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United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Designates the week beginning July 27, 1986, as National Nuclear Medicine Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Designates the week beginning April 13, 1986, as National Medical Laboratory Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice should review documents concerning Kurt Waldheim's role, if any, in Nazi war crimes.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates March 25, 1986, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1986
Unfair Trade Concessions Requirements Act - Requires the President to seek commitments in trade agreement negotiations to remove existing, and avoid future use of, unfair trade concessions requirements. Permits such commitments to provide for the temporary use of unfair trade concessions requirements by certain developing countries. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to define "unfair trade concessions requirements" to mean any practice or policy of a foreign government that requires, as a condition for allowing U.S. imports into such country or for carrying on businesses in such country, that: (1) substantial investment be made in such country; (2) intellectual property be licensed to such country; or (3) other collateral concession be made. Makes countries that impose unfair trade concessions requirements on U.S. products covered by bilateral trade agreements ineligible for designation as beneficiary developing countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act and under the Generalized System of Preferences of the Trade Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund Temporary Funding Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend temporarily the authority to collect Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund) excise taxes on petroleum and chemicals during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the date the amount received totals $150,000,000. Terminates the authority to collect an excise tax on the receipt of hazardous waste at a qualified facility after September 30, 1985. Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) to permit advances to such trust fund to be made through May 13, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Appropriates interim funds for the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund).
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate April as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Recognizes and honors the National Guard for 350 years of service.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1986
Designates the week of December 7 through December 13, 1986, as National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
New Clean Air Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to limit after 1991 the number of hours a fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility which is a major stationary source of sulfur dioxide emissions may operate according to its emissions rate. Requires such major sources to attain by 1995 the best degree of emission reduction technically available. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to periodically publish demonstrated levels of emission reduction and to promulgate emission standards for oil shale production and processing facilities, synthetic fuels production facilities, and other categories of major energy-production sources. Sets emission standards for light-duty vehicles and engines for model years after 1989 and for heavy-duty vehicles and engines for model years after 1990. Prohibits the sale of diesel fuel with a sulfur content above a certain level determined by the Administrator. Requires State vehicle inspection programs to require emissions testing or direct inspection of components of vehicle emissions control systems. Provides for the assessment of daily civil penalties for violations of the fuel and fuel additive regulatory requirements. Directs the Administrator to implement a monitoring system for assessing the effects of acid deposition by 1988. Makes it a violation of the Clean Air Act if a State's air pollutant emissions contribute to the violation of another State's water quality standard under the Clean Water Act. Amends the Clean Water Act to state that such emissions endanger health or welfare abroad if they contribute to the violation of such country's water quality standards. Directs the President to negotiate with Canada and Mexico by 1987 to cooperate in reducing air pollution. Directs the President to negotiate treaties or other international agreements to apply uniform standards of performance for the control of air pollutant emissions. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress by 1989 on a system of tariffs on emissions sufficient to encourage reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Acid Deposition Control Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish an interstate transport and acid precursor reduction program. Designates an acid deposition impact region comprising a long-range transport corridor of 31 States east of the Mississippi and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report to the Congress within two years on a study of long-range transport of pollutants in the remaining States. Sets forth sulfur dioxide emission reduction standards for the acid deposition impact region of ten million tons below 1980 levels within ten years, permitting annual emissions of no more than 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million British thermal units of heat input. Restricts increases in emissions from major stationary sources of oxides of nitrogen or sulfur dioxide, except as specified. Permits States to reallocate necessary reductions among themselves so long as the total reductions of the States involved meet the required standards. Requires each impact region State to adopt enforceable emission production measures for sulfur dioxide, including compliance schedules. Requires the Administrator's approval and other Governors' perusal of such measures. Requires each major stationary source subject to an emission limitation to notify the Governor of the State, who shall notify the Administrator, within four years of its intended method of compliance. Requires sources choosing fuel substitution to be in compliance with their applicable emission limitations within six years. Requires those sources complying through the installation of a technological system of continuous emission reduction or the replacement of facilities to have entered into binding contracts for the same within six years. Subjects owners of sources in noncompliance with the applicable implementation plans to the established emission limitation schedule and a noncompliance penalty. Permits the use of the following measures to reduce emissions in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures if such measures are enforceable by entities and persons other than the State in which the emissions occur: (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (2) retirement of major stationary sources at an earlier than provided for date; (3) investments in energy conservation where emission reductions can be identified with such investments; (4) trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions through emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions; and (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels. Permits sulfur emission reduction compliance by reducing emissions of oxides of nitrogen at a rate of two units by weight of oxides of nitrogen for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Makes it a violation of the Clean Air Act to emit an air pollutant which adversely affects the public health or welfare of another State or foreign country. Repeals primary nonferrous smelter orders which permitted temporary waivers of emissions reduction requirements. Revises motor vehicle emission and fuel standards to establish oxides of nitrogen emissions standards for light-duty vehicles and engines after model year 1989 and increase the useful life of such vehicles and engines. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke or suspend an automobile manufacturer's certificate of compliance with motor vehicle emissions standards if fewer than 90 percent of vehicles or engines tested in any sample or sampling period conform with the requirements being certified. Requires State automobile inspection programs to: (1) require emissions testing or direct inspection of components of vehicle emissions control systems; and (2) the replacement of inoperative parts which control emissions of oxides of nitrogen. Directs the President to negotiate with Canada and Mexico to control air pollution and to enter international agreements to establish uniform standards of air pollution control.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Designates the week beginning on October 5, 1986, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Designates the week of April 20, 1986, as Crime Victims Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Federal funding for FY 1987 Cooperative Extension Service Programs should be restored to at least the level approved in the FY 1986 concurrent budget resolution, except for reductions in such programs required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Commends Stephen E. Bell for his tireless and exemplary service to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Declares that the benefits of the following programs, including cost-of-living adjustments, shall not be subject to modification, suspension, or reduction in calendar year 1987 pursuant to the President's sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act): (1) black lung benefits; (2) Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disability system; (3) civil service retirement and disability system; (4) Comptroller General retirement system; (5) foreign service retirement and disability system; (6) judicial survivors' annuities system; (7) longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation system; (8) military retirement system; (9) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retirement system; (10) pensions for former Presidents; (11) railroad retirement; (12) Coast Guard retirement system; (13) Public Health Service commissioned officers retirement system; (14) disabled coal miners' benefits; and (15) Tax Court judges survivors' retirement system.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Designates the month of April 1986 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments of 1986 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that in the construction industry two or more business entities engaged in the same or similar work with common ownership or control shall be deemed a single employer. Applies the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employees of such business entities to all other business entities comprising the same single employer within the geographical area covered by the agreement. States that collective bargaining agreements may only be repudiated after the National Labor Relations Board certifies election results in which a majority of the employees select a bargaining representative other than the representative with whom such agreement was made.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1986
Designates July 4, 1986, the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty, as National Immigrants Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Designates 1988 as the Year of New Sweden.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1986
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a pilot program to sell at least $8,000,000,000 in rural housing loans to the public (title V of the Housing Act of 1949) in each of FY 1986 through 1988. Backs such sales by a pool of Government-owned loans which would be eligible for replacement acquisition if a purchased loan is delinquent for 30 days or more.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1986
Designates the week of May 11 through May 17, 1986, as National Osteoporosis Awareness Week of 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Disapproves the proposed rescission of budget authority for payments to local governments from the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund (R86-68) as set forth in the special message of the President transmitted to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Tax Gap Act of 1986 - Title I: Internal Revenue Service Publicity Campaign and Public Relations Program - Establishes a publicity campaign and public relations program to be conducted by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the taxpaying public regarding tax reform, tax evasion, and other tax matters aimed at increasing compliance with the tax laws. Provides for a variety of publicity techniques to be used to institute the publicity campaign and public relations program. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Increased Taxpayer Compliance Through Improved Enforcement Activities and Strengthened Penalties and Information Reporting Requirements - Part I: Increased Audits - Directs the Secretary to initiate a highly publicized audit program targeted at: (1) the unreported legal source income for the period between 1981 and 1986; and (2) any other sector the Secretary determines to be growing in noncompliance. Authorizes additional appropriations to increase by 2,500 the number of audit examiners so as to double the number of returns audited each taxable year. Part II: Public Disclosure of Certain Taxpayers - Permits the public disclosure of the identity of taxpayers where delinquent taxes are in excess of $10,000 or the delinquent taxpayer has become subject to enforcement actions. Part III: Revision of Certain Penalties, Etc. - Provides penalties for: (1) failure to file certain information returns; (2) failure to furnish certain payee statements; and (3) failure to include certain information on certain returns and statements. Establishes certain waiver provisions, definitions, and special rules relating to the filing of information returns and statements. Increases the penalty for failure to pay tax in certain cases from 0.5 percent per month to one percent per month. Modifies the provisions relating to the tax penalty in instances involving negligence and fraud. Increases the tax penalty for substantial underpayment of tax liability from ten percent to 20 percent. Part IV: Information Reporting Provisions - Requires real estate brokers to report certain real estate transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. Requires the head of every Federal executive agency which enters into any contract to report to the Internal Revenue Service certain information relating to the person with whom such agency contracts. Requires the information reporting of State and local government income tax refunds and real and personal property taxes. Requires any tax-exempt interest received for the taxable year to be shown on the tax return for such year. Part V: Additional Authorizations - Authorizes additional appropriations for the Internal Revenue Service to increase the level of return processing and taxpayer service activities, to increase tax fraud and collection activities, and to increase litigation activities. Title III: Tax Amnesty - Provides for a one-time amnesty from criminal and civil tax penalties for a taxpayer who: (1) files a written statement with specified information concerning any underpayment of tax; (2) pays the amount of such underpayment when filing the statement; and (3) within 30 days of notification of the amount of interest payable on any tax delinquent amount, pays the amount of such interest or delinquency. Permits installment payments in certain cases. Provides that where there is a dispute with regard to an amount of the delinquent tax and it is resolved in favor of the taxpayer, the Secretary shall refund such amount with interest at the six-month Treasury bill rate. Defines the amnesty period as a six-month period with a beginning date during calendar year 1987 which is selected by the Secretary. Disallows such amnesty where: (1) there has been an underpayment assessed and a notice of deficiency with respect to the underpayment was mailed, or the taxpayer was put on notice of a substantive question of the taxpayer's tax liability; (2) there was fraud in seeking amnesty; or (3) a criminal investigation is pending. Provides that the amnesty provisions apply only to underpayments of Federal tax for taxable periods ending before January 1, 1986. Authorizes appropriations to inform the general public about the operation of the amnesty provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Single Family Mortgage Insurance Fraud Detection and Prevention Act of 1986 - Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to take appropriate action to reduce losses under the single family mortgage insurance program, including independent verifications of borrowers' income and credit, appraisals of investor-owned property, and lender data on defaults.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Declares that the Senate supports U.S. recognition of the newly elected Aquino Government and praises the progress toward restoration of democracy in the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Federal Tax Amnesty and Improved Tax Compliance Act of 1986 - Title I: Amnesty From Criminal and Civil Penalties - Provides for a one-time amnesty from criminal and civil tax penalties for a taxpayer who: (1) files a written statement with specified information concerning any underpayment of tax; and (2) pays the amount of such underpayment when filing the statement, together with the interest due thereon. Permits installment payments in certain cases. Provides that where the taxpayer fails to pay any installment payment when due, the balance in the account shall be due immediately. Defines the amnesty period as the six-month period which ends on September 30, 1987. Disallows such amnesty where: (1) there has been an underpayment assessed and a notice of deficiency with respect to the underpayment was mailed or the taxpayer was put on notice of a substantive question of the taxpayer's tax liability; (2) there was fraud in seeking amnesty; or (3) a criminal investigation is pending. Provides that the amnesty provisions apply only to underpayments of Federal tax for taxable periods ending before January 1, 1985. Authorizes appropriations to inform the general public about the operation of the amnesty provisions. Title II: Compliance Provisions - Subtitle A: Increase in Compliance Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in addition to other appropriated funds, there be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury, for revenue enforcement and compliance programs, such an amount as may be cost effective of the revenue attributable to the amnesty program. Authorizes appropriations for an additional 2,500 compliance personnel for the Internal Revenue Service through FY 1989. Subtitle B: Denial of Federal Contracts, Licenses, etc., to Taxpayers with Tax Delinquent Accounts - Prohibits the award of any Federal contract to any person who has a tax delinquent account. Provides that no Federal business license may be issued with respect to any person who has a tax delinquent account. Provides an exception for public health business licenses or business licenses specified in regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. Subtitle C: Inflation Adjustment of Criminal and Civil Monetary Penalties - Provides for an annual cost-of-living adjustment in the criminal and civil tax monetary penalties beginning in 1987. Specifies the method for calculating the annual adjustment. Subtitle D: Revision of Certain Penalties - Provides penalties for: (1) failure to file certain information returns; (2) failure to furnish certain payee statements; and (3) failure to include certain information on certain returns and statements. Establishes certain waiver provisions, definitions, and special rules relating to the filing of information returns and statements. Increases the penalty for failure to pay tax in certain cases from 0.5 percent per month to one percent per month. Modifies the provisions relating to the tax penalty in instances involving negligence and fraud.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Designates February 28, 1986, as National TRIO Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Designates the month of October 1986 as Lupus Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1986
Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations for asbestos hazard abatement in the schools. Directs the Administrator to develop a model accreditation plan for States for individuals who inspect, manage, abate, and analyze asbestos problems. Makes the use of accredited personnel a condition for receiving financial assistance under the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Requires each State Governor to establish administrative procedures for the certification of school asbestos inspection and abatement programs and for asbestos management plans, all to be carried forward by the local educational agency. Requires warning labels on any asbestos still in routine maintenance areas of a school building. Authorizes the Administrator or the appropriate State Governor to take necessary response measures where asbestos in a school building may be hazardous and adequate local measures have not been taken. Sets forth the relationship of pollution liability insurance risk retention groups to State law, including securities law. Establishes the Asbestos Trust Fund in the Treasury to carry out the Asbestos Hazards Abatement Assistance Program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 11 through May 17, 1986, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Designates February 19, 1987, as National Day for Federal Retirees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
States that the Congress disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority 86-49 for the urban development action grant program set forth in the special message transmitted by the President to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority (D-86-48) for community development block grants set forth in the special message of the President to the Congress on February 5, 1986, under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the rescission of budget authority (R-86-52) for elderly and handicapped housing under the Housing Act of 1959 (Section 202 program), proposed by the President on February 5, 1986, should be disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the rescission of budget authority for urban development action grants (Rescission R86-55) proposed by the President on February 5, 1986, should be disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 21, 1986, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1986
Designates the week of March 9 through March 15, 1986, as National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse to be constructed in Newark, New Jersey, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
States that the Congress disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority 86-49 for the urban development action grant program set forth in the special message transmitted by the President to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the Soviet Union to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates the 14th day of June 1986 as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of Baltic self-determination to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Designates April 28, 1986, as National Nursing Home Residents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that employee benefits should not be taxed.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that neither the President nor the Congress should impose fees on imported crude oil and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Extends congratulations and best wishes to President Ronald Reagan on his 75th birthday.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act of 1986 - Establishes a Risk Assessment Board, within the Department of Health and Human Services, to: (1) review scientific reports on the incidence of disease associated with employment; (2) report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) on the state of current research on such diseases; and (3) designate, from such review, employee populations at risk of disease associated with hazardous occupational exposures. Sets forth factors which the Board must consider in identifying such populations at risk. Directs the Board, within ten days of making a finding that a class or category of workers is a population at risk (30 percent greater incidence of disease than a comparable worker population not exposed to the hazardous occupational exposure), to recommend to the Secretary that individuals within such populations be notified. Prohibits the Board from considering economic feasibility in making such determinations. Gives priority for Board review to those employee populations exposed to hazardous occupational exposures for which there exists a permanent standard under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Requires the Board to transmit to the Secretary its findings and recommendations on at least five of these employee populations within one year after the effective date of this Act. Requires the Board to provide interested persons with notice and opportunity to submit their views to the Board before making its findings and recommendations. Directs the Secretary to determine whether a class or category of employees is a population at risk based on the Board's findings and recommendations unless the Secretary concluded that: (1) the Board's procedures for notifying interested persons are not met; or (2) to do so will endanger the health or safety of a class or category of employees. Directs the Secretary, upon determination that a given class or category of employees is a population at risk of disease, to notify each individual within such population. Sets forth the required contents of such notification, including counseling information. Directs the Secretary to establish a telephone "hot line" for such employees or their personal physicians to provide additional medical and scientific information concerning the nature of the risk and its associated disease. Directs the Secretary to prepare and distribute other medical and health promotion material and information on any risk subject to such notification requirements and its associated disease. Provides that, in carrying out such notification responsibilities, the Secretary shall have access to information and data contained in the records of: (1) any Federal agency solely for the purpose of obtaining names, addresses, and work histories of employees subject to such notification; and (2) certain employers already covered by laws or regulations authorizing Federal access to their records. Encourages the Secretary, in carrying out employee notification requirements, to cooperate with private employers and State and local health departments. Exempts the Secretary and the Secretary's agents from liability with respect to acts or omissions performed pursuant to such notification requirements. Provides for judicial review of determinations made by the Secretary under this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish and certify occupational and environmental health centers to provide education, training, and technical assistance to personal physicians and social service professionals who serve employees notified that they are at risk under this Act. Directs the Secretary, through such centers, to conduct research, training, and education aimed at improving the means of identifying and monitoring medically employees exposed to occupational health hazards. Grants the Secretary in conducting such research, training, and education, access to employment, occupation, and health-related data maintained by Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to employ experts and consultants. Prohibits discrimination by any employer, insurance carrier, or any other person against any employee on the basis that the employee is or has been a member of a population that the Secretary has determined to be at risk. Requires that the employee retain the same earnings, seniority, and benefits as in the former job if it is medically determined that the employee should be transferred to a less hazardous or non-exposed job. Prohibits any health care financing system from discriminating against an employee who has been notified by the Secretary under this Act in the payment of the costs associated with a medical monitoring program, or any subsequent treatment, including treatment required by a medical monitoring examination or the onset of disease. Sets forth procedures for review of discrimination complaints. Provides for reinstatement and specified compensation for employees who are discriminated against in violation of this Act. Sets forth civil penalties for persons or institutions that violate such discrimination prohibitions. Provides for injunctive relief against violations of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated under this Act. Requires each health care financing system (including public and private health insurance programs, and the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and disability benefits under the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program) to provide appropriate testing, evaluation, and medical monitoring services to employees as required under this Act. Requires that the cost of testing, evaluation, and medical monitoring required by an employee as a result of hazardous occupational exposure and notification under this Act be included as a covered item in any health care financing system available to such employees through their employment or as an optional covered item for individual purchasers of health insurance. Provides that any treatment provided by a health care financing system to an employee for a subsequent disease that was subject to a notification under this Act may constitute an insurance subrogation claim against a workers' compensation program or insurance carrier. Provides that notification of risk to an employee under this Act and subsequent medical evaluation and monitoring shall not constitute or affect a workers' compensation claim, nor shall such notice toll any statute of limitations with respect to such a claim. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Rejects a certain proposed rescission of available funds, including a specified amount for FY 1986 funds for the urban development action grant program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain amounts appropriated for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice which have been proposed for rescission by the President shall be made available for obligation and expended as originally intended.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1986
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1986 - Amends specified Acts to rename them the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Fair Housing Act. Amends the Fair Housing Act to make it unlawful to: (1) refuse to sell or rent a dwelling to an individual because that individual, or someone associated with that individual, is handicapped; (2) discriminate against a handicapped individual in the conditions of sale or rental, or in the provision of a related service or facility; (3) refuse to permit reasonable modifications to permit access to the premises (provided the renter agrees to restore the premises to their original condition); or (4) make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, or services to afford handicapped individuals equal use and enjoyment of a dwelling. Makes it unlawful for anyone engaged in residential real estate-related transactions to discriminate in the provision or terms of a transaction because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. States that nothing in this Act limits the applicability of any reasonable local, State, or Federal restrictions on the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling unit. States that nothing in this Act regarding familial status applies to any State or Federal program aimed at assisting the elderly. Establishes new administrative enforcement authority in addition to existing enforcement provisions. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to transmit an annual report to the Congress on the progress made in eliminating discriminatory housing practices. Allows an aggrieved person to file a complaint with the Secretary alleging a discriminatory housing practice. Allows the Secretary to file such a complaint on his own initiative or investigate a housing practice to determine whether such a complaint should be brought. Requires the Secretary to attempt to correct the discriminatory practice by informal methods of conciliation. Requires the Secretary to refer matters to the Attorney General, recommending that civil actions be filed, where a respondent has failed to comply with conciliation agreements. Allows the Secretary to refer matters to the Attorney General for prompt judicial action when necessary. Makes certain changes in the current requirements for referring charges to State or local agencies for investigation and enforcement. Specifies the elements of "substantial equivalency" which permit certification and referrals of discrimination charges. Permits the Secretary to file an administrative complaint or refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action if the investigation supports a finding of reasonable cause, except with respect to matters involving land use control, which must be referred. Specifies the hearing procedures to be utilized if an administrative complaint is issued. Permits criminal penalties of up to a $100,000 fine and/or imprisonment for not more than one year for noncompliance with subpoenas or other lawful orders. Permits the administrative law judge to award appropriate relief, including punitive damages. Permits the filing of a petition for review of a final order in an appropriate court of appeals within 30 days of service of such order. Permits any prevailing party to be awarded reasonable attorney's fees. Makes certain revisions in the private right of action for aggrieved persons. Extends the statute of limitations from 180 days to two years. Disallows simultaneous administrative and judicial proceedings involving the same charge. Allows the Attorney General to intervene upon certification that the civil action is of general public importance. Continues the authority of the Attorney General to initiate civil actions where there is reasonable cause to believe that a pattern or practice of resistance to fair housing rights has occurred. Permits the Attorney General to commence a civil action for appropriate temporary or preliminary relief pending final disposition of the complaint. Describes the types of relief which may be granted in civil actions under such Act.