United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should direct the appropriate agencies to pursue vigorously and promptly conclude certain countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigatons and the pending steel unfair trade practices investigation; and (2) Congress should consider legislation to strengthen U.S. trade laws.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to add to current penalties for killing officers and employees of the United States penalties for: (1) attempting to kill; and (2) killing, or attempting to kill, any officer or employee of any department or agency within the Intelligence Community. Establishes as new offenses the murder, manslaughter, assault, threat against, extortion, or kidnapping of: (1) persons given entry into the United States for permanent residence pursuant to the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949; and (2) persons present in the United States under intelligence auspices.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1982
Requests the President to designate the week beginning June 20, 1982, as Great Seal Bicentennial Week and announce the cutting of dies for the complete Seal.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1982
Capital Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends the National Housing Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to increase or maintain the capital of a qualified institution by making periodic purchases of capital instruments from such institution. Requires such an institution to have: (1) a net worth of at most three percent of its assets; (2) losses for two consecutive quarters; (3) a prospect of solvency for more than six months; and (4) investments in residential mortgages or mortgage-backed securities equal to at least 20 percent of its assets. Sets forth the initial capital instruments that the Corporations may purchase. Allows the Corporations to establish criteria which, with respect to ranges of net worth, calculation of losses, and percentage of losses to be met by purchases of capital instruments, differ from such criteria set forth by this Act. Prohibits any such assistance from being provided to a qualified institution if the Corporation determines that providing such assistance would be costlier than liquidating such institution.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1982
Deposit Insurance Flexibility Act - Title I: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Amendments - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to make loans to, make deposits in, purchase the assets or securities of, assume the liabilities of, or make contributions to, any insured bank if such action is taken: (1) to prevent the bank's closing; (2) to restore a closed insured bank; or (3) to lessen the risk to the Corporation posed by an insured bank under the threat of instability due to severe financial conditions. Authorizes the Corporation, in order to facilitate a merger or consolidation of an insured bank or the sale of assets of such insured bank and the assumption of its liabilities, or the acquisition of its stock, to: (1) purchase any such assets or assume such liabilities; (2) make loans or contributions to, or deposits in, or purchase the securities of, such institution; (3) guarantee it or the company which controls or will acquire control of it against loss by reason of merging or consolidating; or (4) do any combination of the above. Requires the Corporation, in its annual report to Congress, to report the total amount it has saved, or estimates it has saved, by exercising the authority provided in this Act. Amends the Home Owner's Loan Act of 1933 to permit the Home Loan Bank Board to authorize the conversion of a State-chartered savings bank insured by the FDIC into a Federal savings bank. Requires continued FDIC insurance coverage for a converted bank. Amends the National Housing Act to grant the Federal Home Loan Bank Board the same supervisory powers with regard to a FDIC insured federal savings bank that it has with other Federal associations. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to allow a closed insured bank with assets of a specified amount, or insured banks with specified assets which are in danger of closing, to be acquired by out of State banks or holding companies. Permits the FDIC, in the case of a closed bank, to sell the assets of such bank and arrange for the assumption of its liabilities by an insured depository institution located in the same State. Permits the FDIC, in the case of an insured bank with a certain amount of assets which is in danger of closing, to arrange an acquisition by an insured depository institution located in the State where the insured bank is chartered. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to permit a waiver of notice and hearing requirements to allow the Federal Reserve to approve emergency acquisitions of thrift institutions by commercial banks. Title II: Federal Home Loan Bank Board Amendments - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to allow the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to authorize a mutual institution to become, or merge into, a newly-chartered, Federal stock savings bank. Amends the National Housing Act to permit the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation to provide assistance to insured institutions when severe financial conditions exist which threaten the stability of a significant number of insured institutions. Includes deposits in the institution or the purchase of securities as a type of assistance. Permits the Corporation to authorize an insured institution eligible for assistance to merge with any other insured institution or an FDIC insured bank or to be acquired by any holding company. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to waive the requirement when severe financial conditions exist that a portion of net earnings of the banks be set aside semiannually to a reserve account, and to allow the banks to pay dividends from undivided profits. Amends the National Housing Act to permit the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation to borrow from the Federal Home Loan banks. Requires the rate on such a loan to be at least the banks marginal cost of funds, with adequate security. Permits the Corporation, if extraordinary financial conditions exist, to terminate distribution of shares of the secondary reserve and utilize said reserve on the same basis as the primary reserve. Title III: National Credit Union Administration Amendments - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to authorize the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund to borrow from the National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility. Permits the National Credit Union Administration Board to approve mergers or purchase and assumption transactions between two insured credit unions if one of the credit unions is insolvent or in danger of insolvency, if an emergency is found to exist, and if other reasonable alternatives are not available. Permits the National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility to advance funds to the Share Insurance Fund. Title IV: Effective Date and Short Title - States the effective date and the short title of this bill.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Unfair Foreign Competition Act of 1982 - Amends the Clayton Act to include within the definition of "antitrust laws" for purposes of such Act the Unfair Competition Act. Amends the Unfair Competition Act to prohibit the importation or sale of articles from a foreign country in the United States at a price below the actual market value, wholesale price or constructed value price of such articles if the sale of such articles would or does: (1) injure U.S. labor or industry; (2) prevent the establishment of an industry in the United States; or (3) restrain or monopolize trade of such articles in the United States. (Currently, such importation or sale is prohibited only if the person importing or selling intends to cause such injury, prevention, restraint, or monopoly.) Increases from $5,000 to $50,000 the maximum fine for violating such prohibition. Authorizes a U.S. district court before which a proceeding on such a violation is pending to: (1) subpoena any parties whether or not they reside within the court's district; and (2) enjoin the importation or distribution in interstate commerce by a defendant of the articles alleged to have been sold or imported in violation of the Unfair Competition Act if the defendant fails to comply with any court order.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1982
Bank Holding Company Deregulation Act of 1982 - Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to allow a member bank to be affiliated with a bank securities affiliate. Permits any eligible association to acquire the stock of a bank securities affiliate. Defines an 'eligible association' as a bank with assets of less than $100,000,000 which is not controlled by a bank holding company. Requires any eligible association establishing or acquiring a bank securities affiliate to transfer to it all of the following activities within one year after the affiliate has commenced business in the United States: (1) dealing in and underwriting obligations of the United States, general obligations of any State or local government or subdivision; and (2) buying and selling securities and stock as agent. Permits any officer, director, or employee of any member bank to serve at the same time as an officer, director or employee of any of its bank securities affiliates. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to make the Securities and Exchange Commission the appropriate regulatory agency to enforce a bank securities affiliate's compliance with regulations concerning transactions in municipal securities. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to define "bank securities affiliate" to mean any corporation that: (1) is engaged in the United States in one or more of the activities authorized under such Act; and (2) is a broker or dealer within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or an investment advisor within the meaning of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Permits a bank holding company to engage in activities that the Federal Reserve Board has determined are of a financial nature. Requires any bank holding company seeking to engage in one or more activities of a financial nature to provide the Board written notice within 60 days. Sets forth the information to be contained in such notice. Requires the Board, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations to permit bank holding companies to engage in such financial activities. Declares that such financial activities shall include: (1) making or acquiring extensions of credit; (2) operating an industrial bank, Morris Plan bank or industrial loan company as authorized under State law; (3) servicing loans or extensions of credit; (4) acting as an investment or financial advisor; (5) leasing personal or real property; (6)selling money orders, travelers checks, and U.S. savings bonds; and (7) such additional activities of a financial nature as will maximize competition between bank holding companies and other firms engaging in such activities. Permits bank holding companies to engage in certain securities activities. Permits a bank holding company to establish a bank securities affiliate or to acquire an existing securities firm. Permits any bank securities affiliate to conduct any securities or securities-related activity that a bank is not prohibited from conducting. Permits such bank securities affiliate to: (1) deal in and underwrite all State and municipal general obligations and revenue bonds (except industrial development bonds); (2) organize, sponsor, operate, and control, an investment company; (3) render investment advice; or (4) underwrite, distribute, and sell securities of any investment company. Permits such bank securities affiliate to deal in and distribute commercial paper and other obligations of its affiliated bank holding company and subsidiaries, and certificates of deposit and bankers; acceptances of any bank, including bank subsidiaries of its affiliated bank holding company. Permits a bank holding company to engage in the following: (1) insurance underwriting and brokerage; and (2) real estate investment, development or brokerage. Limits Federal Reserve Board authority to: (1) require nonbanking subsidiaries of a bank holding company to submit reports regarding compliance with the provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act; and (2) conduct examinations of such subsidiaries. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to allow a member bank and its subsidiaries to engage in a covered transaction or a financial assistance transaction with an affiliate only on substantially the same terms prevailing for comparable transactions with other nonaffiliated companies. Imposes limitations on the amount of financial assistance transactions between a member bank and an affiliate or all its affiliates. Prohibits a member bank and its subsidiaries from purchasing a low-quality asset from any affiliate unless previously committed to purchase such asset before it was acquired by the affiliate. Prohibits a member bank and its affiliates from purchasing as fiduciary any securities or other assets from an affiliate unless lawfully authorized by the instrument creating the fiduciary relationship, by court or by local law. Prohibits a member bank and its affiliates from publishing any advertisement suggesting that the member bank is responsible for its affiliates' obligations. Prohibits a member bank and its subsidiaries from purchasing or otherwise acquiring, during the existence of any underwriting or selling syndicate, any obligation a principal underwriter of which is an affiliate or subsidiary of the member bank. Sets forth exemptions to such prohibitions. Requires each financial assistance transaction to be secured at the time of the transaction by collateral (or, in the case of a repurchase agreement, by securities or other assets) equal to between 100 to 130 percent of the amount of the transaction. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to limit the cease and desist authority of the Federal Reserve Board over nonbanking subsidiaries of a bank holding company to activities affecting the safety and soundness of any bank directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such bank holding company, or any activities otherwise violating any banking law, rule, regulation, or order. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to prohibit an investment company affiliated with a bank securities affilate from: (1) placing or maintaining its securities or similar investments in the custody of a bank affiliated with such bank securities affiliate; (2) designating any such bank as trustee or custodian; or (3) depositing designated proceeds with any such bank. Prohibits any subsidiary of a bank holding company from engaging in certain tying arrangements in which banks are currently forbidden to engage.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1982
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to accept reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by members and employees in attending conferences concerning the functions or activities of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1982
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to revise stationary source provisions for State implementation plans (SIPs), new source performance standards (NSPS), primary nonferrous smelter orders, prevention of significant deterioration (PSD), and best available control technology (BACT). State Implementation Plans (SIPs) - Permits major stationary source construction or modification in a nonattainment area, even if such source emissions will cause or contribute to concentrations of a pollutant in excess of a national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), if: (1) the SIP revision permitting such construction or modification has not been affirmatively disapproved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); or (2) the State determines that such construction or modification is in the public interest and that NAAQS attainment would be achieved with a reasonable extension of the attainment deadline. Prohibits findings by the Administrator related to procedural or technical defects in permit applications from serving as the basis for a moratorium on stationary source construction or modification in nonattainment areas. Requires States to provide the Administrator: (1) notice and copies of proposed SIP revisions; and (2) notice of SIP revisions adopted and brief summaries of written objections or comments concerning such revisions and of State actions with respect to such objections or comments. Directs the Administrator to submit to the State technical and legal comments, and any recommended changes, on proposed SIP revisions. Directs the Administrator to publish notice in the Federal Register within 30 days of receipt of notice of State adoption of an SIP revision and to provide a period of no less than 30 days and no more than 70 days for public comment. Provides that SIP revisions shall be deemed approved by the Administrator and become effective 90 days after publication in the Federal Register, unless the Administrator has disapproved the revision for failure to satisfy specified requirements. Directs the Administrator to publish a notice in the Federal Register of each approval or disapproval of an SIP revision. Authorizes the Administrator to extend such public comment period and effective date of an SIP revision for up to 60 days and to hold public hearings on SIP revisions. Prohibits an SIP revision from becoming effective unless the Administrator publishes a finding that the State's response to a timely objection, based on the Act or any regulation under the Act, was not arbitrary or capricious. Describes the materials that shall constitute the record for purposes of judicial review of approvals or findings of the Administrator with respect to SIP revisions. Repeals the requirement that SIPs must provide, to the extent necessary and practicable, for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles to enforce compliance with applicable emission standards. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring such an inspection and testing program as a condition of SIP approval, except under specified conditions relating to extensions of attainment dates for NAAQS for photochemical oxidants or carbon monoxide. Permits States to suspend or revoke indirect source review programs without regard to specified SIP approval requirements. Provides that such a State suspension or revocation shall constitute a SIP revision, of which the State must notify the Administrator and the Administrator must publish notice in the Federal Register. Removes the requirement that the system of continuous emission reduction be "technological," for purposes of permit requirements for new or modified stationary sources. Establishes a ten-year "grandfather" period from the date of completion of construction or modification of any major emitting facility issued a permit under PSD area or nonattainment area provisions. Provides that during such period such facility shall not be required to comply with an emission limitation or standard more stringent than the emission reduction required under such permit, unless the limitation or standard: (1) applies to an air pollutant for which an NAAQS is established after permit issuance; or (2) is required under provisions for nonattainment areas or national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs) or emergency conditions. New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) - Repeals the requirement that new fossil fuel fired stationary sources of air pollution comply with a standard of performance which requires a percentage reduction in air pollutant emissions. Redefines "standard of performance," for NSPS purposes, to require emissions limitations achievable through the application of a system of continuous emission reduction which the Administrator (or the State, for specified categories of stationary sources) determines is adequate for that category or a similar category of new stationary sources, taking into consideration the cost of achievement, energy impact, and environmental effects unrelated to air quality. Redefines "new source" to include stationary sources commencing planning or design (as well as those commencing construction or modification) after publication of final applicable NSPS and to exclude any stationary source for which planning, designing, construction, or modification commenced after September 18, 1978, but prior to June 11, 1979. Removes the requirement that the system of continuous emission reduction under NSPS be a "technological" system or process. Includes in the definition of such system or process the use of inherently low-polluting fuels or raw materials. Permits application of such amended requirements to fossil fuel fired electric utility steam generating units which were constructed or modified after September 18, 1978, and before the publication of regulations reflecting the amendments made by this Act. Primary Nonferrous Smelter Orders - Permits primary nonferrous smelters to use intermittent emissions curtailment for not more than five percent of any calendar year to assure attainment and maintenance of the NAAQS for sulfur oxides. Directs the Administrator to promulgate new regulations for a standard of good engineering practice with respect to stack heights which will allow, in the case of primary nonferrous smelters, a credit for such stack height as may be necesssary to reduce plume impaction on terrain obstacles in mountainous regions where no other reasonable plant siting option is available. Extends by five years the deadlines for compliance with primary nonferrous smelter orders. Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) - Revises a purpose of PSD provisions. Makes a Class II areas (areas where air quality deterioration is permitted to a greater degree than in Class I areas which include international and national parks and wilderness areas in existence on August 7, 1977) areas which exceed 10,000 acres in size and which are established after passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 as national monuments, primitive areas, preserves, recreation areas, wild and scenic rivers, wildlife refuges, lakeshores or seashores, and parks or wilderness areas. Provides that such areas may only be redesignated as class I or class II. Directs the Administrator to consult with the Federal land manager in each State and publish a list of such areas located within specified nonattainment areas. Exempts such areas for classification as class II areas upon certification to the Administrator by the States in which such areas are located that such a designation is unreasonable or impractical. Prohibits the Administrator from overruling the State, unless the Administrator demonstrates that the State has been arbitrary or capricious in exempting such areas from classification as class II areas. Provides that current non-mandatory class II areas which are not established as class I areas or mandatory class II areas or redesignated shall be class II areas until December 31, 1983, but shall be unclassified thereafter, unless redesignated. Eliminates the Class III area classification. Repeals Class I and Class II area short-term "increment" requirements (maximum allowable increases over baseline concentrations of a pollutant) for: (1) 24-hour periods for particulate matter; and (2) 24-hour and three-hour periods for sulfur dioxide (thus retaining only annual "increment" limitations for such pollutants in such areas). Repeals all Class III area "increment" requirements. Excludes pollution attributable to fugitive dust and other naturally occurring background particulate matter from consideration in determining concentrations of pollutant for purposes of PSD increment requirements. Authorizes (and requires upon petition of the Governor) the Administrator to provide notice, conduct a public hearing, and, with the Governor's concurrence, promulgate rules for determining compliance with increment requirements in States where the Administrator is the PSD permitting authority. Eliminates the Class III area classification. Permits States to designate or redesignate specified national areas established after the passage of this Act and exceeding 10,000 acres in size as class I, class II, or unclassified. Requires that such redesignation be specifically approved by the Governor after consultation with the legislature (unless State law requires State legislation) and local governments of the redesignated area. Exempts such areas which are redesignated unclassified from PSD increment requirements. Eliminates requirements that specified descriptions, analyses, and plans relating to area redesignations be prepared and made available for public inspection. Eliminates provisions relating to preconstruction requirements for Class III areas. Retains the one-year (after filing date) deadline for granting or denying completed permit applications for facilities which will emit 500 tons or more per year of pollutant, but provides a six-month deadline in the case of facilities emitting less than 500 tons. Requires that the permit applicant be notified whether the application is complete, within two months after filing. Requires States, for PSD preconstruction review purposes, to transmit to the Administrator copies of permit applications for major emitting facilities only if such a facility will emit: (1) 500 tons or more per year of total suspended particulate matter or 1,000 tons or more of sulfur dioxide; or (2) pollution affecting air quality in any class I area or other specified national areas. Requires States to provide notice to the Administrator of only the final action taken on such permit. Requires protection of air quality related values within a Class I area only "from significant adverse impacts." Provides that the affirmative responsibility of the Federal Land Manger and the Federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of lands within a class I area shall not extend to protection of integral vistas or views of specific landmarks or panoramic views located outside the boundaries of Federal Class I areas. Requires inclusion of information constituting its basis in the filing of an allegation that a proposed facility may cause or contribute to a significant adverse impact in air quality. Requires State concurrence, taking into consideration the health, environmental, economic, and energy effects of a facility, with the Federal Land Manager's demonstration that a proposed facility will have such an impact. Repeals the requirement that the owner or operator demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Federal Land Manager that a proposed facility will not have an adverse impact on air-quality related values. Requires, instead, that the owner or operator file a notice with the Federal Land Manager that such facility will have no significant adverse impact, and gives the Federal Land Manager 45 days to concur or disagree. Repeals short-term "increment" limitations for PSD construction permit purposes. Authorizes the Governor, after consideration of the Federal Land Manager's recommendation, to grant a variance from the annual increment limitation for sulfur dioxide in Class I areas. Requires, in the case of Federal mandatory Class I areas, that such a variance not have a significant adverse effect on air quality related values and be in the public interest. Requires that continuous air quality monitoring data be included in an analysis for PSD preconstruction review purposes only to the extent required in the discretion of the permitting authority. Repeals the requirement that such data be gathered over a one-year period. Establishes a ten-year "grandfather" period for facilities issued PSD construction permits. Excludes naturally occurring background particulates or fugitive dust analysis or control from specified demonstrations required of owners or operators seeking PSD construction permits. Deletes the requirement that the Administrator's PSD regulations for specified other pollutants be at least as effective as the increment requirements already established. Revises the definition of "major emitting facility" for PSD purposes to provide consideration of the net effect on air pollution emissions of modifications of specified types of stationary sources. Revises provisions for visibility protection for Federal Class I areas to cover only "significant" impairments of visibility. Excludes from the definition of "visibility impairment" an integral vista or view of a specific landmark or panoramic view located outside the boundary of a Class I Federal area which can be viewed from a point within the boundaries of a Class I area. Best Available Control Technology (BACT) - Revises the definition of "best available control technology" (BACT) to include designs or work practice standards. Allows the permitting authority to provide that for stationary sources which do not emit more than 500 tons per year of a particular air pollutant BACT may be equivalent to the applicable new source performance standard (NSPS), under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the tariff on imported roses. (Makes the U.S. tariff consistent with the tariff imposed by the European Economic Community.)
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1982
Commends Israel for completing the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Camp David Accords. Expresses confidence that Israel and Egypt will continue normalizing relations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Omnibus Victims Protection Act of 1982 - Title I: Victims Impact Statement - Amends rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require that presentence reports contain information assessing the impact upon and cost to any person who was the victim of the offense. Title II: Protection of Victims and Witnesses from Intimidation - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish as offenses "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant" and "retaliating against a witness or an informant." Amends the Bail Reform Act of 1966 to require as a condition of pretrial release that the defendant not commit these offenses. Grants general authority to the Attorney General to relocate or protect Government witnesses. Authorizes the Attorney General to initiate civil proceedings to restrain tampering with a witness or victim. Title III: Restitution - Authorizes a sentencing court to order the defendant to make restitution for any offense. Requires the court to state for the record the reasons for not ordering restitution. Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress laws necessary to compensate victims of crimes where restitution is not possible. Title IV: Federal Accountability for Escape or Release of a Federal Prisoner - Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Federal courts over civil claims against the the United States for damages caused by dangerous offenders who are released or escape from the lawful custody of a U.S. employee as a result of such employee's gross negligence. Title V: Federal Guidelines for Fair Treatment of Crime Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System - Directs the Attorney General to develop Federal guidelines for the fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses. Requires the Attorney General to consider certain objectives in preparing the guidelines, including: (1) ensuring that victims receive prompt social and medical services; (2) giving victims and witnesses notice of important criminal justice proceedings and scheduling changes; (3) arranging for the prosecution to obtain the nonbinding views of victims of serious crimes during such stages as plea bargaining and pretrial release; (4) encouraging employers to continue to pay victims and witnesses for work absences to assist investigations and prosecutions; and (5) training law enforcement personnel in victim assistance. Title VI: Profit by a Criminal from Sale of his Story - Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress any laws that are necessary to ensure that no Federal felon derives any profit from the sale of his or her story until any victim of the offense receives restitution.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Prohibits Federal involvement in the performance of abortions, except when the life of the mother would be endangered if the child were carried to term. Includes the following activities within the scope of this prohibition: (1) performance of an abortion by a Federal agency; (2) use of appropriated funds to perform or reimburse or refer for abortions; (3) use of funds for research or training with respect to abortion; or (4) contracting for insurance which pays or reimburses for abortion. Prohibits any institution receiving Federal funding from discriminating against any employee or student because of such person's opposition to abortion. Authorizes the bringing of individual or class actions in Federal court to enforce this Act. Provides for expedited Supreme Court review with regard to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1982
Transit Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit a discretionary capital grant or loan from being made by the Secretary of Transportation unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Decreases the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for the: (1) discretionary capital grant program; (2) innovative methods and techniques program; (3) planning program; (4) urbanized area capital formula program; (5) program to meet special needs of the elderly and handicapped; (6) formula grant program for other than urbanized areas; and (7) capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 through 1986 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for FY 1981 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; and (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems. Provides that any such unobligated or deobligated funds shall be added to amounts available for certain other capital grant programs. Declares that apportionments for FY 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for FY 1976 shall lapse on September 30, 1978, Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project for the payment of operating expenses of urban mass transit services after September 30, 1984. Repeals provisions that require that rates charged elderly and handicapped persons for transportation during non-peak hours be no more than one-half of peak hour full fares. Establishes a capital formula program for urbanized areas to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities, equipment, and spare parts for transit vehicles in mass transportation service. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction or extension of fixed-guideway systems other than exclusive facilities for buses. Exempts from such prohibition projects already agreed upon for the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Provides a procedure for receiving and distributing assistance under such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a benchmark price representing the maximum Federal participation for the acquisition of buses. Transfers the enforcement of labor standards for construction projects funded by the Department of Transportation from the Secretary of Labor to the Secretary of Transportation. Includes the capital formula programs for urbanized areas and for non-urbanized areas within the reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Makes technical amendments to formula grants for nonurbanized areas to parallel the operation of formula grants for urbanized areas. Repeals provisions concerning terminal development programs and intercity bus service. Establishes a capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas consistent with provisions of formula grant programs for nonurbanized areas. Authorizes Governors to transfer funds between the two programs under certain circumstances. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1982. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1982
Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Community and Neighborhood Development - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) make rental rehabilitation grants to State and local governments for the rehabilitation of privately owned property for residential rental purposes; and (2) make available contract authority to assist very low-income tenants who are displaced by such rehabilitation activities, to minimize such displacement, and to assist other very low-income tenants in obtaining decent housing. Sets forth guidelines for the allocation of such grants and assistance (resources) among cities having a population of 50,000 or more, urban counties, and States. Requires the Secretary to conduct annual audits and reviews of the performance of resource recipients. Permits the Secretary to adjust the amount of resources provided to recipients in accordance with the findings of such audits and reviews. Prohibits any adjustments to recapture resources already expended. Authorizes the Secretary to limit the rental rehabilitation grant amounts an entity may receive in any fiscal year. Requires any assisted city, urban county, or State administering a rental rehabilitation program to provide for the public and the Secretary an annual statement on proposed rehabilitation activities. Lists requirements for rental rehabilitation programs assisted under this Act. Restricts the use of rehabilitation grants to structures that are to be used primarily for rental residential purposes in low- and moderate-income areas. Limits the amount of rehabilitation assistance for a structure to 50 percent of the total rehabilitation costs of that structure. Prohibits assisted State and local governments from imposing rental requirements on assisted structures which differ from those applicable to structures rehabilitated without assistance. Requires a borrower under such a program to be personally liable for repayment of any financing upon default. Provides for State administration of resources in areas outside a city or county receiving a direct allocation. Permits a State: (1) to use allocated resources to conduct its own rehabilitation program; (2) to distribute such resources to local governments; or (3) in FY 1983, to elect to have the Secretary administer such resources. Authorizes the Secretary to establish relocation standards. Directs the Secretary to establish specified procedures governing rehabilitation involving historic structures. Exempts the awarding and use of resources under this Act from the National Environmental Policy Act and related provisions. Prohibits the Secretary from making rehabilitation grants unless the recipient provides satisfactory assurances that its program will be administered in conformity with specified civil rights requirements. Reduces the amount of appropriations authorized for the urban homesteading program for FY 1983. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1984. Provides for the payment of consideration by a State or local government to the Secretary and by an individual or family to such government for real property transferred under an urban homesteading program. Requires such a government to remit to the Secretary 50 percent of any amount by which the consideration it receives for such property exceeds the consideration it paid for such property. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a program to demonstrate the feasibility of using homesteading techniques to facilitate the reuse of multifamily properties owned by the Secretary for home ownership purposes. Directs the Secretary to convey suitable properties to State and local governments for subsequent transfer to individuals under a cooperative or condominium form of ownership. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to make rehabilitation loans. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969 to repeal provisions authorizing the General Services Administration to transfer Federal surplus real property to the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture for sale or lease at fair value for use for low- and moderate-income housing. Permits the transfer of property requested before enactment of this Act. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to repeal provisions that prohibit an urban renewal plan from providing for the construction of transient housing, unless the community involved has obtained a transient housing study indicating a need for such housing. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 and the Housing Act of 1961 to repeal provisions requiring the Secretary's approval of the conversion of neighborhood facilities or open space land to uses not originally approved by the Secretary when awarding a grant for acquisitions of such facilities or land. Title II: Housing Assistance Program - Repeals provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 governing the allocation of housing assistance among different areas. Repeals provisions of the Housing Act of 1937 governing the division of contract authority for housing assistance for new, existing, and substantially rehabilitated housing. Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to permit low-income housing assistance contracts providing assistance payments based on a payment standard used to determine the maximum monthly assistance payable for any family with respect to an existing unit selected by the family. Directs the Secretary to establish payment standards for various sizes and types of dwelling units in the market area at levels designed to assist the greatest possible number of families in securing decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Directs the Secretary to publish payment standards in the Federal Register. Limits the monthly assistance payment for a family to the amount by which the payment standard exceeds 30 percent of the family monthly adjusted income at the time the family first receives such assistance provided that such monthly assistance payment is not greater than the amount by which the monthly rent for the unit exceeds the greater of: (1) ten percent of the family's monthly income; or (2) the part of any welfare payment designated for the family's housing costs. Restricts such assistance payments to very low-income families and families previously assisted under the Housing Act of 1937, with preference given to families which: (1) occupy substandard housing; (2) are involuntarily displaced; or (3) pay more than 50 percent of their income for rent. Permits the Secretary to disregard such preference and provide assistance to: (1) eligible families occupying units in formerly assisted projects acquired by the Secretary; or (2) families in units to be rehabilitated. Terminates such assistance with respect to any vacant unit. Limits the duration of such assistance payments to five years. Requires the public housing agency to inspect the assisted unit at least annually to determine that it meets housing quality standards. Provides for low-income housing assistance based on a payment standard for families renting manufactured homes or spaces. Allows the Secretary to establish income ceilings higher or lower than 50 percent of the area median income when defining "very low-income families" for purposes of the housing assistance programs if such variations are necessary because of unusually high or low family incomes. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to: (1) give the Secretary discretion to provide for delayed implementation of provisions of this Act providing for housing assistance based on payment standards; (2) extend the applicability of provisions providing for delayed implementation of rent increases under such Act to tenants occupying assisted housing on or before the effective date of this Act; and (3) prohibit annual rent increases of more than 20 percent (currently ten percent) for tenants of assisted housing as a result of provisions of such Act, based on the payment standards under this Act, or any other provisions of Federal law redefining which governmental benefits are to be considered as income. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 and FY 1984 for annual contributions for the operation of lower income housing projects. Revises the criteria for demolition of any public housing project to repeal the requirement for timely replacement of demolished units and to include requirements that: (1) the project is obsolete and there is a feasible renovation program; or (2) the demolition of a part of the project will help assure its useful life. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act to repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to enter into contracts for periodic payments to the Federal Financing Bank to offset the costs to the Bank of purchasing obligations issued by public housing agencies to finance public housing projects. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to require that a rental or cooperative housing project be covered by a federally-insured mortgage to be eligible for operating assistance for troubled multifamily projects. Amends the National Housing Act to extend through September 30, 1984, the period during which amounts in the rental housing assistance fund may be approved for such operating assistance. Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to eliminate the requirement that a nonprofit corporation, to be eligible for loans for the provision of housing for the elderly and handicapped, have on its governing body members selected to represent the views of the community where such housing would be located. Title III: Program Amendments and Extensions -- Amends the National Housing Act to extend for two years the Secretary's authority to insure housing loans and mortgages under specified insurance programs contained in such Act. Terminates the Secretary's authority to insure mortgages for nursing homes. intermediate care facilities, and hospitals after September 30, 1982, except pursuant to a commitment to insure made before that date. Extends for one year the Secretary's authority to insure mortgages of mortgagors qualifying for home ownership assistance payments under such Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as may be necessary to cover losses sustained by the General Insurance Fund. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for research activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for FY 1983 and FY 1984. Amends the National Housing Act to repeal the Secretary's authority to establish maximum interest rates on Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. Provides that housing mortgages or loans insured under programs that are extended beyond FY 1982, with specified exceptions, shall bear interest at such rate as may be agreed upon by the borrower and the lender. (Currently, the Secretary sets or approves such interest rates within prescribed limits.) Continues the authority of the Secretary to set the maximum interest rate for insured mortgages of mortgagors receiving home ownership assistance payments. Authorizes the Secretary to agree to an extension of the term of an insured mortgage on property or land to be improved or developed, upon determining that unusual circumstances make such extension necessary to avoid undue hardship to the mortgagor. Permits maximum mortgage amounts eligible for FHA insurance to be increased by the amount of the mortgage insurance premium paid at the time a mortgage is insured. Excludes such premium from the mortgage down payment required for such insurance. Increases the amount of the principal obligation of a mortgage executed by a non-occupant mortgagor which is eligible for FHA insurance. Declares that premium charges for FHA insurance of mortgages with alternative financing mechanisms are not required to be the same as premium charges for other FHA mortgages. Eliminates the requirement that debentures issued by the Secretary in payment of insurance claims be redeemable at par plus accrued interest. Makes it discretionary (rather than mandatory) for the Secretary to regulate the rents and rate of return on HUD-insured housing projects and to provide such insurance primarily to projects providing for families with children. Permits the Secretary to insure mortgages of manufactured home parks designed exclusively for the elderly. Eliminates special limitations on the amount of a mortgage involving refinancing for rehabilitaion purposes which qualifies for FHA insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to direct mortgagees excercising their option to assign certain insured mortgages to the Secretary, to deliver the mortgages and original credit installments directly to the Government National Mortgage Association in lieu of the Secretary. Authorizes the Association to hold as service such loans as agent for the Secretary. Eliminates the option of mortgagees to assign such insured mortgages to the Secretary with respect to a commitment to insure entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. Eliminates the requirement that a condominium meet one of the following conditions to qualify for FHA insurance: (1) the project containing the condominium is or has been federally-insured; (2) there are less than 12 units in the project; or (3) if the project has 12 or more units, it is more than one year old. Repeals provisions limiting the amount of loans and mortgages the Secretary may insure on a coinsurance basis to 20 percent of the amount of all mortgages and loans insured by the Secretary. Extends for two years the Secretary's authority to insure graduated payment mortages. Eliminates the requirements that a mortgagor must be unable to afford a dwelling under any other mortgage insurance program and must not have owned a dwelling within the previous three years in order to qualify for graduated payment mortgage insurance. Deletes restrictions on the number of graduated payment mortgages which may be insured during a year. Provides authority for the Secretary to insure graduated payment mortgages for housing projects consisting of five or more dwelling units. Authorizes the Secretary to insure a limited number of adjustable rate mortgages for dwellings designed for occupancy by one to four families (single-family homes). Permits annual interest rate adjustments of not to exceed one percent through adjustments in the monthly payment, the mortgage term, or a combination of both. Prohibits: (1) extending the mortgage term beyond 40 years; or (2) increasing the interest rate by more than five percentage points over the mortgage term. Directs the Secretary to require the mortgagee to provide information to the mortgagor describing the features and maximum possible payment schedule for an adjustable rate mortgage. Authorizes the Secretary to insure a specified number of shared appreciation mortgages for single-family homes and multifamily housing projects. Requires the Secretary to establish the maximum interest rate which may be charged on such mortgages and the maximum percentage of the property's net appreciated value payable to a mortgagee upon sale or transfer of the property or payment in full of the mortgage. Excludes a mortgagee's share of the net appreciated value from the mortgagee's insurance benefits in the event of a default. Directs the Secretary to establish disclosure requirements applicable to mortgagees making shared appreciation mortgages. Exempts such mortgages from State authority. Requires a shared appreciation mortgage on a multifamily housing project to have a mortgage term of at least 15 years and to be repayble in monthly installments needed to retire the debt over 30 years. Authorizes the Secretary to insure certain housing loans which do not completely amortize over the loan term. Authorizes the Secretary to make expenditures to correct or provide compensation for structural defects in an FHA-insured single-family home for which a Veterans Administration loan guaranty was approved prior to construction. Requires payment to the Government of mortgage insurance premiums promptly: (1) upon their receipt from the borrower with respect to mortgages on single-family homes; and (2) when due to the Secretary with respect to mortgages on multifamily housing projects. Authorizes the Secretary to insure the mortgage of a single-family home that is located on an Indian reservation and purchased by a member of an Indian tribe for his or her principal place of residence, notwithstanding any other limitations of the National Housing Act. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to eliminate certain restrictions on the management and disposal of multifamily housing projects owned by HUD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance based on a payment standard to very low-income tenants of specified multifamily projects. Amends the Multifamily Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1981 to repeal provisions authorizing or directing the Secretary to require the purchaser of a HUD-owned multifamily housing project at a foreclosure sale to continue to operate the project in accordance with the terms of the Act under which it was insured. Authorizes the Secretary to require an applicant for financial assistance or mortgage or loan insurance to: (1) include his or her social security number or employer identification number on designated forms; and (2) sign a form authorizing the Secretary to verify and audit information furnished by the applicant and authorizing other agencies and private sources to release information relevant to the applicant's eligibility or benefit level. Amends the Social Security Act to authorize State unemployment agencies to release to HUD and public housing agencies information concerning such applicant's wages and unemployment benefits. Requires the entity responsible for determining eligibility for assistance or insurance to deny eligibility to any applicant who: (1) has made false or misleading statements or concealed relevant facts; or (2) has violated the authorizing Act or regulations. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to prohibit the Secretary from providing financial assistance to aliens through a specified housing insurance program. Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to repeal provisions which: (1) prohibit any person from receiving any kickback or unearned fee incident to a real estate settlement service involving a federally related mortgage; (2) prohibit any seller of property to be purchased with the assistance of a federally related mortgage loan from requiring that the buyer purchase title insurance from a particular title company; (3) requiring the Secretary to conduct specified demonstration projects and to report to Congress on the need for further legislation governing real estate settlements; and (4) require that the borrower be permitted to examine the settlement form the day before settlement in a transaction involving a federally related mortgage. Permits a lender, in connection with a federally related mortgage loan, to require a deposit into an escrow account if under existing escrow procedures there is a shortage of funds to pay taxes, insurance premiums, or other charges due. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 and the National Housing Act to repeal specified provisions authorizing housing counseling assistance to mortgagors.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1982
Repeals provisions of the Energy Security Act which establish the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation. Requires that projects and funds transferred to the Corporation pursuant to the Supplemental Appropriations and Rescission Act, 1980 be transferred back to the Department of Energy. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to terminate the affairs of the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Enterprise Zone Tax Act of 1982 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this Act. Specifies that State and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits the designation of enterprise zones to 25 nominated areas per year. Limits the period during which such designations shall remain in effect. Specifies that the Secretary may designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000 if any portion thereof is located within a standard metropolitan statistical area (with a population of at least 50,000) or 2,500 otherwise, or is within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, or receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to designate enterprise zones on December 31, 1985 or three years after publication of regulations pertaining to such zones, whichever is later. Describes areas to which preference shall be given in deciding to designate enterprise zones. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this Act be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that designation of an enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives Subtitle A - Credits for Employers and Employees - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a nonrefundable income tax credit for ten percent of the increase in payroll for all employees, taking into account a maximum of $15,000 in wages per employee. Allows such credit only for wages paid to employees who perform 90 percent of their services in work directly related to the conduct of the taxpayers' business located in the enterprise zone and who perform 50 percent of their services within such zone. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit for employers equal to 50 percent of the wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first three years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit by ten percent a year beginning in the forth year after such designation. Requires a recapture of such credit for the early termination of such employees. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages or salaries subject to such credit. Requires employers to furnish to each employee a written statement showing the amount of wages paid to such employee. Provides an income tax credit for enterprise zone employees equal to five percent of the first $9,000 of wages received each year. Phases out such credit in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for certain tangible property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property and ten percent for new zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be predominantly used in the zone, be purchased after zone designation, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Reduction in Capital Grain Tax Rates - Eliminates the capital gains tax on property of corporations acquired after the enterprise zone designation and used in a zone business. Qualifies certain low-income rental housing located in an enterprise zone for such treatment. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or expenses of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Expresses the sense of Congress that if the minimum tax is modified, enterprise zone capital gain will be excluded in computing minimum taxable income. Subtitle D: Extension of Carryover Periods - Extends the net operating loss and investment tax credit carryover period to the longer of 15 years or the duration of the enterprise zone designation for businesses operating in such zones. Subtitle E: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that rules relating to small issue tax-exempt industrial development bonds now in effect shall apply to bonds used to finance land or other depreciable property located in an enterprise zone, even if such rules are subsequently changed. Subtitle F: Sense of the Congress With Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions, to include qualified businesses (as defined in Title II of this Act), designating governments, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuation of the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of rule shall remain in effect as long as the zone designations. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to and expedite applications for the establishment of parts of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that to the maximum extent practicable foreign-trade zones should be established within enterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Declares that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union: (1) a long-term, mutual, and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced levels; and (2) practical measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear war and to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should channel their resources away from amassing nuclear armaments and towards fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. Declares that the United States should continue to work for balanced arms reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit entitlement to title II benefits in the case of an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or national if such individual: (1) is not a permanent resident of the United States; or (2) is outside the United States. Prohibits the payment of title II benefits to any dependent or survivor of such an individual on the basis of such individual's wages and self-employment income. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the benefit involved is payable to such an individual as the dependent or survivor of: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) a permanent resident of the United States; or (3) a U.S. citizen or national residing outside the United States if the relationship required for such individual's entitlement already existed at the time such national or citizen reached age 50. Authorizes the payment of title II benefits to an individual who is not entitled to benefits pursuant to this Act until the total amount of such benefits equals the total amount of any taxes paid on the wages and self-employment income on which the benefits are based.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) express to the Soviet Union the United States' deep concern about the Soviet Union's depriving the Vashchenko and Chmykhalov families of religious freedom and refusing them permission to emigrate; (2) ensure that such families may reside in the U.S. embassy in Moscow until the Soviet Union authorizes their emigration; and (3) ensure provision of assistance for such families during their residence in the embassy.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, through the Government National Mortgage Association, to assist middle- and lower-income families in acquiring a home or membership in a cooperative housing association by making periodic interest reduction payments on behalf of such families to mortgagees and lenders. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into contracts to provide interest reduction payments during any month unless the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's home mortgage interest rate index for the most recent two-month period exceeds 12.5 percent per year. Conditions eligibility for interest reduction payments on the insurability of the first mortgage or loan secured by such property. Sets forth the qualifications for insurance, which include requirements that: (1) the loan be executed by a borrower who has an annual income of less than $30,000; (2) the loan involve a one- to four-family dwelling the construction of which was completed on or after March 6, 1982; (3) the loan be amortized over 30 years; and (4) beginning with the second year, the loan payments be increased by a specified amount which shall be applied to the principal obligation until it is paid off. Limits the duration of the interest reduction payments to five years. Declares that the amount of all such payments shall constitute a second lien on the property. Requires repayment of such amount, not to exceed 60 percent of the homeowner's net equity: (1) upon the sale or disposition of the property; (2) upon the refinancing of the loan; or (3) when the owner ceases to occupy the property as a principal residence for a period exceeding nine months. Limits the amount of interest reduction payments to the difference between the amount of the monthly principal and interest payment under the terms of the loan and the amount such payment would be if the interest rate on the loan were: (1) 11 percent per year; or (2) four percentage points less than the rate specified in the loan, whichever rate is higher. Requires the Secretary to: (1) allocate the amount available to carry out this Act on the basis of the population, number of housing starts, and unemployment in each State relative to all States; and (2) assure that the allocated amounts are made available in a manner which maximizes participation by eligible lenders and borrowers. Declares that any mortgage insured or assisted under this Act shall be eligible for purchase by the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association Corporation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Reaffirms that deposits, up to the statutorily prescribed amount, in federally insured depository institutions are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Amends the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to declare that actions concerning water and related land resources projects upstream from the Imperial Dam shall not be governed by specified provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to give preference to those salinity control units that reduce the salinity of the Colorado River at the least cost per unit of salinity reduction. Deletes certain provisions of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act concerning agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture for the Grand Valley unit. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct and maintain the following salinity control units according to specified directions: (1) Stage I of the Lower Gunnison Basin, Colorado; (2) McElmo Creek, Colorado; (3) Stage I of the Uinta Basin, Utah; (4) Palo Verde Irrigation District, California; (5) saline water use and disposal opportunities, Colorado River Basin; and (6) Sinbad Valley, Colorado. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary cooperative program with private landowners to improve on-farm water management and reduce watershed erosion on non-Federal and Department of Agriculture lands. Directs the Secretary to issue reports to certain congressional committees and others. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for measures implementing such program until the lapse of 60 days following submission of such reports, and not then if any of the congressional committees or the others reported to veto it. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1989. Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from assuming continuing operation and maintenance obligations for permanent salinity control measures constructed on non-Federal lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a program for minimizing salt contributions to the Colorado River from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Provides for an investigation by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration of the executive branch with respect to the conduct of the ABSCAM and BRILAB undercover operations and any other such activities, to determine whether abuses of executive power have occurred. Requires the Committee to report its findings to the Senate by July 1, 1983, including recommendations for legislation or other action deemed necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Provides for an investigation by a Senate standing or select committee of the executive branch with respect to the conduct of the ABSCAM and BRILAB undercover operations and any other such activities, to determine whether abuses of executive power have occurred. Requires the committee to report its findings to the Senate by July 1, 1983, including recommendations for legislation or other action deemed necessary. Requires, within 15 days of agreement to this resolution, the majority and minority leaders to either: (1) designate a standing committee to conduct such investigation; or (2) recommend Members for appointment to a select committee to conduct such investigation. Provides that if the Senate leaders choose to conduct the investigation through a select committee, it shall be known as the Select Committee on Preservation of Congressional Independence. Sets forth the administrative procedure for such committee. Terminates the select committee three calendar months after the July 1, 1983, reporting date.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Unfair Foreign Competition Act of 1982 - Amends the Clayton Act to include a specified antidumping provision among U.S. antitrust laws. Amends the antidumping provision to prohibit importing, assisting in importing, or selling in the United States articles made in a foreign country at less than the foreign market or constructed value of the articles if the reasonably foreseeable effect is: (1) material injury to industry or labor engaged in commerce in the United States; and (2) the prevention of the establishment, modernization, or expansion of industry in the United States. (Current law does not cover sellers of such articles and bases its prohibition of such imports upon the intent of the importers rather than the effects of the imports.) Increases the maximum fine for violating the antidumping provision. Retains the criminal penalty for violations. Provides for filing suits concerning such violations in the U.S. district court in which the defendant resides, transacts business, is found, or has an agent. Authorizes the court to issue a temporary or permanent injunction or a temporary restraining order against importing or selling articles in violation of the antidumping provision. Retains the treble damages provision for violations. Shifts to the defendant the burden of proof for rebutting a prima facie case. Includes within the meaning of prima facie case a finding by the International Trade Commission that dumping exists. Authorizes the court to: (1) order the exclusion of the contested goods from the United States pending completion of the suit; (2) issue subpoenas outside its judicial district if necessary; and (3) enjoin the defendant from importing the contested articles if the defendant fails to comply with discovery orders. Permits the court to: (1) review, in camera, confidential or privileged material; (2) accept material under seal; and (3) disclose such material. Requires expedited treatment of these types of suits. Defines foreign market value. Adds to such value any subsidy not otherwise included in the foreign market or constructed value. Deems the Commissioner of Customs the attorney for service of process for foreign manufacturers or exporters who sell in the United States. Sets a four-year statute of limitation for violations of this antidumping provision. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this Act is consistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in recognition of the bicentennial anniversary of diplomatic and trade relations between the Netherlands and the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Declares that the United States intends to continue its policy towards Cuba as expressed in a 1962 joint resolution which states that the United States is determined to: (1) prevent the Cuban regime from expanding; (2) prevent the creation in Cuba of an externally supported military capability endangering U.S. security; and (3) support Cuban self-determination.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Lech Walesa and others detained by Poland's government for political reasons should be released. Declares that Lech Walesa and other Solidarity members should be permitted to: (1) participate in negotiations concerning the future of Solidarity; (2) comment on the situation in Poland; and (3) travel freely.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Federal Election Campaign Equal and Total Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to include all persons, committees, and organizations within such Act's coverage. Provides penalties for using information disclosed under such Act to threaten or harass another person.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1982
Authorizes expenditures for investigations and studies by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs from March 1, 1982, through February 28, 1983, including: (1) employment of personnel; (2) utilization of Federal agency personnel on a reimbursable basis; (3) procurement of consultant services; and (4) training of its professional staff.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Expresses the disapproval of Congress of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule relating to used motor vehicles submitted to Congress on January 28, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Bankruptcy Improvements Act of 1981 - Amends title 11 (Bankruptcy) of the United States Code to establish an eligibility test for liquidation bankruptcy relief based on the individual petitioner's inability to pay a reasonable portion of his debts out of future income. Permits the court to dismiss a bankruptcy case upon the motion of any party in interest filed prior to the conclusion of the meeting of creditors, and after notice and a hearing, if the debtor is ineligible for relief under such title because he is able to pay a reasonable portion of his debts out of future income. Requires the bankruptcy judge to preside at any meeting of creditors and to perform such additional judicial duties as may be required. Declares that the value of the creditor's interest in the estate's interest in consumer goods property shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan affecting such creditor's interest. Declares that the value of consumer goods which the debtor seeks to redeem in liquidation shall be presumed to be the established resale market price, if such market exists. Requires the debtor in bankruptcy cases to file a statement of estimated income and expenses for the year following filing of his petition. Requires the debtor, if the debtor's schedule of assets and liabilities includes consumer debts which are secured by property of the estate, to file and serve upon each creditor holding such security and the trustee, a statement expressing the debtor's intention with respect to retention or surrender of the collateral. Requires the debtor, at or before the meeting of creditors provided for by such title, to perform his intention with regard to such secured creditors. Repeals the provisions concerning exempt property and makes the States responsible for establishing exemptions to bankruptcy proceedings. Presumes nondischargeable any debt which was incurred on or within 45 days before the date of the filing of a petition under such title nondischargeable. Allows for rebuttal of such presumption. Allows creditors to enforce liens which have not been voided in bankruptcy. Permits reaffirmation of consumer debts subject to the debtor's right to rescind any such agreement within 60 days or until a discharge is received, whichever occurs later, by giving a written notice of rescission to the creditor. Declares that at the meeting of creditors the court shall inform the debtor of the nature and effect of a discharge and of any reaffirmation of debt. Limits the trustee's power to avoid liens or recover payments made within 90 days of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy (within one year in the case of an insider) unless the creditor had reasonable cause to believe the debtor was insolvent. Permits the court, upon notice and hearing, to require a creditor to accept payments in redemption of the value of a claim secured by a nonpossessory, nonpurchase money security interest in tangible personal property, over a reasonable period not to exceed five years, if such tangible personal property consists of specified objects. Allows a creditor, upon 10 days notice to the debtor and codebtor, to collect any portion of a debt from the codebtor which is not being paid by the debtor through the adjustment of debts of such debtor with a regular income. Requires payments under an adjustment of debts payment plan to commence within thirty days after the filing of the plan. Provides for the return of such funds after deducting the costs of administration if no plan is confirmed. Provides for the separate classification of co-debtor claims and non-dischargeable claims and authorizes payment of them under an adjustment of debts payment plan. Allows a debtor to choose such a repayment plan of up to five years. Bases such repayment upon the debtor's ability to repay out of future income after taking into account the basic living necessities for the debtor and dependents. Provides for an early discharge of debts where a reasonable portion of unsecured claims are paid. Permits a hardship discharge of otherwise non-dischargeable debts to the extent the debtor attempted to pay such debts under an adjustment of debts payment plan, but was prevented from so doing by unforeseen cirucmstances.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Federal Trade Commission Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to exempt from the authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) State-regulated professions and their associations. Eliminates FTC authority to compile information concerning or set forth rules applicable to any person, partnership, or corporation which acts in conformance with State law. Requires the FTC to reimburse all reasonable costs, including attorney fees, of persons, partnerships, or corporations complying with information requests. Restricts the authority of the FTC to issue subpoenas. Defines "unfair method of competition" and "unfair or deceptive act or practice", for purposes of the Act, to be an act which causes substantial consumer injury that outweighs its benefits. Eliminates the authority of the FTC to conduct adjudicative proceedings for the purpose of issuing cease and desist orders. Requires the Commission to seek injunctive relief in Federal district court. Repeals the authority of the FTC to award participation costs in rulemaking proceedings.
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