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United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
National Narcotics Act of 1986 - Establishes a Cabinet-level Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to plan and coordinate drug enforcement efforts of the Federal Government. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on U.S. policy with respect to illegal drugs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
Emergency Crack Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Law Enforcement - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include cocaine freebase as a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties of up to 20 years in prison, or up to $250,000 fine, or both, for manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing cocaine freebase. Provides increased penalties for employing persons under 21 years of age to distribute controlled substances. Imposes enhanced penalties for the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law imposes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.) Makes it a Federal criminal offense to open, maintain, manage, or control any facility used for manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance. Title II: Education and Public Awareness - Part A: Emergency Response - Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day. Requires the Secretary of Education to ensure that State educational departments and all schools have timely information on: (1) the scope and nature of the cocaine freebase epidemic; (2) strategies for effective school intervention and community mobilization; and (3) available resources. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse to produce and disseminate two emergency public service announcements on the consequences of cocaine freebase use. Part B: Establishment of Office Within the Department of Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish within the Department an Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Policy. Provides that such Office shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention (the Assistant Secretary). Sets forth the duties of the Office. Requires the Secretary of Education to report to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on progress in establishing the Office and the long-term strategy of the Office for drug education and prevention. Part C: Student Drug Abuse and Prevention - Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to establish a program of grants to States for drug (including alcohol) abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to: (1) collect and disseminate program-related information to State and local educational agencies; (2) provide technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Authorizes appropriations for such activities. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title III: Prevention - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an emergency report on and feasibility study of intervention by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Drug Abuse to reduce the epidemic of cocaine freebase use.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1986
Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit air carriers from discriminating against handicapped persons. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations to ensure non-discriminatory treatment of such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1986
Declares that the Senate: (1) recognizes the right of the people of Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and other Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries to have religious freedom; and (2) deplores the refusal by the Soviet Union and Romania to recognize the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church and the refusal by those countries to restore Church property. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to press the restoration of the Church and freedom of all religions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1986
Developmental Disabilities Training Assistance Act of 1986 - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to provide grants to colleges and universities for the development and operation of at least ten regionally distributed university affiliated facilities which shall offer graduate programs providing interdisciplinary training to professionals in the health care and social service fields relating to aging and developmental disabilities so as to improve the care provided to elderly persons with developmental disabilities. Requires schools applying for such grants to: (1) offer graduate-level training in a field concerned with aging or developmental disabilities; and (2) propose a program of study providing interdisciplinary training in those subjects. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1986
Makes specified provisions of the Railway Labor Act applicable for an additional 60-day period so as to extend the temporary prohibition of strikes and lockouts with respect to the Maine Central Railroad Company and Portland Terminal Company labor-management dispute. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to the Congress on the progress of negotiations in such dispute, with recommendations for a proposed solution.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1986
Declares that the Congress: (1) supports the efforts of democratic forces in Paraguay to achieve a return to democracy and believes that all Paraguayans should be allowed to participate in the political process; (2) calls upon the Government of Paraguay and leaders of all sectors of Paraguayan society to demonstrate their commitment to a transition to democracy; and (3) commends the U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay for implementing a policy of support for human rights and political freedom in Paraguay.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1986
Designates the week beginning May 10, 1987, as National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1986
Prohibits any change in the prospective payment rates established under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, for outpatient maintenance dialysis services until 60 days after: (1) audited information concerning the costs of such services is available and utilized in determining payment rates; (2) the Commissioner of Food and Drugs implements safety standards for the reuse of dialysis devices and supplies; and (3) specified studies have been completed. Requires that such studies consider: (1) the effects of rate reductions on the quality of dialysis care and on the reuse of dialysis devices and supplies; (2) the safety, efficacy, and patient outcomes of the reuse of such devices and supplies; and (3) the differing effects of rate reductions on urban and rural dialysis facilities and providers. Sets forth reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1986
Declares that the Senate commends Ambassador Harry Barnes for attending the funeral of Rodrigo Rojas De Negri and for his efforts to obtain medical care for the youth. Holds the Government of Chile responsible for his injuries and denial of proper medical care. Condemns the Government of Chile for Rodrigo Rojas' death.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1986
Prohibits any person from mining or using any natural resource situated in or originating from Namibia or otherwise removing any natural resource from Namibia. Terminates this Act if: (1) the President certifies that Namibia has achieved internationally recognized independence; and (2) the President submits that certification to the Congress. Declares that it is U.S. policy that any U.S. person that is sued for damages by the future lawful Namibian Government will receive no aid from the United States in defending against such suit and will receive no compensation from the United States for damages assessed or paid on account of such liability. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Designates August 1, 1986, the 11th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Accords, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the U.S.S.R. and the Warsaw Pact nations; and (3) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity on these points.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Commends Eugene Lang for providing disadvantaged young people in inner city schools with the incentive and means to finish high school and attend college. Encourages others to give such young people educational opportunities they do not normally have.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
International Development Resolution of 1986 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations to propose an agreement on international trade and finance development which provides for: (1) the establishment of a progressive cap to limit the external public debt-service payments of developing nations based upon their net trade performance; (2) the establishment of an alternative progressive scale on public debt-service payments relief for trade deficit developing nations; (3) the establishment of conditions for the repayment of external public debt-service of developing nations; (4) the allocation of resources by industrialized nations to fund the financial operations of the agreement; (5) the deposit by developing nations seeking debt relief of ten percent of the total amount of their annual debt relief for use under the agreement to cover potential defaults; (6) the establishment of an International Trade and Finance Development Council which would decide on the provisions required to implement the agreement; (7) representation on the Board of Directors; and (8) the termination of the agreement after five years.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should insist at the Vienna Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and in discussions with Communist Party and Soviet leaders, that imprisoned and exiled members of the Ukrainian and other Helsinki Monitoring Groups be released and allowed to emigrate to the countries of their choice. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Secretary of State should ensure that the U.S. consulate in Kiev reports on Soviet human rights violations in the Ukraine; and (2) such information should be included in reports on compliance with the Helsinki Final Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that during the official ceremony of the lighting of the torch of the Statue of Liberty, a moment of silence be held for the return of the American captives in Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1986
Designates the month of October 1986 as National Spina Bifida Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Small Business Administration be maintained as an independent agency. Urges the President to nominate an Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1986
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1990, the duties on generator lighting sets for bicycles, bicycle chains, and certain other bicycle parts. Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to extend, through January 1, 1991, the exclusion of imported bicycle parts that are not subsequently re-exported from the exemption from the customs laws that is applicable to a foreign trade zone.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1986
National Nuclear Reactor Safety Study Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on United States Nuclear Safety to: (1) review all information pertaining to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; (2) compare Soviet reactor design and safety standards with U.S. commercial and defense production reactors; (3) review and evaluate U.S. nuclear reactor management and regulation; and (4) recommend improvements in licensing and related regulatory practices. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate July 31, 1986, as National Kidney Program Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
National Nuclear Reactor Safety Study Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on United States Nuclear Safety to: (1) review all information pertaining to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; (2) compare Soviet reactor design and safety standards with U.S. commercial and defense production reactors; (3) review and evaluate U.S. nuclear reactor management and regulation; and (4) recommend improvements in licensing and related regulatory practices. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Anti-Apartheid Action Act of 1986 - Prohibits any U.S. person from making or holding any investment in South Africa. Prohibits importing any article which is grown, produced, or manufactured in South Africa, except for those strategic minerals which the President certifies to the Congress are not sufficiently available otherwise. Prohibits exporting to South Africa goods, technology, or other information subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Prohibits any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction from exporting any goods, technology, or other information to South Africa. Exempts from the export prohibitions certain medicine, medical supplies, and food exports. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to prohibit the takeoff and landing in the United States of aircraft owned by South Africa or South African nationals except in emergencies. Prohibits importing South African krugerrands or any other South African gold coins. Provides for enforcement of this Act and for penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it is against the national security interests of the United States to abandon existing strategic offensive arms agreements by exceeding the numerical sublimits of such agreements as long as the Soviet Union remains within such sublimits; (2) the Soviet Union should take steps to resolve U.S. concerns about Soviet violations of existing strategic arms agreements and to negotiate a new agreement; and (3) the Congress and the President should continue to review the policy of mutual adherence to the numerical sublimits on launchers of strategic nuclear delivery systems and the significance of both Soviet compliance and noncompliance with existing strategic offensive arms agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include cocaine freebase as a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties of up to 20 years in prison, or up to a $250,000 fine, or both, for manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing cocaine freebase.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose enhanced penalties for the manufacture of controlled substances in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law imposes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.)
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to increase penalties for employing persons under 21 years of age to distribute controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Designates July 2, 1986, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1986
Designates July 20, 1986, as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Social Security Trust Funds Management Act of 1986 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Managing Trustee of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (OASDI trust funds) to immediately invest such portion of the OASDI trust funds as is not required for current withdrawals. Prohibits the sale and redemption of OASDI trust fund assets or the exenditure of OASDI trust fund amounts for purposes other than those specified in title II of the Act. Requires members of such trust funds' Board of Trustees to faithfully execute their duties, but does not impose a fiduciary duty. Requires that, in consideration of the public debt limit, required investments of trust fund amounts occur prior to the issuance of other obligations. Directs that the tax receipts earmarked for the OASDI program be immediately transferred (currently, monthly transfers are made) from the general fund of the Treasury to the OASDI trust funds. Requires the Board of Trustees of the OASDI trust funds to meet at least twice each year. Sets forth provisions requiring reports by the Board of Trustees and the Managing Trustee to the Congress regarding the operation and status of the OASDI trust funds.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1986
Prohibits the relocation of Navajo and Hopi Indians for an 18-month period. Requires the President to establish an advisory commission to study the remaining problems involved in completing specified required relocations of such tribes. Requires the commission to submit a report to the President and the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1986
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act - Requires States to provide by law for elections for Federal office: (1) absentee registration and absentee voting for uniformed services voters and overseas voters; and (2) the use of alternative write-in absentee ballots by overseas voters when State absentee ballots are not available. Directs the President to designate the head of an executive department to have primary responsibility for the administrative functions of this Act, including: (1) prescribing an official postcard form containing a voter registration and an absentee ballot application; (2) prescribing an alternative write-in ballot for overseas voters; (3) prescribing forms and designs for balloting materials; (4) distributing election materials; (5) reporting to the Congress in the year immediately following a presidential election year on its effectiveness; and (6) consulting State and local election officials in carrying out this Act. Provides for the distribution of official postcards. Sets forth recommendations to the States in carrying out provisions of this Act. Provides for Federal and State write-in absentee ballots for overseas voters. Declares balloting materials under this Act free of postage. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1986
Directs the Archivist of the United States to provide for the distribution within the United States of the USIA film "The March."
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1986
Nation's Capital Preservation Act of 1986 - Designates areas in the national capital region in which buildings erected, altered, or raised so as to be above specified heights shall be subject to an excise tax imposed by this Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish such tax.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1986
Honors the Boston Celtics for winning the 1986 National Basketball Association Championship.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1986
Medicaid AIDS Amendments of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit States to provide home and community-based Medicaid services to individuals diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related conditions. Authorizes States to limit Medicaid case management services to individuals with AIDS or AIDS-related conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 - Title I: General Provisions Amendments - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Act) to direct the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to ensure that the Rehabilitation Services Administration staff shall: (1) be in sufficient numbers to meet program needs and at levels to attract and maintain the most qualified personnel; and (2) include individuals with training experience in rehabilitation services and with competencies which meet professional standards. Revises the definitions of "evaluation of rehabilitation potential" and "severe handicap." Adds definitions of "employability," "rehabilitation engineering," and "supported employment." Authorizes the Commissioner of Rehabilitative Services (the Commissioner) to: (1) provide monitoring and conduct evaluations; and (2) appoint necessary task forces. Revises provisions for program and project evaluation to: (1) require the use of appropriate methodology and evaluative research designs; and (2) give the Commissioner, rather than the Secretary, responsibility for carrying out such evaluations. Permits up to one-half of one percent of funds appropriated for discretionary grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements under the Act to be used to provide non-Federal panels of experts to review applications for such grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements. Adds provisions for review of grant or contract applications. Directs the Commissioner to: (1) assess the direct and indirect cost rates charged by State agencies administering State plans or entering into cooperative agreements under the Act; and (2) report on such assessment to the Congress by February 1, 1987. Title II: Vocational Rehabilitation Services - Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for grants to States (and Indian tribes) for provision of vocational rehabilitation services and for innovation and expansion of such services. Revises requirements for State plans for vocational rehabilitation services. Requires such plans to: (1) include the results of a comprehensive, State-wide assessment of the rehabilitation needs of all individuals with severe handicaps residing within the State and the State's response to the assessment; (2) describe how rehabilitation engineering services will be provided to assist an increasing number of individuals with handicaps; (3) provide for cooperative agreements with mental health community support programs; (4) provide for conducting a full needs assessment for serving individuals with severe handicaps; and (5) provide satisfactory assurances that the State has an acceptable plan for supported employment services for severely handicapped individuals. Revises provisions for individualized written rehabilitation programs. Requires that each such program to: (1) be developed to achieve the employability of the individual; (2) include, where appropriate, a statement of the specific rehabilitation engineering services to be provided; (3) include an assessment of the expected need for post-employment services; and (4) provide for a reassessment of the need for post-employment services prior to case closure, and a statement, where appropriate for severely handicapped individuals, of how such services will be provided. Revises provisions for review of determinations. Changes the scope of vocational rehabilitation services that must be provided under the Act to include rehabilitation engineering services designed to help individuals with handicaps to increase their functional abilities and potential for self-sufficiency. Revises provisions for the client assistance program. Permits the Governor of a State to remove an agency designated as a client assistance agency only for good cause and after notice. Authorizes the Commissioner to increase minimum allotments under the client assistance program under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary to pay a client assistance agency a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for the client assistance program. Title III: Research and Training - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for the National Institute of Handicapped Research and for research grants for methods and devices to assist in the provision of vocational and rehabilitation services for handicapped individuals. Adds provisions specifying the purpose and functions of the Pacific Basin Research and Training Center. Includes the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health on the Interagency Committee on Handicapped Research. Includes among research projects which may receive funding: (1) studies and analyses of recreational factors affecting rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; and (2) studies, analyses, and other activities related to supported employment. Prohibits the host institution with which the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center is affiliated from collecting more than 15 percent in indirect cost charges. Adds to the functions of Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers the demonstration and dissemination of innovative models for the delivery of cost-effective rehabilitation engineering services to meet the needs of, and address barriers confronted by, individuals with handicaps. Requires that at least two such Centers be established in FY 1987, one in South Carolina and one in Connecticut. Includes the National Institute of Mental Health among agencies to be in joint projects involving rehabilitation. Authorizes the Commissioner to arrange for site visits in evaluating research demonstration and related projects. Title IV: Supplementary Services and Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for: (1) grants for construction of rehabilitation facilities, staffing, and planning assistance; (2) vocational training services for handicapped individuals; (3) training for personnel involved in providing rehabilitation services for handicapped individuals; (4) comprehensive rehabilitation centers; (5) special projects and supplementary services; and (6) special recreational programs. Includes, under provisions for personnel training grants and contracts, personnel specifically trained to identify, assess, and meet the individual rehabilitation needs of individuals with severe handicaps. Includes among the areas to which personnel training funds may be targeted: (1) rehabilitation engineering; (2) rehabilitation dentistry; (3) physical education; (4) therapeutic recreation; (5) specialized personnel in providing employment training for supported employment; and (6) other specialized personnel for those individuals who meet the definition of severely handicapped. Adds new provisions under provisions for special demonstration programs. Authorizes grants for developing special projects and demonstrations providing supported employment (at least one nationwide in scope), and grants for technical assistance to States in implementing new provisions for supported employment services for severely handicapped individuals. Directs the Commissioner to report annually to the Congress on such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for such grants. Directs the Commissioner to make a grant to a public agency in Massachusetts to expand existing model Statewide transitional planning services to severely handicapped youth. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for such grants. Revises provisions for special recreational programs. Allows grants for such programs to be made to nonprofit private organizations. Includes among authorized program activities leisure education, leisure networking, leisure resource development, physical education, and sports. Requires that, whenever possible and appropriate, such program and activities be: (1) provided in settings with nonhandicapped peers; and (2) designed to demonstrate ways of assisting in maximizing the independence and community integration of individuals with handicaps. Requires that each such grant be for a minimum three-year period. Title V: National Council on the Handicapped - Revises the purpose and duties of the National Council on the Handicapped (the Council). Directs the Council to: (1) examine data on the circumstances of disabled citizens with respect to employment, income, housing, community living, education, discrimination, health services, and participation in community activities; (2) establish goals for individuals with handicaps to be reach by the year 2000 in each of those areas, and recommend strategies to meet such goals; (3) issue a report on such goals and strategies within six months after enactment of this Act; and (4) issue a biannual report, beginning on January 30, 1989, to the President and the Congress outlining national progress in meeting such goals. Directs the Council to: (1) review and assess Federal enforcement of compliance with provisions of the Act for employment of the handicapped under Federal contracts and nondiscrimination under Federal grants and programs and with the provisions of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975; and (2) report to the Congress and the President, within one year after enactment of this Act, outlining the results of such assessment, with recommendations. Directs the Council, within three months after the enactment of this Act, to transmit to the Congress a transition plan for implementation of these amendments relating to the Council. Authorizes appropriations for the Council for FY 1987 through 1990. Title VI: Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board Reauthorization - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Architectural and Transportation Compliance Board through FY 1990. Title VII: Projects with Industry and Business Opportunies for Handicapped Individuals - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for community services employment pilot programs for individuals with handicaps. Revises the purpose and scope of projects with industry. Requires such projects to create and expand job opportunities for individuals with handicaps by providing for the establishment of appropriate job placement services. Provides for evaluation reports and technical assistance for such projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for projects with industry. Establishes a new part C of title VI of the Act: Supported Employment Services for Severely Handicapped Individuals. Authorizes grants under such part C to assist States in developing collaborative programs with appropriate public agencies and private nonprofit organizations for training and short-term post-employment services leading to supported employment for severely handicapped individuals. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) eligibility; (2) State allotments; (3) State plans; and (4) availability and comparability of services. Authorizes appropriations for such services for FY 1987 through 1990. Title VIII: Services of Independent Living - Revises provisions for comprehensive services for independent living. Requires State plans to provide assurances that the State will consider recommendations of the State Independent Living Council in determining how independent living services will be expanded or modified. Requires each State receiving such assistance to establish a State Independent Living Council. Sets forth the duties of, and membership guidelines for, such councils. Requires each Center for Independent Living to have a board which is composed of a majority of handicapped individuals or parents, guardians, or family members of handicapped individuals. Includes recreation among the services offered by such centers. Shortens the deadline for State applications for assistance for such centers. Provides for evaluation and review of grants for such centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for the following provisions under title VII (Comprehensive Services for Independent Living) of the Act: (1) comprehensive services; (2) centers for independent living; (3) independent living services for older blind individuals; and (4) general provisions (protection and advocacy of individual rights and employment of handicapped individuals). Title IX: Helen Keller National Center - Amends the Helen Keller National Center Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to carry out such Act. Title X: Technical Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions - Makes technical amendments to the Act. Requires that the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped be guided by the general policies of the National Council on the Handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
Designates the week of September 15 through September 21, 1986, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1986
Designates August 1986 as Cajun Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact of 1986 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require AFDC applicants and recipients to register with a State agency for employment counseling, training, and assignment. Authorizes AFDC recipients to refuse employment which results in a net loss in their income. Directs an agency of each State to: (1) establish a single intake and registration process for AFDC applicants and recipients; (2) determine whether training or education is needed to prepare registered applicants and recipients for employment and then provide counseling regarding prospects and needs; (3) arrange for their participation in one or more of the work-related programs established under title IV of the Act or other Federal law, while coordinating such programs to enhance the availability and efficiency of services provided; and (4) develop an employment plan for each AFDC applicant or recipient. Requires the State agency to provide AFDC applicants and recipients assigned to employment, training, or education programs with child care and transportation services. Sets the Federal contribution to education, training, and assignment costs at 70 percent and the Federal share of administrative and support service costs at 50 percent. Increases, by five percent in any fiscal year after FY 1987, the Federal share of education, training, and assignment costs, provided a State meets certain performance standards to be developed by the Office of Technology Assessment. Provides that such standards shall measure a State's success in reducing welfare costs and helping AFDC recipients achieve self-sufficiency, while accounting for differing conditions among the States. Requires the publication of such standards within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that unless the Health Care Financing Administration allocates sufficient funds and takes other action to ensure prompt payment of Medicare claims, the Senate shall adopt legislation ensuring prompt claims payment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Prompt Payment Amendments of 1986 - Revises Federal law to deem the head of an agency to receive an invoice on the fifth day after the date on which a property is actually delivered, or final performance of a service is actually completed, unless the contract specifies otherwise. Makes Federal prompt payment provisions applicable to the United States Postal Service. Reduces the 15-day grace period for payment of interest penalties to eight days for solicitations issued before October 1, 1988. Requires an agency to pay a double interest penalty if it fails to meet such grace period and the business concern makes a written demand that the agency pay such penalty. Makes the interest penalty provisions applicable to construction contracts for progress payments and retained amounts. Specifies the calculation of time for interest penalties on discount payments. Revises agency reporting requirements on interest penalty payments to include a description of agency payment practices. Requires the modification of Government-wide procurement regulations to implement Federal prompt payment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 - Prohibits U.S. persons from: (1) making loans to South Africa or any organization owned or controlled by South Africa; (2) making any investment in South Africa; (3) contributing technology or technological services to the exploration for, or the research, development, or production of, energy sources in or for South Africa; or (4) making deposits in a foreign bank which is organized under South African law or owned or controlled by South Africans or a branch bank located in South Africa. Prohibits foreign banks organized under South African law or owned or controlled by South Africans from establishing or operating branches in the United States. Excludes from such prohibitions those loans, investments, and technology contracts entered into before May 21, 1986. Prohibits importing uranium ore, uranium oxide, coal, and steel from South Africa. Prohibits: (1) U.S. persons from making or holding any investment in South Africa in a business that sells computers, computer software, or computer services; and (2) exporting computers, computer software, or computer services to South Africa. Provides that such computer investment and export prohibitions shall not apply if, within 12 months of enactment of this Act: (1) the President certifies to the Congress that South Africa has freed Nelson Mandela and all political prisoners and has entered into good faith negotiations with truly representative leaders of the black majority for a new political system or has totally dismantled the apartheid system; and (2) a joint resolution is enacted approving such certification. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Authorizes using additional funds for aid for South Africa under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962. Earmarks such funds for refugee assistance programs and community development projects. Requires the President to give quarterly reports to specified congressional committees on the assistance provided with such funds. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to prohibit the takeoff and landing in the United States of aircraft owned by South Africa or South African nationals except in emergencies. Provides for the enforcement of this Act and for penalties for violations of this Act. Requires the President to try, through negotiations, to persuade other countries to adopt restrictions on activities with respect to South Africa consistent with this Act. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the status of such negotiations. Sets forth information to be included in such reports. Requires the President, during June of 1988, to report to the Congress on whether South Africa has: (1) freed Nelson Mandela and all political prisoners and has entered into good faith negotiations with truly representative leaders of the black majority for a new political system; or (2) has totally dismantled the apartheid system. Requires the President, if such conditions have not been met, to include in such report recommendations on whether U.S. persons should be required to divest themselves of their South African investments. Terminates all the provisions of this Act upon enactment of a joint resolution approving a presidential determination that such conditions have been met.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Designates the week beginning September 7, 1986, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1986
Designates June 26, 1986, as National Interstate Highway Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1986
Designates 1987 as the National Year of the Americas.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1986
Designates the week of May 25 through May 31, 1986, as Critical Care Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 which: (1) provide a remedy against the United States for loss of property, personal injury, or death due to exposure to radiation based on acts or omissions by a contractor conducting atomic weapons tests under a contract with the United States; and (2) preclude any other civil action by individuals against a contractor for the purpose of determining civil liability from acts or omissions of such contractor. Makes the period during which such provision was in effect inapplicable for purposes of the tolling of any statute of limitations for claims.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Aaron Copland in recognition of his contributions to American musical composition. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations.