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United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1984
Airborne Lead Reduction Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act to make it unlawful, effective January 1, 1988, for any person to sell, offer for sale, or introduce into commerce leaded gasoline for general use as a fuel for any highway vehicle. Provides that leaded gasoline may be offered for limited sales under regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1984
Designates June 13, 1984, as Harmon Killebrew Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984
Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to declare as an objective of the Act that community services provided under the Act should place emphasis on maintaining a continuum of care for the vulnerable elderly. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to develop linkages with utilization and quality control peer review organizations under the Social Security Act in order to insure the development of community alternatives. Increases the number of programs related to the purposes of the Act, for purposes of Federal agency cooperation. Revises provisions relating to the appointment of members to the Federal Council on Aging. Authorizes appropriations for the Council for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Provides for the annual authorization of appropriations to conduct program and project evaluations in an amount not exceeding one-tenth of one percent of annual funding or $300,000, whichever is lower. Defines the term: (1) "multipurpose senior center" to mean a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, which shall include, but not be limited to, provision of health, social, nutritional and educational services and the provision of facilities for recreational activities for older individuals; and (2) "focal point" to mean a facility established to encourage the maximum collocation and coordination of services for older individuals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants for: (1) supportive services and senior centers; (2) congregate nutrition services; and (3) home delivered nutrition services. Permits a State to use up to one percent of its allotment for conducting effective demonstration projects in health and nutrition education. Requires a State agency designating an area agency on aging to give the right of first refusal to a unit of general purpose local government when the boundaries of such a unit and the boundaries of the area are reasonably contiguous. Requires area plans: (1) to provide supportive services for families of elderly victims of Alzheimers' disease and other neurological diseases and organic brain disorders; (2) to provide services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (3) in providing services, to give preference to older individuals, especially minorities, with the greatest economic or social needs. Requires an area agency before requesting a waiver of any requirements for furnishing services to conduct a public hearing. Repeals the authority of grant recipients to charge for meals. Permits grant recipients to request voluntary contributions for meals. Requires a State plan to provide that with respect to services for the prevention of elder abuse: (1) the State will identify the public and private nonprofit entities involved in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (2) the State will, based on such identification, determine the extent to which the need for services for the prevention of elder abuse are unmet; (3) the State will establish, in areas where the need for services is unmet, a program for public education to identify and prevent elder abuse, receive reports of elder abuse, and refer complaints to law enforcement agencies; (4) the State will not permit involuntary or coerced participation in the program of services by alleged victims, abusers, or their households; and (5) all information gathered shall remain confidential unless all parties to the complaint agree to the release of the information, except that the information may be released to a law enforcement agency. Requires a State plan to provide assurances that each State will: (1) provide inservice training opportunities for personnel of agencies and programs funded under the Act; and (2) assign personnel to provide State leadership in developing legal assistance programs for the elderly throughout the State. Requires each State to establish at least one demonstration project for health and nutrition education to be conducted by one or more area agencies on aging. Limits State expenditures for plan administration to an amount not exceeding five percent of its allotment or $500,000, whichever is greater, except that in the case of Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the amount shall be five percent or $200,000, whichever is greater. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for the surplus commodities program under the Act. Prohibits State agencies and area agencies on aging from requesting information or data of providers which is not pertinent to a payment made under the Act. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States with approved State plans for: (1) supportive services for the prevention of elder abuse; and (2) inservice training and State leadership for legal assistance activities. Revises provisions relating to training, research, and discretionary projects and programs. Authorizes appropriations for such projects and programs for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. States that the purpose of such projects and programs is to expand the knowledge and understanding of aging and the aging process, to design and test innovative ideas in programs and services for older individuals, and to help meet the needs for trained personnel in the field of aging. Directs the Commissioner to administer such projects and programs through the Administration on Aging. Provides for the special consideration of Alzheimers' disease with respect to such projects and programs. Provides for the dissemination of information with respect to project results. Directs the Commissioner, upon request, to provide assistance to State agencies on aging, to work in conjunction with State protective service agencies so as not to duplicate activities already undertaken by such protective service agencies, for the provision of technical assistance and development of training materials for personnel in State and area agencies who are engaged or intend to engage in the prevention, identification, and treatment of elder abuse. Limits to 12 percent of Federal funding the amount which shall be available for the costs of administration of a State's older American community service employment program. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate such employment program with programs of the Job Training Partnership Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, and the Vocational Education Act of 1984, if the Secretary determines that to do so would increase job opportunities available under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Requires each State receiving funds under the older American community service employment program to report to the Secretary annually concerning the equitable distribution of funds within the State. Authorizes appropriations for such employment program for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985, 1986, and 1987 for grants to Indian tribes under the Act. Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to add to the definition of the term "employee." States that such term includes any individual who is a U.S. citizen employed by an employer in a workplace in a foreign country. Provides that the provisions of such Act shall not prohibit the compulsory retirement of any employee between 65 and 70 years of age who, between the two year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive position, if such employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit of at least $44,000. (Current law provides that the benefit must be at least $27,000.)
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984
Designates the week beginning September 2, 1984, as National School-Age Child Care Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984
Designates the week of November 11 through November 17, 1984, as Women in Agriculture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Civil Rights Act of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination by any recipient of Federal financial assistance. (Currently, discrimination is prohibited only in a program or activity receiving Federal assistance.) Defines the term "recipient" to extend comprehensive coverage for purposes of the four Acts to any State or local governmental unit, any public or private agency or entity, and any subunit successor, assignee, or transferee of any such unit, agency, or entity.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Designates the month of October 1984 as National Spina Bifida Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 6, 1984, as National Nurse Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) pursue with the Soviet Union the resolution of concerns over compliance with strategic and other arms control agreements through the Standing Consultative Commission and other diplomatic channels; and (2) continue its commitments under such agreements as long as the Soviet Union continues to observe such agreements, or until a new agreement is concluded. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should consider the impact of any changes to his policy regarding such agreements on the long-term security interests of the United States and its allies.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) all nations should condemn chemical warfare and should bring any such use to the attention of the United Nations; and (2) the United States should give attention to negotiation of a verifiable agreement, open to participation by all nations, banning the production and stockpiling of lethal chemical agents.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1984
States that the United States joins in recognizing the anniversaries of the Warsaw uprising and the Polish resistance to the World War II invasion of Poland.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1984
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) to add new part F provisions for the regulation of underground storage tanks containing substances other than hazardous waste. Defines "hazardous substances," for purposes of part F, as: (1) any substance defined under specified provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA), but not including substances regulated as hazardous wastes under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) petroleum, including oil or any fraction thereof; and (3) natural gas liquids or gas liquids, except that the term "gas liquids" does not include propane or butane having in the container an absolute pressure exceeding 40 pounds per square inch absolute at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Defines "owner or operator," "person," and "release." Defines "underground storage tank" to include underground pipes connected to such a tank, and lists the following exclusions from this term: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored; (3) residential septic tanks; (4) pipelines regulated under the National Gas Pipeline Act of 1968, as amended; or (5) unenclosed surface impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons, or basins. Sets forth notification and certification requirements. Requires owners of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances to notify designated State or local agencies of specified information relating to such tanks. Requires owners of such tanks which are operational as of the date of enactment of this Act to provide specified information within 12 months of such enactment date. Requires owners of such tanks which are nonoperational as of such enactment date but which were operational after January 1, 1974, to supply specified information within 12 months of such enactment date. Requires owners or operators that install or bring into use an underground storage tank after the initial notification for operational tanks to notify the designated State or local agency within 30 days of installation or use. Directs the Governor of each State, within 90 days of such enactment date, to designate the appropriate State or local agencies to receive such notifications. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 180 days of such enactment date and in consultation with designated State and local officials, to prescribe in greater detail the form and content of such notifications. Provides that, if a Governor chooses not to designate a State or local agency for such purpose, such notifications shall be submitted to the Administrator. Requires the State, if such notifications are submitted to a designated State or local agency, to compile the submitted information into a comprehensive inventory and furnish such inventory to the Administrator within 18 months of such enactment date. Directs the Administrator, or the appropriate official in a State with an approved program, to issue a certificate to: (1) the owner of each tank for which a complete and valid notification was received under specified provisions, within 30 months of such enactment date; and (2) the owner or operator of a tank installed or brought into use after the initial certification, within 30 days of notification by the owner or operator. Sets forth provisions for release detection, prevention, and correction regulations applicable to all owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances, as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such regulations, after opportunity for public comment and within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Requires that such regulations include requirements respecting specified areas, including: (1) valid certification; (2) leak detection or inventory systems and tank testing; (3) records of such testing, inventory, or detection; (4) reporting releases and corrective actions; (5) standards of performance for new underground tanks, including specified requirements; (6) corrective actions; (7) closure to prevent future release; and (8) evidence of financial responsibility for taking corrective action and for bodily injury and property damage to third parties. Prohibits, until the effective date of such regulations and after 180 days from the enactment of this Act, any person from installing or beginning to use an underground storage tank to store hazardous substances unless such tank is cathodically protected against corrosion, constructed of a noncorrosive material, or contained in a manner designed to prevent the release into the environment of any stored hazardous substances. Sets forth provisions relating to approval of State programs by the Administrator. Sets forth provisions relating to inspections, monitoring, and testing. Sets forth provisions for confidentiality of information, and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality. Requires that all information reported to, or otherwise obtained by, the EPA under this Act be made available, upon written request, to any duly authorized committee of the Congress. Sets forth provisions for Federal enforcement of requirements under this Act. Sets forth civil penalties for specified violations. Makes requirements under this Act applicable to Federal facilities. Authorizes the President to grant exemptions from such requirements upon determination that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on such exemptions and the reasons for granting them. Provides that nothing in this Act shall preclude or deny any State or local authority to regulate more stringently underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months after the enactment of this Act, to study the following underground storage tanks exempted under the definition of "underground storage tanks: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of $1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; and (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and the Congress on the results of the study, with recommendations as to whether or not such tanks should be subject to regulation under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for grants to States to assist States in implementing approved State underground storage tank programs. Includes underground storage tank regulations under provisions for judicial review of regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amends CERCLA to include under the definition of "hazardous substance" for purposes of such Act gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons or natural gas liquids or gas liquids released or threatening to be released into ground water or subsurface soils from an underground storage tank as defined under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take steps to: (1) issue a proclamation commemorating the Ukrainian famine of 1933; (2) issue a warning that the continued enslavement of the Ukrainian nation is a threat to world peace; and (3) convey to the Soviet people U.S. sentiments for the recovery of Ukrainian freedom and independence.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1984
Designates the week beginning September 23, 1984, as National Adult Day Care Center Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1984
White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act - Calls upon the President to conduct a National White House Conference on Small Business, not earlier than January 1, 1985, and not later than September 1, 1986, to: (1) increase public awareness of the contributions of small business; (2) identify small business problems; (3) examine the status of minority and women small business owners; (4) assist small business in carrying out its role as the nation's job creator; (5) develop specific recommendations for executive and legislative action; and (6) review the status of recommendations adopted at the Conference. Authorizes and directs Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to provide support and assistance to the planning of such conference. Requires a final report of the Conference, within six months from the date such conference is convened, to be submitted to the President and the Congress. Requires the Small Business Administration to report annually to the Congress for the next three years following the submission of the final report of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Energy Emergency Preparedness Act of 1984 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to limit sale of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to refineries which: (1) are located in the United States; (2) have been in operation during the six months preceding the date of the withdrawal associated with such sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and (3) agree to refine and distribute on a timely basis within the United States the petroleum products from such crude oil. Authorizes exchanges to the extent necessary to facilitate the movement of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to refineries. Requires sales through bidding for petroleum products withdrawn from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be conducted in the following manner: (1) any petroleum product withdrawn from the Reserve for sale shall be distributed in two pools, the volume, qualities, and locations of each to be determined by the Secretary of Energy; (2) the volume and manner of distribution established for the first pool shall be such as to permit refiners located within the United States, taken as a whole, to run their refineries at a given percentage of capacity as established by the Secretary, taking into account the volumes that will be distributed from the second pool; (3) individual purchases are to be limited to reflect a refiner's needs in a manner to be determined by the Secretary of Energy; (4) the volume and manner of distribution established for the second pool shall be such as to permit each eligible small refiner and each independent refiner to obtain sufficient crude oil to operate its refinery at a given percentage of that refinery's crude oil runs to distillation units for a representative period as determined by the Secretary; (5) petroleum products would be sold from the first pool to eligible refiners at prices established in a sealed bid auction; (6) petroleum products would be sold from the second pool to eligible small refiners and independent refiners at a price which is a composite of all prices paid for crude oil purchased from the first pool, with appropriate adjustments for crude oil quality; (7) distribution from both the first and second pools shall be consistent with the attainment, to the maximum extent practicable, of objectives of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973; and (8) for purposes of this paragraph, the terms "small refiner" and "independent refiner" shall have the same meaning as the definition of such terms in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. Authorizes the President, upon a determination that a substantial crude oil disruption exists, to: (1) divert as provided in the preceding paragraph crude oil purchased and scheduled for delivery to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during the 90 day period beginning from the date the President determines that a substantial crude oil disruption exists; and (2) draw down and distribute crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in amounts not to exceed 300,000 barrels per day for no more than 90 days. Defines the term "substantial crude oil supply disruption" to mean: (1) a national crude oil disruption of lesser magnitude than a "severe energy supply interruption" as defined in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act; or (2) a regional crude oil disruption, arising from either limited crude oil supplies or anomalous crude oil price conditions, including spot market prices, which threaten to result in permanent crude oil price increases. Directs the Secretary, within 180 days of the enactment of this Act, to submit to Congress an amendment to the Distribution Plan contained in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan implementing this Act. Directs the Secretary, within 180 days of the enactment of this Act, to submit to Congress a report: (1) defining the types of supply disruptions that would be considered a substantial crude oil supply disruption; (2) describing how distribution of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can be coordinated with the timely drawdown of reserves by other member countries of the International Energy Agreement; and (3) evaluating the advisability of establishing an options market for distributing crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve consistent with this Act, including only the use of a given percentage of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the creation of such market.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Designates the week of September 23 through September 29, 1984, as National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Designates the week beginning April 8, 1984, as National Hearing Impaired Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1984
Designates the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984, as National Week of the Ocean.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
Designates a Federal building in Bangor, Maine, as the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1984
Directs the President to designate the last week in June 1984 as Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1984
Designates March 16, 1985, as Freedom of Information Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1984
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for: (1) FY 1985 through 1987 to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities; and (2) FY 1987 through 1989 for the Public Broadcasting Fund used by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Paperwork Reduction Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 to require the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Currently, the Administrator is appointed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.) Requires the Director to: (1) integrate his or her statistical policy and coordination functions under such Act with his or her other information resources management functions; (2) appoint an experienced statistician as a chief statistician; (3) update annually the five-year plan for meeting the Government's automatic data processing and telecommunications needs; (4) set goals of reducing the burden of Federal information collection requirements by at least five percent each year for FY 1984 through 1988; and (5) issue a comprehensive set of information resources management policies and guidelines to implement such policies. Requires the Director to include in the annual report to Congress on Federal information policy activities: (1) a summary of accomplishments and planned initiatives to improve information resources management within agencies; (2) a statement on each agency's initiatives to acquire information technology to improve such management; (3) an analysis of the extent to which the newly issued information management guidelines deter or promote such initiatives; (4) a description of the actions taken or planned to carry out statistical policy and coordination functions; and (5) a description of the status of each major statistical program. Requires the Director, when the President submits the annual budget to Congress for FY 1986, to submit a report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives which describes the funds requested for such fiscal year and the funds allocated to OIRA in the preceding fiscal year for each of specified information resources management functions. Requires the Director to make available to the public a copy of each proposed agency rule or regulation reviewed by OIRA and any material submitted to OIRA by the agency or to the agency by OIRA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 to carry out the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to combine the existing Federal telecommunications and automatic data processing funds into an Information Technology Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund. Directs the Administrator: (1) to determine the cost and capital requirements for the Fund for each fiscal year and submit plans for such requirements to the Director; and (2) if such plans are approved by the Director, to establish rates to be charged to agencies provided information technology resources through the Fund. Permits the Administrator to enter into multiyear contracts for the provision of such resources if: (1) adequate funds are available to pay contract costs for the first fiscal year any costs of cancellation or termination; (2) such a contract is awarded on a fully competitive basis; (3) the Government's need for such resources will continue over the contract period; and (4) use of a multiyear contract will cost less than other acquisition methods and will not exclude small business participation. Requires the Administrator to report to the Director on the operation of the Fund annually. Authorizes the Director to employ up to 20 individuals, without regard to specified provisions of Federal law governing civil service appointments and pay, to carry out OIRA functions.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States to assist in supporting the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of programs and projects to: (1) prevent incidents of family violence; and (2) provide shelter and related assistance for victims and dependents of victims of family violence. Sets forth requirements for grant applications. Limits to five percent of such grant funds the amount which may be used for State administrative costs. Requires that at least 70 percent of such funds be distributed to nonprofit private organizations (including religious and charitable organizations and voluntary associations). Requires that the remainder be distributed to local public agencies. Requires the State, in distributing such funds, to give special emphasis to the support of community-based projects of demonstrated effectiveness, particularly those with the primary purpose of operating shelters for victims and dependents and those which provide counseling, alcohol and drug abuse treatment, and self-help services to abusers and victims. Prohibits projects receiving grant funds from: (1) requiring a minimum length of stay for shelter residents; or (2) censoring mail or telephone calls of shelter residents, or interfering in any way with reconciliation efforts, unless requested to do so by the resident. Requires States receiving grants to certify, within one year after receipt of such funds, to the Secretary that the State has a procedure for the eviction of an abusing spouse from a shared residence. Permits grant funds to be used to provide shelter and related assistance to victims of violence by individuals with whom they reside, provided that victims of family violence are first served. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to Indian tribes and intertribal organizations for such projects for the prevention of family violence and for shelters and related assistance for victims and dependents. Sets forth limits on the amount of such grants to single entities other than States. Prohibits direct payments to victims or dependents. Prohibits imposition of income eligibility standards. Requires local grant recipients to provide local shares of grant funds. Requires that at least 75 percent of grant funds be distributed to entities to provide immediate shelter and related assistance to victims and dependents. Sets forth formulas for allotment of such grant funds to States and to specified U.S. territories and possessions. Sets forth provisions for administration of programs under this title. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain records on programs under this title and coordinate all Federal programs relating to family violence; (2) support research on the provision of shelter and related assistance to victims and dependents; and (3) establish a national information and resource clearinghouse on family violence to be coordinated with the information clearinghouse maintained by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities to provide technical assistance, training, and outreach services. Directs the Secretary to review, evaluate, and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the program (particularly in relation to repeated incidents of family violence) under this title, within two years after funds are first obligated for program grants. Sets forth prohibitions against discrimination in programs funded under this title. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 to carry out this title. Requires that: (1) 90 percent of such appropriations be used for grants to States, with between one-half and one percent of those appropriations to be available for grants to Indian tribes and intertribal organizations; and (2) ten percent of such appropriations be used by the Secretary to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary to establish an office to be known as the National Center on Elder Abuse. Directs the Secretary, through the Center, to do the following with respect to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation: (1) compile, publish, and disseminate a summary annually of recently conducted research; (2) develop and maintain an information clearinghouse on all programs showing promise of success in prevention, identification, and treatment; (3) compile, publish, and disseminate personnel training materials; (4) provide technical assistance to public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations in planning, improving, developing, and carrying out related programs and activities; (5) conduct research into causes, prevention, treatment, and identification; and (6) make a complete study and investigation (in consultation with the National Institute on Aging) of the national incidence, including a determination of the extent to which incidents are increasing in number or severity. Directs the Secretary, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to report to the President and Congress on the results of such research, with appropriate recommendations. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the activities of the Center. Directs the Attorney General to make grants for regionally-based training and technical assistance for local and State law enforcement agency personnel to respond to incidents of family violence. Provides for awarding of such grants on a competitive basis. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) select recipients who have demonstrated their effectiveness in preparing such personnel to handle such incidents; and (2) give priority to application proposals to develop, demonstrate, or disseminate information about improved techniques for law enforcement officers' response to such incidents. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for each of the fiscal years for which this title is in effect. Directs the Secretary to study: (1) the necessity and impact of mandatory reporting requirements relating to incidents of family violence, particularly elder abuse; and (2) the effect of immunity on the mandatory reporting process. Directs the Secretary, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on the results of such study, with appropriate recommendations. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such study.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Designating the week of November 12 through November 18, 1984, as National Reye's Syndrome Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Designates the week beginning on November 11, 1984, as National Blood Pressure Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1984
Designates the week of June 24 through June 30, 1984, as National Safety in the Workplace Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1984
Grants a Federal charter to the American Gold Star Mothers, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should not furnish assistance authorized by the Central America Democracy, Peace and Development Initiative Act (now pending before Congress) to any Central American country unless such assistance is authorized in a joint resolution that is accorded congressional priority procedures under the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 and which outlines past and anticipated progress in each recipient country toward the goals set forth in the Central America Democracy, Peace and Development Initiative Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Intergovernmental Regulatory Relief Act of 1984 - Title I: Review of Intergovernmental Regulations - Requires the President, within 30 days after submitting the annual Federal budget to Congress, to submit to 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 1987 to 100 percent by FY 1996. Requires the Director of CBO to transmit to the President and 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 · 8 March 1984
Adoption Identification Act of 1984 - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to provide for the establishment of a voluntary reunion registry demonstration program for biological parents and adoptees, biological siblings or other relatives of adoptees, and estranged family members, including runaways or those estranged as the result of social upheaval. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a voluntary identification system by grant or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on all activities carried out under this Act. Requires that the voluntary reunion registry operate so as to provide a centralized nationwide capacity, utilizing computer and data processing methods. Requires that participation be voluntary by all parties involved. Provides for initiation of the locating process, by submission of an application to the agency or organization operating the system, by a biological parent, an estranged family member, or an adoptee over age 21. Provides that such process may also be initiated by a sibling or other biological relative of an adoptee or an estranged family member, whenever: (1) the biological parent of an adoptee or estranged family member is dead or missing; (2) such parent has consented in writing to the initiation of such process; or (3) the Secretary determines the circumstances to be appropriate after consideration of the privacy rights and interest of all parties who may be affected. Sets forth other requirements relating to the locating process. Provides for protection of confidentiality and privacy rights, followup activities, and reasonable fees. Provides that the registry may include the operation of a similar statewide identification computer system in any State which chooses to participate in the registry and agrees to provide coordination, consistent standards and procedures, and financial participation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Designates the month of May 1984 as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Integrity in Lobbying Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act to: (1) eliminate the criminal penalties for violations of such Act; (2) grant the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives sole authority to jointly administer and interpret such Act; (3) direct the Comptroller General to provide the Secretary and the Clerk with such advice and assistance as they may jointly request; and (4) change the title of such Act to the "Integrity in Lobbying Act."
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1984
Designates the month of October 1984 as National Down's Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Fair Trade in Steel Act of 1984 - Declares that it is the policy of Congress that access to the U.S. market for foreign-produced carbon, alloy, and specialty steel mill products should be on an equitable basis to safeguard national security, insure orderly trade in steel mill products, reduce unfair trade in steel mill products, and alleviate U.S. balance-of-payments problems. Expresses the intent of Congress to: (1) expand the economic viability of the U.S. steel industry and the jobs of its workers; (2) prevent the further decline of the domestic steel industry; and (3) temper the economic hardships resulting from unemployment in steel industry communities by encouraging reinvestment in existing steelmaking facilities. Limits annual imports of specified steel mill product categories to specified percentages of the apparent domestic supply which are based on adjusted average import penetration levels for each such product category for the years 1979, 1980, and 1981. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to allocate global product limitations among foreign countries, groups of countries, or areas. Sets forth guidelines for making such allocations. Requires the Secretary to make an annual determination of the expected apparent domestic supply in each steel mill product category. Requires the Secretary to revise such determination periodically during the year. Directs the Secretary to determine, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, whether the steel industry companies have plans to use substantially all of the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment in and the modernization of the steel sector. Suspends the import restrictions until the Secretary determines that the steel companies have such plans. Directs the Secretary to monitor steel sector investments made and announced by the steel industry and to consult with steel industry representatives and employees in the course of such monitoring. Directs the Secretary to determine annually whether steel companies are using substantially all the cash flow from the steel sector for reinvestment in and modernization of the steel sector. Directs the Secretary to modify or suspend the relevant import restrictions if the Secretary determines that substantially less than all the cash flow from the steel sector is being used for such reinvestment and modernization and that the level of investment is not demonstrably justified by adverse financial conditions within the industry. Directs the Secretary to publish: (1) each annual determination and its rationale; and (2) the total amount of cash flow from the steel sector and the total amount used for reinvestment in and modernization of the steel sector. Requires the Secretary's annual determination to include an evaluation of the steel industry's progress toward fulfillment of the reinvestment and modernization plans. Directs the Secretary to examine the supply and demand situation in the United States for a specified steel product category if reguested by affected steel consumers. Sets forth criteria to be used in determining short supply. Directs the Secretary to monitor imports of fabricated steel mill products. Sets forth the method of investigating whether imports of fabricated steel products are rendering ineffective or materially interfering with the objectives of this Act. Limits the quantity of iron ore that may be entered from all sources during any calendar year after the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary to allocate global iron ore limitations among foreign countries, groups of countries or areas. Sets forth guidelines for making such allocation. Directs the Secretary, in making such allocations, to attempt first to accommodate the requirements of individual steel mills which have been traditionally dependent on ocean sourced foreign iron ore and the requirements of contractual obligations incurred before January 1, 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the import restrictions on iron are if necessary to meet the needs of such individual steel mills. Provides for the enforcement and implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to revise mobile source emissions control provisions to prohibit any individual from: (1) tampering with a pollution control device or elements of design; or (2) using leaded gasoline, or other prohibited or controlled fuels or fuel additives, in certain motor vehicles or engines. Makes such amendments effective 90 days after enactment of this Act. Provides that inspection and maintenance program requirements for nonattainment areas must include requirements that all motor vehicles which are or were equipped with an emission control device or element of design in compliance with specified regulations under the Act must have such device or element in good working order to pass the State inspection. Makes such amendment effective on January 1, 1985. Authorizes appropriations, in addition to any amount authorized under the Act, for FY 1985 to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for: (1) research on the development of technology which could be used in gasoline vapor recovery and which could also reduce the possibility of the prohibited use of leaded fuel in motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines; and (2) a study on the relationship between gasoline octane levels and the performance of motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines, including recommendations for methods to assure adequate engine performance with the use of lower octane levels in unleaded gasoline and/or recommendations to increase the octane levels in unleaded gasoline. Makes it unlawful, effective 90 days after enactment of this Act, for: (1) any retailer to sell any leaded gasoline for less than the lowest price per unit at which such retailer offers unleaded gasoline sells at same retailer outlet; or (2) any refiner, distributor, or reseller to sell any leaded gasoline for less than the price per unit (for the same quantity) at which such refiner, distributor, or reseller offers unleaded gasoline at the same time under the same conditions of sale. Makes it unlawful, effective January 1, 1990, for any person to sell, offer for sale, or introduce into commerce, leaded gasoline for use as a fuel for any highway vehicle.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Designates May 25, 1984, as Missing Children Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Designates the week beginning May 6, 1984, as National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 6 through May 13, 1984, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Declares that Congress asks the American people to take cognizance of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome on June 2 through June 3, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates the week of October 21, through October 27, 1984, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant tax-exempt status to local organizations of police officers and firefighters. Requires such an organization: (1) to be of a purely local character; (2) to have no part of its net earnings inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual; and (3) to receive its income solely from local governments, assessments on the salaries of members, members dues and contributions, fund-raising activities and investments.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the standard mileage rate used in computing the charitable deduction for expenses incurred in the operation of a motor vehicle shall be the same as the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for the business-related deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Makes a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for FY 1984 to carry out the famine relief provisions (title II) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480).
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as National Birds of Prey Conservation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of May 1984 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Designates the week of May 20 through May 26, 1984, as National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Grants a Federal charter to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.