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United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1985
Designates November 1985 as American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1985
Designates the week beginning September 22, 1985, as National Needlework Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1985
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that acts of importation into, or sale in, the United States of articles that infringe a valid U.S. patent, copyright, or trademark are unfair and have the effect of destroying or substantially injuring a U.S. industry or impairing the establishment of such industry. Permits any person to petition the International Trade Commission (ITC) for the issuance of an order to exclude such articles, during its investigation, from entry into the United States. Sets forth: (1) civil penalties for violations under this Act; and (2) procedures for the modification or rescission of an ITC order under this Act. Repeals a specified section of the Tariff Act of 1930 relating to the importation of products produced under a process covered by claims of an unexpired patent.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1985
Designates the year of 1986 as the Sesquicentennial Year of the National Library of Medicine.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1985
Executive Exchange Program Voluntary Services Act of 1985 - Authorizes the President to establish an experimental program for the acceptance of voluntary services from participants in an executive exchange program. Limits such program to ten participants during the three twelve-month periods following the date of enactment of this Act. Allows the head of an agency to accept voluntary services if the services: (1) are to be performed by a participant in the exchange program; (2) are not to be paid for by the Government (and any payment for services is limited to that provided by the entity nominating such participant); and (3) will not displace any Government employee. Declares that such participants shall be subject to Federal conflict-of-interest laws and considered agency employees for all purposes except those of pay and benefits. Directs the President's Commission on Executive Exchange to report to the Congress on such program not later than 180 days before the last day of the experimental program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1985
Designates the week of October 20 through October 26, 1985, as National Temporary Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1985
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the tax treatment of loans with below market interest rates (i.e. the imputed interest rules) shall not apply to bonds issued by the State of Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Children's Television Education Act of 1985 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each television broadcasting station to broadcast a substantial amount of programming which: (1) serves the educational and informational needs of children who are 12 years old or younger; and (2) is reasonably scheduled throughout the week. Directs the Federal Communications Commission to designate for hearing any license renewal application by a television station if a petition for denial is filed alleging that the applicant has failed to broadcast a specific minimum amount of such programming. Provides that the burden shall be on the applicant to prove it has fulfilled its obligation to serve the child audience. Permits the Commission to dismiss a petition to deny an application for renewal only if it determines that the petition is frivolous. Requires the Commission's annual report to the Congress to: (1) list the television licensees whose licenses were renewed notwithstanding a failure to meet children's programming requirements, with an explanation of each such renewal; and (2) describe the implementation of this Act and its impact on children's programming. Directs the Commission to conduct and report to the Congress on an inquiry into program length commercials for which the primary audience is children who are 12 years old or younger.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Radon Assessment and Reduction Act of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report to the Congress within one year an evaluation on the threat to human health of radon gas and radon daughters forming from naturally occurring deposits of uranium and collecting in residences. Directs the Administrator to conduct a demonstration program testing methods of reducing or eliminating the threat, reporting periodically to the Congress on the results. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to include assistance for releases of radon gas.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Designates the week beginning January 12, 1986, as National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Designates the week of September 23 through September 29, 1985, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that no recess appointments should be made when the Senate stands adjourned or recessed within a session for a period of less than 30 days. Expresses the sense of the Senate that no recess appointments should be made of any person if: (1) such person has been nominated during the present presidential term; (2) the Senate has voted not to give its advice and consent; or (3) the appropriate committee has voted not to report such nomination to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that it condemns the growing incidence of violence against health care facilities (most of which provide abortion services). Encourages the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Department of Justice to intensify their efforts and apprehend and convict the perpetrators of such violence. Urges the Department of Justice to use all applicable Federal criminal statutes against such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1985
Process Patent Amendment of 1985 - Amends the patent laws to make it an infringement of patent to use, sell, or import into the United States without authority a product produced by a patented process. Directs the Department of Commerce to report to the Congress annually for five years on the effect such restriction has on the importation of ingredients for U.S. manufacturing.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1985
Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform and Extension Act of 1985 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to add as a condition for receiving a trade readjustment allowance the requirement that the adversely affected worker is enrolled in, or has completed, a training program for which a voucher is available. Suspends payment of such allowance to an adversely affected worker who has failed to begin, or has ceased to participate in, such a program when there is no justifiable cause for such failure or cessation, until the worker begins or resumes participation in a training program. Increases the maximum trade readjustment allowance to an amount equal to 78 (currently 52) times the amount of one week's trade readjustment allowance. Extends the coverage for trade readjustment allowances to 78 weeks. Deletes the provisions that permits an additional 26 weeks of trade readjustment allowances to finish a training program. Changes the provision dealing with job training. Makes each adversely affected worker covered by a certification eligible for a job training voucher. Declares that such voucher shall be in the amount of $4,000. Requires it to be used to defray the cost of any of the following training programs: (1) a training program provided by the State pursuant to the Job Training Partnership Act; (2) a training program provided by a private entity if it has been approved by a private industry council established under the Job Training Partnership Act; (3) training provided by an employer who agrees to employ the worker upon completion of the training for at least 26 weeks; (4) a training program approved by the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) if the Secretary determines that there is a reasonable expectation that the adversely affected worker will obtain employment upon completion of the program. Authorizes the State or the operator of the training program to redeem the training voucher from the Secretary when the adversely affected worker completes the training program. Prohibits an employer who provided training, and agreed to employ the worker for 26 weeks, from redeeming the training voucher if such employer: (1) is engaged in the same occupation from which the employee was separated and which was certified as an adversely affected occupation; (2) has not provided the worker with training and employment for at least 26 weeks; or (3) has terminated the employment of an employee in order to hire and train such worker. Requires any entity which redeems a training voucher pursuant to a training program purportedly approved by a private industry council to repay the amount of such voucher plus ten percent if the entity's training program was not in fact approved by a private industry council. Prohibits disqualifying a worker for unemployment insurance or for trade adjustment benefits because: (1) the individual is in training for which a voucher is provided; (2) the individual terminated employment which was not suitable employment to enter such training; or (3) of the application of certain State or Federal laws relating to availability for work, active search for work, or refusal to accept work to any week in which the worker participates in such training. Limits the amounts of subsistence expenses and travel expenses reimbursable under the job search allowance provision of such Act. Provides that adjustment assistance for firms shall be in the form of technical assistance only. (Current law provides for technical and financial aid.) Prohibits making any direct loans or loan guarantees for adjustment assistance for firms after enactment of this Act. Extends trade adjustment assistance programs for six years after enactment of this Act. Extends funding for adjustment assistance for workers and firms through FY 1988. Establishes within the Treasury a Trade Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund to carry out trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms. Provides for funding the Trust Fund. Directs the President to undertake negotiations to change the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to allow countries to impose a small uniform duty on all imports in order to use the revenue from such duty to fund trade adjustment assistance programs. Directs the President to report to the Congress six months after enactment of this Act on the progress of such negotations. Authorizes the President to submit a bill to the Congress that delays the imposition of such negotiations. Authorizes the President to submit a bill to the Congress that delays the imposition of such an import duty and that extends the funding of trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms for an additional year. Provides for expedited consideration of such a bill. Directs the President to report to the Congress as soon as the GATT allows the imposition of such a duty. Imposes an additional duty on all imports into the United States, including those imports granted duty-free treatment. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from tax a job training voucher received under a trade adjustment assistance program.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1985
Designates August 18, 1985, as National Flowers-by-Wire Day.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1985
Declares that: (1) a renewed national investment to strengthen the research and advanced education capabilities of institutions of higher education is needed; and (2) the major Federal research agencies (the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation) should strengthen their investment in research and graduate education programs in specified ways (including investment in scientific and engineering research and education programs for graduate students and faculty in modernization of university research facilities and laboratories).
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1985
Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to authorize appropriations for highway safety programs for FY 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for Federal alcohol traffic safety programs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1985
Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Act of 1985 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to direct the President to publish a list identifying extremely hazardous substances and information relating to their toxicity, reactivity, volatility and usage to the quantity at which an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or the environment would be posed if released. Directs the President to establish de minimis levels for such substances. Requires the owners or operators of facilities with sufficient quantities of such substances to pose a threat if released to notify the Governor of the facility's State of such fact. Requires the Governor to designate emergency planning districts with emergency planning committees to evaluate the resources necessary to an emergency plan which identifies such facilities, substance transportation routes, emergency notification procedures and personnel and a response and evacuation plan. Requires local official and facility representation at such planning process. Directs the National Response Team to publish guidelines for emergency plans. Directs Regional Response Teams to review plans at the request of the emergency planning committee. Establishes civil penalties for violations of such requirements by facility owners or operators. Requires such owners or operators to immediately provide notice of a threatening release to the appropriate emergency official in a potentially affected area, including all pertinent information about the nature and extent of the release and possible hazards posed, updating such information as necessary. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of such requirements. Requires each covered owner or operator to file a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical with the emergency planning committee in the facility's area. Requires that such information be updated and made available to the public. Permits State or local governments to require additional or more stringent information reporting. Establishes civil penalties for violations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1985
Designates the week of August 25 through August 31, 1985, as National CPR Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1985
Designates November 18, 1985, as Eugene Ormandy Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1985
Designates the month of September 1985 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1985
Designates August 13, 1985, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1985
Establishes a presumption of service-connection for disability purposes for former prisoners of war suffering from the following conditions, manifest to a degree of ten percent or more after active service: (1) chronic liver disease; (2) organic residuals of hypothermia; (3) gastro-intestinal disorders; (4) arthritis; (5) cardiovascular conditions; (6) peripheral neuropathy; (7) immunological dysfunctions; or (8) chronic pulmonary disease. Decreases from six months to 30 days the amount of time a former prisoner of war must have been incarcerated to be eligible for outpatient dental services.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Army and Navy Union of the United States of America.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1985
Designates the month of October 1985 as National High-Tech Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1985
Air Traveler Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to assess the efficacy of security measures at foreign airports which serve U.S. carriers or from which foreign air carriers serve the U.S. Requires the Secretary to: (1) use security criteria equal to or above certain internationally established standards; (2) report to the Congress regarding such assessments; (3) notify the appropriate authorities if a foreign airport does not administer effective security measures; (4) publish in the Federal Register all foreign airports which have failed to bring their security measures up to an acceptable level of effectiveness; and (5) prominently display at all U.S. airports from which air carriers provide foreign air transportation the identity of foreign airports whose security measures have not reached an acceptable level of effectiveness. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance concerning aviation security to a foreign government; and (2) withhold or impose conditions on the operating authority of any carrier to engage in foreign air transportation utilizing a foreign airport with deficient security measures. Directs the Secretary (with the approval of the Secretary of State) to suspend (without notice or a hearing) the right of an air carrier (or foreign air carrier) to engage in foreign air transportation to or from an airport which the Secretary has determined presents a safety threat to either passengers, aircraft, or the public interest. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress a study of the need for an expanded air marshal program on international flights by United States air carriers. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to permit air transportation security personnel to carry firearms and to make warrantless arrests if such personnel have reasonable grounds to believe a felony is being committed. Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for research and development of aviation security measures.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1985
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible State and local governments to support projects for education and information dissemination concerning Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Specifies eligibility requirements for State and local governments. Sets forth application requirements. Requires State and local governments which receive such grants to submit an annual report to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to transmit a summary of such reports to the Congress annually. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State and local governments to establish programs to test blood to detect the presence of antibodies to the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus (HTLV-III virus). Allows such grants to be used to: (1) conduct blood tests; (2) purchase materials and kits for such tests; (3) provide training for personnel who will conduct such tests; and (4) process the results of such tests. Sets forth application requirements. Requires State and local governments which receive such grants to submit an annual report to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to transmit a summary of such reports to the Congress annually. Authorizes appropriation for FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1985
Amends the law regarding the national minimum drinking age to direct the Secretary of Transportation in each fiscal year after a specified date to withhold certain Federal-aid highway funds from States permitting persons who are less than 21 years of age to purchase alcoholic beverages (thus making permanent such withholding). Directs the Secretary to promptly apportion to a State any funds which have been withheld from apportionment in FY 1987 or 1988, if in the succeeding fiscal year the State has made it unlawful for a person under 21 years of age to purchase or possess any alcoholic beverage.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1985
Amends the Clean Air Act to modify the requirements for stack height for sources of not well controlled emissions of air pollutants. Includes among dispersion methods any other measure which disperses pollutants at ground level measuring points.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1985
Calls on the Soviet Union to: (1) release Anatoly Shcharansky, Yosef Begun, and other Prisoners of Conscience and allow them to leave the Soviet Union; (2) issue exit permits to long term "Refuseniks" including Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak; and (3) allow thousands of Jews who have requested such permits to leave.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1985
Authorizes the establishment in the District of Columbia of a memorial to women who have served in the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1985
Designates July 20, 1985, as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1985
Declares that the Senate agrees to cooperate with the Jacob K. Javits Senate Fellowship Program. Directs the Senate to provide assistance as may be necessary for the success of this fellowship program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1985
National Mass Transportation Act of 1985 - Title I: Urban Mass Transportation - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prescribe certain percentages of urban discretionary grant funds which the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) is authorized to allot beginning FY 1986 for: (1) rail modernization; (2) development and construction of new fixed guideway systems; and (3) extraordinary bus and bus-related activities. Prohibits financial assistance for new fixed guideway systems unless the Secretary determines that the proposed project is: (1) based upon an alternatives analysis and preliminary engineering; (2) cost effective; and (3) supported by local financial commitment, including dependable funding sources for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such systems. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for the public transportation projects substituted for certain withdrawn Interstate segments. Grants the Secretary authority to apportion at the beginning of each fiscal year funds made available for such year from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for: (1) certain urban formula grant programs; and (2) small urban and rural transportation programs. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to States and local public entities for the renewal of rolling stock subsystems after depletion of at least one-third of the rolling stock's useful life. Authorizes a Federal financial assistance grantee to procure capital replacement materials directly from the original supplier (without receiving a sole source justification from the Secretary) if such materials were originally purchased under competitive bidding procedures which the Secretary adjudged to be fair and reasonable. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989 for specified programs. Authorizes appropriations from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for specified programs for FY 1986 through 1989. Prescribes percentage guidelines under which funds appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury are available to implement: (1) the urban formula grant program; and (2) the small rural and urban transportation program. Amends the Federal-aid highway program to provide that the Federal share of the cost to complete a withdrawn Interstate route segment (as that cost is included in the latest Interstate System cost estimate approved by the Congress) shall be determined by the Secretary based on construction cost increases of the withdrawn portion for the period beginning January 1, 1984, and ending on the date of approval of each substitute project. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to provide that the sum available to the Secretary as the result of a withdrawn Interstate System route shall be the completion cost as of June 30, 1980, subject to increase (as determined by the Secretary) based on such routes' construction cost increases for the period beginning January 1, 1984, and ending on the date of approval of specified substitute projects. Title II: Extension of Gas Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend from October 1, 1988, to October 1, 1991, taxes imposed upon diesel and special motor fuels and gasoline.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1985
Designates the month of March 1986 as National Hemophilia Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1985
Air Passenger Security Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to employ United States Air Marshals to serve as unidentified armed passengers on unsecure foreign flights (a public charter passenger flight of a United States civil aircraft departing from a foreign airport not included on a certain list of secure foreign airports). Specifies the law enforcement duties of such Air Marshals. Requires the Administrator to continually review foreign airport security programs and to publish in the Federal Register those airports which the Administrator has determined to have an effective security program. Requires the President to take action as if he had determined a foreign nation was acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft whenever a foreign nation impedes United States Air Marshals from fulfilling their functions as unidentified armed passengers. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Designates a calendar week in 1985 as National Infection Control Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Designates August 1985 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1985
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act, 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for specified activities relating to: (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; and (4) research and program management (including additional or supplemental amounts to cover any increases in salary, pay, retirement, or other employee benefits authorized by law). Permits appropriations for research and development and for space flight, control and data communications to be used for any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of land) which may be required at locations other than NASA installations for the performance of research and development contracts, and for grants to nonprofit institutions of higher education, or to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is the conduct of scientific research, for purchase or construction of additional research facilities. Requires the Administrator of NASA (the Administrator) to notify specified congressional officers and committees whenever the cost of a facility exceeds a specified amount. Permits funds appropriated for research and development, for space flight, control and data communications, or for construction of facilities to remain available without fiscal year limitation. Permits appropriations for research and program management to be used for scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses upon the approval of the Administrator. Provides for a $10,000 reduction in the total amount authorized under this Act under the heading of construction facilities. Permits, after such reduction is made in the sum total of funds for the individual projects authorized under such heading, such funds for construction of any specified facilities: (1) in the discretion of the Administrator, to be varied upward ten percent; or (2) following a report by the Administrator to specified congressional committees, to be varied upward 25 percent to meet unusual cost variations. Permits one-half of one percent of the funds appropriated for research and development or for space flight, control and data communications to be transferred to the appropriation for construction of facilities. Authorizes the expenditure of such transferred funds, together with a specified amount of the funds appropriated for construction of facilities, to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations. Requires the Administrator, 30 days before expending such funds, to notify specified congressional officers and committees of the nature, cost, and necessity of such construction. Prohibits, until 30 days pass after congressional receipt of a full explanation by the Administrator, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program: (1) deleted by the Congress; (2) in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program under provisions for research and development, space flight, control and data communications, and research and program management; or (3) which has not been presented to either of the specified congressional committees. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that it is in the national interest that consideration be given to geographical distribution of Federal research funds whenever feasible, and that NASA should explore ways of doing so. Prohibits any civil space station authorized under specified provisions of this Act from being used to: (1) carry or place in orbit any nuclear weapon or any other weapon of mass destruction; (2) install any such weapon on any celestial body; or (3) station any such weapon in space in any other manner. Allows such civil space station to be used only for peaceful purposes. Prohibits any space shuttle pricing policy for the Space Transportation System (STS) for commercial and foreign users from being established and implemented for FY 1989 through 1991 until 30 days have passed after the President or the Administrator (or the Administrator's designee) has transmitted to specified congressional officers and committees a written report setting forth such policy. Requires such congressional committees to review such report and, if they determine it necessary or appropriate, recommended legislation to the Congress to establish a pricing policy for the STS which is in the best interest of the Nation and more completely achieves the goals and objectives of the Nation's civil space program. Authorizes the Inspector General of NASA to administer to or take from any person an oath, affirmation, or affidavit whenever necessary in performing functions assigned by the Inspector General Act of 1978, and to designate investigators or other employees to do so. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1985, to extend by six months the deadline for submission, to the President and specified committees by the National Commission on Space, of a long range plan for U.S. civilian space activity. Directs NASA during FY 1986 to defer payment to the Federal Financing Bank of the amount attributable to principal for which NASA is obligated during such fiscal year as a result of a specified contract regarding track and data relay satellite services (which was entered into under specified provisions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1978). Requires the amount of any such deferred payment to be added to the amount of principal for which NASA is obligated during FY 1993 as a result of such contract. Authorizes NASA to defer until FY 1994 any portion of the total amount for which it is obligated for FY 1993 which is in excess of the total amount for which it was obligated during FY 1992. Authorizes the Administrator to renegotiate such contract upon determination that such renegotiation is necessary to enable NASA to defer payments as provided under this Act. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 to the Secretary of Transportation to carry out such Act (which provides for licensing and liability insurance requirements for commercial space launches).
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1985
Computer Education Assistance Act of 1985 - Title I; Acquisition of Computer Resources - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening computer education in the elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1986 through 1990. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for allocation of allotments within States. Provides that two percent of the appropriations for this Act be reserved for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Provides for allotment to States on the basis of school-age population and on the basis of a formula for distribution of aid for disadvantaged school children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the State education agency (SEA) to allocate the State allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of similar factors. Prohibits making any grant under this title to a State unless the SEA and LEAs within the State carry out planning activities designed to facilitate the use of Federal financial assistance under this title for the expansion of computer resources in the elementary and secondary schools within the State. Requires such planning activities to include: (1) development of goals for computer education; (2) revising basic curricula; (3) placing the computers, and making them generally available, in the elementary and secondary schools; (4) developing hardware and software selection criteria; (5) providing security; and (6) developing evaluation standards. Allows grants under this Act to be used to pay the Federal share of: (1) acquisition of computers and other equipment for computer education; (2) teacher training programs; and (3) computer software acquisition. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth requirements for local applications for payments under this Act. Makes specified provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 relating to participation of children enrolled in private schools applicable to the financial assistance made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary to pay each State, from the amount allotted, the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of the program assisted under this Act. Permits non-Federal contributions to be in cash or in kind, including plant, equipment, and services. Title II: Teacher Training Institutes - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grants to and contracts with specified entities to develop and operate short-term or regular session study institutes to improve the qualifications of individuals engaged or preparing to engage in the teaching, or supervising or training of teachers, of the use of computers for computer education instruction and other education programs in elementary and secondary schools. Provides that special consideration be given to grant or contract applicants who will train teachers, or supervisors or trainers of teachers, serving or preparing to serve in elementary and secondary schools that enroll substantial numbers of disadvantaged youth or in programs for children of limited English language proficiency. Provides for weekly stipends for individuals who attend such institutes. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1986 through 1989. Title III: Information Dissemination and Evaluation - Directs the Secretary, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the NSF, to provide advice and technical assistance to SEAs and LEAs on the expenditure of funds under title I of this Act and on the acquisition of computer software through an interagency agreement to: (1) evaluate available computer hardware and software, in terms of it usefulness in the classroom; (2) disseminate the results of such evaluation; and (3) develop model computer educational software, and make such model software (and its design premises) available to computer software producers and distributors, teachers, and school administrators. Authorizes the Secretary and the NSF to make grants and contracts to carry out such functions. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1986 through 1989. Directs the NSF, through grants to or contracts with specified entities, to conduct, assist, and foster research and experimentation on, and dissemination of, models of instruction in the operation and use of computers. Gives priority to proposals prepared with active and broad community involvement of such groups as parents, teachers, school boards and administrators, and local business. Permits funds available under such grants and contracts to be used for the acquisition of computer hardware and software. Requires the Director of the NSF to: (1) report annually to the Congress on the results of such research and experimentation; and (2) in conjunction with the NIE, disseminate information concerning such results to LEAs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1986 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should retain the current corporate average fuel economy standard for passenger automobiles.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1985
Korean War Veterans Memorial Act of 1985 - Authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to erect a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the U.S. Armed Forces who served in the Korean war. Subjects the selected site, design, and plans for the construction of such memorial to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs that, upon its completion, the memorial shall be turned over to the Department of the Interior which shall then be solely responsible for its maintenance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1985
Authorizes the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the courageous slaves and free black persons of the American Revolution. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select the site, approve the design and plans, and provide for maintenance. Prohibits the use of any Federal funds for the memorial's construction. Terminates the Foundation's authority to establish such memorial five years from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Federal Field Office Report Act of 1985 - Prohibits a Federal field office from being restructured, reorganized, consolidated, or realigned during the 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Prohibits employees in such field office from being transferred or reassigned during such period, except in the course of routine agency activities. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to study all agency plans to restructure, reorganize, consolidate, or realign Federal field offices and report to the Congress on the results of such study.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Indoor Air Quality Research Act of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a research program with respect to indoor air quality. Requires that such program be designed to: (1) gather data and information on all aspects of indoor air quality in order to contribute to the understanding of health problems associated with the existence of air pollutants in the indoor environment; and (2) coordinate Federal, State, local and private research, development, and demonstration efforts relating to the improvement of indoor air quality. Authorizes the Administrator to establish committees of representatives of appropriate Federal agencies and advisory groups of representatives of the scientific community, industry, and public interest organizations as may be necessary to assist in carrying out such indoor air quality research program. Directs the Administrator to consult and coordinate with State and local officials and other interested parties having concerns related to such program. Directs the Administrator to submit to the Congress an indoor air quality research implementation plan within 90 days after enactment of this Act and a final report, after consultation with the National Academy of Sciences, within two years of such enactment. Requires such report to assess the risks to human health associated with indoor pollution including the known or potential effects of radon and other naturally occurring chemical elements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
International Air Transportation Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to revoke an air carrier's international air transportation certificate if the Secretary establishes that a hostile takeover of such air carrier has occurred, and that a sale or transfer of such certificate has occurred (or been attempted) as part of the liquidation of such air carrier (other than in the ordinary course of business). States that the Secretary is not precluded from issuing any certificate for international air transportation if the Secretary finds the applicant is willing and able to provide such transportation and such transportation is consistent with public convenience and necessity.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Designates the week beginning May 18, 1986, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Designates June 12, 1985, Anne Frank Day.