United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish criminal penalties for any person who knowingly discloses information which identifies a U.S. covert intelligence agent. Establishes a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment and/or a $50,000 fine for any person who, having had authorized access to classified information which identifies a covert agent, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses such information. Establishes a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment and/or a $25,000 fine for any person who, having had authorized access to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses such information. Establishes a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment and/or a $15,000 fine for any person who, in the course of a "pattern of activities intended to identify" covert agents and with "reason to believe" that such activities would impair U.S. foreign intelligence activities, discloses information identifying an agent. Directs the President to establish procedures requiring Federal agencies to provide assistance in concealing the identity of U.S. intelligence agents.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Declares a named individual to have satisfied specified requirements under the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to required periods of residence and physical presence within the United States. Authorizes such individual to be naturalized.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981
Amends the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 to provide that the provisions of such Act shall not apply to any surface mining of stone, clay, sand, or gravel.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981
Declares that seven members of named families have resided since a certain date in the United States Embassy in Moscow and have been living there in accordance with United States laws. Authorizes the granting of a visa and admission to the United States for permanent residence to each individual. Provides that each individual shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of a specified date, and to have been physically present and residing therein continuously since such date.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Makes the Federal tort claims procedure the exclusive remedy in medical malpractice actions resulting from federally authorized National Guard training activities (repeals the current provision covering such liability).
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Patent Term Restoration Act of 1981 - Amends the patent law to extend the terms of patents which encompass specified products or a method for using a product, any of which are subject to certain nonpatent regulatory review periods. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such extension, including a seven year limitation. Directs the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the owner of record of a patent a certificate of extension stating the fact and length of the extension and identifying the product and the use and the claim to which such extension is applicable. Makes such certificate a part of the original patent. Limits the application of such patent term extension to patents for products subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products).
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to repeal the limitation on outside income for beneficiaries age 65 or older.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981
Authorizes public-lands States, in lieu of receiving monetary payment, to select surveyed, unreserved, or unappropriated lands in exchange for State lands taken by the United States within the boundaries of an existing military reservation. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to determine the value of selected lands and if such determination is disputed by the State, to attempt to settle such dispute by arbitration. Provides that upon the failure of arbitration such dispute may be referred to the U.S. district court wherein such land lies. Directs the head of the agency acquiring such land to reimburse the Secretary and the State for necessary expenses in such land exchanges.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1981
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands to Douglas County, Nevada, (upon which the County shall build a warehouse) in exchange for certain lands from such County to be added to the Toiyabe National Forest.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Mineral County, Nevada, certain lands comprising the ammunition plant of the U.S. Army in Babbitt, Nevada.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1981
Expresses the jubilation and relief of the Senate at the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran. Expresses appreciation for the efforts of various Government officials to secure the release of the hostages. Recognizes the patriotism of the military personnel who tried to rescue them. Thanks Algeria for its help in securing the hostages' release.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Administrative Procedure Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to require the general notice of a proposed rulemaking to include certain information about the factual data on which the rule is based. Requires each agency to provide the public with an opportunity: (1) to present oral arguments concerning a proposed rule after publication of such general notice; and (2) to comment on any factual data which is developed during the rulemaking and which is likely to affect the final rule. Requires an agency's statement, incorporated in the final rule, to include agency responses to significant public comments. Directs each agency to establish a public file on each rulemaking proceeding, containing any notices, written data, written comments, and any other matter the agency is required to prepare for rulemaking. Creates a new procedure for administrative proceedings required by statute. Establishes an "expedited hearing procedure" for any proceeding predominantly concerned with general policy issues, including ratemaking, rulemaking and initial licensing proceedings. Requires formal hearings for proceedings concerning factual questions which require trial-type procedures, including proceedings to assess a civil penalty or fine, or to determine a claim for certain individual benefits. Directs the presiding employee at an expedited proceeding to conduct a hearing to provide an opportunity for parties to submit written arguments and responses and, at the request of any party, oral arguments. Requires such employee to designate a disputed question for resolution in a formal hearing upon determining that there is a substantial dispute of fact requiring the introduction of reliable evidence at a formal hearing, and that the agency decision is dependent on the resolution of such question. Authorizes an agency to require the entire record of an expedited hearing to be certified to the agency for decision with or without the presiding employee's recommended decision, but with such employee's findings concerning any disputed question. Authorizes each agency to establish employee boards to review the decisions of presiding employees of expedited and formal hearings. Directs a court reviewing an agency action to: (1) set aside any agency rule found to lack substantial support in the rulemaking file; (2) determine the authority or jurisdiction of the agency on the basis of the language of the authorizing statute or other evidence of legislative intent; and (3) accord no presumption in favor of or against agency action.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
American Sovereignty Protection Act - Amends the Alien Enemies Acts to include within the definition of predatory act against the United States: (1) the seizure of a diplomatic mission; or (2) the seizure of such premises together with the taking of diplomatic hostages.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
United States - Mexico Good Neighbor Act of 1981 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to establish a program for the nonimmigrant admission of Mexican nationals as temporary workers in the United States. Directs the Attorney General to establish annual and monthly quotas for temporary worker visas. Limits temporary services or labor to 240 days per year. Stipulates that such visas shall not limit the geographic area within which an alien may work unless specific restrictions are requested by the Secretary of Labor in order to protect domestic workers. Makes an alien who violates the 240-day visa limitation or any imposed geographic restriction ineligible for another temporary visa for five years. Makes an alien who enters the United States illegally ineligible for a temporary work visa for ten years. Excludes such temporary Mexican workers from the definition of "immigrant" for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Includes such workers within the category of aliens whose nonimmigrant status may not be adjusted to that of an immigrant. Prohibits the Attorney General from consenting to the reapplication for admission of any such workers deported from the United States. Requires the Attorney General to report semiannually to Congress regarding the temporary worker visa program. Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish and expand United States Consulates in Mexico in order to implement such temporary worker program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make the nature of such program known to Mexican nationals residing in the United States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should establish with Mexico an Advisory Commission on the Mexico-United States Temporary Worker Visa program to advise the Attorney General with regard to such program. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Terminates such Mexican worker program ten years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Employment Tax Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify standards for determining whether certain individuals qualify as independent contractors for purposes of the tax on employment income. Treats an individual as an independent contractor if such individual: (1) controls the total number of his work hours; (2) does not maintain a principal place of business, or, if he does, such place of business is not provided, or is not provided rent-free, by the person for whom such individual performs services; (3) has substantial investment in his business and earns income based upon sale or output rather than upon number of hours worked; and (4) performs services pursuant to a written contract and is provided written notice of his responsibility with respect to income and self-employment taxes. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exclude from social security coverage service performed by an individual who qualifies as an independent contractor under the standards established by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requests the President to designate the week beginning with the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the adoption of any Federal budget in which expenditures exceed receipts unless approved by a roll call vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of Congress directed solely to that subject. Prohibits the Congress from passing and the President from signing any appropriation bill which would cause the total expenditures of the Federal Government to exceed its total receipts in any fiscal year. Permits the Congress to waive such provisions with respect to any single year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Prohibits any annual increase in the proportion of Federal receipts to the national income unless passed by a roll call vote, directed solely to such purpose, of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1980
Interstate Compact - Grants Congressional consent to the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact between California and Nevada, which concerns the conservation of the waters of Lake Tahoe and of the resources of the area around such lake. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the heads of other appropriated agencies, upon the request of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, to cooperate with such agency in all respects compatible with carrying out the normal duties of their agencies. Conditions consent to the compact by the United States on permitting the President to appoint a non-voting representative of the United States to the governing body of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Declares that nothing contained in this Act or in the compact consented to shall in any way affect the powers, rights, or obligations of the United States, or the applicability of any law or regulation of the United States in, over, or to the region or waters which are the subject of the compact, or in any way affect rights owned or held by or for Indians or Indian tribes subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Reserves the right of the Congress or any of its standing committees to require the disclosure and furnishing of such information and data by or concerning the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as is deemed appropriate by the Congress or such committee.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility studies of the following salinity control proposals: (1) Lower Gunnison Basin unit, Glenwood-Dotsero Springs unit, Meeker Dome unit, and McElmo Creek unit all located in the State of Colorado; (2) Uinta Basin unit, Dirty Devil River unit, Price-San Rafael Rivers unit, and LaVerkin Springs unit all located in the State of Utah; (3) Lower Virgin River unit in the State of Arizona; and (4) Big Sandy River unit in the State of Wyoming.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980
Venture and Equity Capital Revitalization Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the capital gains deduction for individuals from 60 percent of the net capital gain to 75 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Title I: The Intelligence Community - Authorizes the "intelligence community" of the United States to conduct intelligence activities in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Includes the following entities in the intelligence community: (1) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; (2) Central Intelligence Analysis Agency; (3) Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) Foreign Intelligence Agency; (5) National Security Agency; (6) National Counterintelligence Office; and (7) intelligence components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency, military services, Departments of Defense, State, Treasury, Energy, and others as determined by the President. Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of the Director of National Intelligence, headed by a Director of National Intelligence appointed by the President. Includes in such Office: (1) a United States Intelligence Board (USIB), consisting of the heads of the entities in the intelligence community, to coordinate U.S. intelligence activities; and (2) a Board of Presidential Estimates, appointed by the Director, to prepare briefings on intelligence for the President and the National Security Council. Sets forth the duties of the Director, including to: (1) inform the President of views and developments within the community; (2) make budgetary recommendations for the community; (3) provide the President and Congress with an annual assessment of the community's effectiveness; (4) promulgate regulations governing the classification of sensitive information; (5) coordinate technical services needed by the community; and (6) perform other duties as the President may prescribe. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence, at the request of the National Security Council, to produce Presidential intelligence estimates. Requires the Director to ensure that diverse points of view within the community are presented. Establishes a nine-member National Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, appointed by the President, to evaluate continually the effectiveness of the intelligence community. Directs the Board to report its findings from time to time to the President and the congressional intelligence committees. Establishes a five-member Intelligence Oversight Board, appointed by the President, to investigate allegations of illegal, unethical, or improper activities of any entity in the intelligence community. Directs the head of each entity of the community to establish, subject to the approval of the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, guidelines with respect to the following collection methods that may be used against a "U.S. person": (1) intrusive and other covert or clandestine techniques; (2) informants and undercover agents; (3) examination of third-party records, including telephone bills, medical records, and hotel registrations; and (4) public information sources. Prohibits the nonconsensual use of such methods except in accordance with the guidelines. Requires the guidelines to: (1) take into account such person's constitutional rights; (2) specify the official who must authorize the collection activity; and (3) be reasonably designed to match the acquisition of information with U.S. security needs. Prohibits the use of intrusive techniques against any U.S. person to obtain foreign intelligence while such person is in the United States unless the President determines that it is necessary to obtain intelligence essential to the national security and which cannot be obtained by less intrusive methods. Restricts the dissemination of intelligence information with respect to a U.S. person by the United States Counterintelligence Office. Authorizes the head of each entity of the intelligence community to classify information in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Director of National Intelligence. Subjects any person, who discloses classified information to a person unauthorized to receive it, to the current penalties for the offense of delivering defense information to aid a foreign government. Exempts the intelligence community from any laws requiring disclosure of information with respect to information in files specifically designated by the Director of National Intelligence to be concerned with: (1) technical systems for the collection of intelligence information; (2) special and foreign intelligence activities; (3) investigations for determining the suitability of intelligence sources; and (4) liaison or information arrangements with foreign governments. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act to repeal the Hughes-Ryan amendment of 1974 (conditioning the funding of covert CIA operations on reporting to the "appropriate" congressional committees). Repeals the provision of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 limiting assistance for military activities in Angola. Title II: Central Intelligence Analysis Agency - Establishes a Central Intelligence Analysis Agency headed by a Director appointed by the President for a single ten-year term. Charges the Agency with collecting and publishing intelligence information to warn the President and congressional intelligence committees of impending warlike acts anywhere in the world and to assess the disposition and activities of foreign governments. Title III: Defense Intelligence Agency - Establishes within the Department of Defense a Defense Intelligence Agency to: (1) advise the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff; (2) coordinate the intelligence elements of the Armed Forces; and (3) fulfill the same mission as the Central Intelligence Analysis Agency. Provides for a Director of the Agency, appointed by the President for a single ten-year term. Title IV: The United States Foreign Intelligence Agency - Establishes in the executive branch the United States Foreign Intelligence Agency, headed by a Director appointed by the President for a single ten-year term. Charges the Agency with collecting throughout the world information not available to the public to keep the President and Congress informed of the resources and activities of foreign governments and entities that might affect the foreign relations or safety and welfare of the United States. Directs the Agency to: (1) develop the capabilities to influence events outside the United States so that the role of the Government is not revealed or acknowledged and to undertake special activities as the President may order; and (2) conduct intelligence activities in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as necessary and appropriate to carry out its duties. Requires the Director to report its activities at least annually to the congressional intelligence committees. Authorizes the Agency to: (1) permit its employees to use covert techniques anywhere in the world which the Director determines are necessary to accomplish the Agency's mission; and (2) engage in intelligence activity outside the United States, other than intelligence gathering, which is approved by the President and with respect to which the intelligence committees are notified as soon as practicable. Establishes within the Agency the Contingency Reserve Fund for activities to accomplish the Agency's mission. Permits particular aliens and their families to be given entry into the United States for permanent residence without regard to their inadmissibility under the immigration laws, upon the determination by the Director, with the approval of the Attorney General, that their admission is in the interest of national security or essential to intelligence activities. Title V: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Directs the FBI to: (1) perform intelligence and counterintelligence activities to safeguard the United States from foreign agents working in the United States against its interests and from terrorists; and (2) collect and disseminate intelligence to counter terrorism and conduct other activities to achieve the purposes of this Act. Requires that all FBI counterintelligence and counterterrorist activities outside the United States be conducted in coordination with the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Requires such operations within the United States by other Federal agencies be coordinated with the FBI. Sets forth the duties of the Director of the FBI, including reporting annually to the congressional intelligence committees on foreign intelligence services and terrorist groups operating in the United States. Authorizes the FBI to take all lawful measures to protect the United States from hostile intelligence services and terrorists. Title VI: National Security Agency - Establishes in the Department of Defense the National Security Agency to conduct signals intelligence, cryptology, and communications security for the United States, and to serve as the principal agency of the United States' Signals Intelligence System. Provides for a director of the Agency appointed by the President for a single ten-year term. Sets forth the duties of the Director, including reporting annually to the congressional intelligence committees on the state of U.S. signals intelligence and communications security. Title VII: United States Counterintelligence Office - Establishes in the Department of Justice a United States Counterintelligence Office to coordinate the counterintelligence activities of the intelligence community. Provides for a Deputy Attorney General of the Office appointed by the President for a single ten-year term. Charges the Office with retaining the central counterintelligence files of the Government. Authorizes the Office to request any entity of the community to initiate an investigation of any U.S. person on the basis of facts and circumstances which reasonably indicate that such person is engaged in: (1) clandestine intelligence activity on behalf of a foreign power; (2) international terrorist activity; (3) international trafficking in drugs or other contraband; and (4) international organized crime activities. Directs the Attorney General, subject to approval of the Director of National Intelligence, to establish guidelines for the dissemination of information to other law enforcement agencies of the Federal, State, local, or foreign governments. Specifies standards for such guidelines. Title VIII: Congressional Oversight - Directs the head of each entity of the intelligence community to: (1) keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities; (2) furnish information to such committees upon request; and (3) report to such committees any illegal and corrective intelligence activities that are taken or planned. Authorizes the President to establish procedures for informing such committees of any special activity not subject to prior notification, together with a statement of reasons for not giving such notice. Directs the House of Representatives and the Senate, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, to establish procedures to protect intelligence information from unauthorized disclosure.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act, 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the U.S. to: (1) establish a national goal of demonstrating the engineering feasibility of magnetic fusion by the early 1990's; (2) achieve, no later than the year 1990, operation of a magnetic fusion engineering device based on the best available confinement concept; and (3) establish as a national goal the operation of a magnetic fusion demonstration plant by the year 2005. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate activities or accelerate existing activities in research areas in which the lack of knowledge limits magnetic fusion energy systems in order to ensure the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an aggressive plasma confinement research program on the current lead concept; (2) maintain a broadly based research program on alternate confinement concepts and advanced fuels; (3) ensure that research on properties of materials likely to be required for the construction of fusion engineering devices is adequate to provide timely information for the design of such devices; (4) initiate design activities on a fusion engineering device using the best available confinement concept to ensure operation of such device, no later than 1990; and (5) develop and test the adequacy of the engineering design components to be utilized in the fusion engineering device. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive program management plan for the conduct of the research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for the creation of a national magnetic fusion engineering center to accelerate fusion technology development via the concentration and coordination of major magnetic fusion engineering devices and associated activities at such a national center. Provides for the establishment of a technical panel on magnetic fusion of the Energy Research ADvisory Board to advise the Secretary on the conduct of the national magnetic fusion energy program. Requires the technical board to report at least annually to the Energy Research Advisory Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary. Requires the director of each magnetic fusion laboratory installation operated for, and funded by, the Federal Government to establish a program advisory committee solely for the purpose of advising such director. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to actively seek to enter into or to strengthen existing international cooperative agreements in magnetic fusion research and development activities of mutual benefit to all parties. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the adequacy of the supply of manpower in the engineering and scientific disciplines to achieve the purposes of this Act; (2) assure the dissemination of information concerning the national magnetic fusion program; and (3) report annually to Congress concerning activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Federal Bureau of Investigation Charter Act - Establishes a comprehensive Federal Bureau of Investigation Charter which sets forth the duties and responsibilities of the FBI with respect to criminal and civil investigations, undercover operations, and law enforcement support functions, but excluding foreign intelligence activities (which were specified in Executive Order 12036). Enumerates as general principles of the FBI that it: (1) conduct investigations consistent with the constitutional and legal rights of U.S. citizens; (2) conduct such investigations and collect such intelligence as is necessary for the security of the United States; (3) not conduct an investigation solely on the basis of the lawful exercise of constitutional or statutory rights, including the expression of a religious or political view or the right to peacefully assemble and petition the Government; and (4) conduct investigations with only such intrusion as is necessary for authorized purposes. Limits the appointment of the Director of the FBI to one ten-year term. Permits the President to remove the Director only for gross neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. Specifies the general powers and duties of the Director, Associate Director, an Assistant to the Director, Assistant Director, Inspector, and Agent of the FBI. Authorizes the FBI to conduct investigations of individuals who: (1) have or are likely to engage in criminal activity; (2) intend to use violence or other unlawful means to overthrow the Federal government or bring about a change in the policy of the Federal, State, or local government; or (3) deny other individuals their constitutional or legal rights. Authorizes the FBI to conduct investigations of two or more persons who are engaged in "racketeering activity" (defined as activity involving a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1961-1968) as a continuing enterprise. Authorizes the FBI to conduct investigations and gather such information and intelligence as may be necessary to prevent terrorist activity. Directs the Attorney General, as soon as feasible after enactment, to promulgate guidelines for such investigative authority that embody specific principles. Establishes guidelines on certain investigative techniques, including the use of informants and undercover agents, physical, mail, and electronic surveillance, and access to third party records. Authorizes informants to participate in acts which violate Federal law (other than those resulting in death or serious bodily injury) when under Department supervision to: (1) obtain information necessary for lawful purposes; (2) establish credibility; or (3) prevent death or serious injury. Requires prior authorization for participation in criminal activities if circumstances permit. Requires an informant otherwise to report on his involvement after the event to the supervising officer. Authorizes the use of surveillance as permitted by this Act and in accordance with applicable law. Authorizes access to third party records, including telephone bills, medical records, and hotel and motel registration forms, in accordance with applicable law. Allows the FBI to use other investigative techniques as necessary to carry out the intent of this Act consistent with applicable law. Permits the FBI to retain and disseminate to other government agencies information as needed to investigate criminal activity or for national security and defense. Allows the FBI to destroy records or deposit them in the Archives of the United States for historic preservation when the Director determines that they no longer serve a useful purpose. Specifies circumstances under which criminal investigative information may be disclosed to private parties. Authorizes the FBI to conduct undercover operations when necessary to investigate criminal, terrorist, or racketeering activity. Allows the Bureau to procure property and services for such purposes without regard to usual procurement regulations. Directs the FBI to conduct investigations at the request of the Attorney General and to collect information as necessary regarding civil disorders that have a potential for violence that may require the presence of Federal troops or U.S. Marshals to enforce Federal law or ensure the safety of peaceful participants. Authorizes the FBI to conduct background investigations of any individual who: (1) is or may be a Federal employee; (2) has been designated an appointee to an official position within the executive, congressional, or judicial branch of the Government; (3) applied for a Presidential reprieve or pardon; (4) is designated by any Government official as requiring access to classified information; (5) is a contractor or employee thereof for a Federal agency; (6) has applied for a substantial Federal grant or loan; or (7) has access to a person or premises within the protective responsibility of the U.S. Secret Service. Enumerates other special service functions of the FBI, including those relating to congressional committees, grand jury investigations, other protective services, and investigative assistance to other Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies. Authorizes the FBI to: (1) provide training for Federal, State, local, and foreign governments; (2) conduct research and development to promote law enforcement; (3) acquire criminal records as necessary to carry out its functions; (4) exchange such information in accordance with applicable law and regulations prescribed by the Attorney General; (5) provide technical assistance at the request of a Federal, State, local, or foreign government; and (6) provide assistance to the United States Secret Service in connection with its protective responsibilities. Allows the Director to impose such disciplinary action as is authorized by law on any person who intentionally uses sensitive investigative techniques in knowing violation of this Act or discloses sensitive information to an unauthorized person while acting as an employee of the FBI. Stipulates that nothing in this Act, including any guidelines established pursuant to this Act, creates any substantive or procedural rights, and no court has jurisdiction over a claim in any proceeding, based solely on violations of its provisions. Provides that no criminal sanction shall be imposed on any person who, while acting as an employee of the FBI in good faith and without willful intent, complies with this Act. Directs the Attorney General to provide to the congressional judiciary committees information concerning implementation of this Act. Requires the Director to report annually to such committees on: (1) the total number of investigations conducted in the preceding year; and (2) the total number of activities conducted in the preceding year requiring approval of the Director or the Attorney General. Directs the Attorney General to submit to such committees for review any guidelines established pursuant to this Act. Prohibits the FBI from making available investigative records for ten years after: (1) the termination of any investigation not resulting in prosecution; or (2) the termination of probation, a term of imprisonment, or imposition of a fine, where the investigation has resulted in a conviction. Requires each agency carrying out law enforcement functions to furnish the same general standardized written response for issuance to any person making a request for records to be used in cases where: (1) the agency does not have the records requested; and (2) the records are protected because disclosure would reveal that a criminal investigation concerning the person is in progress. Amends the Federal Torts Claims Act to make the remedy against the United States under such Act for the negligent act of an FBI employee acting within the scope of employment exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding by reason of the same subject matter.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. Declares that it is in the best interest of both such countries to convene a parliamentary and scholarly conference to commemorate and evaluate such treaty. Expresses the interest of the Senate in receiving a report on such conference.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to only those workers who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Tax Reduction - Job Creation Act - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income tax rates for each category of individual taxpayers. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
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