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United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to set the cap amount for hospice care at $6,500, to be increased or decreased annually according to the consumer price index.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Designates the week of May 27, 1984, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received by the taxpayer from the U.S. Forest Service as a result of restricting motorized traffic in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate jointly to present, on behalf of the Congress, a bronze medal to families of American personnel missing or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual retirement accounts, qualified retirement trusts and certain educational organizations to invest in working interests in domestic oil and gas properties without incurring unrelated business taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Designates November 1983 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983
Uniform Single Financial Audit Act of 1983 - Amends title 31 of the United States Code to add a new chapter 75-Requirements for Single Financial Audits. Establishes uniform single financial audit requirements for State and local governments and nonprofit organizations that receive Federal assistance. Authorizes the President to prescribe policies, procedures, and regulations to implement this chapter. Permits the President to delegate the authority to prescribe policies and procedures to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the responsibility to prescribe regulations to the appropriate agencies and departments. Requires the Director of OMB and the appropriate Federal agencies and departments to consult with the Comptroller General of the United States in the preparation of such policies, procedures, and regulations. Requires the Director within one year to establish a plan of action to assure that single financial audits are conducted within three years from the enactment of this Act, and thereafter. Requires any entity receiving at least $25,000 in Federal assistance for a fiscal year to conduct at least biennially a single financial audit covering all of its funds. Requires such audits to be conducted by independent auditors in accordance with accepted Government auditing standards. Sets forth the subject matter of such an audit. Requires each entity receiving Federal assistance and subsequently making a portion of it available to another entity to ascertain whether a single financial audit has been conducted of the recipient. Permits the use of Federal assistance to pay for such audits. Permits the Director to arrange an audit of any entity that has failed to comply with the requirements of this Act. States that small business concerns and business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals shall have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the performance of audits under this Act. Declares that single financial audits conducted in accordance with this Act shall fulfill any other financial audit requirement imposed by the Federal government. Sets forth procedures to insure that any bill or resolution reported by a congressional committee which specifies requirements for financial audits of Federal assistance recipients will be consistent with this Act. Requires the Comptroller General to monitor all reported bills of the House and the Senate and review any audit provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend until October 29, 1986, the duty on canned corned beef.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Designates the week of December 11-17, 1983, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should: (1) announce its intention to pause in the testing of new ICBMs with more than one warhead while arms negotiations proceed if the Soviet Union agrees to such a pause; and (2) propose to the Soviet Union in the START talks an arms control agreement that reduces on both sides the number of ICBMs with more than one warhead, and encourages the development of small, single warhead ICBMs, with limitations and reductions on strategic nuclear forces formulated in terms of warheads rather than launchers. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the text and presentation of such proposal.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should convene a national, bipartisan commission to address the problems in Central America. Suggests certain requirements for the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1983
Designates the week of September 4 through September 10, 1983, as Youth of America Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1983
Authorizes the President to designate September 1983 National Professional Security Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1983
Designates the square dance as the national folk dance of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on flecainide acetate for two years.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the refund ("drawback") of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported merchandise if merchandise of the same kind and quality: (1) is, within three years, exported or destroyed under Customs supervision; and (2) is not used within the United States before such exportation or destruction.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Local Government Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983 - Extends the revenue-sharing program of general-purpose fiscal assistance to local governments through FY 1985. States that all data computations (currently, only the allocations) of a local government whose boundaries include areas of two or more counties shall be determined on the basis of the proportion of its population in each county. Requires a local government receiving such assistance to assure that it will comply with the public-participation and audit requirements. Repeals provisions requiring a reduction in the allocation to a State government if it reduces its own payments to local governments. Permits State governments to use alternative formulae for allocating payments among its local governments. Reduces from two to one the number of public hearings a recipient government must hold on its proposals for use of revenue sharing funds. Declares that discrimination proceedings must begin when a government receives a notice of discrimination complaints (currently, when the notice is issued). Permits a government to elect to have the required audits conducted every second fiscal year in which the government receives payments provided that such audit encompasses the financial statements for both fiscal years. Requires such audits to be conducted in accordance with the Comptroller General's 'Standards for Audit of Governmental Organizations, Programs, Activities and Functions.' Requires such reports to be made available for public inspection within 30 days following completion.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on flecainide acetate for two years.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for cash contributions to a tax-exempt housing opportunity mortgage equity account established for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the taxpayer's first home. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,000 ($2,000 for a joint return), with a maximum lifetime deduction of $10,000. Phases out the deduction for individuals or couples whose income exceeds $50,000. Recaptures as ordinary income the amount of the withdrawals from the account for a home purchase over a period of the greater of five years or the number of years contributions had been made to the account. Requires that contributions to a housing opportunity mortgage equity account must be used by the end of ten years after the initial contribution. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions not used for the purchase of a principal residence. Requires the trustee of a housing opportunity mortgage equity account to report on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file required reports.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the refund ("drawback") of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported merchandise if merchandise of the same kind and quality: (1) is, within three years, exported or destroyed under Customs supervision; and (2) is not used within the United States before such exportation or destruction. Provides for the same kind of refund treatment for packaging material imported for use in performing incidental operations with regard to the packaging or repackaging of imported merchandise.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Federal Capital Investment Program Information Act of 1983 - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the President to include with each Budget submitted on or after January 1, 1984, a special analysis for the ensuing fiscal year which shall identify and summarize requested appropriations or new obligational authority and outlays for each major program that may be classified as a public capital investment program. Sets forth information to be included in such analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Proclaims the week of June 3 through June 9, 1984, National Theatre Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1983
Authorizes the President to proclaim March 1984 National Social Work Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that it supports the reduction of child mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Urges the President to promote and undertake activities to further the objectives of the child health revolution. Directs appropriate Government agencies to support UNICEF and other specified international agencies and public and private organizations in fostering the child health revolution.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that extended voluntary departure status should be granted to El Salvadorans until the situation in El Salvador permits their safe return.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit for the transportation expenses of a U.S. foreign exchange student incurred in traveling abroad to participate in a teenager exchange-visitor program. Limits such credit to 25 percent of the transportation expenses incurred.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Child Care Information and Referral Services Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, to establish a grant program to assist public or private nonprofit organizations in the establishment or operation of community-based child care information and referral centers. Sets forth grant application requirements. Limits the duration and amount of grants to a center. Sets reporting requirements for centers receiving such grants. Directs the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the income tax credit for household and dependent care services from a maximum of 30 percent to a maximum of 50 percent of such expenses. Reduces such percentage by one percent for each full $1,000 by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $10,000. Makes such credit refundable. Allows such credit to be claimed on the short tax return form. Grants tax-exempt status to organizations which provide nonresidential dependent care services to the general public for purposes of enabling individuals to maintain employment.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the income tax deduction allowed for maintaining exchange students as members of the taxpayer's household to $100 per month up to a maximum of $1,000 per year.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat "business development companies" (as defined by the Investment Company Act of 1940) as regulated investment companies for income tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Designates the week beginning June 19, 1983, as National Children's Liver Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to the widow of Roy Wilkins. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Designates October 15, 1983, National Poetry Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Freedom of Information Protection Act of 1983 - Amends the classified information exemption under the Freedom of Information Act to require that matters withheld from disclosure: (1) be reasonably expected to cause "identifiable damage" to national security; and (2) satisfy a balancing test so that "the need to protect the information outweighs the public interest in disclosure." Limits Federal court review of an agency's decision to withhold classified information based on the balancing test.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of national research service awards received from the Public Health Service.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Designates August 3, 1983, as National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Requires the Attorney General and all other appropriate Federal agencies and officials to enforce the antitrust laws, including the prohibition against vertical price restraints. Directs such officials and agencies to cease propounding arguments in court designed to weaken such prohibition, and to submit to Congress proposed legislation to make any desired changes in such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Designates July 20 of each year as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Renewable Energy Tax Incentive Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the residential energy income tax credit for renewable energy sources for five years from 1985 to 1990. Increases from 15 percent to 25 percent the investment tax credit for solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean thermal property. Extends such credits for five years from 1985 to 1990. Extends such credits for hydroelectric generating property and biomass property for five years from 1985 to 1990. Reestablishes the credit for congeneration property until 1990. Qualifies until 1995 affirmative commitments for solar, wind, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, and cogeneration projects begun by December 31, 1990. Eliminates the 20 percent limitation for oil and natural gas used in cogeneration facilities. Allows the regular investment tax credit percentage with respect to certain energy property even if such property is a structural component of a building. Qualifies as biomass property methane-containing gas produced by anaerobic digestion from nonfossil waste materials. Revises the definition of geothermal deposit to lower the required temperature to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. (Present regulations require a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit.)
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Designates the week of October 16 through October 22, 1983, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that regulations relating to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (concerning sex discrimination in education) should not be amended in any manner which will lessen the comprehensive coverage of such title in eliminating gender discrimination throughout the American educational system.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the support of the Senate for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) to revise provisions relating to assurance of availability of adequate supplies of water treatment chemicals. Extends until September 30, 1984, the date upon which certifications of need or orders issued under such provisions may no longer remain in effect. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 under the Safe Drinking Water Act for: (1) research, technical assistance, information, and training of personnel; and (2) grants for State programs for public water system supervision and underground water source protection. Establishes a program of matching grants to States for the development of groundwater protection plans for sole source aquifer regions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for such program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) grants to State programs; and (2) carrying out other specified provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental research, development, and demonstration activities relating to the following: (1) air quality under the Clean Air Act; (2) water quality under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (3) water supply under the Safe Drinking Water Act; (4) solid and hazardous waste under the Solid Waste Disposal Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; (5) pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; (6) radiation under the Public Health Service Act; (7) interdisciplinary activities; (8) toxic substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act; (9) energy activities; and (10) program management and support.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Amends the Noise Control Act of 1972 to extend through FY 1984 the authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Transfers from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the Administrator of General Services the responsibility for: (1) maintaining and providing wide access to a computerized information system on domestic assistance programs; and (2) preparing, publishing, and distributing the catalog of domestic assistance programs each year. Requires the Administrator to ensure that the information in the computer system and the catalog is the most current information available. Requires the Director to collect and provide the Administrator with the information on domestic assistance programs, including the following information which the Director shall also transmit to specified congressional committees: (1) a specification of each formula governing eligibility for assistance or the distribution of assistance under each program; (2) a description of all data and statistical estimates used to carry out each formula; and (3) an identification of the sources of such data and estimates. Assigns the Director responsibility for overseeing the authorities transferred by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act - Establishes the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation as a charitable and nonprofit corporation which is not an agency or establishment of the United States. States that the purposes of the Foundation are: (1) to encourage, accept, and administer private gifts of property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the activities of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and (2) to conduct such other activities as will further the conservation and management of the fish and wildlife resources of the United States. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the Board of Directors of the Foundation; (2) the rights and obligations of the Foundation; (3) tax-exempt status; (4) volunteers; (5) audits and reports; and (6) petition of the Attorney General for equitable relief. Releases the United States from liability for any debts, acts, or omissions of the Foundation. States that the right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at any time is expressly reserved to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for ten years.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Disapproves the proposal of the Study Group on Senate Practices and Procedures to abolish the Committee on Veterans' Affairs by merging it with the Committee on Armed Services.