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United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Designates the week of November 19 through November 25, 1984, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as National Birds of Prey Conservation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Incorporated to erect a National Law Enforcement Heroes Memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor and recognition of law enforcement officials in the United States who died in the line of duty. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Fund, to select with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial other than expenses incurred in the process of site selection and approval of design and plans.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of May 1984 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Designates the week beginning on November 11, 1984 as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for seven years, until December 31, 1990, the period during which mortgage revenue bonds may be issued as tax-exempt bonds (interest excluded from gross income).
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of May 6 through May 12, 1984, as Senior Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1984
Designates the week of April 23 through April 27, 1984, as National Student Leadership Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Designates 1984 as the Year of the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Honors Commander Alphonse Desjardins, founder of La Caisse Populaine de St-Marie, Manchester, New Hampshire, the first incorporated credit union in the United States
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Authorizes the Senate Committee on the Budget, from March 1, 1984, through February 28, 1985, to: (1) make expenditures from the contingent fund; (2) employ personnel; (3) utilize, on a reimbursable basis, the services of department or agency personnel; and (4) procure consultant services.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Declares the rate of pay of Members of Congress to be that which was payable for such office on December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of November 18 through November 24, 1984, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Indian Health Care Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for specified Indian health programs for FY 1985 - 1988, including scholarship programs. Provides that the active duty services obligation incurred by the recipient of an Indian Health Scholarship shall be met by service in the Indian Health Service or in specified programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Title II: Health Services - Extends from seven to 11 years the fiscal year period during which the Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to expend certain appropriated funds and to employ personnel in order to eliminate backlogs in Indian health care services. Extends the authorization for specified appropriations for health services from FY 1985 - 1988. Title III: Health Facilities - Extends the authorization for specified appropriations for hospitals, health centers and staff housing from FY 1981 - 1988. Extends from seven to 11 years the fiscal year period during which the Secretary is authorized to expend specified sums for health facilities and safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities. Title IV: Access to Health Services - Extends the authorization for specified appropriations for grants and contracts with tribal organizations' from FY 1985-1988. Amends the Social Security Act to make any provider of the Indian Health Service eligible for Medicare and Medicaid payments. Title V: Urban Indian Health Services - Directs the Secretary to contract with urban Indian organizations to administer health services programs in urban areas. Details eligibility criteria for such programs. Prescribes reporting and recording procedures for urban Indian organizations which receive or expend funds under this Title. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to determine the health status and unmet health care needs of urban Indians in affected urban areas. Delineates the requirements of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop evaluation procedures for the performance of contracts; and (2) conduct annual onsite evaluations of each contracting urban Indian organization. Prescribes guidelines for the renewal of health care or referral services contracts. Prohibits renewal of contracts for determination of unmet health needs. Requires certain reports to Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 - 1988. Title VI: Health Services for Rural Indians - Directs the Secretary to contract with Indian organizations to administer health services programs in rural areas. Details eligibility criteria for such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 - 1988. Requires the Secretary to review the rural Indian health services program and to submit an assessment report to the Congress with recommendations for further legislation. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Repeals the requirement that the Secretary conduct a study of the health hazards faced by Indians as a result of a nuclear resource development on or near Indian reservations and communities. Extends from FY 1984 to FY 1988 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 - 1988. Extends eligibility for health services of specified Indians in the State of California from FY 1984 - 1988. Repeals the personnel ceilings demonstration project. Requires the Secretary to: (1) complete within one year implementation of a program to prevent and control hepatitis-B in Alaska; (2) report to the Congress about the status of such program; and (3) request budget authority for a hepatitis-B control program in Alaska for FY 1985 - 1989. Requires the Secretary to submit an analytical report to the Congress regarding the impact that implementation of clinical care priorities would have had upon the delivery of clinical health care services during FY 1980 - 1983. Prohibits the Secretary from modifying any clinical health care service provided before passage of this Act. Title VIII: Organizational Improvements - Establishes the Indian Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services. Makes the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Indian Health the administrator of the Indian Health Service. Transfers to such Assistant Secretary the functions currently performed by the Director of the Indian Health Service. Establishes an Indian Health Advisory Board comprised of Indians or Alaska Natives. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 - 1988. Title IX: Payment for Health Care - Entitles to reimbursement authorized providers of medical or health services for the costs incurred in providing such services to eligible Indians. Prescribes procedures for payment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 - 1988. Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate a health services contract upon a determination that negotiation is necessary to assure delivery of health services at locations at least 100 miles from the residences of a substantial majority of the Indian population to be served.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Job Opportunity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the expiration date for the targeted jobs tax credit from December 31, 1984, to December 31, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Wine Equity Act of 1983 - Requires the President to direct the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to negotiate the harmonization of tariff and nontariff barriers on wine with each designated major trading country. Requires negotiations with designated major trading countries which do not export wine to the United States in order to eliminate all tariff and nontariff trade barriers of such countries to the importation of U.S. wine. Requires the President to impose tariff and nontariff trade barriers equal or substantially equivalent to the barriers applied by a designated major trading country if such country does not provide harmonization to U.S. produced-wine within 180 days of the country's designation as a designated major trading country. Provides for removing such U.S. tariff and nontariff barriers. Requires the USTR to report to specified congressional committees at the beginning and end of each negotiation. Requires the USTR to consult with such committees to identify further tariff and nontariff barriers to and potential markets for U.S. wine. Provides for assistance for the USTR from other Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Native American Programs Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to prohibit the rejection of financial assistance solely on the grounds that the request serves Indians or an Indian organization in a nonreservation area. Requires that programs under this Act be administered within the Department of Health and Human Services (currently they may be delegated to other Federal departments and agencies). Prohibits any transfer of such administration outside of the Department. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to continue the administration of grants through the Administration for Native Americans (the Administration). Requires the Commissioner of such Administration to delegate all functions within the Administration. Restricts the delegation and redelegation of functions by the Secretary to personnel within the Department. Permits interagency funding agreements between the Administration and other Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1987. Specifies the percentage of appropriated funds which shall be used for financial assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the second full week in March of each year as National Employ the Older Worker Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Proclaims March 20, 1984, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should appoint a task force on agricultural credit to: (1) examine agricultural credit problems; (2) report to the President and Congress on the credit-related problems confronting agricultural producers and related businesses; and (3) make recommendations on how to resolve problems that might be identified. Directs the task force to: (1) identify and describe the components of the existing agricultural credit system; (2) identify and describe the credit needs of agricultural producers and related businesses; (3) identify and evaluate the current agricultural credit system's ability to meet producer credit needs; and (4) develop for the President and Congress specific recommendations for policies and legislation to ensure the availability of adequate agricultural credit at reasonable cost.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Rural Health Clinics Act of 1983 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that small rural health clinics (as defined by this Act) using National Health Service Corps personnel shall have to repay the Public Health Service for such services only if actual revenues exceed their estimated budget. Authorizes: (1) an additional payback waiver if such clinics demonstrate need or service improvement plans; and (2) an entity which is not a small health center to qualify for such payback waiver.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Redesignates the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee and Kentucky, as the John Sherman Cooper National Recreation Area.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Designates the week beginning April 8, 1984, as National Mental Health Counselors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Designates 1984 as the Year of Water. Requests the President to welcome the delegates of the International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage in Fort Collins, Colorado.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) be commended for his efforts to negotiate a multilateral agreement banning chemical weapons; and (2) propose the resumption of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve a verifiable ban on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
States the finding of the Senate that the bankruptcy laws are used for purposes for which they were not intended. Resolves that the Congress should act immediately to enact legislation to remedy defects in the Bankruptcy Code that have encouraged abuses of the bankruptcy laws.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
Designates April 27, 1984, as National Nursing Home Residents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1983
Designates November 20 through November 26, 1983, as National Adoption Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1983
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1983 - Title I: Revenue Measures and Spending Reduction Provisions Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance - Subtitle A: Revenue Measures - Deficit Reduction Tax Act of 1983 - Part I: Provisions Primarily Affecting Individuals - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 120 percent to 140 percent the amount that current year taxable income must exceed base period income in order for a taxpayer to qualify for income averaging. Postpones for two years, from 1985 to 1987, the effective date of the tax exclusion for net interest. Includes the alternative minimum tax in estimated income tax for individuals. Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to extend for two years, from 1982 to 1984, the tax exclusion for cancellation of certain student loans. Part II: Provisions Primarily Affecting Corporations - Imposes an additional five percent corporate tax on a corporation's taxable income in excess of $1,000,000. Limits the maximum additional tax to $20,000. Revises the definition of "collapsible corporation" to replace the "substantial part" requirement of present law and provide that property otherwise collapsible will be collapsible unless at least two-thirds of the taxable income to be derived from the property is realized by the corporation. Repeals the exemption from straddle rules for stock options and certain stock. Treats as a regulated futures contract any option to enter into a regulated futures contract. Part III: Taxpayer Compliance - Revises the definition of "foreign investment company" to include any foreign corporation that is engaged primarily in the business of investing, reinvesting, or trading in securities, commodities, or any interest (including a futures or forward contract or option) in commodities or securities, at a time when 50 percent or more of the voting power of stock is held directly or indirectly by U.S. persons. Extends the accumulated earnings tax to U.S.-owned foreign corporations. Requires the withholding of tax by a transferee of U.S. real estate, any agent of such a transferee, or any settlement officer or transferor's agent where a U.S. real property interest is acquired from a foreign person. Sets forth the rate of such withholdings. Allows certain exemptions from such withholding. Requires that organizers and sellers of certain investment plans must keep lists of investors. Specifies the form and content of such lists. Requires that such lists be made available for inspection upon request of the Secretary of the Treasury. Sets forth penalties for failure to maintain such lists. Requires any person who receives cash in connection with a trade or business to report any transaction in which the amount of the cash received is $10,000 or more. Requires any person who, in connection with a trade or business, receives $2,300 or more of mortgage interest payments per year from any person to report the payor's name, address, and taxpayer identification number. Sets forth penalties for failure to make such reports. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the jurisdictional limit for small tax cases in the United States Tax Court. Increases by 50 percent the rate of interest on tax shelter deficiencies and overpayments. Requires any person who, in connection with a trade or business, lends money secured by property to report any foreclosure or any abandonment of such property. Sets forth penalties for failure to make such reports. Increases the penalty for the promotion of abusive tax shelters from $1,000 or 10 percent of the gross income derived to $2,000 or 20 percent of the gross income derived from the activity. Provides that a failure to file a request to change a method of accounting will bar a taxpayer from asserting as a defense to any penalty the fact that a change from the method of accounting was not negligent. Authorizes the Secretary to bar from appearing before the Internal Revenue Service any appraisers who have been found to have violated specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Part IV: Tax-Exempt Entity Leasing, Service Contracts - Governmental Lease Financing Reform Act of 1983 - Denies accelerated depreciation deductions for property used by governments, tax-exempt foreign individuals, and other tax-exempt entities. Requires that any deductions for depreciation of such property be calculated according to the straight line method. Exempts from such limitation short-term leases of personal property, short-lived property, and property which is used in an unrelated trade or business. Denies the investment tax credit for property used by foreign governments and other foreign persons. Allows an investment tax credit for property used by governments or other tax-exempt entities which is subject to a short-term lease. Denies the investment tax credit for rehabilitation expenditures for property which is used by governments or tax-exempt entities. Part V: Capital Gains and Losses - Decreases from one year to six months the holding period required for long-term capital gains treatment. Reduces the ceiling on the deduction of net capital losses against ordinary income from $3,000 to $1,000. Repeals the special rules applicable to capital losses sustained before 1970. Part VI: Boating Safety and Sport Fish Restoration - Subpart A: Boating Safety Amendments - Amends the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971 to repeal the definition and description of State recreational boating facilities programs. Eliminates all references made to facilities improvements programs. Authorizes funds through FY 1988 for State recreational boating safety programs. Subpart B: Sport Fish Restoration Program - Amends the Federal Aid to Sport Fish Restoration Act to require each coastal State to equitably allocate funds between marine fish projects and freshwater fish projects in the same proportion as the estimated number of resident marine anglers and the estimated number of resident freshwater anglers. Subpart C: Expansion of Sport Fishing Excise Tax - Sport Fish Restoration Revenue Act of 1983 - Imposes an excise tax of ten percent of the sales price on the first sale of fishing rods, creels and reels, artificial lines, baits, and flies, and specified sport fishing parts and accessories. Imposes a three percent excise tax on the sale of electric outboard boat motors, tackle boxes, and sonar devices suitable for finding fish. Establishes in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the "Aquatic Resources Trust Fund" (Trust Fund). Specifies that such Trust Fund shall consist of: (1) a Sport Fish Restoration Account; and (2) a Boating Safety Account. Requires the transfer of certain taxes to such accounts. Specifies expenditures from such accounts. Provides that the Boating Safety Account shall be treated as a continuation of the National Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Fund. Subjects to the excise tax on bows and arrows any arrow less than 18 inches in overall length which is suitable for use with a taxable bow. Subtitle B: Spending Reduction Provisions - Amends Part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for one year provisions which provide for financing 25 percent of part B costs from enrollee premiums. Revises part B provisions determining the prevailing level of physician charges. Provides Medicare coverage for hepatitis B vaccine administered to end-stage renal disease hemodialysis patients. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, by regulation, to prohibit payment for a physician's debridement of mycotic toenails if performed more than once every 60 days, unless the physician documents the necessity for such treatment. Provides Medicare coverage for the supplies necessary for the self-administration of blood clotting factors for hemophilia patients. Directs the Secretary to establish, on an area-wide basis, fee schedules for diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under part B, other than such tests performed by a provider of services. Directs the Secretary to set the fee schedule at 65 percent of the prevailing charges paid under part B for similar diagnostic laboratory tests during the fee screen year beginning July 1, 1983. Provides for Medicare payment of the lesser of 80 percent (or 100 percent, in the case of tests for which payment is made on the basis of an assignment) of the amount determined by the Secretary or the amount of billed charges. Provides that the provisions of this paragraph shall be effective until March 1, 1986. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress concerning payments for such tests. Provides for the indexing of the part B deductible. Sets reimbursement to a home health agency, for durable medical equipment, at a maximum of 80 percent of reasonable cost. Increases the Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) ceiling amount for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Act to increase the authorization of appropriations. Requires a State to provide Medicaid coverage to pregnant women who would be eligible under part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of the Act if the child were born. Postpones until April 1, 1984, the implementation of the single payment limit for skilled nursing facilities. Revises the recertification schedule for skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities. Directs the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) conduct a study of physician reimbursement under Medicare with respect to any inequities that may exist between reimbursement levels for medical procedures and cognitive services; and (2) make any appropriate recommendations for changes in such reimbursement system. Eliminates the part B deductible with respect to diagnostic tests performed in a laboratory which has a negotiated rate agreement with the laboratory. Provides that coverage for the services of a home health agency or hospice shall end 30 days following the termination of a home health agency's or hospice's Medicare participation agreement. Repeals specified requirements relating to coverage of tuberculosis treatments under Medicare and Medicaid (title XIX of the Act). Authorizes the United States to bring an action directly against third party insurance programs for Medicare costs. Permits part B payments to be made to an entity: (1) which provides coverage of the service under a health benefits plan; (2) which has paid the person who provided the service the amount which that person has accepted as payment in full for the service; and (3) to which the individual has agreed in writing that payment may be made. Eliminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Prohibits the Secretary from disclosing any accreditation survey made and released to the Secretary by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, the American Osteopathic Association, or any other national accreditation body, of any entity accredited by such body. Authorizes the Secretary, if patient health and safety is not jeopardized, to apply less severe sanctions than are presently available for dealing with an end-stage renal disease facility which is not in compliance with applicable regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to use accrediting organizations to determine whether rural health clinics, laboratories, clinics, rehabilitation agencies, and public health agencies meet Medicare requirements. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion on making research and demonstration grants to for-profit organizations. Revises requirements for medical review and independent medical review under Medicaid. Eliminates the special payment rate provisions for hospitals furnishing skilled nursing or intermediate care facility services. Grants the Secretary the authority to issue and enforce subpenas under Medicaid. Repeals provisions under titles XVIII and XIX of the Act which authorized payments to promote the closing and conversion of underutilized hospital facilities. Provides that the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Secretary to bar from participation in Medicare or Medicaid any provider of which five percent or more is owned by an individual convicted of Medicare or Medicaid related crimes. Permits a physician with a significant interest in a home health agency to perform patient certifications for the agency if the agency is the only agency in the community. Directs the Secretary to: (1) annually prepare a list containing the name, address, volume of services, and percent of bills submitted for payment by each physician during the preceding year that were paid on the basis of an assignment; and (2) make the list available to each district office of the Social Security Administration and other appropriate locations. Provides for provider representation in peer review organizations. Makes certain changes affecting the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission. Provides, for purposes of Medicaid coverage, that the administrator of a clinic need not be a physician. Waives the Medicare part B delayed enrollment penalty and provides a special enrollment period for working individuals aged 65 to 69 who were enrolled in private health plans. Defines the term "bona fide emergency services" as used in title XVIII. Provides for the reimbursement of a hospital on a reasonable cost basis for the services of a certified registered nurse anesthetist. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and report to Congress on possible methods of reimbursement under title XVIII which would not discourage the use of certified registered nurse anesthetists. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to develop an appropriate wage index for hospital workers; (2) report the results to Congress; and (3) adjust hospital payments under Medicare as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain nursing care requirements for hospices located in rural areas which were in operation on or before January 1, 1983, and have demonstrated a good faith effort to hire enough nurses. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the necessity and appropriateness of the requirements that certain care services be furnished directly by a hospice. Delays, until July 1, 1985, certain payment reductions under Medicaid scheduled to be made to public psychiatric hospitals due to the level of care received in such hospitals. Revises provisions relating to: (1) the accreditation of psychiatric hospitals for participation in Medicare and Medicaid; and (2) Medicare reimbursement for a physician's service furnished in a teaching hospital. Directs the Secretary: (1) by February 1, 1984, to issue revisions to the current payment guidelines under Medicare part B for the transtelephonic monitoring of cardiac pacemakers; (2) to review and report to specified congressional committees regarding the appropriateness of the current rate of reimbursement under part B for physicians' services associated with the implantation or replacement of pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads; and (3) through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for the establishment and maintenance by each manufacturer of cardiac pacemaker leads and devices of a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads produced by such manufacturer for which Medicare payment was made. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) as condition for payment being made for the implant or replacement of a cardiac pacemaker device or lead, require a provider to furnish the manufacturer certain information with respect to all patients bearing a device or lead produced by such manufacturer; and (2) require a manufacturer to analyze each returned device or lead for which Medicare payment was made. Requires a manufacturer of pacemaker devices and leads to post a bond or provide assurances to the Secretary that it will comply with the requirements of this paragraph. Directs the Secretary to establish a single 30-day period each year in which all of the competitive medical plans and health maintenance organizations in an area participating in Medicare must have an open enrollment period. Authorizes the Secretary to phase in the provision of the previous sentence over a three year period. Amends part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of the Act to require a State in determining the need of a dependent child to include the child's parent and dependent minor siblings who meet the definition of "dependent child" under part A, if the parent or sibling lives in the same home as the dependent child. Includes any income of or available for such parent or sibling in determining such need. Requires a State plan in determining need with respect to a dependent child whose parent is a minor to include any income of such minor's own parent if living in the same household. Requires a minor parent applying for AFDC to live with such minor parent's parent unless: (1) the parent cannot be located; (2) it would jeopardize the dependent child's health or safety; or (3) the minor parent has not lived at home for at least one year prior to the child's birth or one year prior to applying for AFDC. Specifies that the term "earned income" means, for AFDC purposes, gross income, prior to any deductions for taxes or other purposes. Permits participants in community work experience programs to perform work in the public interest for a Federal agency. Prohibits considering participants as Federal employees. Authorizes a State to exclude for up to six months, for purposes of the AFDC gross income limitation, the earned income of a dependent child who is a full-time student. Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Act to provide for adjustments in certain Supplemental Security Income (title XVI of the Act) benefits made because of retroactive Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (title II of the Act) benefits received. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations to require that State agencies administering the child support enforcement program under part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Act petition courts to include medical support as part of any child support order whenever health care coverage is available to the absent parent at a reasonable cost. Title II: Civil Service Programs - Amends Federal law to make December 1 the effective date of any cost-of-living increase in civil service retirement annuities. Changes the base quarter for the cost-of-living computation from the fourth calendar quarter to the third. Changes the effective date of the pay comparability adjustment for Federal employees from October 1 to the following January 1. Sets the FY 1984 pay raise at four percent. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to repeal the provision which requires that the civil service pay of military retirees be reduced by the amount of the cost-of-living adjustment received through their military retirement. Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to remove the 75-day limitation on the total amount of leave a teacher may accumulate. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to extend until October 1, 1985 the period during which certain military retirees in the Federal civil service to contribute a percentage of their military base pay after age 62 to maintain credit in civil service retirement. Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to require the rate of basic pay for certain Federal employees in the Panama Canal Zone to increase at the same time as the pay rates of Federal employees in the United States. Title III: Small Business Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to extend from October 1, 1983 to October 1, 1986, the policy making an agricultural enterprise ineligible for disaster loans unless it is declined for emergency loan assistance at substantially similar rates by the Farmers Home Administration under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Title IV: Veterans' Benefits and Services - Prohibits the enactment of any legislation for FY 1984 increases in service-connected disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation that would cost more than $175,500,000 in budget authority or $145,300,000 in outlays. Delays until December 1, 1984, and December 1, 1985, respectively, the effective dates of any increases in such compensation enacted for FY 1985 and FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1983
Rural Health Clinics Act of 1983 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that small rural health clinics (as defined by this Act) using National Health Service Corps personnel shall have to repay the Public Health Service for such services only if actual revenues exceed their estimated budgets. Authorizes an additional payback waiver if such clinics demonstrate need or service improvement plans.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1983
Extends the gratitude of the Senate to America's teachers.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1983
Amends the Highway Improvement Act of 1982 to set aside a percentage of FY 1984 through 1986 funding to complete certain priority primary projects.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should fulfill its obligations to promote respect for human rights and freedoms in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (Baltic States); and (2) the President, acting through specified officials, should take the necessary steps to bring the question of self-determination of the Baltic States before appropriate forums of the United Nations. Suggests that such forums discuss a specified list of topics, including human rights violations in the Baltic States and the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1983
Cement, Cement Clinker, and Concrete Block and Brick Fair Trade Act of 1983- Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to impose a duty on foreign fuel-subsidized hydraulic cement, cement clinker, and concrete block and brick. Provides procedures for the imposition of such duty.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1983
Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Act of 1983 - Amends the Clean Water Act ("the Act") (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to provide for a nonpoint source pollution management program. Requires each State, by itself or in combination with other States and after notice and opportunity for public comment, to submit a proposed nonpoint source pollution management program to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within 18 months after the enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983. Requires that such proposed State program: (1) identify waters within State boundaries which, without additional action to control nonpoint sources of pollution, cannot be reasonably expected to attain or maintain applicable water quality standards or the goals and requirements of the Act; (2) designate categories or subcategories of nonpoint sources of pollution or, where appropriate, particular nonpoint sources, that contribute significant pollution loadings to such identified waters; (3) identify best management practices which will be undertaken to reduce pollutant loadings resulting from each designated category, subcategory, or particular nonpoint source; (4) identify programs to achieve implementation of such best management practices; (5) include a schedule containing annual milestones for utilization of program implementation methods and implementation of best management practices at the earliest practicable date; (6) include a statement by the State attorney general, or attorney for the State water pollution control agency, that State laws provide adequate authority to carry out the program, or a schedule and commitment by the State to seek such authorities as expeditiously as practicable; and (7) include an indentification of Federal financial assistance programs and Federal development projects for which the State will review individual assistance applications or development projects for their effect on water quality, pursuant to specified procedures, to determine whether such applications or projects would be consistent with and further the purposes and objectives of the program. Allows the State, in developing such program to rely upon specified information and utilize appropriate elements of waste treatment management plans. Allows the State, in developing and implementing such program, to make use of local agencies or organizations. Sets forth procedures and deadlines for revisions and approval or disapproval by the Administrator of such proposed or revised State programs. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on actions taken with regard to any State which fails to submit a program which meets specified requirements. Directs the Administrator to award grants to assist States in the implementation of approved management programs. Limits such grants to 75 percent of program implementation costs in any fiscal year. Requires that non-Federal sources provide at least 25 percent of such costs. Provides that two-thirds of the funds appropriated in any fiscal year for such grants shall be allotted among States according to a specified table of percentage allotments. Provides that one-third of such appropriations shall be made available to the Administrator who shall make grants in response to applications from States if the Administrator determines such grants are necessary and appropriate to assist such States in: (1) controlling particularly difficult or serious nonpoint source pollution problems, including those resulting from mining; (2) implementing innovative methods or practices for controlling nonpoint sources of pollution, including both regulatory or nonregulatory programs where appropriate; (3) controlling interstate nonpoint sources pollution problems; or (4) providing financial assistance, limited to a specified amount, for approved management program implementation by an Indian tribe within the reservation. Sets forth provisions for reallotment of State allotments. Permits States to use such grant funds for financial assistance to persons only to the extent that such assistance is related to the cost of demonstration projects. Prohibits such a grant to any State unless the Administrator determines that the State is implementing such program satisfactorily. Authorizes the Administrator to request information, data, and reports necessary for determination of continuing eligibility for such grants. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the nonpoint source pollution management program for FY 1985 through 1987. Requires each State to report annually to the Administrator on: (1) its progress in meeting the schedule of milestones; and (2) where appropriate information is available, reductions in nonpoint source pollutant loadings and improvements in water quality resulting from implementation of the management program. Directs the Administrator to transmit to the Office of Management and Budget and the appropriate Federal departments and agencies a list of those assistance programs and development projects identified by States for which individual assistance applications and projects will be reviewed. Requires each Federal department and agency, within 60 days after receiving such notification, to: (1) modify existing regulations to allow States to conduct such review; and (2) accommodate the concerns of the State regarding the consistency of such applications or projects with the State program. Directs the Administrator to collect and make available information pertaining to management practices and implementation methods. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months of enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983, to report on: (1) management programs being implemented by the States by types and amount of affected waters, categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources, and types of best management practices being implemented; (2) State experiences in adhering to schedules and implementing best management practices; (3) the amount and purpose of grants awarded; (4) progress in reducing pollutant loads and improving water quality in the waters of the United States; and (5) what further actions need to be taken to attain and maintain in those waters applicable water quality standards and the goals and requirements of the Act. Revises provisions relating to agreements among Federal agencies to include a reference to approved nonpoint source pollution management programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1983
Life Insurance Tax Act of 1983 - Title I: Life Insurance Provisions - Subtitle A: Taxation of Life Insurance Companies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set the rate of tax on a life insurance company at the corporate rate on its life insurance company taxable income (LICTI). Sets forth an alternative tax in the case of capital gains. Defines life insurance company taxable income as life insurance gross income reduced by life insurance deductions. Defines life insurance gross income as the sum of: (1) premiums; (2) decreases in certain reserves; and (3) other amounts generally includible by a taxpayer in gross income. Allows three types of deductions: (1) general life insurance deductions; (2) the special life insurance deduction; and (3) the small life insurance company deduction. Sets forth definitions and special rules for each type of deduction. Sets forth rules for the calculation of net increases and decreases in reserves. Requires life insurance companies to use either the accrual method of accounting or a method permitted under regulations which combines an accrual method with another recognized method. Sets forth rules for the amortization of premiums and accrual of discount. Sets forth rules for the computation of a company's share and the policyholders' share of investment income. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of foreign life insurance companies. Requires an adjustment to LICTI where a required surplus held in the United States is less than a specified amount. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of contiguous country branches of domestic life insurance companies. Provides that life insurance company taxable income which has an existing policyholders surplus account shall be increased by any direct or indirect distribution to shareholders from such account. Defines "life insurance company" as an insurance company which is engaged in the business of issuing life insurance and annuity contracts or noncancellable contracts of health and life insurance if its life insurance reserves plus unearned premiums and unpaid losses comprise more than 50 percent of its total reserves. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of variable contracts. Sets forth rules relating to capital gains and losses of a life insurance company. Sets forth the effective date for the provisions of this Act. Provides transitional rules. Subtitle B: Taxation of Life Insurance Products - Redefines "life insurance contract" for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code. Defines such a contract as any contract, which is a life insurance contract under applicable State or foreign law, but only if the contract meets either of two alternatives: (1) a cash value accumulation test; or (2) a test consisting of a guideline premium requirement and a cash value corridor requirement. Specifies requirements of each such test. Sets forth rules for contracts not meeting the life insurance definition. Sets forth transitional rules. Treats as distributed to a contract holder any amount of an annuity contract held by an individual who dies before the annuity starting date. Exempts any such amounts from the five-percent penalty tax on a premature distribution from an annuity. Limits the amount of the interest deduction allowed in the case of life insurance loans. Sets forth rules for the calculation of such limit. Extends to former employees and key employees the limitations on group-term life insurance purchased for employees. Subtitle C: Nondeductible Contributions to Individual Retirement Plans - Allows certain nondeductible contributions to individual retirement accounts and annuities. Limits such contributions to the least of: (1) $1,750; (2) the excess of compensation includible in gross income over the amount allowable as a deduction under present rules; or (3) an amount designated by the taxpayer as a nondeductible contribution. Subtitle D: Studies - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually to specified committees of the Congress on the revenues received by this Act and to compare the amount of such revenues and the amount anticipated by reason of changes made by the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and this Act. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports in the years 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 concerning the impact of this Act on specified segments and products of the life insurance industry.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1983
Designates the week beginning November 6, 1983, as National Meals-on-Wheels and Congregate Meal Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1983
Interstate Compact - Grants congressional approval to the Rocky Mountain Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact which provides for cooperation among the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming in the management of low-level radioactive waste on a continuing basis.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Retirement Equity Act of 1983 - Title I: Amendments Relating to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to lower the age requirement for participation in a tax- deferred retirement plan from 25 to 21. Lowers the minimum age at which years of employment begin to be credited for retirement plan vesting purposes from 22 to 18. Provides that nonvested participants in a retirement plan with a break in service of up to five years will not lose credit for pre-break periods of service. Permits limited breaks in service for paternity or maternity leave without loss of vesting credits. Requires tax-deferred retirement plans to offer survivor benefits to plan participants who have attained age 45 and have ten years of creditable service. Requires spousal consent in order for a retirement plan participant to elect not to take a joint and survivor annuity. Requires that such consent must be in writing and must be witnessed by either a plan representative or a notary public. Allows the assignment of the benefits of a retirement plan in the case of a judgment, decree or order relating to child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights pursuant to a State's domestic relations law. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of retirement plan distributions pursuant to a divorce decree. Increases the amount of allowable mandatory distributions from a retirement plan from $1,750 to $3,500. Requires that a plan participant must be notified that benefits under the plan may be forfeited if the participant dies before a certain date. Title II: Amendments Relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to incorporate into such Act the changes made by Title I of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Alternative Energy Tax Incentives Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the residential energy income tax credit for renewable energy sources for five years from 1985 to 1990. Reduces the qualifying percentage for energy source expenditures by specified increments between 1985 and 1990. Increases from 15 percent to 20 percent the investment tax credit for solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean thermal property. Extends such tax credit for five years from 1985 to 1990. Extends the investment tax credit for hydroelectric generating property and biomass property for five years from 1985 to 1990. Reestablishes the credit for cogeneration property until 1990. Qualifies until 1995 affirmative commitments for solar, wind, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, and cogeneration projects begun by December 31, 1990. Eliminates the 20 percent limitation for oil and natural gas used in cogeneration facilities. Qualifies as biomass property methane-containing gas produced by anaerobic digestion from nonfossil waste materials. Revises the definition of geothermal deposit to lower the required temperature to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. (Present regulations require a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit.) Includes shale oil property and tar sands equipment as energy property for purposes of the investment tax credit. Grants a 15 percent depletion allowance for tar sands. Allows an investment tax credit for photovoltaic energy property. Defines photovoltaic property.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should appoint a special envoy to investigate and report on how the United States could assist Ireland, Great Britain, and communities in Northern Ireland to arrive at a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Designates October 16 through October 22, 1983, as National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1983
Condemns the Soviet Union's systematic disregard for human life and liberties and urges the President to: (1) proclaim May 28, 1984, as a day to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the original resolution on the Ukrainian famine in the House of Representatives; (2) call the attention of the world to the Soviet policies which caused Ukrainian deaths by famine during 1932 through 1933; and (3) urge the Soviet Union to remove restrictions on the shipment of food and other necessities to Soviet citizens by private individuals and charitable organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Requests the President to designate October 2 through 9, 1983 National Schoolbus Safety Week of 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1983
Commends Eve Ball for her writings on the Indian, the West, and settlers.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1983
Relieves the Elephant Butte Irrigation District of any obligation to reimburse the Bureau of Reclamation for leave and severance payments to certain employees of the Rio Grande project separated as a result of the transfer of operation and maintenance responsibilities of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Requests the President to proclaim the month of September 1983 National Sickle-Cell Anemia Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, all Federal right title and interest in specified lands in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Reserves the Federal right to prospect, remove and mine all minerals in such specified lands. Requires reversion of title immediately to the United States if the lands are used for purposes other than specified agricultural research.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the Tax Court, the U.S. Claims Court, or a U.S. district court may issue a declaratory judgment in a case brought by an executor involving the extent to which an estate is eligible for the extension of time for payment of the estate tax where the estate consists largely of an interest in a closely held business. Provides that such a judgment shall be a final judgment or decree and shall be reviewable. Requires the exhaustion of all administrative remedies within the Internal Revenue Service before a judgment may be issued. Prohibits the levy or proceeding in court for the collection of tax on an estate until final declaratory judgment is rendered. Requires the filing of an appeals bond for an appeal of a declaratory judgment on the extension of time for payment of the estate tax. Allows the U.S. Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to impose damages for frivolous or groundless appeals. Imposes a negligence penalty on an estate for underpayment of tax where a court determines that such an estate does not qualify for an extension of time for payment of estate tax.