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United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Designates the week of November 29 through December 5, 1987, as National Home Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense should not impose any charge for outpatient medical care provided in medical facilities of the uniformed services to retired members, their dependents, or to the dependents of members serving on active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Radon Mitigation Clarification Act of 1987 - Provides that, for purposes of the medical care expense tax deduction, amounts paid for necessary home improvements to mitigate measured harmful levels of radon gas exposure shall be treated as expenses paid for medical care and in the same manner as amounts paid for other home improvements which qualify as expenses paid for medical care.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 relating to eligibility and certification requirements for trade adjustment assistance to make eligible for such assistance those firms which provide essential parts or essential services of articles for which imports of like or directly competitive articles have contributed importantly to separation from work or to a serious decline in sales or production. Extends from a 26-week period to a 52-week period the time in which additional trade readjustment allowances may be paid for retraining under such Act. Revises provisions concerning such trade readjustment training to allow workers a two-week break in training and still maintain training eligibility, under certain circumstances. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in determining the appropriate period of training under trade adjustment assistance, to consider whether the training provided under each program is of suitable duration to achieve the desired skill level within a reasonable period of time.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates October 1987 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates November 17, 1987, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates the week of November 15 through November 21, 1987, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates the week beginning August 2 and ending August 8, 1987, as International Special Olympics Week and designates August 3, 1987, as International Special Olympics Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates October 28, 1987, as National Immigrants Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 26 through May 2, 1987, as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1987
Designates April 3, 1987, as Interstate Commerce Commission Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
State Radon Program Development Act of 1987 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement activities to assist State radon programs such as: (1) establishing an information clearinghouse; (2) designing and implementing training seminars for government officials; (3) demonstrating radon mitigation methods; and (4) establishing a national data base on the location and amounts of radon. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a State with technical assistance in developing or implementing programs addressing radon, including: (1) surveys of radon location and occurrence; (2) public information programs; and (3) controlling radon in existing or new structures. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress annually on a plan to implement this assistance program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States on an annual basis for radon assessment and mitigation, covering the same activities the Administrator may provide directly through technical assistance. Grants priority to State projects which involve serious radon contamination or potential for reduction, including the development of innovative techniques. Limits the Federal share of costs to 75 percent. Limits per State grants to 15 percent of the total funds available. Places other limitations on the uses of grant money. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
Radon Detection in School Buildings Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to study the extent of radon contamination in the Nation's school buildings, including a statistical survey of radon levels and a list of school districts where radon levels probably exceed target levels for remedial action. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance, information, and equipment to States for conducting radon tests. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake diagnostic and remedial efforts at high radon level school buildings to develop the necessary technology. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress annually for two years on activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
Rural Health Services Transition Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program, administered through the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, to assist eligible small rural hospitals in modifying their services to adjust to certain demographic changes and to changing health care needs and practices in their communities. Sets forth criteria to govern grant applications and the use of grant funds. Lists the factors the Secretary must consider in determining which hospitals will receive grants. Limits grants to a maximum of $50,000 per year and to a term of no more than two years. Restricts certain capital-related expenditures of grant moneys. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress at least every six months concerning the grant program and to submit a final report at a specified time. Authorizes appropriations from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for FY 1988 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
National Child Search Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to direct the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants to States for the purpose of establishing and operating, or operating and expanding, Missing Children Information Clearinghouses. Sets forth grant application and qualification requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1987 - Establishes procedures for the budgetary treatment and financing of Federal direct loan and loan guarantee programs. Defines "subsidy" as: (1) the difference between the face value of a direct loan and the estimated proceeds from the sale of the loan in the investment securities markets; and (2) the estimated net cost to the Government to reinsure a loan guarantee with a private insurer. Makes any direct loan obligation of a Federal agency an obligation of the Federal Credit Revolving Fund. Requires each agency to include in its budget proposal for a fiscal year: (1) the planned level of new direct loan obligations; and (2) the estimated subsidy associated with such obligations. Prohibits an agency from making a direct loan obligation unless: (1) funds have been appropriated for the loan subsidy; or (2) the use of funds otherwise available to the agency for the subsidy has been limited. Provides that the subsidy amount shall constitute the obligation of the agency and the difference between such amount and the face value of the loan shall constitute the obligation of the Fund. Requires the subsidy to be paid as the loan is disbursed. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to sell direct loans to the private sector. Makes any loan guarantee commitment of a Federal agency a commitment of the Fund. Requires each agency to include in its budget proposal for a fiscal year: (1) the level of new loan guarantee commitments; and (2) the estimated subsidy associated with such commitments. Prohibits an agency from making a loan guarantee commitment unless: (1) funds have been appropriated for the guarantee subsidy; or (2) the use of funds otherwise available to the agency for the subsidy has been limited. Provides that the subsidy amount shall constitute the obligation of the agency. Requires the subsidy to be paid to the Fund when the underlying loan agreement is executed. Directs the Secretary to purchase reinsurance of loan guarantees from private insurers. Establishes the Fund within the Department of the Treasury to serve as a central revolving fund and financing mechanism for all new Federal direct loans and loan guarantees. Directs the Secretary to receive into the Fund: (1) subsidy payments from Federal agencies; (2) payments due the Government for direct loans; (3) proceeds from the sale of direct loans and from the sale of any collateral received as the result of defaults on direct or guaranteed loans; and (4) fees due the Government for loan guarantees. Sets forth the Secretary's duties in managing the Fund which include: (1) disbursing direct loans to borrowers according to agency loan agreements; (2) making claim payments for guaranteed loans in default that have not been reinsured; (3) identifying separately the credit activity of each agency; (4) requiring uniform reporting by agencies on loan performance, borrower characteristics, and debt collection efforts; and (5) estimating the subsidy amount for each direct loan and loan guarantee. Requires the head of each agency authorized to make or guarantee loans to: (1) request annual appropriations for the subsidized portions of agency loans; (2) conduct loan programs within the lower of appropriations limitations for such programs or annual appropriations available to cover subsidy costs; and (3) pay to the Fund all relevant loan collections. Provides for the budgetary treatment of direct loan and loan guarantee subsidies as agency obligations and of financing requirements of credit programs exceeding agency subsidies as Fund obligations. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds of the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act to: (1) finance direct loans to the extent not covered by agency subsidy payments and direct loan sales; and (2) pay claims, resulting from federally-guaranteed loans, in excess of Fund reserves. Authorizes the appropriation of funds necessary to liquidate debt incurred by the Fund due to operating losses. Authorizes appropriations to agencies for subsidies associated with proposed direct loan obligations and proposed loan guarantee commitments. Includes as "deposit insurance agencies" the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Provides that: (1) obligations of deposit insurance agencies to make direct loans to the public or to assume loan assets shall remain obligations of such agencies; and (2) commitments to guarantee loans shall remain commitments of such agencies. Requires each deposit insurance agency to include in its budget proposal the estimated subsidy costs associated with proposed direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments. Requires no appropriations or limitations on the use of funds otherwise available for subsidies. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Prohibits a Federal agency other than the Department of the Treasury from issuing, selling, or guaranteeing an obligation that is ordinarily financed in investment securities markets unless such obligation may be held by only the Secretary. Permits the Secretary to waive such prohibition under specified circumstances. Deems any obligation guaranteed by a Federal agency and financed by the Secretary to be a direct loan of the Fund. Provides that purchases by the Secretary of obligations issued by local public bodies and guaranteed by a Federal agency shall be upon such terms as necessary to avoid an increase in borrowing costs of such bodies. Authorizes such an agency to make payments to the Secretary to offset the Secretary's costs of purchasing such obligations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1987
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to add additional factors relating to competition in the exporting country to be considered by the International Trade Commission (ITC) in determining material injury to U.S. markets with respect to the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on merchandise imported into the United States. Prohibits factors other than those enumerated under the Act to be the basis for a determination of the ITC that there is no material injury or threat of material injury to U.S. producers.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require deductions for research and experimental expenditures to be allocated to income from sources within the United States. Repeals a provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which establishes a one-year requirement that 50 percent of such expenditures be allocated to U.S. income and the remainder on the basis of gross sales or gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1987
Grants a Federal charter to the Montford Point Marine Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that specified minimum tax and accounting rules applicable to installment obligations shall not apply to obligations arising from sales of property by nondealers. Allows taxpayers to elect to have the amendments made by this Act regarding minimum tax not apply to dispositions made before January 1, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1987
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1992, the duty on certain benzenoid dye intermediates.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1987
Reaffirms that deposits in federally insured depository institutions, up to the statutorily prescribed amount, are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987
Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal criminal code with respect to the prohibition against the sexual exploitation of children to add as a condition triggering Federal penalties that the person concerned know that a minor was transported in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of producing pornography. Makes it a criminal offense for any person to coerce, intimidate, or fraudulently induce an individual 18 years or older to engage in any sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of producing any visual depiction of such conduct. Grants the U.S. district courts jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this section. Authorizes the Attorney General or any person threatened with loss or damage by such conduct to institute a civil suit. Provides for treble damages for a victim who suffers physical injury, emotional distress, or property damage. Imposes civil penalties for violation of the prohibition against sexual exploitation of children.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987
Bank Holding Company and National Bank Amendment Act of 1987 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to provide that insurance activity restrictions applicable to bank holding companies shall also apply to any bank or nonbank subsidiary or affiliate thereof. Revises one such restriction to permit bank holding companies to conduct insurance activities in places with populations or 5,000 or less only so long as the principal place of the holding company's bank business is also located in a place with a population of 5,000 or less. Amends the National Bank Act to permit a national bank to conduct insurance activities only so long as such activities are confined to the place in which the bank is located and doing business and the population of such place does not exceed 5,000.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987
Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1987 to require that no admission fee be charged for activities of significant educational or cultural value offered at urban parks.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe the bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987
Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987
Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exclude from participation in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) and to require the prohibition from participation in any State health care program of any individual or entity: (1) convicted of a criminal offense related to the delivery of an item or service under title XVIII or under titles XIX (Medicaid), V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant), or XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services); or (2) convicted of a criminal offense related to neglect or abuse of patients in connection with the delivery of a health care item or service. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude from Medicare participation and to require the prohibition from participation in any State health care program of any individual or entity: (1) convicted of fraud with respect to any Federal, State, or locally financed health care program; (2) convicted of interfering with the investigation of health care fraud or patient abuse; (3) convicted of a felony for manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance; (4) whose health care license has been suspended or revoked; (5) suspended or excluded from participation in a Federal health care program; (6) claiming excessive charges or providing unnecessary services; (7) committing certain acts prohibited under title XI; (8) owned or controlled by an individual convicted of health care related crimes, fined for health care abuses, or excluded from Medicare or a State health care program; (9) failing to supply certain information; and (10) defaulting on health education loans or scholarship obligations made or secured by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude any hospital failing to comply with corrective action required under title XVIII. Sets forth provisions relating to notice requirements, judicial review, and period of exclusion. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify each appropriate State agency administering or supervising the administration of a State health care program of each exclusion and the period of exclusion. Permits an excluded individual or entity to apply, following a period of exclusion, to the Secretary for reinstatement. Sets forth provisions providing for civil and criminal penalties for acts involving Medicare or State health care programs abuse, including penalties for physician misrepresentations. Requires a State, as a condition of Medicaid plan approval, to provide for the following: (1) a system of reporting any type of adverse action concluded against any health care practitioner or entity by the State or a local licensing authority; and (2) such access to documents as may be necessary by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to provide suitable safeguards for the confidentiality of such information. Requires any health care provider providing health care services for which payment may be made under the Act to assure that services or items furnished will be: (1) provided economically and only when, and to the extent, medically necessary; (2) quality services which meet professionally recognized standards of health care; and (3) supported by evidence of medical necessity and quality in such form and fashion and at such time as may reasonably be required by a reviewing peer review organization in the exercise of its duties and responsibilities. Permits a State to exclude from Medicaid participation any individual or entity excluded under Medicare pursuant to the patient and program protection provisions. Requires a State in order to receive Federal payments with respect to a health maintenance organization (HMO) to exclude any HMO that: (1) could be excluded because of the conviction of the owners or managers of certain crimes; or (2) contracts with any individual or entity convicted of such crimes. Prohibits Federal payments with respect to any amount expended for items or services furnished by or at the direction of any individual or entity excluded from Medicaid participation because of the patient and program protection provisions. Prohibits a State under title V from making payments with respect to any amount expended for items or services furnished by or at the direction of any individual or entity excluded from participation pursuant to the patient and program protection provisions of title XI. Prohibits Federal payments with respect to any amount expended for items or services furnished by or at the direction of any individual or entity excluded from Medicare because of the patient and program protection provisions of title XI. Prohibits using a grant under title XX for payment for any item or service furnished by or at the direction of a person excluded from title XX participation because of the patient and program protection provisions of title XI. Revises disclosure requirements under part A of title XI. Revises Medicare provisions concerning agreements with providers. Modifies the Medicaid moratorium provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to consider a State's Medicaid plan to include any plan change and any policy or guideline delineated in the State Medicaid operation or program manuals submitted to the Secretary either before or after the enactment of that Act and whether or not approved or disapproved by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to restore, for the duration of the moratorium, the policy in effect at the beginning of the moratorium regarding the period when homeownership by an institutionalized individual is permitted and the time permitted for the sale of a home. Amends the Medicare program to provide payment to beneficiaries for services rendered by an individual or entity which has been excluded from Medicare participation if such beneficiary did not know or have reason to know of the exclusion. Revises the definition under title XI of a "person with an ownership or control interest" in a provider of services under title V, XVIII, or XIX to limit reporting on ownership interests to those interests at or exceeding five percent of the entity's assets. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an intermediate sanction on a renal disease facility whose noncompliance with regulations the Secretary prescribes does not immediately jeopardize patient health and safety by denying it Medicare payments for services it provides after receiving notice of the sanction and before correcting its deficiencies. Provides that individuals who knowingly and willfully (currently, the intent must be knowing or willful) make a false statement or misrepresent a material fact in the sale of Medicare supplemental health insurance shall be guilty of a felony. Directs the Secretary to promulgate final regulations within two years of enactment of this Act specifying payment practices which shall not be considered as violations of the Social Security Act's anti-kickback provisions. Sets forth effective date provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the targeted jobs income tax credit. (Present law terminates such credit for employees who begin work after December 31, 1988.) Makes permanent the authorization of appropriations with respect to the certification requirements of such tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987
Designates October 14, 1987, as William Penn Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Export Administration Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a distribution license appropriate for cosignees in the People's Republic of China. Excludes the People's Republic of China as an "other than controlled country" for purposes of export licenses authorizing U.S. exports and reexports of technology and related goods. Defines "affiliate" to include both governmental entities and commercial entities that are controlled in fact by controlled countries with respect to the prohibition or curtailment of exports of U.S. goods and technology to embassies and affiliates of controlled countries. Sets forth specified procedures for determining foreign availability of goods and technology from outside the United States to controlled countries. Defines "foreign availability" and "non-United States origin." Requires the Secretary to review, on a continuing basis, the availability to countries, other than controlled countries, from sources outside the United States, of goods or technology that require a validated license to export. Requires the Secretary to designate such goods and technology as eligible for export to such countries in any case where he determines that such goods or technology from foreign sources are of similar quality and are available to such countries without effective restrictions. Permits the Secretary to make such a foreign availability determination on his own initiative, upon receipt of an allegation from an export license applicant that such availability exists or upon the submission of a certification by a Technical Advisory Committee of appropriate jurisdiction as to the goods or technology involved. Provides that export licenses shall become valid, unless there is a risk of diversion to proscribed countries, 20 working days after the date an application to export goods and technology is filed with the Secretary. Extends to 35 days (currently 30 days) the time period that such licenses shall become effective in cases where the Secretary takes additional time to consider an application for such licenses. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) guidelines for the Coordinating Committee on Export Controls to negotiate agreements with governments outside the Committee to restrict the export of goods and technology on the International Control List (ICL); (2) enforcement measures with respect to such agreements; and (3) removal of items from the ICL if such items continue to be available to controlled countries or if such items no longer serve the objectives of the Committee. Provides that any person, firm, or business affiliated or otherwise connected to any party convicted of violating specified statutory criminal provisions shall not be eligible to apply for an export license for a period up to ten years after the conviction. Extends, in instances of public interest or to prevent imminent violations of this Act, the effective period of temporary orders denying export privileges to 180 days (currently 60 days). Provides that the Secretary may extend such period for an additional 180-day period (currently the additional period is 60 days).
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to redefine "export trading company" to include third-country trade revenues as export revenue. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to exempt from affiliate-loan restrictions covered under such Act transactions with an affiliate which is an export trading company as defined above. Prohibits the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from disapproving a proposed investment solely because of the proposed assets-to-equity ratio of an export trading company unless such ratio is greater than 25-to-one. Prohibits the Board from imposing a dollar limit on the amount of goods an export trading company may maintain in inventory, except under specified circumstances (such as such action being found necessary to prevent unduly burdensome risks being borne by the investor bank holding company). Amends the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 to require an applicant for a certificate of review (authorizing the applicant to engage in export trade activities) to state in such application the members seeking export trade protection under the certificate. Defines "applicant" for purposes of the issuance of such certificates. Requires a certificate of review to be issued to any applicant that establishes that its specific export trade activities and methods of operation will not result in a substantial lessening of competition or restraint of trade within the United States. Revises provisions relating to the admissibility of evidence in a proceeding requested because the Secretary of Commerce has denied an application to issue a certificate of review. Protects any member named in an issued certificate of review from a civil or criminal action brought under the antitrust laws. Revises the definition of "export trade" and defines the term "member" under the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 to mean any entity or person that is seeking protection under the certificate application. Expresses certain findings of the Congress concerning the need for an export promotion data system. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop and maintain an export promotion data system which performs specified functions and contains industrial and foreign market data. Requires such system to use the most effective means of disseminating data and information electronically through the Department of Commerce, and to monitor, organize, and disseminate specified information concerning U.S. export of goods and services and information on foreign countries involved in such exports. Requires a report to the Congress within six months after the enactment of this Act concerning the implementation of these provisions. Directs the Secretary to study the collection of trade-related data by the United States, and whether such information can be effectively disseminated to other sources. Directs the Secretary to consult with specified sources and departments in conducting such study. Specifies various types of data which are to be considered "trade-related data" by the Secretary in conducting such study. Requires each Federal department to cooperate fully with the Secretary in providing requested information concerning such study. Directs the Secretary, within 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to report the findings and recommendations resulting from such study to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Designates the week beginning August 2, 1987, as National Podiatric Medicine Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Cancer Institute Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Commends the organizers of the traveling art exhibit "An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art," as well as the exhibit itself.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Medicaid Community Spouse Protection Act of 1987 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to set special income eligibility standards for institutionalized individuals so as to provide support and maintenance of their noninstitutionalized spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Amends the National Housing Act to limit the Government National Mortgage Association mortgage guarantee fee to six basis points. Sets administrative fees at September 1, 1985, levels, except that they may be increased to cover increased administrative costs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Telecommunications Trade Act of 1987 - Title I: Actions to Achieve Competitive Opportunities - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), within six months of enactment of this Act, to: (1) identify and analyze all acts, policies, and practices in the markets of foreign countries that deny to U.S. telecommunications firms competitive opportunities that are substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities available to foreign companies in U.S. markets; and (2) determine which of such acts, policies, or practices denies trade agreement benefits to the United States, is unjustifiable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce, or otherwise has the effect of nullifying or impairing any benefit to the United States under any agreement or impeding attainment of any objective of any agreement to which the United States is a party. Sets forth factors to be considered in making such analysis and determination. Authorizes the USTR to exclude a country from investigation if the USTR determines that the potential market in such country for U.S. telecommunications products and services is not substantial. Requires the USTR to report to the Congress within six months of enactment of this Act on such analysis and determinations. Directs the President to begin negotiations with those countries which deny U.S. telecommunications firms substantially equivalent competitive opportunities to enter into trade agreements which provide such opportunities to U.S. telecommunications firms. Sets forth the objectives of the negotiations. Directs the President, if unable to enter into such an agreement to take, within two years of enactment of this Act, whatever actions within certain limits are necessary to achieve such objectives. Directs the President to take those actions which most directly affect trade in telecommunications products and services with the country concerned. Sets forth the actions the President is authorized to take in such circumstances. Directs the USTR, if a country does engage in unfair trade practices, to take whatever actions within certain limits are necessary to fully offset such acts, policies, and practices, and to restore the balance of concessions between the United States and such foreign country. Requires the USTR to review annually the extent to which a foreign country's policies meet the negotiating objectives achieved by trade agreements. Directs the USTR to take specified actions if the foreign country is not in compliance with such trade agreement or has adopted an unfair trade act, policy, or practice. Sets forth the actions the USTR is authorized to take. Directs the President and the USTR to consult with the Secretary of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission, and a specified interagency trade organization to determine appropriate actions against foreign countries. Directs the USTR to provide the opportunity for presentations of views by interested parties for purposes of identifying the objectives of trade negotiations and determining appropriate actions against foreign countries. Directs the President to keep the Congress informed of: (1) the negotiating priorities and objectives for each country involved; (2) the assessment of negotiating prospects; and (3) any U.S. concessions which might be included in negotiations to achieve such objectives. Title II: Trade Agreement Authority - Authorizes the President, during the three years following enactment of this Act, to enter into trade agreements which meet specified objectives with foreign countries which provide for: (1) the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of duties or restrictions, barriers, or other distortions to international trade; or (2) the prohibition of or limitations on the imposition of duties or restrictions, barriers, or other distortions to international trade. Authorizes the President to enter into trade agreements with a foreign country to grant concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions if: (1) the President has taken action because no trade agreement could be reached under this Act; and (2) the USTR is not required to take action against such country under this Act. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the importation of a product that is subject to registration or approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) only if: (1) such product conforms with all applicable FCC regulations; and (2) the information which is required on a specified FCC form is provided to the appropriate customs officer at the time of entry into the United States. Directs the FCC, the Secretary of Commerce, and the USTR to provide enforcement assistance to the Secretary of the Treasury upon request. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide the Congress with information on such imports at least twice a year. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include within the definition of service sector access authorization any authorization that permits access to the U.S. market to a foreign supplier of goods related to a service. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress at least once every two years on the impact of U.S. domestic policies and practices on the growth and international competitiveness of the U.S. telecommunications industry.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove durational limitations on the coverage of inpatient hospital services. Provides coverage of post-hospital extended care services for up to 100 days each year. (Currently such services are provided for up to 100 days during a "spell of illness.") Requires a beneficiary to pay a deductible for each of the first two inpatient hospital admissions in a year. (Currently an inpatient hospital deductible is required for each "spell of illness".) Eliminates the coinsurance requirement for inpatient hospital services and outpatient hospital extended care services. Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program to cover the amount by which a part B enrollee's out-of-pocket expenses exceed $2,000 in 1988, adjusting such ceiling thereafter to reflect changes in total Medicare per capita expenses. Excludes from the computation of a beneficiary's out-of-pocket expenses amounts above the full part B payment to physicians and others who do not accept assignment. Includes in the computation of the part B premium an amount equal to the Secretary of Health and Human Services' estimate of a part B enrollee's share of the benefits and administrative costs which result from this Act's catastrophic care coverage and beneficiary expense ceiling. Provides for the transfer to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund of part B premium revenues which are attributable to the catastrophic care coverage this Act establishes under part A of the Medicare program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Designates the week of October 11 through October 17, 1987, as National Job Skills Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Acknowledges the magnanimity of the Marshall plan and the efforts of the Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, to continue the values for which George C. Marshall stood, and asks all Americans to rededicate themselves to the ideals which George C. Marshall represented. Welcomes the publication on June 5, 1987, of the fourth volume of the official biography of George C. Marshall. Designates the month of June 1987 as George C. Marshall Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Digestive Diseases Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Designates the week of April 20 through April 25, 1987, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) no funds appropriated for vocational education for FY 1987 should be rescinded; and (2) the Federal Government should continue its funding commitment to vocational education for future years.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1987
Directs the President to designate the month of May 1987 as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 21, 1987, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1987
Designates the week of April 5 through April 11, 1987, as National Know Your Cholesterol Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987 - Limits the 1987 imports of textiles and textile products classified under a category to an amount equal to 101 percent of the total 1986 imports classified under such category. Limits the 1987 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under a nonrubber footwear category to an amount equal to: (1) the total 1986 imports of nonrubber footwear classified under such category; and (2) in the case of low priced nonrubber footwear, the total 1986 imports of low priced nonrubber footwear classified under such category. Provides for a one percent annual growth in the amount of permitted imports of textiles and textile products after 1987. Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into trade agreements to grant new concessions as compensation, to the extent required under U.S. trade agreements for the import limits imposed by this Act; and (2) proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty on textiles and textile products and on nonrubber footwear as necessary to carry out such agreements. Prohibits the President from reducing any rate of duty by more than ten percent. Requires the President, before entering into such trade agreements, to consider whether such country has violated trade concessions of benefit to the United States and such violation has not been adequately offset by U.S. action or by the action of such country. Sets forth requirements governing staged rate reductions in the tariffs of articles affected by this Act. Prohibits the President, except as authorized by this paragraph, from entering into trade negotiations with any country with respect to duties on textiles, textile products, and nonrubber footwear. Prohibits the President, except as provided in this paragraph, from decreasing or proposing a decrease in any such duty by any means, including an implementing bill or a proclamation. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the administration of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, ten years after enactment of this Act, to study and report to the Congress on the operation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Retiree Benefits Security Act of 1987 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to apply provisions governing the rejection of collective bargaining agreements in reorganization cases to collective bargaining agreement provisions relating to benefits for retired employees. Provides that bankruptcy claims for retiree benefits and claims arising under any collective bargaining agreement or rejection thereof shall not be limited to one year's compensation. Designates the labor organization which is the recognized exclusive collective bargaining representative in a collective bargaining agreement as the authorized representative of persons receiving retirement benefits under such agreement in bankruptcy proceedings. Directs the court to appoint a committee of retirees to serve as such representative if the labor organization elects not to serve or if the recipients of retiree benefits are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Requires the debtor in possession or trustee in a reorganization case to pay and not modify any retiree benefits under any program established or maintained by the debtor prior to filing a bankruptcy petition. Allows modification of such benefits: (1) by court order; or (2) as agreed to by the trustee and the authorized representative of benefit recipients. Treats such payments as administrative expenses. Permits the court to order a modification in retiree benefit payments only if: (1) with respect to benefits covered by a collective bargaining agreement, such agreement is rejected in bankruptcy; and (2) with respect to benefits whether covered or not, the court finds that modifications are necessary to permit the reorganization of the debtor and to assure that all creditors, the debtor, and all affected parties are treated fairly and equitably and that the balance of equities clearly favors the modification sought by the trustee. Permits the court, before issuing a final order, to authorize the trustee to implement interim changes in benefits not provided by a collective bargaining agreement, if essential to the continuation of the debtor's business, or in order to avoid irreparable damage to the estate. Provides that any retiree benefits paid between the filing of a petition and confirmation of a plan shall not be deducted from amounts calculated for claims for unpaid future retiree benefits or for any benefits not provided due to modifications, unless otherwise agreed by the debtor and the authorized representative. Requires a reorganization plan to place all claimants for retiree benefits in a separate class consisting only of such claimants. Requires that a plan, to be fair and equitable with respect to such claimants: (1) provide that each claim holder of such class receive property of a value equal to the allowed amount of such claim; or (2) provide that each claim holder of such class receive such value as found by the court to represent the minimum reduction in retiree benefits consistent with the ability of the debtor to provide such benefits after plan confirmation. Provides for the retroactive application of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 - Amends title IX (Prohibition of Sex Discrimination) of the Education Amendments of 1972 to define the phrase "program or activity" and the term "program" to mean all of the operations of the following entities, any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance: (1) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or local government; (2) a State or local government agency which distributes such assistance and the agency or department to which such assistance is extended; (3) a college, university, or other postsecondary institution, or public system of higher education; (4) a local educational agency, system of vocational education, or other school system; and (5) a corporation, partnership, or other private organization. States that such terms do not include any operation of an entity which is controlled by a religious organization. Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to define the phrase "program or activity" to mean all of the activities of the aforementioned entities.