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Bill· SS. 2726 (98th)referred

Native American Culture and Art Development Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1984

Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes a corporation to be known as the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development, with a board of trustees including Native Americans from the private sector, appointed by the President, and Members of Congress. Identifies the Institute's primary functions as: (1) scholarly study and instruction in Native American arts and culture; and (2) the establishment of degree-awarding programs in Native American art and culture. Establishes within the Institute: (1) a Center for Culture and Art Studies; and (2) a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Establishes the Institute as non-profit and tax-exempt. Prohibits the Institute from engaging in any political activity regarding elective public office. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Directs the President of the Institute to submit an annual report to the Congress and the Board. Establishes the Institute of American Indian Arts, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the site of the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 301 (98th)reported

A joint resolution to authorize the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation of Washington, D.C., to erect a memorial in the District of Columbia.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984

Authorizes the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation of Washington, District of Columbia, to erect a memorial on public ground in the District of Columbia in commemoration of the Lebanese-American poet and artist, Kahil Gibran. Provides that the memorial shall be in the form of a sculptured monument and shall be designated the Kahlil Gibran Memorial. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select a site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Prohibits the United States or the District of Columbia from expending any money for the establishment of the memorial. Provides that the authority of this resolution shall lapse unless: (1) construction is commenced within five years from the enactment of this resolution; and (2) prior to the commencement of construction, the Secretary determines that sufficient funds are available for the completion of the memorial. Makes the maintenance and care of the monument the responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior.

Bill· SS. 2692 (98th)open

A bill to exempt water conveyance systems from fees and conditions under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1984

Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to grant rights-of-way which traverse public lands within the national forest system for certain water usages. Identifies right-of-way grants to be subject to Federal fees. Exempts from fees all grants issued before October 21, 1976. Prescribes recordation requirements for right-of-way grants. Requires re-recording every 30 years, upon notice by the Federal Government. Authorizes the Federal Government to charge a maximum annual fee of $100 for rights-of-way granted after October 1976. Requires holders of right-of-way grants to indemnify the United States for damages caused by the holders' negligent use or occupancy of the granted right-of-way. Empowers the Secretary of the Interior to incur repair and maintenance costs caused by a holder's refusal to perform necessary repairs, and to assess such holder for such costs.

Bill· SS. 2687 (98th)open

Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984

Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1984 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to authorize employers to pay employees under 20 years of age 75 percent of the minimum wage rate between May and September of each year. Exempts such employees from special certificate requirements. Restricts such authorization to: (1) hours worked by eligible employees in compliance with applicable child labor laws; and (2) youth employed after May 1 of each year. Prohibits the removal of employees ineligible for the subminimum wage rate in order to replace them with employees who are eligible. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act. Terminates the minimum wage rate exception after September 30, 1987. Directs the Secretary of Labor to monitor the implementation of this Act and to report to the Congress concerning the employment effects of this Act.

Bill· SS. 2627 (98th)referred

Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to one or more institutions of higher education to establish and support border natural resources research in each border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) in the United States-Mexico border region. Requires that, in order to receive such assistance, an institution of higher education must be located in a border State and have a competent and qualified natural resources institute (or center or other equivalent division). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary to distribute such appropriations for each fiscal year equally among the border States. Requires that such grants be used to initiate and support natural resources research programs and provide for the training of specialists of border State natural resources problems. Sets forth various types of activities which such research may include. Sets forth grant application requirements. Sets forth provisions for cooperative research. Sets forth provisions relating to payments and administration under this Act.

Law· SS. 2603 (98th)enacted

Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984

Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to declare as an objective of the Act that community services provided under the Act should place emphasis on maintaining a continuum of care for the vulnerable elderly. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to develop linkages with utilization and quality control peer review organizations under the Social Security Act in order to insure the development of community alternatives. Increases the number of programs related to the purposes of the Act, for purposes of Federal agency cooperation. Revises provisions relating to the appointment of members to the Federal Council on Aging. Authorizes appropriations for the Council for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Provides for the annual authorization of appropriations to conduct program and project evaluations in an amount not exceeding one-tenth of one percent of annual funding or $300,000, whichever is lower. Defines the term: (1) "multipurpose senior center" to mean a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, which shall include, but not be limited to, provision of health, social, nutritional and educational services and the provision of facilities for recreational activities for older individuals; and (2) "focal point" to mean a facility established to encourage the maximum collocation and coordination of services for older individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants for: (1) supportive services and senior centers; (2) congregate nutrition services; and (3) home delivered nutrition services. Permits a State to use up to one percent of its allotment for conducting effective demonstration projects in health and nutrition education. Requires a State agency designating an area agency on aging to give the right of first refusal to a unit of general purpose local government when the boundaries of such a unit and the boundaries of the area are reasonably contiguous. Requires area plans: (1) to provide supportive services for families of elderly victims of Alzheimers' disease and other neurological diseases and organic brain disorders; (2) to provide services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (3) in providing services, to give preference to older individuals, especially minorities, with the greatest economic or social needs. Requires an area agency before requesting a waiver of any requirements for furnishing services to conduct a public hearing. Repeals the authority of grant recipients to charge for meals. Permits grant recipients to request voluntary contributions for meals. Requires a State plan to provide that with respect to services for the prevention of elder abuse: (1) the State will identify the public and private nonprofit entities involved in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (2) the State will, based on such identification, determine the extent to which the need for services for the prevention of elder abuse are unmet; (3) the State will establish, in areas where the need for services is unmet, a program for public education to identify and prevent elder abuse, receive reports of elder abuse, and refer complaints to law enforcement agencies; (4) the State will not permit involuntary or coerced participation in the program of services by alleged victims, abusers, or their households; and (5) all information gathered shall remain confidential unless all parties to the complaint agree to the release of the information, except that the information may be released to a law enforcement agency. Requires a State plan to provide assurances that each State will: (1) provide inservice training opportunities for personnel of agencies and programs funded under the Act; and (2) assign personnel to provide State leadership in developing legal assistance programs for the elderly throughout the State. Requires each State to establish at least one demonstration project for health and nutrition education to be conducted by one or more area agencies on aging. Limits State expenditures for plan administration to an amount not exceeding five percent of its allotment or $500,000, whichever is greater, except that in the case of Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the amount shall be five percent or $200,000, whichever is greater. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for the surplus commodities program under the Act. Prohibits State agencies and area agencies on aging from requesting information or data of providers which is not pertinent to a payment made under the Act. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States with approved State plans for: (1) supportive services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (2) inservice training and State leadership for legal assistance activities. Revises provisions relating to training, research, and discretionary projects and programs. Authorizes appropriations for such projects and programs for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. States that the purpose of such projects and programs is to expand the knowledge and understanding of aging and the aging process, to design and test innovative ideas in programs and services for older individuals, and to help meet the needs for trained personnel in the field of aging. Directs the Commissioner to administer such projects and programs through the Administration on Aging. Provides for the special consideration of Alzheimers' disease with respect to such projects and programs. Provides for the dissemination of information with respect to project results. Directs the Commissioner, upon request, to provide assistance to State agencies on aging, to work in conjunction with State protective service agencies so as not to duplicate activities already undertaken by such protective service agencies, for the provision of technical assistance and development of training materials for personnel in State and area agencies who are engaged or intend to engage in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse. Limits to 12 percent of Federal funding the amount which shall be available for the costs of administration of a State's older American community service employment program. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate such employment program with programs of the Job Training Partnership Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, and the Vocational Education Act of 1984, if the Secretary determines that to do so would increase job opportunities available under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Requires each State receiving funds under the older American community service employment program to report to the Secretary annually concerning the equitable distribution of funds within the State. Authorizes appropriations for such employment program for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants to Indian tribes under the Act. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to add to the definition of the term "employee." States that such term includes any individual who is a U.S. citizen employed by an employer in a workplace in a foreign country. Provides that the provisions of such Act shall not prohibit the compulsory retirement of any employee between 65 and 70 years of age who, between the two year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit of at least $44,000. (Current law provides that the benefit must be at least $27,000.)

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 106 (98th)passed

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987 and revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1984

Revises the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1984 and sets forth the first concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985 and the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 1986 and 1987. Recommends levels of Federal revenues of $665,400,000,000 for FY 1984, $743,700,000,000 for FY 1985, $811,000,000,000 for FY 1986, and $882,600,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed at $2,400,000,000 for FY 1984, $10,700,000,000 for FY 1985, $16,100,000,000 for FY 1986, and $19,100,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts for Federal Insurance Contributions Act revenues for hospital insurance within the recommended levels of Federal revenues at $39,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $45,600,000,000 for FY 1985, $52,600,000,000 for FY 1986, and $57,900,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts for Federal Insurance Contributions Act revenues for old-age, survivors and disability insurance within the recommended levels of Federal revenues at $166,800,000,000 for FY 1984, $189,500,000,000 for FY 1985, $206,900,000,000 for FY 1986, and $223,700,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the appropriate levels of total new budget authority at $914,100,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,010,600,000,000 for FY 1985, $1,106,400,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,209,700,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are $855,300,000,000 for FY 1984, $924,400,000,000 for FY 1985, $996,600,000,000 for FY 1986, and $1,086,100,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amount of deficits in the budget which are appropriate in the light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors at $189,900,000,000 for FY 1984, $180,700,000,000 for FY 1985, $185,600,000,000 for FY 1986, and $203,500,000,000 for FY 1987. States that the appropriate levels of public debt are $1,596,200,000,000 for FY 1984, $1,843,300,000,000 for FY 1985, $2,105,300,000,000 for FY 1986, and $2,394,900,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets the amounts by which the temporary statutory limits on such debt should be accordingly increased at $106,200,000,000 for FY 1984, $247,100,000,000 for FY 1985, $262,000,000,000 for FY 1986, and $289,600,000,000 for FY 1987. Sets forth the appropriate levels of total Federal credit activity as follows: (1) $37,600,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $105,200,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,300,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1984; (2) $36,700,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $110,800,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $68,300,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1985; (3) $40,800,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $116,700,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $71,600,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1986; and (4) $41,800,000,000 for new direct loan obligations, $123,300,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments, and $75,100,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments for FY 1987. Sets forth the levels of new budget authority and budget outlays and the primary and secondary loan guarantee commitments for each major functional category for FY 1984 through 1987. Declares that if Congress has not completed action by October 1, 1984, on the second concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1985, then this concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be the concurrent resolution required under the Budget Act of 1974. Prohibits enrollment of the following until after the Congress has completed action on the second concurrent resolution on the budget or until October 1, 1984, whichever comes first: (1) any bill or resolution in the House providing new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority for FY 1985 which exceeds the appropriate allocation of new discretionary budget authority or new spending authority; and (2) any bill or resolution in the Senate which provides new budget authority or new spending authority for FY 1985 which exceeds the appropriate allocation of new budget authority or new spending authority. Declares that for the purposes of this resolution, budget authority shall be determined on the basis applicable for FY 1984.

Law· SS. 2565 (98th)enacted

Human Services Reauthorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Amends the Head Start Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act through FY 1987.

Bill· SS. 2568 (98th)open

Civil Rights Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Civil Rights Act of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination by any recipient of Federal financial assistance. (Currently, discrimination is prohibited only in a program or activity receiving Federal assistance.) Defines the term "recipient" to extend comprehensive coverage for purposes of the four Acts to any State or local governmental unit, any public or private agency or entity, and any subunit successor, assignee, or transferee of any such unit, agency, or entity.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 368 (98th)open

A resolution condemning chemical warfare wherever it occurs and calling for a ban on chemical weapons.

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) all nations should condemn chemical warfare and should bring any such use to the attention of the United Nations; and (2) the United States should give attention to negotiation of a verifiable agreement, open to participation by all nations, banning the production and stockpiling of lethal chemical agents.

Bill· SS. 2524 (98th)open

Copper and Extractive Industries Fair Competition Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1984

Copper and Extractive Industries Fair Competition Act of 1984 - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to direct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to present proposals to the Fund's Executive Board to ensure that countries experiencing a shortfall in export earnings from nonfuel, nonmetal or nonferrous metals or minerals may not borrow from the Fund's compensatory financing facility if such shortfall was produced by declining prices of such commodities in surplus on world markets unless the borrowing country agrees to take certain actions to stabilize the market for the commodity. Directs the U.S. Executive Director to vote against providing financing assistance to countries producing surplus commodities before the Executive Board completes action that would implement the 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 international financial institutions 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. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to change the standard of proof for import relief from requiring a finding that increased imports are a "substantial" cause or threat of serious injury to domestic industries to requiring a finding that such imports are a cause of such injury. Requires the President, if the President decides not to provide other import relief with the President's discretion, to implement, within 15 days of making such decision, the import relief recommended by the International Trade Commission. Requires the import relief to take effect 90 days after the import relief determination date unless the President announces on such date the intention to negotiate orderly marketing agreements in which case the import relief shall take effect in 120 days. Makes the import relief effective for at least three years. Eliminates the President's authority to reduce or terminate such import relief. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to use the U.S. vote in the Fund to obtain the implementation of policies that would remove hard commodities from eligibility under the compensatory financing facility of the Fund.

Bill· SS. 2487 (98th)open

White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1984

White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act - Calls upon the President to conduct a National White House Conference on Small Business, not earlier than January 1, 1985, and not later than September 1, 1986, to: (1) increase public awareness of the contributions of small business; (2) identify small business problems; (3) examine the status of minority and women small business owners; (4) assist small business in carrying out its role as the nation's job creator; (5) develop specific recommendations for executive and legislative action; and (6) review the status of recommendations adopted at the Conference. Authorizes and directs Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to provide support and assistance to the planning of such conference. Requires a final report of the Conference, within six months from the date such conference is convened, to be submitted to the President and the Congress. Requires the Small Business Administration to report annually to the Congress for the next three years following the submission of the final report of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2456 (98th)open

Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1984

Commission on the Ukraine Famine Act - Establishes a Commission to be known as the Commission on the Ukraine Famine which shall study the 1932-1933 Ukraine famine in order to: (1) expand the world's knowledge of the famine; and (2) provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2436 (98th)open

A bill to authorize appropriations of funds for activities of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1984

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for: (1) FY 1985 through 1987 to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities; and (2) FY 1987 through 1989 for the Public Broadcasting Fund used by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Law· SS. 2403 (98th)enacted

A bill to declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Pueblo de Cochiti.

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984

Declares that all Federal right, title, and interest in specified lands is held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior for the Pueblo de Cochiti (New Mexico). Directs the Secretary to conduct a cadastral survey of such lands. Declares such lands to be part of the Pueblo Reservation and prohibits their development for uses other than those existing on the date this Act is enacted. States that permittees of such lands who are not members of the Pueblo shall be given the opportunity to renew their permits in the same manner as appropriate before enactment of this Act. Sets the term for permits renewed under this Act at 30 years or the death of the permittee, whichever occurs later. Allows the spouse or children of a deceased permittee to assume the permit for the balance of the thirty-year period upon notice to the Pueblo and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Declares that if the Pueblo obtains relinquishment of a certain number of grazing permits in the portion of the Caja del Rio allotment in the Santa Fe National Forest that overlaps the Santa Cruz Spring Tract, then the remaining permittees in that overlap area shall lose their interests and all rights to renew their permits. Preserves the grazing rights of remaining permittees within the portion of the Caja del Rio allotment which does not overlap the Santa Cruz Spring Tract. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to deposit all permit fees into the Treasury to the credit of the Pueblo. Authorizes the Pueblo to: (1) obtain relinquishment of permits on specified lands; and (2) grant in consideration of such relinquishments, agricultural or grazing leases or permits to existing permittees on other Pueblo Reservation lands for a maximum 50-year term. Subjects such grants to the Secretary's approval. Requires the Secretary to give full recognition to all land interests acquired by the Department of the Army in the Cochiti Lake project under specified Memoranda of Agreement and through fee acquisition, until such time as the project is deauthorized by Congress. Directs the Secretary to grant easements for access to specified lands. States that the fees charged for utility easements shall not exceed current Federal rates for such easements. Declares the water rights appurtenant to specified lands shall be those in existence under State law on the date this Act is enacted.

Bill· SS. 2360 (98th)referred

Vocational-Technical Education Quality and Equity Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984

Vocational-Technical Education Quality and Equity Act of 1984 - Sets forth national priorities which States are to be assisted in addressing under this Act. Lists national priorities under the following two headings: (1) improving the quality of vocational education to meet the needs of a changing economy and labor market; and (2) increasing equity in vocational education by expanding access to programs and providing services to students with specified educational needs. Title I: State Administration, Planning, and Evaluation - Part A: State Administrative Responsibilities - Sets forth requirements relating to the functions of State boards of vocational education. Includes among State board responsibilities: (1) appointment of a State director of vocational education and other personnel to administer this Act; (2) convening and meeting at least four times annually; and (3) submitting the State plan to the State advisory council on vocational-technical education. Requires the State board to assign at least one full-time individual to assist it in specified ways. Directs each State to reserve a specified amount from its basic State grant for State board functions. Sets forth requirements relating to State advisory councils on vocational-technical education. Limits membership of each council to 15, at least one-third of whom must be representatives of the private sector. Sets forth other membership representation requirements. Sets forth council functions and duties, including: (1) biennial evaluation of vocational education program delivery systems assisted under this Act and under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and of the adequacy and effectiveness of Federal, State, local, and private efforts to strengthen and improve vocational education in the State; and (2) reviewing and commenting on the State plan submitted by the State board. Directs the Secretary of Education, from sums appropriated for such State councils and allotted in a specified manner, to make grants to State councils to carry out their functions. Sets maximum and minimum limits on the amount of each such grant. Part B: Planning and Applications - Sets forth requirements for three-year State plans, to be submitted to the Secretary. Sets forth requirements for State applications for funds for each fiscal year under this Act. Sets forth requirements for three-year local plans by eligible recipients, to be formulated with the assistance of local advisory councils and to be submitted to the State board. Part C: Evaluation and Review - Sets forth requirements for State progress reports and State plan amendments. Sets forth requirements for program evaluation by State boards with the assistance of the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to report every two years to the Congress on the status of vocational education in the Nation, including a summary of State program evaluations, with conclusions and recommendations. Sets forth requirements for local progress and amendments to local plans. Title II: State Programs - Authorizes the Secretary, from State allotments under title IV of this Act to make grants to assist States in funding vocational education programs, services, and activities carried out by State boards and eligible recipients. Requires that such basic State grants be used, in accordance with approved State plans, to: (1) improve the quality of vocational education programs to meet the needs of the changing economy through strategies consistent with specified national priorities; and (2) provide equal access to, and benefit from, vocational education programs for underserved groups of individuals and groups of individuals with special needs through strategies consistent with specified national priorities. Limits the amount of the State allotment which may be transferred by a State: (1) to ten percent for such improvement purposes; and (2) to ten percent for such equal access purposes. Sets forth the following authorized activities which may be included in carrying out required uses of funds pursuant to this title: (1) vocational education responsive to labor market demands or designed to keep abreast of technological changes, including high-technology industry-education partnership programs; (2) vocational education special programs and services for underserved and special needs populations (including adult workers in need of training and retraining, disadvantaged, handicapped, minorities, and women); (3) postsecondary and adult vocational education for out-of-school youth and adults in need of training or retraining, whether employed or unemployed; (4) strengthening the institutional base of vocational education by updating curricula, equipment, materials, planning, and staff skills; (5) assigning personnel to work with employers and eligible recipients to insure that programs are responsive to the labor market; (6) vocational education through arrangements with private vocational education institutions, employers, and community-based organizations; (7) design and implementation of planned sequential vocational programs between secondary and postsecondary education levels; (8) program and curricula design and instructor training to teach and apply principles of mathematics, science, written and verbal communications, and technology related to the students' occupational goals; (9) improving the qualifications of individuals serving or preparing to serve in vocational education programs; (10) prevocational and industrial arts programs; (11) vocational student organizational activities; (12) placement services; (13) entrepreneurship programs consistent with the purposes of this Act and the goals established in the State plan; (14) special vocational education programs and support services, including career education, counseling, and guidance, work-study, cooperative, on-site, and apprenticeship, overcoming sex bias and stereotyping, assisting minorities and exemplary and innovative demonstration programs; (15) construction, equipment, and operation of residential vocational-technical schools for students at least 15 years old who require a residential facility to benefit from vocational education; (16) construction of area vocational-technical school facilities; (17) day care services for students' children; (18) up to 50 percent of administrative and supervisory costs; (19) planning, evaluation, and reporting costs; and (20) consortia with other States. Prohibits the use of such funds for activities relating to residential vocational-technical schools, area vocational education schools, or day care services for students' children unless the State board determines that: (1) it would be impossible, without expenditures for such activities, to carry out the purposes of this Act and the goals described in the State plan; and (2) adequate funds are not available from other sources for such activities. Title III: National Programs - Directs the Secretary to maintain a national vocational education data system. Requires States receiving assistance under this Act to cooperate in supplying information for such system. Directs the Secretary, in maintaining and annually updating such system, to make such system compatible with: (1) the occupational information data system established under this Act; (2) other systems developed or assisted under labor market information provisions under JTPA; and (3) other occupational supply and demand information systems developed or maintained through Federal assistance (directs the Secretary to cooperate with the Secretary of Labor in this ). Directs the Secretary to secure data about program enrollees and completers, placement and followup, staffing, and expenditures by major purposes of this Act. Establishes a National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee consisting of specified Federal officials. Directs the Committee, with funds available under title I, to: (1) annually provide funds for and assist State occupational coordinating committees; (2) improve coordination among administrators and planners of programs authorized by this Act and JTPA, employment security agency administrators, researchers, and Federal, State, and local employment and training agency personnel; (3) develop and implement an occupational information system to meet common needs of vocational education and employment and training programs; and (4) study the effects of technological change on new and existing occupational areas and the required changes in knowledge and job skills. Requires each State receiving assistance under this Act to establish a State occupational information coordinating committee composed of representatives of the State board, employment security agency, economic development agency, job training coordinating council, and agency for administering programs under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Directs the State committee, with funds from the national committee, to implement an occupational information system in the State designed to meet the needs of State board programs under this Act and administering agencies under JTPA. Establishes the President's Commission on Vocational-Technical Education (the Commission) consisting of members appointed by the President, with a majority representing the private sector of the economy and the remainder with broad experience in education and economic and human resources development (at least one of whom is a member of the National Commission for Employment Policy established under JTPA). Directs the Commission to: (1) assess national needs with respect to occupations requiring less than a baccalaureate degree; (2) identify ways to encourage cooperation between the private sector of the economy and vocational-technical education; (3) evaluate program needs for updated equipment, curricula, competent staff, and other necessary components for student preparation and worker training and retraining for the workplace; (4) examine, and make recommendations regarding, the role of vocational education in the improvement of the secondary education system; (5) make appropriate recommendations; and (6) advise the President, Congress, and Secretary on the implementation of this Act, JTPA, and adequate policies for vocational-technical education programs. Directs the Commission to make a final report of its findings and recommendations to the President, Congress, and Secretary within two years after its first meeting. Authorizes the Commission to make interim reports and recommendations. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Provides that the National Center for Research in Vocational Education established under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 shall continue to be operated with funds made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make an annual grant for the Center's operation; and (2) on the basis of solicited applications and the advice of non-Federal experts in vocational education administration and research, designate the entity to be the Center once every five years. Requires that the Center: (1) be a nonprofit entity associated with a public or private nonprofit university which has made, or is prepared to make, a substantial financial contribution towards its establishment; and (2) have a Director, appointed by such university and assisted by the advisory committee on research and program development. Provides for a discretionary fund for the improvement of vocational education ("the Fund"). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, public and private nonprofit organizations, secondary and postsecondary education institutions, and other public and private educational institutions and agencies to improve vocational and technical education. Allows such grants to be used for: (1) industry-education partner-programs, technical education, and other high-technology training; (2) institutions and programs involving new paths to career and vocational training, and new combinations of academic and experimental learning with vocational education; (3) adult programs for dislocated workers, work force entry or reentry, or training, retraining, or upgrading skills; (4) access improvement for youth with special needs, including minorities, the economically or educationally disadvantaged, those lacking English proficiency, and the handicapped; (5) linkages between academic and vocational programs of secondary education; and (6) improvement of vocational education quality and equity through new and expanded curricula or advanced training for vocational administrators and instructors. Requires that any grant or contract under the Fund to an eligible recipient of funds under title II of this Act shall be submitted to the appropriate State board for review, comment, and recommendations to be forwarded to the Secretary. Provides that the advisory committee on research and program improvement established under this Act will advise the Secretary, and the Director of the Fund appointed by the Secretary, on the award of grants under the Fund. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory committee on research and program improvement to advise: (1) the Secretary on selection and management of programs funded under this title; (2) the Secretary, the Director of the Center, and the Director of the Fund, with respect to policy issues in the administration of the Center and in the selection and conduct of research and demonstration projects and activities by the Center; and (3) advise the Fund. Sets forth provisions for advisory committee membership. Provides that members shall not be Federal employees. Requires the advisory committee to meet at least three times annually at the call of the Secretary, including at least one meeting at, and primarily concerned with, the Center. Title IV: General Provisions, Authorizations, and Allotments - Part A: Authorization and Allotments - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1991 for: (1) basic State grants under title II to improve the quality of vocational education payments to meet the needs of the changing economy; (2) basic State grants under title II to provide equal access to, and benefit from, vocational education programs for underserved groups of individuals and groups of individuals with special needs; (3) State administration, planning, and evaluation programs under title I; (4) national programs under title III, with specified exceptions; (5) the Occupational Information Data System under title III; and (6) the Fund for the improvement of vocational education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 for the President's Commission on Vocational Education under title III. Requires that the amount appropriated in any fiscal year for basic State grants for improvement of program quality be substantially equal to the amount for the basic State grants for provisions of equal access to programs. Requires a State, in order to receive any allotment under this Act, to: (1) establish a State board and a State advisory council on vocational-technical education; (2) have an approved State plan and application; (3) comply with evaluation and review and other provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary, from appropriations for basic State grants and for State administration, planning, and evaluation, to reserve two percent for Indian programs. Directs the Secretary, from the remainder of such appropriations and subject to specified provisions, to allot to each State for each fiscal year an amount based on formulas using State allotment ratios and relative State populations of certain age groups. Allots the following percentages of such funds on the basis of population age: (1) 15 through 19--50 percent; (2) 20 through 24--20 percent; and (3) 25 through 65--15 percent. Allots the remaining 15 percent on the basis of relative sums of such age group allotment. Sets forth a minimum State allotment amount, with specified exceptions, and minimum allotments for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Provides for reallotment among other States of any amount which the Secretary determines will not be required for carrying out a State's program for any fiscal year. Sets forth a formula for determining State allotment ratios based on relative State per capita income. Sets maximum and minimum limits on such ratios and sets ratios for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Sets forth provisions for Indian programs. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of an eligible Indian tribe, to contract with the tribal organization to plan, conduct and administer vocational education programs with the two-percent reserved funds for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary, from any remaining funds from such reserved funds, to enter into an agreement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for the operation of vocational education programs in institutions serving eligible Indians. Makes provisions of this Act applicable to the BIA as if it were a State board. Part B: Federal Administrative Responsibilities - Sets forth provisions for payments to States for administrative costs. Sets forth maintenance of effort requirements. Sets forth provisions for withholding of funds from States by the Secretary, and for judicial review of such withholding. Part C: Transitional and Conforming Amendments - Sets forth provisions for the transition from requirements (including expenditure of funds) under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to requirements under this Act. Transfers the personnel, property and records of: (1) the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education established under such Act to the President's Council on Vocational-Technical Education established under this Act and to the advisory council on research and program improvement established under this Act; and (2) the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee established under such Act to the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee established under this Act. Repeals the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Makes conforming amendments to the JTPA, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Adult Education Act, the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. Part D: Definition of Terms - Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act.

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Anti-Fraudulent Adoption Practices Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984

Anti-Fraudulent Adoption Practices Act of 1984 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal offense for any person to knowingly make any false statement or conceal any material fact in connection with an adoption or with the placement of a child in a home for permanent free care. Makes it unlawful for any person to solicit or receive money for arranging for an adoption or for a placement for permanent free care. Provides for the following exceptions: (1) licensed agencies; (2) fees received for professional legal or medical services; and (3) if such person is the natural parent of a child or the prospective adoptive parent. Provides for imprisonment for not more than five years and/or a fine of not more than $10,000. Makes it a Federal offense for any person to use force or duress to cause any other individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce in connection with an adoption. Provides for imprisonment for not more than ten years or a fine of not more than $20,000. Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) review model adoption legislation and procedures and propose necessary changes to insure against fraudulent practices; (2) coordinate with national, State and volunteer organizations to improve State adoption legislation; and (3) assist States in the development of improved procedures for controlling illegal adoption practices. Grants the Federal district courts jurisdiction to hear any civil action involving fraudulent adoption practices regardless of the amount in controversy.