United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Small Business Retirement and Benefit Extension Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to cease, as of 1988, the application of special rules for employee benefit plans that are top-heavy. (A top-heavy plan is one in which the value of plan benefits for specified "key" employees exceeds 60 percent of those for all employees under the plan.) Establishes, as a component of the general business credit against income tax, a credit for the administrative costs incurred by an employer having 100 of fewer employees in maintaining a qualified employee pension plan. Limits such credit to a maximum of $3,000 ($4,500 in the case of a defined benefit plan). Reduces the amount of the credit when the average number of employees during a relevant period exceeds 50. Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the IRC to: (1) apply nondiscrimination rules for coverage and benefits to certain employee benefit plans as of 1991 (currently 1988); (2) extend from 1987 to 1989 the effective date of amendments relating to the definition of "compensation" with respect to pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans; (3) render nontaxable any annuities purchased for employees by a nongovernmental tax-exempt entity; (4) repeal certain restrictions on distributions of contributions under salary reduction arrangements; (5) delay the effective date for the application of nondiscrimination requirements to tax-sheltered annuities; and (6) repeal the 15 percent tax imposed on excess distributions from qualified retirement plans. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide, for the administrator of an employee benefit plan having fewer than 100 participants, simplified reporting requirements with respect to supplying plan descriptions and annual reports to plan participants and beneficiaries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the required Government forms currently in use with respect to qualified retirement plans are not designed so that a person with no experience in the area of employee benefits could complete them. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Labor to: (1) redesign such forms as they pertain to plans having fewer than 100 participants; and (2) report to the Congress on their actions in this regard. Amends the IRC to provide that if an employer does not operate an on-premises eating facility for employees, 50 percent of the employer's share of an off-premises meal furnished to an employee shall be treated as a de minimis fringe benefit (not includible in the employee's income) provided that: (1) the employer pays no more than one-third of the cost of the meal; (2) a maximum of one meal per working day is provided; and (3) the meal is furnished during normal business hours.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1987
Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1987 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use water from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects to supply the project reserved water rights of the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. Exempts water supplied to the Tribes by the Dolores and Animas-La Plata projects from the Federal reclamation laws, with certain exceptions. Authorizes the Tribes, subject to approval by the Secretary, to temporarily dispose of water in accordance with the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Final Settlement Agreement through water use contracts with a maximum term of 50 years. Requires the Secretary to determine if such contracts are in the respective Tribe's best interest, considering the potential economic return and environmental, social, and cultural effects. Prevents the United States from being liable for any losses sustained by a Tribe under a water use contract approved by the Secretary. Provides that such authority to enter into water use contracts does not preempt Federal or State laws, interstate compacts, or international treaties pertaining to the Colorado River or its tributaries. Prohibits the use of proceeds from water use contracts for per capita payments to Tribe members. Requires the Secretary to defer the repayment of the construction costs allocable to each Tribe's municipal and industrial water allocation from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects until the water is used by the Tribe or pursuant to a water use contract with the Tribe. Requires a Tribe to begin bearing the pro rata costs for an increment of water as it is first used. Requires the Secretary to defer the repayment of construction costs within the capability of the land to repay which are allocable to each Tribe's agricultural irrigation water allocation from the Animas-La Plata and Dolores Projects. Requires a Tribe to begin bearing the pro rata costs for each increment of water as it is first used. Requires the Secretary to bear increased operation, maintenance, and replacement costs to Animas-La Plata Project water users caused by a decision of either tribe not to take delivery of its water allocations from the Ridges Basin Pumping Plant through the Long Hollow Tunnel and the Dry Side Canal until such water is first used by a Tribe or pursuant to a water use contract with the Tribe. Requires a Tribe to begin bearing the pro rata costs of each increment of water as it is first used. Authorizes the Secretary to defer all or part of the tribal cost obligations further if a Tribe demonstrates its inability to satisfy them from its use or sale of such water rights. Provides that use of water will be deemed to occur in any water year when a Tribe actually uses water or during the term of any water use contract, excluding any contract providing only a standby charge. Authorizes appropriations for the annual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs to be paid by the Secretary. Provides that the portion of the costs of the Animas-La Plata Project exceeding the irrigators' ability to repay will be repaid from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund in 30 equal annual installments from the date the water is first available for use. Authorizes appropriations for three annual installments for the Tribal Development Fund which the Secretary will establish for each Tribe. Sets forth a schedule for payments to the Southern Ute Tribal Development Fund and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Development Fund. Requires the payment of interest if any portion is contributed after the period or in a smaller amount than what is specified. Requires the Secretary, in the absence of an approved tribal investment plan, to invest the money in each Tribal Development Fund, to maintain separate accounts for each Fund and to disburse the principal and income in accordance with an economic development plan for each Tribe. Authorizes each Tribe to submit a tribal investment plan for its Tribal Development Fund which the Secretary must approve in 60 days if he finds it reasonable. Requires the Secretary, if he approves the plan, to disburse the Fund to the Tribe for investment in accordance with the plan. Authorizes the Secretary to take the steps he deems necessary to monitor compliance with the plan. Removes the United States from liability for investment and responsibility for review of the plan. Requires each Tribe to submit to the Secretary an economic development plan for all or part of its Tribal Development Fund. Requires the Secretary to approve the plan in 60 days if he finds it reasonable. Authorizes each Tribe to alter the plan with the Secretary's approval. Removes the Secretary from liability for use of the principal and income of the Fund following approval of such plan. Prohibits distribution of any part of Funds to any member of either Tribe on a per capita basis. Authorizes the Tribes to waive and release claims related to water rights under the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Final Settlement Agreement. Requires performance by the Secretary of his duties and tribal payments under this Act only when the Tribes execute a waiver and release as provided in the Agreement. Requires the Secretary to comply with the administrative procedures under such Agreement in administering water rights in the Ute Mountain and Southern Ute Indian Reservations. Provides that the Bureau of Reclamation's design and construction functions for the Dolores and Animas-La Plata Projects shall be subject to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act as if such functions were performed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Provides that provisions for the application of Federal reclamation laws, tribal water use contracts, and repayment of project costs will take effect when the final consent decree under the Agreement is entered by the district Courts. Requires that moneys appropriate for Tribal Development Funds be placed in the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute Tribal Development Funds but not be available for disbursement until the final consent decree is entered. Provides that if the final consent decree is not entered by December 31, 1991, the moneys will be returned to the contributors and the Funds will be terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should express to West Germany that the United States expects it to comply with its treaty obligations by extraditing terrorist Mohammed Hamadei to the United States; and (2) any action by West Germany that involves the exchange of Hamadei for German nationals being held hostage by terrorists will have extremely serious consequences for the relationship between the two countries.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1987
Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act of 1987 - Designates as nonmailable matter any private solicitation which is offered in terms expressing or implying that the offeror of the solicitation is, or is affiliated with, one of the following agencies: the Social Security Administration, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Office of Family Assistance of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Veterans Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Retirement Thrift Board, or the Thrift Investment Management System, or any program carried out by such entities. Allows the mailing of such matter if it contains a conspicuous disclaimer that it is not affiliated with the Federal Government and that it is a private solicitation. Establishes penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Act of 1987 - Title I: AIDS as a National Public Health Emergency - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to determine that acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) presents a public health emergency for purposes of certain provisions of the Act. Authorizes appropriations sufficient to double the amount of the standard level to be in the Public Health Emergency Fund at the beginning of each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to prepare and transmit to the Congress an annual report on expenditures of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to AIDS, including a description of each program, project, and activity and a description of each grant made and each contract and cooperative agreement entered into. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, through the National Library of Medicine, to establish, maintain, and operate the International Data Bank on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. States that the Data Bank shall collect, catalog, store, and disseminate, through information systems accessible to the public, general practitioners, and investigators, the results of research and treatment regarding AIDS which is undertaken in any country. Requires that such results be available to any person involved in research and treatment relating to AIDS in any country. Directs the Secretary to establish a schedule of charges for users of the Data Bank from other countries. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serums are available to qualified investigators. Authorizes the Director to require that any serotype or serum provided under this measure be returned and any information resulting from the use of the serotype or serum be provided to the Director. Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding any other law, in accordance with civil service laws, and acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to appoint not more than 40 additional employees to the Food and Drug Administration. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to provide technical assistance to State and local governments and public and nonprofit private entities carrying out programs, projects, and activities relating to AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Title II: Training and Services - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to add a new subpart on health care services in the home. Authorizes appropriations for activities described in this provision for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make allotments to each State, of funds appropriated under such authorization, according to a formula which considers the ratio of the number of individuals with AIDS in the State to the number of individuals with AIDS in all States. Directs the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to make payment of allotments directly to an Indian tribe or a tribal organization and to reserve such direct amounts from allotments to the State. States that amounts paid to a State for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of the year shall remain available to the State for the next fiscal year. Provides that allotments may be used, with regard to eligible individuals, to: (1) pay compensation for the services of physicians, nurses, and social workers who plan, manage, or provide health care services in the home; (2) identify and locate individuals needing health care services in the home; (3) coordinate health care services in the home with other supportive social services; (4) coordinate other long-term care services provided by public and private institutions and voluntary organizations; and (5) train health care professionals, especially those who may provide home health care services or work in hospices. Authorizes States to use amounts allotted to them to provide health care services in the home for eligible individuals through grants to health care organizations. Prohibits more than ten percent of the total amount allotted and paid to a State under this provision from being used to administer such amount. Requires the State to pay from non-Federal sources the remaining costs of administering the funds. Prohibits use of the allotments to: (1) pay more than a specified amount per year per eligible individual for compensation for the services of physicians, nurses, and social workers; (2) inpatient services; (3) cash payments to recipients; (4) capital purchase or improvement, subject to waiver by the Secretary; (5) satisfy any requirement for expenditure of non-Federal funds; (6) provide services under this provision if the total cost to the Federal Government would exceed the total cost of institutionalizing the individual; (7) provide reimbursement for services performed by any individual other than a physician, nurse, or social worker; or (8) provide social services for which planning and management is conducted under specified provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary, if requested by a State, to provide technical assistance to the State. Requires a State, in order to receive an allotment, to submit an application to the Secretary. Specifies matters to which the chief executive officer of a State must certify in the application. Requires the chief executive officer of a State to prepare and furnish the Secretary with a description of the intended use of the payments the State will receive under the allotment. Requires that the description be made public so as to facilitate comment from any person during development and after transmittal. States that existing provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to reduction in payments to States, reports and audits, withholding of funds for cause, nondiscrimination, and criminal penalties for false statements shall apply to this new subpart. Requires reports submitted under this provision to include an analysis of the cost effectiveness of providing health care services in the home. Directs the Secretary to conduct evaluations of services provided and activities carried out with payments to States under this subpart. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds from the Public Health Emergency Fund to purchase, on behalf of and at the request of a State, large quantities, at bulk rates, of drugs for the treatment of AIDS, when doing so is more economical than the purchase of the drug by the State. Requires the Secretary to provide the purchased drugs to the State at the cost paid by the Secretary and to deposit the amount received from the States in the Fund. Amends Part F (relating to grants and contracts) of title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy to: (1) train faculty of schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, and allied health, and faculty of programs for the training of physician assistants, to teach students, in such schools and programs, to provide care and treatment, including counseling and prevention, for individuals with AIDS; and (2) develop and disseminate curricula relating to care and treatment of such individuals. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give preference to projects which will: (1) train health professionals who will provide treatment for minority individuals with AIDS and other individuals who are at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) train minority health professionals to provide treatment for individuals with AIDS. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless an application is submitted to the Secretary. Makes applications for grants or contracts subject to peer review by groups composed principally of non-Federal experts. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from such peer groups and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for FY 1988. Amends title VIII (Nurse Training) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make grants to and enter into contracts, with regard to the care and treatment of individuals with AIDS, with schools of nursing relating to: (1) the training of nurses; (2) the development and dissemination of curricula; (3) instruction in methods; (4) training and retraining of faculty; (5) continuing education of nurses; and (6) establishment of new affiliations with facilities which can provide students with clinical training. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give preference to projects which will: (1) train nurses who will provide treatment for minority individuals with AIDS and other individuals who are at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) train minority nurses to provide treatment for individuals with AIDS. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless an application is submitted to the Secretary. Makes applications for grants or contracts subject to peer review by groups composed principally of non-Federal experts. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from such peer groups and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for FY 1988. Amends part B (Federal-State Cooperation) of title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to provide, directly or through grant or contract, for: (1) education, training, and clinical skills improvement activities relating to AIDS for health professionals and allied health professionals; and (2) technical assistance to States and public and nonprofit entities for research in, and prevention and control of, AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Title III: Public Information - Amends Part B (Federal-State Cooperation) of title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to develop and disseminate, through the print and broadcast media, public service announcements which inform the public, discourage high risk behaviors, and encourage individuals who may be at risk for contracting AIDS to be tested for infection and to receive counseling regarding infection. Directs the Secretary to: (1) place special emphasis on announcements directed toward minority individuals and individuals at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) use appropriate private organizations and businesses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to establish and maintain a toll-free 24-hour telephone service to provide information to the public concerning AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to establish and maintain a telephone service to provide medical and technical information during normal business hours of the Centers to individuals and organizations who provide care and treatment services for individuals with AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to create a new part relating to public information activities by States. Authorizes appropriations for provisions of this part for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary to make allotments in the same ratio as the population of the State bears to the population of all States. Directs the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to make payments of allotments directly to an Indian tribe or a tribal organization and to reserve such direct amounts from allotments to the State. Directs the Secretary to make payments from funds appropriated for that fiscal year. Declares that any amount paid to a State for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of the year shall remain available for the next fiscal year. Requires allocated amounts to be used, with regard to AIDS, for: (1) the development, establishment, or operation of public information activities for the general public, including minorities, relating to prevention and diagnosis; (2) the development, establishment, or operation of public information activities, relating to prevention and diagnosis, for populations at high risk of contracting AIDS; (3) technical assistance to community-based organizations, public and nonprofit private entities, and employers in developing information programs; and (4) training for personnel to carry out such activities. Prohibits States from using allocated funds for capital purchase or improvement, subject to waiver by the Secretary, or for satisfying any requirement for expenditure of non-Federal funds. Directs the Secretary, if requested by a State, to provide technical assistance to the State in planning and operating the activities under this part. Prohibits the use of more than ten percent of allocated amounts for administering the funds. Requires States to pay, from non-Federal sources, the remaining costs of administering the funds. Requires States to submit an application to the Secretary in order to receive an allocation. Specifies matters to which the chief executive officer of a State must certify in the application. Requires that the chief executive officer of a State: (1) prepare and furnish the Secretary with a description of the intended use of the payments the State will receive; and (2) make the description public so as to facilitate comment from any person during development and after transmittal. Declares that existing provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to reduction in payments to States, reports and audits, withholding of funds for cause, nondiscrimination, and criminal penalties for false statements shall apply to this part in the same manner as they apply to the existing part B of this title. Directs the Secretary to conduct evaluations of the activities carried out under this part. Requires each State to include in the annual report submitted to the Secretary under existing provisions information which is necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct the evaluations. Directs the Secretary 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 summarizing the evaluations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Congress should appropriate, for FY 1988: (1) sufficient funds to establish and maintain the Public Health Emergency Fund authorized under current law; and (2) a specified amount to the Veterans Administration for medical care for persons havings AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) who are entitled to receive medical care under laws administered by the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987
Amends the Federal criminal code to allow the National Association of State Racing Commissioners, State racing commissions, and authorities that regulate parimutuel wagering to: (1) use the facilities of the National Crime Information Center to receive, share, store, and disseminate criminal identification records; and (2) submit fingerprints to the Attorney General for identification and a criminal history records check.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Federal Campaign Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to increase the limit a person is allowed to contribute to any candidate and the candidate's authorized political committees with respect to any election to Federal office from $1,000 to $1,500. Decreases the amount a multicandidate political committee is allowed to make to a candidate and the candidate's authorized political committees from $5,000 to $2,500. Requires corporations, labor organizations, and each national committee of a political party to file a report with the Commission if such entities have engaged in any otherwise exempt activity during the period for which the report is filed. Describes "otherwise exempt activities" as those activities which are exempt from disclosure requirements and which include any act of furnishing or making available services, payments, or other benefits excluded from the definition of contribution or expenditure. Declares that any nonprofit corporation receiving reduced postal rates which uses the mails to engage in any otherwise exempt activity during the 90-day period prior to a general or special election shall be subject to a civil penalty. Establishes reporting requirements for persons making independent expenditures in U.S. Senate elections totaling more than $10,000, and thereafter each time such persons make independent expenditures totaling more than $5,000. Subjects to such reporting requirements the exempt activities of corporations and labor organizations. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the Commission and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend funds and incur personal loans for the primary and general election in the aggregate of $250,000 or more from the following sources: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for office. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay a personal loan in connection with the candidate's campaign from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits the repayment of any interest on the principal amount of such loan. Prohibits a candidate from making expenditures from personal funds, family funds, or from incurring personal loans in connection with the election campaign at any time within 60 days before such election. Requires that solicited or accepted contributions made through a check or money order be made payable to a specific payee by the original drawer of the check or money order when such amounts will be combined and contributed to a candidate for Federal office. Requires semiannual reports by a party political committee with respect to payments to such committee to defray establishment, administration, and solicitation costs. Requires the national committee of a political party to include in specified reports all funds received and disbursements made for purposes other than to influence a Federal election (soft money). Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be established a bipartisan commission on campaign financing to develop a means of campaign financing which: (1) promotes the availability of qualified candidates for congressional office; (2) permits candidates, irrespective of their personal financial resources, the opportunity to communicate effectively with the electorate; (3) protects the integrity of the legislative process; (4) promotes participation of political parties in the electoral and legislative process; and (5) promotes public confidence in both the electoral and legislative processes. Declares that such commission should consider and study Federal laws and regulations and public commentary relating to financing congressional election campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Amends the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 to prohibit attempted excavation, removal, damage, alteration, or defacing of artifacts. Reduces the felony threshold value of illegally removed artifacts to $500.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Federal Campaign Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit multicandidate political committees from making contributions to any candidate and the candidate's political committee, other than a national political party or a political committee maintained by a national political party. Authorizes the Federal Election Commission to conduct random audits of separate segregated funds and nonparty multicandidate political committees. Requires corporations, labor organizations, and each national committee of a political party to file a report with the Commission if such entities have engaged in any otherwise exempt activity during the period for which the report is filed. Describes "otherwise exempt activities" as those activities which are exempt from disclosure requirements and which include any act of furnishing or making available services, payments, or other benefits excluded from the definition of contribution or expenditure. Declares that any nonprofit corporation receiving reduced postal rates which uses the mails to engage in any otherwise exempt activity during the 90-day period prior to a general or special election shall be subject to a civil penalty. Establishes reporting requirements for persons making independent expenditures in U.S. Senate elections totaling more than $10,000, and thereafter each time such persons make independent expenditures totaling more than $5,000. Subjects to such reporting requirements the exempt activities of corporations and labor organizations. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the Commission and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend funds and incur personal loans for the primary and general election in the aggregate of $250,000 or more from the following sources: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for office. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay a personal loan in connection with the candidate's campaign from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits the repayment of any interest on the principal amount of such loan. Prohibits a candidate from making expenditures from personal funds, family funds, or from incurring personal loans in connection with the election campaign at any time within 60 days before such election. Requires that solicited or accepted contributions made through a check or money order be made payable to a specific payee by the original drawer of the check or money order when such amounts will be combined and contributed to a candidate for Federal office. Requires semiannual reports by a party political committee with respect to payments to such committee to defray establishment, administration, and solicitation costs. Requires the national committee of a political party to include in specified reports all funds received and disbursements made for purposes other than to influence a Federal election (soft money). Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be established a bipartisan commission on campaign financing to develop a means of campaign financing which: (1) promotes the availability of qualified candidates for congressional office; (2) permits candidates, irrespective of their personal financial resources, the opportunity to communicate effectively with the electorate; (3) protects the integrity of the legislative process; (4) promotes participation of political parties in the electoral and legislative process; and (5) promotes public confidence in both the electoral and legislative processes. Declares that such commission should consider and study Federal laws and regulations and public commentary relating to financing congressional election campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning October 18, 1987, as Financial Independence Week. Urges all citizens to pursue financial independence through sound planning and management of their individual resources.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning June 21, 1987, as National Outward Bound Week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first Outward Bound Outdoor Recreational Program offered in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
WIPP Land Withdrawal Act of 1987 - Withdraws lands to be known as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Eddy County New Mexico, from all forms of entry and disposal under the public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Transfers such lands from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Energy. (WIPP is a research facility for demonstrating the safe disposal of radioactive waste.) Provides compensation to New Mexico for lost mineral royalties. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to acquire non-Federal lands within WIPP. Directs the Secretary to develop within one year a management plan for such lands and surface resources. Permits grazing, hunting, and trapping, as specified. Requires such lands to be managed to preserve wildlife and its habitat. Requires the Secretary to dispose of salt tailings. Prohibits mining unrelated to the mission of WIPP. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with New Mexico for grazing and wildlife habitat management. Requires the Secretary to submit the management plan to the appropriate congressional committees within one year. Directs the Secretary to encourage business opportunities related to WIPP, reporting annually to New Mexico. Requires the Secretary to develop an economic impact plan estimating the impact of WIPP on affected community services in southern New Mexico. Directs the Secretary to make annual impact assistance payments to New Mexico. Requires the Secretary to publish and submit within two years to New Mexico and the appropriate congressional committees a plan for managing the facility after decommissioning. Directs the Secretary to publish within two years a report describing plans for conducting experiments with high level waste at WIPP prior to their conduct. Requires that WIPP comply with relevant Environmental Protection Agency standards for spent nuclear fuel and high level and transuranic waste. Requires that WIPP use engineered and natural barriers.
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 · 15 May 1987
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Research Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (Director), to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a comprehensive national plan containing specified elements relating to education, information, and risk reduction activities concerning AIDS. Directs the Secretary to submit to the committees each year for the next ten years a revision of the plan. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the development, implementation, or expansion of State plans for education, information, risk reduction, and other activities relating to AIDS. Requires States, in order to receive grants, to submit an application with specified contents. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States relating to these grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities for development, establishment, or expansion of programs for targeted education, information, and risk reduction activities relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to activities directed toward individuals at highest risk of becoming infected with the acquired immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary to give preference to community-based organizations which are located in, have a history of service in, and will serve specified areas. States that the Secretary may review the content of any educational or information materials developed with grants only for scientific and factual validity. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control for the training of individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, laboratory analysis, and risk reduction relating to AIDS. Declares that individuals receiving fellowships shall not be counted in determining the number of full time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for specified purposes. Directs the Secretary to make grants to international organizations concerned with public health for: (1) programs of education, information, and risk reduction relating to AIDS; (2) projects to train individuals to develop skills and technical expertise regarding AIDS; and (3) epidemiological research relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to inform the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development of grants made under this provision. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application is submitted. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the grants be made through the World Health Organization and, in the Western Hemisphere, through the Pan American Health Organization. Requires grants to be in furtherance of the global strategy of the World Health Organization Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to States, for grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities, for fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control, and for grants to international organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the development, establishment, or expansion in a service area of networks of comprehensive medical services for individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Requires networks to provide: (1) comprehensive services, or referrals to comprehensive services, for such individuals, including specified services; and (2) continuing education for health care personnel involved in the delivery of services to individuals infected with the virus. Specifies allowed and prohibited uses of grants. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Requires entities applying for a grant, prior to applying, to establish a network advisory committee to assist in development of grant applications, provide support for the development, establishment, or expansion of the network, and monitor the implementation of, and the services provided through, the network. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to specified types of applicants. Directs the Secretary to make at least one grant each fiscal year to an applicant in each service area in which there is a high incidence of children who are infected with the virus. States criteria for selecting such applicant. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services to individuals with AIDS. Requires projects supported with such grants to provide for the delivery of health services in conjunction with the comprehensive medical services networks. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive medical service networks and for innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide long-term counseling to individuals who have AIDS or who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the virus; and (2) conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of such counseling. Specifies purposes for which grants may be used. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to entities based at, or having relationships with, entities providing comprehensive health services to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for the study of, and projects for the demonstration of, effective methods, with regard to intravenous drug abusers, to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide treatment to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to create the National Program on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, consisting of: (1) a research program on AIDS, including a research program relating to the prevention of AIDS; and (2) demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS and for the provision of counseling concerning AIDS. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate one of the Directors of the national research institutes as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coordinator. Makes the AIDS Coordinator responsible for administration of the Program. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to develop and implement a plan for NIH to expedite the award of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements by any agency of NIH for projects relating to AIDS, including projects initiated by investigators not in response to any solicitation for proposals. Requires the plan to provide, in the case of applications made in response to solicitations for proposals, for making of awards or disapproval of applications within six months after the date on which a solicitation is issued. Directs the AIDS Coordinator, in conjunction with the Directors of the national research institutes and in consultation with the National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board (Advisory Board), to promote cooperation between specified agencies in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report with specified contents. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for AIDS and infection with the virus. Authorizes the AIDS Coordinator to: (1) establish or support the large-scale production or distribution of specialized biological materials or other therapeutic substances for research relating to AIDS and set standards of safety and care for persons using such materials; (2) support, in consultation with the Advisory Board, research relating to AIDS outside the United States in certain circumstances, collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, the training of American scientists abroad and foreign scientists in the United States, and programs of education and training, including education and laboratory and clinical research training; (3) encourage and coordinate research relating to AIDS by industrial concerns in certain circumstances and provide for the exchange of information between Federal agencies and private entities involved in specified ways with therapies and vaccines for AIDS; (4) acquire, improve, repair, operate, and maintain, in consultation with the Advisory Board, laboratories and other real and personal property, make grants for the renovation of facilities, and lease certain spaces for a limited period; (5) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to expedite and coordinate research relating to AIDS; and (6) maintain and operate the International Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Data Bank. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the AIDS Coordinator, to establish in NIH a National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the implementation of the Program; (2) advise and make recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary, the Director of NIH, the AIDS Coordinator, and the heads of other Federal agencies; and (3) maintain liaisons with other advisory bodies and key non-Federal entities involved with the control of AIDS. Requires the Advisory Board to prepare an annual report for the AIDS Coordinator describing the Advisory Board's activities and making recommendations regarding the Program. Authorizes the Director of the Institute to enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities for planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Specifies permitted uses for Federal payments under a cooperative agreement or grant. Limits support of a center to five years, subject to extension for periods of up to five years, if recommended by a peer review group. Requires, in the Institute, appointment of an Associate Director for Prevention to coordinate and promote the programs in the Institute concerning the prevention of infectious diseases, including AIDS. Directs the Associate Director for Prevention to prepare, for inclusion in a biennial report required by existing law, a description of the prevention activities of the Institute. Requires the Director of the Institute to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serum are available to qualified investigators. States that AIDS is included within the scope of the purpose of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to make awards, under existing provisions for National Research Service Awards, for the training of individuals to participate in national research efforts relating to AIDS. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or the Administrator of General Services to respond to any priority request made by the AIDS Coordinator of the NIH within 14 calendar days.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress commending the Department of Agriculture on its 125th anniversary. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating such event.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to redefine "seasonal agricultural services" to include work related to livestock and poultry raising and marketing.
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 · 30 April 1987
Declares that the President should designate and send to Vietnam a special presidential representative to negotiate with the Government of Vietnam for: (1) an agreement for the resolution of all outstanding humanitarian issues between the two countries; and (2) an agreement for establishment of technical resolution offices in the capitals of both countries to implement the agreement on humanitarian issues.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Provides for the appointment of a delegation of Members of Congress to participate in ceremonies to be held in New York City in April 1989 commemorating the 200th anniversaries of: (1) the implementation of the Constitution as the form of government of the United States; (2) the inauguration of George Washington as the first President; and (3) the proposal of the Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Invites the President to join the delegation in participating in the ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1987
Uranium Revitalization and Tailings Reclamation Act of 1987 - Title I: Uranium Revitalization - Directs the President, acting through the United States Trade Representative, to undertake negotiations with all major uranium producing countries to obtain voluntary restraint agreements to assure that a specified percentage (up to 50 percent by 1989) of the uranium that is loaded into domestic civilian nuclear power reactors is mined and milled in the United States. Requires the United States Trade Representative to monitor compliance with such agreements and to report the results annually to the Congress. Imposes mandatory import restrictions based on such specified percentages if voluntary restraint agreements are not effective. Imposes a fine upon nuclear power reactor owners or licensees who violate such uranium import restrictions. Suspends, from September 8, 1986, to December 31, 2000, certain requirements under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 prohibiting the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) from offering enrichment services for nuclear material of foreign origin intended for use in the United States. Requires civilian nuclear power reactor licensees to certify annually to the Secretary that the requirements of this Act have been met. Requires the Federal Government to purchase only domestically produced uranium. Prohibits the use of the Federal uranium stockpile for commercial power production. Title II: Remedial Action Performed by the Owner or Licensee of Active Sites - Requires that reclamation, decommissioning, and other remedial actions be performed by the owner or licensee of active sites according to specified standards. Establishes the Uranium Mill Tailings Fund in the Treasury to reimburse the costs incurred for such remedial action. States that such Fund shall consist of contributions from: (1) the States in which active sites are located; (2) the owners or licensees of active sites; (3) the Federal Government; and (4) all fees received from owners or operators of civilian nuclear power reactors. Prescribes guidelines for Fund administration by the Secretary. Authorizes contributions to the Fund by States in which active sites are located. Requires specified contributions from owners or licensees of an active site. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund from Department of Energy Uranium Enrichment Program revenues. Prescribes a fee schedule for contribution into the Fund by licensees of civilian nuclear power reactors. Declares that the owner or licensee of certain active sites may elect to perform remedial action through the Fund, and to receive reimbursement under this Act for such action. Prescribes guidelines for the reimbursement of costs incurred for reclamation, decommissioning, and other remedial action from the fund. Sets forth a $4.50 per ton limitation on reimbursements, with annual adjustments based on an inflation escalation index to be determined by the Secretary. Provides that remedial action costs at active thorium sites shall be borne by the licensee or owner, but that the United States shall bear a portion of the costs if tailings generated at a site were an incident of sales to the Federal Government. Title III: Utility Services Contract - Approves the Department of Energy's Utility Services Enrichment Contract. Precludes the Department from charging a certain percentage range authorized by such contract for the selection of a variable tails assay option. Title IV: Uranium Enrichment - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide that any prices established for uranium enrichment services shall be based, as a first priority, on the acquisition and retention of market share by the Department of Energy. Relegates to second priority the current sole basis, which is recovery of Federal enrichment services costs over a reasonable period of time. Requires that: (1) revenues from uranium enrichment services in excess of expenditures, up to a certain amount, shall be deposited in the Fund and thereafter in the Treasury generally; (2) the Secretary report to the Congress alternative plans for the full recovery of Federal enrichment services costs if the revenues received in any fiscal year are less that 95 percent of such costs: and (3) the President report to the Congress on alternative methods of managing the Federal uranium enrichment enterprise. Title V: Separability of Provisions - Declares that if any provision of this Act is declared invalid the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. Title VI: Effective Date - Makes the effective date 60 days following the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the period of May 23 through May 30, 1987, is recognized as Hokule'a Week, celebrating the return to Hawaii after a two and one-half year voyage of the Polynesian Voyaging Society's sailing canoe.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to delay the implementation of employer sanction provisions by four months, in order to allow for a continued period of public information dissemination regarding the unlawful employment of aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Older American Indian Services Improvement Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide that no older American Indian will be prohibited from receiving services under such Act. Requires each area agency on aging having a significant Indian population to: (1) conduct outreach activities to identify older American Indians within their area; and (2) inform older American Indians in their area about the availability of assistance. Requires the Associate Commissioner on Indian Aging to evaluate the adequacy of outreach services. Requires the Commissioner to ensure that contracts are equitably awarded among minorities and to support minority centers of gerontology. Requires the establishment of minority centers of gerontology to improve minority personnel and training programs. Directs the Commissioner to: (1) provide for the dissemination of information on older American Indians; (2) provide inservice training opportunities and courses of instruction on aging to Indian tribes; and (3) carry out special training programs to improve services to older American Indians and minorities. Establishes in the Administration on Aging an Office for Tribal Programs to be headed by an Associate Commissioner on Indian Aging. Requires the Associate Commissioner on Indian Aging to: (1) serve as the advocate for older American Indians in the Department of Health and Human Services; (2) administer grants for Indian tribes; (3) develop research plans and technical assistance for recipients of grants; and (4) convene an Indian aging conference at regular intervals not to exceed two years. Requires the Associate Commissioner on Indian Aging to create and chair an interagency task force on older American Indians. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to establish an interagency task force to make recommendations on facilitating the coordination and improvement of services to older American Indians. Requires the Commissioner on Aging to make a contract with a public agency or nonprofit private organization to study services for older American Indians and to submit a report to the Congress on this study within 18 months.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Minerals and Materials Fair Competition Act of 1987 - Title I: Actions Against Unreasonable Trade Practices - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President, within 21 days after the date on which the United States Trade Representative (USTR) makes an affirmative determination that a foreign country has engaged in unreasonable trade practices with respect to any nonagricultural, fungible goods, to impose a limitation on the quantity of such goods that may be imported equal to the quantity that was imported during a period in which no unreasonable trade practices were engaged in by such country. Revises the definition of "unreasonable" as used under such Act to include acts which: (1) deny fair and equitable market or business enterprise opportunities; (2) fail to provide adequate protection of intellectual property rights; and (3) provide, directly or indirectly, any subsidy to increase the capacity to produce a nonagricultural, fungible good for which existing worldwide production already significantly exceeds worldwide demand. Defines any act, policy, or practice as burdening or restricting the United States if such act, policy, or practice threatens to have an adverse impact on U.S. commerce. Outlines actions to be taken by the USTR in obtaining information from a foreign country in the course of any investigation to determine whether such country is engaged in an unreasonable trade practice, including receiving documentation and verification of all information to be relied upon as part of any such investigation. Authorizes the USTR to disregard any information that is untimely, incomplete, or not documented or verified to the satisfaction of the USTR. Requires the USTR, within eight months after the initiation of an unreasonable trade practice investigation, to make a determination regarding such investigation, and, if such determination is in the affirmative, to recommend actions that the President should take to eliminate such acts, policies, or practices. Requires such determinations to be published by the USTR in the Federal Register. Title II: Negotiating Objectives - Defines as a principal negotiating objective under the Trade Act of 1974 the obtaining of an agreement that imposes sanctions against the provision of government subsidies for increasing the production capacity of a nonagricultural, fungible good for which existing worldwide production already significantly exceeds worldwide demand. Title III: Relief From Import Competition - Revises provisions relating to investigations by the International Trade Commission (ITC) to determine eligibility for import relief from injury caused by import competition to include as appropriate circumstances justifying such relief an increase in the worldwide capacity to produce the article under investigation if the article is a nonagricultural, fungible article and such increase is likely to result in increased imports of the article or result in the reduction or suppression of the price of the article in domestic or worldwide markets. Directs the President, in determining what actions to take in providing import relief to damaged parties, to: (1) consult with the interagency trade organization created under the Trade Expansion Act of 1972 and consider the recommendations and written analyses of such organization; and (2) take into account written analyses prepared and submitted to the President by the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, and the USTR containing specified information on the effect of import relief on consumers and the industry involved. Requires the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, and the USTR to solicit, receive, and evaluate comments from interested parties in preparing their written analyses. Directs the written analyses and recommendations made by the interagency trade organization referred to above to be made available to the public at the time they are submitted to the President. Expands the import relief options available to the President to include the entering into of multilateral negotiations to prevent or remedy the injury if the injury is not susceptible to unilateral solution by the United States, including injury (or threat of injury) from excess worldwide capacity to produce a specified article. Authorizes the ITC to recommend to the President, after a finding that injury is present for which import relief is justified, that the President enter into multilateral negotiations to prevent or remedy the injury, if the ITC determines that the United States cannot remedy such injury by unilateral action. Directs the ITC to consider the potential for evasion of remedies prescribed, and to include in their recommendations to the President any means that could be used by the President to prevent such evasion. Authorizes the President to take any appropriate actions to avoid such evasions. Title IV: Antidumping and Countervailing Duties - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to direct the ITC, when conducting a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation, to consider whether excess worldwide capacity to produce the merchandise in question has had an effect on reducing or suppressing the price of the merchandise in the United States. Directs the ITC to take the same question into consideration when determining whether material injury has been suffered or is threatened. Title V: International Financial Institutions - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) to present proposals to the Executive Board of the Fund at the earliest practicable time to ensure that countries experiencing a shortfall in export earnings from nonagricultural fungible commodities due to a decline in prices as a result of a world surplus cannot borrow from the compensatory financing facility of the Fund unless such country enters into an agreement with the Fund to adjust production and not add further to the excess capacity of the product, and to take any other necessary action to stabilize the market for such commodity. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to vote against the provision of any loans from the Fund to countries producing surplus commodities before the Executive Board implements the above provision. Directs the Secretary, beginning 90 days after the enactment of this Act and at 90-day intervals until three years after the enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the President and the Congress listing all reports which have been circulated in the international financial institutions during the preceding 90 days for project assistance which would establish or enhance the capacity of any country other than the United States to produce a commodity for export if: (1) such commodity is in world surplus or is likely to be in surplus if such projects are permitted; and (2) such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of the commodity involved. Requires such report to also describe requests by any of the major copper-producing countries for assistance from the Fund. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. representatives to the international financial institutions to take into account the effect that adjustment assistance would have on individual industry sectors and international commodity markets.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to: (1) present proposals to the Fund's Executive Board to ensure that countries experiencing a shortfall in export earnings from nonagricultural fungible commodities may not borrow from the compensatory financing facility if such shortfall was produced by declining prices of a nonagricultural fungible commodity in surplus on world markets, unless the borrowing country agrees to take certain actions to stabilize the market for such commodity; and (2) vote against providing financing assistance to countries producing surplus commodities before the Executive Board completes action that would implement such limitation on borrowing by such countries. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare quarterly reports for the President and Congress: (1) listing all appraisal reports which have been circulated during the preceding quarter within certain international financial institutions for project assistance to help a country produce a commodity for export if the commodity is in surplus or is likely to be in surplus on world markets at the time the country's productive capacity is expected to become operative and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a competing commodity; and (2) describing requests by any of the major copper producing countries for assistance from the Fund. (Current law requires such a report to be included in the annual report to the Congress of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies.) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. representatives to the Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank to take into account, in their review of the utilization of the resources of their respective institutions, the effect that country adjustment programs would have upon individual industry sectors and international commodity markets in order to: (1) minimize adverse impacts on such sectors or markets; and (2) avoid government subsidization of production and exports of international commodities without regard to economic conditions in markets for such commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1987
Title I: Recognition of Injustice and Apology on Behalf of the Nation - States that the Congress accepts the findings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and recognizes that a grave injustice was done to both citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation, relocation, and internment of civilians during World War II. Title II: United States Citizens of Japanese Ancestry and Resident Japanese Aliens - Requests the President to offer pardons to those convicted of violating laws during the internment period whose conduct was based on a refusal to accept racially or ethnically discriminatory treatment. Provides that Federal departments and agencies that review applications for restitution of positions, status, or entitlement lost during the internment period shall review such applications giving full consideration to the findings of the Commission. Establishes within the Treasury a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Requires the Attorney General to pay $20,000 from the Fund in compensation to each surviving internee. Establishes a Board of Directors which shall be responsible for making disbursements from the Fund. Provides that disbursements from the Fund shall be used to: (1) sponsor research and public educational activities dealing with the internment; (2) fund studies of similar civil liberties abuses; (3) prepare and distribute hearings and findings of the Commission; and (4) promote the general welfare of the ethnic Japanese community in the United States. Title III: Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution - Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act - Establishes within the Treasury the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Fund. Directs the Administrator of the Fund (the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association) to make restitution for certain Aleut losses sustained in World War II. Requires the Administrator to establish a trust of $5,000,000 and to distribute the interest of such trust for: (1) the benefit of the elderly, disabled, or seriously ill; (2) students in need of scholarship assistance; (3) preservation of Aleut cultural heritage and historical records; (4) the improvement of community centers of affected Aleut villages; and (5) other purposes to improve Aleut life. Authorizes the Administrator to rebuild and restore churches and church property damaged or destroyed in Aleut villages during World War II. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments of $12,000 from the fund to eligible Aleuts for any uncompensated personal property losses. Provides that such payments shall not be considered income or receipts for purposes of Federal taxes or determining eligibility for Federal benefits or assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of the Army to implement a program for the removal and disposal of live ammunition, obsolete buildings, abandoned machinery, and other hazardous debris remaining in populated areas of the lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. States that the authority contained in this Act shall be supplemental to the authority of the Secretary of Defense in administering the Environmental Restoration Defense Account and shall be exercised only in the event that such account is inadequate to eliminate hazardous military debris from populated areas of the Lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Authorizes appropriations. Provides that bidding rights for surplus Federal property might be exercised by the Aleut Corporation in lieu of conveyance of Attu Island to the Aleut people, such island having been designated as wilderness. States that the bidding rights shall be exercised by the Aleut Corporation without any preference over any other bidder. Provides that an amount equal to $500 for each acre traditionally occupied by the Aleut people on Attu Island shall be transferred to the Corporation account established by this Act and made available to the Corporation for such bidding.
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
Geothermal Steam Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to provide that if geothermal steam is produced or utilized in commercial quantities under an approved operation within any lease or administrative lease extension period, such lease shall continue for so long as geothermal steam is produced (or utilized) in commercial quantities, for a maximum continuation of an additional 40 years. Sets forth conditions under which geothermal leases in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act shall be extended for a maximum of three successive five-year periods. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to review any cooperative or unit plan of development every five years after approval in order to eliminate any lease or part of lease not regarded as reasonably necessary to cooperative or unit operations. Requires such elimination to be based on scientific evidence, and only upon the Secretary's determination that it is for the purpose of conserving and properly managing the geothermal resource.
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
Makes congressional findings concerning rural and urban poor in developing countries. Requires the Administrator of the agency responsible for administering the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make assistance available to financial intermediaries in developing countries to enable them to provide loans and other assistance for micro and small enterprises of the poorest people. Specifies that such assistance may be made available for use by such financial intermediaries: (1) in extending credit for micro and small enterprises; (2) in extending credit for such purposes as food processing and production of cloth and clothing; (3) for the start-up costs incurred by a nongovernmental organization in becoming a financial intermediary; (4) for expenses incurred by financial intermediaries in providing training and technical assistance for micro and small enterprises; and (5) to provide other assistance necessary to the successful functioning of micro and small enterprises. Requires the Administrator to issue guidelines for financial intermediaries providing such assistance. Requires the Administrator to place primary emphasis on the development of the capacity of and use of indigenous nongovernmental organizations (especially those representing women, tribal people, and other minorities) which will provide credit and other assistance to micro and small enterprises. Requires the Administrator to conduct a benchmark survey to determine the total amount of assistance made available during FY 1987 for credit and other assistance for micro and small enterprises under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and to report to the Congress on the results of such survey. Sets forth the total amounts of assistance to be provided for such programs for FY 1988 and 1989. Specifies that such amounts shall be made available from: (1) funds made available under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to development assistance, Africa famine recovery and development, and economic support; (2) foreign currencies generated from specified sources; and (3) amounts paid to the United States on loans made to financial intermediaries. Specifies that at least 80 percent of such amounts shall be used in support of micro enterprises. Authorizes the Administrator to use economic assistance funds to provide assistance to the governments of developing countries on a loan basis repayable in foreign currencies. Requires notification to the Congress of the reprogramming of economic assistance funds made available to financial intermediaries under this Act. Requires the Administrator to encourage economic policies which promote micro and small enterprises in policy dialogues concerning economic policies with, and efforts to reform economic policies of, countries receiving economic assistance from the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Amends the Meat Import Act of 1979 to include lamb and the import of lamb within the provisions of such Act relating to regulations and restrictions concerning various meat imports. Limits the aggregate quantity of lamb which may be entered (imported) in any calendar year under such Act. Allows such amount to be increased or decreased in relation to an increase or decrease in the domestic production of lamb. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, to prescribe necessary regulations to convert live lamb into a poundage suitable for purposes of applying the import limitations required under this Act. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to determine whether a disproportionate quantity of lamb meat is entered quarterly into the United States. Directs the Secretary, by the later of June 1, 1988, or 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, to report the results of such study to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee.
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