III: Importation and Exportation Measures - Establishes criminal and civil penalties for anyone who imports, exports, or attempts to import or export any motor vehicle, off-highway vehicle or vehicle part knowing that it has been stolen or that its identification number has been altered. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require persons who export or attempt to export a used motor vehicle or off- highway mobile equipment to present to the appropriate customs officers the vehicle and a document describing that vehicle. Title IV: Reporting Requirements - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a task force to study problems relating to motor vehicle titling and controls over motor vehicle salvage which may affect the motor vehicle theft problem. Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury and Transportation and the Postmaster General, to report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Permits executive and legislative agencies to make contracts with law firms for collection services, including litigation, to recover indebtedness owed the United States. Requires that such a contract include provisions: (1) permitting the agency head to resolve a dispute, compromise a claim, or end a collection action; (2) permitting the Attorney General to terminate a collection action in the public interest; and (3) requiring the law firm to report to the Attorney General and the agency head monthly on services rendered and progress made. Declares that such a law firm shall be considered to be a debt collector for the purposes of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Directs the Attorney General to transmit to Congress a quarterly report on the activities of the Department of Justice to recover indebtedness owed the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide notice on all checks for benefits issued under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act that the commission of forgery in conjunction with the cashing of such checks is a violation of Federal law. Requires that such notice state the maximum penalties for forgery.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to the widow of Roy Wilkins. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws should develop a model State act (and interstate recognition and enforcement procedures) providing grandparents with adequate rights to petition in State courts for privileges to visit their grandchildren after a dissolution of the parents' marriage; (2) States should adopt such model State act; and (3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, should provide technical assistance to States in developing guidelines which help determine the best interests of the child in such cases and which take into account the ability of grandparents to help satisfy such child's need for continuity of care.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Intelligence Information Act of 1983 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to exempt certain operational files located in the Directorate of Operations, Directorate for Science and Technology, and Office of Security of the Central Intelligence Agency from the disclosure, search and review provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Limits such exemption to specifically designated files concerned with: (1) the means by which foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, or counterterrorism information is collected through scientific and technical systems; (2) foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, or counterterrorism operations; (3) investigations of potential foreign intelligence, counterintelligence or counterterrorism scources; and (4) intelligence or security liaison arrangements with foreign governments or their intelligence services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit States and local governments to provide statements of tax refunds, credits, and offsets to individuals at any time during the calendar year for which such governments make a return, but not later than January 31 of the year following the year of the return. (Current law requires such statements to be furnished in January of the year following the year of the return.) Eliminates the requirement to furnish such statements with respect to any refunds, credits, or offsets made before January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Allows the filing, notwithstanding any time limitations, of a claim for a credit or refund of any overpayment of the estate tax imposed on the estate of a named individual.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for the Securities and Exchange Commission through FY 1985. Requires the Commission, whenever it submits any budget estimate or request to the President or the Office of Management and Budget, to also transmit copies of that estimate or request to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, to the Committees on Energy and Commerce of the House, and to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. Requires the Commission to create at least 23 new staff positions in the division of enforcement, at least three of which to be used for criminal investigations of securities laws violations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Requires the Attorney General and all other appropriate Federal agencies and officials to enforce the antitrust laws, including the prohibition against vertical price restraints. Directs such officials and agencies to cease propounding arguments in court designed to weaken such prohibition, and to submit to Congress proposed legislation to make any desired changes in such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Patent Term Restoration Act of 1983 - Amends the patent law to extend the terms of patents which encompass specified products or methods for using or producing a product, any of which are subject to certain nonpatent regulatory review periods. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such extension, including a seven year limitation. Directs the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the owner of record of a patent a certificate of extension stating the fact and length of the extension and identifying the product and the use and the claim to which such extension is applicable. Makes such certificate a part of the original patent. Limits the application of such patent term extension to patents for products subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products).
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable income tax credit for expenses incurred for qualified elderly care expenses for a qualifying family member. Allows an income tax credit of 30 percent of the expenses incurred for taxpayers with incomes of $10,000 or less. Reduces the rate of such credit, but not below 20 percent, by one percent for each $2,000 of taxpayer income in excess of $10,000. Limits such credit to taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $50,000. Imposes a maximum $7,000 limit on the amount of elderly care expenses taken into account. Defines "qualified family member" as any individual who: (1) is related to the taxpayer by blood or marriage; (2) is at least 75 years of age (or diagnosed with senile dementia); and (3) has a family income of $15,000 or less. Defines "qualified elderly care expenses" as payments for: (1) home health agency services; (2) homemaker services; (3) adult day care; (4) respite care; or (5) certain health care equipment and supplies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the support of the Senate for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Education for Economic Security Act - Title I: National Science Foundation Mathematics and Science Programs - Part A: Teacher Institutes - Authorizes the National Science Foundation (the Foundation) to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education, applying jointly, for teacher institutes to enhance the subject matter skills of public and private elementary and secondary school teachers of mathematics and physical and life sciences. Sets forth application requirements for such grants. Directs the Director of the Foundation: (1) to assure an equitable distribution of such institutes among and within States; and (2) award at least one institute in each State. Limits any such grant to a single applicant to $200,000 in any fiscal year. Permits such institutes to involve the cooperation of advance technology and other businesses able to assist in mathematics and science teaching. Directs the Foundation to ensure that consideration is given to applications designed to meet the needs of underrepresented and underserved populations. Part B: Mathematics and Science Education Development Programs - Authorizes the Foundation to enter into agreements with institutions of higher education or LEAs for programs and materials for: (1) training, retraining, and inservice training of elementary and secondary school teachers in the fields of mathematics and science, including physical and life sciences; and (2) elementary and secondary school courses of study in such fields. Sets forth application requirements for grants and cooperative agreements under this part. Directs the Foundation to ensure that consideration is given to applications designed to meet the needs of underrepresented and underserved populations. Part C: Science and Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Awards - Authorizes the Foundation to make excellence in teaching mathematics and science awards of $5,000 each to elementary and secondary school teachers. Directs the Foundation to adopt selection procedures designed to assure that such awards will be equitably distributed among the States. Sets forth application requirements for such awards. Part D: Congressional Merit Scholarships - Congressional Merit Scholarships in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education - Authorizes the Foundation to award scholarships to individuals enrolled at institutions of higher education who demonstrate outstanding potential for, and who plan to pursue, careers in teaching mathematics or science in elementary or secondary schools. Limits the period of such a scholarship to: (1) four academic years at any institution of higher education offering educational activities designed to prepare individuals for such careers; and (2) periods of study commencing not sooner than the third undergraduate year. Requires such individuals to concentrate, at the undergraduate level, in: (1) mathematics or science, and indicate a serious intent to teach such subject at the elementary or secondary school level; or (2) engineering, and indicate a serious intent to teach such subject at the postsecondary level, in an engineering discipline which the Foundation has determined a shortage of qualified teachers. Authorizes the Foundation to establish criteria for the selection of merit scholars. Limits the number of scholars selected to two times the number of Members of Congress from each State (and ten individuals in the case of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico). Requires each merit scholarship recipient to agree to pursue such a teaching career for at least two years for each academic year in which the scholarship is received. Sets each merit scholarship award at $5,000 for each academic year of study. Conditions scholarship payment upon the student's maintaining satisfactory progress and full-time study. Authorizes the Foundation to require reports on student progress. Part E: Discretionary Funds of the Director - Authorizes the Director of the Foundation, from funds available for this part, to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, any public agency or any private organization to carry out any activity authorized by this title. Authorizes the Director to conduct directly or by grant or contract: (1) a faculty exchange program between institutions of higher education (particularly institutions having established and nationally recognized research facilities) and eligible institutions; and (2) programs of national significance promoting the improvement of instruction in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. (Defines "eligible institutions," for such purposes, as institutions of higher education which demonstrate a commitment to meet the special educational needs of students who are members of a minority group or who are economically or educationally disadvantaged and which: (1) have an enrollment which includes a substantial percentage of such students; or (2) are located in a community that is not within commuting distance of a major institution of higher education.) Part F: General Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions granting the Foundation specified powers to carry out this title. Directs the Foundation to report annually to the President and the Congress on its operations under this title. Makes specified provisions under title II of this Act relating to participation of children and teachers from private schools applicable to payments under this title. Applies to programs under this part specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act prohibiting Federal control of education. Authorizes appropriations to carry out: (1) part A for FY 1984 and 1985; (2) part B for FY 1985; (3) part D for FY 1984 and 1985; (4) parts C and E for FY 1985; and (5) the graduate fellowship program under the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 for FY 1984 and 1985. Title II: Education for Economic Security - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States and discretionary grants to strengthen teacher skills and instruction in mathematics, science, computer learning, and foreign languages. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary to reserve ten percent of such appropriations for discretionary grants of national significance. Directs the Secretary to allot to each State from 90 percent of such appropriations for each fiscal year an amount based on the relative number of children aged five through 17 in such State. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year. Provides for reallotments, based on the Secretary's estimates, of sums exceeding a State's needs. Authorizes additional appropriations for allotment to: (1) Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior for programs in schools operated for Indian children. Apportions 70 percent of each State's allotment to elementary and secondary education programs and 30 percent to higher education programs. Sets forth requirements for the State education agency (SEA) distribution of such funds for elementary and secondary education programs to local education agencies (LEAs) based on public and private school enrollment and on public school enrollment of children from families below the poverty level. Sets forth the uses for which specified portions of such elementary funds are to be put, including: (1) inservice training of teachers, including vocational educational teachers, and other appropriate school personnel in the fields of mathematics and science; (2) computer learning and instruction, foreign language instruction, and instructional materials and equipment related to mathematics and science instruction; (3) purchase of computer and computer-related instructional equipment; (4) strengthening instruction in foreign languages; (5) SEA demonstration and exemplary programs, including special projects for historically underrepresented and underserved populations (females, minorities, handicapped individuals, individuals with limited English proficiency, and migrant students) and for gifted and talented students (including magnet schools for such students); (6) SEA technical assistance to LEAs, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations, including museums, libraries, and educational television stations in conducting programs for mathematics, science, languages, and computer learning; and (7) State assessment and administrative costs. Sets forth requirements for distribution of funds for higher education programs by State agencies for higher education. Requires that at least 75 percent of such funds be used for grants to private and public institutions of higher education for: (1) traineeship programs for new teachers who will specialize in teaching secondary school mathematics and science; (2) retraining secondary school teachers with other specialties to specialize in teaching mathematics, science, or computer learning (including providing stipends for participation in institutes under title I); and (3) inservice training for elementary, secondary, and vocational school teachers, and other appropriate school personnel to improve teaching skills in mathematics, science, and computer learning (including providing stipends for participation in institutes under title I). Requires each grant recipient to: (1) consider the needs of historically underrepresented and underserved groups and the gifted and talented; and (2) enter into an agreement with an LEA or LEA consortium to provide inservice training and retraining for elementary and secondary school teachers in the public and private schools of the LEA school district. Requires that the State agency for higher education use at least 20 percent of such funds for cooperative programs among institutions of higher education, LEAs, SEAs, private industry, and private nonprofit organizations, including museums, libraries, educational television stations, and professional mathematics, science, and engineering societies, for projects to improve student understanding and performance in science, mathematics, and critical foreign languages. Permits the State agency for higher education to use up to five percent of such funds for State assessment and administrative costs. Requires each State desiring to receive grants under this title to submit to the Secretary, within the first year for which such funds are available, an assessment of the status of mathematics, science, foreign language, and computer learning within the State. Sets forth requirements relating to such assessments. Sets forth requirements for State applications for funds under this title. Sets forth requirements for assessments by LEAs. Sets forth provisions for participation of children and teachers from private schools in programs under this title. Sets forth requirements for the use of the ten percent of appropriations for this title reserved in the Secretary's discretionary fund for programs of national significance. Directs the Secretary, from 75 percent of such funds, to make to SEAs and LEAs, institutions of higher education, and private nonprofit organizations for programs of national significance in mathematics and science instruction, computer learning, and foreign language instruction in critical languages. Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to assistance for: (1) magnet schools for gifted and talented students; and (2) special services to historically underserved and underrepresented populations in the fields of mathematics and science. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount from such grant funds for the Director of the National Institute of Education to conduct evaluation and research. Directs the Secretary, from 25 percent of such funds, to make grants to institutions of higher education for instruction in critical foreign languages. Directs the Secretary to: (1) consult with the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Health and Human Services, and the Director of the National Science Foundation in determining which languages are critical to national security, economic, and scientific needs; and (2) publish a list of such languages in the Federal Register. Sets forth provisions for payments for programs under this title. Title III: National Science Foundation Program for Partnerships in Education for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering - Partnerships in Education for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Act - Authorizes the National Science Foundation to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of specified higher education programs and activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985 to carry out this title. Sets forth authorized activities for which States may use partnership in education program grants. Includes among authorized higher education partnership programs: (1) improvement of postsecondary instruction in mathematics, science, computer science, and engineering; (2) scholarships for students in such fields; (3) faculty exchange programs by institutions of higher education and businesses within the State; (4) research in such fields; (5) instructional equipment for such fields; and (6) promotion of public understanding of science, mathematics, and computer science. Includes among authorized elementary and secondary school partnership programs (to be carried out by LEAs): (1) exchange programs between teachers of mathematics, science, or computer science and personnel of local businesses; (2) training and retraining of teachers in such fields under cooperative arrangements between State or LEAs and appropriate businesses; and (3) secondary school student observation, participation, and work in local businesses. Permits both higher education and elementary and secondary school partnerships to include institutions of higher education, businesses, nonprofit private organizations, local educational agencies, professional mathematics and scientific associations, museums, libraries, educational television stations, and States. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this title. Permits two or more States or a regional consortium of States to file a joint application. Sets forth requirements for applications by institutions of higher education and local educational agencies. Directs the Foundations to adopt approval procedures designed to assure equitable distribution of grants among the States. Makes specified provisions of title II of this Act relating to participation of children and teachers in private schools applicable to payments under this title. Sets the Federal share of the cost of programs under this title at 50 percent. Permits the non-Federal share of such costs to be in cash or inkind. Limits to 15 percent that portion of funds appropriated under this title in any fiscal year which may be paid to any single State. Title IV: Presidential Awards for Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science - Authorizes the President to make Presidential Awards for Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science to secondary school teachers. Authorizes the making of 100 such awards annually. Directs the President to: (1) select for such awards at least one secondary school teacher from each of the several States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and (2) carry out this title, including the establishment of selection procedures, after consultation with the Secretary of Education, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and other appropriate officials of Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Free Market Copyright Royalty Act of 1983 - Amends the copyright law to direct the Copyright Royalty Tribunal to exempt a cable system's carriage of a national cable broadcast network signal beyond the local service area from specified adjustments in copyright royalty rates. Sets forth the criteria for determining when a television broadcast station can be classified as a national cable broadcast network. Reduces from five to three the number of commissioners on the Tribunal. Directs the Tribunal to appoint a general counsel and chief economist to its staff.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Disapproves the proposal of the Study Group on Senate Practices and Procedures to abolish the Committee on Veterans' Affairs by merging it with the Committee on Armed Services.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Emergency School Aid Extension Act of 1983 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Federal Alien Incarceration Responsibility Act - Directs the Attorney General to reimburse State governments for the cost of imprisoning certain aliens who commit felonies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Taiwan should remain a full member of the Asian Development Bank, irrespective of the issue of the People's Republic of China's application to such bank. Declares that the President and the Secretary of State should express U.S. support for Taiwan.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia, or its environs, in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean war. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial. Authorizes appropriations for site acquisition and preparation in the event nonpublic land is selected for the memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Public Utility Holding Company Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 to revise the definition of "utility assets" to mean facilities of electric and gas utilities which are directly employed in, and the primary function of which is, the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy or the distribution at retail of natural or manufactured gas. Provides that the term "issue" includes the sale, renewal, guaranty of, or assumption of liability on any security. Defines the term "consumers" to mean the utility customers of a public utility company which is an associate company in a holding company system. Provides that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may exempt a holding company from all the provisions of such Act except certain requirements with respect to the acquisition of securities and utility assets and provisions under this Act with respect to State commission monitoring of and access to information on holding company business activity. Prohibits such an exemption if the SEC finds that the exemption materially adversely affects the public utility business of a holding company. Provides that a holding company shall receive such an exemption if such holding company has only one subsidiary company which is a public utility company and the operations of such subsidiary do not extend beyond the State in which it is organized and contiguous States. Requires the SEC to revoke an exemption if such exemption materially adversely affects the public utility business of a holding company system. Provides that such an exemption shall remain in effect if the holding company submits to the SEC a plan which prevents such adverse effects. Requires a holding company to produce information with respect to its nonutility business activities upon the written request of a State commission having jurisdiction to regulate a public utility company in the holding company system. Authorizes the SEC, upon its own motion or upon the application of such a State commission, to provide for the filing with the SEC and the State commission of uniform periodic reports concerning the nonutility business activities of holding company systems. Eliminates the prohibition which applies to the sale of securities by a registered holding company or subsidiary thereof and to the alteration of stockholder rights by such company or subsidiary absent a declaration approved by the SEC. Revises the requirements for the types of security transactions by registered holding and subsidiary companies which are exempt from the prohibition on the issuance of securities by registered holding and subsidiary companies. Authorizes the SEC to establish requirements with respect to the consolidated capital structure of a registered holding company system which are needed to prevent an unreasonable economic risk to investors or consumers. Authorizes the SEC, upon application by a registered holding or subsidiary company, to exempt the issue of any security from such prohibition if it is not necessary to prohibit such issue to protect the public interest or to protect investors and consumers. Makes declarations with respect to security transactions filed by registered companies pursuant to the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 effective on the twentieth day after filing, absent SEC disapproval or approval subject to terms and conditions in the form of a preliminary order. Sets forth the procedures for final approval or disapproval of a declaration. Permits the filing of amendments to a declaration. Authorizes the SEC to permit a declaration to become effective earlier than the dates specified under this Act. Requires the SEC to permit a declaration to become effective unless the acts which are the subject of the declaration are not in compliance with State laws or involve an unreasonable economic risk to investors or consumers. (Currently there are several conditions precedent to permitting a declaration to become effective.) Makes it unlawful for a registered holding or subsidiary company to acquire any significant interest in any business other than the public utility business, unless there is in effect a diversification plan for the holding company system and such acquisition is consistent with the plan or unless such acquisition has been expressly authorized by the SEC. Makes it unlawful for a person who is not a registered holding or subsidiary company to acquire a public utility security if such acquisition would make such person a holding company and such acquisition is not pursuant to a plan initiated by the public utility company, unless the acquisition has been approved by the SEC. Requires the SEC to approve an application filed for the acquisition of an interest in any business other than the public utility business unless the acquisition is likely to result in an unnecessary and unreasonable cost increase to consumers or to impair an associate public utility company's performance of its services. Permits a registered holding company or subsidiary thereof to apply for the removal or modification of any terms and conditions prescribed in an SEC order issued before the enactment of this Act approving the acquisition of an interest in any business other than the public business. Provides that such application shall be considered approved on the sixtieth day after it has been filed unless the SEC determines that the removal or modification involved is likely to result in an unnecessary and unreasonable cost increase to consumers or to impair an associate public utility company's performance of its services. Permits a registered holding company to file with the SEC a diversification plan providing information with respect to its intentions within two years from the date of filing to diversify in businesses other than the public utility business. Makes such plan effective 60 days after it has been filed unless the SEC disapproved it or a State commission requests the SEC to extend the period of review for such plan. Requires the SEC to approve a diversification plan unless the plan is likely to result in an unnecessary and unreasonable cost increase to consumers or to impair an associate public utility company's performance of its services. Requires that the SEC permit a registered holding company to retain an interest in any nonutility related business unless the retention of such interest materially adversely affects the public utility business of the holding company system. (Currently the SEC may permit such a business interest if it is reasonably incidental or economically necessary to the operations of one or more integrated public utility systems.) Requires that the SEC permit a registered holding company to retain any combination in existence on May 1, 1981, of gas utility systems and electric utility systems unless such a combination of systems does not comply with certain location and size requirements under this Act. Eliminates the prohibition on: (1) borrowing by a registered holding company from a public utility company in the same holding company system; (2) the solicitation of proxies, powers of attorney, consent, or authorization with respect to the securities of a registered holding company or a subsidiary thereof; (3) negotiations or transactions by an affiliate of a public utility company; (4) political contributions by a registered holding company or subsidiary thereof; and (5) representation before Congress, the SEC, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Provides that the SEC shall not have authority to prohibit: (1) any sale of utility assets used by a public utility company in a holding company system if such sale is expressly authorized by the appropriate State commission; or (2) any transaction with a public utility company which is expressly authorized or approved by the appropriate State commission. Sets forth the basis for determining the costs to be charged to an associate company by a subsidiary company of a registered holding company with respect to the performance of any sales, service, or construction contract. Authorizes the SEC, upon application by a registered holding company or subsidiary thereof, to permit such subsidiary to perform a sales, service, or construction contract for an associate company at a price in excess of the costs of the subsidiary if such performance is in the public interest or in the interest of investors or consumers. Eliminates provisions dealing with restrictions on officers and directors of registered holding companies. Authorizes the SEC to prohibit officers and directors of investment banker or banking associations or of banks, trust companies, banking associations, or banking firms associated with the marketing of securities of a public utility company from serving as officers or directors of a registered holding company or any associate company if it is necessary to protect the interests of consumers. Requires holding companies filing an application for exemption from the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and registered holding companies or subsidiaries thereof filing a declaration, a diversification plan, or an application for approval of an acquisition of an interest in a nonutility business to give contemporaneous notice of such filings to the appropriate State commission.
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