United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning October 5, 1980, as "National Port Week." Requires the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on the conditions of U.S. public ports.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Title I: Export Trading Companies - Export Trading Company Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote export trading companies and facilitate contacts between producers of exportable goods and export trading companies. Authorizes any banking organization to invest up to specified amounts in export trading companies upon notifying, but without obtaining the prior approval of, the appropriate Federal banking agency, if such investment does not cause an export trading company to become a subsidiary of such organization. Allows greater investment by Edge Act Corporations not engaged in banking. Permits any banking organization to invest beyond such limitations with the prior approval of the appropriate Federal banking agency. Requires prior notification of such agencies in specified circumstances. Sets forth further limitations on export trading companies and investments by banking organizations. Specifies factors to be taken into consideration by the banking agencies. Permits such agencies to impose conditions in approving applications to invest in export trading companies. Requires such agencies to report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning implementation of this Act and any recommendations. Provides for judicial review of denial orders in the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Sets forth the grounds for disapproval. Provides for remand for further consideration by the banking agency. Directs the Economic Development Administration and the Small Business Administration to give special weight to export-related benefits when considering applications for loans and guarantees by export trading companies. Directs the Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide loan guarantees to export trading companies or exporters to be secured by accounts receivable or inventories when adequate financing is not otherwise available and such guarantees will facilitate expansion of exports. Title II: Export Trade Associations - Export Trade Association Act of 1980 - Amends the Webb-Pomerene Act to exempt the export trade, export trade activities, and methods of operation of certified export trade associations and export trading companies from the antitrust laws. Delays the effectiveness of any certificate upon the notification of the Secretary of Commerce by the Attorney General or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of disagreement with the decision to issue a certificate. Sets forth the procedure to be followed by any association, company, or export trading company seeking certification under this Act and by the Secretary in issuing such certificates. Provides for appeal of the Secretary's denial of certification. Authorizes the Attorney General or the FTC to bring an action to invalidate a certification. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the FTC, to publish guidelines for determining whether an association or export trading company will meet the certification requirements. Requires certified associations and export trading companies to submit annual reports to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Commerce an office to promote export trade associations and trading companies. Provides for automatic certification of existing associations. Requires that all applications for certification be kept confidential with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to require an association or trading company to modify its operation to be consistent with international obligations of the United States. Directs the President to appoint, with the Senate's advice and consent, a task force seven years after enactment to examine the effect of this Act and to make recommendations. Title III: Taxation of Export Trading Companies - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make banking organizations which have invested in an export trading company eligible for treatment as domestic international sales corporations (DISC). Includes the gross receipts from the export of services produced in the United States and from export trade services as qualified export receipts, in the case of a DISC which is an export trading company. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop and distribute information concerning the utilization of the DISC provisions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make export trading companies eligible for Subchapter S treatment if the shareholders of such companies are otherwise small business corporations. Exempts such companies from restrictions on the amount of foreign income they can receive and still be eligible for Subchapter S tax treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, to designate a specified amount of land and water in Alabama for the establishment of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Directs the Secretary to acquire by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, lands, waters, and interests therein, within the boundaries of the refuge.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of the eight American servicemen who lost their lives during the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President order the American flag to be flown at half-mast on all government grounds from May 4 through May 11, 1980, as a mark of respect for such servicemen.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Grants a Federal charter to the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Declares that the purpose of such corporation is to establish memorials to those who served aboard United States submarines and gave their lives during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1980
Expresses the gratitude and commendation of the Senate to the military personnel who participated in the rescue attempt of the American hostages in Iran. Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of those who sacrificed their lives in such attempt.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1980
Directs the President to utilize the forum of the Venice Economic Summit to urge the development of an International Code of Business Conduct. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should negotiate and report to Congress concerning agreements to establish standards of ethical and equitable conduct of international business and mechanisms to resolve problems. Requires the Joint Economic Committee to report to Congress concerning its recommendations regarding such negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Permits a State to establish a program under which relatives of a Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) beneficiary receiving skilled nursing facility services or intermediate care facility services may contribute to a fund used to provide such services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit a State to terminate benefits, for up to one year, to an individual who, after notice and opportunity for hearing, is determined by a preponderance of the evidence to have committed specified abuses under Medicaid.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal the provision under which a State is prohibited from charging an enrollment fee, premium, or deduction for inpatient hospital services, outpatient services, laboratory and X-ray services, skilled nursing facility services, certain physicians' services, and home health services to an individual who is eligible for Medicaid and who is receiving aid or assistance under titles I (Old Age and Medical Assistance), X (Aid to the Blind), XIV (Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled), XVI (Supplemental Security Income), or IV part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of such Act. Directs that any charge for any Medicaid benefit provided to any such individual shall be nominal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit a State, under certain circumstances, to purchase, either through a competitive bidding process or otherwise: (1) laboratory and X-ray services; (2) family planning supplies; (3) prescription drugs; (4) dentures; (5) prosthetic devices; or (6) eyeglasses.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Amends the Standing Rules of the Senate to require each report of a bill or resolution (except those by the Committee on Appropriations) to contain an economic evaluation which specifies the extent to which inflation or deflation of the national economy is affected therein. Directs that in lieu of such evaluation, a statement shall be provided explaining the reasons for any noncompliance.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil and tier 2 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Requires the Chief Justice of the United States to address in person at times agreed to by the Chief Justice, the majority leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, both Chambers of Congress in joint session on the state of the judiciary. Requires a copy of such address to be transmitted to Congress by March 15 of each year, if the Chief Justice does not appear personally.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older people to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 Decennial Census.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income of an individual any benefits paid under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980
Allows a named individual to file a claim with the appropriate Federal agency, notwithstanding certain time limitations, for injuries allegedly resulting from having been administered a swine flu inoculation.-
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Productivity Improvement Act of 1980 - Establishes the National Productivity Council which shall: (1) develop and annually revise a comprehensive national productivity plan which examines the effects of Government policies and activities on the productivity of the private sector and recommends Federal policies and activities for improving productivity; (2) obtain the cooperation of the private sector in implementing the plan; (3) perform economic analyses of the impact on productivity of selected Federal statutes and regulations; (4) make legislative and regulatory recommendations to the President, Congress, and Federal agencies concerning ways to improve productivity in the private sector; (5) act as the primary source of information in the Government concerning efforts to improve productivity in the private sector; (6) report annually to Congress and the President on the implementation and revisions of the plan; and (7) delineate the productivity improvement functions of Federal agencies. Establishes a National Productivity Advisory Board to advise the Council concerning activities for the improvement of productivity in the private sector. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, and the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to perform specified functions designed to improve private sector productivity. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older Americans to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1980
State Justice Institute Act of 1980 - Establishes in the District of Columbia the State Justice Institute as a private nonprofit corporation to further the development of improved judicial administration in State courts in the United States. Directs the Institute to: (1) direct a national assistance program to assure persons ready access to a fair and effective system of justice; (2) foster coordination and cooperation with the Federal judiciary; (3) make recommendations concerning the proper allocation of responsibility between the State and Federal court systems; (4) promote recognition of the importance of the separation of powers doctrine to an independent judiciary; and (5) encourage education for State court judges and support personnel. Authorizes the Institute to award grants and enter into cooperative agreements or contracts to: (1) conduct research, demonstrations, or special projects relating to the purposes of this Act; (2) serve as a clearinghouse of information regarding State judicial systems; (3) participate in joint projects with other agencies, including the Federal Judicial Center; (4) evaluate the impact of programs carried out under this Act upon the quality of criminal, civil, and juvenile justice; (5) encourage judicial education; (6) serve in a consulting capacity to State and local justice systems; and (7) be responsible for the certification of national programs to improve State judicial systems.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1980
National Economic Commission Act - Establishes a National Economic Commission to investigate the sources of inflation, high interest rates, low productivity, rising unemployment, lowered savings and investment, and increased foreign trade deficits. Directs the President to appoint ten members to the Commission representing business, labor, government, and the academic community. Requires the Commission to submit its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within ten months of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Health Professions Training and Distribution Act of 1980 - Reaffirms the Federal Government's partnership with the nation's health professions schools and students so that, with Federal assistance: (1) all Americans can be assured equal opportunities to enter a health career; (2) all Americans can be assured equal access to qualified health professions personnel; and (3) the health professions schools, as a national resource, can assist in accomplishing these objectives. States that amendments made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 1980. Title I: Health Personnel Training and Distribution - Redesignates title VII of the Public Health Service Act as "Health Personnel Training and Distribution". Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), under Title VII, including: (1) health personnel training; (2) health personnel geographic and specialty distribution; (3) providing equal career opportunities; (4) assuring delivery of health care; and (5) maximizing the cost effectiveness of health education, training, and services. Renames the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel. Expands such Council from 21 to 23 members, and expands from 12 to 13 the number of members from the health professions schools. Includes within such membership: a representative from an allied health training center; and permits the inclusion of interns or residents. Revises provisions requiring the Secretary to compile health personnel. Revises related reporting requirements, including: (1) a general status report every two years (presently annual reports); and (2) status reports every two years on students in health training, teachers and teaching facilities, and minorities. Sets forth guidelines regarding the confidentiality of individually identifiable personal data, including: (1) informing any individual asked to supply such data whether or not he or she is legally required to do so, and of any consequences of providing or not providing such information; (2) making such data available upon request to the individual concerned; (3) assuring that nonrelated use of such data is not made, unless consent has been given by the individual concerned; (4) informing an individual, upon request, of the use being made of such data, and the identity of the individuals and entities receiving such data. Prohibits any entity which maintains a record of personal data from complying with a request from the Secretary for such data without first getting the consent of the individual concerned. Prohibits the Secretary from disclosing personal data (other than to the individual concerned) unless: (1) such individual requires the information for purposes of this Act; or (2) the information is requested by a compulsory legal process. Requires the Secretary to notify the individual concerned of any such disclosure demand. Exempts the Secretary from specified coordination of Federal reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance in carrying out programs under Title VII. Prohibits grants for the construction of teaching facilities in hospitals or outpatient facilities. Expands the definition of "ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities" for purposes of such grants presently limited to those facilities training physicians and dentists). Authorizes specified sums for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for: (1) construction of teaching facilities for medical and public health personnel; and (2) ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Transfers grant application approval authority from the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of Education. Eliminates the prevention of curtailment of a school's enrollment as a factor which must be taken into account in considering an application for a grant supporting a project for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities. States that for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, priority shall be given for construction projects for health profession schools expanding from two-year programs to degree granting programs, and for new schools anticipating predominantly minority enrollment. Removes the limitation on the amount of a grant which the Secretary may make for the construction of ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Subjects such grants to the limitations established for grants made for other projects. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the request of an applicant and after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel, to reduce or eliminate any enrollment requirements imposed on grantees prior to October 1, 1980. Prohibits the promulgation of regulations which would provide for enrollment increases for eligibility purposes regarding construction loan guarantees or interest subsidies. Repeals the specific authority of the Secretary to provide technical assistance for such construction. Extends the program of construction loan guarantees and interest subsidies until September 30, 1983 (presently September 30, 1980). Authorizes increased interest subsidies (six or seven percent rather than present three percent) for projects initially guaranteed or subsidized after October 1, 1980. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into new loan guarantee and interest subsidy agreements for construction projects for a cumulative total of principal equal to the amount authorized for grants under the construction program. Extends the Federal program of insured new loans to students in health professions schools to fiscal year 1983 (presently to fiscal year 1980). Extends the deadline for granting such insurance on any such loans or installments from September 30, 1982, to September 30, 1986. Increases yearly limitatiors and aggregate unpaid principal on individual Federally insured student loans from: (1) $10,000 to $15,000 and from $50,000 to $60,000, for medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or public health; and (2) $7,500 to $10,000 and from $37,500 to $50,000, for pharmacy. Increases from $15,000 to $20,000 the additional limitations on such loans, and from $60,000 to $80,000 for the aggregate unpaid principal, for medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Extends eligibility for such loans to: (1) graduate students in health administration; (2) advanced nursing students; and (3) physician assistant or dental auxiliary training programs. Includes living expenses among the permissible uses of such loans. Removes the prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, the Indian Health Service Program, or the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Extends from three to four years specified periods exempted from principal installment payments (but not from interest accrual and payment). Adds a graduated repayment action and a variable interest option as parts of the written loan agreement. Replaces the maximum 12 percent interest on the unpaid principal balance of the loan with a rate not to exceed the average of the bond equivalent rates of the 91-day Treasury bills plus two percent. Eliminates the requirement that interest payments on insured loans must be made during deferment periods. Eliminates the Secretary's authority to enter into a written contract with a borrower to discharge a portion of his or her loan for service in a health manpower shortage area. Authorizes the Secretary to discharge a borrower's loan liability if such borrower: (1) failed to complete the first year of studies leading to a first professional degree; (2) is in exceptionally needy circumstances; (3) is from a low-income or disadvantaged family; and (4) has not resumed nor is expected to resume such studies within two years. Extends the health professions student loan program through fiscal year 1981. Limits such extension to senior students already receiving such loans. Revises the period for the capital distribution of such loan funds from September 30, 1983 through December 31, 1983, to September 30, 1981 through December 31, 1981. States that such funds shall be deposited in the Service Contingent Loan Fund established by this Act. Authorizes a loan program for students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, graduate health administration, and physician assistants or expanded function dental auxiliaries. Makes the terms of repayment of such a loan contingent on service in a "national priority position" as such position is described in this Act. Sets forth program provisions with regard to: (1) the required agreement with the institution; (2) student eligibility; (3) loan amounts (depending upon medical specialty); (4) loan agreement terms (installments, acceleration, loan interest); (5) deferral of principal and interest payments, with interest accrual, during periods of graduate training, armed forces service, VISTA or Peace Corps service, service in medically undeserved areas, or National Health Service Corps or Indian Health Service; and (6) national priority service as designated by, and at the option of, the Secretary. Establishes in the Treasury a Service Contingent Loan Fund in the Treasury to finance such program. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund ($10,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1983, and thereafter as requested). Directs the Secretary to establish a Loan Discharge Fund to be used in connection with the discharge of loans to borrowers serving in optional national priority positions. Revises public health traineeship and other graduate grant provisions to: (1) require trainees to be United States citizens or permanent residents; (2) require traineeships to be distributed on the basis of the needs of the eligible students; (3) extend such grants through fiscal year 1983; and (4) remove the requirement that 65 percent of such traineeships go to students with post baccalaureate degrees or with three years of health services experience. Extends the National Health Service Corps scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Includes receipt of a loan under the service contingency loan program established under this Act as a priority in making National Health Service Corps awards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make 80 percent of the medicine and osteopathy awards in each State proportionate to the need for physicians in health manpower shortage areas in the State; and (2) approve scholarship applications by August 1 of each year, and to promptly notify the educational institutions of such scholarship approvals. Reorganizes the administration of the scholarship program, the National Health Service Corps programs, and the educational support programs under a single administrative unit. Makes the existing mandatory release of a National Health Service Corps scholarship recipient to fulfill his or her period of obligated service through an independent practice arrangement discretionary with the Secretary. Includes Public Health Service scholarship recipients (prior to October 1, 1977) within such option. Replaces the financial base requirement with one requiring a person serving under the independent practice option to agree to accept assignment under the medicare program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to individuals serving under the independent practice option. Sets forth pay schedules (including malpractice insurance coverage) for such service. Makes such individuals eligible for special grants. Extends the National Health Service Corps Scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Revises the medical specialties distribution of scholarships to require that at least 80 percent of such scholarships be given to medical and osteopathic students. Extends the program of financial need scholarships for first-year students through fiscal year 1983. Bases the distribution of scholarship funds on the proportionate enrollment of first-year students with exceptional financial need. Establishes a maximum award of the lesser of tuition and fees plus $2,500, or $5,000. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Eliminates the Lister Hill (family practice) scholarship program. Adds a new program of up to 80 percent loan repayment by the Secretary if the student serves for up to four years in a health manpower shortage area. Eliminates the health professions capitation grant program. Establishes a program of national priority incentive grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and public health for programs and projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) grant formulas and enrollment and tuition incentives; and (3) enrollment determinations. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal years 1981 through 1983. Expands the scope of the existing family medicine grant program. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Stipulates that at least ten percent of funds available in each fiscal year shall be used to develop programs to train physicians who will teach family medicine. Extends the area health education center program through fiscal year 1983, and directs that priority be given to programs that will serve an entire State. Extends the program for the training of physician assistants through fiscal year 1983, and adds a traineeship authority. Sets forth participation requirements for such traineeships. Extends the program for training in primary care internal medicine and pediatrics through fiscal year 1983, and adds authority for faculty development to such program. Replaces the existing family medicine and general dentistry grant program with a dental education grant program for: (1) training expanded function dental auxiliaries; (2) training dental students in the organization and management of dental teams; and (3) operating dental residency programs and providing financial assistance to such residents. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Expands and extends through fiscal year 1983 the program of aiding minority and disadvantaged persons in entering the health professions. Stipulates that at least 75 percent of such funds in each fiscal year shall be for grants or contracts to institutions of higher education. Authorizes funds for start-up costs for those schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry receiving support prior to October 1, 1980. Extends the financial distress grant program through fiscal year 1985. Makes nursing schools eligible for such grants, but restricts such eligibility to not more than three consecutive years. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for up to five years with financially-troubled health professions schools in medically undeserved areas. Sets forth conditions for such grant, including disclosure requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for projects related to the enrollment of students who will serve in medically undeserved areas, or to provide training in such areas. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make a single grant to any private two-year medical school to assist such school in converting to an accredited degree granting institution; (2) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training including residency training, in preventive or community medicine or dentistry, including occupational medicine; (3) make grants through fiscal year 1983 for special curricular offerings and projects related to optometry, podiatry, pharmarcy, and veterinary medicine; (4) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training in nutrition, geriatrics, rehabilitation, and the containment of health care costs; (5) make grants for projects to increase the participation and advancement of women in health careers; and (6) make grants to conduct research and demonstration projects. Revises and extends through fiscal year 1983 training programs in public health, health administration, and allied health. Adds cost-sharing and cost-containment requirements for health administration programs. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel prior to awarding specified grants in such areas. Repeals existing provisions concerning: (1) statistical and annual reporting requirements of the Secretary; (2) advanced traineeships in allied health; and (3) educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training. Title II: Nurse Education Amendments - Nurse Education Amendments of 1980 - Extends the grant programs for nursing facilities construction, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies through fiscal year 1983. Lessens existing restrictions on new project interest subsidy payments. Extends authorizations beyond fiscal year 1980 for the Treasury loan guarantee and interest subsidy fund. Replaces the capitation grant program with a program of national priority incentive grants to support educational and other related projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) enrollment provisions; (2) matching non-Federal funding requirements; (3) application requirements; and (4) grant computation formulas, including increases to any type of nursing school for (a) increased enrollment; (b) graduates working in medically undeserved areas; (c) increased minority enrollment; or (d) providing registered nurses with the opportunity to complete a nursing degree. Provides for a decrease in grant funds if enrollment decreases. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Repeals existing financial distress assistance provisions (nursing schools made eligible under title I of this Act). Amends the nursing special project grant program, including: (1) eliminating funds for mergers; (2) adding the requirement that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects related to the geographic or specialty distribution of nurses and requiring that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects to increase nursing opportunities for minority and disadvantaged persons. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants through fiscal year 1983 for clinical and practical nursing education projects. Extends the advanced nurse training programs through fiscal year 1983. Requires the Secretary to establish by March 31, 1981, criteria for designating areas, facilities, or organizations as nurse shortage areas. Sets forth factors to be used in making such determinations. Requires the Secretary to provide written notice of the designation of a nurse shortage area to: (1) the chief administrative officer of the organization; (2) the Governor of each State in which the area, organization, or facility is located; (3) the concerned (a) health systems agency; (b) State health planning and development agency; or (c) public or private entity. Authorizes the Secretary to make such designation available to: (1) the public; (2) concerned or interested entities. Extends nurse traineeship programs in advanced training and anesthesiology through fiscal year 1983. Limits the nursing student loan program in fiscal year 1981 to senior students completing their education. Distributes the capital in the loan fund (established by each school) to the Service Contingent Loan Fund (established by this Act). Repeals the provisions authorizing money to be transferred between the nursing student loan program and the nursing scholarship program. Extends the nursing scholarship program through fiscal year 1986. Stipulates that grants shall be ratably reduced dependent upon the amount of appropriations. Title III: National Health Service Corps Program - Requires the Secretary to provide for training of National Health Service Corps Scholarship recipients to prepare them for service in medically undeserved areas. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for such training. Requires the Secretary to first seek an obligated scholarship recipient who received his or her training in the undeserved area's State before assigning a Corps member to a health manpower shortage area (other than certain medical facilities). Extends the National Health Service Corps program through fiscal year 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1980 - Title I: To Discourage Taxflation by Requiring an Affirmative Vote of Congress before Tax Receipts Increase as a Percentage of Gross National Product - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a separate vote of approval in both the House of Representatives and the Senate if any concurrent resolution on the budget sets forth a level of tax receipts, which, expressed as a percentage of the gross national product, exceeds the previous fiscal year's tax level. Title II: To Require Approval by Three-Fifths of the Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of any Budget which Provides for a Deficit - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the completion of action on the total budgetary figures contained in a concurrent resolution on the budget before any amendment to the amounts listed under the functional categories may be considered. Requires a three-fifths vote in both the House and Senate to adopt any budget resolution which recommends a deficit. Title III: To Require the President to Submit a Balanced Budget in which neither Expenditures nor Revenues Exceed 21 Percent of the Gross National Product - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to limit the estimates of Federal expenditures and receipts contained in the President's budget to 21 percent of the gross national product. Requires the President's budget to be balanced. Authorizes the President to submit an alternate budget to the Congress which is not balanced provided it remains within such spending and revenue limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 reported by the Committee on the Budget shall limit budget outlays to 21 per cent of the gross national product.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Congratulates the members of the 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team, its coaches and officials for a job well done. Recognizes the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee and the people of the Lake Placid area for their successful efforts in organizing and producing the XIII Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1980
Extends death benefit coverage under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include public safety officers who die as a result of medical conditions arising out of, or exacerbated by, official duties.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit the direct or indirect restriction by any person engaged in commerce on the use of credit instruments in any transaction concerning the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel, where there is no similar restriction on transactions concerning conventional motor fuel. Prohibits any other condition, restriction, agreement, or understanding which otherwise discriminates against or unreasonably limits the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Urges: (1) the Congress to encourage the International Olympic Committee to relocate the 1980 summer Olympic games; (2) that if such games are not relocated, all peace-loving nations be invited to participate in a World Peace Olympiad for the year 1980; and (3) that the U.S. Olympic Committee work with foreign committees to select a site for such Olympiad.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Authority Amendments of 1979 - Amends the National Housing Act to remove the specific dollar limitations on the original principal obligation of a mortgage which may be purchased by the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) under the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act. Limits such purchasing authority to mortgages in an amount which would make a residence or project eligible for mortgage insurance under the applicable Federal insurance program. Permits such amounts to be raised by up to ten percent in high cost areas determined by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Limits the sales price of a principal residence covered by a mortgage which may be purchased under the emergency authority of the GNMA to 105 percent of such maximum mortgage amount which may be raised an additional ten percent in high-cost areas. Eliminates the 7 1/2 percent interest rate limitation on mortgage loans eligible for purchase. Permits the Secretary to establish the maximum interest rate at a level consistent with market conditions provided it does not exceed the maximum rate on mortgages eligible for Federal insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Expresses the Senate's support for efforts to win the freedom of the hostages in Iran. Calls upon all nations to join in cooperative efforts to restrict relations with Iran. Declares that: (1) any trial or public exploitation of the hostages would be viewed as added provocation; and (2) the American people will not be diverted from their determination that the hostages be freed.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1979
Calls upon all followers of Islam to prevail upon their brethren to: (1) release the American hostages held in Iran; and (2) until they are released, permit them to worship regularly in accordance with their religious faiths and meet with clergy of their faiths.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the adoption of any Federal budget in which expenditures exceed receipts unless approved by a rollcall vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of Congress directed solely to that subject. Prohibits the Congress from passing and the President from signing any appropriation bill which would cause the total expenditures of the Federal Government to exceed its total receipts in any fiscal year. Permits the Congress to waive such provisions with respect to any single year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Prohibits any annual increase in the proportion of Federal receipts to the national income unless approved by a rollcall vote, directed solely to such purpose, of three-fifths of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Romania are urged: (1) to release certain political prisoners; and (2) to halt the incarceration and harassment of individuals contrary to the Helsinki Accords.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) reaffirm U.S. commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) communicate to the Soviet Union U.S. disapproval of religious harassment of Christians in the Soviet Union and of the restrictions on such Christians' freedom to emigrate; and (3) advise the Soviet Union of U.S. expectation that the Soviet Union honor its commitments under the Helsinki Accords and under international law.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1979
Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to stipulate that the institute currently authorized to conduct research on neurological diseases shall be named the "National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke." Requires at least $16,000,000 of the sums appropriated for such Institute to be obligated for research in the area of regeneration of the spinal cord.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1979
Anti-Inflation Tax Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require annual cost of living adjustments to: (1) personal income tax brackets; (2) the $1,000 personal tax exemption; (3) the adjusted basis of property for purposes of determining gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset; (4) interest rates on savings bonds and certificates issued pursuant to the Second Liberty Bond Act and other obligations of the United States; (5) withholding tables; and (6) minimum income levels for which income tax returns must be filed.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the American people and their representatives are united in their determination and efforts to achieve the immediate, safe, and unconditional release of all U.S. personnel. Calls upon the U.N. Security Council to take all necessary measures to secure the release of all U.S. personnel held hostage in Iran.
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