United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a system of exchange access charges in order to: (1) achieve equal treatment among all inter-local access and transport area (LATA) carriers and other customers using the services of exchange companies through direct or indirect connection; (2) assure that payments and assignments of costs relating to exchange access are carried out in a manner which is open for public examination; (3) achieve flexibility in accommodating changes in market conditions and technology; (4) establish incentives for efficient investment decisions and technological choices; and (5) ensure that exchange carriers are compensated for their costs of providing exchange access. Directs the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board (established by this Act) to establish a universal service charge schedule to insure that basic telephone service will be available at reasonable rates throughout the United States. Requires such schedule to designate universal service costs to be allocated to a Federal jurisdiction and to provide for their collection by means of a universal service charge that is payable by any interLATA carrier or any provider of interLATA services or any private system that connects directly or indirectly to any exchange carrier or any local exchange switched network used to provide basic telephone service. Entitles each exchange company qualifying for payments to 90 percent of its reasonably incurred universal service costs which are directly related to the efficient and economic provision of such service. States that universal service costs shall consist of an exchange company's costs for basic intraLATA telephone service to any points within a LATA which exceed 110 percent of the average cost of providing comparable basic intraLATA telephone service throughout the United States. Provides that, notwithstanding the above provisions, any company which qualifies for payments and whose costs for basic intraLATA telephone service to any points exceed 250 percent of the average cost of providing comparable basic intraLATA telephone service throughout the United States shall be entitled to receive 100 percent of its reasonably incurred universal service costs over 250 percent of the national average. Defines: (1) "basic telephone service" as residential service; (2) "basic intraLATA telephone service" as that portion of basic telephone service provided within a local access and transport area, including access to such service; and (3) "exchange company" as a company that offers basic telephone service and other services within one or more service areas recognized by any State regulatory commission. Authorizes the Commission to assert jurisdiction over all nontraffic sensitive subscriber loop costs to a Federal jurisdiction, in order to achieve consistency and uniformity of policy in regard to interstate and intrastate access charges. Authorizes the Commission to delegate to a State commission some or all of the Commission's authority with respect to: (1) intrastate interLATA toll service; and (2) access charges for the interconnection of exchange communications service with interstate or intrastate interLATA toll service upon a finding that such delegation would promote the purposes of this Act. Directs the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board to establish guidelines binding a State commission in the exercise of any delegated authority. Directs the Commission to establish the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board which shall be composed of five commissioners of the Commission and four commissioners nominated by the national organization of State commissions. Directs the Commission to adopt as final any decisions of the Board. Establishes a fine applicable to anyone who, with the intent to deprive any exchange company of any revenue in connection with access charges, transmits telecommunications so as to avoid accessing a local exchange in order to avoid such charges. Directs the Commission and each State regulatory authority to take action to ensure access to basic telephone lifeline service.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Elderly and Handicapped Housing Act of 1983 - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to revise the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans for the provision of housing and related facilities for elderly or handicapped families. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance in the form of a deferred payment advance in lieu of such a loan to any corporation, consumer cooperative, or public agency or body for the provision of such housing. Conditions such assistance only on the Secretary's finding that: (1) the construction will be undertaken in an economical manner with no extravagant design or materials; and (2) the housing will be affordable for elderly or handicapped families who have no affordable housing alternatives. Limits the amount of such assistance to the total development cost of a project. Authorizes the Secretary to provide additional assistance to such an entity in an amount not exceeding 75 percent of the total development cost of a project if part of the financing is to be provided by a public housing agency. Requires repayment of such assistance, with deferred interest, after 20 years. Permits the Secretary to forgive a portion of an advance for each year after 20 years that a project continues to serve elderly and handicapped families, and the entire advance and interest thereon after 40 years of continued service. Directs the Secretary to require that at least 75 percent of the units of a project receiving an advance be made available to lower income families during the initial 20-year period of such advance. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the rents for lower income families occupying such projects to be determined in accordance with provisions governing the determination of rents for lower income occupants of units assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937, with certain exceptions. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with owners of assisted projects to make payments to cover the costs of units occupied by lower income families that are not met from project income. Limits: (1) the annual contract amount per project; (2) the aggregate contracting authority of the Secretary per year; and (3) the aggregate amount that may be obligated over the duration of the contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) proclaim his intention to establish a Productivity and Quality Award to be made to businesses, workers, other individuals, and public sector organizations that make major contributions toward sustained improvement in productivity and quality performance; and (2) establish a President's interagency Productivity and Quality Award Committee to recommend criteria for such awards and to design certificates and medals of commendation for presentation to award recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Urges the President to encourage: (1) Government-wide participation in implementing the recommendations of the United Nations World Assembly on Aging and in planning for the scheduled 1985 review by the United Nations of the implementation of the Vienna International Plan of Action on Aging; (2) the exchange of information and the promotion of research on aging among the States, the Government, international organizations, and other nations; and (3) greater private sector involvement in responding to the concerns of the aging. Urges the President to inform developing nations that the United States recognizes aging as an important issue requiring national attention.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1983
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to require that benefit payments to a person other than the individual entitled to such payments be made on the basis of an investigation and on the basis of adequate evidence that such payments are in the interest of the individual so entitled, unless the benefit recipient is a relative of such individual or such individual is legally incompetent or a drug addict or alcoholic. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system of accountability monitoring whereby a person receiving benefit payments to which another individual is entitled shall report annually (or more frequently if required by the Secretary) on the use of such payments, unless such person is a relative of and lives in the same household as such individual. Directs the Secretary to monitor and periodically review a statistically significant number of all payments made under titles II and XVI in order to ensure that payments are being made to the proper parties and to determine whether payee changes must be made. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress annually on the payment review and on cases involving inappropriate payees. Imposes criminal penalties on recipients of supplemental security income to which another individual is entitled if such recipients are convicted of fraud.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
National Commission on Neurofibromatosis Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within 60 days a National Commission on Neurofibromatosis which shall formulate a plan to identify the research needed to develop an effective treatment and a cure for neurofibromatosis. Sets forth operating and related provisions. Authorizes the Commission to transmit interim reports. Requires the Commission to make a final report to the President and to each House of Congress within two years. Terminates the Commission three months after submission of the final report.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Peacemaker Patient Protection Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to reduce the reimbursement: (1) for new cardiac pacemakers by 15 percent; (2) for replacement cardiac pacemakers by 30 percent; and (3) for payments to physicians for cardiac pacemaker implantations and monitoring by 25 percent. Prohibits coverage for the expenses, in any 12 month period, of routine monitoring of a cardiac pacemaker or pacemaker lead in excess of six transtelephonic monitorings or in excess of four monitorings at a physician's office. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads for which payment under title XVIII was made. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on diagnosis-related group type reimbursement for physicians' services related to cardiac pacemaker device implantation.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Urges the President to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union to: (1) declare a verifiable and limited moratorium on the testing in space of antisatellite weapons; (2) resume negotiations on a verifiable ban on the testing, production, deployment, and use of any antisatellite weapon; and (3) seek a verifiable treaty prohibiting any space-directed or space-based weapons system which is designed to cause damage on earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space. Declares that such agreements should not restrict non-weapons operations in space, such as the U.S. space shuttle program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to continue to use diplomatic and legal means to achieve worldwide compliance with the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1983
Health Care Coordination Act of 1983 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to authorize any State, subject to a waiver being granted, to establish as a component of its State plan a comprehensive program under which individuals who are eligible for benefits under Medicaid and under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act (other than an individual having end stage renal disease) shall be furnished health care and other services as described by such program. Requires any such program to provide at least the following services: (1) all services for which payment would be made under title XVIII; (2) all medical assistance for which an individual would otherwise be eligible under the State Medicaid plan; (3) case management, including assessments and periodic reassessments; and (4) to the extent the State determines such services to be required by an individual enrolled in the program homemaker and home health aid services, and adult day health care services. Authorizes a State to provide, in addition, any other community-based services necessary to maintain an enrolled individual in the community who would otherwise be institutionalized. Provides that: (1) a program established under this Act need not be in effect statewide; and (2) in any case in which more than one program is in effect in a State, each program shall be considered independently for purposes of meeting program requirements. Requires all services provided under the program to be provided by providers qualified under title XVIII or XIX. Makes any individual eligible for coverage under the program who is eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare (excluding those with end stage renal disease). Makes enrollment optional with the individual. Prohibits enrollment of any individual who is an inpatient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility if more than 25 percent of the individuals enrolled in the program already are inpatients in such facilities. Requires the percentage of individuals enrolled in a program who are disabled or frail elderly individuals to be approximately equal to or greater than the percentage of the population of such individuals eligible under Medicare and Medicaid in the area served by the program. Provides that the amounts and methods of payment under the program may be any one of several specified methods used under titles XVIII and XIX. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to grant a waiver of Medicaid and Medicare requirements to any State as may be necessary to establish a program or programs if such State provides satisfactory assurances that: (1) the total cost to State and Federal Governments will not exceed the total cost which would have been incurred if the program were not in effect; (2) quality of and access to health care under the program will be maintained; and (3) the program meets the requirements of this paragraph. Permits a waiver of: (1) the skilled care, intermittent care, and homebound requirements for the provision of home health services under Medicare; (2) the skilled care and post hospital requirement for extended care under Medicare; (3) Medicaid requirements relating to state coverage, comparability of services, and freedom of choice of providers; (4) any Medicaid or Medicare provision relating to methods and amounts of reimbursement; and (5) specified other Medicare and Medicaid requirements relating to amount and duration of covered services, enrollment fees, premiums, deductions, cost sharing, and similar charges. Requires a State to provide for quality assurance review of any program established under this Act. Directs the Secretary to make payments to a State on a per capita basis with respect to each individual enrolled in a program. Provides that the amount of such payment shall be 95 percent of the adjusted average per capita cost of institutionalized individuals as determined for purposes of Medicare health maintenance organization reimbursments in the case of any individual who is an inpatient in a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility, or who: (1) has been determined to require the level of care provided in a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility, but for the provision of home or community-based services under this program; and (2) is dependent on personal assistance on a daily basis for at least two of the following activities eating, bathing, use of the toilet, transferring to and from bed, or dressing. Requires the State to pay the premium under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII for each individual enrolled in the program. Requires: (1) each State with a program under this Act to report to the Secretary at least annually; and (2) the Secretary to report to Congress one year after enactment, and then again three years after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
First Time Homebuyer Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit to first time homebuyers for interest on home mortgages in specified circumstances where State or local governments elect to participate in a mortgage credit program rather than issue mortgage subsidy bonds. Sets forth requirements for a State or local government to participate in such a mortgage credit program.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the States should: (1) adopt the International Symbol of Access to identify vehicles carrying the physically handicapped and grant only to such vehicles access to special parking privileges; and (2) enter into agreements of reciprocity relating to special parking privileges granted to handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Foreign Tax Credit Conformity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to recapture domestic losses in subsequent years in which it has domestic income by recharacterizing the subsequent domestic income as foreign source income, to the extent domestic losses have served to reduce the foreign tax credit available to the taxpayer. Extends the carryover period for excess foreign tax credits from five years to 15 years. Revises ordering rule provisions for foreign tax credits arising after 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Excellence in Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make awards to local educational agencies (LEAs) for elementary and secondary school excellence programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to reserve from such funds specified amounts to carry out provisions for special school awards and for research, evaluation, dissemination, and monitoring activities. Authorizes the Secretary to establish criteria, including specified standards, for the selection of schools to receive awards under this Act. Requires each LEA desiring to participate in such awards program to nominate schools according to specified procedures. Directs the chief State school officer of each State to select, taking specified factors into account, 25 schools from such nominations for submission to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to select up to 500 schools from such nominations after an impartial review panel has considered each submission. Directs the Secretary, in making such selection, to give priority to proposals which include specified types of activities. Sets the amount and conditions of awards. Authorizes the Secretary, from specified reserved funds, to make special school awards to nominated schools to pay a specified Federal share of the cost of the proposed activities, if the LEA provides further assurances that private sector funds will be contributed for carrying out such activities. Directs the Secretary, from specified reserved funds, to conduct research, evaluation, and dissemination activities to assure that exemplary projects and practices developed with assistance under this Act are made available to LEAs throughout the United States. Directs the Secretary to establish an independent panel to monitor the success of the programs assisted by this Act in achieving national objectives in improving instruction and student achievement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to set the cap amount for hospice care at $6,500, to be increased or decreased annually according to the consumer price index.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President to notify Congress if the President proclaims the import relief recommended by the International Trade Commission (ITC) or announces an intention to negotiate one or more orderly marketing agreements pursuant to the ITC's recommendation. Requires the President to notify Congress if the President determines that: (1) the provision of the import relief recommended by the ITC is not in the national economic interest; and (2) there are alternatives which will be as effective in offsetting the material injury or threat of material injury to affected industry. Requires such notification to include reasons for finding that the import relief recommended by the ITC is not in the national economic interest, information on the actions the President proposes to take, and proposed legislation to implement the President's recommendations. Requires the President's proposed legislation to be given expedited consideration in the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
School Facilities Child Care Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations having the capacity to furnish school-age child care services in order to assist such agencies and organizations to establish and operate such services in public schools. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Sets forth information which must be included in applications by such agencies or organizations to the Secretary for such grants. Requires the Secretary, in approving the applications, to: (1) assure that there is an equitable distribution of approved applications; (2) give priority to applications from applicants in communities with the greatest need and a shortage of economic resources for such services; and (3) give consideration to applications who can illustrate an identifiable base of community support. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of collecting data from recipients of assistance under this Act designed to provide a national-needs assessment for child care services of school-age children in the United States. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on activities under this Act together with a needs assessment of child care services for school-age children in each State. Requires the Secretary to operate a clearinghouse on school-age child care programs. Sets forth general administrative provisions with respect to carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Prohibits any company that is engaged directly or indirectly in any activity not permitted for a bank holding company from acquiring control of any insured bank or of insured banks in more than one State without prior approval under the Bank Holding Company Act. Prohibits any company that is engaged directly or in any activity other than an activity permitted for a multiple savings and loan holding company from acquiring control of any insured institution except as provided in the National Housing Act. Prohibits any company that acquires control of an insured bank or institution on or after June 23, 1983, from retaining control of such bank or institution and engaging in non-bank holding activities on or after the effective date of this Act unless the acquisition conforms to certain provisions of the National Housing Act. Prohibits any company from retaining control of insured banks in more than one State that were acquired on or after June 23, 1983, unless such banks were acquired with prior approval under the Bank Holding Company Act. Prohibits any State-chartered depository institution from commencing any non-banking activity not previously and lawfully engaged in by that institution unless: (1) such activity was explicitly authorized for that type of institution by State statute or regulation before January 1, 1983; (2) such activity is permitted under the Bank Holding Company Act for a bank holding company; or (3) such activity is explicitly authorized by a State statute and is performed exclusively in such State for customers present in it. Requires any State-chartered depository institution that commenced, on or after June 23, 1983, any activity that would have been prohibited by this Act if commenced after enactment of this Act to immediately terminate such activity. Repeals the provisions of this Act on December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
University Research Capacity Restoration Act of 1983 - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Sets forth the findings and purpose of this Act. Title II: Department of Agriculture - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) competitive research grants for agricultural research; (2) the university instrumentation program for land-grant colleges and universities; (3) research laboratory rehabilitation at land-grant colleges and universities; (4) the graduate fellowship program; and (5) faculty development awards for young faculty members engaged in food and agricultural research. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations. Title III: Department of Defense - Specifies the minimum amount of funds out of Department of Defense appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for research, development, test, and evaluation which must be used for basic research programs. Makes funds available from such appropriations for: (1) fundamental, investigator-initiated university research programs conducted for the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) rehabilitation of universities laboratories and facilities engaged in defense-related research; (3) the Department of Defense univesity research equipment program; (4) portable, competitive graduate fellowship awards under the existing Department of Defense graduate program and to institutions carrying out Department of Defense fundamental research programs; and (5) faculty development awards for young university faculty engaged in defense-related research. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations. Title IV: Department of Energy - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) basic university research programs in energy sciences; (2) the university instrumentation program for universities conducting energy research; (3) rehabilitation of university laboratories and facilities engaged in Department of Energy basic science research; (4) the graduate fellowship program for students engaged in energy research; and (5) faculty development awards for young university faculty engaged in energy research. Requires the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations. Title V: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) university space science research; (2) the university instrumentation program for universities conducting space science research; (3) rehabilitation of university laboratories and facilities engaged in NASA basic science research; (4) the graduate fellowship program; and (5) faculty development awards for young faculty in aeronautics and space sciences research. Requires NASA to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations. Title VI: National Institutes of Health - Authorizes appropriations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for FY 1984 through 1988. Authorizes the funding necessary to restore the NIH's capacity to conduct and support adequate levels of biomedical research. Makes funds available from such appropriations for: (1) competing and noncompeting research grants, grants to research centers, and biomedical research support grants; (2) the purchase or upgrading of instrumentation used in biomedical research supported by the NIH; (3) rehabilitation of laboratories and facilities engaged in biomedical research conducted or supported by the NIH; (4) faculty development awards for young faculty in research fields supported by the NIH; and (5) national research service awards under the Public Health Service Act. Requires the NIH to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations. Title VII: National Science Foundation - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) rehabilitation of laboratories and facilities engaged in basic science research of the NSF; (2) the graduate fellowship program; and (3) improvement of undergraduate science and engineering programs. Requires the NSF to submit to Congress an accounting of all amounts authorized under this title and recommendations for future authorizations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
(Report filed by Senate Committee on the Judiciary, S. Rept. 98-547) Home and Community Based Services for the Elderly and the Disabled Act of 1983 - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize a block grant program for home and community based services. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1985 for program planning and implementation; and (2) FY 1986 through FY 1988 for program services. Allots a State's funds on the basis of its elderly population compared to such national population. Makes Indian tribes or tribal organizations eligible grant recipients. States that grants may be used to: (1) coordinate existing services and maximize the use of funds under this Act; (2) develop means to identify elderly and disabled individuals who are at risk of institutionalization or who could be deinstitutionalized if home and community based services were available; (3) develop cost-effective services; and (4) provide specified medical and related social, occupational, educational, and supportive services. Permits the Secretary to provide States with planning and operating technical assistance. Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) inpatient services; (2) cash payments to intended recipients; (3) land purchase or construction; (4) purchases of major medical equipment; or (5) financial aid to other than public or nonprofit entities. Sets forth State application provisions, including requirements that public hearings regarding fund distributions be held, the establishing of a State entity to administer such funds and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983
Expresses the support of the Senate for the conclusions of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and the need to reverse the decline in educational excellence in the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1983
Interstate System Resurfacing, Restoration, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Amendments of 1983 - Revises the apportionment formula for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Interstate Highway System.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Abraham Lincoln One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary Act - Establishes a Commission on the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary for Abraham Lincoln to plan and conduct activities to commemorate the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Authorizes appropriations. Designates the week of February 12-18, 1984, as National Recognition of Abraham Lincoln Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should convene a national, bipartisan commission to address the problems in Central America. Suggests certain requirements for the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Local Government Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983 - Extends the revenue-sharing program of general-purpose fiscal assistance to local governments through FY 1985. States that all data computations (currently, only the allocations) of a local government whose boundaries include areas of two or more counties shall be determined on the basis of the proportion of its population in each county. Requires a local government receiving such assistance to assure that it will comply with the public-participation and audit requirements. Repeals provisions requiring a reduction in the allocation to a State government if it reduces its own payments to local governments. Permits State governments to use alternative formulae for allocating payments among its local governments. Reduces from two to one the number of public hearings a recipient government must hold on its proposals for use of revenue sharing funds. Declares that discrimination proceedings must begin when a government receives a notice of discrimination complaints (currently, when the notice is issued). Permits a government to elect to have the required audits conducted every second fiscal year in which the government receives payments provided that such audit encompasses the financial statements for both fiscal years. Requires such audits to be conducted in accordance with the Comptroller General's 'Standards for Audit of Governmental Organizations, Programs, Activities and Functions.' Requires such reports to be made available for public inspection within 30 days following completion.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for cash contributions to a tax-exempt housing opportunity mortgage equity account established for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the taxpayer's first home. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,000 ($2,000 for a joint return), with a maximum lifetime deduction of $10,000. Phases out the deduction for individuals or couples whose income exceeds $50,000. Recaptures as ordinary income the amount of the withdrawals from the account for a home purchase over a period of the greater of five years or the number of years contributions had been made to the account. Requires that contributions to a housing opportunity mortgage equity account must be used by the end of ten years after the initial contribution. Imposes a ten percent surtax on distributions not used for the purchase of a principal residence. Requires the trustee of a housing opportunity mortgage equity account to report on the maintenance of the account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file required reports.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Declares three named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1983
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make available for public disclosure certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessels arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available for public disclosure if the Secretary of the Treasury makes a finding that disclosure will pose a threat of personal injury or property damage or such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to such manifests.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that it supports the reduction of child mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Urges the President to promote and undertake activities to further the objectives of the child health revolution. Directs appropriate Government agencies to support UNICEF and other specified international agencies and public and private organizations in fostering the child health revolution.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the income tax credit for household and dependent care services from a maximum of 30 percent to a maximum of 50 percent of such expenses. Reduces such percentage by one percent for each full $1,000 by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $10,000. Makes such credit refundable. Allows such credit to be claimed on the short tax return form. Grants tax-exempt status to organizations which provide nonresidential dependent care services to the general public for purposes of enabling individuals to maintain employment.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to the widow of Roy Wilkins. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide, in addition to any other duty except a countervailing or antidumping duty, for the imposition of an artificial pricing duty on: (1) imported merchandise from nonmarket economy countries if the import is being or is likely to be sold in the United States at an artificial price; or (2) imports from a country that is a party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, if, because of the imports, a U.S. industry has been materially injured, or has been threatened with material injury, or the establishment of an industry in the United States has been materially retarded. Provides for the initiation of an artificial pricing duty investigation by the administering authority. Requires the administering authority to notify the International Trade Commission (ITC) if such investigation involves a country that is a party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Sets forth the requirements for the initiation of an artificial pricing investigation. Prohibits initiation of such an investigation in certain cases where a countervailing duty or antidumping duty investigation is in process or where a countervailing or antidumping duty is in effect. Requires the ITC to make a preliminary determination with respect to whether a U.S. industry is being materially injured by such imports. Requires the administering authority to make a preliminary determination with respect to whether such imports are being sold at an artificial price. Provides in certain cases an extension of time within which such preliminary determination must be made. Provides that if the administering authority finds that merchandise is being sold at an artificial price, then it shall: (1) order the suspension of liquidation of all entries of merchandise subject to such finding; (2) order the posting of a bond equal to the amount that the import price exceeds the actual price of such merchandise; and (3) make available all information which is the basis of such injury determination by the ITC. Sets forth special conditions which must be met and actions which must be taken if the petitioner alleges that critical circumstances exist. Requires the ITC or the administering authority to notify all parties to an artificial pricing investigation of their determinations and to publish such notice in the Federal Register. Provides for the termination or suspension of an artificial pricing investigation. Allows the administering authority to suspend such investigations if the exporters of artificially-priced merchandise agree to cease exports of such merchandise to the United States within six months of the suspension of the investigation or revise the prices of such merchandise to eliminate the artificial price. Allows the administering authority if extraordinary circumstances exist to suspend an investigation if the nonmarket economy country or the exporter under investigation accepts an agreement that will eliminate the injurious effect of such merchandise on the United States. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to such agreements. Provides procedures for the suspension of an investigation and the administrative review of such suspension. Provides civil penalties for violations of agreements to: (1) eliminate artificial pricing; (2) cease exports of artificially priced merchandise; or (3) eliminate the injurious effect of such merchandise. Requires the administering authority within 75 days of its preliminary determination to make a final determination of whether merchandise is being sold in the U.S. at an artificial price. Requires the administering authority to make additional findings if the petitioner alleged that critical circumstances exist and the authority finds that artificial pricing exists. Requires the ITC, if its preliminary determination is affirmative to make a final determination of whether artificially priced imports: (1) have materially injured a U.S. industry: (2) have threatened a U.S. industry with material injury; or (3) have materially retarded the establishment of a U.S. industry. Sets forth procedures that the ITC shall follow if: (1) the preliminary determination of the administering authority is affirmative; and (2) the preliminary determination of the authority is negative and its final determination is affirmative. Sets forth the effect of final determinations by the ITC and the administering authority. Requires publication of such determination in the Federal Register. Requires the administering authority to publish an artificial pricing duty order within a specified time after a final determination. Sets forth the information to be contained in such order. Specifies the merchandise which shall be subject to the imposition of such duties. Sets forth the manner of assessing and collecting such duties. Directs the administering authority to treat an artificial pricing investigation as if it had been commenced as an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation whenever the industry of the nonmarket economy country under investigation is market-oriented and there is sufficient verifiable information to permit the investigation to be conducted as an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation. Requires the administering authority to treat an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation as if it had been commenced as an artificial pricing duty investigation whenever the industry of the nonmarket economy country under investigation is not market-oriented or there is sufficient verifiable information to permit the investigation to be conducted as an artificial pricing duty investigation. Provides for the administrative and judicial review of determinations made with respect to the imposition of artificial pricing duties. Sets forth the method for calculating artificial pricing duties.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws should develop a model State act (and interstate recognition and enforcement procedures) providing grandparents with adequate rights to petition in State courts for privileges to visit their grandchildren after a dissolution of the parents' marriage; (2) States should adopt such model State act; and (3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, should provide technical assistance to States in developing guidelines which help determine the best interests of the child in such cases and which take into account the ability of grandparents to help satisfy such child's need for continuity of care.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of national research service awards received from the Public Health Service.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Mining Reclamation Reserve Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow surface mine operators to establish a reserve for mining land reclamation costs and to deduct additions to such reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Requires the Attorney General and all other appropriate Federal agencies and officials to enforce the antitrust laws, including the prohibition against vertical price restraints. Directs such officials and agencies to cease propounding arguments in court designed to weaken such prohibition, and to submit to Congress proposed legislation to make any desired changes in such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to eliminate the requirement for a State certificate of convenience and necessity before the Administrator may make loans to provide rural telephone service. Revises the liabilities and uses of the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund established under the REA to provide that notes of the Administrator to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain funds for loans shall be equity capital of the Fund. States that assets of the Fund shall be available only for: (1) payment of interest and principal on loans to the Administrator from the Secretary; and (2) for certificates of beneficial ownership issued to the Secretary or in the private market. Requires the Administrator to maintain two separate accounts within the Fund: (1) the Electrification Account; and (2) the Telephone Account. Lists the items that shall be accounted for in each Account respectively, and restricts the purposes for which the assets of each Account shall be available. Authorizes the Administrator to repurchase specified certificates of beneficial ownership under certain conditions affecting their interest rates. Establishes guidelines for interest-bearing insured loans made by the Administrator to electric and telephone borrowers. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to request in each annual supplemental budgets estimate the amount needed to replenish the Fund for anticipated and actual costs resulting from loans made at less than a specified rate during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Administrator to guarantee loans to specified borrowers or to accommodate or subordinate liens or mortgages held in the Fund, according to prescribed rules and regulations. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such rules and regulations within ninety days after the effective date of this Act. Prescribes guidelines under which certain lenders are authorized to adjust interest rates on loans guaranteed by the Administrator. Requires rural electrification borrowers to obtain concurrent supplemental financing according to prescribed guidelines in any fiscal year in which the minimum loan level for insured rural electrification loans is less than $1,000,000,000. Repeals certain provisos governing the loan-making authority of the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank which require approval by the Secretary of Agriculture of facilities or lines to be acquired with such loans. Eliminates loan restrictions placed upon potential borrowers whose net worth exceeds their assets by twenty percent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal provisions requiring the purchase rather than rental of durable medical equipment if it appears that purchasing such equipment would be less costly and more practical than renting.
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