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Bill· SS. 1346 (100th)open

Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987

Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exclude specified types of employers and performers in the performing arts from coverage under unfair labor practice provisions prohibiting specified contracts or agreements between employers and labor organizations and prohibiting specified actions of labor organizations to force or require cessation of dealings with others, joining of labor or employer organizations, or recognition of or negotiation with labor organizations not certified as representative. Permits such employers, excluding employers in the broadcasting or motion picture industries, to: (1) agree with a labor organization to make membership in such organization a condition of performing arts employment; and (2) make agreements with a labor organization covering performing artists even if the majority status of the organization has not yet been established. Defines "employer" to include purchasers of musical performance services. Defines "employee" to include independent contractors engaged to perform musical services.

Bill· SS. 1340 (100th)referred

Rural Letter Carriers Automobile Expense Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987

Rural Letter Carriers Automobile Expense Act - Provides that, for taxable years beginning after 1986, rural mail carriers are permitted to compute the amount of the income tax deduction for use of their automobiles in performance of mail services: (1) by using a standard mileage rate for all miles of such use equal to 150 percent of the basic standard rate; or (2) without applying the limitation on deductions generally applicable in cases when the business use of the automobile accounts for 50 percent, or less, of its use. Prohibits the use of 150 percent of the basic standard mileage rate in determining the allowable deduction if the taxpayer claims an investment tax credit or depreciation deduction for such automobile.

Bill· SS. 1334 (100th)open

A bill to restrict certain U.S. contributions to international organizations until certain actions to eliminate abuses of the United Nations system are undertaken by the United Nations Secretary General.

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1987

Prohibits the obligation of 50 percent of the funds made available for FY 1988 for payment of the U.S. contribution to the United Nations until the President certifies to the Congress that the Secretary General of the United Nations has investigated: (1) the use of salary remission arrangements by nationals of member states serving as employees of the United Nations Secretariat or any of its specialized agencies; (2) the excessive use of secondment by member states in a way that prevents nationals of such states from becoming regular career employees of the United Nations; and (3) the blatant control of nationals of member states serving as employees of the United Nations Secretariat or the specialized agencies.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 226 (100th)passed

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to ongoing international negotiations to protect the ozone layer.

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1987

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should endorse the original position of the United States in ongoing international negotiations to protect the Earth's ozone layer; and (2) the United States should continue to seek an international agreement which will provide for an immediate freeze in the production of the major ozone depleting chemicals at 1986 levels, an automatic reduction of not less than 50 percent in the production of such chemicals, and the virtual elimination of such chemicals.

Bill· SS. 1323 (100th)open

Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987

Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act of 1987 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to decrease from five percent to three percent the amount of securities acquired in a corporation which triggers disclosure requirements. Reduces from ten days to one day the time in which public disclosure must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission). Requires such disclosure to include: (1) the identity of all persons with whom the filing person had communications regarding such acquisition within 90 days prior to the acquisition; (2) the sources of financing used to make the acquisition; (3) a statement by the filing person as to whether the acquisition is for the purpose of investment or for the purpose of taking control of such corporation; and (4) an itemized statement of all fees and other expenses paid or incurred in connection with the acquisition. Prohibits any person required to file such a disclosure from acquiring any additional amount of securities until the disclosure has been filed with the Commission and an announcement has been publicly disseminated. Requires that any material changes in facts relating to a filing must be made by the end of the next business day following such change. (Present law requires such a change to be made promptly.) Includes within the definition of those required to file such disclosures any group of two or more persons acting in concert or in a coordinated or consciously parallel manner (whether or not pursuant to an express agreement). (Present law requires disclosure only from groups of persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group.) Prohibits anyone who has disclosed that the purpose of the acquisition is investment from making any tender offer for additional shares of securities until six months after the filing of an amended disclosure statement indicating that the purpose is to obtain control of the corporation. Makes unlawful: (1) the making of any false statements of material fact or the omission of any material fact regarding any required disclosure statement; and (2) engaging in any fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative acts or practices in connection with any required disclosure statement. Provides for a private right of action for damages and equitable relief by the issuer of securities for any intentional disclosure violations or for any violation of margin requirements in connection with tender offer financing. Requires any person making a tender offer for shares of securities of a corporation to keep such offer open for a minimum of at least 35 business days. Prohibits any person to acquire more than 15 percent of any of the shares of any class of securities in a corporation unless such acquisition is made pursuant to a tender offer. Allows the Commission to exempt any person or transaction from such prohibition to the extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors. Prohibits an issuer from: (1) buying back its securities at a price above the market value (Greenmail) from any person holding more than three percent of those securities if that person held the stock less than six months, unless the stock is purchased by a tender offer open to all shareholders or the repurchase is approved by a majority of the issuer's shareholders; (2) during the pendency of a tender offer, entering into agreements that increase the current or future compensation (except for a routine increase) of any officer or director (Golden Parachute payments); and (3) establishing any rights to acquire any securities, during the pendency of the tender offer, if such rights would permit such shareholders to purchase securities of an acquiring company or the issuer (Poison Pill defense). Prohibits any person from acting as a "tender offer arbitrageur" unless registered with the Commission. Defines a "tender offer arbitrageur" as any person who regularly buys and sells registered securities, for his or her own account or for the account of others, in response to, or in anticipation of, a merger, tender offer, recapitalization, restructuring, or other similar transaction. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to exempt from liability for breach of fiduciary duties any employee benefit plan trustees who decide in response to a tender offer not to tender securities which are held in trust by the benefit plan. Prohibits any part of the residual assets of a benefit plan from being used to finance, directly or indirectly, any acquisition of the securities of the employer pursuant to a tender offer including the repayment, redemption, or refinancing of any indebtedness incurred by such person in connection with any such acquisition. Increases the insider trading criminal penalties from a maximum of five years imprisonment or a $100,000 fine to a maximum of ten years imprisonment or a $1,000,000 fine. Requires a minimum criminal penalty of one year imprisonment for perjury or obstruction of justice in connection with an insider trading investigation. States that the Congress declares that the internal affairs or governance of corporations shall be subject to regulation by the laws of the State under which such corporation is organized.

Bill· SS. 1309 (100th)referred

Economic Equity Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987

Economic Equity Act of 1987 - Title I: Employment - Part A: Pay Equity - Federal Employee Compensation Equity Act of 1987 - Establishes the Commission on Compensation Equity to provide for a consultant to study the classification, grading, and pay-setting processes within and between the position classification system and the job-grading system. Requires the study to determine whether these processes result in the payment of rates of basic pay for positions: (1) in which either sex is numerically predominant or any race or ethnic group is disproportionately represented; and (2) where such differences in pay are not in proportion to the duties, difficulty, responsibility, or qualification requirements of the work performed. Provides a timetable for: (1) the Commission to report to appropriate congressional committees and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management with advisory recommendations; (2) the Director to report to the committees and the Commission with a plan to carry out any of the recommendations; (3) additional comments from the Commission; and (4) termination of the Commission. Part B: Equal Credit - Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from exempting from such Act any class of credit transactions that are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. Permits the Board to exempt (for five years) a type or class of business or commercial transaction only after determining that application of such Act to such transaction would not contribute substantially to effecting the purposes of such Act. Part C: Pension and Health Benefits for Nonfull-time Workers - Part-Time and Temporary Workers Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to bring certain part-time employees within the participation, vesting, and accrual rules governing pension plans. Addresses any employee who, within a relevant 12-month period: (1) has customarily completed more than 500 but fewer than 1,000 hours of service; or (2) is employed in a type of position in which employment customarily consists of such a number of hours. Provides that completion of such hours of service will be treated as completion of 1,000 hours of service (thereby bringing the employee within the ERISA benefit framework). Permits a reduction in the employer-provided premium under a group health plan in the case of a part-time employee only when such employee: (1) has customarily completed fewer than 30 hours of service per week; or (2) is employed in a type of position in which employment customarily consists of such a number of hours. Limits such a premium reduction, when permissible, to not less than a ratable portion of the premium ordinarily provided in the case of an employee who completes 30 hours of service per week. Revises the ERISA definition of "employee" to include non-employees who, pursuant to a contract or agreement, provide employee-like service to an employer for at least one year at the rate of 500 or more hours per year. Part D: Economic Security - Social Security Equity Act of 1987 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the combined earnings of a married couple which are attributable to the period of their marriage shall be shared equally between them for purposes of determining the eligibility for, and amount of, OASDI benefits to which each spouse is or may become separately entitled. Credits the survivor of the marriage with 100 percent of the combined total wages for the period of the marriage. Provides that this Act shall not apply in specified cases when it would result in a reduction of OASDI benefits. Sets forth certain age and marriage requirements with which married couples must comply in order for this Act to apply. Repeals the separate definition of disability applicable to widows and widowers. Permits the months of a widow's or widower's entitlement to Supplemental Security Income benefits (title XVI of the Social Security Act) on the basis of a disability to be counted toward the 24 months needed to become entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) on that basis. Pension Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to extend to all accrued benefits existing in plan year 1989 and thereafter the amendments made with regard to the nondiscriminatory coordination of defined contribution plans with Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI). Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal provisions that permit a certain disparity in simplified employee pension plan contributions with respect to nondiscriminatory coordination with OASDI. Provides for the repeal, effective for plan year 2000 and thereafter, of IRC rules relating to: (1) the nondiscriminatory coordination of defined contribution plans with OASDI; and (2) pension integration exceptions. Amends the IRC to establish distinct minimum employee coverage requirements applicable in cases when an employer with respect to a plan is treated as operating a single line of business. Requires such a plan to benefit all the employer's employees. Limits the exception to minimum coverage requirements available to employers treated as operating separate lines of business for a year. Amends the IRC and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to eliminate the special vesting requirements governing multiemployer plans. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States, as soon as possible after this Act's enactment, to undertake thorough studies with respect to: (1) possible methods of requiring employee pension plans to provide cost of living and other adjustments to plan benefits; and (2) potential pension portability mechanisms, including ways to preserve and enhance the real value of deferred vested pension benefits. Lists specific items to be addressed in each study. Requires submission of the studies to specified Congressional committees within two years of this Act's enactment. Medicaid Community Spouse Safety Net Act of 1987 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to set special resource and income eligibility standards for institutionalized individuals so as to provide support and maintenance of their noninstitutionalized spouses. Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act - Bans discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the consideration of applications for, or the granting of, insurance policies and the terms of such policies. Prohibits the use of any statistical table as a basis for action banned by this Act, and discrimination in any manner against a person because that person has opposed any practice made unlawful under this section. Grants to States having insurance discrimination laws the primary opportunity to enforce the pertinent prohibitions. Permits a civil action against the insurer to be filed in State or Federal court by or on behalf of an aggrieved person. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in district court (without regard to the amount in controversy) when there is reasonable cause to believe that a person or group is engaged in a pattern or practice of violating these rights and that such violation raises an issue of general public importance. Directs the court to: (1) order the defendant to amend any relevant contract to comply with these provisions; (2) award actual damages for the period of noncompliance; and (3) award the aggrieved person reasonable attorney fees. Authorizes an award of punitive damages, in addition to actual damages. Describes rights, liabilities, premiums, benefits, and insurance coverages that are not to be affected by these antidiscrimination provisions. Federal Council on Women Act - Establishes a Federal Council on Women to: (1) collect and evaluate information with respect to any problems that are particular to women in the United States; (2) review and evaluate Federal policy related to any such problems; (3) coordinate the activities of the Council with similar activities conducted by States, local governments, and concerned organizations; and (4) make recommendations. Directs the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Dependent Care - Part A: Improving the Quality of Dependent Care - Family Day Care Provider Assistance Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to States for grants to support family day care providers. Directs States to make such grants to community nonprofit organizations with experience in working with family day care and which furnish or propose to furnish support primarily to providers serving low-income families. Requires such grants to be used to: (1) provide training to family day care providers; (2) operate resource centers for making available developmentally appropriate curriculum materials; (3) operate a system of substitute caregivers for providers; (4) furnish technical assistance to providers in understanding local regulations and relevant tax and other policies; (5) provide subgrants for the purchase of small equipment; and (6) provide other appropriate support to family day care providers. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Resource Center on Family Day Care, to be administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth a formula for State allotments. Child-Care Standards Improvement Act of 1987 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to improve State child-care licensing and regulatory systems. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such grants, the establishment of a State Advisory Committee on Child-Care Standards to review a State's child-care licensing and regulatory systems. Requires reports by such committees. Establishes a National Advisory Committee on Child-Care Standards to assist and provide guidance to the States in improving the quality of child-care services. Requires the National Advisory Committee to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services proposed recommended standards for child-care programs within 14 months after the enactment of this Act. Terminates the National Advisory Committee 90 days after the publication by the Secretary of final recommended standards. Part B: Access to Dependent Care for All Families - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the income tax credit for employment-related dependent care expenses to: (1) make the credit refundable; (2) increase the amount of the credit from 30 percent to 50 percent of the relevant expenses, reduced (but not below 20 percent) by one percent for each full $1,000 amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds $15,000, subject to an annual adjustment for inflation (the current reduction is one percent for each $2,000 in excess of $10,000 AGI with no provision for a cost of living adjustment); and (3) apply the credit to expenses for certain respite care of qualifying dependents of the taxpayer. Permits credit for up to $1,200 ($2,400 in cases involving more than one qualifying individual) of respite care expenses incurred in the care of: (1) a dependent of the taxpayer who is under the age of 15; or (2) a spouse or other dependent of the taxpayer who is physically or mentally incapable of self-care. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to bring within their respective frameworks loans or advances secured by a single residential property occupied as a single family residence in which community child care service is provided (thus making such loans eligible for purchase under each Act). Part C: Increasing Availability of Dependent Care for Low-Income Families - Amends the Social Security Act to increase appropriations for FY 1988 and thereafter for block grants to the States for social services. State Dependent Care Grants Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act to require that amounts paid to States for use in the operation of child care services be designed to enable children whose families lack adequate financial resources to participate in before or after school child care programs. Requires State Governors to include specified information in their grant reports. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1991, the time until which necessary revisions of grant program descriptions must be submitted. Public Housing Child Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) make grants to public housing agencies to contract for lower-income resident child care services; and (2) design such program to determine the extent to which it facilitates resident employability. Requires a report to the Congress within three years. Authorizes FY 1987 through 1989 appropriations.

Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 151 (100th)enacted

A joint resolution to designate August 1, 1987, as "Helsinki Human Rights Day".

United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987

Designates August 1, 1987, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert the American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; (4) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity regarding such Accords; (5) continue his efforts to achieve the release of political prisoners of the Soviet Union, an increase in Soviet emigration, resolution of family reunification cases, and cessation of radio transmission jamming; (6) seek the inclusion, in any concluding document agreed to in Vienna, of a mechanism to sustain human rights progress after the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (7) convey to signatory states the desire of the United States for a result at Vienna that will not favor military security at the expense of human rights.

Bill· SS. 1280 (100th)referred

Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1987

Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act of 1987 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish an initiative to increase the sale of U.S.-made auto parts to Japanese markets in Japan, in the United States, and in third markets. Sets forth specified actions the Secretary should take to achieve such increase in sales. Directs the Secretary to establish a Special Industry Advisory Committee on Auto Parts Sales in Japan. Sets forth the functions of the Committee, including to: (1) report to the Secretary on Japanese barriers to sales of U.S. auto parts in Japanese markets; (2) advise the Secretary during consultation with Japan on issues concerning such sales; and (3) report annually to the Congress on the progress of such U.S. sales to Japan.

Bill· SS. 1273 (100th)referred

Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987

Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to include as a purpose of such Act public investment in severely distressed and underdeveloped counties or areas lacking resources for basic services. Authorizes appropriations for the Appalachian Regional Commission for FY 1988 through 1992. Permits the Commission to lease office space through FY 1992. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 for construction of the Appalachian development highway system and local access roads. Increases from 70 percent to 80 percent the maximum Federal share of such highway construction costs. Allows for Federal supplements to the Federal grant-in-aid programs to continue through FY 1992. Removes the restriction on financial assistance for the cost of industrial facilities. Requires that energy enterprise development loan funds established with grants previously approved by the Commission be made available for authorized purposes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992. Terminates specified provisions of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 on October 1, 1992.

Bill· SS. 1254 (100th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to provide additional limitation on the reduction on the credit applicable to employers in certain States which have outstanding loan balances, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987

Amends the Federal Unemployment Tax Act to lessen by 0.1 percent for taxable year 1987 the already applicable reduction in tax credits to an employer in a State when: (1) for each of the three preceding tax years the State had a balance of outstanding advances made to its unemployment account under title XII of the Social Security Act (account); and (2) for that same period, cumulative employer contributions to the account exceeded the amount paid out as unemployment benefits. Adds a 0.3 percent reduction to the tax credit reduction for tax year 1988 when: (1) the State meets the criteria established for the 1987 additional reduction; (2) the amount of employer contributions to the account for tax year 1987 exceeded the amount of unemployment benefit paid out of it; and (3) the Secretary of Labor makes certain determinations concerning the tax effort and solvency of the State's unemployment compensation system. Sets forth a special formula to be used for determining the reduction in total credits with respect to taxpayers in States upon the determination that the otherwise applicable reduction would result in the payment of additional taxes by such taxpayers in an amount exceeding the balance of the outstanding advances made to the account.

Bill· SS. 1269 (100th)referred

Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Amendments of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987

Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Amends the Surface Transportation Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States and political subdivisions for the designation of: (1) hazardous materials transportation routes; and (2) hazardous materials parking sites. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to require registered carriers of hazardous materials to maintain records of the routes followed in the transportation of certain hazardous materials to prepare an annual registration statement. Authorizes appropriations to make emergency response personnel (police and fire fighters) training grants available to States and local subdivisions for FY 1988 through 1992. Requires the Secretary to establish guidelines for emergency response training programs and to publish emergency response procedures. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a hazardous materials flow study and to report the results of such study to the Congress; and (2) conduct a risks analysis regarding the transportation of high level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel to geologic repository sites and monitored retrievable storage sites and report the results to the Congress and the Secretary of Energy.

Bill· SS. 1250 (100th)open

Criminal and Juvenile Justice Partnership Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987

Criminal and Juvenile Justice Partnership Act of 1987 - Title I: Drug Law Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out program grants for drug law enforcement. Prohibits the distribution of grant funds to recipients who have been provided such funds for four years. Title II: Juvenile Justice - Subtitle A: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Reauthorization - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out the purposes of such Act. Subtitle B: Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization - Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out the purposes of such Act. Subtitle C: Missing Children's Assistance Act Reauthorization - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out the purposes of such Act. Title III: Law Enforcement - Subtitle A: Justice Assistance Act Reauthorization - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out the functions of the: (1) Bureau of Justice Statistics; (2) National Institute of Justice; (3) Bureau of Justice Assistance; and (4) Office of Justice Programs. Subtitle B: Criminal and Juvenile Justice Family Violence Prevention Act of 1987 - Criminal and Juvenile Justice Family Violence Prevention Act of 1987 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States for the purpose of improving the criminal justice system's response to domestic and family violence. Directs the Attorney General to include in the uniform crime reports data that indicates the age of the victim and the relationship of the victim to the offender for specified crimes. Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect and publish data that more accurately measures the extent of domestic violence in America. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1992 for such purposes. Subtitle C: Multijurisdiction Criminal Conspiracy Information and Targeting Grants - Establishes a multijurisdiction criminal conspiracy information and targeting grant program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out such program. Subtitle D: Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Improvement - Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the basic level of public safety officers' death benefits, and provides for annual adjustment of the benefits level. Removes the requirement that parent beneficiaries be dependents. Authorizes the use of appropriated funds to assist the families of public safety officers who have died in the line of duty. Subtitle E: Criminal Justice Information Improvement - Criminal Justice Information Improvement Act of 1987 - Establishes a grant program to improve criminal justice information compiled and maintained by States and local criminal justice agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992 to carry out such program. Subtitle F: College and Railroad Police Information - Amends the Federal judicial code to direct the Attorney General to exchange criminal records and information with railroad and college police departments. Subtitle G: The Racial and Religious Violence Information - Directs the Attorney General to include in the uniform crime reports information regarding crimes: (1) involving religious property; and (2) committed to express racial, ethnic, or religious prejudice. Subtitle H: Victim Compensation and Assistance - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to allow deposits to be made into the Crime Victims Fund through September 30, 1992. Title IV: Assistance to State and Local Courts - Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 to carry out the purposes of such Act. Title V: National Academy of Sciences - Directs the Attorney General to provide for a study, to be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, of policies and programs at the State and local levels to reduce violent and property crime by drug users. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 1241 (100th)referred

A bill to amend title IV of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish demonstration projects for community care preventive health services.

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987

Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner on Aging to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, States to cover 50 percent of the cost of demonstration projects providing, through FY 1992, community care preventive health services which include: (1) exercise and physical therapy services; (2) home injury control services; (3) mental health services for older individuals who are at high risk of suffering depression; and (4) nutritional counseling services. Requires the Commissioner to select, for each of FYs 1988 through 1991, five States to submit proposed community care preventive health services demonstration projects which shall then be rejected or approved by the Commissioner. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 to assist States in developing project proposals and for FY 1989 through 1992 for the conduct of approved projects.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 217 (100th)open

A resolution regarding Soviet participation in a Middle East Peace Conference.

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should not be considered as a possible participant in any conference concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict unless the Soviet Union has first: (1) re-established diplomatic relations with Israel at the ambassadorial level; (2) publicly re-affirmed its acceptance of specified United Nations resolutions concerning the recognition of Israel; (3) substantially increased and maintained the number of exit visas granted to Jewish individuals and families within the Soviet Union who have applied for emigration to Israel. States that if such conditions are met, Soviet participation shall require the approval and joint invitation of the Governments of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan.

Bill· SS. 1234 (100th)referred

Veterans' Beneficiary Travel Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987

Veterans' Beneficiary Travel Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to direct (current law authorizes) the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay travel expenses of certain veterans to or from a Veterans Administration facility or other authorized place in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, or medical treatment or care. Defines those veterans entitled to such payment, including: (1) those veterans financially unable to meet such travel costs; and (2) those veterans unable to bear the cost of special transportation necessitated due to a medical disability. Limits such payments in the case of travel by a privately-owned vehicle to the cost of similar public transportation for such travel. Limits, in any event, such payment to the actual cost incurred for such travel.

Bill· SS. 1220 (100th)open

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research and Information Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Research Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (Director), to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a comprehensive national plan containing specified elements relating to education, information, and risk reduction activities concerning AIDS. Directs the Secretary to submit to the committees each year for the next ten years a revision of the plan. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the development, implementation, or expansion of State plans for education, information, risk reduction, and other activities relating to AIDS. Requires States, in order to receive grants, to submit an application with specified contents. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States relating to these grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities for development, establishment, or expansion of programs for targeted education, information, and risk reduction activities relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to activities directed toward individuals at highest risk of becoming infected with the acquired immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary to give preference to community-based organizations which are located in, have a history of service in, and will serve specified areas. States that the Secretary may review the content of any educational or information materials developed with grants only for scientific and factual validity. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control for the training of individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, laboratory analysis, and risk reduction relating to AIDS. Declares that individuals receiving fellowships shall not be counted in determining the number of full time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for specified purposes. Directs the Secretary to make grants to international organizations concerned with public health for: (1) programs of education, information, and risk reduction relating to AIDS; (2) projects to train individuals to develop skills and technical expertise regarding AIDS; and (3) epidemiological research relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to inform the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development of grants made under this provision. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application is submitted. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the grants be made through the World Health Organization and, in the Western Hemisphere, through the Pan American Health Organization. Requires grants to be in furtherance of the global strategy of the World Health Organization Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to States, for grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities, for fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control, and for grants to international organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the development, establishment, or expansion in a service area of networks of comprehensive medical services for individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Requires networks to provide: (1) comprehensive services, or referrals to comprehensive services, for such individuals, including specified services; and (2) continuing education for health care personnel involved in the delivery of services to individuals infected with the virus. Specifies allowed and prohibited uses of grants. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Requires entities applying for a grant, prior to applying, to establish a network advisory committee to assist in development of grant applications, provide support for the development, establishment, or expansion of the network, and monitor the implementation of, and the services provided through, the network. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to specified types of applicants. Directs the Secretary to make at least one grant each fiscal year to an applicant in each service area in which there is a high incidence of children who are infected with the virus. States criteria for selecting such applicant. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services to individuals with AIDS. Requires projects supported with such grants to provide for the delivery of health services in conjunction with the comprehensive medical services networks. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive medical service networks and for innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide long-term counseling to individuals who have AIDS or who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the virus; and (2) conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of such counseling. Specifies purposes for which grants may be used. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to entities based at, or having relationships with, entities providing comprehensive health services to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for the study of, and projects for the demonstration of, effective methods, with regard to intravenous drug abusers, to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide treatment to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to create the National Program on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, consisting of: (1) a research program on AIDS, including a research program relating to the prevention of AIDS; and (2) demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS and for the provision of counseling concerning AIDS. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate one of the Directors of the national research institutes as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coordinator. Makes the AIDS Coordinator responsible for administration of the Program. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to develop and implement a plan for NIH to expedite the award of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements by any agency of NIH for projects relating to AIDS, including projects initiated by investigators not in response to any solicitation for proposals. Requires the plan to provide, in the case of applications made in response to solicitations for proposals, for making of awards or disapproval of applications within six months after the date on which a solicitation is issued. Directs the AIDS Coordinator, in conjunction with the Directors of the national research institutes and in consultation with the National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board (Advisory Board), to promote cooperation between specified agencies in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report with specified contents. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for AIDS and infection with the virus. Authorizes the AIDS Coordinator to: (1) establish or support the large-scale production or distribution of specialized biological materials or other therapeutic substances for research relating to AIDS and set standards of safety and care for persons using such materials; (2) support, in consultation with the Advisory Board, research relating to AIDS outside the United States in certain circumstances, collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, the training of American scientists abroad and foreign scientists in the United States, and programs of education and training, including education and laboratory and clinical research training; (3) encourage and coordinate research relating to AIDS by industrial concerns in certain circumstances and provide for the exchange of information between Federal agencies and private entities involved in specified ways with therapies and vaccines for AIDS; (4) acquire, improve, repair, operate, and maintain, in consultation with the Advisory Board, laboratories and other real and personal property, make grants for the renovation of facilities, and lease certain spaces for a limited period; (5) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to expedite and coordinate research relating to AIDS; and (6) maintain and operate the International Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Data Bank. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the AIDS Coordinator, to establish in NIH a National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the implementation of the Program; (2) advise and make recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary, the Director of NIH, the AIDS Coordinator, and the heads of other Federal agencies; and (3) maintain liaisons with other advisory bodies and key non-Federal entities involved with the control of AIDS. Requires the Advisory Board to prepare an annual report for the AIDS Coordinator describing the Advisory Board's activities and making recommendations regarding the Program. Authorizes the Director of the Institute to enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities for planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Specifies permitted uses for Federal payments under a cooperative agreement or grant. Limits support of a center to five years, subject to extension for periods of up to five years, if recommended by a peer review group. Requires, in the Institute, appointment of an Associate Director for Prevention to coordinate and promote the programs in the Institute concerning the prevention of infectious diseases, including AIDS. Directs the Associate Director for Prevention to prepare, for inclusion in a biennial report required by existing law, a description of the prevention activities of the Institute. Requires the Director of the Institute to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serum are available to qualified investigators. States that AIDS is included within the scope of the purpose of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to make awards, under existing provisions for National Research Service Awards, for the training of individuals to participate in national research efforts relating to AIDS. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or the Administrator of General Services to respond to any priority request made by the AIDS Coordinator of the NIH within 14 calendar days.

Bill· SS. 1215 (100th)referred

A bill to extend for 3 years the existing temporary suspension of the duty on mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987

Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1990, the suspension of duty on mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride, and magnesium nitrate.

Bill· SS. 1212 (100th)referred

A bill to provide for the temporary suspension of the duty on mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride, stabilizers and application adjuvants.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987

Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1990, the duty on mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride, stabilizers, and application adjuvants.

Bill· SS. 1207 (100th)referred

Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987

Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act of 1987 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program providing grants to small rural hospitals to assist such hospitals in modifying the type or extent of health care services they provide so that their services more closely approximate the changing needs of rural communities and are integrated with other community health care services. Requires rural hospitals wishing to participate in the program to submit an application specifying the nature of the hospital's proposed grant project and a timetable (of no more than two years) for its completion to the State Governor, who shall transmit it to the Secretary within 30 days with his or her comments on such application. Directs the Secretary to consider such comments, each project's objectives, and each project's effect in reducing expenditures under part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program in choosing among applicants for such grants. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989.

Bill· SS. 1203 (100th)referred

Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987

Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 - Expresses the determination of the Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): (1) is a terrorist organization; (2) is a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law; and (3) should not benefit from operating in the United States. Prohibits, if the purpose is to further the interests of the PLO: (1) the receipt of anything of value except informational material from the PLO; (2) the expenditure of funds from the PLO; (3) the establishment or maintenance of a PLO office within the jurisdiction of the United States. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall cease to have effect if the President certifies to the Congress that the PLO no longer practices or supports terrorist actions.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 58 (100th)referred

A concurrent resolution to express the support of Congress for private sector efforts aimed at alleviating losses suffered by retirees and employees as the result of pension plan terminations.

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1987

Expresses congressional support for privately sponsored programs designed to alleviate losses of retirement income caused by pension plan terminations. Affirms the right of labor organizations and employers to engage in collective bargaining designed to address the needs of older persons affected by pension plan terminations. Applauds private efforts to supplement the public system of pension guarantees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such efforts are consistent with the purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Bill· SS. 1188 (100th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain associations of football coaches to have a qualified pension plan which includes cash or deferred arrangement.

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax-exempt organization all of whose members primarily coach football as full-time employees of four-year colleges or universities to have a pension plan with a qualified cash or deferred arrangement, provided such organization was in existence on September 18, 1986. Requires such a plan to be treated as a multiemployer plan.

Bill· SS. 1176 (100th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude research facility bonds from the volume cap for qualified 501(c)(3) bonds.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude research facility bonds from the $150,000,000 limitation applicable to 501(c)(3) bonds (tax-exempt private activity bonds at least 95 percent of whose net proceeds are to be used only by a governmental unit or by a nonprofit charitable, religious, cultural, scientific, or educational entity (a 501(c) (3) organization)). Applies the exclusion to any bond issued as part of an issue 95 percent of whose proceeds will be used: (1) with respect to a research facility; or (2) to provide research equipment.

Bill· SS. 1171 (100th)referred

Global Resources, Environment, and Population Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987

Global Resources, Environment, and Population Act of 1987 - Declares public policy with respect to promoting national population stabilization and encouraging other nations to achieve population stabilization to balance population, resources, and environmental quality. Requires that Federal policies, regulations, and public laws be interpreted and administered in accordance with this Act. Directs Federal agencies to use reliable demographic, natural resource, and environmental information in planning and decisionmaking and to assist State and local governments in efforts to balance population, resources, and environmental quality. Requires Federal agencies to act to eliminate any deficient or inconsistent policy which limits or prevents compliance with this Act. Directs the agencies to recommend to the President and the Congress any administrative or legislative action deemed necessary. Requires the President, within three years of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on: (1) the current and foreseeable trends in national and global population size and age structure, including annual figures on population increases or decreases in each nation and the level of net migration into the United States; (2) an evaluation of the adequacy of available natural resources to fulfill population requirements; (3) an evaluation of the short-term and long-term impact that such trends will have on the economy and national security of the United States; (4) a review of the effects of Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, programs, and activities on the attainment of national and global population stabilization; (5) a detailed demographic analysis of population growth, losses, or shifts in different regions of the United States and their impact on the economy, natural resources, environmental quality, and the provision of public services; (6) any destabilizing impacts which population growth and shifts may have on other nations, particularly the developing nations; (7) a summary of the findings of agency policy reviews; and (8) recommendations or legislative actions considered necessary.

Bill· SS. 1155 (100th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat similarly all tier 1 railroad retirement benefits for income tax purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987

Amends the Internal Revenue Code definition of "tier 1 railroad retirement benefit" to delete provisions that tie the income tax treatment of certain railroad retirees to Social Security benefits to which such taxpayers would be entitled rather than to benefits actually received under the railroad retirement system. (Under current law, the amount such taxpayers receive in excess of the Social Security entitlement amount is taxed as regular income.)

Bill· SS. 1127 (100th)open

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987 - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove durational limitations on Medicare coverage of inpatient hospital services, and cover 150 days of post-hospital extended care services per year, for an individual covered under parts A and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program. (Individuals covered only under part A would be subject to current durational limitations on such services.) Provides that an individual covered under parts A and B of the Medicare program shall not be required to pay more than one deductible for inpatient hospital services and one deductible for blood furnished in connection with such services per year. (Currently such deductibles are imposed for each "spell of illness.") Eliminates the coinsurance requirement imposed on such individuals for extended hospital stays. Imposes a coinsurance rate, equal to 15 percent of the average per diem cost of post-hospital extended care services, for the first ten days of a part A and B beneficiary's receipt of such services per year. (Currently, the coinsurance requirement applys to days 21 through 100 of a "spell of illness" requiring such services.) Amends part B of the Medicare program to cover all of the out-of-pocket Medicare expenses which a part B beneficiary incurs in excess of $1,700 in 1988, adjusted annually thereafter to reflect changes in the cost-of-living. Provides for the adjustment of Medicare payments to organizations providing health care on a prepaid basis so as to reimburse them for such excess out-of-pocket costs incurred on behalf of enrollees. Counts amounts an organ transplant patient spends on immunosuppressive drugs toward the out-of-pocket expense limit. Imposes a monthly catastrophic coverage premium of $4 for 1988 on an individual covered under parts A and B of the Medicare program, with annual adjustments to such premium thereafter reflecting changes in the amount of catastrophic benefits paid. Imposes a smaller monthly catastrophic coverage premium on individuals who are only covered under part B of the Medicare program. Imposes a supplemental part B premium of $12 per year, adjusted annually to reflect increases in the cost of catastrophic benefits, for each $150 of income tax due in excess of $150. Sets an annual cap on the supplemental premium. Covers, as home health services, daily nursing care and home health aide services furnished for up to 21 days with a physician's certification of the need for such daily care. Covers such services on a daily basis for 45 days when provided to a part B beneficiary within 30 days of his or her hospital discharge. (Currently such care must be provided on a part-time or intermittent basis.) Defines as "homebound" (a prerequisite of eligibility for Medicare home health services) any person who has a condition which restricts his or her ability to leave the home without support or for whom leaving the home is medically contraindicated. Directs the Secretary to notify Medicare beneficiaries, when they apply for benefits under part A or enroll under part B, and annually thereafter, regarding the extent of and limitations on Medicare coverage, including the ways in which coverage differs between those who are and those who are not covered under part B. Requires the Secretary to take into account the costs incurred by organizations providing health care on a prepaid basis as a result of this Act's amendments in modifying contracts with such organizations. Requires such organizations to adjust their agreements with Medicare beneficiaries in consideration of such amendments. Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine to perform a study to determine which prescription drugs should have their costs covered by the Medicare program or counted toward the part B beneficiary's out-of-pocket expense limit. Requires the Institute to submit an interim report within six months and a final report within one year of this Act's enactment to the Secretary and the Congress regarding such study. Creates an extension period of hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries which is to follow the two 90-day periods and the subsequent 30-day period of hospice care coverage currently provided in an individual's lifetime. Requires that State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies be at least as stringent as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Standards, amended within 90 days of this Act's enactment to reflect changes made by this Act. Provides that if the NAIC Model Standards are not amended, Federal model standards shall be established and serve as the basis for evaluating State regulatory standards for Medicare supplemental health insurance policies. Requires that States use savings accrued under Medicare from catastrophic Medicare coverage to expand Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) coverage of the low-income elderly and community spouses of institutionalized individuals. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by October 1, 1989, on a study to be conducted by the Institute of Medicine into private and public funding options for long-term care. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 180 days of this Act's enactment on steps taken to eliminate the three-day prior hospitalization requirement for extended care services.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 56 (100th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that no major change in the payment methodology for physicians' services, including services furnished to hospital inpatients, under the Medicare Program should be made until reports required by the Ninety-ninth Congress have been received and evaluated.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987

Expresses the sense of the Congress that no significant change in the Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) physician payment methodology should be undertaken without the receipt of reports required by legislation enacted in the 99th Congress and a detailed analysis of the long-range impact of such change on the provision of health care.