United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that each Senate committee that reports legislation requiring employers to provide new employee benefits should include in such report an analysis of the impact of the legislation on employers (especially small businesses), the economy (in terms of international competitiveness), and employees (in terms of lost jobs).
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Secondary School Basic Skills Improvement Act of 1987 - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to provide assistance to local educational agencies with high concentrations of low-income children to improve the achievement of educationally deprived children enrolled in secondary schools of such agencies. Sets forth the authorized uses of such funds. Requires local educational agencies to include in applications for such funds a plan of operation as specified by this Act. Describes the process for the award of grants by State educational agencies to local agencies. Requires local educational agencies to evaluate their programs and report to the State educational agency at least biennially. Requires the State agency to make a public report of such programs at least biennially and to collect data on the race, age, and gender of children served by such programs. Provides for improving programs which show a decline in achievement by children served under them. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993.
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
Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act of 1987 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program providing grants to small rural hospitals to assist such hospitals in modifying the type or extent of health care services they provide so that their services more closely approximate the changing needs of rural communities and are integrated with other community health care services. Requires rural hospitals wishing to participate in the program to submit an application specifying the nature of the hospital's proposed grant project and a timetable (of no more than two years) for its completion to the State Governor, who shall transmit it to the Secretary within 30 days with his or her comments on such application. Directs the Secretary to consider such comments, each project's objectives, and each project's effect in reducing expenditures under part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program in choosing among applicants for such grants. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989.
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 · 8 May 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude research facility bonds from the $150,000,000 limitation applicable to 501(c)(3) bonds (tax-exempt private activity bonds at least 95 percent of whose net proceeds are to be used only by a governmental unit or by a nonprofit charitable, religious, cultural, scientific, or educational entity (a 501(c) (3) organization)). Applies the exclusion to any bond issued as part of an issue 95 percent of whose proceeds will be used: (1) with respect to a research facility; or (2) to provide research equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987 - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove durational limitations on Medicare coverage of inpatient hospital services, and cover 150 days of post-hospital extended care services per year, for an individual covered under parts A and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program. (Individuals covered only under part A would be subject to current durational limitations on such services.) Provides that an individual covered under parts A and B of the Medicare program shall not be required to pay more than one deductible for inpatient hospital services and one deductible for blood furnished in connection with such services per year. (Currently such deductibles are imposed for each "spell of illness.") Eliminates the coinsurance requirement imposed on such individuals for extended hospital stays. Imposes a coinsurance rate, equal to 15 percent of the average per diem cost of post-hospital extended care services, for the first ten days of a part A and B beneficiary's receipt of such services per year. (Currently, the coinsurance requirement applys to days 21 through 100 of a "spell of illness" requiring such services.) Amends part B of the Medicare program to cover all of the out-of-pocket Medicare expenses which a part B beneficiary incurs in excess of $1,700 in 1988, adjusted annually thereafter to reflect changes in the cost-of-living. Provides for the adjustment of Medicare payments to organizations providing health care on a prepaid basis so as to reimburse them for such excess out-of-pocket costs incurred on behalf of enrollees. Counts amounts an organ transplant patient spends on immunosuppressive drugs toward the out-of-pocket expense limit. Imposes a monthly catastrophic coverage premium of $4 for 1988 on an individual covered under parts A and B of the Medicare program, with annual adjustments to such premium thereafter reflecting changes in the amount of catastrophic benefits paid. Imposes a smaller monthly catastrophic coverage premium on individuals who are only covered under part B of the Medicare program. Imposes a supplemental part B premium of $12 per year, adjusted annually to reflect increases in the cost of catastrophic benefits, for each $150 of income tax due in excess of $150. Sets an annual cap on the supplemental premium. Covers, as home health services, daily nursing care and home health aide services furnished for up to 21 days with a physician's certification of the need for such daily care. Covers such services on a daily basis for 45 days when provided to a part B beneficiary within 30 days of his or her hospital discharge. (Currently such care must be provided on a part-time or intermittent basis.) Defines as "homebound" (a prerequisite of eligibility for Medicare home health services) any person who has a condition which restricts his or her ability to leave the home without support or for whom leaving the home is medically contraindicated. Directs the Secretary to notify Medicare beneficiaries, when they apply for benefits under part A or enroll under part B, and annually thereafter, regarding the extent of and limitations on Medicare coverage, including the ways in which coverage differs between those who are and those who are not covered under part B. Requires the Secretary to take into account the costs incurred by organizations providing health care on a prepaid basis as a result of this Act's amendments in modifying contracts with such organizations. Requires such organizations to adjust their agreements with Medicare beneficiaries in consideration of such amendments. Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine to perform a study to determine which prescription drugs should have their costs covered by the Medicare program or counted toward the part B beneficiary's out-of-pocket expense limit. Requires the Institute to submit an interim report within six months and a final report within one year of this Act's enactment to the Secretary and the Congress regarding such study. Creates an extension period of hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries which is to follow the two 90-day periods and the subsequent 30-day period of hospice care coverage currently provided in an individual's lifetime. Requires that State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies be at least as stringent as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Standards, amended within 90 days of this Act's enactment to reflect changes made by this Act. Provides that if the NAIC Model Standards are not amended, Federal model standards shall be established and serve as the basis for evaluating State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies. Requires that States use savings accrued under Medicare from catastrophic Medicare coverage to expand Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) coverage of the low-income elderly and community spouses of institutionalized individuals. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by October 1, 1989, on a study to be conducted by the Institute of Medicine into private and public funding options for long-term care. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 180 days of this Act's enactment on steps taken to eliminate the three-day prior hospitalization requirement for extended care services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish agricultural commodity marketing loan programs within two years if the Congress does not approve certain trade agreements (or if such agreements are not reached). States that such marketing loan program shall remain in effect until explicitly terminated by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on S-(2,3,3'-trichlorallyl) disporopyl thiocarbamate (triallate) through December 31, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no significant change in the Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) physician payment methodology should be undertaken without the receipt of reports required by legislation enacted in the 99th Congress and a detailed analysis of the long-range impact of such change on the provision of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require foods to include on their labeling the presence and amount of any palm, palm kernel, or coconut oils along with a statement that such oil(s) is a saturated fat.
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 · 29 April 1987
Medicare and Medicaid Nursing Home Quality Care Amendments of 1987 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to impose a common set of requirements on Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid intermediate care facilities (nursing facilities). Includes within such set requirements that nursing facilities: (1) maintain clinical records on all residents and assess, upon the resident's admission and periodically thereafter, the resident's mental, physical, and psychosocial needs, utilizing a minimum data set to be established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (2) provide 24-hour nursing services, employ at least one full-time registered professional nurse (both staffing requirements are currently imposed on skilled nursing facilities), and employ at least one full-time social worker; (3) provide care without requiring certain assurances regarding the source of payment for such services or discriminating against individuals who are eligible for Medicare or Medicaid; (4) protect specified resident rights and notify residents regarding such rights; (5) transfer or discharge a resident without the resident's consent only when such action is essential to the resident's welfare, the health or safety of others would otherwise be endangered, or the resident fails to pay allowable charges, and only after complying with specified procedures; (6) provide the Secretary, the States, service providers, and resident relatives with specified access and visitation rights; (7) maintain a quality assessment and assurance program which is attuned to the comments and complaints of nursing facility staff and residents; (8) require each of their nursing aides to successfully complete a training and testing program that entails competency-based testing before the assumption of direct resident care and at least 100 hours of initial training; and (9) protect a resident's personal funds. Requires, in addition, that Medicare skilled nursing facilities create or revise a written plan of care for each of their residents after making an assessment of a resident's mental, physical, and psychosocial needs. Directs the Secretary to establish a program providing grants to Medicare skilled nursing facilities for facility projects that enhance the quality of care or life of facility residents. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1988 through 1990. Provides for Federal inspection and certification of Medicaid intermediate care facilities. (Currently States survey and certify such facilities.) Requires that intermediate care and skilled nursing survey results be posted in a place accessible to patients. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act to authorize the Secretary to make provider performance reports available to the public after giving the provider 30 days (currently, 60 days) to review and comment on such reports, but removes time restrictions on the release of such information to ombudsmen. Amends the Medicare program to make the Secretary responsible for certifying State nursing facilities and States responsible for certifying other nursing facilities. Bases such certification on surveys to be conducted by a multidisciplinary team of professionals upon any change in the ownership of the nursing facility and, on an unannounced basis, at nine- to 15-month intervals. Subjects nursing facilities with poor compliance records to extended surveys. Directs the Secretary to develop and test a protocol for conducting surveys. Requires States to: (1) provide for the investigation of complaints against nursing facilities; (2) use specialized survey teams to survey and carry out enforcement action against chronically substandard nursing facilities; and (3) provide survey teams with specified training in survey and certification techniques. Requires that State long-term care ombudsmen be notified of any adverse action to be taken against a nursing facility. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria and procedures for evaluating a nursing facility's plans for the correction of its violation of Medicare and Medicaid nursing facility standards. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct surveys of no fewer than five percent of the nursing facilities surveyed by each State in a year to test the adequacy of each State's surveys; and (2) prescribe standards for measuring the performance of State survey and certification programs and sanctions against States failing to meet such standards. Requires that survey results and nursing facility cost report information be made available to the public. Directs the Secretary and the States to develop: (1) a range of intermediate sanctions to apply to nursing facilities whose violation of nursing facility standards does not immediately jeopardize the health and safety of their residents; and (2) specific criteria as to when and how intermediate sanctions are to be applied, with incrementally more severe fines being imposed for repeated or uncorrected deficiencies. Requires the Secretary to review, at least once every three months, the effectiveness of intermediate sanctions imposed by States. Authorizes the Secretary and the States to appoint a receiver to establish and oversee the implementation of a plan to bring nursing facilities into compliance with Medicare and Medicaid requirements when they chronically fail to satisfy such requirements or their deficiencies immediately jeopardize residents' health and safety. Directs the Secretary to compile and periodically update a list of items and services covered under each State Medicaid plan and make such list available to Medicaid beneficiaries and providers. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title IX of the Act to require the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to establish a National Commission on Long-Term Care composed of members having expertise in the provision and financing of long-term care. Requires the Commission to advise the Congress regarding: (1) methods of ensuring the quality of care in long-term care facilities and home-care programs; (2) the costs, appropriate staffing, and reimbursement of such facilities and programs; and (3) the access of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to such facilities and programs. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such Commission.
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 · 21 April 1987
Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1987 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission for FY 1988 and 1989. Extends through FY 1989 the authority for the Commission's travel reimbursement program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Nation make a major commitment of resources for health care, research, and education relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and that a presidential commission be created to assist the President and the Congress in establishing priorities and a comprehensive plan to deal with all domestic and international aspects of AIDS. Recommends that support services and technical assistance be provided to the commission by the Department of Health and Human Services. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the commission should be established within 90 days, issue a preliminary report within nine months, issue another report one year later, and issue further reports as determined by the commission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Rural Enterprise Zone Act of 1987 - Title I: Designation of Rural Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Specifies that States and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits to 45 the total number of areas which may be designated as rural enterprise zones. Limits the period during which: (1) the Secretary has authority to designate such zones; and (2) the designation may remain in effect. Authorizes the Secretary to designate such zone only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of a local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 1,000 or is entirely within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining government regulations, providing job training to residents of the area, and increasing equity ownership. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting nominated areas for designation as rural enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every three years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this Act shall be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that the designation of a rural enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Provides that the designation of a rural enterprise zone shall not constitute a Federal action for purposes of applying the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act or other provisions of Federal law relating to the protection of the environment. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Credits for Employers - Allows employers located in rural enterprise zones an income tax credit for qualified increased employment expenditures. Sets the amount of such credit at ten percent of the increase in payroll. Limits the dollar amount of wages taken into account with respect to any employee to an amount equal to the lower living standard for a family of four as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Specifies adjustments for inflation. Subtitle B: Deferrals of Gain or Loss With Respect to Investment in Tangible Property in Rural Enterprise Zones - Allows the nonrecognition of gain on the sale or exchange of rural enterprise zone property if the proceeds realized from such sale or exchange are used by the taxpayer to acquire rural enterprise zone property within one year. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of such capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated, in certain cases. Subtitle C: Rules Relating to Private Activity Bonds - Exempts rural enterprise zone property from the required use of the straight line method of depreciation generally applicable to property financed with tax-exempt bonds. Provides that the termination of the small issue exemption shall not apply to bonds whose proceeds are used to finance facilities in such enterprise zones. Modifies certain small issue volume limitations with respect to rural enterprise zone facilities. Requires that five percent of the private activity bond volume cap for a State that has one or more rural enterprise zones shall be set aside for use only in such rural enterprise zones. Subtitle D: Sense of the Congress With Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within a rural enterprise zone. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in retaining the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Fair Labor Standards Act) or present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or rule modifications shall remain in effect only as long as the affected zone designation. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and to consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Rural Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within rural enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to and expedite applications for the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that, to the maximum extent practicable, foreign-trade zones should be established within rural enterprise zones. Title V: Responsibilities of Federal Agencies in Rural Enterprise Zones - Directs each Federal agency, to the extent consistent with its primary mission, to seek to assist rural enterprise zones by appropriate means, including: (1) expedited processing; (2) priority funding; (3) program set-asides; and (4) technical assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Elementary and Secondary Education Improvement Act of 1987 - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise chapter 2 (Federal Programs for the Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Education) with respect to block grants to States. Revises the statement of purpose under chapter 2. Declares the policy of the Congress that financial assistance under chapter 2 to State and local educational agencies shall be made for innovative programs or programs which expand services and activities, but not merely to provide for the continuing maintenance of services and activities previously financed under chapter 2. Prohibits any chapter 2 allotment to a State from being used after September 30, 1990, for the maintenance of services and activities previously assisted under chapter 2 for a period of three continuous years. Authorizes waivers of such prohibition under specified conditions. Extends the authorization of appropriations for chapter 2 through FY 1993. Revises provisions for the use of funds for basic skills instruction. Revises the statements of purpose relating to educational improvement and support services and to special projects.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Education Competitiveness and Improvement Act of 1987 - Title I: Reauthorization and Improvement of Chapter 1 Programs - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for programs under ECIA Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children). Requires each State educational agency (SEA) to reserve up to five percent of Chapter 1 basic grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) in the State to be used for incentive grants. Provides that such incentive grants shall be made to LEAs which have the most successful Chapter 1 programs according to State-determined criteria which may include: (1) scores of participating students on basic reading, mathematics, or other subject standardized achievement tests; (2) improvement in school attendance or secondary school completion rates; or (3) adherence to State-established effective schools standards. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to increase the maximum level of grants for State administration of ECIA Chapter 1 programs. Allows Chapter 1 programs to be conducted in no more than one-third of an LEA's school attendance areas, selected in rank order on the basis of the highest number or percentage of resident children from low-income families. Allows an LEA to conduct chapter 1 programs in any of its attendance areas if the percentage of children from low-income families in each attendance area is within five percent of the LEA average. Revises ESEA provisions relating to the ECIA Chapter 1 program to provide for a small State minimum whereby the aggregate amount which LEAs in a State are eligible to receive under chapter 1 must at least equal one-half of one percent of the total amounts available under Chapter 1. Authorizes LEAs (with SEA approval) to use up to two percent of their Chapter 1 grants to pay up to 50 percent of the costs of innovative projects. Includes among such innovative projects: (1) continuation of services to children eligible for services in any preceding year; (2) extended services to eligible children transferred to ineligible areas or schools as part of a desegregation plan; (3) incentive payments to schools that have demonstrated significant progress and success in attaining Chapter 1 goals; (4) training of teachers not paid with Chapter 1 funds with respect to the special educational needs of eligible children and the integration of Chapter 1 activities into regular classroom programs; (5) programs to encourage innovative approaches to parental involvement; and (6) programs to encourage community and private sector involvement and resources in meeting the needs of eligible children. Establishes additional requirements for parental involvement in Chapter 1 programs. Requires LEAs to implement procedures of sufficient size, scope, and quality to give reasonable promise of substantial progress in achieving the goals of informing parents about the Chapter 1 program, training parents to help instruct their children, and consulting with parents on school-parent cooperation activities. Requires LEAs to: (1) have written policies on parental involvement in Chapter 1; (2) provide support for parent involvement activities; and (3) hold parent-teacher conferences at least annually. Authorizes LEA to implement a number of other specified types of parental involvement activities. Requires parental involvement activities to be coordinated to the extent possible with programs assisted under the Adult Education Act. Revises Chapter 1 provisions regarding participation by private school pupils to authorize grants to help LEAs meet capital expenses associated with serving such pupils. Limits such capital expenses to expenditures for noninstructional goods and services such as the purchase, lease, and renovation of real and personal property (including but not limited to mobile educational units and computer equipment and materials), insurance and maintenance costs, transportation, and other comparable goods and services. Makes such grants to States in proportion to the number of private school pupils served under Chapter 1 during the 1984-1985 school year. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1988 through 1993. Amends Chapter 1 and the Head Start Act to require LEAs and Head Start agencies to develop and carry out plans to follow the success and needs of students who participated in the Head Start program in the community. Title II: Reauthorization and Revision of the Consolidated Programs Under Chapter 2 - Renames the heading of ECIA Chapter 2 "Federal Programs for the Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Education." Revises the purpose of the Chapter 2 program to be the support of innovative or expanded activities in the areas of basic skills instruction, educational improvement and support services, plus special projects. Requires that Chapter 2 funds be used in accordance with the needs and priorities determined by SEAs and LEAs. Prohibits the use of Chapter 2 funds for any activity for more than three continuous years, beginning in FY 1991. Permits waivers of such prohibition in cases of unusual hardship or upon demonstration that the supported activity has been changed over the prior three-year period. Extends the authorization of appropriations for Chapter 2 programs through FY 1993. Revises the use of funds for basic skills instruction. Title III: Gifted and Talented Student Programs and Magnet Schools - Part A: Gifted and Talented Elementary and Secondary School Children - Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for programs for gifted and talented school children. Reserves a specified portion of such funds for the Secretary of Education's discretionary programs. Makes the remainder of such funds available for State programs. Permits the SEA to reserve up to ten percent of State grants for administration, technical assistance, coordination, and statewide planning. Directs the SEA to distribute at least 90 percent of such grants on a competitive basis to LEAs. Requires that at least 50 percent of such funds be used for programs that include the identification and education of disadvantaged gifted and talented children from low-income families. Requires that services be made available on an equitable basis to pupils attending nonprofit private schools in LEAs receiving such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make discretionary grants for personnel training, research, evaluation, or related activities for the education of gifted and talented children. Provides for equitable participation by nonprofit private school pupils and teachers. Sets forth provisions for State allotments under this part. Directs the Secretary to designate an administrative unit within the Department of Education to administer the programs and projects authorized by this part and to coordinate all programs for gifted and talented children and youth administered by the Department of Education. Sets forth provisions for the Federal share of programs under this part. Directs the Secretary, as part of the annual report of the Department of Education, to describe the programs assisted under this part together with an evaluation of the services of such programs in carrying out the objectives of this part. Part B: College Studies for the Gifted and Talented Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, LEAs and institutions of higher education located in the same community as the LEA, applying jointly, for demonstration projects designed to address the special needs of gifted and talented secondary school students. Requires that each demonstration project include: (1) the identification of gifted and talented secondary school students who will benefit from participation in the project; (2) the enrollment of such secondary school students in courses of instruction at institutions of higher education located in the same community in which such students reside and are attending secondary school; and (3) the awarding of academic credit at the secondary school and at the institution of higher education for participation in such courses of instruction. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992. Part C: Reauthorization of Magnet Schools Program - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out the magnet schools program. Title IV: Educational Partnerships - Educational Partnerships Act of 1987 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to educational partnerships to pay the Federal share of the costs of model cooperative programs for authorized activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out this title. Permits an eligible partnership to use payments under this title for model cooperative programs designed to apply the resources of the private and nonprofit sectors of the community to the elementary and secondary schools of the LEA or to courses of study at institutions of higher education in that community. Sets forth application requirements. Sets forth the Federal share of such activities. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual evaluation of grants made under this title to determine the success of model programs in meeting the objectives of this title. Directs the Secretary to disseminate to SEAs and LEAs, institutions of higher education, and other participants in the educational partnership program information relating to the activities assisted under this title. Title V: Mathematics and Science Targeted Assistance - Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to target assistance to secondary education programs for advanced computer, mathematics, physical sciences, and foreign language instruction. Permits up to 30 percent of specified funds to be used by an LEA for instruction at the secondary school level of foreign languages of the major trading partners of the United States. Repeals provisions relating to a waiver of training requirements in favor of expenditures for special projects. Title VI: White House Conference on Teaching and Competitiveness - White House Conference on Teaching and Competitiveness Act - Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Teaching and Competitiveness not later than December 1, 1988. Provides for a final report and administration of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: National Science Foundation - National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 through 1992 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 1988 through 1992. Sets forth nine categories for FY 1988 and three areas for FY 1989 for which such funds will be available. Authorizes annual expenditures from such funds in limited amounts for official consultation, representation, and other extraordinary expenses at the discretion of the Director of NSF. Provides that funds may be transferred among categories, but precludes transfers to or from any category exceeding ten percent of the amount authorized for that category until 30 calendar days have passed after the Director has notified specified congressional committees. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to allow portions of National Science Board meetings in which the Board considers possible NSF budgets for a particular fiscal year or other legislative proposals that might be submitted to the Congress to be closed to the public until the President's budget for that fiscal year or the legislative proposal has been submitted to the Congress. Revises provisions relating to the exercise of authority by the Director and relating to the Executive Committee of the Board. Repeals provisions relating to an oath and statement prerequisite to acceptance of a scholarship or fellowship awarded by NSF. Amends the National Science Foundation Authorization and Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to revise provisions relating to membership on the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering. Changes the Committee's report from an annual to a biennial one. Title VIII: Special Report - Directs the Secretary of Education and the National Science Foundation to jointly conduct a study of the strategies and methods employed by educational institutions to improve instruction in mathematics, science, and foreign languages. Requires a report on such study to be submitted to the Congress within 18 months after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, to take such actions as are necessary to protect cave resources on Federal lands, including: (1) restricting the use of such resources; (2) entering into volunteer management agreements with the caving community; and (3) appointing advisory committees. Restricts the release of information concerning cave location to protect the resource, requiring the Governor of a State in which a cave resource is located or a bona fide research institution to request location information in writing along with a commitment to protect the confidentiality of such information. Establishes a permit program for the collection or removal of natural resources from caves on Federal lands. Requires a permittee to post a bond or cash deposit to offset potential damage. Revokes permits for violations of this Act or permit conditions. Excludes Federal cave resources within the National Park or Wildlife Refuge Systems from this program. Imposes criminal penalties for the alteration of a cave or interference with cave resources, including the sale or exchange of cave resources removed without permission. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this Act or permit conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Places permit fees and fines in a special fund in the Treasury for cave resource management.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding the importance of protecting the equity of Farm Credit System borrowers and of ensuring the continued availability of competitive borrower credit.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1987
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit Rural Electrification Administration borrowers to prepay Federal Financing Bank loans without penalties if: (1) private capital is used to replace such loans; and (2) any savings will be used to avoid future rate increases, passed on to customers, or used to improve the borrower's financial strength.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1987
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through October 31, 1987, the duty on mixtures of two or more organic compounds containing one or more cross-linked sodium polyacrylate polymers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that a presidential commission be created to assist the President and the Congress in establishing priorities in dealing with all domestic and international aspects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1987
Amends the National School Lunch Act and the Food Security Act of 1985, respectively, to extend the alternative school lunch cash or commodity credit assistance program through the school year ending June 30, 1992. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the national donated commodity processing program through June 30, 1992. Makes conforming amendments to the Child Nutrition Amendments of 1986 and the School Lunch and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Satellite Television Fair Marketing Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the encrypting of satellite programming from the Public Broadcasting Service and the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Requires anyone who encrypts satellite delivered programming for private viewing to: (1) make it available for private viewing by home satellite antenna users; (2) establish reasonable character and financial criteria for distributors of satellite delivered programming and to not discriminate in price, terms, or conditions among distributors offering similar distribution services; and (3) conduct such encryption according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-approved standards designed to comply with specified criteria. Requires the FCC-approved standards to provide the public interest benefits of a universal encryption system permitting decryption by cable television subscribers and home satellite users. Authorizes aggrieved persons to commence civil actions to enforce this Act. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to conduct a study of pricing and distribution terms of satellite television programming to determine whether the programming market is developing competitively. Authorizes the FTC to establish remedies necessary to produce adequate competition. Requires the FCC to begin a rulemaking proceeding on improving access to network signals for rural Americans.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1987
Superconductivity Competition Act of 1987 - Directs the President to appoint a National Commission on Commercial and National Defense Applications of Superconductors to report to the Congress and the President on recommendations to enhance the development of improved superconductors and commercial and national defense applications of superconductors. Requires the Commission to address several issues, including: (1) U.S. competitiveness in superconductor development; (2) methods to improve and coordinate information, funding, and applications; (3) private sector incentives to develop superconductors; and (4) the impact on U.S. security of relying on foreign producers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1987
Truck and Bus Safety Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) include within the ambit of Federal motor carrier safety regulations motor carriers and drivers operating wholly within a municipality or commercial zone (with specified exceptions); and (2) initiate rulemaking proceedings on the need to adopt specified methods for safety improvement and for braking performance standards for trucks and truck trailers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1987
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Authorization Act of 1987 - Title I: Authorizations of Appropriations - Amends the following Acts to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989: (1) the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966; and (2) the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act with respect to bumper standards, automobile consumer information, and odometer requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) to derive a specified additional amount from unobligated highway safety program funds to implement a national program encouraging the use of safety belts and passive restraints (airbags) in passenger automobiles. Title II: Side Impact Protection and Crashworthiness Data - Directs the Secretary to reopen certain rulemaking proceedings to implement Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 214. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish performance criteria for improved occupant protection in side impacts; and (2) issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to extend the applicability of such Standard to light trucks, vans, and multipurpose passenger vehicles. Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to direct the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to study means of establishing a method for calculating a uniform numerical rating enabling consumers to compare meaningful passenger automobile crashworthiness data. Prescribes the contents of such study. Requires that a report of such study be submitted to the Secretary and the Congress within 19 months after the date of enactment of this Act. Prescribes schedules for: (1) obtaining public comment on implementation of National Academy recommendations; (2) determining whether an objectively based system of comparative crashworthiness data can be established; (3) promulgating a rule to establish such a system, if the determination is positive; (4) submitting the proposed rule for review to specified congressional committees; (5) waiting 60 calendar days after such submission, unless both committees notify the Secretary that they have no objection to the rule; and (6) establishing (by rule) procedures requiring auto dealers to make comparative crashworthiness data available to prospective customers. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary to: (1) establish a schedule for use in ensuring compliance with each Federal motor vehicle safety standard established under this Act which the Secretary determines is capable of being tested; (2) establish written guidelines and procedures for conducting investigations regarding noncompliance with the regulations issued under this Act; and (3) establish criteria for the determination and imposition of civil penalties for such noncompliance. Amends Federal law regarding State highway safety programs to mandate that each State shall include among its uniform highway safety standards a uniform system for handicapped parking. Defines the elements of such a system. Directs the Secretary to annually evaluate and report to the Congress on State compliance with such mandate. Directs the Secretary to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) revise specified motor vehicle safety standards regarding multipurpose passenger vehicles; (2) review the classification system for vehicles with a gross weight under 10,000 pounds to determine whether certain Federal motor vehicle safety standards would apply; and (3) amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 to provide that lap and shoulder seatbelt protection for outboard rear seat passengers should be installed in passenger automobiles after specified dates. Mandates that a specified percentage of certain authorized appropriations shall be used to disseminate consumer information regarding retrofitting passenger automobiles with lap and shoulder rear seatbelts. Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) promulgate regulations establishing passenger motor vehicle bumper system labeling requirements; and (2) arrange with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of specified aspects of the effectiveness of State motor vehicle safety inspection programs for transmittal to certain congressional committees. Amends the the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to direct the manufacturer of a defective motor vehicle or motor vehicle part to send a second notification if the Secretary determines that the first notification sent by such manufacturer has not resulted in an adequate number of vehicles (or items of equipment) being returned for remedy. Requires any lessor who receives notification of a defective motor vehicle part pertaining to any leased motor vehicle to send a copy of such notice to the lessee. Provides that a dealer may only sell or lease a motor vehicle (or motor vehicle item) for which a safety defect notice has been received only if: (1) the defect or failure to comply has been remedied before delivery under sale or lease; or (2) an enforcement order has been set aside or restrained. Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct a study of the use of darkened windshields and window glass in passenger automobiles, and to submit the results of such study to certain congressional committees. Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to prohibit any State from issuing a motor vehicle registration card unless the application for such card contains specified odometer information. Requires the Secretary to promulgate rules regarding falsification and unauthorized alteration of title and mileage information. Prohibits the Secretary from approving State alternate motor vehicle mileage disclosure requirements unless the Secretary determines that such alternate method is consistent with the purposes of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Declares that the Senate: (1) calls for the immediate release of all the children detained under state of emergency regulations in South Africa; and (2) pending the release of the children, calls on South Africa to permit parental access to the children, make public their names and their location, provide them with adequate food, clothing, and protection, and permit an international organization to verify the above and make sure that such children are not abused or tortured.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1987
White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act - Calls upon the President to conduct a National White House Conference on Small Business once every four years to: (1) increase public awareness of the contributions of small business; (2) identify small business problems; (3) examine the status of minority and women small business owners; (4) assist small business in carrying out its role as the nation's job creator; (5) develop specific recommendations for executive and legislative action; and (6) review the status of recommendations adopted at the preceding Conferences. Authorizes and directs Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to provide support and assistance to the planning of such Conferences. Requires a final report of each Conference, within six months from the date a Conference is convened, to be submitted to the President and the Congress. Requires the Small Business Administration to report annually to the Congress for the next three years following the submission of the final report of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1987
Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act - Title I: Interagency Council on the Homeless Act - Interagency Council on the Homeless Act - Establishes the Interagency Council on the Homeless as the successor to the Department of Health and Human Services' Federal Task Force on the Homeless. Transfers all Task Force functions to the Council and terminates the Task Force. Sets forth Council functions, including: (1) Federal homeless program review; (2) governmental and private programs evaluation; (3) information distribution; and (4) provision of professional and technical assistance. Requires each Federal agency to report annually (the first report due within 90 days of enactment of this Act) to the Congress and the Council regarding its programs for the homeless, any impediments including statutory or regulatory restrictions affecting such programs, and efforts made to increase food, shelter, and support opportunities for the homeless. Requires the Council to report annually to the President and to the Congress regarding: (1) the nature and extent of the homeless problem; (2) Council activities in cooperation with governmental and private entities; (3) Federal programs for the homeless, and an assessment of necessary levels of Federal assistance; and (4) appropriate recommendations. Authorizes FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations. Title II: Clarification of Use of Excess Property Under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 - Excess Property Identification Act of 1987 - Requires: (1) each Federal agency to identify excess property under its control that would be suitable for use as a shelter or to provide services to the homeless; and (2) the Administrator of General Services to report to the Council on the availability of such property. Title III: Shelter Program - Part A: General Provisions - Emergency Food and Shelter Act of 1987 - Establishes the Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board, to be constituted by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Directs FEMA to act as Federal liaison and provide support services to the Board. States that each Board-designated locality shall constitute a local board for purposes of determining fund distributions. Sets forth local board responsibilities, including: (1) coordination with other governmental assistance programs; (2) selection of grant recipients; and (3) program monitoring. Sets forth Board recordkeeping and audit provisions, including authority for access by the Comptroller General of the United States. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress. Part B: Emergency Food and Shelter Grants - Requires the Director of FEMA, within 30 days of enactment of a law providing appropriations to carry out this part, to provide funds to the Board for grants to private nonprofit organizations and units of local government to: (1) provide shelter, food, and support services to the homeless, with attention given to homeless persons with mental and physical disabilities; (2) strengthen efforts to create more effective and innovative local programs; and (3) conduct limited rehabilitation of existing mass shelter or mass feeding facilities. Limits Board funding to only those programs carried out by nonprofit organizations and units of local government which are consistent with the purposes of this title. Prohibits the Board from carrying out programs directly. Limits administrative costs to not more than five percent of total appropriations. Requires the Board to establish written guidelines, including: (1) methods for identifying needy localities, and determining allocations; (2) eligible program costs; and (3) guidelines specifying the responsibilities and reporting requirements of the Board, its recipients and service providers. Authorizes FY 1987 appropriations, including any amount provided under Public Law 100-6 (additional funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency). Part C: Case Management - Requires the Director of FEMA, within 30 days of enactment of a law providing appropriations to carry out this part, to provide grants to the Board to be given to recipient private nonprofit organizations and units of local government under part B of this Act to provide the homeless in shelters with case management services. Requires recipients to provide or arrange for such services. Sets forth required services. States that, if feasible in certain areas, the government or private entity operating a homeless shelter shall give preference to specified Community Services Block Grant programs in arranging for the provision of case management services. Authorizes FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations. Title IV: Housing Assistance - Requires a State or urban area to submit a comprehensive homeless assistance plan for approval to the Interagency Council on the Homeless in order to receive housing assistance under this Act. Sets forth required contents of such plan, including a description of the local homeless population and the existing services available to them. Requires the Council to review and approve a plan within 30 days unless such plan fails to meet the requirements of this Act. Requires: (1) annual performance monitoring reports to the Council; and (2) the Council to carry out performance evaluations beginning with FY 1990. Authorizes additional FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations for: (1) the transitional housing program; and (2) the emergency shelter grant program. Increases the minimum allocation amounts for the emergency shelter grants program. Exempts such additional emergency shelter assistance from a specified planning requirement. Increases available budget authority for five-year contract section 8 existing housing certificates for the homeless, especially the elderly and homeless families with children. Permits such certificates to be attached to a housing unit owned by a nonprofit organization which has agreed to provide shelter and services to the homeless. Increases available budget authority for ten-year contract section 8 single room occupancy dwellings for the homeless. Requires the installation of sprinkler systems, smoke detectors, and other fire and safety improvements. Limits rehabilitation costs to $14,000 per unit, unless local conditions such as contruction or acquisition costs or fire or building codes require increases. Title V: Health Services and Mental Health Services for the Homeless - Health Services and Mental Health Services for the Homeless Act - Part A: Health Services - Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for: (1) health services for homeless individuals; and (2) mental health services for homeless individuals who do not have a chronic mental illness. Specifies services such entities are required to provide and other requirements in order to be eligible for grants. Requires the Secretary to give preference to entities which have experience in providing comprehensive primary health care services to homeless individuals and medically underserved populations. Provides that such required services shall be provided to any homeless individual without regard to ability to pay. Specifies requirements for any fees charged by grant recipients. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations. Part B: Mental Health Services - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations. Prohibits the Secretary from using more than one percent of the amount appropriated for administration. Provides a formula for allotment of funds to States, the District of Columbia, and certain U.S. territories and possessions. Specifies how such allotments shall be used for emergency projects for homeless individuals who have chronic mental illnesses. Includes in such uses: (1) services to individuals who are homeless or who have chronic mental illness and are at risk of becoming homeless; and (2) certain training of individuals to enable them to provide services to homeless individuals. Prohibits certain uses of such allotments, including inpatient services, cash payments to recipients, and, subject to waiver by the Secretary, capital expenditures. Prohibits more than five percent of the amount paid to a State from being used for administrative costs. Sets forth application provisions. Makes applicable to allotments under the Act provisions of existing law relating to adjustments of allotments under certain circumstances, reports and audits, withholding of funds for cause, discrimination, and criminal penalties for false statements. Title VI: Assuring the Education of Homeless Children - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to require each State educational agency to adopt and implement a plan to ensure each homeless child of full and equal opportunities. Prohibits the application of State or local residency requirements so as to bar any homeless child from attending school. Sets forth requirements regarding selection of the school in which such child will be enrolled, transportation to the school selected, maintenance of the child's records, and participation in educational programs and services. Requires the Secretary to make grants to State and local educational agencies for exemplary programs for homeless students. Sets forth eligibility and application requirements. Requires the Secretary to disseminate information on such exemplary programs to other State and local educational agencies. Authorizes FY 1987 and 1988 appropriations. Title VII: Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Project - Requires the Secretary of Labor to make grants for the Federal share of job training demonstration projects for homeless individuals. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enter into contracts to carry out this title. Restricts eligibility for such grants to applicants located in a State which has submitted a comprehensive plan as provided for in this Act. Specifies elements required to be included in grant applications. Sets forth the purposes for which such grants may be used. Sets the Federal share of the cost of demonstration projects at 50 percent for each fiscal year. Allows the non-Federal share to be in cash or in kind. Limits the amount of grants to any State in each fiscal year to 15 percent of the total amount appropriated for this title. Requires the Secretary to annually evaluate each demonstration project and submit a report to the Interagency Council on the Homeless. Requires the Secretary to submit a final report to the President, the Congress, and the Interagency Council. Requires the Interagency Council to: (1) prepare and publish a report evaluating each project receiving assistance under this title; (2) make a determination of the relative effectiveness of such projects; and (3) make recommendations, including recommendations for legislation, to the Congress on job training programs for homeless individuals to be established on a national basis. Authorizes FY 1988 appropriations. Terminates such program on October 1, 1990. Title VIII: Nutrition - Nutrition for Homeless Individuals Act of 1987 - Part A: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define "homeless individual" for purposes of such Act as defined in the Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act. Authorizes food stamp outreach for the homeless. Requires States to provide food stamps within five days of application to: (1) the homeless; and (2) persons whose combined gross income and liquid resources are less than their monthly rent and utilities. Part B: Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) - Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to provide for an increased variety of commodities for distribution under the temporary emergency food assistance program (TEFAP). Increases FY 1987 TEFAP authorizations. Authorizes FY 1988 program appropriations. States that any FY 1987 or 1988 appropriations in excess of such authorizations shall be used for the homeless. Part C: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act, with stated exceptions, effective not later than 160 days after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
WIC Food for Life Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) should receive increasing appropriations until all eligible persons are being served; and (2) an outreach program should be conducted to identify persons eligible for WIC assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
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 suppliers in procurement, or fair and equitable market opportunities for United States 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 · 17 March 1987
Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act of 1987 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover: (1) inpatient hospital services which are not covered under part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program due to durational limitations on such coverage; (2) the second and any subsequent deductible imposed for inpatient hospital services furnished within a calendar year; (3) coinsurance amounts imposed for inpatient hospital services and post-hospital extended care services; (4) the deductible imposed for the first two units of blood furnished to an individual as part of inpatient hospital services; and (5) a part B Medicare beneficiary's out-of-pocket medical expenses in excess of $1,800 in 1988, with adjustments to such ceiling thereafter reflecting changes in the cost-of-living. Excludes from the computation of a beneficiary's out-of-pocket expenses amounts above the full part B payment to physicians and others who do not accept assignment. Includes in the computation of the part B premium an amount equal to the Secretary of Health and Human Services' estimate of a part B enrollee's share of the benefits and administrative costs which result from this Act's catastrophic care coverage and beneficiary expense ceiling. Covers as home health services, daily nursing care and home health aide services furnished for up to 21 days with a physician's certification of the need for such daily care. (Currently such care must be provided on a part-time or intermittent basis.) Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine to perform a study to determine which prescription drugs should have their costs counted toward the part B beneficiary's out-of-pocket expenses limit. Requires the Institute to submit an interim report within six months and a final report within one year of this Act's enactment to the Secretary and the Congress regarding such study. Requires State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies to be equal to or more stringent than the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Standards, amended within 90 days of this Act's enactment to reflect changes made by this Act. Provides that if the NAIC Model Standards are not amended, Federal model standards shall be established and serve as the basis for evaluating State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies. Excludes any day on which an individual is an inpatient of a skilled nursing facility but does not need the degree of care provided by such facility from a Medicare beneficiary's "spell of illness."
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987 - Expresses the findings of the Congress that the Fairness Doctrine: (1) fairly reflects the statutory obligations of broadcasters; (2) received statutory approval from the Congress in 1959; and (3) reasonably balances first amendment rights. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require broadcast licensees to provide a reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of public importance. Requires enforcement and application of such requirement to be consistent with the rules and policies of the Federal Communications Commission in effect on January 1, 1987.
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