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United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay a gratuity to the daughter of a deceased employee of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay a gratuity to the widow of a deceased employee of the Architect of the Capitol assigned to duty in the Senate wing of the Capitol.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982
Repeals rule XXXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate relating to limitations on outside earned income and honoraria.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1982
Provides for a limited waiver of the executive level pay cap for 13 Government physicians.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1982
Designates 1983 as the Bicentennial of Air and Space Flight.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1982
Establishes the United States Senate Productivity Award. Allows each Senator to select an award recipient under guidelines established by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Directs the Committee to enter into a contract for the design and striking of suitable medallions for such award.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Designates 1983 as the "Tricentennial Anniversary Year of German Settlement in America". Expresses congressional support for the President's Youth Exchange Initiative, and especially the concept of a United States-German teenage exchange sponsored by the Congress and the West German Bundestag.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Authorizes the printing of the prayers by the Reverend Edward L.R. Elson, S.T.D., the Chaplain of the Senate, rendered during the 96th and 97th Congresses. Authorizes additional printing and binding of such document for the use of the Joint Committee on Printing.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Authorizes the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Attorney General and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to settle claims for money damages against the United States for injury or loss of property, personal injury, or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any Member, officer, or employee of the Senate acting within the scope of Senate office or employment.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Expresses the concern of the Senate in the preservation and restoration of Rhodes Tavern in Washington, D.C. Encourages preservation and restoration efforts by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Capitol Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, the mayor and city council, and other interested organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Adjustment Council to be cochaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor. Establishes in the Executive Office an Office of Economic Adjustment, headed by a Director, to provide staff support to the Council. Directs the Council to disseminate information from the Secretary of Defense to Federal, State, and local agencies concerning proposed or pending changes in defense spending which would affect employment in the defense industry. Requires the Council to perform other duties, including: (1) soliciting, directing, and coordinating plans for private and public projects which will provide new employment opportunities; (2) providing technical assistance to communities to plan for economic conversion; (3) coordinating its activities with the Center for Utilization of Federal Technology; (4) monitoring the existing job services information bank in the Department of Labor; and (5) determining criteria for eligibility for assistance. Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide the pertinent information to the Council in advance of any change and to furnish the Council with projected future defense spending levels. Directs the Council to prepare and distribute a Conversion Guidelines Handbook to outline requirements of programs for professional retraining of personnel. Title II: Alternative Use Committees - Requires the establishment of separate management and labor alternative use committees by each defense facility and contractor employing at least 100 persons to plan for economic conversion in the event of closure or reduction. Penalizes any contractor who fails to submit an alternative use plan or carry out one approved by the Council by making such contractor ineligible for future defense contracts for three years. Directs such committees to: (1) evaluate the assets of the facilities and the resources and requirements of the local community; (2) develop at least biennially a detailed plan for conversion of the facility to non-defense-related productive activity; and (3) provide retraining and reemployment counseling service. Requires conversion plans: (1) to describe the new use to which the converted facility would be put; (2) to maximize the pool of skills of available personnel; and (3) to specify in detail the composition of the work force and plant, material, and financing requirements. Title III: Economic Adjustment Fund - Establishes in the Treasury an Economic Adjustment Fund to finance the activities of the Alternative Use Committees. Requires defense contractors to pay a specified percentage of their contract amounts into the fund. Title IV: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Makes eligible for Federal assistance for planning for economic adjustment any community which is substantially affected by reduction or elimination of defense facilities or curtailment or conclusion of defense contracts. Directs the Council to utilize data from other departments to develop criteria which insure that assistance is directed to those communities which are most vulnerable economically to reductions in defense expenditures. Requires the Council to publish a semiannual list of eligible communities. Requires excess property resulting from a closing or reduction in a Government-owned facility to be appraised for purposes of resale to the community. Title V: Economic Adjustment Loans and Loan Guarantees - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make or guarantee loans on terms prescribed by the Council to assist contractors and communities to carry out conversion plans. Title VI: Urgent National Requirements for Non-Defense Sectors of the Economy - Directs the Council to designate urgent national requirements for nondefense sectors of the economy for purposes of allocating independent research and development money.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Entitles Federal employees to an allowance of four cents per mile for the use of a privately owned bicycle or pedal assisted vehicle on official business.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Requests the President to designate December 1982 as National Closed-Captioned Television Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Designates November 1982 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Authorizes the Select Committee to Study Law Enforcement Undercover Activities of Components of the Department of Justice to inspect and receive specified tax-related materials with respect to named ABSCAM defendants and witnesses.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay a gratuity in a specified amount to a named survivor of a former Senate employee.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay a gratuity in a specified amount to three named survivors of a former Senate employee.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay a gratuity in a specified amount to a named survivor of a former Senate employee.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from promulgating any regulation which would not maintain or enhance the nutritional integrity of supplemental foods made available under the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Prohibits the Secretary, after September 23, 1982, from modifying any regulation governing such program, unless a finding is made that the modification will be beneficial to the health status of program participants. Requires the Secretary to submit such finding to the appropriate congressional committees prior to its publication in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretary to implement specified regulations concerning the program no later than December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1982
Designates October as National Spinal Cord Injury Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Commends and pays tribute to Earl Weaver, manager of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take action to encourage increasing the processed product share of farm exports, including but not limited to: (1) urging U.S. negotiators to try to include a quantity of value-added processed farm products in grain agreements with the Soviet Union or other nonmarket economy countries; (2) seeking elimination of unfair trade practices by foreign competitors by pursuing international trade negotiations; (3) using the authority of Public Law 480 to encourage inclusion of more processed products under both concessional sales and food aid programs; and (4) using authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export- Import Bank to ensure that credit arrangements for farm exports and farm product exports are on terms equal to those offered by other countries.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Soviet-Bloc Research and Training Act of 1982 - Establishes the Soviet-Bloc Research and Training Trust Fund in the Treasury. Appropriates a specified amount for the Fund. Requires that the interest on any obligations held in the Fund shall be available for payments to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. Requires the Council to use one-fourth of the payments made in each fiscal year to develop and publicize a research agenda at the postdoctoral level in the field of Soviet and East European studies and to award contracts for appropriate research projects. Requires the Council to use parts of the payments to: (1) establish and publish the findings of a fellowship program for advanced training in Soviet studies; (2) make payments to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to provide fellowship support and research facilities in Washington, D.C., for American specialists to conduct advanced research and to conduct workshops designed to facilitate research collaboration between Government and private specialists; and (3) make payments to the International Research and Exchanges Board to conduct specialized reciprocal programs in advanced training and research in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to facilitate access for American specialists to research resources in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Sets forth the method of submitting applications to the Secretary of the Treasury for payments from the Fund. Provides that the Secretary shall manage the Fund. Requires the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on the activities supported by this Act of the Council, the Board, and the Wilson Center.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Requires continuation of the supplemental unemployment benefits program established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and an individual's period of eligibility for such benefits until the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is less than 8.7 percent. Provides that specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 shall not be effective for determining whether there are State "on" or "off" indicators for weeks beginning on or after June 1, 1982, and before the month following the first month thereafter for which the national seasonally adjusted total rate of unemployment is less than 8.7 percent. Requires, for making such determinations, that the insured employment rate for all weeks be calculated in the same manner as it is calculated for the particular week for which the determination is being made. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to revise the effective date of the change in the State trigger for extended compensation (under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970)to apply to weeks beginning after the national seasonally adjusted total rate of unemployment is less than 8.7 percent for at least one month occurring after September 1982. Requires that provisions under the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 for determining the State trigger, for any week beginning on or after June 1, 1982, and before the month following the first month thereafter for which the national seasonally adjusted total rate of unemployment is less than 8.7 percent, shall be based solely on a State insured unemployment rate of five percent for that week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks (waiving the 120 percent factor). Provides that a State shall not be deemed out of compliance with specified Internal Revenue Code provisions by reason of a failure to amend its State unemployment compensation law within a specified period to include any requirements imposed by this Act with respect to extended compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1982
Designates January 17, 1983, as Public Employees' Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, upon request of any competent State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland, and on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, to permit delivery of water from the District of Columbia water system to such authority. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase water from any State or local authority in the Washington metropolitan area in Maryland which has completed a connection with the District of Columbia water system.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee shall investigate methods of strengthening the Export-Import Bank to ensure competitive financing for U.S. exports; (2) the Senate Appropriations Committee shall provide sufficient authority for the Export-Import Bank to enable U.S. exporters to compete in world markets; and (3) the Export-Import Bank shall provide U.S. exporters with competitive financial support.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, through the Government National Mortgage Association, to assist low and moderate income families in acquiring a home or membership in a cooperative housing project by making interest reduction payments to mortgagees and lenders on behalf of such families for not to exceed 12 years. Declares that the amount of all such payments shall constitute a second lien on the housing and shall be repayable when: (1) the housing is sold or otherwise disposed of; (2) the first mortgage or loan is refinanced; or (3) the housing ceases to be the principal residence of the mortgagor or borrower. Sets the amount of such payments as the lesser of: (1) the difference between the monthly payment required under the mortgage or loan and the monthly payment that would be required if the loan or mortgage were to bear seven percent interest; or (2) the difference between the monthly payment required under the mortgage or loan and 25 percent of the borrower's family income. Requires a mortgage or loan to be insured by the Secretary in order to be eligible for interest reduction payments. Lists conditions for insurability including requirements that the loan or mortgage: (1) be executed by a first-time homebuyer who has paid at least five percent of the purchase price and whose income did not exceed $30,000 during the preceding year; and (2) be amortized over 30 years with loan or mortgage payments increased by five percent each year until the interest reduction payment is eliminated except for any year following a year in which the mortgagor's family income has decreased. Declares that any insured loan or mortgage shall be eligible for purchase by the Federal National Mortage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress annually on yearly commitments for interest reduction payments, the number and income of assisted families, and the acceptability of assisted loans and mortgages on the secondary market.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that September 4, 1982, the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison's Pearl Street central power station, should be commemorated as Pearl Street Centennial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Designates the week beginning October 1, 1982, as National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Designates the week beginning October 1, 1982, as National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 11 through October 17, 1982, as National Get High on Life Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1982
Declares that an agreement for international arbitration in a commercial relationship shall constitute consent to proceedings to recognize, confirm, or enforce a foreign arbitral award. Denies the Federal act of State doctrine and the doctrine of sovereign immunity as grounds for refusing or deferring the recognition, confirmation, or enforcement of such an award.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1982
Designates February 12, 1983, as Georgia Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Wilderness Protection Act of 1982 - Withdraws from disposition under all laws pertaining to oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, and geothermal leasing: (1) wilderness areas; (2) lands recommended for wilderness designation, until Congress determines otherwise or until the lands concerned are recommended for other uses; (3) wilderness study areas, for the period of interim wilderness protection and management required by law; and (4) lands identified for further planning in Executive Communication 1504, 96th Congress, until one year after the final approval and implementation of an initial forest plan covering the further planning area. Exempts from the withdrawal pursuant to this Act: (1) national forest system land released to management for nonwilderness uses; (2) lands designated as congressional wilderness study areas in Colorado and New Mexico and certain lands within the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho; (3) Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas; and (4) lands in Alaska. Permits activities compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment for the purpose of inventorying energy, mineral, and other resource values in areas withdrawn by this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to augment recurring surveys of mineral values of wilderness areas and to acquire information on the areas withdrawn by this Act by conducting mineral inventories of such areas. Authorizes the President to recommend to Congress that minerals exploration, development, or extraction be permitted in specified areas withdrawn under this Act if: (1) there is an urgent national need for the mineral activity; and (2) the need outweighs the public values of the wilderness lands involved and the potential adverse environmental impacts likely to result. Makes such a recommendation effective only upon enactment of a joint resolution by Congress approving such recommendation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue oil and gas leases for the subsurface of national forest or public land wilderness areas that are immediately adjacent to oil and gas producing fields or areas that are prospectively valuable. Prohibits surface occupancy under such leases and provides that such leases may be entered only by directional drilling from outside the wilderness or by other nonsurface disturbing methods.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Designates the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Alzheimer's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1982
States that the President, at the earliest possible date, should: (1) request Senate consent to ratification of the Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaties; and (2) resume trilateral test ban treaty negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1982
Directs that proceedings in the Senate Chamber be broadcast by radio and television: (1) in accordance with provisions of this resolution; (2) continuously when the Senate is in session (except when a closed door meeting is ordered); and (3) subject to certain provisions of the Standing Rules of the Senate pertaining to the Senate gallery. Requires that broadcasts be supervised and operated by the Senate and made available on a live basis and free of charge to specified entities. Requires the television broadcasts to follow the Presiding Officer and Senators who are recognized to speak. Directs the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the construction and acquisition of broadcasting facilities and equipment. Sets forth duties of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate with respect to the operation and maintenance of such equipment and the disposition of audio and video tape recordings. Directs the Librarian of Congress and the Archivist of the United States to receive, store, and make such recordings available to the public at no cost for viewing or listening on the premises. Authorizes the charging of a fee equal to the cost involved through distribution of taped copies. Provides for a test period of Senate broadcasting equipment. Prohibits the use of tape duplications of broadcast coverage for political or commercial purposes. Requires that changes in regulations made by this resolution be made only by Senate resolution. Authorizes expenditures by the Architect of the Capitol to carry out duties imposed by this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982
Elects Senator Inouye of Hawaii to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Designates the week beginning March 6, 1983, as Women's History Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Antitrust Joint Research Act of 1982 - Authorizes the Attorney General to issue certificates of review to two or more persons to promote joint research and development programs. Directs the Attorney General to issue such a certificate for an applicant whose application: (1) specifies conduct which is limited to a research and development program and which does not violate Federal antitrust laws; and (2) contains any other information the Attorney General requires. Requires that such a certificate specify: (1) the conduct to which it applies; (2) the participating business entities; and (3) any conditions applicable to such conduct. Directs certificate recipients to notify the Attorney General of any change in conduct or business entities. Permits such recipient to apply to amend such certificate. Directs the Attorney General to modify or revoke a certificate, after providing 30 days notice, upon determining that conduct allowed under the certificate violates antitrust laws. Authorizes the certificate holders to bring an action in the appropriate U.S. district court to set aside such determination. Precludes any other judicial review of any determination by the Attorney General concerning the issuance, amendment, or revocation of a certificate. Declares that any such determination is inadmissable as evidence in any proceeding in support of any claim under antitrust laws. Exempts any certificate holder from a criminal action, a civil action, or liability for threatened loss or damage for a violationof Federal antitrust laws or similar State laws if: (1) the violation arises from conduct specified in the certificate; and (2) the certificate is in effect at the time the conduct occurs. Awards a certificate holder the cost of defending against a claim for damages resulting from a violation of antitrust laws if the court finds that: (1) the conduct alleged to violate such laws does not; and (2) the conduct is specified in the effective certificate. Declares that a certificate shall have no legal effect on the authority of a court to grant equitable relief in an action for an antitrust violation against certificate holders. Exempts information submitted by a person in connection with the issuance, amendment, or revocation of a certificate from the Freedom of Information Act. Specifies conditions for the disclosure of such information. Allows the Attorney General to issue guidelines describing the types of conduct that would and would not qualify for a certificate.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Requests the President to designate July 27, 1982, as National Recognition Day for the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the higher or vocational educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $2,000 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits eligibility for such deduction to the taxpayer or the taxpayer's dependent child unless such child has attained age 21 or has attended an institution of higher education as a full-time student for more than four weeks in the year of his twenty-first birthday. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Treats qualified distributions as income to the beneficiary for the taxable year in which the beneficiary attains age 25, and for each of the following nine years, in successive apportionments equal to ten percent of the total amount of such distributions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1982 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to enable the United States to give effect to the Nairobi protocol to the Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials. Directs the President to proclaim changes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons. Authorizes the President to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain: (1) books, publications, and documents; (2) visual and auditory materials; and (3) tools for scientific instruments or apparatus. Authorizes the President to limit the duty-free treatment or temporary duty-free treatment accorded under this Act for certain tools for scientific instruments or for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons if the duty-free treatment of the article: (1) has significant adverse impact on a competing domestic industry; and (2) is not provided for in the Florence agreement or the Nairobi protocol. Authorizes the President to reinstate the duty-free treatment of such articles if it would no longer cause such adverse impact. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide duty-free treatment for: (1) catalogs of educational, scientific, or cultural visual and auditory material; (2) architectural, engineering, industrial, or commercial drawings and plans; (3) certain illustrations and proofs used for the production of books; (4) developed photographic film and similar articles; (5) motion picture films on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; (6) magnetic video tape on which pictures or pictures and sound have been recorded; (7) other sound recordings, combination sound and visual recordings, and magnetic recordings; (8) certain educational, scientific, or cultural models; (9) tools specially designed for maintaining certain scientific instruments or apparatus that are used by nonprofit institutions; and (10) articles specially designed or adapted for use by blind or other handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Establishes the Presidential Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Requires the Commission to: (1) plan and develop appropriate activities to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution; (2) encourage private organizations, and State and local governments to organize and participate in bicentennial activities; (3) coordinate activities throughout all the States; and (4) serve as a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of bicentennial information. Directs the Commission to seek assistance from private and governmental agencies and organizations. Requires the Commission to submit a report of its recommendations to the President, Congress and the Judicial Conference within two years of enactment of this Act and annually until its termination. Terminates the Commission on September 30, 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and such sums as necessary through FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Export-Import Bank Restructuring Act of 1982 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to provide that the terms of the directors of the Bank will be four-years, except that two of the directors will be appointed initially for two years and then for four-years. (Current law provides that the directors serve at the pleasure of the President.) Excludes from the Federal budget the receipts and disbursements of the Bank in the discharge of its functions (other than salaries and expenses). Exempts such receipts and disbursements from the limitations on the Federal budget. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on the Bank's budget for program activities and administrative expenses and on the Bank's net lending. Establishes the Competitive Agricultural Commodity and Manufactured Product Export Subsidy Fund. Requires amounts appropriated to the Fund to be used to make interest subsidy payments to private lenders and to enter into arrangements with the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to enable private lenders or the CCC to reduce the interest rates on loans for financing U.S. exports. Requires the Board of Directors of the Fund to report to Congress on agreements to make interest subsidy payments. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Extends the authorization for the Bank until September 30, 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Act - Establishes the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission to plan, encourage, coordinate, and conduct the commemoration of the voyages of discovery of Christopher Columbus. Authorizes the Commission to convene a national assembly, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, to recommend appropriate activities. Requires the Commission, within two years of enactment of this Act, to report its recommendations to Congress. Directs the President to recommend legislative and administrative actions as deemed appropriate. Requires the Commission to report annually to Congress on its activities, including an accounting of funds received and expended. Provides for cooperative efforts from Federal agencies and departments. Authorizes appropriations to remain available until September 30, 1992. Requires the Commission to make a final report to Congress by April 30, 1993, and terminates the Commission on such date.