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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
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: (1) are preference eligibles; (2) are supervisors or employees engaged in confidential personnel work; and (3) have completed one year of continuous service in the same or similar positions. 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 · 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 beginning November 22 and ending November 28, 1987, as American Indian Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Designates the week beginning May 10, 1987, as National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the administration should: (1) oppose the establishment of a tax on vegetable and marine fats and oils in the European Community; (2) continue its efforts to ensure that such a tax is not established; and (3) notify the European Community that the United States will view establishment of such a tax as inconsistent with the European Community's obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and as an action that will result in the adoption of strong and immediate countermeasures.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1987
Designates the week beginning on July 27 and ending on August 2, 1987, as National Czech American Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Amends the Food Security Act to 1985 to exempt from the ineligibility (for agricultural price supports and other related benefits) provisions of the highly erodible land conservation program persons who grew alfalfa and other multiyear grasses and legumes during the 1981 through 1985 crop years in a rotation practice approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and the Federal patent law to provide that any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on an aeronautical and space vehicle under the jurisdiction or control of the United States shall be considered made, used, or sold within the United States. Applies this provision to all patents granted before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, with certain exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Designates the week of September 14 through September 20, 1987, as Benign Essential Blepharospasm Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) no Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) physician payment methodology should be implemented which is based on hospital discharge classifications or requires mandatory assignment; and (2) no drastic change in the Medicare physician payment methodology should be undertaken without the receipt of reports required by legislation enacted in the 99th Congress and a detailed analysis of the long-range impact of such change on the provision of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal criminal code to require, prior to the sale, delivery, or transfer of a handgun: (1) a seven day waiting period (during which time a sworn statement is sent to the chief law enforcement officer of the transferee's place of residence providing notice of the proposed transaction); or (2) a certificate from such officer stating that access to a handgun is required because of threats to the transferee's life. Sets forth: (1) certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements; and (2) criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
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
Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the manufacture, importation, sale, or possession of firearms which are not: (1) detectable by metal detectors used at U.S. airports; and (2) identifiable by x-ray systems designed to inspect carry-on baggage.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an import fee on: (1) the first sale within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States; and (2) the use within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States if no such tax has been imposed prior to such use. Exempts from such tax crude oil or refined petroleum products purchased for export. Sets the rate of such tax at $4 per barrel reduced by an amount equal to the excess of the energy policy price per barrel over $18.
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 · 4 February 1987
Designates April 9, 1987, as National POW Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Designates the week of November 22 through November 29, 1987, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1987
Gives special recognition to the achievements of wilderness ecologist Aldo Leopold. Urges Federal land management agencies to model their activities after the conservation ethic he inspired.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Federal Budget Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting cycle beginning in the 101st Congress. Defines a two-fiscal-year budget period as the period of two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Sets forth a revised timetable for a biennial budget. Requires the Congress, by September 30 of each odd-numbered year, to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget, all regular appropriation bills, and the reconciliation bill or resolution for the two-fiscal-year budget period beginning on October 1 of that year. Requires the President, by the following January 15th, to transmit to the Congress any revisions the President may desire in such budget. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, by the following March 31, to transmit to the Committees on the Budget of the House and the Senate, any revisions of the Office's fiscal policy report needed due to the President's revisions or changing economic conditions. Requires each Congress, by the last day of the second session, to complete action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget authority for the two-fiscal-year budget period beginning on October 1 of the succeeding odd-numbered calendar year. Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate, unless waived or suspended by a three-fifths' vote, to consider any regular appropriation bill for a budget period until the Committee on Appropriations of that House has reported all of the regular appropriation bills. Requires all regular appropriation bills to be reported to the House by June 1 and passed by the House by June 15 of each odd-numbered year. Requires all regular appropriation bills to be reported by the Senate by June 30 and passed by the Senate by July 31 of each odd-numbered year. Permits a change in budget accounts of the President's budget or estimates of outlays and proposed budget authority only in consultation with the House and Senate Appropriations and Budget Committees and the committees having jurisdiction over the affected programs and activities. Sets forth technical and conforming amendments.
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
Emergency Farm Credit Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require Federal banking agencies to permit an agricultural bank to amortize over ten years any loss on a qualified agricultural loan that the bank would otherwise be required to show on an annual financial statement for 1984 through 1988. Allows such amortization only if there is no evidence that fraud or criminal abuse by the bank led to such losses. Requires a participating agricultural bank to maintain in its loan portfolio a percentage of agricultural loans not lower than such percentage as of January 1, 1985.
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 · 27 January 1987
Bilingual Education Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Bilingual Education Act (the Act) to add to the statement of policy the declaration that, regardless of the method of instruction, programs which serve children of limited English proficiency have the equally important goals of developing both academic achievement and English proficiency. Removes a requirement that the Secretary of Education reserve limited portions of funds under the Act for special alternative instructional programs and related activities. Removes a requirement that the Secretary reserve at least 75 percent of funds under part A (Financial Assistance for Bilingual Education Programs) of the Act for transitional bilingual education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1987
Recognizes and acknowledges January 27, 1987, as New Mexico Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Designates the week beginning March 29, 1987, as American Physiologists Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Santa Fe Trail, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico, as the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to report within one year to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee a comprehensive management and use plan for the Trail. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Services, to be held not later than 1989, to develop recommendations for improvement of such services and their public use. Requires that the Conference be planned and conducted by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences. Authorizes the Librarian of Congress, the Director of the National Library of Medicine, and the Director of the National Agricultural Library, upon request, to detail personnel to the Commission. Requires the Conference to submit a final report to the President within 120 days following its close. Directs that the final report be made public, and within 90 days after receipt by the President transmitted to the Congress with recommendations. Establishes an advisory committee to assist in planning and conducting the Conference. Includes among its appointed members the Secretary of Education and the Librarian of Congress. Authorizes appropriations as necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Designates the week of September 21 through September 27, 1987, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require any person whose acquisition results in ownership of more than five percent of an issuer's equity securities to file specified information with the issuer, appropriate exchanges, and the Securities and Exchange Commission within 24 hours (currently, ten days).
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the Congress to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections to Federal offices.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Designates the month of March 1987 as Women's History Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Refers S. 329, a bill for the relief of certain organizations and individuals, to the chief judge of the United States Claims Court.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1987
Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1987 - Requires that all telephones sold, rented, or otherwise distributed in the United States be hearing aid compatible, except telephones that are manufactured before the effective date of this Act or that are not required to be registered with the Federal Communications Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Dial-a-Porn Control Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any obscene or indecent telephone communication for commercial purposes to any person in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communication. (Current law prohibits such communication to any person without his or her consent or to any person under 18 years of age.)
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Grants a Federal charter to the National Academies of Practice, honoring persons of the health care professions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Compassionate Pain Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 60-month program under which parenteral diacetylmorphine shall be made available through hospital and other prescribed pharmacies for the relief of pain from terminal cancer (as defined by this Act). Directs the Secretary to provide for the manufacture of such drug. Permits physicians registered under the Controlled Substances Act to prescribe such drug. States that for purposes of such program the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and titles II and III of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 shall not apply with respect to: (1) the importing of opium; and (2) the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of parenteral diacetylmorphine. Requires: (1) the Secretary to make program reports to specified congressional committees; and (2) the Comptroller General of the United States to make a program report to such committees 56 months after the program is established. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees concerning: (1) the extent of research activities in the management of pain which have received funds through the National Institutes of Health; (2) the ways in which the Federal Government supports the training of health personnel in pain management; and (3) recommendations for expanding and improving the training of health personnel in pain management. Permits the Secretary at any time six months after implementation of the program to modify or terminate the program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates the month of November 1987 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates the week beginning the second Saturday of June of each year as National Dairy Goat Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 6 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 · 6 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the income tax rates provided in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 should not be raised or delayed.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1986
Requires that the Congress convene in Independence Nationa Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1987, to commemorate the bicentennial of the Great Compromise.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1986
Declares that the United States extends its sympathies to the people and Government of El Salvador with regard to the recent earthquake. Urges the President to provide appropriate relief to help prevent further loss of life in El Salvador. Declares that the United States is prepared to cooperate with El Salvador in long-term efforts to recover from the effects of the earthquake.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1986
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to direct the Secretary of Labor, in order to prevent curtailment of employment opportunities, to provide special certificates for the employment, at less than the minimum wage, of individuals (including those employed in agriculture) whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury. Requires that, under such certificates, individuals be paid wages which are: (1) lower than the applicable minimum wage; (2) commensurate with those paid to similarly located and employed nonhandicapped workers; and (3) related to the individual's productivity. Requires employers to assure that they will periodically review and adjust such wages in a specified manner. Sets forth procedures for administrative review of such wages.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1986
Recognizes Hawaiian Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop as one of the great humanitarians in U.S. history.