United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1980
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to correct the birthdates on naturalization certificates of individuals admitted as immigrants between December 22, 1945, and November 1, 1954, if such original misrepresentation was predicated upon a fear of persecution if repatriated rather than to evade the existing immigration quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1980
Medical Radiation Safety Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Radiation Policy Council, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and appropriate State agencies, to promulgate dental and medical radiologic procedure accreditation and certification standards. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States (not to exceed 50 percent of the costs) for such programs. Directs the Secretary to provide a model law for radiologic safety to the States. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary to prescribe radiological equipment safety regulations. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to promulgate Federal radiation protection guidelines which shall encourage the therapeutic medical application of radiation with the minimum radiologic exposure. States that any such standards shall apply to all executive departments and agencies. States that no later than three years after enactment of this Act: (1) Federal assistance will only be provided in States having accreditation and certification programs consistent with Federal standards; and (2) no Federal assistance will be provided to any person not in compliance with specified Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to make hardship exceptions to such requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment tax credit to a taxpayer for up to 66 2/3 percent of the qualified United States costs of any theatrical production in which such taxpayer has an ownership interest. Defines such costs as: (1) direct production costs allocable to the United States (including the cost of equipment, supplies, and compensation for services performed, but not cost of advertising and promotion); plus (2) if 80 percent or more of the direct production costs are allocable to the United States, all other production costs (including the cost of overhead, presentation rights, residuals, and participations) allocable outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Infant Formula Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make the failure to comply with the infant formula standards, testing, notification, and reporting requirements a prohibited act. Makes the failure to comply with the required standards of identity and quality cause to deem such formula adulterated. Makes the failure to comply with the labeling and packaging requirements cause to deem such formula misbranded. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to promulgate regulations establishing standards of identity and quality, including the required nutrients at minimum and maximum levels, for infant formula. Permits the Secretary to exempt from such regulations any infant formula intended for use by an infant having unusual medical or dietary problems. Requires each processor of infant formula to submit to the Secretary within a specified period of time the reports or test results showing compliance with the prescribed standards. Requires such processor to submit reports and test results within a specified period upon each reformulation of such formula. Requires processors to either notify the Secretary or institute a recall and then notify the Secretary upon acquiring information indicating that any of its already distributed infant formula may be misbranded or adulterated. Prohibits the use in a proceeding against a processor of any information required by the Secretary to be contained in a notification. Sets forth the recordkeeping requirements for processors of infant formula, including manufacturing and distribution information. Permits the detention of formula by an inspector who has reason to believe such formula is adulterated or misbranded. Sets forth procedures for the confirmation or revocation of such detention. Permits the movement of such detained formula upon release by the Secretary or at the end of a prescribed detention period. Requires that inspectors enforcing the requirements of this Act have access to specified records at all reasonable times. Requires each processor of infant formula to prepare information labeling for users to accompany the product. Sets forth the labeling requirements, including a summary of benefits and risks, directions for use, and storage information. Requires that such information be prominently and conspicuously placed on the labeling. Requires such processors to prepare information labeling for practitioners for the subsequent distribution of such formula. Prohibits the exportation of any infant formula which does not comply with specified requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older people to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 Decennial Census.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
West Valley Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a high-level liquid nuclear waste management demonstration project at the Western New York Service Center in West Valley, New York, by: (1) vitrifying such wastes located at the Center or by employing the most effective technology for solidification available; (2) transporting such solidified wastes to an appropriate Federal repository for long-term burial; and (3) decontaminating and decommissioning facilities, materials, and hardware used in connection with the project. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare a plan for safe removal of such wastes; (2) determine the feasibility of immobilization and waste handling techniques required by the unique situation of such wastes at the Center, including initiation of engineering and cost estimates, and safety and environmental impact analyses; and (3) transfer title to such wastes to the United States upon payment by the State of New York and other appropriate persons of an appropriate fee for the care and maintenance of such wastes. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for such project. Provides that funds authorized and appropriated in subsequent fiscal years for the project shall not be used by the Secretary until the Secretary, the State of New York, and other appropriate persons enter into specified contracts and agreements concerning the conduct and costs of such project. Directs the Secretary to transmit to specified congressional committees an annual report on the activities conducted in carrying out such project. States that, except for the costs and responsibilities established by this Act for such project, nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any rights, obligations or liabilities of the commercial operator of the Center, the State of New York, or any person arising under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or under any other law or agreement for the operation, maintenance, or decontamination of any facility or property at the Center or for any waste at the Center. Provides that nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any licensing requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Productivity Improvement Act of 1980 - Establishes the National Productivity Council which shall: (1) develop and annually revise a comprehensive national productivity plan which examines the effects of Government policies and activities on the productivity of the private sector and recommends Federal policies and activities for improving productivity; (2) obtain the cooperation of the private sector in implementing the plan; (3) perform economic analyses of the impact on productivity of selected Federal statutes and regulations; (4) make legislative and regulatory recommendations to the President, Congress, and Federal agencies concerning ways to improve productivity in the private sector; (5) act as the primary source of information in the Government concerning efforts to improve productivity in the private sector; (6) report annually to Congress and the President on the implementation and revisions of the plan; and (7) delineate the productivity improvement functions of Federal agencies. Establishes a National Productivity Advisory Board to advise the Council concerning activities for the improvement of productivity in the private sector. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, and the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to perform specified functions designed to improve private sector productivity. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Exempts Shippers' Export Declarations from public disclosure unless the Secretary of Commerce determines that such exemption would be contrary to the national interest. Requires the person in command of a ship bound for a foreign port to attach bills of lading or equivalent documents to the manifest of the ship's cargo which is required to be submitted to the appropriate United States Customs Service officer to obtain clearance for the ship. Specifies the information to be included on such manifest or attached documents and the elements of such information which shall be available for public disclosure. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to the information which may be disclosed and protection for the information not available for disclosure.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Amends the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 to extend the authorization of appropriations for general revenue sharing through fiscal year 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older Americans to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1980
Youth Act of 1980 - Title I: Youth Training and Employment Programs - Youth Training and Employment Act of 1980 - Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to extend through fiscal year 1984 the authorization of appropriations for the Job Corps (title IV, part B) and the Summer Youth Program (title IV, part C). Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for the new title IV, part A, Youth Training and Employment Programs established by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 to carry out the Private Sector Opportunities for the Economically Disadvantaged program (title VII). Revises title IV, part A to eliminate Youth Employment Demonstration Programs and to establish Youth Training and Employment Programs to assist eligible youth in obtaining job opportunities and in improving their opportunities for future employment and increased earnings. Requires that, to be eligible for part A programs, a youth must be 16 to 21 years of age (inclusive), and have a family income at or below 85 percent of the lower living standard income level. Allows ten percent of each recipient entity's funds to be used for youths of such ages who do not meet such income requirement but who otherwise demonstrate the need for such services. Includes as eligible youth of such ages those: (1) who are economically disadvantaged as defined under such Act; or (2) in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, who are handicapped individuals, youths under the supervision or jurisdiction of the juvenile or criminal justice system, pregnant teenagers or teenage mothers, or youths attending target schools under the basic skills program under the Youth Education and Training Act established in title II of this Act. Permits any youth aged 14 and 15 (inclusive), who is otherwise eligible, to receive counseling, occupational information, and other transition services on an individual or a group basis. Directs the Secretary of Labor ("the Secretary") to issue regulations which, as a condition of participation in programs under part A, shall require: (1) a specific period of joblessness prior to application; or (2) a specific initial period without stipend and with counseling, occupational information, career assessment, job referrals, and other transitional services. Directs the Secretary to assure that such programs will give priority to youths experiencing the most severe handicaps in obtaining employment. Applies the same eligibility requirements established under part A to summer youth employment programs under part C, except that otherwise eligible youth ages 14 and 15 (inclusive) may participate if the program includes an educational component. Provides for the allocation of funds among various programs under the Youth Employment and Training Programs and among the States and the territories and possessions of the U.S. Requires prime sponsors to provide employment opportunities, appropriate training, and employment related and supportive services for eligible youths. Subjects funds available for such Basic Programs to specified conditions of use. Requires prime sponsors serving areas which include target schools funded under the Youth Education and Training Act to make adequate part-time work experience opportunities available for youths in such schools in conjunction with programs under such Act, pursuant to an agreement with the local educational agency and in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor in consultation with the Secretary of Education. Requires prime sponsors receiving equal chance supplemental allocations to primarily use such funds to serve youths residing in communities and neighborhoods which have particularly severe economic and social problems which generate multiple obstacles to the employment and employability development of such youths. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance under Youth Employment and Training Programs only to a prime sponsor submitting a youth plan, as part of its comprehensive plan, which meets specified conditions. Provides for review of such plans by the Secretary. Requires prime sponsors to develop and use, as appropriate to individual needs, specified benchmark standards, accepted in the community and based on recommendations from various organizations, of youth achievements needed to obtain and retain jobs. Allows each sponsor to provide both monetary and non-monetary incentives for good performance and appropriate assistance for youths unable to perform satisfactorily. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) basic criteria for such benchmark standards; and (2) prime sponsor performance standards. Requires each prime sponsor to establish service deliverer performance standards based on program outcomes. Provides that such performance standards be revised annually. Requires prime sponsors to establish youth opportunity councils to assist in the planning and review of youth programs under CETA and under the Youth Education and Training Act. Requires that funds available under Youth Employment and Training Programs to the Governor of each State, be used for special statewide youth services. Provides for special purpose incentive grants to prime sponsors, Governor's special statewide youth services, Native American programs, and migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. Provides for education cooperation incentive grants to prime sponsors to carry out programs developed on a cooperative basis with local educational agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to make arrangements with prime sponsors, public agencies, private organizations, and Federal departments and agencies to carry out innovative, experimental, developmental, and demonstration programs dealing with youth employment problems and the enhancing of future employability for participant youths. Directs the Secretary to consult with specified Federal agencies with regard to such discretionary programs. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds under such discretionary programs for staff training, technical assistance, and knowledge development and dissemination. Prohibits the payment of basic hourly allowances to participating youths under age 18 for time spent in a classroom or institutional training activity, except in special circumstances. Permits the payment of: (1) basic hourly allowances to participating youths age 18 and older; (2) allowances to cover documented costs of program participation; and (3) monetary performance incentives. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe rates of pay, within specified limits, and appropriate time limitations with respect to work experience under Youth Employment and Training Programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage the granting of academic credit by educational institutions or agencies to eligible youth in classroom or institutional training activities under such programs; and (2) to cooperate with the Secretary of Education to make suitable arrangements with appropriate State and local educational officials for the award of academic credit for competencies derived from work experience and other activities under such programs. Requires prime sponsors to include the summer youth program component as part of the youth plan. Directs the National Commission on Employment Policy to establish a committee on youth to consider problems caused by youth unemployment, make recommendations to enhance interagency coordination of youth programs, and evaluate training and employment policies and programs affecting youths. Directs the Secretary to include a report on programs, activities, and actions taken under title IV in the annual CETA report. Makes technical and clarifying amendments. Provides for appropriate references to the Departments and Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services. Sets forth transitional provisions for financial assistance under specified CETA title IV programs. Title II: Financial Assistance to Meet Basic and Employment Skills Needs of Secondary School Youth - Youth Education and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to make payments to State educational agencies for grants made on the basis of entitlements created under this title during the fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Sets forth eligibility standards for basic grants for programs operated by local educational agencies. Bases such eligibility upon the relative numbers of children aged five to 17 in a county: (1) from families below the poverty level; (2) living in non-Federal institutions for neglected or delinquent children, but not counted for purposes of a grant to a State agency under this title; or (3) being supported in foster homes with public funds. Sets forth procedures for determining such numbers. Provides formulas for determining the amount of grants to which the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is entitled and amount of grants to which each county in a State is eligible to receive, based on such relative numbers of children in the county and average per pupil expenditure in the State. Provides for payment to the States of the amounts to which counties are entitled and allocation of such amounts by the States to eligible local educational agencies who have submitted an application to the State educational agency. Requires local educational agencies to use such funds received for fiscal year 1981 to assist selected secondary schools to develop three-year plans to improve basic and employment skills. Limits such planning assistance to secondary schools which serve: (1) a large number or percentage of children from low-income families; or (2) a student body of which at least 75 percent score below the 25th percentile in basic skills achievement on an objective test. Provides for ranking and selection of such schools, amounts of planning grants, plan requirements, school site councils, and the use of funds for inservice training. Requires local educational agencies to select from among school plans those schools that are to receive implementation assistance on the basis of criteria established by such agencies, taking into account specified considerations. Requires such agencies to establish advisory councils, with specified representatives, to make recommendations to such agencies on which schools should receive planning and implementation assistance, which services should be provided to nonpublic school student, and to evaluate each school's progress toward program goals. Requires local educational agencies receiving funds under such program to maintain overall expenditures for education and to ensure that schools receiving such program funds receive regular non-Federal and special Federal, State, and local funds in amounts equivalent to those received by similar schools not receiving funds under this title. Provides for complaint resolution and for reports with regard to such programs. Requires local educational agencies to set aside, from funds available for such programs in any fiscal year, a proportionate amount to arrange for the provision of special services to disadvantaged students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools within their districts, on a basis comparable to those provided to similar students enrolled in the secondary schools of such agencies. Directs such agencies to give priority, in arranging provision of such services, to students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools with high concentrations of students who are from low-income families or who demonstrate limited academic achievement. Authorizes such agencies to provide such services: (1) directly to students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools that do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin; or (2) through payments to such schools, provided that such schools are not devoted to religious ends or uses and that such schools are subject to specified requirements. Directs the Secretary to arrange for provision of services to such children from withheld funds whenever a local educational agency fails to do so, or is impeded or prohibited from doing so. Allows States or local educational agencies to appeal for review of such determinations and actions by the Secretary. Entitles a State educational agency or a combination of such agencies, upon application for a fiscal year, to a grant to establish or improve programs for: (1) migratory children of migratory agricultural workers or of migratory fisherman; and (2) children in institutions for neglected or delinquent children or in adult correctional institutions. Bases the amount of such grant to each State on the relative populations of such children and the average per pupil expenditure, within specified limits, in such State. Makes two and one-half percent of the funds appropriated for this title in any fiscal year available for such programs for special populations. Requires that such program be at the secondary school level, be designed to improve the basic and employment skills of such children, and meet other specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with other public or nonprofit private agencies for such programs for such children whenever this would be more beneficial to the children, or more economical or efficient, than relying upon State agencies. Entitles a State educational agency, upon application for a fiscal year, to a grant to establish or improve, through local educational agencies, programs designed to improve the basic and employment skills of disadvantaged secondary school students. Bases the amount of such State supplemental program grants upon the relative incidence of children from low-income families in their respective States and upon the average per pupil expenditure, within specified limits, within such States. Makes ten percent of the funds appropriated for this title in any fiscal year available for such State supplemental program payments. Requires that such programs be conducted at secondary schools which meet specified eligibility requirements, regardless of whether such schools are within local educational agencies eligible for other program assistance. Requires States to establish advisory councils to advise the State educational agency on the selection of schools to be assisted. Directs the Secretary to pay, from the amount available to each State for grants under this title, an amount (equal to 25 percent of the total funds to which the State is entitled under the local educational agency operated programs, the State supplemental programs, and the payments for State administration) to the sole State agency for vocational education, to plan and implement, through local educational agencies, programs to improve basic, employment, and special occupational skills of disadvantaged in-school youth enrolled in grades ten through 12 and out-of-school youth aged 16 through 19 who left school prior to earning a certificate of graduation and who are eligible for CETA Youth Training and Employment Programs. Sets forth requirements for States to receive such program assistance and for local educational agencies applications to receive such assistance from the State vocational agency. Makes the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to local, State, and Federal administration of programs applicable to the programs assisted under this title. Requires State educational agencies to: (1) coordinate activities assisted under this title with employment, training, and other relevant activities conducted in the State; (2) provide technical assistance to local educational agencies; (3) disseminate information to State and local agencies; (4) submit State monitoring and enforcement plans to the Secretary; and (4) provide for complaint resolution. Authorizes such agencies to suspend specified withholding actions while there is a compliance agreement in effect. Authorizes the Secretary to pay State administration costs under this title. Directs the Secretary to develop and disseminate complaint resolution procedures, with specified inclusions. Authorizes the Secretary to make program research and development grants. Directs the Secretary to set aside one percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this title in any fiscal year for the purpose of making payments for basic and employment skill improvement programs for disadvantaged youth run by: (1) local educational agencies in Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and (2) the Secretary of Interior, on behalf of disadvantaged Indian youth. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 to carry out the provisions of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Health Professions Training and Distribution Act of 1980 - Reaffirms the Federal Government's partnership with the nation's health professions schools and students so that, with Federal assistance: (1) all Americans can be assured equal opportunities to enter a health career; (2) all Americans can be assured equal access to qualified health professions personnel; and (3) the health professions schools, as a national resource, can assist in accomplishing these objectives. States that amendments made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 1980. Title I: Health Personnel Training and Distribution - Redesignates title VII of the Public Health Service Act as "Health Personnel Training and Distribution". Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), under Title VII, including: (1) health personnel training; (2) health personnel geographic and specialty distribution; (3) providing equal career opportunities; (4) assuring delivery of health care; and (5) maximizing the cost effectiveness of health education, training, and services. Renames the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel. Expands such Council from 21 to 23 members, and expands from 12 to 13 the number of members from the health professions schools. Includes within such membership: a representative from an allied health training center; and permits the inclusion of interns or residents. Revises provisions requiring the Secretary to compile health personnel. Revises related reporting requirements, including: (1) a general status report every two years (presently annual reports); and (2) status reports every two years on students in health training, teachers and teaching facilities, and minorities. Sets forth guidelines regarding the confidentiality of individually identifiable personal data, including: (1) informing any individual asked to supply such data whether or not he or she is legally required to do so, and of any consequences of providing or not providing such information; (2) making such data available upon request to the individual concerned; (3) assuring that nonrelated use of such data is not made, unless consent has been given by the individual concerned; (4) informing an individual, upon request, of the use being made of such data, and the identity of the individuals and entities receiving such data. Prohibits any entity which maintains a record of personal data from complying with a request from the Secretary for such data without first getting the consent of the individual concerned. Prohibits the Secretary from disclosing personal data (other than to the individual concerned) unless: (1) such individual requires the information for purposes of this Act; or (2) the information is requested by a compulsory legal process. Requires the Secretary to notify the individual concerned of any such disclosure demand. Exempts the Secretary from specified coordination of Federal reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance in carrying out programs under Title VII. Prohibits grants for the construction of teaching facilities in hospitals or outpatient facilities. Expands the definition of "ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities" for purposes of such grants presently limited to those facilities training physicians and dentists). Authorizes specified sums for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for: (1) construction of teaching facilities for medical and public health personnel; and (2) ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Transfers grant application approval authority from the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of Education. Eliminates the prevention of curtailment of a school's enrollment as a factor which must be taken into account in considering an application for a grant supporting a project for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities. States that for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, priority shall be given for construction projects for health profession schools expanding from two-year programs to degree granting programs, and for new schools anticipating predominantly minority enrollment. Removes the limitation on the amount of a grant which the Secretary may make for the construction of ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Subjects such grants to the limitations established for grants made for other projects. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the request of an applicant and after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel, to reduce or eliminate any enrollment requirements imposed on grantees prior to October 1, 1980. Prohibits the promulgation of regulations which would provide for enrollment increases for eligibility purposes regarding construction loan guarantees or interest subsidies. Repeals the specific authority of the Secretary to provide technical assistance for such construction. Extends the program of construction loan guarantees and interest subsidies until September 30, 1983 (presently September 30, 1980). Authorizes increased interest subsidies (six or seven percent rather than present three percent) for projects initially guaranteed or subsidized after October 1, 1980. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into new loan guarantee and interest subsidy agreements for construction projects for a cumulative total of principal equal to the amount authorized for grants under the construction program. Extends the Federal program of insured new loans to students in health professions schools to fiscal year 1983 (presently to fiscal year 1980). Extends the deadline for granting such insurance on any such loans or installments from September 30, 1982, to September 30, 1986. Increases yearly limitatiors and aggregate unpaid principal on individual Federally insured student loans from: (1) $10,000 to $15,000 and from $50,000 to $60,000, for medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or public health; and (2) $7,500 to $10,000 and from $37,500 to $50,000, for pharmacy. Increases from $15,000 to $20,000 the additional limitations on such loans, and from $60,000 to $80,000 for the aggregate unpaid principal, for medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Extends eligibility for such loans to: (1) graduate students in health administration; (2) advanced nursing students; and (3) physician assistant or dental auxiliary training programs. Includes living expenses among the permissible uses of such loans. Removes the prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, the Indian Health Service Program, or the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Extends from three to four years specified periods exempted from principal installment payments (but not from interest accrual and payment). Adds a graduated repayment action and a variable interest option as parts of the written loan agreement. Replaces the maximum 12 percent interest on the unpaid principal balance of the loan with a rate not to exceed the average of the bond equivalent rates of the 91-day Treasury bills plus two percent. Eliminates the requirement that interest payments on insured loans must be made during deferment periods. Eliminates the Secretary's authority to enter into a written contract with a borrower to discharge a portion of his or her loan for service in a health manpower shortage area. Authorizes the Secretary to discharge a borrower's loan liability if such borrower: (1) failed to complete the first year of studies leading to a first professional degree; (2) is in exceptionally needy circumstances; (3) is from a low-income or disadvantaged family; and (4) has not resumed nor is expected to resume such studies within two years. Extends the health professions student loan program through fiscal year 1981. Limits such extension to senior students already receiving such loans. Revises the period for the capital distribution of such loan funds from September 30, 1983 through December 31, 1983, to September 30, 1981 through December 31, 1981. States that such funds shall be deposited in the Service Contingent Loan Fund established by this Act. Authorizes a loan program for students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, graduate health administration, and physician assistants or expanded function dental auxiliaries. Makes the terms of repayment of such a loan contingent on service in a "national priority position" as such position is described in this Act. Sets forth program provisions with regard to: (1) the required agreement with the institution; (2) student eligibility; (3) loan amounts (depending upon medical specialty); (4) loan agreement terms (installments, acceleration, loan interest); (5) deferral of principal and interest payments, with interest accrual, during periods of graduate training, armed forces service, VISTA or Peace Corps service, service in medically undeserved areas, or National Health Service Corps or Indian Health Service; and (6) national priority service as designated by, and at the option of, the Secretary. Establishes in the Treasury a Service Contingent Loan Fund in the Treasury to finance such program. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund ($10,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1983, and thereafter as requested). Directs the Secretary to establish a Loan Discharge Fund to be used in connection with the discharge of loans to borrowers serving in optional national priority positions. Revises public health traineeship and other graduate grant provisions to: (1) require trainees to be United States citizens or permanent residents; (2) require traineeships to be distributed on the basis of the needs of the eligible students; (3) extend such grants through fiscal year 1983; and (4) remove the requirement that 65 percent of such traineeships go to students with post baccalaureate degrees or with three years of health services experience. Extends the National Health Service Corps scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Includes receipt of a loan under the service contingency loan program established under this Act as a priority in making National Health Service Corps awards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make 80 percent of the medicine and osteopathy awards in each State proportionate to the need for physicians in health manpower shortage areas in the State; and (2) approve scholarship applications by August 1 of each year, and to promptly notify the educational institutions of such scholarship approvals. Reorganizes the administration of the scholarship program, the National Health Service Corps programs, and the educational support programs under a single administrative unit. Makes the existing mandatory release of a National Health Service Corps scholarship recipient to fulfill his or her period of obligated service through an independent practice arrangement discretionary with the Secretary. Includes Public Health Service scholarship recipients (prior to October 1, 1977) within such option. Replaces the financial base requirement with one requiring a person serving under the independent practice option to agree to accept assignment under the medicare program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to individuals serving under the independent practice option. Sets forth pay schedules (including malpractice insurance coverage) for such service. Makes such individuals eligible for special grants. Extends the National Health Service Corps Scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Revises the medical specialties distribution of scholarships to require that at least 80 percent of such scholarships be given to medical and osteopathic students. Extends the program of financial need scholarships for first-year students through fiscal year 1983. Bases the distribution of scholarship funds on the proportionate enrollment of first-year students with exceptional financial need. Establishes a maximum award of the lesser of tuition and fees plus $2,500, or $5,000. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Eliminates the Lister Hill (family practice) scholarship program. Adds a new program of up to 80 percent loan repayment by the Secretary if the student serves for up to four years in a health manpower shortage area. Eliminates the health professions capitation grant program. Establishes a program of national priority incentive grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and public health for programs and projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) grant formulas and enrollment and tuition incentives; and (3) enrollment determinations. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal years 1981 through 1983. Expands the scope of the existing family medicine grant program. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Stipulates that at least ten percent of funds available in each fiscal year shall be used to develop programs to train physicians who will teach family medicine. Extends the area health education center program through fiscal year 1983, and directs that priority be given to programs that will serve an entire State. Extends the program for the training of physician assistants through fiscal year 1983, and adds a traineeship authority. Sets forth participation requirements for such traineeships. Extends the program for training in primary care internal medicine and pediatrics through fiscal year 1983, and adds authority for faculty development to such program. Replaces the existing family medicine and general dentistry grant program with a dental education grant program for: (1) training expanded function dental auxiliaries; (2) training dental students in the organization and management of dental teams; and (3) operating dental residency programs and providing financial assistance to such residents. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Expands and extends through fiscal year 1983 the program of aiding minority and disadvantaged persons in entering the health professions. Stipulates that at least 75 percent of such funds in each fiscal year shall be for grants or contracts to institutions of higher education. Authorizes funds for start-up costs for those schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry receiving support prior to October 1, 1980. Extends the financial distress grant program through fiscal year 1985. Makes nursing schools eligible for such grants, but restricts such eligibility to not more than three consecutive years. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for up to five years with financially-troubled health professions schools in medically undeserved areas. Sets forth conditions for such grant, including disclosure requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for projects related to the enrollment of students who will serve in medically undeserved areas, or to provide training in such areas. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make a single grant to any private two-year medical school to assist such school in converting to an accredited degree granting institution; (2) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training including residency training, in preventive or community medicine or dentistry, including occupational medicine; (3) make grants through fiscal year 1983 for special curricular offerings and projects related to optometry, podiatry, pharmarcy, and veterinary medicine; (4) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training in nutrition, geriatrics, rehabilitation, and the containment of health care costs; (5) make grants for projects to increase the participation and advancement of women in health careers; and (6) make grants to conduct research and demonstration projects. Revises and extends through fiscal year 1983 training programs in public health, health administration, and allied health. Adds cost-sharing and cost-containment requirements for health administration programs. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel prior to awarding specified grants in such areas. Repeals existing provisions concerning: (1) statistical and annual reporting requirements of the Secretary; (2) advanced traineeships in allied health; and (3) educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training. Title II: Nurse Education Amendments - Nurse Education Amendments of 1980 - Extends the grant programs for nursing facilities construction, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies through fiscal year 1983. Lessens existing restrictions on new project interest subsidy payments. Extends authorizations beyond fiscal year 1980 for the Treasury loan guarantee and interest subsidy fund. Replaces the capitation grant program with a program of national priority incentive grants to support educational and other related projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) enrollment provisions; (2) matching non-Federal funding requirements; (3) application requirements; and (4) grant computation formulas, including increases to any type of nursing school for (a) increased enrollment; (b) graduates working in medically undeserved areas; (c) increased minority enrollment; or (d) providing registered nurses with the opportunity to complete a nursing degree. Provides for a decrease in grant funds if enrollment decreases. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Repeals existing financial distress assistance provisions (nursing schools made eligible under title I of this Act). Amends the nursing special project grant program, including: (1) eliminating funds for mergers; (2) adding the requirement that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects related to the geographic or specialty distribution of nurses and requiring that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects to increase nursing opportunities for minority and disadvantaged persons. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants through fiscal year 1983 for clinical and practical nursing education projects. Extends the advanced nurse training programs through fiscal year 1983. Requires the Secretary to establish by March 31, 1981, criteria for designating areas, facilities, or organizations as nurse shortage areas. Sets forth factors to be used in making such determinations. Requires the Secretary to provide written notice of the designation of a nurse shortage area to: (1) the chief administrative officer of the organization; (2) the Governor of each State in which the area, organization, or facility is located; (3) the concerned (a) health systems agency; (b) State health planning and development agency; or (c) public or private entity. Authorizes the Secretary to make such designation available to: (1) the public; (2) concerned or interested entities. Extends nurse traineeship programs in advanced training and anesthesiology through fiscal year 1983. Limits the nursing student loan program in fiscal year 1981 to senior students completing their education. Distributes the capital in the loan fund (established by each school) to the Service Contingent Loan Fund (established by this Act). Repeals the provisions authorizing money to be transferred between the nursing student loan program and the nursing scholarship program. Extends the nursing scholarship program through fiscal year 1986. Stipulates that grants shall be ratably reduced dependent upon the amount of appropriations. Title III: National Health Service Corps Program - Requires the Secretary to provide for training of National Health Service Corps Scholarship recipients to prepare them for service in medically undeserved areas. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for such training. Requires the Secretary to first seek an obligated scholarship recipient who received his or her training in the undeserved area's State before assigning a Corps member to a health manpower shortage area (other than certain medical facilities). Extends the National Health Service Corps program through fiscal year 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Export Trading Company Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Promotion, to promote export trading companies and facilitate contacts between producers of exportable goods and export trading companies. Authorizes any banking organization to invest up to specified amounts in export trading companies without obtaining the prior approval of the appropriate Federal banking agency. Allows greater investment by Edge Act Corporations not engaged in banking. Permits any banking organization to invest beyond such limitations after: (1) filing an application to make such investments with the appropriate Federal banking agency; and (2) proposed investment is not denied by such agency. Provides for judicial review of denial orders in the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Sets forth the grounds for disapproval. Prohibits those banking organizations, and their affiliates, with an ownership interest in any export trading company from extending credit to such companies or customers of such companies on more favorable terms than those afforded to similar borrowers. Authorizes the Export-Import Bank of the United States to provide loans and guarantees to export trading companies for the financing of exports and export trade services in specified circumstances. Limits the amount of loans and guarantees to any one company and in the aggregate. Declares that such authority shall expire five years from enactment. Authorizes the Bank to provide loan guarantees to such companies or exporters to be secured by accounts receivable or inventories in specified circumstances. Permits State and local governments to participate in export trading companies. Declares that such companies shall be eligible for the Export-Import Bank's loans and guarantees under this Act. Amends the Webb-Pomerene Act to exempt export trading companies solely with respect to their export trade activities from antitrust restrictions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make banking organizations which have invested in an export trading company eligible for treatment as domestic international sales corporations (DISC). Includes the gross receipts from the export of services produced in the United States and from export trade services as qualified export receipts, in the case of a DISC which is an export trading company. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop and distribute information concerning the utilization of the DISC provisions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make export trading companies eligible for Subchapter S treatment if the shareholders of such companies are otherwise small business corporations. Exempts such companies from restrictions on the amount of foreign income they can receive and still be eligible for Subchapter S tax treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Health Care Management and Health Care Personnel Distribution Improvement Act of 1980 - Title I: Health Care Management - Declares the purpose of this title to be to encourage effective management of health care services in determining the cost, quality, and availability of such services, and to target resources to improve health care management. Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of health care management fellowships (replaces the existing graduate traineeship program). Sets forth application guidelines. States that such fellowships shall not exceed three years. Requires such fellowship recipients to be provided with at least two years academic training followed by one year of specified supervised training. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Provides, with regard to eligibility for graduate program grants in health administration, that: (1) the minimum amount of required non-Federal funds shall be $150,000 (presently $100,000); (2) the comparison dates for first-year, full-time enrollments shall be fiscal years 1982 (presently 1978), and 1980 (presently 1976), respectively; (3) minority and other students from designated rural or urban areas shall comprise at least seven, ten, and 12 percent of the entering classes for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983, respectively; and (4) certain courses and course concentrations shall be available. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to provide grants for curricula development to educational institutions with graduate health administration programs. States that such curricula may include: (1) finance; (2) marketing; (3) economics; (4) epidemiology and health planning; (5) health policy; (6) quality assurance; (7) information systems; (8) related health disciplines; and (9) ambulatory care services. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants for faculty development to such educational institutions. Prohibits such a grant unless at least three students shall complete such program in each year for which a grant application is made. Requires a grant recipient to serve at least two years as a faculty member in a graduate health administration program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981,1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational institutions and appropriate nonprofit private entities to conduct training in health care management for health care professionals. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract with an appropriate public or private entity (or entities) for a health care management evaluation and report; and (2) submit such report, along with any accompanying comments, to the Senate Committees on Finance, and Labor and Human Resources, and to the House Committees on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and Ways and Means, within 24 months of enactment of this Act. States that such report shall contain: (1) an analysis and comparison of health care management with management in other major industries; (2) an identification and evaluation of applicable management skills; (3) an assessment of educational needs; (4) an evaluation of Federal policies having an impact on the management of health care facilities or institutions; (5) a comparison of health care management career incentives with incentives in other major industries; and (6) an evaluation of management interaction between the health care industry and other industries. Title II: Special Projects and Experiments - Declares the purpose of this title to be the enhancement of physician residency training in order to improve the geographic and specialty distribution of physicians. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to appropriate institutions with accredited physician residency training programs in internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry, to assist educational programs (as set forth in this Act) that encourage such physicians to locate their practices in medically underserved areas. Prohibits such grants from being used for the training of residents currently supported under federally funded training programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to develop and operate physician training programs in: (1) physical medicine, rehabilitation, and other nonprimary care specialties in undersupply; and (2) preventive medicine. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the educational costs of establishing new residency programs in specified medical fields. Directs that priority be given for programs: (1) in ambulatory care in medically underserved areas; and (2) that include an interdisciplinary team approach to ambulatory care. Prohibits such grants from being used solely for training physicians receiving support under federally funded programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the educational costs of innovative residency training programs that: (1) prepare residents for teaching medical students and other hospital staff by providing programs suited to the clinical setting, and by providing programs that train faculty members as specialists in medical education and curriculum development; and (2) develop programs relating to the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, and principles of health services organization, cost containment, and epidemiology. Prohibits such grants from being solely for training physicians receiving support under federally funded programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family medicine. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs the Secretary to undertake research and demonstration projects, in coordination with specified experimental and demonstration projects, with respect to changes in Federal health care reimbursement policies. States that such projects shall: (1) encourage individuals to enter careers in undersupplied physician and health professional specialties; (2) encourage health personnel to practice in medically underserved areas; (3) determine the effect of different reimbursement rates for similar physician services; (4) determine financial incentives necessary to improve services to medically underserved areas; (5) determine the adequacy of reimbursement for nonprocedure oriented physician services; (6) assess the effect and cost of direct reimbursement of primary care nonphysician providers on the availability of such service in medically underserved areas; (7) determine necessary changes in reimbursement policies to encourage ambulatory care training; and (8) assess the cost and impact of altering reimbursement policies to include reimbursement for disease prevention and health promotion activities in the primary care setting. Requires the Secretary to submit annual interim reports, and a final report within three years of enactment of this Act, regarding such projects to the Senate Committees on Finance, and Labor and Human Resources, and to the House Committees on Ways and Means, and Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Title III: Alien Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding alien graduates of foreign medical schools, to: (1) require medical schools to submit to the Commissioner on Immigration and Naturalization and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) an assessment of staffing requirements in the hospital departments in which the alien will be trained, and a staff utilization plan; (2) limit such alien's stay to the lesser of seven years or the time normally required to complete a designated course of medical study (presently two years with one year extension); (3) permit such alien to change his or her designated course of medical study, upon approval of the Director of the International Communication Agency (presently must continue course of education under which admitted into the United States); (4) make such duration of stay and course change provisions applicable to those aliens entering the United States on or after January 10, 1978; and (5) extend the waiver authority regarding such aliens from December 31, 1980, to December 31, 1985. Amends the Public Health Service Act to consider as health manpower shortage areas hospitals with a residency training program in which more than 25 percent of the positions in such program are filled by alien graduates of foreign medical schools. Provides: (1) for priority assignments of National Health Service Corps personnel at such hospitals; and (2) that whenever possible such assignments shall reduce the number of alien residents at such hospitals. Establishes financial incentives for such replacement. Permits such residency to be counted toward satisfying the period of obligated Corps service. Directs the Secretary, in order to reduce hospital dependence on alien graduates of foreign medical schools, to: (1) identify the States, and the hospitals in such States, in which such aliens fill more than 25 percent of the places in residency training programs; and (2) develop a plan to reduce such dependency.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Legal Services Corporation Act Amendments of 1980 - Authorizes appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Export Expansion Facility Amendments of 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the Congress that the Export-Import Bank of the United States should facilitate, particularly in the presence of foreign officially-supported export credit competition, exports to countries: (1) having insufficient access to international credit facilities; (2) demonstrating reasonable economic progress; and (3) offering adequate formal assurances (currently, must offer only sufficient likelihood) of repayment. Increases the aggregate amount of loans and contractual liability of guarantees and insurance which may be outstanding at any one time. Requires such activities to be carried out through the Export Expansion Facility. Provides for the capitalization of such Facility.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Competitive Export Financing Act of 1980 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to direct the Export-Import Bank to adopt export finance programs comparable in structure to those extraordinary measures of official export credits offered by competing countries, until such financing is limited by international agreements. Requires the Bank to report annually to Congress as to whether any additional appropriations or any increases in its commitment authority or ceiling levels are necessary to carry out this Act. States that this Act shall not take effect until six months after enactment, unless the President defers the effective date for an additional six months.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Congratulates the members of the 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team, its coaches and officials for a job well done. Recognizes the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee and the people of the Lake Placid area for their successful efforts in organizing and producing the XIII Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
International Education Programs Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a new title VI of such Act: "International Education Programs." Establishes International and Foreign Studies Programs under HEA. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher education for establishing, strengthening, and operating graduate and undergraduate centers for modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, international studies, and the international aspects of professional and other fields of study. Authorizes grants to such centers to maintain important library collections. Authorizes stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training at such centers. Authorizes grants for advanced international studies centers and for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs to institutions of higher education, combinations of such institutions, and private nonprofit agencies and organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct research and studies to contribute to such programs and the International Understanding programs established by this Act under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report on such matters. Directs the Secretary to make excellence the criterion of such grants and, consistent with such criterion, to seek an equitable distribution of such funds throughout the Nation. Directs the Secretary to convene meetings of an advisory board on the conduct of such HEA programs and the ESEA International Understanding programs. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such HEA International and Foreign Language programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Establishes Business and International Education Programs under HEA. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of programs designed to promote linkages between such institutions and the American business community engaged in international economic activities. Limits the Federal share to 50 percent of the cost of such program for each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) convene meetings of an advisory board on the conduct of such programs; and (2) publish an annual report on such matters. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the HEA Business and International Education Programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish International Understanding programs under an "International Understanding Act." Authorizes the Secretary to stimulate, by grant or contract, educational programs to increase the understanding of students and the public in the U.S. about the cultures and actions of other nations in order to better evaluate the international and domestic impact of major national policies. Allows such assistance to be made: (1) to any public or private agency or organization; (2) for inservice training and for compilation and dissemination of information and resources, but not for equipment acquisition or facility remodeling; (3) for programs at all levels, including community, adult, and continuing education; and (4) for critically important foreign language instruction by local educational agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the ESEA International Understanding programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Repeals the foreign studies and language development program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and the grant programs for advanced and undergraduate international studies of the International Education Act of 1966.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the earned income exclusion for United States citizens working abroad, who are bona fide residents of a foreign country, from an annual rate of $20,000 to: (1) $50,000; or (2) $65,000, if such persons have been working abroad for more than two years. Allows separate exclusions to married individuals who are both working overseas, although one's excess exclusion cannot be used against income earned by the other. Allows an exclusion from gross income for housing allowances or housing expenses which exceed 20 percent of earned income (determined without regard to such allowance). Repeals current provisions of the Code allowing tax deductions to such persons for certain living expenses abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Establishes the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, to preserve and interpret the nationally significant historical and cultural sites and structures associated with the formal beginning of the struggle for equal rights for women. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire such land, or interest therein he deems necessary, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange. Limits fee acquisition to specified Women's Rights Historic Sites in Seneca Falls, New York. Directs the Secretary to encourage local and State agencies to establish a preservation commission to develop and implement a plan for the preservation and rehabilitation of the area within the park boundary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and funding for such plan, up to a limit of 50 percent of the total cost. Establishes the Women's Rights National Historical Park Advisory Commission. Terminates such commission 10 years after the date of establishment of the park. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with appropriate nonprofit entities for developing and implementing programs related to the women's rights movement. Directs the Secretary, within three years, to submit to specified congressional committees, a general management plan for the women's rights historic sites. Requires any Federal entity conducting or supporting activities directly affecting the park to consult with the Secretary prior to the issuance of final approval for such activity, license, or permit.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for programs to stimulate travel to the United States. Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from reducing the number of employees or the funding of U.S. Travel Service offices in foreign countries below fiscal year 1979 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should request the United Nations to establish an international presence in the Khmer refugee camps on the Thailand - Kampuchea (Cambodia) border to promote security and oversee the distribution of food.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create a category of incentive stock options for employees, who would not be required to pay tax at the time such an option is exercised and would receive capital gains treatment on the proceeds of any subsequent sale of such stock. Denies the employer any deduction with respect to such stock either at the time of option exercise or at the time of subsequent sale. Requires the issuance of any such option, with shareholder approval, at 100 percent of fair market value. Accepts any stock later determined to be undervalued if issued with a good faith effort to make such issue at not less than fair market value. Allows exercise of such option up to ten years after issuance, and in any sequence. Limits long-term capital gain treatment to the sale of incentive stock held by the employee at least two years after the grant of the option and one year after exercise. Subjects any such stock sold within two years after option grant to ordinary income treatment. Requires an employee to remain an employee continuously from grant to three months prior to exercise. Prohibits the employee from owning more than ten percent of the voting power or value of the stock of the company unless the option price is at least 110 percent of fair market value.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1980
Honors the 1980 Winter Olympics Torch Relay Team by a welcoming ceremony on the steps of the Capitol Building. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the support, encouragement and best wishes of the American people accompany the U.S. Olympic Team to the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1980
Urges: (1) public support for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and athletes; (2) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to accede to the USOC's proposal to transfer, postpone, or cancel the 1980 summer Olympic games; (3) no American participation or attendance if the IOC fails to adopt such proposal; (4) that other nations be encouraged to support the U.S. policy; and (5) the IOC consider the creation of permanent sites for the summer and winter Olympic games.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Amends the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from coverage and from social security taxes remuneration paid to certain youths during the first six months of their employment in calendar years 1981 or 1982. Limits such exclusion to the cases of individuals properly designated: (1) economically disadvantaged youth; or (2) youth participating in a qualified cooperative education program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Youth Employability Development Act of 1980 - Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to replace Youth Employment Demonstration Programs with a Youth Employability Development Program (title IV, Part A). Sets similar eligibility standards for such Program as for all other CETA title IV youth programs, except that eligibility for such Program shall also depend on income determinations made for the three months prior to application. Declares that the purpose of such Program is to provide for federally funded employment experience, skill training and remedial programs to improve the employability of disadvantaged youths and others with substantial difficulty in obtaining and retaining employment. Requires that such programs be: (1) operated through collaboration between prime sponsors and local youth employment, training, and educational institutions; and (2) administered so as to maximally involve educational agencies, community-based organizations, labor-market intermediaries, unions, and private for-profit organizations. Directs prime sponsors to assist each youth receiving CETA Youth Programs assistance to establish a personalized employability plan. Requires, for youths enrolled in school, that such plans be developed pursuant to an agreement with the local educational agency. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants (prime sponsors and sponsors of specified Native American or migrant and seasonal farmworker programs) to provide employability development opportunities and supportive and followup services to eligible youths to promote the transition to unsubsidized employment. Authorizes State Governors or prime sponsors to directly operate such programs or contract with specified project applicants or for-profit employers for payments within specified limits. Limits to 20 percent that portion of any eligible applicant's allotment which may be used to fund specified programs to guarantee part-time school year and full-time summer employment to high school youths. Sets forth formulas for the allocation of funds for such programs for specified purposes and among the States. Provides special eligibility requirements for participants in specified programs for in-school youth. Sets forth conditions which must be met by eligible applicants for receipt of financial assistance. Provides for program review by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out innovative and experimental programs dealing with youth unemployment and enabling eligible participants to prepare for or secure employment with possibilities for advancement and a productive working life. Directs the Secretary to consult with other appropriate Federal agencies and authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to such agencies for such discretionary projects. Requires that the Secretary and prime sponsors give special consideration in carrying out such projects to community-based organizations which have demonstrated effectiveness in delivering employment and training services. Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Commerce and of Housing and Urban Development, to provide financial assistance to prime sponsors whose areas are designated as having concentrated youth unemployment. Requires that prime sponsors applying for such assistance submit a detailed work or career employment program for eligible youth not enrolled in school: (1) emphasizing work in critical national priority projects; and (2) including placement services and job-search assistance developed in consultation with the Private Industry Council. Directs the Secretary to allocate such financial assistance among eligible prime sponsors according to the severity and extent of youth unemployment in their areas. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to prime sponsors to fund exemplary school-to-work transition projects. Requires that procedures for approval of such projects be jointly agreed upon by the Secretary and the Secretary of Education and include specified provisions. Establishes a National Council on Education and Work. Sets forth rates of pay for participants and special conditions for activities receiving assistance under the Youth Employability Development Program. Directs the Secretary to cooperate with the Secretary of Education to make arrangements with State and local education officials whereby academic credit may be awarded for competencies derived from work experience obtained through such programs. Requires that all activities assisted under such programs provide counseling and placement services for the transition of youth from program participation to permanent private or public employment or to education and training programs. Provides that youth earnings and allowances under such programs shall be disregarded for determining the youth's family's eligibility for, and amount of, benefits under any Federal or federally assisted programs. Limits such work experience programs to one year for each youth. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such Program for fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Provides for an advance funding method of timing appropriation action for such authorization. Requires that any program under the Summer Youth Program (CETA title IV, Part C) for youth who were enrolled in school prior to the summer shall be carried out pursuant to an agreement with specified provisions between the local educational agency and the prime sponsor. Authorizes local education agencies, pursuant to such agreement, to issue to eligible youth summer employment vouchers which may be redeemed by for-profit or non-profit employers for an amount equal to the Federal minimum wage for the number of hours worked. Requires prime sponsors to establish programs to coordinate activities under title VII of CETA (Private Sector Opportunities for the Economically Disadvantaged) with other economic development programs receiving Federal financial assistance. Authorizes the Secretary, in conjunction with the Secretaries of Commerce and of Housing and Urban Development, to provide financial assistance to programs under title VII which prepare and place individuals in economic development-related employment. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 though 1984 in a specified amount for interagency coordination projects and in necessary amounts for all other title VII activities. Includes among title VII activities specified upgrading and retraining programs. Limits the percentage of funds which may be used for such programs. Requires employers to hire one economically disadvantaged person for every employee participating in such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Act - Title I: Overseas Private Investment Corporation - Establishes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) as an independent agency. Sets forth the duties of OPIC. Provides for the capital of OPIC to be paid in through the appropriation process and through transfer from OPIC's earned income. Sets forth the structure of OPIC with a Board of Directors, a President of the Corporation, an Executive Vice President of the Corporation, other officers and staff, and consultants. Authorizes OPIC to issue insurance to eligible investors covering new or existing investments protecting against specified risks. Authorizes OPIC to make arrangements with foreign governments or multilateral organizations for sharing liabilities. Limits the insurance that may be issued to a single investor. Authorizes OPIC to issue guarantees of loans and other investments. Sets forth limitations on such guarantees. Authorizes OPIC to make direct loans to privately owned or mixed publicly and privately owned firms for projects sponsored by or significantly involving United States small business or cooperatives. Limits the circumstances under which OPIC may acquire stock in any other corporation. Authorizes OPIC to initiate and support the identification, assessment, and promotion of private investment opportunities, with specified exceptions. Authorizes OPIC to administer special projects to provide private technical, professional, or managerial assistance in the development of human resources, skills, technology, capital savings, and intermediate financial institutions and cooperatives. Authorizes OPIC to engage in other insurance, reinsurance, and risk sharing activities with other insurance companies, financial institutions, persons, or groups. Limits the amount of reinsurance of liabilities which OPIC may issue. Limits the amount of maximum contingent liability pursuant to insurance or guarantees issued under this Act which may be outstanding at any one time. Establishes the: (1) Direct Investment Fund as a revolving fund to be available for direct investments; and (2) Insurance Reserve and Guaranty Reserve to be available for discharging liabilities. Authorizes appropriations to the investment and guaranty fund in specified circumstances. Authorizes OPIC to issue obligations in specified circumstances in order to discharge liabilities. Requires that all revenues and income transferred to or earned by OPIC be available to carry out OPIC's purposes. Directs OPIC to determine that suitable arrangements exist for protecting OPIC's interests in connection with any insurance, guaranty, or reinsurance issued under this Act. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States for the full payment and performance of previous obligations. Sets forth conditions with respect to insurance, guaranty, and reinsurance coverage under this Act concerning fees, time limits, fraud, and settlement of disputes. Sets forth administrative provisions and duties applicable to OPIC. Requires OPIC to undertake to broaden the participation of United States small business, cooperatives, and other small investors in the development of small private enterprise in less developed friendly countries or areas. Directs OPIC to report annually to Congress concerning its operations. Title II: Amendment of Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to define "eligible investor" in terms of this Act with respect to housing guarantees. Repeals provisions: (1) prohibiting the transfer of OPIC funds between accounts; (2) authorizing the President to deny assistance to any less developed country which fails to enter into an agreement to institute the investment guaranty program; and (3) establishing OPIC.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Supports the decision by the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to: (1) deploy new intermediate-range theater nuclear systems in Europe; and (2) undertake efforts in arms control.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Expresses the Senate's support for efforts to win the freedom of the hostages in Iran. Calls upon all nations to join in cooperative efforts to restrict relations with Iran. Declares that: (1) any trial or public exploitation of the hostages would be viewed as added provocation; and (2) the American people will not be diverted from their determination that the hostages be freed.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1979
Northeast Corridor Completion Act of 1979 - Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to extend the time period within which (1) regularly scheduled and dependable intercity rail passenger service is to be established between Boston and New York and New York and Washington, D.C.; and (2) the National Railroad Passenger Corporation must submit to the President and to Congress an updated, comprehensive report on the financial and operating results of such service. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated to effectuate the establishment of such service. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any real property which the Secretary deems necessary to effectuate such service. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with cost- sharing parties to permit the Secretary to incur obligations to carry out improvements in anticipation of reimbursement from such parties. Permits the Secretary to transfer to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation excess real or personal property from the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project. Establishes a goal of self- sufficiency for such intercity passenger service within five years of the completion of such Project. Amends the Department of Transportation Act to authorize the Secretary to establish a working capital fund for financing the activities of the Transportation Systems Center, including research and analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1979
Used Machinery Investment Credit Adjustment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100,000 to $200,000 the cost of used property which is eligible for the investment tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1979
Amends the International Claims Settlement Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to deduct from amounts deposited in a special fund to pay claims against the People's Republic of China the lesser of: (1) the expenses incurred by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission and the Treasury Department in administering such claims; or (2) five percent of such amounts. Sets forth the order of priority of claims to be paid by the Secretary from such special fund. Requires a deduction in the amount otherwise payable to claimants allowed a Federal income tax deduction for claimed losses.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1979
Calls upon all followers of Islam to prevail upon their brethren to: (1) release the American hostages held in Iran; and (2) until they are released, permit them to worship regularly in accordance with their religious faiths and meet with clergy of their faiths.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1979
Expresses the disapproval of the Congress of the Location of Chanceries Amendment Act of 1979, passed by the Council of the District of Columbia on October 9, 1979, and signed by the Mayor on November 9, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Government of the United Kingdom merits commendation for reducing tensions in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and establishing a basis for peace in the region.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Directs the United States Postal Service, in cooperation with election agencies: (1) to make available to the public envelopes within which requests for absentee ballots may be mailed free of postage to an election agency; and (2) to provide the election agencies with envelopes which may be used by persons requesting absentee ballots for the postage-free return of such ballots. States that this Act does not apply to mail transmitted under provisions of the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 or the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975. Authorizes $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1980 and 1981 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny an income tax exclusion of the interest paid on mortgage revenue bonds. Defines "mortgage revenue bonds" as any obligations which are issued to finance single family housing and which are not secured by the general obligation of any State or local government. Provides for an exception to this rule for bond issues in connection with: (1) assisted housing, redevelopment and renewal programs; (2) State programs; and (3) low and moderate income housing programs. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, together with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Comptroller General of the United States, to conduct a joint study of: (1) the effectiveness of tax exempt mortgage revenue bond programs as compared to existing private and Federal mortgage activities; (2) the accessibility of the mortgage revenue bond program to those who would not otherwise have home ownership opportunities; and (3) measures taken by bond issuers to mitigate the displacement of low and moderate income families resulting from the development of mortgage revenue bond programs.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1979
Solar Access Alternatives Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy, acting in conjunction with any interested State, to: (1) develop a plan to enable the State to conduct solar access reviews to identify legal alternatives to assure access to direct sunlight and methods of adopting such legal alternatives; and (2) make available all pertinent information relating to solar access to appropriate regional solar energy centers. Directs regional solar energy centers, in conjunction with the National Solar Energy Research Institute, to act as clearinghouses for information regarding solar access. Requires each department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States engaged in constructing or maintaining any structure to do so in a manner which is consistent, to the extent practicable, with State and local laws governing access to sunlight.
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