United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Agricultural Produce Bailment Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1982 - Amends the Bankruptcy Act to require bankruptcy courts to give priority to allowed unsecured claims of farmers arising from the sale or conversion of farm produce to or by a debtor who operates a farm produce storage facility. Specifies that such sale or conversion must have occurred within 180 days before the filing of the petition or before the cessation of the debtor's business, whichever occurs first. Limits the payment of any such claim to $2,000 per individual. Permits a bankruptcy court to expedite the procedures for determining interests in and the disposition of grain and proceeds held by debtors who own or operate grain storage facilities. Requires the court to expedite such procedures if requested by a trustee or a claimant. Sets forth factors for the court to consider before deciding whether to shorten the time periods for procedures. Lists the procedures which may be expedited. Specifies administrative details.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1982
Title I: Extension of Defense Production Act of 1950 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend it through FY 1983. Title II: Contracts for Improved Defense Preparedness - Defense Production Act Amendments of 1982 (Defense Preparedness) - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to permit the President to make contracts for purchases or to encourage the mining of critical and strategic minerals, metals, and materials. Limits such a contract to a $500,000,000 maximum unless the Armed Services Committees are given 30 days notice and neither House adopts a resolution of disapproval. Requires such contracts to give the President the right to refuse delivery and to pay only the amount by which the contract price exceeds the market price at time of delivery. Directs the President to report to Congress at least once a year on the gross amounts of each such transaction. Makes funds available from specified appropriations for such contracts. Directs the President to minimize the financial risk and commitment to the Federal Government when making loan guarantees, loans to private enterprises, and development contracts. Requires the President to report to Congress not later than January 31 of each year concerning the operation of these provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from promulgating any regulation which would not maintain or enhance the nutritional integrity of supplemental foods made available under the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Prohibits the Secretary, after September 23, 1982, from modifying any regulation governing such program, unless a finding is made that the modification will be beneficial to the health status of program participants. Requires the Secretary to submit such finding to the appropriate congressional committees prior to its publication in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretary to implement specified regulations concerning the program no later than December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Exempts any qualified mortgage transaction at arms-length engaged in by an employee benefit plan from specified prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that such exemption shall supersede any and all State laws as they relate to qualified mortgage transactions to the extent engaged in by employee benefit plans.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) national efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition should continue; (2) a national commitment to vital nutrition programs should continue; and (3) the Federal Government should retain primary responsibility for child nutrition programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) in forthcoming consultations with Japan the United States should seek completely open access to the Japanese market for U.S. beef and citrus; and (2) if such consultations do not result in open markets the United States should evaluate what remedies are appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee shall investigate methods of strengthening the Export-Import Bank to ensure competitive financing for U.S. exports; (2) the Senate Appropriations Committee shall provide sufficient authority for the Export-Import Bank to enable U.S. exporters to compete in world markets; and (3) the Export-Import Bank shall provide U.S. exporters with competitive financial support.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Grants congressional approval of the Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System as a guide for future water policy on such System. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide for the engineering, design, and construction, of a second lock at locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake with respect to the Upper Mississippi River System: (1) a habitat rehabilitation and enhancement program; (2) the implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; (3) the implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system for data storage and retrieval; and (4) the implementation of a program of recreational projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) review the Master Plan; (2) assign priorities; and (3) develop and submit to Congress a proposal for further implementation. Declares that such Master Plan has reasonably complied with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Eliminates the retroactive application of certain withdrawal liability provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980. Requires plan sponsors to refund any amounts paid by an employer as a result of such withdrawal liability, less a reasonable amount for administrative expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to change the dutiable status of watches and watch movements imported from insular possessions of the United States. Defines the insular possessions as the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Authorizes duty-free importation of watches and watch movements built in the insular possessions without regard to the value of the foreign materials they contain if they meet specified conditions. Imposes a quota on the number of such watches and watch movements that may be imported duty-free during calendar year 1983. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and of the Interior to establish quotas for subsequent calendar years. Sets forth guidelines for determining such quotas. Allocates the number of duty-free imports of watches, and watch movements among three possesions for calendar year 1983. Authorizes the Secretaries to establish new territorial shares for subsequent calendar years. Directs the Secretaries to allocate the duty exemptions among producers located in the insular possessions. Directs the Secretaries to verify the wages paid by producers to permanent residents of the insular possessions in the preceding calendar year. Directs the Secretaries to issue a certificate for a portion of such amount to each producer for each year through calendar year 1994. Sets forth a formula for determining the value of a producer's certificate. States that such certificates entitle the certificate holder to a refund of duties equal to the face value of the certificate on imported watches, watch movements, and parts. Limits the amount of such refunds that may be retained by the Customs Service for reimbursement of administrative costs. Makes such certificates negotiable. Requires such certificates to expire one year after issuance. Permits the certificates to be applied against duties on articles imported within two years before their issuance.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) to provide that the provisions applicable to rubber and plastic products do not cover textile fabrics or articles coated, filled, or laminated with rubber or plastics which are covered by the provisions dealing with fabrics of special construction. Requires the nontextile coating or filling and nontextile laminating substances to be disregarded in determining whether fabrics, articles, and materials are "of textile materials" for purposes of the subject of the TSUS dealing with coated or filled fabrics.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to accept the land transfer comprising the Saint Louis Airport storage site from the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, for the Department of Energy's remedial action program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should submit a comprehensive review of the nation's nuclear weapons policies to Congress at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Wilderness Protection Act of 1982 - Withdraws from disposition under all laws pertaining to oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, and geothermal leasing: (1) wilderness areas; (2) lands recommended for wilderness designation, until Congress determines otherwise or until the lands concerned are recommended for other uses; (3) wilderness study areas, for the period of interim wilderness protection and management required by law; and (4) lands identified for further planning in Executive Communication 1504, 96th Congress, until one year after the final approval and implementation of an initial forest plan covering the further planning area. Exempts from the withdrawal pursuant to this Act: (1) national forest system land released to management for nonwilderness uses; (2) lands designated as congressional wilderness study areas in Colorado and New Mexico and certain lands within the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho; (3) Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas; and (4) lands in Alaska. Permits activities compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment for the purpose of inventorying energy, mineral, and other resource values in areas withdrawn by this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to augment recurring surveys of mineral values of wilderness areas and to acquire information on the areas withdrawn by this Act by conducting mineral inventories of such areas. Authorizes the President to recommend to Congress that minerals exploration, development, or extraction be permitted in specified areas withdrawn under this Act if: (1) there is an urgent national need for the mineral activity; and (2) the need outweighs the public values of the wilderness lands involved and the potential adverse environmental impacts likely to result. Makes such a recommendation effective only upon enactment of a joint resolution by Congress approving such recommendation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue oil and gas leases for the subsurface of national forest or public land wilderness areas that are immediately adjacent to oil and gas producing fields or areas that are prospectively valuable. Prohibits surface occupancy under such leases and provides that such leases may be entered only by directional drilling from outside the wilderness or by other nonsurface disturbing methods.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1982
States that the President, at the earliest possible date, should: (1) request Senate consent to ratification of the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaties; and (2) resume trilateral test ban treaty negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1982
Amends the Clayton Act to permit a State, or its political subdivision, or the United States to institute an action to recover damages for price fixing, even though they were not direct purchasers. Permits a State attorney general to institute such an action on behalf of a natural person who was not a direct purchaser. Entitles a defendant in an antitrust action to prove as a partial or complete defense that the plaintiff has passed on to others all or part of the damages claimed. Authorizes the court to award a reasonable attorney's fee to a prevailing defendant in such an action upon finding that the plaintiff has acted in bad faith.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Short-Time Compensation Act of 1982 - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to encourage States to provide unemployment benefits to individuals whose workweek is reduced pursuant to an employer plan under which such reductions are made in lieu of total layoffs. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) develop legislation which may be used by States as a model in developing and enacting short-time compensation programs; (2) provide technical assistance to States to develop, enact, and implement such programs; and (3) study and evaluate the operation, costs, effect on the State insured rate of unemployment, and other effects of such programs. Terminates the guideline and grant provisions of this Act after a three-year experimental period. Encourages States to experiment, but to consider requiring specified provisions to assure minimum uniformity. Defines a "short-time compensation program" as one under which: (1) individuals whose workweek has been reduced by at least ten percent, pursuant to a qualified employer plan, will be eligible for at least a pro rata portion of the unemployment benefits payable if such individual were totally unemployed; (2) eligible employees may apply for and collect short-time compensation or regular unemployment compensation benefits, as needed, but shall not collect more than the maximum unemployment compensation benefit for full-time unemployment or be eligible for short-time compensation for more than 26 weeks in any 12-month period; and (3) eligible employees will not be expected to meet the availability for work or work search test requirement while collecting short-time compensation, but must be available for their normal workweek. Defines "qualified employer plan" as one under which there is a reduction in the number of hours worked by employees rather than total layoffs if: (1) such plan is approved by the State agency; (2) the employer or employers association which is party to a collective bargaining agreement certifies that the aggregate reduction in work hours pursuant to such plan is in lieu of total layoffs which would result in an equivalent reduction of work hours; (3) the State agency reviews, at least annually, any plan put into effect to assure that it continues to meet the requirements of this Act and of any applicable State law; (4) the employer continues to provide health and pension benefits to employees whose workweek is reduced under such plan at the same level provided before such reduction; (5) the exclusive bargaining representative (if there is one) of the employees has consented to the plan; and (6) during the previous four months, the work force in the affected unit or units has not been reduced by temporary layoffs of more than ten percent. Requires that such short-time compensation benefits be charged in a manner which insures that the benefits are financed by the employers to whom the benefits are attributable. Includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands under the term "State," for purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to study State short-time compensation programs and to consult with employee and employer representatives in developing guidelines to measure specified factors. Directs the Secretary to submit a final report to the Congress and the President on the implementation of this Act, with a program evaluation and recommendations. Provides that nothing in this Act shall relieve any State of any condition imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. Requires, for unemployment rate determinations under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, that short-time compensation recipients be counted only in proportion to the actual amount of compensation received. Declares that an employee benefit plan which otherwise complies with specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code shall not be found to violate those provisions because of technical noncompliance caused solely by the employer's participation in a qualified employer plan as defined under this act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1982 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to enable the United States to give effect to the Nairobi protocol to the Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials. Directs the President to proclaim changes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons. Authorizes the President to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain: (1) books, publications, and documents; (2) visual and auditory materials; and (3) tools for scientific instruments or apparatus. Authorizes the President to limit the duty-free treatment or temporary duty-free treatment accorded under this Act for certain tools for scientific instruments or for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons if the duty-free treatment of the article: (1) has significant adverse impact on a competing domestic industry; and (2) is not provided for in the Florence agreement or the Nairobi protocol. Authorizes the President to reinstate the duty-free treatment of such articles if it would no longer cause such adverse impact. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide duty-free treatment for: (1) catalogs of educational, scientific, or cultural visual and auditory material; (2) architectural, engineering, industrial, or commercial drawings and plans; (3) certain illustrations and proofs used for the production of books; (4) developed photographic film and similar articles; (5) motion picture films on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; (6) magnetic video tape on which pictures or pictures and sound have been recorded; (7) other sound recordings, combination sound and visual recordings, and magnetic recordings; (8) certain educational, scientific, or cultural models; (9) tools specially designed for maintaining certain scientific instruments or apparatus that are used by nonprofit institutions; and (10) articles specially designed or adapted for use by blind or other handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Title I: Changes in Tax Treatment of Partial Liquidations and of Certain Distributions of Appreciated Property - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions which allow distributions made in partial liquidation of a corporation to be treated as part payment in exchange for the shareholder's stock (i.e. capital gains) rather than taxed as dividends at ordinary income tax rates. Repeals provisions for the nonrecognition of gain and loss by a corporation on distributions of property in partial liquidation (thereby limiting nonrecognition to complete liquidations). Provides that redemptions of stock from noncorporate shareholders attributable to a corporation's ceasing to conduct an active trade or business shall be treated as an exchange and not taxed as a dividend. Repeals the definitional section on partial liquidations. Specifies that a distribution shall be considered as in complete liquidation if it is one of a series of distributions in redemption of all of a corporation's stock under a plan. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to ensure that the repeal of the special tax treatment for partial liquidations is not circumvented through the use of other Code provisions. Disallows the nonrecognition of gain by a corporation which distributes appreciated property in redemption of its stock in the case of: (1) complete redemptions of the stock of a ten-percent shareholder; (2) redemptions of stock of a 50 percent or more subsidiary of the redeeming corporation; (3) distributions pursuant to antitrust judgments; and (4) certain distributions by bank holding companies to taxable organizations. Title II: Certain Stock Purchases Treated as Asset Purchases - Repeals provisions under which property distributed to an acquiring corporation in the liquidation of an acquired subsidiary receives a stepped-up basis. Allows a purchasing corporation to elect to treat a targeted corporation as having sold all of its assets in a 12-month liquidation and then reincorporated (thereby requiring depreciation and investment tax credit recapture). Specifies that acquisitions by a purchasing corporation shall include acquisitions by affiliated corporations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the percentage of completion, completed contract, or any other accounting method which clearly reflects income from the performance of contracts which normally require more than 12 months to complete. Sets forth rules for the severance or aggregation of contracts, for the treatment of a contract as completed and for the treatment of contract costs. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations for the determination of the earnings and profits of a corporation which uses the completed contract method of accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that when a publicly-traded corporation purchases its own stock, or the stock of an affiliate, the purchase shall be taxed as a distribution of property to the shareholders of the corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, for purposes of determining income of a corporate debtor from discharge of indebtedness, the corporation shall be treated as having satisfied the indebtedness with an amount of money equal to the fair market value of any stock transferred to the creditor in satisfaction of the debt.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Adds three members to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Directs the President to appoint the three members from a panel of at least six elected town officials submitted by the National Association of Towns and Townships.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the percentage of completion, completed contract, or any other accounting method which clearly reflects income from the performance of contracts which normally require more than 12 months to complete. Sets forth rules for the severance or aggregation of contracts, for the treatment of a contract as completed, and for the treatment of contract costs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create a rebuttable presumption that a member of a religious order who is required to take a vow of poverty and obedience is acting as an agent of such order when performing certain paid services. Creates such presumption for purposes of the withholding of tax on wages and determining gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Acid Deposition Control Act - Amends title I of the Clean Air Act (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) to establish a new program (Interstate Transport and Acid Precursor Reduction) to: (1) regulate the long-range transport of pollutants and their transformation products; and (2) reduce acid compounds, and their precursors, in the atmosphere. Establishes a long-range transport corridor, the "acid deposition impact region," consisting of 22 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Establishes a "secondary acid deposition impact region" consisting of the nine other States east of or bordering the Mississippi River. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to include such group of States in the acid deposition impact region upon determination, based on study results, that such inclusion will better serve the purposes of this Act. Directs the Administrator to: (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Prohibits annual emissions of sulfur dioxide and of oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources in the acid deposition impact region from exceeding the total actual emissions in such region for calendar year 1980. Prohibits any major stationary source in the region from significantly increasing such emissions, unless a not otherwise required net reduction of such regional pollution, in excess of the proposed increase, has been identified. Requires a ten-year phased reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in the region of 7,500,000 tons from the total 1980 level (or 10,000,000 tons if the States in the secondary region are included). Requires each State to achieve reductions in annual sulfur dioxide emissions according to a formula based on each State's share of utility emissions in the region. Permits State Governors to agree to reallot the required reductions. Requires each State in the region to adopt, within two years, enforcement measures to achieve such reduction. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures within four months if specified criteria are met. Sets forth a uniform sulfur dioxide emission limit for fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facilities (which are major stationary sources not subject to new performance standards) in any State that has not adopted, or has not had approved, such enforcement measures by such deadlines. Requires that owners or operators of such sources: (1) submit an approvable reduction plan and schedule within three years of enactment of this Act; (2) comply with such plan and schedule; and (3) achieve the required emission reduction at the earliest practicable date, but no later than ten years after enactment of this Act. Specifies methods or programs for enforceable net emission reduction that may be used by a State or the owner or operator of a source. Permits a State or owner or operator to substitute reduction in emissions of oxides of nitrogen for required sulfur dioxide emissions reductions, at a specified rate. Directs the Administrator to make grants from an Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund to states in the acid deposition impact region to assist utilities in meeting the emission reduction requirements imposed by this Act. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants based on the actual net after tax expenses incurred by utilities in each State in meeting such requirements. Establishes the Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund in the Treasury. Appropriates amounts to the Fund equal to the total amount of acid deposition reduction fees received under this Act. Imposes such a fee on every utility which sells electricity in any State in the acid deposition impact region, based on the amount of electricity sold. Adds to State implementation plan requirements a prohibition of stationary source air pollutant emissions in amounts that will contribute to atmospheric loadings of pollutants or their transformation products so as to adversely affect public health or welfare or the environment in any other State or foreign country.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Furniture Purchase Reimbursement Act of 1982 - Requires all furniture and decorative accessories for any office of any Federal officer appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be procured by the Administrator of General Services, unless such items can be supplied from: (1) excess property available through the Federal Property Resources Service or from another agency; or (2) sources maintained by the Federal Supply Service. Permits the Administrator to authorize the competitive procurement of such items by an agency after approving the specific requirement for such items. Declares that any officer who procures such items in violation of this Act shall be personally liable for the Government's procurement expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1982
Amends the International Coffee Agreement Act of 1980 to extend presidential authority to implement the International Coffee Agreement until October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1982
Small Issue Industrial Development Bond Reform Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disqualify industrial development bonds (IDBs) for the small issue tax exemption if a substantial amount of proceeds of such bonds is used to finance restaurants, certain office buildings, shopping centers, or entertainment or recreation facilities. Requires bond issuing authorities to conduct public hearings prior to the approval and issuance of any small issue industrial development bond. Requires the Governor of a State to report to the Secretary of the Treasury annually beginning in 1984 on bonds issued during the preceding year. Increases to $15,000,000 the amount of industrial development bonds used for economically distressed areas which qualify as tax-exempt small issues. Permits the financing of office buildings, restaurants, stores or shopping centers in such areas. Specifies requirements relating to poverty for designation as a qualified distressed area. Provides that capital research and experimental expenditures shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the aggregate face value of industrial development bonds which otherwise qualify for the small issue exemption. Suspends temporary Internal Revenue Service regulations which prohibit pooled issues of bonds for projects located in only one state with respect to bonds sold after August 23, 1981. Sets forth transitional rules and effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should seek through the upcoming ministerial level meeting of the parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to: (1) review the adequacy of the agreements concluded in the Tokyo round of negotiations with particular emphasis on the disparate treatment of primary and nonprimary products provided in the subsidies code and on the dispute settlement provisions; (2) begin negotiating international arrangements to reduce or eliminate restrictions on investment, trade in services, and trade in high technology products; and (3) complete negotiations on a comprehensive agreement on safeguards. Declares that the United States should facilitate the process of achieving domestic and international concensus on the nature of the world trading system by establishing domestic and international expert commissions charged with analyzing and making recommendations on trade issues.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1982
Food Stamp Reform Act of 1982 - Title I: Definitions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require that related persons (currently parents and children) who live together be treated as a food stamp household, unless one of the individuals is 60 years of age or over or receiving supplemental security income benefits or disability payments under the Social Security Act. Revises the method of adjusting the thrifty food plan for FY 1982 through 1984. Title II: Eligible Households - Revises the income standards of eligibility to require households without an elderly or disabled member to meet a 100 percent poverty net income test and a 130 percent poverty gross income test. Changes the date for adjustments of standard deductions in computing household income for 1983 from July 1 to October 1. Allows State agencies to use a standard utility allowance in computing the excess shelter expense deduction. Includes any savings and retirement accounts and the cash value of pensions as financial resources in determining household eligibility. Establishes categorical eligibility for households in which all members are Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients. Title III: Eligibility Disqualifications - Declares that during a period of a person's ineligibility the financial resources of that person shall be included as income for that person's household. Authorizes the Secretary to permit State agencies to establish periodic reporting requirements similar to such requirements under the AFDC program of the Social Security Act. Grants State agencies the option of requiring job search information at the time of an individual's application for food stamps. Increases from 60 days to 90 days the period of ineligibility for the head of a household who voluntarily quits employment. Requires that a second parent in a household register for work when the youngest child reaches the age of twelve. Title IV: Value of Allotment - Prohibits State agencies from issuing an allotment for the initial month or period if such allotment is less than a specified amount. Prohibits a household from receiving increased allotments as a result of being penalized for noncompliance with other public assistance programs. Title V: Administration - Directs State agencies to provide expedited coupon issuance to destitute migrant or seasonal farmworker households and to other households based on gross income and financial resources. Authorizes a State agency to immediately reduce or terminate benefits in any household for which the agency has received written information from such household which requires a reduction or termination. Authorizes the Secretary to require State agencies to conduct verification measures to assure that individuals are not receiving duplicative benefits under the food stamp program. Authorizes the Secretary to require State agencies to implement new or modified procedures to improve program integrity and be cost-effective. Title VI: Collection and Disposition of Claims - Grants households determined ineligible because of fraud and misrepresentation 30 days in which to select a repayment plan before such household is subject to an allotment reduction. Sets forth procedures for a State agency to intercept unemployment benefits of food stamp recipients who have received overpayments and such overpayments are uncollected. Title VII: Administrative Cost-Sharing and Quality Controls - Permits States to retain 50 percent of overissuances which are recovered. Directs the Secretary to institute an error rate reduction program under which a State agency's federally funded share of administrative costs may be lowered if such agency's payment errors exceed certain percentages. Title VIII: Authorization for Appropriations - Extends authorization for the food stamp program through FY 1985. Authorizes appropriations for the Puerto Rico block grant for FY 1983 through 1985. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Requires the rounding down to the nearest whole dollar in calculations for the thrifty food plan, household allotments, and household income deductions. Title X: Effective Dates - Makes this Act effective upon enactment.
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