United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide special rules for tax exclusion purposes for determining the value of air transportation provided to an employee by an employer which is not a commercial airline. Sets forth the method of calculating the value of such transportation based on the weight of the aircraft and whether or not the employee is a key employee (an employee who has control over the use, scheduling, or destination of the aircraft).
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Great Lakes Management Act of 1985 - Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Great Lakes National Program Office (Program Office), to be headed by a Director. Lists as responsibilities of the Program Office, the following: (1) developing the long-term, comprehensive environmental, resource, and economic data bases required for assessing the impact of proposed decisions on the environmental health, productivity, and economic well-being of the Great Lakes; (2) conducting an inventory of all State, Federal, tribal, and international agencies with management responsibility for the Great Lakes system, and updating such information biennially; (3) identifying priority management needs to protect and rehabilitate the Great Lakes and their resources and developing management plans where needed; (4) developing a five-year plan and program for reducing the input of nutrients into the Great Lakes; (5) carrying out a five-year study and demonstration projects relating to the control and removal of toxic pollutants in the Great Lakes; (6) identifying lead agencies with primary responsibilities for each specific issue relating to the Great Lakes; (7) developing an annual report on the status of the Great Lakes; (8) promoting the adoption and execution of the management and rehabilitation plans; (9) serving as the source of issues which the Federal Government refers to the International Joint Commission for study; and (10) hosting a meeting (at least annually) for officials of the Federal, State, and tribal agencies involved with the Great Lakes. Requires the Administrator of EPA, in the agency's annual budget submission to the Congress,to include a funding request for the Program Office as a separate budget line item. Requires the Program Office to be located in a Great Lakes State. Establishes within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Great Lakes Research Office (Research Office), to be headed by a Director. Lists as responsibilities of the Research Office the following: (1) annually identifying Federal, State, and tribal research programs relating to the Great Lakes system; (2) establishing a Great Lakes research exchange; (3) identifying priority Great Lakes research needs; (4) conducting research and monitoring activities which address priority issues and current needs of the Great Lakes; and (5) cooperating with EPA in monitoring the water quality of the Great Lakes. Provides for the coordination of certain activities between the Program Office and the Research Office. Allows the Administrator of EPA to provide financial assistance in the form of grants or contracts for research, monitoring, and planning projects and activities necessary to address Great Lakes priorities. Allows any person, institution of higher education, or instrumentality of the Federal, State, or local government, or any tribe to apply for such assistance. Requires the Administrator to act upon each grant or contract application within six months of its receipt. Permits the grants to cover, in the discretion of the Administrator, up to 100 percent of the total project costs. Directs the head of each department or agency of the Federal Government which is in any way connected with the enhancement of the Great Lakes to: (1) cooperate with the Administrators of EPA and NOAA; (2) make available such personnel, services, or facilities as may be necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act; and (3) furnish, upon written request, such data or information deemed necessary to fulfill such purposes. Directs the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Administrator of NOAA to submit annual reports to the Administrator of EPA regarding their efforts to comply with the Water Quality Agreement of 1972. States that this Act does not affect the jurisdiction or powers of any Federal or State department or agency or of any tribe or international body created by treaty with authority relating to the Great Lakes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Family Day Care Provider Assistance Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to States for grants for community-based nonprofit organizations to furnish support services and assistance for family day care providers. Includes among such services and assistance: (1) training for such providers; (2) resource centers to make developmentally appropriate curriculum materials; (3) systems of substitute caregivers; (4) technical assistance in understanding local regulations and relevant tax and other policies; and (5) subgrants to providers for the purchase of small equipment. Requires that grant recipients furnish, or propose to furnish, such support primarily to providers serving low-income families. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Resource Center on Family Day Care, to be operated on a regional basis, either directly or through grant or contract. Includes among Center functions: (1) training individuals involved in training family day care providers; (2) serving as a clearinghouse for resource materials on family day care; and (3) providing technical assistance to family day care sponsors, providers, and trainers of providers with respect to relevant laws and regulations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and succeeding fiscal years for: (1) the National Resource Center on Family Day Care; and (2) payments to States under this Act, with such payments to be allocated among States in the same ratio as payments under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Job Skills Partnership Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to add a new title V, the Job Skills Partnership Program. (Redesignates the current title V as title VI.) Establishes the Job Skills Partnership Program to facilitate the formation of partnership relationships among business and State and local government institutions to provide for the development and expansion of programs of skills training and education directly consistent with employment needs. Earmarks for such Program five percent of the funds for part A (Adult and Youth Programs) of title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) and five percent of funds for title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers). Sets forth formulas for determination of Program allotments to States, based on size of civilian labor force, with maximum and minimum limits. Limits eligibility to participate in job skills programs receiving title V assistance to individuals who are: (1) economically disadvantaged; (2) dislocated workers, identified under specified title III provisions; or (3) workers already employed by an existing industry or business, where job skills upgrading or retraining is necessary to avoid dislocation or where upgrading of existing employees would create new vacancies for other persons eligible for title V programs. Allows up to ten percent of title V program participants to be individuals who do not meet such eligibility criteria but who have encountered barriers to employment (such as individuals with limited English proficiency, displaced homemakers, teenage parents, handicapped, older workers, veterans, criminal offenders, alcoholics, or addicts). Permits title V assistance to States to be used to assist eligible individuals to obtain unsubsidized employment through a job skills program. Provides that such program shall be a cooperative course of instruction bringing together government and businesses to prepare individuals for employment in a specific trade, occupation, or profession. Provides that such programs may involve: (1) short-term skills training; (2) on-the-job skills training; (2) skills training operated by the private sector, including labor organizations or consortia of employers; or (4) skills upgrading or retraining for workers already employed by an existing business where necessary to avoid dislocation or where such upgrading would create new vacancies for the unemployed. Prohibits title V assistance from being used for subsidized employment of any kind. Limits to five percent that portion of a State's allotment which may be used for administrative expenses. Sets the business share of contribution to such job skills programs at 50 percent, the State share at 25 percent, and the Federal share at 25 percent. Directs the State Governor, in order for the State to receive title V assistance, to designate as an entity to administer the job skills program: (1) an existing or newly created State agency, quasi-public corporation, or public nonprofit corporation, to be the statewide agency administering the program; or (2) private industry councils, as provided for under title I of JTPA, to administer the program in each service delivery area. Sets forth the functions of such designated administrative entities. Sets forth requirements for job skills program plans, and for the review and approval of such plans. Sets forth provisions for the selection of service providers under such plans. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe annual performance standards for title V programs, based on placement, retention in unsubsidized employment, increase in earnings, and reductions in welfare dependency. Sets forth program requirements for meeting such standards and procedures to be followed when such standards are not met. Makes specified JTPA provisions relating to State responsibilities, program requirements, and fiscal administration applicable to title V programs. Provides that nothing in title V shall be construed to limit State or private industry council authority to establish other or augmented job skills programs and courses, involving State and business matching contributions, through financial assistance provided under titles II and III of JTPA. Sets forth provisions earmarking specified JTPA funds (as noted above) for title V programs. Adds definitions of "equipment," "financial support," "job skills program," and "technical assistance." Makes technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) be commended for his efforts to negotiate a multilateral agreement banning chemical weapons; (2) continue to pursue such an agreement; and (3) seek the continuation and the development of bilateral discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve a verifiable ban on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1985 - Title I: Extension of Wetlands Loan Act - Extends the authorization of the Wetlands Loan Act through FY 1996. Title II: Revenues for Migratory Bird Conservation Fund - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to charge fees for admission permits to designated units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Requires deposit of such fees into the migratory bird conservation fund. Authorizes the Secretary to sell, at designated units, Golden Eagle Passports. Directs the Secretary to treat the revenues accruing from such sales in the same manner as fees collected for admission permits. Describes the kinds of admission permits which may be purchased, including individual, group, and special free permits for the blind or disabled and those over age 62. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring an admission permit, or charging a fee, with respect to entry to any designated unit by any individual: (1) with a valid Golden Eagle Passport, Golden Age Passport, or any other lifetime admission permit issued under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965; (2) who has a valid migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp; (3) who is related to or accompanying an individual described in clause (1) or (2); or (4) who has been issued a special free permit as described in the preceding sentence. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations necessary to carry out this paragraph. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to specified congressional committees. Increases the price of the migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp. Requires that the amount of import duties collected on arms and ammunition be paid into the migratory bird conservation fund. Establishes in the Treasury the Wetlands Conservation Fund to receive specified funds from the land and water conservation fund and provides for the transfer of moneys from the Wetlands Conservation Fund during FY 1986 through 1995 to finance acquisitions under the wetlands priority conservation plan. Title III: Financial Assistance to States for Wetlands Conservation - Authorizes the Secretary to provide annual financial assistance to States during FY 1986 through 1995 for wetlands conservation. Prescribes formulae for the allocation and apportionment of appropriations among the States and the Secretary for wetlands acquisitions. Sets forth eligibility requirements and conditions relating to such apportionment. Requires each State wishing to participate in such program to submit to the Secretary a comprehensive fish and wildlife resource management plan to ensure the perpetuation of such resources or to submit detailed statements of any wetlands conservation project proposed for that State. Entitles each such State to up to 75 percent of the costs of implementing such plan or project upon the Secretary's approval. Directs the Secretary to establish, and periodically review and revise, a national wetlands priority conservation plan specifying, on a region-by-region or other appropriate basis, the types of wetlands to which priority should be given for wetlands acquisition and the implementation of preservation and enhancement projects. Title IV: Wetlands Inventory and Trend Analysis - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to: (1) produce final National Wetlands Inventory maps for the entire United States (specifies dates at which different maps are to be completed); and (2) produce, by the end of FY 1986, and at ten year intervals thereafter, reports to update and improve the information contained in the report dated September 1982 and entitled "Status and Trends of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitat in the Coterminous United States, 1950's to 1970's." Authorizes appropriations for the above maps and reports. Directs the Secretary, by the end of FY 1986 to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a report regarding wetlands losses in the United States. Authorizes appropriations for such report.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an applicable test rate of nine percent for determining whether there is imputed interest in the case of seller-financed property. Permits a lower test interest rate of 80 percent of the Federal Treasury rate where such rates are lower than the nine percent test rate. Provides for a blended test rate for instances where the loan amount exceeds $4,000,000. Authorizes the imputation of interest in seller-financed property sales of $4,000,000 or less of ten percent or 110 percent of the Federal Treasury rates, whichever is less, where the test interest rates have not been met. Allows for a blended imputed interest rate where the debt amount exceeds $4,000,000. Requires that all loan amounts from a single transaction or series of related transactions be aggregated for purposes of determining the loan amount. Provides that the imputed interest rules will not apply to assumptions of loans unless the terms and conditions of such debt obligations are modified in connection with the assumption. Repeals the provisions of the Code limiting the amount of interest expense a purchaser of personal use property may deduct for tax purposes. Excepts debt instruments arising from the sale or exchange of a residence from the imputed interest provisions where the obligor of the instrument uses the property as his residence. Provides that the imputed interest rules shall not apply in the case of sales or exchanges of property where the borrowed amount does not exceed $4,000,000. Requires the interest on the obligation issued in connection with such sales or exchanges to be taken into account by both the buyer and the seller on the cash receipts and disbursement method of accounting unless both buyer and seller agree to use the accrual receipts and disbursement method of accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Agricultural Trade Amendment Act of 1985 - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Act to provide that agricultural exports, except for those under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480), shall not be subject to cargo preference requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Modified Agricultural Debt Recovery Act of 1985 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize additional funds for FY 1985 Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund or Rural Development Insurance Fund loan guarantees. Modifies the approved lender program to: (1) require lender applications to be approved or disapproved within ten days; (2) set maximum interest rates at two and one-half percent above the Federal Reserve rate; (3) extend the maximum loan repayment period to 15 years; (4) permit lenders to convert loans to federally guaranteed or insured loans (caps insured loans at 35 percent, and insured and guaranteed loans at 60 percent guarantees); and (5) entitle the lender and the Secretary of Agriculture to pro rated shares of any defaulted loan liquidation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Commends Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer for exceptionally distinguished service to the U.S. Air Force, the national and defense intelligence communities, and the national security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1985
Commends Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer for exceptionally distinguished service to the U.S. Air Force, the national and defense intelligence missions, and the national security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Construction Grants Transition Act of 1985 - Amends the Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to extend the authorization of appropriations for five years, through FY 1990, in decreasing amounts for grants to States for the construction of publicly-owned waste treatment plants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1994 for capitalization grants to States which establish Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds which would gradually take over the Federal program. Requires a participating State to: (1) enter into agreements with the Administrator; (2) establish the required Fund; (3) deposit in its Fund from State monies an amount equal to 15 percent of the capitalization grant; (4) make loan commitments for publicly-owned waste treatment plants within one year which commit all of the Fund; (5) submit required annual and intended use reports; and (6) comply with generally accepted procedures and standards. Sets forth permitted uses of the Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to reallot a noncomplying State's capitalization grant. Sets forth required accounting procedures. Directs the Administrator to review annually each State plan and report for using the Fund. Authorizes a State to use Federal grant funds to set up a Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund upon request. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress by February 10, 1990, on the operation of the State Funds. Limits the use of Federal funds for phased-segment projects and reserved capacity after FY 1990. Continues through FY 1994 the Administrator's authority to reserve a percentage of authorized funds for grants to States for management assistance. Continues the mandatory four percent set-aside for the innovative and alternative technology program in FY 1988, reducing such set-aside to two percent in FY 1987 and 1988 after which point such program becomes discretionary. Permits a State, beginning in FY 1989, to set-aside up to seven and one-half percent of a State's allotment to be applied instead to increase the Federal share for innovative and alternative techniques and processes. Prohibits water quality-based waivers for nonconventional pollutants after a specified date. Directs the Administrator to convene an estuarine management conference for no more than five years whenever the Administrator determines interstate or international control of sources of pollution is required. Requires such conference to assess the trends in the use, resources, and water quality in such estuary, identify the sources of pollution, and develop a conservation, management, and monitoring plan for restoring and maintaining the biological integrity of such estuary. Requires the participation of affected foreign nations, States, agencies, local governments, and institutions, and plan approval by the Administrator. Permits the use of Federal grant funds and Federal capitalization grant funds for plan implementation. Authorizes appropriations for conference expenses in FY 1986 through FY 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Balanced Budget Procedures Act of 1985 - States that if the total outlays would exceed the total revenues set forth for FY 1990 under conditions of high employment in any budget submitted by the President for FY 1987 through 1989, then the President shall also submit an alternative budget in which total outlays would not exceed total revenues for FY 1990 under conditions of high employment. Requires the President, by March 15 of any year in which such an alternative budget is submitted, to submit recommendations and proposals for changes in Federal laws which would be required in order to achieve a balanced budget for FY 1990, with high employment. Requires the Budget Committee of each House, not later than April 15 before each fiscal year from FY 1987 through 1990, to report: (1) a first concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year in which total outlays and total revenues for FY 1990 would be in balance under conditions of high employment; or (2) an alternative concurrent resolution providing such balance. Requires that any presidential budget for a fiscal year that assumes conditions of high employment and recommends that total outlays exceed total revenues be accompanied by an alternative budget in which total outlays do not exceed total revenues. Requires that any presidential budget which assumes that conditions of high employment will not exist during a given fiscal year, and recommends that total outlays exceed total revenues by a certain amount for such fiscal year, be accompanied by an alternative budget in which total outlays would not exceed total revenues under conditions of high employment. Requires the President, not later than March 15 of any year in which an alternative budget is submitted, to submit recommendations and proposals for changes in Federal laws which will, if enacted, reduce the amount by which total outlays would exceed total revenues for such fiscal year under conditions of high employment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Commemorates May 18, 1985, as the 20th anniversary of the Head Start Program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Head Start Program has been cost-effective and successful; and (2) congressional support for such program is reaffirmed.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the duty on certain ethyl alcohol that is used as a fuel. Provides, under specified circumstances, for a refund of such additional duties paid on such alcohol.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to exclude from eligibility for duty-free treatment ethyl alcohol and any mixture containing ethyl alcohol which is suitable for use as a fuel or for creating specified fuel mixtures which has merely been subjected to distillation or denaturing within a beneficiary country (one of certain Caribbean countries). Refunds all duties paid on such alcohol or mixture upon proof that such alcohol or mixture was not and can no longer be used as fuel or to produce the specified fuel mixtures. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to establish refund procedures. Restricts application of this Act to articles enentered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after 15 days of enactment of this Act and before January 1, 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Sulfite Safety Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use of sulfiting agents in raw fruits and vegetables. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reevaluate and report to the Congress on the use of such agents in other foods, including wine, dried fruit, and seafood.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act - Directs the President, acting through the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), to provide an undergraduate scholarship program for citizens and nationals of developing countries to study at U.S. institutions of higher education. Requires that half of each payment to a student shall be in the form of a loan with repayment to be forgiven upon the student's prompt return to his or her country of origin for a period of no less than the number of years spent studying in the United States plus one. Sets forth guidelines for implementing the program. Directs the President, before allocating any funds, to consult with U.S. educational institutions, educational exchange organizations, U.S. missions, and the governments of participating countries on how to implement the guidelines. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements with foreign governments to further the scholarship program. Urges the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in implementing such programs, to increase assistance for undergraduate scholarships for students of limited financial means from developing countries to study in the United States. Urges the Director of the USIA to expand opportunities for students from developing countries to receive financial aid for postgraduate study at U.S. institutions of higher education. Urges the President to take steps to expand the opportunities for Americans from all economic classes to study in developing countries. Authorizes the President to establish counseling and orientation services: (1) abroad to prepare foreign students for study in the United States; and (2) at U.S. schools to help them while they are in the United States. Directs the Board of Foreign Scholarships to advise and assist the President in the discharge of programs authorized by this Act. Requires the public and private sectors in the United States to be encouraged to contribute to the costs of the programs financed under this Act. Directs the President to engage the public and private sectors of developing countries in programs to maximize the use of program participants upon their return to their own countries. Authorizes the President to publicize the scholarship program abroad. Directs the President to encourage U.S. schools attended by students receiving scholarships under this Act to provide opportunities for U.S. students to develop their knowledge of the foreign students' cultures. Authorizes the President to provide English instruction abroad when necessary. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the activities taken pursuant to this Act. Requires the undergraduate scholarship program financed by the USIA for students from Central America for FY 1986 and 1987 to be conducted in accordance with this Act. Provides for funding to carry out other scholarship programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
States that appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 shall be available to enable the National Institutes of Health to award 6,500 new and competing research grants in 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Bipartisan Commission on Congressional Campaign Financing Act - Establishes the Bipartisan Commission on Congressional Campaign Financing to consider and study laws, regulations, and public commentary relating to the financing of congressional elections. Requires such study to give particular attention to the extent to which current campaign financing practices undermine public confidence in the Government. Requires the Commission to consider the following changes in the present system of campaign financing: (1) increasing or decreasing allowable contributions; (2) increasing the income tax credit for campaign contributions; (3) initiating a plan of public financing; (4) making available free or subsidized broadcasting time; or (5) examining the role of independent expenditures. Directs the Commission to make reasonable efforts to achieve the broadest bipartisan consensus in arriving at its recommendations. Requires the Commission, not later than one year after enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress its final report. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of such report. Requires the Director of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress and the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, not later than two months after enactment of this Act, to transmit briefing papers to the Bipartisan Commission which catalog and synthesize pertinent reports, analyses, and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Job Corps has been a cost effective and successful program that should be continued as a separate component of the Job Training Partnership Act; (2) the commitment of the Congress to the program is reaffirmed; and (3) sufficient appropriations should be made available to maintain the youth program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1985
Maternal and Child Health Preventive Care Amendments of 1985 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide that the making available to pregnant women of any pregnancy-related services shall not require the making available of such services to any other group of Medicaid individuals, provided such services are available to all covered pregnant women; and (2) permit a State to extend the eligibility of pregnant women for 60 days following the end of a pregnancy.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Intergovernmental Regulatory Relief Act of 1985 - Title I: Review of Intergovernmental Regulations - Requires the President, within 30 days after submitting the annual Federal budget, to submit to the Congress a report specifying and evaluating the economic costs, noneconomic costs, and additional direct costs to State and local governments of complying with intergovernmental regulations during the most recently completed fiscal year, the fiscal year in progress, and the next two fiscal years. Defines an "intergovernmental regulation" as a Federal regulation that requires a State or local government to take certain actions or to comply with certain conditions in order to receive Federal assistance. Specifies the contents of such report which include: (1) an estimate of the economic and noneconomic benefits that will be provided to each State government and all local governments in such State as a result of compliance with each such regulation during each fiscal year; and (2) proposals for legislation and administrative actions to change regulations in order to reduce compliance costs or to achieve a more favorable balance between costs incurred and benefits received. Directs the President to consider the potential for reducing State and local compliance costs by promulgating intergovernmental regulations using means such as performance standards, special provisions for small governments, marketable rights, economic incentives, compliance reforms, and simplified procedures to certify the compliance of Federal assistance recipients with Federal requirements. Authorizes the President to delegate the responsibility of preparing such report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the head of any other Federal agency. Directs the responsible official to prescribe standards to be used by agencies in estimating the compliance costs and benefits of intergovernmental regulations. Directs each agency to furnish such official with the information required in such report for the regulations administered by such agency. Title II: Compensation of State and Local Governments for Additional Direct Costs - Prohibits any Federal agency or U.S. court from requiring State or local governments, in any fiscal year, to comply with any intergovernmental regulation which takes effect on or after enactment of this Act and which is promulgated pursuant to a significant law, unless sufficient funds have been provided to reimburse such governments for the total amount of additional direct costs such governments will incur in complying with such regulation in such fiscal year as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Defines a "significant law" as any Federal law which is likely to result in total additional direct costs to all State and local governments of $100,000,000 or more in a fiscal year or to have exceptional fiscal consequences for a geographic region or a particular level of government. Prohibits a Federal agency or a U.S. court, beginning in FY 1987, from requiring State or local governments to comply with any intergovernmental regulation which took effect before enactment of this Act and which was promulgated pursuant to a significant law, unless: (1) sufficient funds have been provided to reimburse such governments for a specified percentage of the additional direct costs such governments will incur in complying with such regulation during such fiscal year; (2) the additional direct costs such governments would have incurred in such fiscal year have been reduced by such percentage as a result of either a revision in the significant law under which the regulation was promulgated or administrative actions; or (3) the combined amount of funds provided and reductions obtained equals or exceeds such percentage of the additional direct costs such governments would have incurred in such fiscal year. Increases the applicable percentage each year from ten percent in FY 1988 to 100 percent by FY 1997. Requires the Director of CBO to transmit to the President and the Congress by September 1 of each year a report specifying an estimate of the total amount of additional direct costs that will be incurred in the upcoming fiscal year and the two succeeding fiscal years by State and local governments in complying with each intergovernmental regulation promulgated pursuant to a significant law. Directs the chairmen of the congressional committees having jurisdiction over any significant law under which an intergovernmental regulation is promulgated to propose, to a bill providing funds for each fiscal year in which such regulation will be in effect, an amendment to appropriate funds to reimburse State and local governments for the total amount or applicable percentage of additional direct costs they will incur in complying with such regulation. Sets forth the procedures for reimbursements of such additional direct costs by Federal agencies to States and by the States to local governments. Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the definition of a "significant bill or resolution" by reducing the annual cost to State or local governments likely to result from such a bill or resolution from $200,000,000 to $100,000,000. (The Act requires CBO to submit to each congressional committee reporting such a bill or resolution an estimate of the cost which would be incurred by State and local governments in complying with such bill or resolution in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in each of the four succeeding fiscal years.)
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant) of the Social Security Act to strike out the word "crippled" wherever it appears and replace it with the term "physically disabled."
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