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United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Encourages State and local governments and local educational agencies to provide quality daily physical education programs for all children from kindergarten through grade 12.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that a presidential commission be created to assist the President and the Congress in establishing priorities in dealing with all domestic and international aspects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Satellite Television Fair Marketing Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the encrypting of satellite programming from the Public Broadcasting Service and the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Requires anyone who encrypts satellite delivered programming for private viewing to: (1) make it available for private viewing by home satellite antenna users; (2) establish reasonable character and financial criteria for distributors of satellite delivered programming and to not discriminate in price, terms, or conditions among distributors offering similar distribution services; and (3) conduct such encryption according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-approved standards designed to comply with specified criteria. Requires the FCC-approved standards to provide the public interest benefits of a universal encryption system permitting decryption by cable television subscribers and home satellite users. Authorizes aggrieved persons to commence civil actions to enforce this Act. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to conduct a study of pricing and distribution terms of satellite television programming to determine whether the programming market is developing competitively. Authorizes the FTC to establish remedies necessary to produce adequate competition. Requires the FCC to begin a rulemaking proceeding on improving access to network signals for rural Americans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1987
Designates December 7, 1987, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1987
Designates the month of October 1987 as Computer Learning Month.
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
Designates the week of November 22 through November 28, 1987, as National Adoption Week.
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 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
Expresses the sense of the Congress that volunteer work should be listed on employment application forms and taken into account by employers when hiring.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1987
Tongass Timber Reform Act - Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to repeal the ongoing appropriations for timber utilization in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Repeals the requirement for identifying lands unsuitable for timber production in such forest, and repeals the reporting requirement on the adequacy of timber supply from such forest lands. Requires the biennial report on such Forest to include the impact of timber management on subsistence resources, wildlife, and fisheries habitats.
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 · 3 March 1987
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit individuals to engage in industrial homework (including sewing, knitting, jewelry, or craftmaking) or perform any service in or about their place of residence as employees of any employer covered by such Act if the employer complies with minimum wage and maximum hours requirements under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Nuclear Waste Policy Reform Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from implementing nuclear waste disposal activities with respect to more than one repository. Declares that any such activities commenced (or decisions made by the Secretary) before the date of enactment of this Act shall be rescinded or terminated. Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from authorizing the construction of more than one repository under such Act. Provides that if the Secretary does not meet the January 31, 1998, deadline for high-level radioactive waste disposal then the Secretary must cease all repository activities until: (1) the Nuclear Waste Repository Review Commission (established by this Act) submits a certain report to the Congress; and (2) the Congress specifically authorizes the continuation of such repository activities (thus imposing a moratorium on repository development). Removes the deadlines by which the Secretary and the President must submit candidate site nominations for second repository site characterizations. Prohibits the Secretary from nominating or recommending any crystalline rock site for site characterization for a repository. Removes the volume limitation placed upon a first repository. Establishes the Nuclear Waste Repository Review Commission (if a repository moratorium takes effect) to: (1) review scientific data regarding repository suitability; and (2) compare the use of repositories for radioactive waste disposal with alternative technologies for the permanent isolation of such waste. Requires the Review Commission to report to the Congress by a certain date regarding its activities and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates such Commission upon submission of its report. Sets deadlines for draft revisions of the Secretary's mission plan under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Cancer Institute 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
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Designates the month of May 1987 as National Foster Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Designates the week of May 10 through May 16, 1987, as National Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Designates the month of April 1987 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 3 through May 10, 1987, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1987
Extends adverse action provisions of Federal law regarding Federal employees (concerning removal, suspension for more than 14 days, reduction in grade or pay, or furlough for 30 days or less) to Postal Service employees who have completed one year of continuous service in the same or similar positions, other than those persons excluded under collective bargaining agreements and certain executive personnel. Subjects such extension to existing veterans preference eligible provisions. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to obtain judicial review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit if: (1) the Director determines that the Board of Governors of the Postal Service erred in interpreting a civil service law, rule, or regulation affecting personnel management, and that the Board's decision will have a substantial impact on a civil service law, rule, regulation, or policy directive; or (2) the Postal Service makes such determination regarding postal personnel management.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1987
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide that, as a condition of entering into a resident management program, the elected resident council of a public housing project shall approve the establishment of a resident management corporation. Requires such council and the public housing agency, in cooperation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to jointly select a management specialist to help establish the resident management corporation. Requires the corporation to provide bonding and insurance and to provide for an annual audit. Authorizes the corporation to contract with the public housing agency to establish respective management rights and responsibilities. Authorizes the waiver of Federal regulatory requirements, including specified employment wage requirements. Authorizes for such resident managed projects: (1) comprehensive improvement assistance; (2) retention of excess revenues; and (3) resident management technical assistance and training. Prohibits Federal subsidy reductions during the first three years of resident management.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Internal Revenue Service should revise the income tax withholding form (W-4).
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to limit guaranteed and insured loans under such Act to borrowers who: (1) provide electric or telephone service to specified low-density rural areas or will use the loan proceeds for such purposes; and (2) are unable to obtain credit at reasonable terms elsewhere. Authorizes a waiver of such requirements where an applicant is serving a rural area and such services would not otherwise be available.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act of 1987 - Declares that this Act supersedes any State law regarding liability for general aviation accidents. Establishes guidelines for uniform standards of liability of general aviation manufacturers for general aviation accidents. States that all actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Establishes, with specified exceptions, a limitation of actions period of 20 years from delivery of aircraft or harm-causing part to the purchaser for general aviation civil liability brought against a general aviation manufacturer. Declares admissible as evidence certain income tax and payroll tax liability for purposes of establishing financial harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Permits the award of punitive damages if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the direct result of conduct manifesting conscious, flagrant indifference to safety. Establishes a two-year limitation of actions period for actions arising out of a general aviation accident. Declares the intent of the Congress that sanctions be strictly enforced for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including orders to pay to the other party the reasonable costs of legal fees. Confers original jurisdiction upon the Federal district courts, concurrently with State courts, for all civil actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Provides procedures for removal from State to Federal district courts of such actions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Designates November 1987 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Designates February 14, 1987, as Arizona Statehood Day and 1987 as Arizona Diamond Jubilee Year in honor of the 75th anniversary of Arizona statehood.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Provides for reducing the rates of pay for Members of Congress, Federal judges, and Federal officials (increased pursuant to the recommendations of the President) to the rates of pay in effect for such offices before such recommendations became effective.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Intellectual Property Antitrust Protection Act of 1987 - Provides that agreements to convey rights to use, practice, or sublicense a patented invention, rights to use or sublicense a trade secret, or rights in a copyrighted work or mask work shall not be deemed to be illegal per se under the antitrust laws. Limits the amount a person may recover in an antitrust claim based on such an agreement to the actual damages sustained (total damage sustained in a State action), specified interest, and the cost of the action, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Amends the copyright law to extend for an additional three years the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to extend transitional protection to the semiconductor chip designs of foreign nationals whose countries are making reasonable progress toward reciprocal protection of U.S. semiconductor chip designs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that neither the President nor the Congress should impose fees on imported crude oil and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Retail Competition Enforcement Act of 1987 - Amends the Sherman Act to set forth evidentiary standards for price-fixing actions. Provides that evidence that a seller of a good or service terminated the claimant as a buyer or refused to supply the claimant as a result of a competitor's communication regarding price competition shall be sufficient to infer that such seller and competitor engaged in concerted action to fix prices. Provides that the fact that a seller and a buyer entered into an agreement to establish the resale price of a good or service shall be sufficient to establish that such seller and buyer engaged in concerted action to fix prices.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to delay until December 31, 1988 (currently, December 31, 1986) the exception for certain technical personnel from certain rules for determining whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor for employment tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Designates the 69th anniversary of the renewal of Lithuanian independence, February 16, 1987, as Lithuanian Independence Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Provides that each item of any joint resolution making continuing appropriations that is agreed to in the same form by both Houses of the Congress shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation to the President (line-item veto).
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to disapprove any item of appropriation in any Act or joint resolution. Requires the President to return with his objections any disapproved item of appropriation to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Disapproves the recommendations of the President relating to pay rates of Members of Congress, Federal judges, and Federal officials under the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Designates January 28, 1988, as a National Day of Excellence in honor of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Constitution does not secure a right to abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State, having met with African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo, should: (1) demand that the ANC disavow the use of terrorism, including "necklacing" to advance its political aims; and (2) inform Tambo that the United States will oppose ANC participation in political negotiations over the future of South Africa until the ANC disavows the use of terrorism and is not closely tied to or influenced by the South African Communist Party or the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Unborn Children's Civil Rights Act - Prohibits the use of Federal funds to perform, promote, or do research on any procedure to take the life of an unborn child (except for medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant women or her unborn child). Prohibits the Federal Government from entering into any contract for insurance which provides for payment or reimbursement for abortion services. States that no institution receiving Federal financial assistance shall: (1) discriminate against any employee, applicant, or student on the basis of that person's opposition to abortion; or (2) require any employee or student to participate in abortion procedures. States that attorney's fees shall not be allowed in any civil action involving a law prohibiting or restricting abortions. Provides for Supreme Court review of lower court decisions which declare State and local anti-abortion statutes unconstitutional.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. States that nothing in this article shall prohibit a law allowing medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or the unborn offspring.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests in a human being from the moment of fertilization.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Exempts from applicability of this amendment laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.