United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow married couples, who do not file a single joint tax return with their spouses, to elect the same tax rates currently applicable to unmarried individuals (other than surviving spouses and heads of households), without regard to any community property laws. Entitles any married individual making such an election to claim the income tax credit for dependent care services, even though such individual did not contribute over half of the support of the dependent concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that it supports the President's efforts to: (1) communicate the opposition of the United States to any attempt by the Soviet Union to violate the sovereignty of Poland; (2) encourage other nations to affirm their support for respect of principles of international relations; (3) consider, in cooperation with allies and friends of the United States, measures to be taken if Warsaw Pact forces invade Poland; and (4) inform the Soviet Union of the consequences of such an invasion.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1980
Designates the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable locations within such center to commemorate and designate such building.
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1980
Italy Disaster Assistance Act of 1980 - Authorizes the President to provide reconstruction assistance for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Italy. States that such assistance may be provided in accordance with specified congressional policies and authorities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981, to remain available until expended, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Allows obligations previously incurred for the provision of reconstruction assistance to the people of Italy to be charged to such appropriations. Directs the President to report quarterly to specified Senate Committees and to the Speaker of the House on the programing and obligations of funds under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Equal Access to Justice Act - Excludes from the definition of "party" for purposes of this Act: (1) an individual whose net worth exceeds $1,000,000; and (2) any partnership, corporation, association, organization, or sole owner of an unincorporated business whose net worth exceeds $5,000,000, but includes a cooperative association (as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act) or a tax-exempt organization (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) regardless of their net worth. Entitles a prevailing party (other than the United States) to be awarded fees and other expenses, including attorney fees, which were incurred by such party in: (1) an adversary administrative adjudication (excluding ratemaking and license application hearings); or (2) in any civil action, other than a tort, brought by or against the United States, unless the administrative officer conducting such adjudication, or the court having jurisdiction of such action, finds that the position of the agency or the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust. Allows the administrative officer or the court to reduce any such award to the extent that the prevailing party unduly and unreasonably protracted the final resolution of the matter in controversy. Directs each agency, after consultation with the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, to establish uniform procedures for the consideration of applications for such awards. Stipulates that such awards in administrative adjudication shall be paid by the particular agency over which the party prevails from funds made available to the agency by appropriation or otherwise for such purpose. Authorizes a party dissatisfied with such award in an administrative adjudication to petition for leave to appeal the decision in an appropriate Federal court. Authorizes a court to award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in any civil action brought by or against the United States or any agency or official of the United States acting in an official capacity, where the court may award such fees in such suits involving private parties (thus applying to Government litigation the common law and statutory exceptions to the "American rule" which requires parties to be responsible for their own attorney fees). Directs the Administrative Conference of the United State (after consultation with the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration) and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to report annually to Congress on the amount of fees and expenses awarded during the preceding fiscal year in such agency adjudications and civil actions. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1984 for awards under this Act. Makes this Act effective on October 1, 1981, and applicable to actions pending or commenced after such date. Stipulates that this Act shall not apply to proceedings to determine eligibility for Social Security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Water Resources Development Act of 1980 - Title I: General Provision - Limits the appropriations for any project authorized by this Act to the sum listed in this Act plus such amounts as are due to increases in construction costs. Authorizes additional increases if approved by the appropriate Congressional committees. Title II: National Water Resources Policy and Development Demonstration Act- National Water Resources Policy and Development Demonstration Act of 1980 - Authorizes the States to request the Water Resources Council for detailed studies of specific water resources needs. Sets forth the procedures for determining which such feasibility studies shall be carried out. Sets forth the method of implementation of water resource projects after the completion of a feasibility study. Requires States to publish annually a priority list of water resources projects to determine the order of funding such projects. Establishes the method allocating appropriations among the States for implementation of such projects. Requires the Council to report to Congress on: (1) the implementation of projects and reports under this title as compared with projects and reports under this title as compared with projects implemented under other authorities; (2) the estimated needs and costs regarding national and State water resources priorities and the best ways to achieve maximum efficient use of water supplies for existing Federal projects; and (3) the cost-sharing mechanisms for water resources projects. Title III: Water Resources Studies - Directs the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to submit to Congress feasibility reports on the following projects: (1) erosion control of the Kuskokwim River, Alaska; (2) flood control of Saint Francis Lake, Arkansas; (3) river regulation of the Halifax River, Florida; (4) bank stabilization of the Illinois River, Florida; (5) flood control at Caty Marsh Ditch, Indiana; (6) flood control, on major tributaries draining into the Mississippi River, Mississippi; (7) flood control for the Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin; and (8) abatement of streambank erosion along the Tensaw River, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to investigate the feasibility of: (1) rehabilitating the Trilby Wash Detention Basin (McMicken Dam), Arizona; and (2) constructing the project for Missouri River improvements in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Montana. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to report to Congress on: (1) alleviation of siltation problems on the Mississippi River, Illinois; (2) on flood protection the Clinton River, Michigan; and (3) on water resource development in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Title IV: Flood Control - Authorizes the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out the following flood control projects: (1) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California, (2) Little Wood River, Idaho; (3) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (4) Halstead, Kansas; (5) Root River Basin, Minnesota; (6) Wears Creek, Missouri; (7) Rahway River Basin and Robinson's Branch New Jersey; (8) Albuquerque, New Mexico; (9) Cazenovia Creek, New York; (10) Mamaroneck and Sheldrake River Basins, New York, and Byram River, Connecticut; (11) Hocking River at Logan and Nelsonville, Ohio; (12) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (13) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (14) Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania; (15) Johns Creek Tributary, Tennessee; (26) Boggy Creek, Texas; (17) Lake Wichita, Texas; (18) White Oak Bayou, Texas; (19) Chehalis River, Washington;(20) Cabin Creek, West Virgimia; and (21) Agana River, Guam. Modifies the following projects to authorize the Secretary: (1) Chena River, Alaska, to monitor the project and report any changing conditions and their effects on the area's economy; and (2) Eight Mile Creek, Arkansas, to carry out the flood control improvements. Authorizes the Secretary to implement a flood warning system for the Whitewater River, California. Modifies the flood control project for Heise-Roberts, Idaho, to make the Secretary responsible for the operation and maintenance of the project. Modifies the following flood control projects to authorize the Secretary: (1) Clinton, Iowa, to provide recreational development at the project site; (2) Davenport, Iowa, to preserve Nahant Marsh; (3) Mississippi River and Tributaries project to construct a flood control project near Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; and (4) lower Mississippi River project to insure the safety of the Old River Control Complex, Louisiana. Authorizes a flood control project on the South Fork Zumbro River, Minnesota. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Soil Conservation Service, to construct the watershed plan for the South Zumbro Watershed, Minnesota. Modifies the following flood control projects to authorize the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers: (1) Saint Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri, to construct such project; (2) Sandridge Dam, New York, to construct channel improvements along Ellicott Creek; (3) Burlington Dam, North Dakota, to provide for: (a) the construction of a flood water diversion tunnel from the Des Lacs River Basin to Burlington Reservoir, (b) the acquisition of wetlands for fish and wildlife mitigation, (c) the modification of Lake Darling Dam and the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, (d) the compensatory payment to Canada for project-induced flood damages, (e) the acquisition of flowage easements downstream from such project, (f) the construction of flood protection works at Velva, North Dakota, and (g) additional protection to specified areas; and (4) Galveston Bay, Texas, to provide payments and benefits to certain property owners. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to implement flood control and flood damage reduction measures to protect against flooding on portions of the Big Sandy River in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia, and the Cumberland River in Kentucky. Modifies the flood control and levee project for Jackson Hole Snake River, Wyoming, to make the Secretary responsible for the operation and maintenance of the project. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to provide technical assistance, at Federal expense, to States for clearing and straightening channels in navigable streams. Title V: Navigation - Authorizes the Secretary through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out the following navigation improvements projects: (1) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; (2) Oakland Outer Harbor, California; (3) San Francisco Harbor, California; (4) Tampa Harbor, Florida; (5) Savannah Harbor, Georgia; (6) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (7) Wilmington Harbor, North Carolina with certain modifications; (8) Chetco River, Oregon; (9) Memphis Harbor, Tennessee; (10) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas; (11) Tacoma Harbor, Washington. Modifies the navigation project for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Virginia and North Carolina, with respect to specified bridges. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to report on the feasibility of enlarging the navigation project for Brunswick Harbor, and to reimburse local interests for funds to construct specified portions of such project, if subsequently authorized by Congress. Modifies: (1) the Barbers Point Harbor, Hawaii, navigation project to require non-Federal cash contributions to Federal construction costs; and (2) the Honolulu, Hawaii, harbor improvement project to delete the requirement for an initial cash contribution from local interests. Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1970 to require non-Federal interests to contribute a specified portion of the costs to maintain a clear channel on the North Branch of the Chicago River, Illinois. Grants the consent of the Congress for the construction of retaining dikes at Hart and Miller Islands in the Chesapeake Bay and at disposal areas in Baltimore Harbor for the disposition of dredged material from Baltimore Harbor and Channels, Maryland and Virginia. Modifies the following projects in New Jersey to authorize the Secretary to carry out the dredging required in connection with navigational improvements independently of all other aspects: (1) Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Peck Beach; (2) Carson Inlet and Ludlum Beach; (3) Townsend Inlet and Seven Mile Beach; (4) Hereford Inlet; and (5) Barnegat Inlet. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the feasibility of enlarging and deepening the navigation project for Ambrose and Anchorage Channels, New York, and to reimburse local interests, if Congress subsequently authorizes such project. Modifies the following navigation projects: (1) Mamaroneck Harbor, New York, to specify the Federal share of dredge material disposal costs; (2) Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets, New York, to stablilize Moriches Inlet, to make the Secretary responsible for the operation and maintenance of the project, and to require contributions from local interests; and (3) Hudson River, New York, to authorize the removal of shoals between the mouth of Roeliff Jansen Kill and the present navigation channel. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to report on the feasibility of enlarging the navigation projects for Brazos Island Harbor, Corpus Christi Ship Channel, and Galveston Harbor, Texas, and to reimburse local interests, if Congress subsequently authorizes such project. Modifies the Houston Ship Channel, Texas, navigation project to authorize necessary dredging operations. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to construct the plan of improvements at Grays Harbor, Washington, in accordance with specified conditions. Authorizes the project for extension of the navigation season of the Great Lakes. Provides for the closing of locks. Directs an interagency task force to study the environmental and ecological effects of such an extension. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on island transportation need and mitigation of shore line damages. Repeals the prohibition against tolls on Government canals. Authorizes the Secretary to reconstruct or replace navigation projects if specified conditions are met. Extends for one year the deadlines for the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission to publish a preliminary plan for the management of the Upper Mississippi River System. Title VI: Erosion Control - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out the following erosion control projects: (1) Panama City Beaches, Florida, and hurricane flood protection; (2) Jekyll Island, Georgia; and (3) Coney Island, New York. Directs the Secretary to: (1) correct erosion problems along the Coosa River, Alabama, to protect Fort Toulouse National Historic Landmark and Taskigi Indian Mound; (2) construct beach erosion protection facilities for Cox Park, Kentucky; and (3) construct specified erosion control structures on an emergency basis to protect Tangier Island, Virginia, and Smith Island, Maryland and Virginia. Authorizes bank protection activities in Starr County, Texas, as part of the Rio Grande Bank Protection Project in accordance with specified conditions. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to include the Saint Lawrence River, New York, in the plan for erosion control along Lake Ontario. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the extent of shoreline damage in the United States caused by the regulation of Lake Superior by the International Joint Commission -United States and Canada. Amends the Erosion Control and Demonstration Act of 1974 to: (1) require completion of shoreline demonstration by September 30, 1982; (2) lengthen the time allotted the Shoreline Erosion Advisory Panel to meet and organize; (3) extend the deadline for the Secretary's final progress report on shoreline erosion control programs; and (4) extend and increase the authorization of appropriations. Amends the Streambank Erosion Control Evaluation and Demonstration Act of 1974 to: (1) increase authorized appropriations for streambank programs; (2) extend the deadline for completion of the final report on streambank programs; and (3)authorize the Secretary to provide technical assistance to retard streambank erosion to specified persons or agencies. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the work undertaken under the amended streambank erosion control programs. Title VII: Water Supply - National Water Supply Policy Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to recommend to the Congress the construction of feasible single and multiple purpose water supply projects, including projects to desalinate water. Directs the Secretary to explain to the appropriate Congressional committees any determination that water supply studies or design work should be done by Federal employees rather than private contractors. Modifies the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, flood control project to authorize the reassignment of a portion of the storage space in the Chatfield Lake project for joint flood control and conservation purposes. Directs the Secretary to prepare a feasibility study on water facilities in Buffalo, New York. Authorizes the Secretary, upon completion of such study, to construct pumping facilities and treatment and filtration facilities in Buffalo. Directs the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to begin to undertake construction of a specified New York City Water Tunnel . Authorizes the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report on the water supply for the New York metropolitan area, including reassessments of the water deficit for such area, the possibilities for environmental quality plan alternatives to the Hudson River Diversion Project, and an interim report on such water tunnel. Includes the supply of water as a purpose of the Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma, flood control project. Authorizes the Secretary to make agreements with interested cities and rural water districts for the storage of water from a hydroelectric power pool. Amends the Flood Control Acts of 1962 and 1938 to direct the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers to provide treatment facilities and a regional conveyance system of water from Kaw Lake and Tenkiller Ferry Lake, Oklahoma, for the use of non Federal entities. Directs the Secretary to relocate the water supply intake facility on the Missouri River, South Dakota. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with the city of Weatherford and the Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement for the use of water supply storage in Benbrook Reservoir, Texas. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1946 to provide that the conservation storage capacity of Belton Reservoir, Texas, be available for water supply as well as irrigation purposes. Directs the Secretary to determine the need for water storage in single and multiple purpose projects in northeastern Texas. Title VIII: Dam Safety - Dam Safety of 1980 - Amends the Act providing for a national dam inspection program to repeal the provision limiting the coverage of such Act to dams of a specified size. Exempts dams located in States with an approved dam safety program from the Secretary's national inspection program. Sets forth the authority of the Secretary when inspecting dams. Exempts contractors from liability beyond the amount of any contract entered into pursuant to the Act. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to States maintaining approved dams safety programs. Provides for insurance guarantees to enable dam owners to obtain liability insurance at reasonable rates. Establishes a Federal Dam Safety Review Board. Title IX: Power Production - Authorizes the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out the following power production projects: (1) the construction of a second powerhouse at McNary Lock and Dam, Oregon amd Washington; (2) the Lucky Peak Lake, Idaho, to include an increase in the diameters of the additional dam outlet; and (3) the construction of a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility at the Fort Randall Dam, South Dakota. Declares that the authorization for the project on the Neches and Angelina Rivers, Texas, is not construed as a reservation of power development. Requires any Federal agency which grants permits needed to utilize hydroelectric power at small facilities to simplify procedures. Directs the Secretary to survey the potential, and provide technical assistance, for utilizing and rehabilitating former industrial sites for hydroelectric power production. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to extend the authorization of appropriations to carry out feasibility studies of specific hydroelectric power installations through fiscal year 1982. Title X: Wildlife Mitigation - Authorizes the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, to modify any water resources development project for mitigation of damages to fish and wildlife. Requires recommendations to mitigate fish and wildlife losses to be included in any proposed project. Modifies the following: (1) the Richard B. Russell Dam, Georgia and South Carolina, to authorize the acquisition of land for partial mitigation of wildlife and fish losses and the conveyance of such land to such States for wildlife management and fisheries uses; and (2) the Obion Creek, Kentucky, flood control project to authorize the acquisition of land for fish and wildlife management, recreation, and environmental purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Trimble Wildlife Area, Missouri, replacement plan. Title XI: Deauthorizations - Terminates the authorization for any project for which the Secretary is responsible and for which construction has not begun within ten years of authorization. Rescinds surveys authorized by resolution for which no funds were spent within four fiscal years. Provides for the deauthorization of inactive or deferred studies by committee resolution. Terminates the following: (1) the Helm Reservoir, Illinois project; (2) the Illinois Waterway, Illinois and Indiana, navigational project; (3) Lincoln Dam and Reservoir, Illinois and Indiana, flood control project; (4) the Big Blue Dam, Indiana, flood control project; (5) the Lafayette and Big Pine, Indiana, dam and reservoir projects; (6) the Trexler Dam and Lake, Pennsylvania, flood control project; (7) a portion of the project for the Nansemond River, Virginina; (8) further construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal, Florida; (9) Meramec Park Lake, Missouri, project; and (10) Kickapoo River, Wisconsin, flood control project. Extends the boundaries of the Ocala National Forest, Florida, to include land owned by the United States as part of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal project. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire lands owned by the State of Florida within the extended boundaries of the Forest. Requires the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers to report to Congress concerning the manner of disposition and future utilization of the Meramec Park Lake project's lands and structures. Sets forth the procedure for disposing of the Kickapoo River, Wisconsin, project lands. Title XII: Amendments to Existing Law - Abolishes the California Debris Commission effective August 13, 1981. Transfers to the Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, all authorities powers, functions, and duties of such Commission. Increases the total cost of the authorized shoreline protection projects for which the Secretary may reimburse local interests for the work done by them. Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to require each flood prevention or water or land conservation project to contain benefits directly related to agriculture that account for at least 20 percent of the total benefits of the project. Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1958 to increase the authorized appropriations for control of aquatic weeds. Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1960 to raise the ceiling on allotments for any construction of small river and harbor improvement project. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to permit an agreement between the Secretary and a State for construction of a water resources project to reflect that the agreement does not obligate future legislative appropriations, if inconsistent with the State's constitution. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1974 to raise the ceiling on the allotment of flood control appropriations for repairs to emergency streambank and shoreline protection. Increases the allotment for such repairs at any single locality. Permits a portion of the lands conveyed to the Mountrail County Park Commission, North Dakota, to be leased for cabin sites. Requires the Commission to reimburse the Federal Government for such lands. Increases the authorized appropriations for the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee and Kentucky. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) the design memorandum stage of water resources development projects; and (2) law enforcement services at water projects under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Terminates the certification procedure for local improvements of flood control projects on December 31, 1987. Extends the authorization of appropriations for drift and debris removal in publicly maintained commercial boat harbors through fiscal year 1984. Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for anyone to kill a uniformed civilian employee of the Corps of Engineers. Title XIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to amend the contract with Illinois for use of water storage space in Rend Lake to relieve the State from payments for future use of storage. Directs the Secretary to: (1) construct a public recreation area on the Ohio River, Indiana; and (2) protect and restore the river diversion structures and associated canals of the community ditch and acequia associations in New Mexico. Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) taking any legal or administrative action in connection with the Conchas Lake Project, New Mexico, seeking to remove specified improvements; (2) determining a specified cabin site at such Lake to be in excess of project needs prior to 1996, without the Governor's approval; and (3) requiring the removal of existing privately owned improvements prior to 1996 without the Governor's approval. Modifies the project for Los Esteros Lake, New Mexico, to authorize expenditures for the recovery of cultural resource data. Declares the Erie Basin, New York, and portions of the Trent River, North Carolina to be nonnavigable waters. Exempts portions of the Great Miami River, Ohio, from specified limitations regarding navigable waters. Declares the Port of Houston Authority Bridge over Greens Bayou, Texas, to be a lawful bridge. Directs the Secretary to carry out the project for removal of debris from the Martin Pena Canal, Puerto Rico. Directs the Chief of Engineers to submit an annual report to the Secretary on the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, within nine months after the end of a fiscal year. Permits the Secretary to financially assist bridge owners in the construction or alteration of a bridge protection system. Sets forth the conditions to such assistance. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on: (1) codification of laws relating to water resource development; and (2) on the use, costs, and effectiveness of the work of engineering contractors. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain historic properties which are located on water resource development projects and have been entered into the National Register of Historic Places. Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1948 to make funds available for the support of the Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to the appropriate Congressional committees on requiring full public access to water impoundments with recreation-related potential. Directs the Secretary of the Army, prior to beginning work on any water resources project, which would increase anticipated land values for one land owner by ten percent, to enter an agreement providing that such owner will contribute a portion of the project's costs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) describe, when reporting on a project which includes recreation benefits, the benefits of other recreational facilities within the same general area; (2) undertake a program of river ice control; (3) establish a Tennessee- Tombigbee Human Resources Center to monitor and assist minority employment on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Establishes an Advisory Board on Water Resources Complaints to evaluate and to make recommendation on complaints of the adverse impact of any water resources projects. Title XIV: Name Changes - Changes the name of: (1) Clark Hill Dam and Lake, Georgia and South Carolina, to Clarks Hill Dam and Lake; (2) Ririe Lake, Idaho, to Oscar Johnson Lake; (3) Clarence Cannon Dam and Reservoir, Missouri, to Mark Twain Lake and Clarence Cannon Dam; (4) Los Esteros Dam and Reservoir, New Mexico, to Santa Rosa Dam and Lake; and (5) Clayton Lake, Oklahoma, to Sardis Lake.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for: (1) grants for public works and development facilities, (including health projects); (2) grants for public works and development facility loans; (3) the redevelopment area loan program; (4) technical assistance and economic development planning (including grants to States); (5) supplemental grants and loans; (6) financial assistance to economic development centers and redevelopment areas; (7) assistance to Indian tribes; (8) supplements to Federal grant-in-aid programs; (9) special economic development and adjustment assistance. Prohibits terminating or modifying a redevelopment area designation before September 30, 1981. Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Appalachian development highway system through fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Navajo Tribe to exchange specified lands in New Mexico. Reserves to third parties any mineral or other interest such parties held in such lands prior to such exchange. Requires access to any adjacent private, State, or Federal lands to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1980
Permits the State of New Mexico to exchange with the United States specified lands owned by the State within the boundaries of White Sands Missile Range for other surveyed, unreserved, and unappropriated public lands or interests in such lands within the State.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1980
Chacoan Culture Preservation Act - Changes the boundaries of the Chaco Canyon National Monument in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and redesignates such area as the Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to continue to search for additional evidences of Chacoan sites and submit to Congress within one year after the effective date of this Act and annually thereafter recommendations for additions or deletions of such sites to the park. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands, waters, and interests within the boundaries of such park, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, except that property owned by the State of New Mexico or any political subdivision thereof, may be acquired by donation only. Specifies that property held in trust for the benefit of any Indian tribe or for the benefit of any individual member thereof may be acquired only with the consent of such tribe or owner. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of properties identified in this Act, located in whole or in part within the park, to protect, preserve, maintain, or administer such sites regardless of whether title to the property or site is vested in the United States. Requires the Secretary, within two years from the date of enactment of this Act, to transmit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the identification, research, and protection of the park consistent with the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, consistent with the purposes of the Division of Cultural Research of the Southwest Cultural Resources Center, operated by the National Park Service, to continue and expand research and data gathering activities to further the purposes of the park and knowledge of the Chaco culture. Requires the Secretary, within six months of the effective date of this Act, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the continued operational program of such resources center. Specifies that the Secretary shall, through such resources center, be responsible for the development of a computer-generated data base of the San Juan Basin and make such information available to Federal and private groups.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1980
Declares the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should take all necessary steps to: (1) bring the Baltic States question before the United Nations; and (2) urge the United Nations to request the Soviet Union to withdraw all non-native troops, agents, colonists, and controls from the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and to return all Baltic exiles from Siberia and from prisons and labor camps in the Soviet Union. Requires the Secretary of State to do his utmost to bring the matter of the Baltic States to the attention of all nations by means of special radio programs and publications. Declares that the United States should not agree to the recognition of the Soviet Union's annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Directs the President to take steps to provide that all maps of Europe show the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as independent states. Calls for a return of self-determination to the peoples of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia through free elections conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the corporate tax rate schedule to read as follows: (1) 17 percent of taxable income which does not exceed $50,000 (currently $25,000); (2) 20 percent of such income between $50,000 and $100,000 (currently between $25,000 and $50,000); (3) 30 percent of such income between $100,000 and $150,000 (currently between $50,000 and $75,000); (4) 40 percent of such income between $150,000 and $200,000 (currently between $75,000 and $100,000); and (5) 46 percent of the excess over $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1980
Industrial Energy Efficiency and Fuel Conversion Tax Incentive Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an additional 20 percent investment tax credit for qualified industrial energy property. Provides for up to a three-year carryback and a one-year carryover of any excess credit amounts. Defines "qualified industrial energy property" as any depreciable equipment used by the taxpayer as an integral part of modification to, or replacement of, all or part of an existing facility, process, or item of equipment, but only if the modification or replacement results in the utilization of less energy per unit of output and does not increase the amount of oil and natural gas consumed. Requires such property either: (1) to result directly in energy savings; (2) to result in conversion to a substance other than oil or natural gas, or a derivative, as a fuel or feedstock; or (3) to be part of, physically attached to, or otherwise directly associated with such energy saving property. Limits such credit to: (1) 20 percent of the qualified investment; or (2) $55 for each barrel of energy saved by the investment. Defines barrel of energy as equal to 5,800,000 Btu's. Disallows such credit if it amounts to less than $11 for each barrel of oil or oil equivalent saved per year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1980
Authorizes the Community Services Administration to transfer funds from its Rural Development Loan Fund to its ongoing heat crisis program. Reimburses such Fund from specified unexpended funds appropriated for energy crisis activities. Exempts such heat crisis program funds from prohibitions against awards of such funds after June 30, 1980. Authorizes such funds to assist States which: (1) have experienced extreme heat conditions for a significant period of time; and (2) have significant numbers of low-income individuals whose health is threatened due to such heat.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an income tax deduction from gross income for fees, court costs, attorney's fees, and other necessary expenses incurred in the adoption of a child.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1980
Emergency Federal Prison Facilities Act - Authorizes the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, to waive, in the case of a State prison emergency, the current requirement that a State reimburse the United States for the full cost of the placement of State prisoners in a Federal facility. Relieves the State of New Mexico from any liability for such reimbursement which arose prior to enactment as the result of the prison disruption in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in February, 1980. Requires the Director to report to the congressional judiciary committees by January 31, 1981, on the actual costs incurred by Federal facilities for the temporary placement of such State prisoners.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act, 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the U.S. to: (1) establish a national goal of demonstrating the engineering feasibility of magnetic fusion by the early 1990's; (2) achieve, no later than the year 1990, operation of a magnetic fusion engineering device based on the best available confinement concept; and (3) establish as a national goal the operation of a magnetic fusion demonstration plant by the year 2005. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate activities or accelerate existing activities in research areas in which the lack of knowledge limits magnetic fusion energy systems in order to ensure the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an aggressive plasma confinement research program on the current lead concept; (2) maintain a broadly based research program on alternate confinement concepts and advanced fuels; (3) ensure that research on properties of materials likely to be required for the construction of fusion engineering devices is adequate to provide timely information for the design of such devices; (4) initiate design activities on a fusion engineering device using the best available confinement concept to ensure operation of such device, no later than 1990; and (5) develop and test the adequacy of the engineering design components to be utilized in the fusion engineering device. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive program management plan for the conduct of the research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for the creation of a national magnetic fusion engineering center to accelerate fusion technology development via the concentration and coordination of major magnetic fusion engineering devices and associated activities at such a national center. Provides for the establishment of a technical panel on magnetic fusion of the Energy Research ADvisory Board to advise the Secretary on the conduct of the national magnetic fusion energy program. Requires the technical board to report at least annually to the Energy Research Advisory Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary. Requires the director of each magnetic fusion laboratory installation operated for, and funded by, the Federal Government to establish a program advisory committee solely for the purpose of advising such director. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to actively seek to enter into or to strengthen existing international cooperative agreements in magnetic fusion research and development activities of mutual benefit to all parties. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the adequacy of the supply of manpower in the engineering and scientific disciplines to achieve the purposes of this Act; (2) assure the dissemination of information concerning the national magnetic fusion program; and (3) report annually to Congress concerning activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Provides for decreasing interest rate differentials between deposits or accounts in insured banks and those in savings and loan institutions. Prescribes maximum rates for savings and loan accounts in excess of 0.25 percent of the maximum rates for bank accounts decreasing to 0.05 percent until June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to any municipality or intermunicipal or interstate agency, either directly or through the appropriate State if so requested by the State, for the construction of publicly owned treatment works which: (1) are required to be constructed under the provisions of a court order; (2) serve an area which constitutes, or is part of, a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area; and (3) are estimated to cost in excess of $250,000,000 in order to meet court-ordered requirements. Requires such grants to be equal to 75 percent of the costs of construction. Prohibits such grant from being made unless each such State upon whose priority list such project appears has expended or obligated at least 25 percent of its allotment for such fiscal year for such project. Requires the Administrator to establish a timetable for making such grants so as to best provide for compliance with the court-ordered timetable for construction of the required treatment works.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. Declares that it is in the best interest of both such countries to convene a parliamentary and scholarly conference to commemorate and evaluate such treaty. Expresses the interest of the Senate in receiving a report on such conference.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration adopt a Metropolitan Washington (D. C.) airports policy and establish a balance in the jet and passenger use of the three commercial airports of the Washington region.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1980
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to include within the definition of "contribution" professional entertainment services for which a fee, charge, or donation is collected.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Commission on Presidential Nominations Resolution - Establishes the Commission on Presidential Nominations to make an investigation regarding the presidential nominating process. Directs the Commission to report to the President and Congress respecting such investigation, including recommendations for the 1984 presidential elections. States that the Commission shall cease to exist 60 days after submitting such report. Sets forth the powers of such Commission, and related administrative provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Tax Reduction - Job Creation Act - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income tax rates for each category of individual taxpayers. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1980
Deplores the Soviet violations with respect to Afghanistan. Joins calls for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Supports the imposition of penalties on the Soviet Union for its aggression. Urges continued action to draw attention to the Soviet violations and to prevent further Soviet incursions.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the domestic automotive and truck industry. Declares it to be a goal of the United States to achieve technological superiority in the world automobile and truck industry. Advocates changes in economic, fiscal, and import policies in order to create adequate capital and produce a more favorable climate for the domestic automobile and truck industry.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1980
Unlocking America's Energy Resources Act - Directs the President to order the removal of administrative restrictions not required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Requires the President to institute policies which give priority to the expeditious leasing, development, and production of oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, tar sands, and geothermal resources on Federal lands. Requires the President to submit to an advisory panel a list of restrictions required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the panel to review such restrictions and report to Congress and the President on: (1) the reasonableness of such restrictions; and (2) appropriate legislative or administrative actions to reduce impediments to the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to order substantial lease sales, for private development only, within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Bars civil actions challenging any such lease sale which are brought more than 30 days after such lease sale is announced. Exempts any such lease sale from the environmental impact statement requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Requires the President to direct that leasing priority be given to areas of the Outer Continental Shelf that have the highest hydrocarbon potential and known hydrocarbon reserves. Sets forth the conditions for the issuance of Outer Continental Shelf leases by the Secretary of the Interior. Sets forth the requirements for the appointment by the President of members of the advisory panel.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other Federal agencies, should establish a program to use energy efficient and viable alternatives to halocarbon based technologies for cooling.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Noninstitutional Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly and Disabled Act - Amends the Social Security Act by adding a new title, title XXI (Noninstitutional Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly and the Disabled), to provide a comprehensive system of noninstitutional medical and social services for individuals aged 65 or over and individuals with chronic disabilities. Entitles an eligible individual to the following benefits: (1) home health services; (2) homemaker-home health aid services; (3) adult day services; and (4) respite care services for up to 14 days, or 336 hours in any year. Sets forth definitions of such benefits. Provides benefits to every individual who: (1) has attained age 65; (2) is disabled and eligible for benefits under titles II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance), XVI (Supplemental Security Income), XVIII (Medicare), and XIX (Medicaid) of the Act; (3) was eligible for such benefits but ceased to be so eligible, but only if loss of benefits would seriously jeopardize such individuals ability to continue to live in a noninstitutional community residence and such individual's income is not sufficient to allow such individual to provide a reasonable equivalent of the services available under this Act; and (4) has been certified as eligible by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. States that no eligible individual shall be eligible to receive any benefits under title XXI or any long-term care benefits under titles XIX or XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Act unless such individual has a plan of care, as specified in this Act, and has been screened and assessed by a preadmission assessment and screening team (PAT) in order to determine the types and frequency of services required by such individual and in order to assure the maximum level of independence for such individual. Provides for at least one PAT to serve each unit of general purpose local government in a State. Permits the appropriate State agency to designate a Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO), an area agency on aging, a hospital, a local government's department of health, a rural health clinic, a health maintenance organization (HMO), a center or agency for the handicapped, or any qualified similar entity as the PAT. Prohibits any hospital with a hospital-based home health agency and any free standing home health agency from being designated as a PAT, except in a rural area in which no other entity can provide PAT services. Directs the Secretary to reimburse any PAT and any State for the reasonable costs incurred in performing duties under this Act. Requires beneficiaries under title XXI to make copayments as follows: (1) 10 percent of the reimbursable amount with respect to home health services for visits in excess of 50 visits in a calendar year; (2) 10 percent of the reimbursable amount with respect to homemaker-home health aide services for visits in excess of 50 visits in a calendar year; and (3) 10 percent of the reimbursable amount with respect to adult day services for visits to an adult day center in excess of 50 visits in a calendar year. Sets limits based on income, on such copayments, with the highest copayments being limited to five percent of an individual's income for individuals with an annual income of over $10,000. Includes SSI and OASDI benefits, unemployment compensation, and pensions as income. Directs the Secretary to pay amounts for benefits incurred by an eligible individual in accordance with specified guidelines. Creates the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund into which specified funds will be deposited in order to make the payments required by this Act. Coordinates the provisions of this Act with titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Act by providing that no payment shall be made under such titles for services, as defined in title XXI, to or on behalf of an individual who is eligible under title XXI. States that extended care services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX shall not be covered unless the individual seeking coverage first undergoes a preadmission screening and assessment as provided in title XXI, and the need for such services has been approved under the individual's plan of care. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an annual credit of $100 to a taxpayer caring for an elderly dependent. Directs the Secretary to monitor ten designated States with respect to their PAT's and to report to Congress concerning the utilization of services under titles XVIII, XIX, XX, and XXI of the Act and the effects of implementing a copayment requirement beginning with the first visit as compared to a copayment requirement beginning after 50 visits. Directs the Comptroller General to also conduct an ongoing evaluation of the effect of the use of PAT's with respect to utilization of services. Requires the reports to include a recommended strategy for implementing title XXI on a national basis. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to prepare an analysis of the budgetary impact of the implementation of title XXI on a national basis. States that the provisions of titles XVIII, XIX, XX, and XXI of the Act relating to PAT's shall not become effective until one year after Congress has received evaluations from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Comptroller General, and the OMB.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Extends the congratulations of the Congress to the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their 75th anniversary. Proclaims Sunday, June 22, 1980, as "National Italian-American Day."
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Attorney General to prosecute all persons who violate the Logan Act and the executive order prohibiting travel to Iran, thereby giving color of right to illegal actions by the Government of Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1980
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the National Housing Act, and the Federal Credit Union Act to provide insurance for the full amount of public funds deposited in insured banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions. Repeals the restriction on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's authority to limit the aggregate amount of funds that may be deposited in insured banks.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a builder of a new residential unit which incorporates a passive solar energy system a credit against the income tax in an amount (not to exceed $3,000 per residential unit) determined under a solar construction credit table. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury after consultation with the solar construction credit table for eight categories of residential units, energy savings per residential unit. Limits such tax credit to residential units constructed between September 30, 1980, and January 1, 1986. Specifies the general contents of a passive solar energy system.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Attorney General to prosecute all persons who violate the Logan Act, thereby giving color of right to illegal actions by the Government of Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1980
Underground Coal Gasification and Unconventional Gas Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to prepare a comprehensive research, development, and demonstration plan for underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production. Requires the Secretary to transmit such plan to Congress not later than June 30, 1981. Requires the Secretary to establish immediately research, development, and demonstration programs for underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production. Requires the Secretary to solicit proposals and evaluate new or improved technology which would contribute to such production. Directs the Secretary to solicit proposals for the design of underground coal gasification and enhanced gas recovery facilities for the demonstration programs established pursuant to this Act. States that the goals of such programs shall include the demonstration of: (1) a minimum production capacity of 15,000,000 standard cubic feet per day of synthetic natural gas from underground coal gasification by the year 1987; (2) significant gas production on a continuous basis to provide system performance and reliability data; (3) increased gas production from unconventional gas formations through the use of advanced fracturing technology; and (4) unconventional gas production from geopressure reservoirs through multi-long-term high-volume flow tests. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a viable design and cost estimate of the demonstration program facilities. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive commercialization plan which shall include: (1) the identification of efforts necessary to establish a sufficient industrial infrastructure to meet national underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production goals; and (2) an analysis of the government actions needed to minimize and eliminate legal and institutional barriers to and economic uncertainties of such plan. Directs the Secretary to transmit such plan to Congress within two years after the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report of the activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as a qualified governmental interest exempt from the crude oil windfall profit tax the right of any State to receive royalty payments under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920. Allows the deduction from the windfall profit tax of: (1) severance taxes imposed by an Indian tribe; and (2) State ad valorem taxes based on the price at which crude oil is sold.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,000 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits the duration of eligibility for such deduction to calendar years prior to the account beneficiary's 21st birthday, or prior to the beneficiary's enrollment as a full-time student at an eligible educational institution of higher learning, whichever occurs earlier. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Treats qualified distributions as income to the beneficiary for the taxable year in which the beneficiary attains age 25, and for each of the following nine years, in successive apportionments equal to ten percent of the total amount of such distributions. Allows a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized for the benefit of the taxpayer (or the taxpayer and spouse if married) for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the first dwelling purchased by such individual as a principal residence. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,500 ($3,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly), with a maximum lifetime deduction of $15,000 ($30,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly). Provides for annual inflation adjustment of such amounts. Excludes distributions from such account from gross income so long as they are used exclusively for the purchase of a first principal dwelling. Provides for recapture of such distribution upon a subsequent sale of such first dwelling if another house is not purchased with the proceeds. Requires reduction of the $100,000 exclusion from gross income of proceeds from the sale of a principal residence by a taxpayer 55 years of age or older if such residence had been purchased with distributions from a tax-exempt housing savings account. Limits the amount of such reduction to the amount of any such distribution excluded from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the payment of disability insurance benefits to: (1) any individual for any month during which such individual is an inmate of a penal institution after being convicted of a crime or a facility for the criminally insane or other psychiatric facility after having been found (a) not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity or (b) mentally incompetent to stand trial; and (2) any individual otherwise entitled to benefits on the basis of the wages and income of such inmate for the same period.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority (D 80-61) for financial and technical assistance to the States for highway and highway safety projects.
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